Fans consider the 1980s the high point of horror cinema for a reason. With home video becoming a standard part of every American home, and cable channels growing every day, distributors wanted ...

Within the last few years, the entire horror genre has taken a step forward in Hollywood. Between staggering box office ...

Some movies aren’t made to just entertain or please you. They’re made to shake you up, push your buttons, and pull you out of your comfort zone. And they don’t do it just with scares or gore, but with ...

To paraphrase John Huston’s villainous Noah Cross in “Chinatown,” politicians, old buildings, and disreputable movie genres all get respectable if they last long enough. Take the slasher film, for ...

As Halloween approaches slasher movies draw their biggest audiences as All Things Considered host Andrew Limbong talks with NPR's Brianna Scott and Ryan Benk about what keeps the genre alive and why ...