Jamie Lee Curtis is the actress who turned a $300,000 slasher into a career, playing Laurie Strode across seven Halloween films between 1978 and 2022 while picking up an Oscar, an Emmy and a Hollywood Walk of Fame star along…
Pyramid Head is the helmeted executioner from Silent Hill 2 (Konami, 2001), and he exists for one reason: James Sunderland wants to be punished. The town built him out of James’s guilt, and every appearance since, from Homecoming to the…
Pennywise the Dancing Clown is the face of Stephen King’s It, but the clown is a costume worn by something far older than Derry, Maine. This profile walks you through what It actually is, why it picks a clown, every…
Monster: The Ed Gein Story is the third season of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s Netflix anthology, released on October 3, 2025, with Charlie Hunnam as Gein and Laurie Metcalf as his mother Augusta. The real Ed Gein was a…
A24 is turning Kane Parsons’ Backrooms YouTube series into a feature film, with Parsons himself directing and Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass and Lukita Maxwell starring. Here is every confirmed fact, every number still waiting on A24, and the…
We have argued about the scariest movies of all time for years, over post-screening beers and in late-night group chats, and this ranking is where we finally landed. Twenty films, ordered by how badly they still rattle us on a…
Survival horror lives on scarcity: too few bullets, too little light, and a save point three rooms too far. This ranking covers the horror survival games that still hold up today, from the 1999 fog of Silent Hill to 2025’s…
Tim Curry gave horror two of its most quoted villains, Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) and Pennywise in the 1990 miniseries It, then kept returning to the genre on stage, on cable, and in video games.…
Leon S. Kennedy has been getting chewed up by Raccoon City and everything after it since Resident Evil 2 landed on the PlayStation in 1998. Here is his whole run through the games, the CG films and the live-action misfires,…
John Carpenter’s Halloween cost around $300,000, shot on a four-week schedule, and went on to earn roughly $47 million at the US box office, which made it one of the most profitable independent films ever released. Everything that followed, from…
