Four Terrible Movies from Great Horror Directors

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The masters of horror are incredibly talented individuals. We all know who they are and are familiar with their many accomplishments. They’ve given great things to the genre. But in a director’s career, especially a working director like most of them are, not every movie is going to be a hit right out of the […]

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Five of the Most Overlooked Hammer Horror Movies

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After the Universal era of horror movies through the 1930’s and ’40’s, the genre began to die out and was replaced by science fiction. It looked like horror was all but dead until Hammer Studios emerged in the late 1950’s to update the classic monsters. Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolf Man and the Mummy all returned to cinemas […]

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Event Recap: MegaCon 2018

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Last year’s MegaCon was among the most enjoyable I’ve ever attended. Much of that was, of course, due to the events, the guests, and the overall planning from the team behind the convention. But it was also the best I’d ever seen the event handle crowd control, which made for a really enjoyable and easy […]

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Four Amazing Transformations by Actors in Horror

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Some actors really go the extra mile to prepare themselves for a role. Whether it be through makeup, amazing physical changes, or both. They prove their devotion to the role by making drastic changes to their physicality. Here are some transformations in horror that showcased actors willing to go the extra mile.  Christian Bale in […]

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Jacob’s Ladder and the Process of Dying

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Jacob’s Ladder, released in 1990, puzzled audiences and critics. Dealing with complicated issues of loss, grief, paranoia, hallucinations, death, and rebirth, the film demands multiple viewings to be fully understood and appreciated. It is best represented as an intricate hologram that consists of thousands of small, moving parts, constantly breaking down and reassembling to form a […]

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How Night of the Creeps Revitalized the ’50’s Monster Movie

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During the 1980’s, there were a lot of films that tried to recapture the spirit of the 1950’s monster movie. They weren’t just limited to horror either. Everything from Gremlins to E.T. to Stand by Me tried to capture that slice of Americana that the earlier decade presented. As old fears from the 1950’s re-emerged, styles […]

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Review: Cold November Will Warm Your Heart

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Since this is Wicked Horror, let me start by saying that Cold November isn’t a horror movie. There’s a dream of a dead cousin that’s debatably a ghostly visit in the first third of the movie and two graphic scenes of deer gutting, but none of it is played for scares. Rather, Cold November is […]

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Why One of George Romero’s Best Pictures isn’t Even a Zombie Film

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The name George Romero is synonymous with the zombie sub-genre. His first feature, Night of the Living Dead, was absolutely groundbreaking. It changed the game in a lot of ways. His sequel Dawn of the Dead was also a massive hit, one of the first zombie epics. The influence of both films can still be […]

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Back to the ’80s: Suspect

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Welcome to Back to the ’80s. This recurring feature aims to take a look at the good, the bad, and the ugly from horror’s most beloved decade. Regardless of which category a particular film falls under, this segment will spotlight films that horror fans can appreciate for one reason or another. We will look at how […]

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Six Famous Fictional Towns Based on Real Places

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Many works of horror include fictional locations that have become iconic. Some are used over and over again, whether it be in a franchise like Halloween or in many different works, as has been done frequently by authors such as Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft. Location is incredibly important in horror. It can provide the […]

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Gore Monger: How Lucio Fulci Helped Redefine Italian Horror

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To some degree Italian horror used to dictate the landscape of American horror. The Giallo films of yesteryear, for example, paved the way for the American slasher film. Directors like Dario Argento would not only helm movies that would be major hits internationally, like Suspiria, but would also occasionally serve as a producer on American horrors like […]

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Why In the Mouth of Madness is One of the Most Underrated Meta-Horrors

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Scream and Wes Craven’s New Nightmare are widely regarded as the two movies that kicked off meta-horror in the 1990’s. Both were, in their own way, deconstructions of the genre. But despite having the same director, they had completely different approaches. New Nightmare is a thought-provoking, in depth analysis of the people who create horror […]

