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Many consider John Carpenter’s THE THING (1982) to be one of the greatest horror films of all time. It’s my favorite. It’s Seth’s favorite, too (read his tribute here)! The film turns 40 years old this month, if you can believe it? The film’s age means a lot of us, …

July 28, 2019 marked the 30th anniversary of Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan. The film took us out of Camp Crystal Lake and small town scenery of the previous F13 films, and placed our unwilling participants on a wild boat ride trapped with one of the creepiest, …

“I saw a murder, and I’m going to prove it!” Sisters is Brian De Palma’s seminal masterpiece and his first foray into the psycho thriller genre. The film is a welcome addition to any film fan’s collection. With hypersensitive cinematography and dripping with Hitchcock allurement, Sisters is just as important …

For more than a hundred years, the name Count Dracula has struck ice-ridden chills into the hearts of literary readers. Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula, is just as well known as his infamous character. The author also has the prestige of having his own award, called The Horror Writer’s …

On August 6, 1999, anxious viewers of The Sixth Sense shivered in their seats as the cute little boy, Cole, known to his peers as “freak,” revealed his big secret. From that moment on, “I see dead people” has become a phrase possibly more known than the movie itself. Young Cole …

John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) is my favorite horror movie. It may be my favorite movie, period. It is, frankly, a masterpiece that sits atop many a horror aficionado’s Top 10 list. I remember watching it with my father as a kid. It terrified me. It stuck with me. It’s …

When James Foley’s Fear was first released 21 years ago on April 12th, teenage girls everywhere swooned at the sight of former Calvin Klein model and Funky Bunch member Mark “Marky Mark” Wahlberg seducing innocently sexy Reese Witherspoon. There was no denying that the sexual tension between these two blazed through the …

It’s been 13 years since comedy trio Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Edgar Wright took the horror world by storm and created the most influential zom-com ever – Shaun Of The Dead! Released April 9, 2004, in the UK, this classic zombie flick is one of PopHorror’s favorites. Take a trip …

I’ve been a horror fan for the majority of my life, but when it comes to Italian horror, I’m a late bloomer. I did not discover most of my favorites until I was in my mid-twenties. When it comes to Italian horror, my favorite director is Lucio Fulci. While I …

When it comes to Italian horror, few films are as widely praised and respected as Dario Argento’s SUSPIRIA. Do a search for “Classic Italian Horror” and this 1977 classic appears on every “Best Of” list you’ll find. Fans and critics alike consider it a true masterpiece of horror. Suspiria was released …