Tim Burton Conjures Up the Halloween Spirit
For many people, Halloween means watching horror movies. Television networks air marathons of the standard franchises: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, and...
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Tagged: Scary
Why the Wicked Witch is the Best Villain of All Time
For some people, The Wizard of Oz is all about the timeless characters. For others, it’s the classic songs. And for many, it’s a green...
Ten Must-See Modern Cult Horror Films [Video]
The modern moviegoing experienced has largely been distilled to two kinds of movies: IP-driven blockbusters and micro-budgeted horror films. I’m simplifying, of course, but most...
Film Review – The Hole in the Ground (2019) [Video]
The child-from-hell genre has been beaten to death with the resurgence of low-budget horror in the last few years. Hell, we even had The Prodigy...
Film Review – The Prodigy (2019)
The early year, low-budget horror movie is starting to become too trendy for its own good. Don’t get me wrong, this is a tried and...
‘Coraline’: The Rebirth of Stop-Motion Animation
2009 was a renaissance year for animation. Disney, Miyazaki, and Ireland’s Cartoon Saloon brought hand-drawn magic back into theaters; Pixar’s Up became the second animated film...
Top 10 Films That Were Not Meant for Kids
Y’all ever watch a particularly scary kids movie and wonder how in the heck it only got a PG or G rating? I usually have...
Film Review – The Possession of Hannah Grace (2018)
In one of the lesser trends to continue in 2018, we have another low-budget horror movie in theaters the week after Thanksgiving. And in typical...
Desolate Madness: A Look at the ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Franchise Part 5
As part of October, the scariest movie month of the year, MovieBabble looked back at one of the most prominent horror franchises out there: The...
Film Review – Overlord (2018)
I recently lost a sizeable amount of faith in J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot. The Cloverfield Paradox was so bad that the famed director sank...
Let’s Talk About Suspiria (2018) [Another Bloody Movie Podcast]
Luca Guadagnino’s reimagining of Dario Argento’s 70s giallo horror classic Suspiria is a film that will inevitably be the subject of numerous video essays, analyses and think...
Desolate Madness: A Look at the ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Franchise Part 4
As part of October, the scariest movie month of the year, MovieBabble is looking back at one of the most prominent horror franchises out there:...
Michael Has Finally Come Home Again: A Deep-Dive on ‘Halloween’ (2018)
Before the release of the already hugely successful Halloween sequel/reboot by David Gordon Greene, I wrote a two-part article on the Halloween franchise as a...
The State of Horror in 2018 (The MovieBabble Podcast Ep. 4)
In case you haven’t noticed, horror is kind of a thing these days. The last few years have been very kind to the genre. In...
10 Spooky Movies That The Family Can Enjoy
Halloween will soon be upon us, and I’ve had my favorite scary classics stockpiled since June. It’s not easy being a casual horror fan in...
‘Night of the Living Dead’ – The Father of the Zombie Flick
Fifty years ago, this month saw the release of a low-budget horror movie called Night of the Living Dead. The director, George A. Romero, and...
Film Review – