Sometimes the most beautiful stories are told in the most gruesome ways. Hellraiser is triumphant at telling a story that makes the viewer both cringe and begs for more. It all begins when Frank Cotton (Sean Chapman) buys an attractive puzzle box from a shady dealer. He then opens the…

I wanted to like Hell Night. I wanted to be pulled into the 1980s when teenagers were proud of horror movies and viewed them as something different and independent from the previous generation. The problem is that I could not like Hell Night, no matter how campy it was. In…

I can only imagine what this film would have been without its horrible dubbing and god-awful ending. The title perfectly represents what the viewer will feel throughout the movie. The scenes in this film pumped my adrenaline higher than any other film. The survival horror instincts of the main girl…

Confession: I once harbored a bit of a crush on Chad Michael Murray. Many may not know him, but he starred in a top-rated teen television show. So it only fits. I admit what caught my eye about this movie was his starring role. It popped onto Netflix instant streaming…

Amongst a vast sea of worthless horror remakes, many directors decided the best route is to blur the lines of horror. Comedy, drama, and action are being thrown into the fray to spice up the horror genre. These films may not be remakes, but they slowly kill horror by spreading…

Halloween Resurrection, released in 2002, is the final film in the “original” Halloween franchise. That’s to say; it’s the last film before the series gets rebooted by Rob Zombie in 2007. The film takes place four years after Halloween H2O and is the final film featuring Jamie Lee Curtis as…

Halloween H2O: 20 Years Later, released in 1998, brings Jamie Lee Curtis back to the franchise that made her famous in horror as a prep school principal with a son and a continued fear that her brother will return for her 20 years later. Produced by one of horror’s best…

Sometimes the most frightening aspect of a horror film isn’t the film itself but that something so genuinely horrible was created. After seeing Halloween III: Season of the Witch, I prayed that I’d escape this franchise with nothing worse than that film. “What could be worse than this film?” I…

Just one short year after Myers’ return in Halloween 4, the franchise came roaring back with Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers. The second in the franchise to feature Jamie, the late Laurie Strode’s daughter, this film puts Jamie in a children’s hospital following her antics in the fourth…