I really like allegorical scary movies. They work a lot like nightmares, in that they’re rooted in real fears or anxieties we have, but we’r...

Okay, so this week I’m ending up as far away from last week as I can get. It wasn’t a conscious decision, but as I’m sitting here thinking a...

In case I haven’t made it abundantly clear by now , I’m really picky when it comes to found-footage films. I cut them a lot less slack t...

Bad trips are a great source of horror. There’s a sense that everything is out of your control, that there’s no safe harbor, no certainty yo...

Memory is a funny thing - we tend to remember the gist of things, the way they felt, rather than how they actually happened. We get details ...

Part of telling any kind of story is pacing, and that’s as true of scary movies as anything else. You can feed information out slowly, or in...

One of the most common criticisms leveled at horror movies is that people in horror movies behave like idiots, doing things no sensible pers...