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Top 5 Comedic Horror Movies on Netflix

With the horror genre, laughing one’s ass off isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind. However, films such as Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead (1981) and Evil Dead II (1987), Stephen Chiodo’s Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) and John Gulager’s Feast (2005) have helped fuse laughs and …

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5 Creepy, Relatively Obscure TV Episodes

If you’re anything like me, your childhood wasn’t always about being active. At times your brain was probably turned to sludge by TV programs — perhaps permanently corrupted by immoral, putrid garbage. Honestly, I have some fond memories of this phenomenon myself. On that note, here’s a list of some of the …

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8 of The Best Serial Killer Teams in Horror

It’s a rarity that serial killers work well together in horror films, whether they’re love interests, family members, or just people with the same goal in mind. There’s nothing scarier than being outnumbered by a team of rampaging maniacs. PopHorror has put together a list of the serial killer team-ups that …

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Three Silent Horror Films From Before 1900

It’s time again to look back in the history of horror — way back!  Here are three very early silent films.  They may not contain some invincible hulking maniac, but they at least dabble in horror imagery. George Albert Smith’s “The X-Rays” (1897) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eda1OJ9GTQ Also known as “The X-Ray Fiend,” …

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Black Mirror: Top 5 Horror Themed Episodes

Black Mirror, a British series of sci-fi anthologies centered on social satire and technology, dips into the horror genre with suspenseful, dark plots and heavy themes. Depending on your definition of horror, you may find this to be a stretch. It is true that some episodes are more horror themed …

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Ranking Jason’s Final Girls On ‘Friday the 13th’

Ah, the Final Girl: the last woman alive in a horror film left to face the killer. The Friday the 13th franchise has some good ones! To celebrate Friday the 13th, Jason Voorhees’s birthday, we rank Jason’s Final Girls from the venerable Friday franchise. Before we begin, there are a few …

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PopHorror’s 15 Highly Anticipated Horror Movies for 2017

Are you horror fiends ready for more horror in 2017?! We most definitely are. There are some films that we’ve been highly anticipating for awhile that are finally coming out while others are less known among the mainstream folks, but popular in the indie community. Here are the top 15 …

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Most Memorable Horror Antagonists of 2016

Horror fans are often asked why they love the genre. The most common answer I see is that horror is an escape from everyday life. They provide fans with the most foul, terrifying monsters that make us all think that life could always be worse. This year – 2016 – …

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PopHorror’s Favorite Christmas Horror Movies

Christmas… it’s a time for family, a time for giving and a time for red-suited psychopaths and frost-bitten demons to roam the earth to terrify the living. That’s the way it is for horror lovers, anyway. There are so many Christmas horror films out there, and the writers over here at …

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7 of the Saddest Deaths in Horror Films

Romantic comedies and dramas aren’t the only genres that can make people cry. If anything, killing off characters in horror films can tug at your heartstrings even more. Horror isn’t known for providing characters with quick deaths. These are a few character deaths that affected me personally.  Gage Creed – …

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