Fans consider the 1980s the high point of horror cinema for a reason. With home video becoming a standard part of every American home, and cable channels growing every day, distributors wanted ...

Fifty years ago, two independent filmmakers named Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel had a gruesome vision for a new kind of film. Their idea involved merciless kills, a chainsaw, a group of youths and a ...

Horror underwent a radical change in the 1970s and early '80s, as religious tropes and monster movies gave way to more human threats in masks, creating the rise of the slasher. While many credit ...

Horror comes in an array of subgenre flavors to satisfy the tastes of different audiences. Some viewers eschew copious amounts of blood and brutality, instead opting for lighter fare that infuses ...

Adapting a YA novel, director Eli Craig tries to pass off a lack of originality as "meta." The result is neither scary nor fun. Here’s why the film, lunkish and plodding as it is, thinks it’s meta. We ...

Horror movies have evolved a lot over the decades. The gothic Universal Monster films of the 30s and 40s and the psychological terrors that haunted the 60s and 70s with Carnival of Souls and Don’t ...

Gaby Shedwick is a senior author for Collider, joining in December 2023. During her undergraduate Sociology degree at the University of Warwick, she found a real love for horror cinema, writing her ...