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Review: Island Zero Proves Not All that Starts Well Ends Well

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Island Zero starts well. First time director Josh Gerritsen does good work making viewers afraid of a monster without showing them what it is from the start. The film opens with a very drunk man singing to his dog on their boat. Yacht Man (Paul Hodgson) leaves his dog on deck as he goes under to […]

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Horror Movie Spinoffs You Won’t Believe Really Happened

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Once a horror movie officially pulls out all the stops and becomes a franchise, things get pretty weird pretty quickly. The people in charge will do whatever they feel is necessary to keep that franchise going. So there will, of course, be sequels. There will always be merchandising and tie-ins, sometimes in the most unexpected […]

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The Purge TV Series Officially Starts Filming

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If you’re sick of waiting for July 4th to roll around and a new Purge movie to hit theaters, fear not, because the TV spinoff has just started filming in New Orleans. Production has commenced on the series, from Blumhouse Television and Universal Cable Productions, with a view to hitting the small-screen this coming fall […]

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The Six Most Baffling Stephen King Sequels

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Stephen King is responsible for more film adaptations than any other living author. And most of the adapted works are from his horror catalogue. Most horror movies have sequels. Because of this, it’s not surprising that so many King adaptations have received low-budget follow-ups. In fact, it’s almost surprising there haven’t been more. Most of them aren’t good. […]

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Five Contemporary Movies That Perfectly Recapture ’80’s Horror

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For a lot of horror fans, the 1980’s was the golden decade. It’s what everyone seems to go back to. It’s where most of the major icons and franchises were either born or found their footing. As such, there are those who consider themselves purists and are all too dismissive of the current state of […]

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How Ginger Snaps Helped the Horror Genre and Found its Audience

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Ginger Snaps–as I’ve written about here–is one of the best horror movies of the past fifteen years, period. It’s among the great werewolf films of all time. Yes, it was independent and low budget, but like some of the best horror films of our time, that proved to be a help and not a hindrance. […]

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Television Monsters That Could Have Supported Their Own Movie

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Horror and television have always been intertwined. As soon as the TV occupied a place in the home, there were monsters on it. Now, there’s more horror content on the small screen than we’ve ever seen before. Mid-range budgets have all but disappeared from the film world and anything that can’t be produced on a […]

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Review: Altered Perceptions? This Movie Doesn’t

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In Altered Perceptions, three couples have a drug that is repeatedly compared to hallucinogens injected into a gland behind their eyes. The drug’s stated purpose is to give clarity, and according to one of the people administering it, it has the potential to resolve, “geopolitical conflicts around the world.” The couples—two straight, one lesbian—are on […]

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Review: Bad Samaritan Is Brash, Bewildering, And Boring

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The most difficult movies to write about, contrary to popular opinion,  aren’t the ones that make you mad or drive you crazy with boredom. They’re those strange examples that make barely any impact whatsoever. The kind that elicit a shrug, rather than a smile, a shriek (in the case of decent horror movies) instead of […]

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How Alien Raised the Bar for Visuals in Horror

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Throughout most of the 1970’s, horror was very focused on realism. There was a transition period in the previous decade that moved the genre away from the gothic Hammer films, truly cementing horror in the modern era with Night of the Living Dead in 1968. After that came the shocking, real-world horrors of The Last […]

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Non-Found Footage Microbudget Movies That Prove Anyone Can Do It

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Scary as the industry is now, this is the golden age of being able to make a movie. Anyone can do it. The scary part is distribution and profit, both of which are in some ways harder than ever. Still, that shouldn’t deter anyone who really feels like they need to shoot a film from […]

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Why Return to Horror High was Insanely Ahead of Its Time

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Return to Horror High is a low-budget slasher from the late ‘80’s, which was a notoriously bad time for the sub-genre. Not only were the films cheap, they generally had terrible actors and even worse effects. It was very hard to do a slasher during this time, or at least to do it right. The […]

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