night of the living dead

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 […]

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.  […]

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 empowering and problematic character, the final girl, as defined by author […]

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. In […]

The decade that gave us dial-up internet and the “Rachel” cut remains one of the most fertile and influential eras in the development of horror cinema. Although the ’80s are easy to generalize as the era of iconic slashers such as Freddy and Jason, ’90s horror doesn’t lend itself to such convenient categorization.  From the […]

Beginning with their 1979 single “Night Of The Living Dead,” the Misfits have made a career of mining classic, cult and B-grade movies for fodder for their hard-driving, melodic brand of patented horror punk. With results ranging from the sublime fury of the classic Glenn Danzig-fronted lineup’s “Astro Zombies” to the unabashedly ridiculous “The Devil’s […]

Whether you love, loathe or merely try to ignore them, horror remakes, rehashes and sequels have been a cinematic fact of life since the earliest days of the medium. The trend of rebooting successful films has, for better and too often for worse, been a staple of the genre since its inception. Robert Louis Stevenson’s […]

Former Misfits drummer Joey Image has reportedly died. Image (real name: Joseph Poole) had only played with the band for a little more than a year beginning in November 1978. He replaced original drummer Manny Martinez. After accompanying the band on a tour of the UK with the Damned in 1979, he left. Image was […]

Everyone has thought about how they would handle living in a zombie apocalypse at some point in time. It’s so ingrained in our consciousness from the number of beloved films on the topic released over the years. Sure, The Walking Dead did a great job of making zombies hugely marketable in entertainment but they’ve been […]

We’re currently in the horror movie reboot and sequel craze, and one classic film is about to get its long-awaited return. After almost 50 years, a Night Of The Living Dead sequel is finally in the works. Read more: A ‘Nightmare On Elm Street’ star worked on the original ‘Halloween’ Bloody Disgusting has reported that a Night Of […]