Ever since the excited squeals at the brand new concept of CGI after the release of Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991), filmmakers have been making full use of computer generated effects in both horror and sci-fi movies. Over the years, visual effects companies have perfected their skills at creating realistic …

In 1988, writers Tom Holland, Don Mancini, and John Lafia brought us a horror film that would change the way we see dolls forever with Child’s Play. After the success of Child’s Play, four sequels and reboot would follow. Like many of the classic slashers, this is a series that …

You gotta hand it to Death: he certainly knows how to get creative when people don’t follow his plan for their untimely fates. As we’ve seen throughout the Final Destination series, our heroes are lucky if they get a straight-forward death; normally, however, the situation ends up turning into a …

It was 58 years ago this weekend that Hammer Films released one of their earliest successes: The Horror of Dracula. The film would go on to inspire more than just a few sequels and helped establish Hammer as premier creators of top-notch cinematic terror. Hammer Films is a British production …

Everything’s bigger in Texas: Steak dinners, belt buckles, cowboy hats… horror. The Lone Star State produced a some of America’s most deranged serial killers, including: Angel Maturino Reséndiz (The Railroad Killer), Dean Corll (The Candy Man), Kenneth McDuff (The Broomstick Killer), Charles Albright (The Eyeball Killer), David Berkowitz (Son of …

I’m notorious for putting off watching recommended movies. Friends are always suggesting great flicks to watch, but all too often they are put to the side because, well, life happens. Over the weekend, however, while debating what to watch with a friend, I finally saw a horror movie that had …

While we should all be appreciative that they exist, hospitals can be downright terrifying. It is no wonder that filmmakers have long been inspired by them when you consider how many contagious illnesses, deaths and mental breakdowns occur in a single hospital during its lifetime. The setting already puts people …

There’s a reason so many horror movies take place in high schools and/or focus on teenagers; as a colleague of mine is fond of saying: “High school is a horror movie!” Indeed, it’s a metaphor made in Hell. For adolescents charting the dangerous territory between childhood and adulthood, potentially catastrophic …

Werewolf movies come along quite often. Some of them serve as wonderfully frightening entries into the subgenre, and others should probably be put down with a silver bullet. The difficult thing about werewolf movies is that, for the most part, they’re different variations of the same formula. What sets the …

Welcome to Dillford, Home of the Riblet. Dillford is not your normal, everyday town. As a matter of fact, it’s about as abnormal as a town can get. Humans live side by side with vampires and zombies, all in relative peace. They work at the riblet plant, they go to …