In 1982, we were still at the height of the slasher boom period of the horror genre. Bloody murders from boogeymen lurking in the night were commonplace. But Friday The 13th Part 3 wanted to kick things up a notch. For the third installment of the successful Friday the 13th …
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“And now, he’s back…” After terrorizing poor Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis: Terror Train 1980 – our retro review) at Hillcrest Academy in 1998’s Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (our retro review), Michael Myers (Brad Loree: The Day of the Living Dead 2014) came back for more stabs in the franchise’s …
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When Friday The 13th was released in 1980, most people (including its cast and crew) believed it would be a standalone horror film. Enter Friday The 13th Part 2 the following year. Once the studios realized that these slasher films would be cheap to produce and easy to turn a profit, we …
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Twenty years ago, I was 8 years old and going to see my very first Halloween film in theaters. I had spent the month prior racing into the living room any time I heard the Halloween: H20 trailer come on our TV screen. I can still remember holding my breath …
Read More »Usually, when horror fans talk about the mothers of horror, we generally discuss the more villainous moms like Pamela Voorhees, Norma Bates, or Margaret White. But what about the mothers of horror that are actually the protagonists of the story? Today, we celebrate the badass mothers in horror that would do …
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This March 31, the horror thriller The Blackcoat’s Daughter will debut in theaters across the country and is now available exclusively on DirecTV. The film, which is directed by Osgood “Oz” Perkins (I Am the Pretty Thing that Lives in the House 2016) and stars Emma Roberts (American Horror Story TV series) …
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