vampires
I Love Lucy: A Brief Cinematic History of Dracula’s Most Unsung Character
There are several characters we think of when we think of Dracula. First and foremost, there’s the Count himself. The most famous vampire in the history of literature, film, television and so o...
The Transfiguration Is The Latest Must-Watch, Super-Smart Horror
Horror is having a moment. Suddenly, after being considered low-brow entertainment basically since its inception, our beloved genre is heralded as smart, evocative, and worth investing one’s tim...
Forgotten Dracula Movies Worth Digging Up
Count Dracula is one of the most iconic figures in horror, if not the most iconic. He is the second most filmed fictional character after Sherlock Holmes. It’s only natural that many, many movi...
Ten Episodes of Buffy That Changed Television
In many ways, Buffy created modern genre television. It originated a template that has become the standard in the twenty years since the show premiered. A season centering on a singular storyline, bre...
Book Review: Powers of Darkness: The Lost Version of Dracula
Sometimes, as a Dracula nerd, you come across an amazing discovery. And the deeper you go into the lore and the history of the novel, it becomes harder and harder to be surprised. There have been so m...
How Interview With the Vampire Defined A-List Horror in the 1990s
Horror movies in the late ‘90s were defined by Scream. Everything followed on its heels and tried to imitate that movie. I Know What You Did Last Summer, Urban Legend, Valentine, Cherry Falls, ...
Script to Pieces: Blade 4
Welcome to Script to Pieces, a recurring feature at Wicked Horror where we look at the best, most interesting and at times most unbelievable horror movies that never happened. Sometimes...
Script to Pieces: Fright Night Part III
Welcome to Script to Pieces, a recurring feature at Wicked Horror where we look at the best, most interesting and at times most unbelievable horror movies that never happened. Sometimes...
Why Hammer’s Dracula Franchise Eclipsed Universal’s
Universal’s Dracula was an enormous hit and has become one of the most iconic horror films of all time. It accomplished so much with so little, hinging entirely on the performances its actors a...