Gothic horror is largely misunderstood by modern audiences. The lukewarm reviews Crimson Peak garnered in 2015 are a good indication of that blind spot, as well as some misguided responses to Mike Flanagan’s series The...
John Carpenter's Halloween has been terrifying audiences since 1978. Once a year, the world turns its eyes to the fictional streets of Haddonfield, Illinois, for a glimpse of its homegrown horror. However, many may not know...
The climax of 2013's The Last of Us does not contain an expensive set piece or a giga-sized final boss to destroy, but rather a moral dilemma. The player character, Joel (Troy Baker), slaughters his way through a hospital...
Seminal sci-fi horror John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) may seem unlikely to meet representations of Jungian psychological analysis upon first glance. Yet, I can think of no better way to explore ideas of the self and...
"The old ones called it "the hour of the wolf." It is the hour when most people die when most children are born. Now is when nightmares come to us. And if we are awake… We're afraid." Arguably the most significant...
In a decade populated by some of the finest films of the horror genre, the rise of mainstream success for David Cronenberg with Videodrome,The Fly, and Scanners, alongside John Carpenter's The Thing, and a whole host of...
"Fellow executives, it gives me great pleasure to introduce you to the future of law enforcement," says Dick Jones, Senior Vice President of Omni Consumer Products, shortly before his pièce de résistance unloads...
On April 13, 1973, Henry Darger died in Chicago, Illinois, at 81. Darger was a recluse, an isolated old man who was known by his neighbors as an eccentric who rarely spoke to others. He worked menial jobs as a janitor,...
Since its release in 1996, Wes Craven's Scream has become synonymous with the Slasher sub-genre revival for its satirical take on horror and youth culture. Although none of the sequels have matched the critical...
Josephine Decker, director of experimental drama Madeline's Madeline, explores American horror writer Shirley Jackson's life in her 2020 film, Shirley. Jackson, who has written six novels, two memoirs, and...
When Walter Salles' Dark Water was released in July 2005, it was part of a wave of American remakes of Asian (primarily Japanese) horror movies, following the successful American J-horror remakes The...
"Adolescence is like becoming a monster." I had not yet heard this quote from director John Fawcett before my first viewing of Ginger Snaps. If I had, I might have been better prepared to face the beast that...
"It wasn't just that she was pretty." One of the old reviews for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? references director Robert Aldrich's "feeble attempts […] to suggest the irony of two once idolized...