horror movies

POORSTACY’s second album, Party At The Cemetery, is here just in time for the Halloween season. On the new record, POORSTACY builds upon the eerie nature of his music by bringing a more cinematic approach to the sound. In a number of ways, Party At The Cemetery is the audible equivalent of a horror film, something shown by his appreciation of the genre. Rather th...

Tate Logan, frontman for the punk group Happy., is diving into the world of NFTs with a new digital card collection club. Partnering with NFT platform Cloutchain for the release, Logan hopes the club will give his fans a safe space to express themselves and connect with others...

Ice Nine Kills frontman Spencer Charnas is a serious horror movie obsessive. The singer fell in love with fright movies at an early age. Over the years, he’s become well-versed in the classics and the deep cuts alike. As a result, INK draws major influences from the genre. The ...

Horror movies today are a lot more shocking and violent than they used to be. This push for increasingly gory films came about in slasher films from the ’70s and onward. While most people know classics such as Halloween, A Nightmare On Elm Street or Friday The 13th, it’s important to know the history of what was viewed as scary before people needed to be shocked with extreme violence.  Iconic... R

From the ending of Fight Club to the final moment of The Breakfast Club, music has been adding extra emotion to movie scenes for decades.  Music can evoke emotion, conclude a scene without words or deliver the extra oomph that a moment was lacking otherwise. Bel...

Horror fans are in for a treat with The Silence Of The Lambs sequel series Clarice and now we're getting our first look at the upcoming series. The CBS TV series debuted the first trailer before it arrives in February and it looks as haunting and scary as you would expect. Read more: T... Read More ...

It seems like everyone loves to watch feel-good Christmas movies to get in the holiday spirit once December rolls around. But many holiday movie fans have noticed that some of these classics have dark theories behind them.  If you scour the internet, there’s no shortage of conspiracy theories about Christmas movies, old and new. Some make our ...

Welcome to Alternative Press’ 15 best punk albums of 1989. It’s easy to look at the final year of the decade and see it as transitional. But there are portents of the future all over this list. Yet, truth be told, haven’t we seen that with all these lists? As we’ve work...

Fear knows no borders. That’s a great thing for horror fans, and thanks to Netflix, international fright films and shows are more accessible than ever. With a growing selection of movies from around the globe, it’s never been easier to experience the genre as interpreted by so many diverse cultures. Nevert...

When APTV Director Bobby Makar asked Spencer Charnas what his favorite scary movie is, he wasn’t setting up a bloodbath. Indeed, the Ice Nine Kills singer is a die-hard enthusiast of scary movies of all kinds. Horror films, splatter reels, you name it. If i...

Since the spooky season is finally here, many of us are snuggling up to massive bowls of popcorn and watching some of the scariest films. Now, one study has officially revealed which movie is scientifically the scariest of all time and, well, movie lovers have a lot of opinions...

It’s been 22 years since Bride Of Chucky crept its way onto our screens. Now, Don Mancini is celebrating the anniversary with a rare photo you’ve probably never seen before. The photo reveals that Tiffany’s hair originally had a subtle nod to another iconic horror film. Read more: Thes... Read More ...

Horror movies bring out some truly captivating stories, whether it’s through the plotline or just the characters themselves. The genre has been influential in so many different aspects of our society, and music is no exception, with tons of artists writing direct tributes to the scary films that have been heavily integrated in our minds.  ...

It’s probably not as fancy as you think. We’ve heard people cheering about the “blue full moon on Halloween” for a while now, and it sounds very exciting. But we need to get a couple of things straight first: The blue moon isn’t actually blue. It’s simply what the full mo...

In his 1981 book Danse Macabre, legendary author Stephen King makes a potent defense for the kind of films that are often labeled “guilty pleasures.” “I’m no snob,” King writes, “and if you are, that’s your problem. In my business, if you lose your taste f...

Halloween is finally almost here, and like pretty much everything else this year, it’s going to look a lot different.  Due to the coronavirus outbreak, many people are opting to spend most of their time at home, which means no large parties, indoor haunted houses and definitely no bobbing for apples.  Read mo...

They are horror’s sole survivors—the women who take on deadly monsters, masked killers and terrifying aliens on their own terms. From Halloween’s Laurie Strode to Scream’s Sidney Prescott, the final girl has been a staple of horror movies since the early 1970s.  An alternately emp...

Stephen King is one of the most popular and prolific authors in history. As of this writing, the man who reinvented horror for a generation has over 200 novels, novellas and short stories in print. With over 50 of his works adapted for TV and film so far, there's still plenty more King for Hollywood to mine for its next blockbuster...

From the stories of O. Henry to The Twilight Zone and Black Mirror, the plot twist has long been a staple of storytelling. In horror movies, twists can either heighten the scares or provide an exit out of a lousy script. In the hands of a hack, a twist is merely a cheap shot...

Take a random sampling of horror movie fans, ask them what their No. 1 complaint about the genre is and odds are they’ll all answer: too many remakes. As Hollywood continues to strip mine the past for profit, horrorphiles are left asking, “Where has all the originality gone?” Fear not:...