Editorials

Transitioning from her squeaky clean wholesome image into vampy horror vixen has been anything but easy for one-time Disney star Bella Thorne. Appearing in the Scream television series had some convinced that she was poised for future scream queen greatness, but her film career has left a lot to be desired. Can …

The Evil Dead is the first movie I ever saw that looked like a nightmare. And that’s not a rib-nudging insult. Honest. The Evil Dead doesn’t hide all its rough edges, but those edges are exactly what branded it onto the darkest, mushiest corner of my adolescent mind. The celluloid …

With the new Halloween coming out next month, I wanted to take a moment to look back on the first films in the franchise and pick the five scariest moments for me, a Halloween superfan. While the new film will ignore all sequels, this article will not. There is no …

Both Open Water and The Reef are well-done shark attack movies, but why do they resonate with some people as being classic? Some people don’t like killer shark movies, and not just because they dislike horror films. They just feel that sharks are given a bad rap. One of the characters in …

Michael Myers has been widely regarded as one of the greatest horror icons to ever grace the screen, striking terror into the hearts of both characters and audiences. Many fans hoped to see Michael be featured in his own video game, and it wasn’t until 1983 when the Haddonfield Boogeyman …

When I was approached to join the PopHorror family, I was asked to write about my favorite horror movie. I’ve put it off and off – I’m not going to lie – in hopes that it would be forgotten. The thing is, I can’t really pinpoint just one movie as …

28 Days Later is a very memorable horror film, and not just because of it’s a fast-paced, raging “zombies.” It also looks at the horror of accidents. Let me explain. Released in 2002, Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later has aged pretty well. It is a thoroughly modern, action-packed movie, but not overbearingly …

Before Black Panther and Donald Trump, before sparkly vampires and tax evasion, there were “some mother truckers trying to ice skate uphill” in Blade. It’s been 20 years since Wesley Snipes uttered the words, “It’s open season on all suck- heads,” in the 1998 vampire flick by New Line Cinema. Remember, this …

I’ve written about Maximum Overdrive before, and I’m beginning to realize that I’m pretty obsessed with the film. I was lucky enough to remember when it came out, and witnessed firsthand the crazy trailer with the Halloween 3 music, the glowing Green Goblin eyes, and the crazy -ooking dude that …

I’ve been staring at this blank white page for days, wondering where to begin. It’s funny–when I write stories or film-related articles, beginnings are the easy part. But when it’s your story that you’re telling, when you’re allowing yourself to be completely vulnerable for eyes who only recognize you in …