Anthology horror has always thrived on reinvention. At its best, the format allows creators to push limits, discard safety nets, and rebuild the rules from scratch each season. That freedom is exactly ...

What's achieved through noose-tight tension and unrelenting dread informs an entire subgenre of horror that, in turn, would misunderstand the strengths of Black Christmas and devolve into cheap sleaze ...

The showrunner of the new Crystal Lake TV series says the Friday the 13th prequel isn't a slasher. Huh. Okay. That sure is a choice!

Jennifer Love-Hewitt, Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. in 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' (Columbia Pictures) A couple weeks ago I completely blew somebody’s mind. We ...

As sure as the potato sack wasn't the right mask for Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th Part 2, slasher movies reached their zenith in the 1980s. However, good films like Switchblade Romance (2003), ...

Crystal Lake creator Brad Caleb Kane reveals the Friday the 13th prequel series will be a psychological '70s thriller rather ...

The slasher genre needs to evolve if it wants to survive another 40 years. Here's a good place to start. Nobody truly believes “Halloween Ends” is the actual end of the “Halloween” movies — the only ...

'Freaky' filmmaker Christopher Landon's films show that horror isn't just about bleeding, it's also about healing. By Richard Newby “The world is a totally evil place. It’ll kill you. It doesn’t ...

Joshua Kristian McCoy is a freelance writer and film critic from the United States. He is a lifelong film buff, a voting member of the Georgia Film Critics Association, a tournament-winning Smash Bros ...

The true test of the slasher movie’s continued relevancy and evolution will come on Friday, when Michael Myers returns to theaters in David Gordon Green’s Halloween. By Richard Newby The slasher makes ...