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5 Terrifying Horror Movies That Are Actually Pretty Funny (1 Is An Iconic Genre Classic)

The continued success of the horror genre is built on its movies’ ability to scare their audiences. From the earliest days of cinema, there have been filmmakers who set out to evok...

Horror genre has evolved into space to explore queer identity

Forbidden love among topics explored The post Horror genre has evolved into space to explore queer identity appeared first on Washington Blade: LGBTQ News, Politics, LGBT...

What makes horror movies really terrifying

An expert digs into why we love a good scary movie and discusses the key components of the horror film genre.

Horror is hot. Hoezo eigenlijk? Waarom vindt het genre zo gretig aftrek?

“Horror Is Now Cool” as the Hunt for the Next ‘Obsession’ and ‘Backrooms’ Is on: Rome’s MIA

"We want to find the Italian Kane Parsons" to reach Gen Z audiences, a genre film panel discussing the state of the medium at the MIA Market heard on Wednesday.

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The best horror books of the century so far

5 Terrifying Horror Movies That Actually Don’t Make Any Sense (& Some Still Started Franchises)

The horror genre has been built on the simple yet brilliant concept that some audiences want to be scared. Delivering stories that are chilling, haunting, and downright terrifying...

5 Sci-Fi Horror Movies That Prove The Genres Belong Together (Including An Underrated Found Footage Classic)

While modern cinema is often categorized by several distinct genres, the lines between them are sometimes blurred. Both the horror and sci-fi genres boast a rich history dating bac...

Why Horror Is the Most Consistently Profitable Genre in Box Office History

One of my buddies sold a horror spec for a few hundred thousand dollars last week and was shocked at the number. When he told me, he thought they were kidding; I told him he deserv...

Gothic-Genre: Ursprung, Merkmale, prägende Filme und Bücher

Gothic verbindet Horror, Romantik und gesellschaftliche Ängste. Jeweils Fünf Bücher und Filme zeigen die Entwicklung des Genres.

The Best 2000s Horror Franchise Reinvented Itself 17 Years Ago, And Surprising Competition Destroyed It

Like every other era of Hollywood, the 2000s saw some pretty distinct formulas become the norm for horror movies. Not only was it the decade that gave rise to a gold rush of Americ...

Neil Kleid on Learning to Write Horror as Someone Afraid of Jumpscares

Look, let’s get right down to it: horror movies scare me. They always have, since my initial viewing of Poltergeist in 1982 at the tender young age of seven or eight. Due to the fo...

Horror is big business

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on how pervasive horror has become, follow Andrew Webster. The Stepback, a...

Gothic Horror Set Across the Globe

Beyond the crumbling mansions and churchyards of classic Gothic fiction, global gothic horror invites readers to understand terror from a different perspective.

Horror Movies That Prey on Your Everyday Fears

The movies that know that little thing that terrifies you and how to exploit it The post Horror Movies That Prey on Your Everyday Fears appeared first on Reactor.

From Haunted Houses to Digital Nightmares: The Changing Language of Horror

A creaking staircase, a dark hallway, and a door opening by itself once defined the atmosphere of a classic horror movie. Today, a mysterious notification, an unfamiliar video call...

5 Amazing Horror Movies You Didn’t Know Were Also Terrifying Books, And One Has Five Sequels

Horror movies have a habit of making us forget where the nightmare started. We remember the creepy little girl, the thing lurking in the basement, or the videotape nobody in their...

Never After Dark: A Terrifying New Twist on a Haunted House Tale

We love a horror movie that looks at four different genres and says, "Yes." The post <i>Never After Dark</i>: A Terrifying New Twist on a Haunted House Tale appeared f...

HUMAN Trailer Teases a “Stomach-Churning” Twisted Supernatural Horror Nightmare

Q3’s Horror Box Office Shows the Trouble with Always Hunting Another ‘Obsession’

"Resident Evil" arrived big, "Buddy" built a hit, and "Evil Dead" and "Insidious" grappled with cost-benefit expectations. Horror’s third quarter explains why the genre needs more...

Horror films like Obsession are shut out of the Golden Globes – unless they pretend to be comedies

Obsession is a terrifying, violent nightmare of lovestruck madness – but the Globes’ rigid awards categories have forced it into an absurd choiceWhat do this year’s wish-gone-wrong...

Horror Movies That Make You Afraid of Looking in the Mirror

I’m not a fan of looking into mirrors personally. Have you seen those memes where the person holds something behind an object and the mirror “sees” it? It’s called a mirror paradox...

Gore, gimps and a potty-mouthed magpie: welcome to the Lisbon horror festival where nightmares are a dream

MotelX – Portugal’s only film festival dedicated to horror – hopes to inspire local film-makers by showcasing world-class scares. Now in its 20th edition, its directors say truly n...

How Horror Movies Are Changing in the Age of Digital Technology

Horror films have always depended on a simple idea: make the audience feel afraid of something they cannot control. Directors have tried countless ways to achieve that effect, from...