It’s July, which means it’s Halloween. Once again, I don’t make the rules. Now that the Fourth of July is over, fall and spooky décor have started appearing in stores, theme parks are putting up their decorations, somewhere there’s a girl making a pumpkin spice latte, and Mi...
Read MoreThree weeks ago, Universal Orlando‘s official Halloween Horror Nights Twitter account announced the first haunted house of this year’s Halloween Horror Nights, Legends Collide, bringing classic monsters The Wolf Man, The Mummy, and Dracula together for the first time ever. Reactions were extreme...
Read MoreOne of horror cinema’s most enduring tropes is the final girl. The final girl is the last surviving female character who must face the killer or creature in the film’s climax. It’s a celebrated element of scary movies, particularly in – but not limited to – the slasher subgenre, so much so...
Read MoreMichael Myers, AKA The Shape, is the very face of Halloween and horror. His iconic white mask is everywhere, especially in the fall. He’s been a horror icon for 40 years, bringing terror into the hearts of teens and adults everywhere since 1978. The last 40 years have seen a total of 12 Hallo...
Read MoreHalloween Kills had a big opening weekend, slashing through the competition and snatching up $50.4 million, even with the simultaneous release on Peacock, NBC Universal’s streaming service. (So, about that “exclusive release” argument…) Perhaps it was the time of the year or even...
Read MoreGhostface may not be on movie screens this Halloween season, but he wants us to know he’s out there. Earlier today, Paramount and Spyglass released the official poster for Scream, which isn’t called Scream 5 or Scream-Colon-Subtitle because this is how sequels are titled nowadays. Then, Entertai...
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