Titane, Jennifer’s Body show the power of young female horror villains
It's a common occurrence for almost all modern film monsters. Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers start as a...
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Lord of the Rings is in the horror movie canon thanks to Peter Jackson
The Fellowship of the Ring is our introduction to Peter Jackson’s model of Center-earth. It units the stage for the...
House of Ashes is an ambitious horror game that mostly pulls it off
It’s almost Halloween, so it’s a great time for some frights. There are not many things scarier than getting lost...
Where horror movie sound effects and ghosts’ boo come from
Edgar Allen Poe began writing long before radio was mainstream entertainment. His poetry and prose were full of words and...
The best horror movie tropes, picked by horror writers and directors
The primary time you see a slasher film, you don’t know that the automotive gained’t begin. You’re confused when the...
The best horror movie evil mirror scenes, ranked
There are certain tropes and symbols that recur throughout horror fiction — undead creatures, restless spirits, uncontrollable transformations. They appeal...
Horror movies, explained by human fear
Each genre has its own tropes. Westerns feature black and white hats as well as face-offs among lone gunmen in...
Midsommar’s ending and other horror movies changed the sacrifice trope
Live long enough and you’ll see your favorite tropes get subverted, then those subversions become tropes in their own right....
Trick or Trope: A guide to horror movie tropes
Horror is the entertainment genre that has more tropes. Everywhere you turn there’s another horror flick featuring a masked murderer,...
Scooby-Doo’s Shaggy was the first influential horror movie stoner
Only a few things are certain in life: death, taxes, and if you smoke a lot of weed in a...
