Halloween is right around the corner, which means it is time to start carving pumpkins, eating candy, getting costumes ready, and popping in some scary movies. The library of great Halloween horror movies is seemingly endless, but Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn has taken to social media to give us his top 50 favorites for the creepiest of holidays.
Violence and sex have always gone hand in hand, for as long as horror has existed. As the narrator explains in the 1965 film Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill ! , "While violence cloaks itself in a plethora of disguises, its favorite mantle still remainsa sex".
'Evil Dead: The Musical' combines elements of 'The Evil Dead,' 'Evil Dead 2' and 'Army of Darkness' to present a comedy-forward piece of musical theater that has plenty of blood to go around.
Justin Channell/Observer-Reporter John Carter applies makeup to Molly Miller during a class at Tom Savini's Special Effects Make-Up Program at Douglas Education Center in Monessen on Sept.
Among the talking heads are Peter Bogdanovich, Guillermo del Toro and actress Jamie Lee Curtis, whose mother, Janet Leigh, played the victim in that shower. All I See Is You: Blake Lively plays a blind woman who when she regains her sight finds her relationship with her husband isn't what it ought to be.
Two people have been walking into businesses looking like Freddy Krueger from the movie "A Nightmare on Elm Street" and the frightful character in the Scream painting by Edvard Munch. Investigators from the Ocala Police Department and Marion County Sheriff's Office say two people wearing those popular Halloween masks have hit three businesses in north central Florida in recent weeks.
Family friendly movies set on Halloween are a dime a dozen, but it's surprisingly difficult to find true horror films that take place on the holiday. Perhaps it's an effort to avoid comparisons with John Carpenter's eponymous Halloween masterpiece, or an attempt to escape clichA©.
The brutal murder of Janet Leigh's character - the nominal lead in Psycho - is covered in exquisite detail in 78/52: Hitchcock's Shower Scene , Alexandre O. Philippe's gloriously obsessive deep dive into one unforgettable cinematic moment. The numbers in the title of 78/52: Hitchcock's Shower Scene refer to the number of setups and shots that were required to create the shocking cinematic savagery that occurs less than an hour into the director's 1960 masterpiece, Psycho .
The 42-year-old filmmaker recently helmed the third standalone 'Thor' movie for Marvel, but admitted he wouldn't want to direct a film from the popular Disney sci-fi franchise because there is no room for improvisation. Speaking to the New York Times, Taika - who is married to Chelsea Winstanley - said: "That particular franchise seems really hard.