MOVIES MADE ME

There are a lot of horror fans who maintain that the 2000s have been a desperately lousy decade for horror movies, that all we've been o...

In April 2007, I took a crack at summing up the current decade of American horror films in a two-part blog post called “The Culture of Fear...

In a recent poll of The Top 25 Horror Films of the Modern Era , the gold prize went to Neil Marshall’s 2005 film THE DESCENT. I couldn’t ...

Some time ago, a friend pointed me to an academic article on “the rhetoric of crisis” in recent horror film criticism. The writer, Stephen ...

The horror genre’s first big box office breakthrough of the decade was Gore Verbinski’s remake The Ring (2002). That film’s success awakene...

In light of the fact that I wrote a book about the relationship between horror films and American pop culture, someone recently asked me wha...