10 Reasons 2016 Was A Great Year For Horror

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2016 has been a peculiar year all round. Confusing, disappointing and, at times, downright scary. But one element that remained remarkably strong throughout was entertainment. In particular, it’s been a hell of a year for movies. And, for its part, the horror genre has come out of these bizarre, uncertain times looking better than ever. […]

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Script to Screen – How Gremlins Became the Ultimate Family Horror Movie

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Gremlins is widely regarded as one of the most beloved horror-tinged family films of all time. It’s a fun, exciting adventure movie as well as a holiday classic. Of course, it has its suspenseful moments and is focused on a horde of devilish, little monsters but the main goal of it is for the audience […]

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Five Extremely Impressive Feature Film Debuts

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Every director starts somewhere. Most do not start out directing their own feature film. Usually, they have to start somewhere else—whether it be making short films or working on someone else’s picture in some other capacity, there is usually some degree of legwork one must do before they are read to helm a feature of their own. There’s no […]

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Tyler’s Top Five of 2016

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This past year has been a good one for horror. 2016 graced us with a resurgence of wide release genre pictures, as well as a solid helping of VOD releases and limited theatrical runs. Anthology horror made a resurgence this year and we even got several (quality) r-rated theatrically released horror flicks. Here’s hoping that 2017 […]

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Not Quite Horror: The Best Of 2016

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It’s been a scary year all round, but at least that means we’ve got more and more spooky stuff seeping into the otherwise normal fare showing ’round the local multiplex. To that end, 2016 has been a hugely healthy year for the burgeoning sub-genre of Not Quite Horror. Although special mention must go to Westworld […]

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Why Terror Train is a Much Better New Year’s Horror Than New Year’s Evil

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Horror fans love to watch movies set around a certain time of year. Even if those films are terrible, we give them a go. For every Black Christmas and Silent Night, Deadly Night there’s a Jack Frost or Elves. Usually, we bite the bullet and watch them all. After watching through a slew of Christmas-themed […]

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Joey’s Top 5 Horror Movies Of 2016

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It’s been a fantastic year for horror (if you disagree, watch more). From quiet, brooding little indies to a big-budget reboot that packed a serious punch, there’s never been a better time to be a fan of all things spooky. This year, as cliché as it sounds, there truly was something for everyone–even if it […]

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Five Movies That Didn’t Need to be Shot as Found Footage

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Found footage can be traced back a long time, at least to Cannibal Holocaust in 1980. It was The Blair Witch Project that really made the concept popular, especially in the horror genre, yet it took a decade for people to actually start trying to recreate that success. The release of Paranormal Activity in 2009 […]

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Cold Case Analysis: The Texarkana Phantom, Part 5

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A cold case is an unsolved criminal investigation that remains open indefinitely pending the discovery of new evidence. There have been numerous unique cases throughout history, some of which still remained unsolved to this day, such as the Jack the Ripper killings, the Zodiac murders, and the Black Dahlia slaying. In this new, regular series, […]

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Exciting New Trailer For Vampyr Released!

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Vampyr is a forthcoming game from the French development company Dontnod Entertainment, who have previously put out the hit Life is Strange. The story centers on Jonathan Reid, a doctor turned vampire who has to deal with the fact he needs blood to survive, but has also taken a vow to help the injured. Crawling […]

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Script to Pieces: Guillermo Del Toro’s At the Mountains of Madness

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One of the most endearing stories from the revered H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness is a story that horror fans have long dreamed of seeing on the screen. At the length of a novella, it’s one of Lovecraft’s longest works and therefore one of the most suited to adaptation. The story tells the […]

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Christine: John Carpenter’s Unsung Love Story

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Even after directing Christine, John Carpenter would say in interviews that while he loved directing horror, he dreamed of directing a love story. And while Starman may have been a more mainstream, cut-and-dried love story, Christine does just as much genre-mixing and is ultimately a love story at its core. But Carpenter has never had much love for the film – […]

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Nik’s Top 2016 Horror Movies

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The past few years have marked the release of some amazing modern horror films. And 2016 was no exception. We’ve seen a handful of amazing pictures put out in the past year, and we’ve also seen a some complete trash. But when all is said and done, it was a great year for the horror fan, […]

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Nat’s Top 10 Horror Movies of 2016

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Horror is never dead. It never goes away. Every year has produced terrific horror movies, even if you have to dig a little bit to find them. Having said that, some years are naturally better than others. And 2016, as harsh as it may have been in other ways, has been a great year for […]

