It’s officially the holiday season again, and while normal folks celebrate and get into the Christmas spirit by watching traditional films like It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, and other Yuletide classics, the Martin household always gets ready by watching the 1984 slasher flick classic Silent Night, Deadly …

Let’s face it, there are some horror film characters that are so unlikable that you can’t wait to see them get what is coming to them. At the same time, there are also so incredibly likable characters that you hate to see get killed off and it stings a little …

I remember seeing the trailer and TV spots for The Grudge when it was released and told my girlfriend (who is now my wife) that it just looked OK. I told her that it was probably just another crappy PG-13 rated remake of a superior Japanese film and that I …

When I was a kid, I thought that Freddy Krueger was the coolest horror movie villain ever. As I got older (and Freddy got a lot goofier and a lot less scary) I realized that I liked Jason Voorhees better. One of the main reasons that I decided that Jason …

In 1985 my dad bought the family a VCR for Christmas, and one of the first movies we rented was A Nightmare on Elm Street. We watched it Christmas Eve night, and I remember being terrified and afraid to go to sleep that night because I was sure Freddy was …

My wife and I were bored the other night and started looking for something to watch on Peacock. We ran across a film called 30 Miles From Nowhere, and even though the film’s synopsis was rather short and didn’t tell us a whole lot about what the movie was about, …

In 1960 the great Alfred Hitchcock introduced the world to Norman Bates in the movie Psycho (based on the Robert Bloch novel of the same name) and forever changed the way people looked at showers. The movie is an iconic horror film that spawned several sequels, a remake, and a …

Even though I love sharks, I have always had this irrational fear that I was going to be left out in the middle of the ocean all by myself without any hope of being rescued. I used to have nightmares about this when I was a kid, so when I …

There are a lot of people working in the indie horror film world these days, and one of the most talented ones is Amanda Megan. Amanda has done it all when it comes to the business, such as acting, directing, writing, and modeling, and she excels at all of them. …

Back in the summer of 1999, I found myself recently single after a lengthy relationship and dealt with my grief by going to the movies. A lot. I went to the local movie theater at least once a week that summer, and saw films such as The Haunting, The Blair …