horror movies

Legendary director William Friedkin died last month, just four months shy of the 50th anniversary of his most notorious film: “The Exorcist.” Released the day after Christmas in 1973, the movie irrevocably changed the pop culture landscape,…

Spoilers. Nowadays, it seems like in order to create a successful horror movie that isn’t a sequel in a legacy franchise, filmmakers have to incorporate at least two of the following: gore, vulgarity, and demonic possession. The…

Alien movies roughly fall into two categories. There is the hostile invasion category, best typified by H.G. Wells’ “War of the World.” Then there is the peaceful, even cuddly category (“E.T.” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”), who…