Horrors Week

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Ask horror-movie buffs to name their favorite decade for the genre, and you’ll likely receive a variety of answers.…

Name a significant event in horror history over the past half century, and odds are Tom Savini was there. From his…

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“Instead of the cross, the Albatross around my neck was hung” laments the narrator of the Samuel Taylor Coleridge…

As we settle into Horrors Week and prepare for Halloween, this week we’re asking:

Even if you watch horror movies year ’round, there’s something extra special about watching them during Halloween.…

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I’ve never seen a ghost. I don’t want to see a ghost. That doesn’t stop me from asking everyone I meet if they’ve…

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Some won’t do musicals and others have a distaste for romance, but horror might be the only genre with which a large…

This week’s entry: Geography of Halloween

I’m up for pretty much anything when it comes to horror movies, but I’ll make a special point to watch anything that…

“She’s a girl with a problem,” Roman Polanski says on the director’s commentary of Repulsion, speaking as…

As films from Village Of The Damned to The Omen to this year’s Tales Of Halloween have made very clear, children are…