Trick or Treat: The Top 10 Best Secondary Characters in the ‘Halloween’ Franchise

Who doesn’t love a good side character? Side characters – or secondary characters – are usually those funny guys and gals who hang around our leads and give us moments of levity and brevity as the movie unravels. More often than not, as the credits roll on these films, we sometimes end up loving the […]

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Five Years Later: A Retrospective on the Uncanny Horrors of ‘Hereditary’

2018 honestly feels like a whole lifetime ago. The world was certainly in a much different place. Horror fans were eager to witness the next chapter in the beloved Halloween saga, spearheaded by the Pineapple Express folks. We’d finally gotten a sequel to The Strangers, though horror had been cycling through its latest in a […]

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Red Right Hand: The Top 15 Kills of the Entire ‘Scream’ Film Franchise

2022 has been quite the year for fans of the beloved Scream franchise. It hosted the first theatrical release in the series since the fourth installment back in 2011. It also allowed us to revisit our favorite fabled town of Woodsboro. Meeting wonderful new characters like Mindy, Chad, and the Carpenter sisters – while catching […]

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Thank You, Wes: A Tribute to One of Horror History’s Most Authentic Auteurs

By most definitions, an auteur is a filmmaker whose style is infallibly their own; they inject each of their films with such a distinct style and vision– chief among these traits, unique sincerity– that there is no mistaking whose work it is. Ever so often in one’s lifetime do we get to wholly acknowledge when […]

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Evil Kills Tonight: The Top 15 Kills in the ‘Halloween’ Franchise

Michael Myers’ adventures in murdering babysitters have certainly changed since his silent and disturbing introduction in 1978. While John Carpenter introduced us to a more subdued yet equally terrifying Shape in his first film, the series would soon transform the white-masked menace into something more. Myers went from a shadow, lurking amongst the town of […]

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The Decade of Grief Horror: Reflecting on Shared Themes in the Horror Movies of the 2010s

It’s not unusual for eras or decades of the horror genre to be categorized by one overarching theme or style. The eighties have become synonymous for their boom in low-budget, often sleazy, slasher films inspired by the cornerstone slashers of the mid-to-late seventies. The horrors of the 50s reflected cultural fears of science creating new […]

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