The Exorcist (1973) is based on a real exorcism performed in 1949 on a boy from suburban Maryland, known in church records and later books by the pseudonym “Roland Doe.” Jesuit priests from Saint Louis University carried out the rite…
The Conjuring sold itself as “based on the true case files of the Warrens,” and the Perron family it portrays were real people who lived in a real Rhode Island farmhouse. How much of the 2013 movie actually happened is…
Mia Goth is the English actress behind Maxine Minx and Pearl in Ti West’s X trilogy, and her horror filmography now runs eight features, from A Cure for Wellness in 2017 to Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein in 2025. Below I…
The real Annabelle doll is a cloth Raggedy Ann, not the cracked porcelain thing from the films, and it sits locked in a glass case at the Warrens’ Occult Museum in Monroe, Connecticut. The story attached to it comes almost…
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…
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…
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.…
