I was eight years old the first time Evil Dead II broke my brain. I shouldn’t have been watching it. I was, and it was fine, and it made me who I am. The deadite transformations, the possessed hand, Ash running from his own severed limb while it made rude gestures at him, all of …
Tim Burton’s classic 1994 biopic Ed Wood, about the wonderfully weird and inept Edward D. Wood Jr. (played to perfection by Johnny Depp in a very charismatic performance), is a love letter to probably the most infamous 1950s B-movie director of all time, and one of my all-time favorites. Despite the movie being incredibly sanitized, …
“Witch has whole town under spell, as she takes victims the town’s people see this as a sitcom on their home television thinking nothing of it. Only a few are not fooled by this spell.” So what, I’m just describing the plot of WandaVision, right? Actually no, this was a completely original idea I came …
Sometimes a movie reaches into your chest when you least expect it. Horror films earn their scares with your consent. You bought the ticket, you knew what you were walking into. But every now and then a comedy, a kids’ movie, or an action film drops something genuinely horrifying into the middle of your afternoon …
I was twelve years old when Nowhere Man premiered on UPN in August 1995, and I watched every episode with the lights off, alone, which in retrospect explains a lot about me. Most people my age were watching Friends. I was watching a photojournalist lose his entire identity to a shadowy government conspiracy and slowly …
I have spent an embarrassing amount of my life defending Hellraiser to people who only know the later sequels, and honestly, I get it. If your first encounter with the “Hell Priest” was him murdering a nightclub full of people while making puns, or getting crammed into some unrelated straight-to-video thriller because a studio needed …
You almost certainly have seen one of these die-cut, jointed skeleton decorations on someone’s door at some point in your life, if you don’t own one yourself. There are many like it, but the one you’re probably most familiar with is the Beistle design (seen below). While I love this classic design, there is one …
It’s been a while, but I’ve dusted off the old Horror Shirts site and will start designing new shirts again soon. My favorite so far is “Old Jack” sourced from an old public domain ad. All shirts are only $15 + Free Shipping on Amazon. Buy on Amazon
I don’t know what it is about constraint that makes it such a powerful breeding ground for creativity, but it’s just pure magic. Halloween and The Blair Witch Project are considered by most horror fans to be some of the greatest horror movies ever made, and the one thing they have in common is scrappy, …
Bats have long been symbols of death and darkness. But why? Their rise as Halloween’s spookiest icon traces back to ancient Celtic traditions, revealing how these harmless creatures turned into something far more evil. Join us under the Congress Street Bridge in Austin as we unravel the spooky myths, vampire lore, and Halloween history that …
