ALICE JOHNSON: MORE THAN JUST A FINAL GIRL When the average horror fan talks about final girls, Lisa Wilcox’s recurring character of Alice Johnson (in A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 4 & 5 doesn’t come up as often as it should. And thirty years after the premiere of...
THE WEIRD, TRUE LIFE INCIDENT THAT INSPIRED “THE BLOB” We’ve seen it a thousand times. When we see “based on true events”, I always take that with a mighty grain of salt and throw it over my shoulder like a silly superstition. Inspiration for films is almost ALWAYS...
“SCARY STORIES” INSPIRED ARTIST TALKS “DEATH OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE” AND HELLISH ART As grown adults, we tend to have that one thing from our childhood that gives all the damn fuzzies. It could be a smell, a sound, and for a lot of people in the horror...
ESSENTIAL TUNES TO SOUNDTRACK YOUR FRIDAY THE 13TH The holiday’s iconic black cat has made its superstitious trip around the bend and another Friday the 13th has fallen upon us. Most horror fans will be celebrating this day with the obvious “FRIDAY THE 13TH”...
BARBIE-SPLOITATION! DREAMY CUSTOM HORROR DOLLS BY WILL TURNER Ever wished BARBIE would take the form of FRANKENHOOKER? Or how about the lovely Linnea Quigly as seen in RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD? Well, I hope you’re sitting down and you haven’t blown your...