Something rather wonderful happened in the 1980s regarding the horror genre, among the slew of slashers which boomed in the first four years of the decade, horrors also became self-referential and were laced with comedy. They quickly became known as a sub-genre within the horror community named as the cheesy movie. The rules were pretty […]
Author: David Bronstein
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The 10 Greatest Horror Icons in Movie History
Apart from engrossing ourselves in horror movies we also like to pick up on something else within the film and that is the idea of a horror icon. Horror icons are largely born out of the same actor and actress starring in many films in that genre and over a period of time helps too, […]
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The 10 Best Werewolf Movies Every Horror Fan Should See
A howl, a full moon, a silver bullet and the transformation are the key ingredients of a werewolf movie that have changed little over the last 100 years. There is something close to us, the viewer when watching a werewolf movie. Perhaps it is the fact that we descended from an animal that draws us […]
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The 10 Best Horror Movie Franchises of All Time
If there’s one thing that horror fans are blessed with it’s the franchise movie. Quite literally there are hundreds of them and if an original movie does well at the box office you are almost certainly guaranteed that there will be a sequel. Fans are the lifeblood of the franchise without them you’re only getting […]
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The 10 Best Horror Movie Sequels of All Time
So naming the 10 best horror sequels shouldn’t in theory have been such a hard task. Given that there are over 5,000 mainstream horror movies at our disposal and sifting through my 1,000 plus horror movies I thought this would be a fairly straightforward assignment. I was wrong. What I did learn was that even […]