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Zach Galligan Says Gremlins 3 is Happening and There Will Never Be a Remake

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Zach Galligan opened up to Bleeding Cool about the long-awaited Gremlins threequel and he assured them that there are absolutely no plans for a remake, that the next move will be a proper sequel, and it is still happening. “I think you can tell what’s happening with Gremlins 3 the same way you could tell with Gremlins 2,” Galligan began. “It’s […]

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Horror Movies To Look Out For In 2017

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With 2016 delivering more than a few horrifying gems, here’s a wicked list of horror movies to look out for in 2017: THE SNARE Three friends head to the seafront for a drunken weekend, only to be imprisoned on the top floor of their holiday apartment by a malevolent paranormal force. The Snare, directed by […]

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Five Horror Films from 1974 That Helped Define the Genre

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The 1970’s witnessed a massive change in the landscape of horror cinema. This was horror for a post-Vietnam world. The atomic age horrors were gone. Ancient ruined castles and Gothic chillers simply didn’t scare people anymore. People were afraid of the real world; the modern world. They were afraid of people and of themselves in […]

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Brand New Image From IT Sees Pennywise Crawling Out Of The Sewers

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Just when you thought Christmas was over for another year, Wicked Horror brings you another gift in the form of a brand-new image of Pennywise from the upcoming IT remake. The flick wrapped filming a little while back, and is set for release in the fall of next year.  Bill Skarsgard is set to appear […]

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Behold! The Alien Covenant Trailer Is Here!

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If you’re still recovering from the holidays, fear not, because the long-awaited trailer for Alien Covenant has finally landed and it is a doozy. From director Ridley Scott, the flick stars Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny Mc Bride, James Franco, Noomi Rapace, Demián Bichir, Carmen Ejogo, up-and-comer Ben Rigby and many more. The […]

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Top Ten Horror Movies That Never Happened

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For every horror movie out there, there are about ten more that never got off the ground. It’s just the way it goes and any number of things can be responsible. There are production problems, studio execs lose interest, copyrights turn over… whatever the reason may be, a lot of great movies never get past the script […]

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The Anger Games: Why Battle Royale is Still Relevant Today

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The Japanese film Battle Royale, based on the book by Koushun Takami, is about a freshman class that is taken on a ‘school trip’ where they are drugged and taken to a deserted island where they are informed they will have three days to kill each other – with the sole survivor being declared the winner. The overbearing theme should sound pretty […]

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Christmas Chiller Comparison: Black Christmas vs. Black X-Mas

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When it comes to festive fright flicks, there’s one movie that’s usually at the top of everyone’s “Nice” list. Black Christmas has been a go-to for horror fans for decades, and for good reason–it’s still just as creepy, tense and scary as it was back in the seventies, much like its compatriot, The Texas Chain […]

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Five Most Imaginative Kills from Christmas Horror

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The holidays are upon us once again and with them comes the essential holiday viewing. For most people, this includes movies like A Christmas Story, A Charlie Brown Christmas and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer but for the horror fan this list is expanded to include Silent Night, Deadly Night, Black Christmas, Gremlins and many more. Horror has […]

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Rob Zombie’s 31 is More of the Same

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Set in 1975, 31 zeroes in on five people kidnapped in the days leading up to Halloween. They are brought to a place called Murder World where they must fight for their survival by playing a deadly game called 31. To win, the ‘contestants’ must kill their opponents over a 12-hour period. Their adversaries are comprised of a group of […]

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True Horror: Five Shocking Christmas Tragedies

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Everyone remembers the horrifying Christmas story Kate (Phoebe Cates) told Billy in 1984’s Gremlins. She described the life-scarring experience of discovering her dead father, dressed as Santa, in the family chimney on Christmas day. The experience made her realize that Santa wasn’t real. The story always stood out for how truly terrifying it was, especially […]

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New on Netflix: December 23rd, 2016

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New on Netflix is a weekly feature here at Wicked Horror where we take a look at the latest additions to everyone’s favorite streaming service. It can be tough sifting through all those horror titles, not really knowing what’s worth watching and what isn’t. Sometimes, you know exactly what you’re looking for, but when you […]

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Five Short Story Adaptations that Ignored the Source Material

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Short stories can often be the best place to mine for film adaptations as material doesn’t need to be cut left and right, the way it does when adapting a novel. At the same time, short fiction can be nearly impossible to get right in an adaptation. The general structure of short stories is very different from […]

