Horror and comedy are tough genres to mix. A handful of horror spoofs work quite well and have secured sizable fanbases. Deathgasm, Werewolves Within, Willy’s Wonderland, Cocaine Bear, and Renfield all mix silly levels of gore with laughs to varying levels of success. But for every Scary Movie there’s a handful of Dracula: Dead and […]
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Though it wasn’t a box office success during its release, Broken Lizard’s Super Troopers quickly gained a cult following. It was enough of a following to earn Broken Lizard another feature-length effort, the slasher parody Club Dread. To some extent, Broken Lizard were a bit late to the game. Just eight years earlier Wes Craven […]
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Though it was a box office success, Halloween Ends polarized fans and ended Laurie Strode’s story on a controversial note.
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Several years ago, filmmaking brothers Luciano and Nicolás Onetti unleashed their Argentinian slasher What the Waters Left Behind onto the horror world. The slasher’s premise – documentary filmmakers running afoul of hillbilly cannibals – wasn’t particularly original. But the Epecuén setting – a very real and tragic ghost town – added something extra to the […]
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For the past few years, horror filmmakers have been dipping into children’s intellectual properties to find the next trend. To date, we’ve gotten two slashers re-imagining the animatronic characters of family restaurants – Willy’s Wonderland and The Banana Splits. And Five Nights at Freddy’s is due later this year. Early in 2022, Disney’s exclusive copyright […]
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While it might sound strange to say, slasher movies were, at their core, very conservative horror movies. Yes, Christian fundamentalists and other moralists may have been up in arms about the violence. But the basic tropes of masked killers ‘punishing’ young adults flaunting moral conventions by drinking, doing drugs, and engaging in pre-marital sex felt […]
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Following the success of Wes Craven’s Scream, the mid- to late 90s saw a surge in teen horror. These movies included neo-slashers (Urban Legend, Cry Wolf), thrillers (Disturbing Behavior, Teaching Mrs. Tingle), and even some sci-fi horror (The Faculty). Among the most successful of these movies not called Scream was I Know What You Did […]
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Happy first day of summer! And what better way to kick off a a summer of horror then with a classic 80s camping slasher. On this site, we’ve shown plenty of love to Friday the 13th and even done a review of Madman. Like Madman, The Burning was both a Friday the 13th ripoff and […]
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