Ever since its festival debut last year, the buzz surrounding Austrian horror film Goodnight Mommy has been off the charts. When the creepy trailer hit a few months back, many were already praising it as the scariest movie of the year, and then there was all the “hype” generated by the announcement that the film …
At the time of writing this, we’re just a few short days away from the release of Michael Dougherty’s Krampus, and I can’t imagine being a horror fan and not being incredibly excited right now. When it comes to holiday horror, in particular, there are no better hands to be in than Dougherty’s, and if …
The growing popularity of Krampus has been almost palpable in recent years, and it was only a matter of time before the Christmas beast broke on through into the mainstream. On Friday, December 4th, Trick ‘r Treat writer/director Michael Dougherty brings the shadow of Saint Nick out of the shadows and onto the silver screen …
Earlier this year we kicked off a fun feature here on Halloween Love devoted entirely to the various promotional items studios and distribution companies have whipped up for their films over the years. Volume One featured everything from an Amityville Horror snow globe to a Leprechaun bendy toy, and in Volume Two we covered oddities …
It would be an understatement to say the world was rocked by the Tate-LaBianca murders in 1969, which were orchestrated by Charles Manson. Decades later, we still can’t stop talking about the murders or Manson himself, and countless movies over the years have derived inspiration from the horrific acts his followers carried out. For his …
Out of everything going on in the early 1980s, only two things really mattered. The first was the fact that the American slasher boom was in full swing, thanks in no small part to the runaway success of indie horror films like Halloween and Friday the 13th. And the second, as you’ve surely gathered by …
As we talked about here on HL back in October, the original plan for the Halloween franchise was that unconnected sequel Halloween 3: Season of the Witch would take the series down an entirely different path, kick-starting an anthology of sequels connected only by the holiday. Of course, audiences didn’t take too kindly to the …
From the moment we meet Ted (Stu Charno) in Friday the 13th Part 2, it’s clear that he’s the character tasked with being the so-called comic relief. The token goofball, Ted immediately establishes himself as such by playing a prank on his fellow counselors, and there’s nary a moment in the film where he’s not …
The reason fans still can’t stop talking about Eli Roth’s trailer for faux film Thanksgiving is because it filled a gap left behind by a serious lack of Thanksgiving horror films over the years. Unlike Christmas, horror movies set on Turkey Day are few and far between, and films like Blood Rage, Home Sweet Home …
Early on in Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Sally and friends pass by the local slaughterhouse on the way to their unfortunate fates, and Franklin entertains the van full of hapless victims with stories about what goes on inside the building. He talks about sledgehammers being used to bash in the brains of …
