A reaction to the American slasher cycle of the 1970s, giallo were seen as something of an elevation of horror into the art house.

With these movies, Argento brought the giallo from niche genre to avant-garde art form. In the best of them, he fused mystery, surrealism, and sadism into something hypnotic.

She then flees, crawls onto Elisabeth’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and melts into a puddle of pulp. It’s Grand Guignol excess, crimson perfection, and deeply, tragically sad. 4.

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Having enjoyed monster movies almost as long as sermons, the horror-as-art doubt is one I can dispel. Snooty cinephiles have ample choices to watch, or guiltily rewatch, this Halloween, and I don ...

Warner Bros. assumed ‘Trick ‛r Treat’ would be such a bust that the studio released it straight to DVD in 2009. Here’s how it became a holiday classic.

The arc of Art the Clown going from great slasher design to actual well-liked slasher series (Terrifier 4 is already in the works, Leone says) is relatively unusual, but not entirely unprecedented ...

In 1998, Kevin Williamson was about as hot as any screenwriter could get. He'd had the horror hit of the decade with Scream, he delivered I Know What You Did Last Summer, and he even got to do ...