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Advance Blu-Ray Review: Blair Witch is Too Focused on Recapturing the Magic of the Original

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Blair Witch was shrouded in secrecy until its world premiere at San Diego Comic-Con. It wasn’t until that very moment that it was officially revealed that the movie we thought was called The Woods was actually a Blair Witch Project threequel. Blair Witch is a direct sequel to the first in that it follows Heather Donahue’s brother who believes she is still alive and goes […]

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Cold Case Analysis: The Texarkana Phantom, Part 4

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A cold case is an unsolved criminal investigation that remains open indefinitely pending the discovery of new evidence. There have been numerous unique cases throughout history, some of which still remained unsolved to this day, such as the Jack the Ripper killings, the Zodiac murders, and the Black Dahlia slaying. In this new, regular series, […]

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Script to Pieces: Darren Bousman’s Leprechaun 7

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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 these will be productions that never came together at all, other times, they will be original incarnations that were completely different from what we wound up with. Each should […]

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We Already Have the Perfect Template for a Halloween Reboot (And it’s a Comic)

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Rebooting a franchise can be a tricky thing these days. The new approach seems to be to tell a new story that stands completely on its own but doesn’t necessarily negate what came before. The 2009 reboot of Friday the 13th did this fairly well and I think 2013’s Evil Dead did it most successfully. […]

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First Screenshots From Call of Cthulhu Released

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H.P. Lovecraft’s beloved short story Call of Cthulhu, as well as the pop culture icon at the heart of it (the monster himself), is currently being adapted by Cyanide Studios into a fully-formed RPG. While Cyanide is an independent gaming production company, they have pumped out some great titles over the years, including the well-received […]

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Review: The Autopsy Of Jane Doe Is An Exceptional Horror Movie

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Twenty years ago, on December 20th, Scream was released to give horror fans something to watch over Christmas. And now, just a day (and a couple decades) later, on December 21st, 2016 we have another soon-to-be classic to warm our dark hearts over the festive period. There may be just ten days left in this […]

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Why Swamp Thing Worked So Well in Comics (But Not on Film)

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If you’re not a comic book fan, you’re at least probably familiar with the name Swamp Thing. Maybe you remember it from the campy-but-fun Wes Craven movie. With that film, its sequel and subsequent TV series, Swamp Thing has cemented his place on the outskirts of pop culture by being remembered as a schlocky monster […]

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Cenobites by Association: Seven Movies Influenced by Hellraiser

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Clive Barker really changed the game with Hellraiser, at least in terms of providing audiences with iconography that they were not used to seeing. By that point in the 1980s, Jason, Michael Myers and even Freddy were becoming played out. People had seen enough of slashers and they wanted something new. Hellraiser offered that in […]

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Bruce Campbell and Major Television Network Seek Contestants for Horror Reality Show!

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Bruce Campbell and a major TV network are seeking horror fans to appear on a horror  reality series about our favorite genre. They are looking for bloggers, haunt owners, cosplayers, and super fans. If you think you have what it takes, click the link below to submit your photo and info, as well as provide […]

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The Disappointments Room Hits DVD Today

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After a long road to release, The Disappointments Room hits home video today from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. It is available for purchase on DVD right here. The film stars Kate Beckinsale (Underworld franchise), Lucas Till (Stoker), and Mel Raido (Long Time Dead). The home video release’s sole bonus feature is a featurette titled: Unwanted: Inside The Disappointments Room “Looking for a fresh […]

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Still Screaming: 20 Years Later, Craven’s Classic Is King

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To mark the twentieth anniversary of Wes Craven’s game-changing slasher, Scream, Wicked Horror presents a week of specially-themed content celebrating the movie’s enduring appeal. In this final installment, Joey Keogh discusses why the movie has such enduring appeal today. Scream was a game-changer. That kind of goes without saying at this stage, because we’ve spent […]

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Why King Kong ’76 is a Bizarre Remake (But Not a Terrible One)

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King Kong may not be remembered as such, but it is one of the biggest horror movies of all time. When it hit theaters in 1933, people had not seen anything quite like it. It was full of adventure, full of heart, but it was also full of horror. This was the birth of the American […]

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Not Quite Horror: I Am Not A Serial Killer (2016)

