Ask a person who doesn't watch horror to name a popular horror film, and you're going to get a lot of titles. Classics like The Shining or The Exorcist will be up there for sure, but most of the time ...

Slasher films were all the rage in the 1980s. Thanks to the likes of Michael Myers in Halloween and Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th franchise, along with their many clones, it seemed like a new ...

Mike Miller is the executive editor on the movies team at Entertainment Weekly. He previously worked as a writer-reporter for PEOPLE and TMZ. Writer-director Chris Nash takes a stab at answering that ...

A couple weeks ago I completely blew somebody’s mind. We were talking about popular zombie movies and I mentioned that before Danny Boyle’s “28 Days Later” was an unexpected hit in 2002, the zombie ...

The history of horror movies is littered with plenty of underrated gems, and the slasher genre has produced more than its fair share of unsung classics. Though the origin of the slasher film is hotly ...

Viewers going into the disastrous horror thriller Psycho Killer blind when it hits streaming might almost mistake it for an unearthed film from the 1990s or early 2000s. After all, that was when ...

As Halloween approaches slasher movies draw their biggest audiences as All Things Considered host Andrew Limbong talks with NPR's Brianna Scott and Ryan Benk about what keeps the genre alive and why ...

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