May 2025 marks the 45th anniversary of the release of the 1980 slasher Friday the 13th. In honor of this momentous occasion, I thought I’d break...
The Jason Voorhees redesign sparked heated debate, but is the backlash overblown? Dive into Friday the 13th's formula and fan expectations.
The iconic slasher killer has taken many forms over the years, and I’m not just talking about the different performers who played him (who I have...
This month marks the 45th anniversary of 1980’s Friday the 13th, perhaps the most important movies in the history of cinema. Without it, the slasher genre...
While the Friday the 13th franchise helped codify the trope of the final girl, no two final girls are exactly alike. So let’s take a real...
Longtime readers may recall that, once upon a time, I wrote an article about what your favorite Halloween movie says about you. I know we all...
There is a plethora of final girls, even in iconic slasher movies, who do have sex and get to live. Some come from movies that are...
New York City has the greatest transit system in the United States. Despite this, all riders will tell you their own subway horror stories, myself included....
Calling all camp counselors, hockey mask-wearing fiends, and telekinetic final girls! Continuing our month of giveaways and in celebration of Friday the 13th, we have a...
Welcome back to Horror 101, a series of articles where we explain horror movie legends and their lore. For beginners, the confused, or just those who need...
Legacy sequels are not a new invention in the horror genre. The 2020s have seen several horror legacy sequels keeping...
A young person, raised by a scientist and seemingly simple minded by design, discovers their inner hedonist. In their quest...
The commonality between horror fandom and the Queer community is well established. For years, the genre so often marginalized and...
“I’m going to make a deer hunter out of you,” my father told me right after I was born. This...
[This article contains spoilers] Prior to the disestablishment of the Hays’ Code, filmmakers had to make depictions of cannibalism more...
The Jason Voorhees redesign sparked heated debate, but is the backlash overblown? Dive into Friday the 13th's formula and fan...
The horror umbrella is massive and encompasses many subgenres including thrillers, sci-fi, and even true crime. I like to quip...
I have unintentionally surrounded myself with stuffed animals for most of my life. Not those ones, though. The ones seen...
For fans of the show, the cancellation of Santa Clarita Diet was a gut punch. A show about a listless...
Elizabeth Sankey, writer and director of Witches, was institutionalized due to postpartum psychosis. Prior to her hospital admission, she found...