Content Warning: The following article contains discussions of graphic violence, animal cruelty, sexual assault, and rape.Everybody loves a good scare, as the undying popularity of horror movies ...
The 1980s gave horror fans slashers, splatter, video-store trash, punk energy, monster suits, synth dread, practical-effects miracles, and the kind of cheap weirdness that can make a terrible movie ...
Most arguments about horror remakes are arguments about whether a good film should be touched at all, which is why they never go anywhere and why everybody leaves said arguments annoyed. A better ...
Horror films contain many subgenres. But perhaps the scariest subgenre is paranormal horror. It taps into our fears of death ...
They sure don't make them like they used to, but in the case of 1980s science fiction horror, perhaps it's better that they didn't. That's not because they were bad, of course. On the contrary, in ...
The 1980s were a golden age of horror films. The renewal of the genre in the 1970s meant that more filmmakers were trying their hand at scary movies than ever before, and the VHS revolution meant that ...
The home video market of the 1980s bore almost no resemblance to how people watch horror today. Streaming did not exist even as a hypothetical, and the format war between VHS and Betamax had only ...