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Horror is evolving as a genre. Although your local multiplex is still loaded with the usual contenders, look a bit closer and you’ll find the latest drama, thriller, or crime offering is closer to horror than you might expect. In this bi-weekly series, Joey Keogh presents a film not generally classified as horror and argues […]

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Why Sidney Prescott Is An Incredible And Realistic Horror Heroine

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To mark the twentieth anniversary of Wes Craven’s game-changing slasher, Scream, Wicked Horror presents a week of specially-themed content celebrating the movie’s enduring appeal. In this installment, Nat Brehmer takes a look at what makes Sidney Prescott such an enduring Final Girl. In the twenty years since the release of Scream, there have been several […]

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Nine Beloved Horror Movies That Bombed at the Box Office

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Everyone likes to think that their favorite horror movie was an enormous success but that’s definitely not always the case. Sure, it makes sense for bad horror movies to completely fail at the box office. But some of the best films of years past have shared that same fate. There are a lot of factors […]

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Comic-Based Horror Movies That Were Surprising Hits

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We live in a golden era of comic book films. Sure, adaptations of comic books date back to the Batman and Superman serials of the 1930s and 1940s. But now we live in a time where we have forty films coming out in the next four years stemming from Marvel and DC properties alone. Comic-based movies, […]

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How Interview With the Vampire Defined A-List Horror in the 1990s

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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, it spawned dozens of imitators. Not just slashers, either. The Faculty, Disturbing Behavior, An American Werewolf in Paris, all different sub-genres of […]

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How Scream Was A Horror Game-Changer

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To mark the twentieth anniversary of Wes Craven’s game-changing slasher, Scream, Wicked Horror presents a week of specially-themed content celebrating the movie’s enduring appeal. In this installment, Justin Steele takes a look back at how the movie changed horror forever. It’s hard to believe it’s been twenty years since Scream slashed its way into theaters. […]

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Cold Case Analysis: Texarkana Phantom, Part 3

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A cold case is an unsolved criminal investigation that remains open indefinitely pending the discovery of new evidence. There have been numerous unique cases throughout history, some of which still remained unsolved to this day, such as the Jack the Ripper killings, the Zodiac murders, and the Black Dahlia slaying. In this new, regular series, […]

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Randy And I: Growing Up With Scream

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To mark the twentieth anniversary of Wes Craven’s game-changing slasher, Scream, Wicked Horror presents a week of specially-themed content celebrating the movie’s enduring appeal. In this installment, Nat Brehmer looks back on a life idolising Scream, the movie that finally made him feel accepted as a horror fan. I got into horror gradually. It started […]

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Don’t Wanna Dream No More: How A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 Empowered the Slasher Genre

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The slasher genre has always fallen under a critical eye for showcasing the deaths of teenagers as gratuitous fun. They are generalized as having no characterization and no depth of any kind. The characters are almost always considered to be helpless. Even though some feminist studies have pointed out the “final girl” in most slasher movies […]

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New on Netflix: December 16th, 2016

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New on Netflix is a weekly feature here at Wicked Horror where we take a look at the latest additions to everyone’s favorite streaming service. It can be tough sifting through all those horror titles, not really knowing what’s worth watching and what isn’t. Sometimes, you know exactly what you’re looking for, but when you […]

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Scream: The Movie That Turned Me Into A Horror Fan

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To mark the twentieth anniversary of Wes Craven’s game-changing slasher, Scream, Wicked Horror presents a week of specially-themed content celebrating the movie’s enduring appeal. In this installment, Michele Eggen looks back on how the 1996 classic set her on the path to horror movie obsession, and what the movie means to her today. When I […]

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Look Who’s Stabbing: At Which Point In Scream Was Ghostface Billy or Stu?

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To mark the twentieth anniversary of Wes Craven’s game-changing slasher, Scream, Wicked Horror presents a week of specially-themed content celebrating the movie’s enduring appeal. In this installment, Ryan C. Bradley offers his opinion on who was wearing the Ghostface mask for which kill – and the results may surprise you. For years, slashers have relied […]

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3 Gateway Genres Scream (Re)Introduced Audiences To

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To mark the twentieth anniversary of Wes Craven’s game-changing slasher, Scream, Wicked Horror presents a week of specially-themed content celebrating the movie’s enduring appeal. In this installment, Fox Emm discusses how the seminal horror flick introduced – or rather, re-introduced – audiences to three notable genres in one fell swoop. The first “horror”-esque movie I […]

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Short Film Review: The Stylist (2016)

