The best kind of horror movie instantly draws you in. That's a must for any film — not just in horror — as the opening scene ...

Horror has the incredible ability to have a lasting effect on audiences. Fear, of course, is one of our most common emotions, sparking within us an unforgettable feeling that can sometimes thrill us.

Thanks to the success and popularity of slasher classics like Friday the 13th, Halloween, and A Nightmare on Elm Street, an ’80s wave of eager imitators emerged in their wake. Unashamedly pulling from ...

Stranger Things is lauded for nailing how terror and terrorizing look on screen. Nell Fisher played a major part in putting ...

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 ...

American actress Vera Miles stars as Lila Crane in the horror classic 'Psycho', directed by Alfred Hitchcock, 1960. “The call is coming inside the house.” “Don’t leave the group.” “Watch out, he’s ...

Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Drew Barrymore and Rose McGowan were all part of Wes Craven’s 1996 slasher film, “Scream” — but only one of the leading ladies forgot how to yell when filming their death ...

Writer-director Pierre Tsigaridis and co-writer Maxime Rancon are passionate about their horror and have developed their unique brand since working on 2021's Two Witches. Three years later, they ...

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 ...

The slasher genre is a cornerstone of horror, offering a reliable formula that has terrified and thrilled audiences for decades with its masked killers, inventive death scenes, and the signature ...