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Jaws comes out and becomes one of the most commercially and critically successful horror/thrillers ever made starting the reign of aquatic horror for decades to come. At this point every producer scrambled to come up with another sea creature to terr...

Stuart Gordon is a rare breed of filmmaker coming from having started his own theater company in his home town to making possibly one of the goriest and most fun eighties practical FX films of all time, the adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's Re-Animator....

If you've been waiting and watching for a horror film to come out boasting to be the Expendables of horror than you need only look backward to Robert Kurtzman's sophomore film Wishmaster. Not only does it cast a bevy of iconic horror film actors that...

Dan Obannon's classic punk rock zombie flick Return of the Living Dead is a crazed collaboration spinning out of the ideas of Romero's Night of the Living Dead to give us one of the most hilarious and horrifying original dark horror comedies of all t...

After the success of his first film Night of the Living Dead, which changed the zombie sub genre forever, Romero went about making more very experimental films that would completely change how we looked at different sub genres in film, what we had le...

Dino Delaurentiis is name that would appear in front of strange and awesome films especially in the horror genre and if a genre fan saw that name appear before a film you knew you were either in for a quirky treat like Army of Darkness or something r...

Wes Craven has easily conquered three decades of horror and changed the landscape each time. 70s revenge with The Last House on the Left, supernatural Slashers with A Nightmare on Elm Street in the 80s and of course the self referential and analytica...

If you've ever heard of the phrase, "lets throw everything and the kitchen sink at it" then you probably got the joke at the end of Evil Dead 2 where Sam Raimi literally threw the kitchen sink at Bruce Campbell. Writer Oren Uziel thought he'd take th...

Dario Argento is of course one of the greatest masters of horror ever to grace the screen with his ideas and in the 70s, 80s and 90s there was a slew of Italian filmmakers all making unique and unparalleled horror films the likes of which could never...

Let's say Elijah Wood starts a company to make horror movies called Spectre Vision and one of the writers John C. Waller asks why hasn't there been a movie about killer kids called Cooties? Then add Glee's Ian Brennan and Saw's Leigh Whannell to writ...

John Carpenter had just come off of Big Trouble in Little China which was a huge box office bomb. Like many of his films in the 80s, they were not appreciated until home video release. Carpenter himself has stated time and time again his displeasure ...

Produced by Charles Band, Scored by Pino Donaggio who scored Joe Dante's Piranha, directed by David Schmoeller who gave us Puppet Master, set designs and FX by the man who did Texas Chainsaw Massacre and starring Midge from That 70's Show. What insan...

There are a ton of low budget horror movies out there that try to take certain tropes from certain classic monsters or biblical passages and make something that expands upon those ideas. Often times we are left with an amazing idea that could have be...

Happy October everyone and welcome to the first day of year four of Freddy's 31 days of Horror! As always I try to kick things off with one of the many movies from the Halloween franchise and this year I thought I'd go with the original sequel Hallow...

The Blair Witch Project is the seminal film which skyrocketed the found footage genre and brought a lot of inspiration and creativity to young filmmakers across the world with no budgets and a camera. That being said as I respect what the film repres...

Rob Zombie has had a really weird career. House of 1000 Corpses is basically a trippy music video with lots of 70's throwbacks. Devil's Rejects takes the characters and gives us a Godfather esque look at the Firefly family as Zombie's best film. The ...

Kevin Smith has completely baked himself out of his mind taking several genres, obscure outdated references, in jokes from his podcasts, celebrity nerd cameos and his need to tell a "children's" movie and rolled up a giant joint for the world to smok...

Fede Alvarez left a huge mark in cinema by undertaking the remake of one of the most revered horror films of all time, The Evil Dead, by all accounts succeeding in delivering us a relentless, unforgiving, uncompromising gore fest which kept in tune w...

Every year it seems now Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg try their best to make a movie more insane then their last comedic debauchery of a film, by not only upping the comedic factor with grotesque and gutter themed humor that their pop culture and hist...

David Ayer is an amazing writer/director who mostly dabbles in down in the dirt gritty crime dramas from Training Day to End of Watch. He also did a Great War drama period piece with Fury and a more dramatic version of Expendables with Arnold Schwarz...