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One of the best shorts I had the opportunity to see at Spooky Empire’s film festival, The Stylist is, well, stylish. This does the best thing a short film can do: It feels like a feature. It doesn’t feel like it was made with limited time and limited resources. It’s polished, beautifully shot, with a […]

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Scream, Murder, and Moral Panics

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To mark the twentieth anniversary of Wes Craven’s game-changing slasher, Scream, Wicked Horror presents a week of specially-themed content celebrating the movie’s enduring appeal. In this installment, April Bennett delves into real-life murders supposedly influenced by the hit flick. Moral panics are phenomena that typically occur when rumor and myth combine to cause a public […]

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The Boy Who Lived: What Makes Tommy Jarvis a Fan-Favorite Horror Hero

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Michael Myers has Doctor Loomis. Freddy Krueger has Nancy Thompson. And Jason Voorhees has Tommy Jarvis. The difference here is that while most heroes originate in the same film as the villain, we don’t get a recurring antagonist for Jason until the fourth entry, the one that was supposed to be the end of the […]

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Script to Pieces: John Carpenter’s Escape from Earth

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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 these will be productions that never came together at all, other times, they will be original incarnations that were completely different from what we wound up with. Each should […]

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Why the Psycho Sequels Get a Bad Rap

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When a horror film builds a reputation for being a classic, especially when it’s widely considered to be one of the best of all time, it’s harder and harder for it to become a franchise. People are the most skeptical of sequels to great movies because they’re worried that it will somehow ruin the original. […]

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Comic Review: Buffy Season 11 #2

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This is a very plot-heavy issue. Everything going on in it is centered on the fallout from the events of the season premiere. You can definitely see that this is going to be a shorter season because the events that play out in this issue would definitely have been covered over three or four issues […]

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Giallo Madness: Black Belly of the Tarantula

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Giallo Madness is a segment on Wicked Horror where we revisit the classic giallo films of yesteryear. We will certainly touch on titles you’ve seen before but maybe we will uncover a few hidden gems for you as well. For this installment, we are setting our sights on the 1971 chiller Black Belly of the Tarantula.  […]

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Exclusive Interview: Jessica Lowndes Talks Abattoir!

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Wicked Horror recently had the occasion to speak with Jessica Lowndes (The Devil’s Carnival, 90210) about her role in Darren Lynn Bousman’s latest shocker, Abattoir (review). The actress opened up about her working relationship with Bousman, the process of adapting the graphic novel on which the film is based for the big screen, and what draws her to […]

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Short Film Review: The Night Whispered

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My favorite thing about Nicholas Vince’s directorial debut “The Night Whispered” is that it feels like something I would have read in one of my favorite horror anthologies as a kid. It feels right at home with the sorts of stories I’d read in The Dracula Book of Great Horror Stories or The Penguin Book […]

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Interview: Danay Garcia talks AMC’s ‘Fear the Walking Dead,’ Season 2.

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With the conclusion of Fear the Walking Dead’s second season earlier this year, the series cascaded into an examination of death, violence, and several cultures’ unique reaction to the undead cataclysm. In many ways, Fear showed a side of a community in chaos that simply has not been detailed in the series’ sister program. The cast […]

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Amityville: The Awakening Delayed…Again

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Amityville: The Awakening has been scheduled for release multiple times since 2014. Just when we finally think it’s going to hit theaters, Dimension up and pulls it from release. It’s becoming like clockwork. Most recently, the picture was slated to hit theaters January 6, 2017. But BD is now reporting that the feature’s fate is up […]

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Horror Remakes That Equaled Or Surpassed the Original

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Remakes are a longstanding tradition in cinema, especially in the horror genre. But there is no doubt that the past decade saw an oversaturation. Most of these were due to studios simply wanting to put out something with brand recognition. It has become unfortunately rare for a filmmaker to attach themselves to a project like […]

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First Image from Insidious Chapter 4 Revealed

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Insidious: Chapter 4 director Director Adam Robitel took to Instagram to share the very first image ((below) from his latest film. It depicts series stalwart Lin Shaye as Elise and Aubrey (Tessa Ferrer) venturing into ‘The Further’. In a recent interview with Daily Dead regarding the latest installment in the series, Lin Shaye revealed when and where the fourth installment will pick up […]

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Overlooked Horror Franchises That Need More Love

