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Plenty of movies use the “storyteller” frame. One character, in one world, will begin a tale that transports us, the...
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You might think comedy is the genre for “weird families,” but I’d argue it’s horror. From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre...
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Hear me out: every musical genre has a vampire film to match it. Bela Lugosi’s OG Dracula pairs with something classical, Schumacher’s The Lost Boys with glam rock, and Joe Begos’s brilliant Bliss with some acid-laced EDM. That’s not to say that these movies are literally scored with this music...
I could spend hours talking about why I love 1941’s The Wolf Man. There’s the makeup, the cast (Lon Chaney...
Sorry to say it, but we’re not that much less superstitious than our ancestors. Sure, there’s more scientific knowledge today than...
Monster movies are never just one thing. Night of the Living Dead isn’t just about zombies, it’s about prejudices rooted deeply into our society. It isn’t just a story of a murderous clown, it’s also about the horrors of growing up. The Wolf Man isn’t just about werewolves, Frankenstein isn’t just about reanimated corpses, Bird Box isn’t just about...
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We don’t typically think of mythology as horror-leaning. Though a lot of myths have some pretty horrific origins, the ones...
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Gothic vampire horror seems to never go out of style. Even now, a new Victorian adaptation of Dracula is heading...
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What does it take to be a good horror antagonist? A supernatural element? Any serial killer flick will tell you that’s not the case. Humanity? Not according to Jaws or this summer’s Crawl. We’re not even sure it takes being a moving creature, if you count Twister as a horror...
“What frame of any film has been more iconic?” asks Forrest Burgess, co-host of the Astonishing Legends podcast. “We all...
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There are good reasons moviegoers are wary of CGI. If it’s not done well, it can be distracting. Even when...
More than any other genre, horror can serve as a workshop for filmmakers. Its tropes and beats are very familiar, so reworking them into something different can resonate with even the most casual horror fan. Blood Quantum, a zombie flick set on the backdrop of a Native American reservation, is...
