A video essay examining Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining," various videogames, and the work of Japanese Manga artist and master of horror, Junji Ito.

Cinemassacre's Monster Madness returns for its final year, beginning with the 1973 classic "The Wicker Man."

The bestselling tale of teenagers haunted by a demon remains effective because it’s about so much more than a scary clown. I think you’d struggle to find a more-read author in the 1980s than Stephen King. Throughout the 70s and early 80s, King carved a path for himself as the world’s foremost writer of horror fiction. His books were a double threat: they were both immaculately written and presented, on their most basic levels, subjects that were designed to terrify readers. Each book focused on a topic that drilled into our own neuroses, either real or imagined: the vampires found in Salem’s Lot, the isolation presented by The Shining...

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Sacred tomes and forbidden volumes are always fascinating. Here are all the fictional books we really want to read, even if that is a demonstrably bad idea.

A look at the work of horror's most influential designer.

To be honest, I’m shocked that I’ve never heard about CAST A DEADLY SPELL before 2016. After all, it’s got a shocking amount of talent associated with the film: future GOLDENEYE and CASINO ROYALE director Martin Campbell, ALIENS producer Gale Anne Hurd, FX legend Tony Gardner, THIRTYSOMETHING writer/producer Joseph Dougherty and a stunning cast that includes Julianne Moore, Fred Ward, Lee Tergesen, and Clancy Brown. But above all, it’s a genre hybrid unlike any other: a true detective noir that embraces the fantastical elements of the horror genre unabashedly.

The adventure continues. Stranger Things 2 is coming to Netflix 2017.

Are jump scares cheap? Should we get rid of them? Short answer: No. They suck, but they have more potential than you may think.

Candle Cove centers on one man’s obsessive recollections of a mysterious children’s television program from the 1980s, and his ever-growing suspicions about the role it might have played in a series of nightmarish and deadly events from his childhood. Based on the popular "creepypasta."

The Story of an SF Horror Game-Changer

The same things that terrify us can also make us die laughing, and as long as there's been horror, there's been silly horror-comedy. Check out our history of the silliest horror movies of all time.

James Wan ('Saw', 'The Conjuring') is saving mainstream horror, making him the most important horror director of the last 20 years.

I wachted it all in one day and i loved it, i loved the 80's feel it has. Winona Ryder was great. It's feel part Spielberg, David Lynch and Stephen King. WHERE IS SEASON TWO?

From The Boxer's Omen to the genuine unpleasantness of Calamity Of Snakes, we take a look at a stomach-churning subgenre of cinema.

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Celebrity teen angst is a surprisingly good fit for the apocalypse.

If you listen very closely, you can hear it even now: the sound of the human heart beating. Often, in particularly good horror fiction, this sound is the thing that resonates most, the sound of life springing forth from the void of confusion and danger around it. The best horror fiction accounts for the heart’s profound sensitivity — its vulnerability to alarm and suspense — and the best horror writers understand that the heart, as much as the mind, is able to gauge and comprehend the forces, processes, shadows, and shapes of fear.

Back in the good old day off film, we used to have to go to a video store in order to pick a film to rent. The only way we could judge a film was by its cover, and not every film was honest with it’s representation of its films content. The VHS box art was often something that would catch your eye, but you always found yourself skeptical of its dramatic depiction of the films events. I wanted to look at a random selection of box art, and find the good and bad illustrations that were used to sell us films. Box Art vs Reality.

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