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Most horror fans discover the genre through the major monsters. If it’s not the major monsters like Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Leatherface and Chucky then it will be the classic monsters like Dracula, Frankenstein, or The Wolf Man. And there are even plenty of fans who sharpened their teeth on the Saw and […]

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Four Horror Sequels That Cursed Their Own Franchise

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When a horror movie is hugely successful, sequels are an inevitability. Quickly after that, it can blossom into a franchise. Typically, it doesn’t take long for the films that follow to become convoluted. Sequels are pumped out on a regular basis with only the vaguest regard for overall quality and generally no attempt at cohesion for the franchise at […]

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Five Non-Traditional Zombie Movies That Broke the Mold

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Zombie films have a tendency to follow the same beaten path more than many other horror sub-genre. They’re typically not considered as diverse with potential applications as vampires pictures. The majority of these movies follow the template put in place by George Romero in Night of the Living Dead and its sequels.  Yet zombies actually do offer the […]

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Giallo Madness: The Case of the Bloody Iris

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Giallo Madness is a segment on Wicked Horror where we revisit the classic giallo films of yesteryear. We will certainly touch on titles you’ve seen before but maybe we will uncover a few hidden gems for you as well. For this installment, we are setting our sights on the 1971 chiller The Case of the Bloody […]

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New on Netflix: December 9th, 2016

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New on Netflix is a weekly feature here at Wicked Horror where we take a look at the latest additions to everyone’s favorite streaming service. It can be tough sifting through all those horror titles, not really knowing what’s worth watching and what isn’t. Sometimes, you know exactly what you’re looking for, but when you […]

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Interview: Alex Vincent Talks the Child’s Play Franchise

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Alex Vincent is best known for his portrayal of Andy Barclay in the first two Child’s Play films. His character was the point of identification for younger viewers. The fact that the doll was targeting a child was the very thing that made Chucky so scary. Co-starring in the first film and taking over as […]

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Cold Case Analysis: The Texarkana Phantom, Part 2

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A cold case is an unsolved criminal investigation that remains open indefinitely pending the discovery of new evidence. There have been numerous unique cases throughout history, some of which still remained unsolved to this day, such as the Jack the Ripper killings, the Zodiac murders, and the Black Dahlia slaying. In this new, regular series, […]

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Chucky 7 Heading Into Production!

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Child’s Play franchise co-creator Don Mancini has teased us with another new development in the latest installment in the Child’s Play franchise. Mancini took to Twitter to share a photo (below) of the Winnipeg-based production offices for Chucky 7. The previous installment in the series (Curse of Chucky) was also lensed in Winnipeg. That a production office has been […]

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Why Escape from New York Worked So Well Without Backstory

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Escape from New York is one of John Carpenter’s best films. After the double horror hits of Halloween and The Fog, Escape from New York returned Carpenter to the sci-fi and action roots he’d established with Dark Star and Assault on Precinct 13. In fact, all Escape does is really build upon the foundations established […]

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Exclusive Interview: Kane Hodder Talks Friday the 13th: The Game and More!

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Kane Hodder still holds the distinction of being the only person to not only play the role of Jason Voorhees more than once, but to play it a total of four times. While it doesn’t sound likely to see him suited up as Jason in the upcoming film from Breck Eisner, we can at the […]

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Horror Block Unboxing – November 2016

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Nerd Block is a subscription mystery box that delivers geeky collectibles right to your door each month. You can choose whatever theme box you are into–there’s the Classic Block, Arcade Block, Sci-Fi Block, Horror Block, Comic Block, and even a Boys Jr. and Girls Jr. Block for younger kids. The sets always includes a t-shirt, along with […]

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Script to Pieces: Waxwork III

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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 these will be productions that never came together at all, other times, they will be original incarnations that were completely different from what we wound up with. Each should […]

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Not Quite Horror: Westworld, Season One (2016)

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Horror is evolving as a genre. Although your local multiplex is still loaded with the usual contenders, look a bit closer and you’ll find the latest drama, thriller, or crime offering is closer to horror than you might expect. In this bi-weekly series, Joey Keogh presents a film not generally classified as horror and argues […]

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Highlights from the Stranger Things Panels at Spooky Empire

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There was no bigger draw to Spooky Empire this past weekend than the cast of Stranger Things. The line to get into the panel featuring the lead three boys—Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLoughlin and Finn Wolfhard—was the biggest that the convention had ever seen. This was a show that came out of nowhere and caught on […]

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Review – It Watches

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Director Dave Parker, known for his underrated 2009 film The Hills Run Red, and the awesome “Sweet Tooth” segment of Tales of Halloween, now brings horror audiences something much different with It Watches (now available on VOD). Parker co-wrote the new thriller with Ivan Djurovic, who also stars as the main character. Djurovic is Andre, a […]

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Escape From New York ‘Remake’ Will Actually be a Prequel, Plot Details Revealed

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A series of developments have been announced regarding the long-awaited Escape From New York remake. The first of which is that (according to BD) it will not actually be a remake. It will, instead, be a prequel to the 1981 original. The outlet is also reporting that (as of now) Snake Plissken will not be sporting his trademark eye […]

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Annabelle 2 Pushed Back By Warner Brothers

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Wicked Horror has just learned that Warner Brothers has bumped Annabelle 2 out of its May 19, 2017 release slot. According to a recent announcement, it is poised for release August 18, 2017. Director . David F. Sandberg has spoken very highly of his follow up effort, telling BD, “The script is really good and I think that this […]

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Exclusive Interview: Tom Savini Talks Friday the 13th: The Game and More

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Tom Savini is an absolute legend in the world of horror. Beginning his career by establishing himself as one of the premier makeup artists of all time, he created shocking gore scenes and creatures for Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Friday the 13th, The Burning, The Prowler, Maniac, Creepshow, Texas Chainsaw Massacre […]

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Five Bad Sequels That Were Almost Good

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Many horror sequels don’t live up to the original. Many more are simply bad. But nobody sets out to make a bad sequel. Things just get in the way, whether it be time budget or any other considerations that have to be made. Today, we will be looking at some sequels that didn’t turn out great, […]

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Comic Review: Puppet Master #19

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Puppet Master continues to provide a near-impossible balance of tying together even the most far afield holes in continuity, keeping incredibly faithful to everything that has come before, while also exploring completely new territory and telling not only different stories but different kinds of stories than this franchise has ever seen before. Spoilers ahead for […]

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Event Recap: Spooky Empire 2016

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In October, Spooky Empire was gearing up for what was going to be its biggest convention ever—by far. They’d moved to the Orlando Convention Center, they’d pulled together an amazing, all-star lineup of guests. From the people I talked to who had been lucky enough to see the setup, it would have looked astonishing. But […]

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Review: Beyond The Gates Is A Nightmare-Inducing, Well-Crafted Thriller

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Beyond the Gates centers around two estranged brothers who are forced to come together after their father has been reported missing for the past 7 months. Gordon (Graham Skipper, Almost Human) the strait-laced older of the two, does not try to hide his distaste of his more dysfunctional younger brother, John (played by Chase Williamson, […]

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Holiday Gift Guide: NECA NES Leatherface Figure

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Gift Guide is a recurring segment on Wicked Horror where we showcase horror inspired gift ideas for you or the horror fan in your life. Have an idea for something we should feature? Let us know in the comments below. On this installment of Gift Guide, we have an item that is sure to appeal to the Texas […]

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TV Terror: Scariest Episodes of Horror Anthology Shows

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Horror has a long tradition in of success in television. Some of the earliest shows on TV when it was first introduced were horror-themed and it had a history in radio before that. Horror stories always find a way to be told. Anthology television gave great opportunities for up and coming directors and writers to […]

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Cold Case Analysis: The Texarkana Phantom, Part 1

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A cold case is an unsolved criminal investigation that remains open indefinitely pending the discovery of new evidence. There have been numerous unique cases throughout history, some of which still remained unsolved to this day, such as the Jack the Ripper killings, the Zodiac murders, and the Black Dahlia slaying. In this new, regular series, […]

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Lin Shaye Dishes on Storyline and Setting for Insidious 4!!

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At long last, we have a round of updates regarding timeline and setting for Insidious 4. The updates come courtesy of Daily Dead. The outlet recently spoke with actress Lin Shaye, who plays Elise in the franchise. Shaye opened up to Daily Dead regarding when and where the fourth installment will pick up in the franchise’s timeline. “In general, […]

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R.I.P. Don Calfa of Return of the Living Dead

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Wicked Horror is sad to report that veteran character actor Don Calfa has passed away at the age of 76. Calfa played Ernie Kaltenbrunner the undertaker in the excellent zombie comedy Return of the Living Dead. The actor passed on December 1st, just two days before his 77th birthday. In addition to appearing in Return of the Living Dead, […]

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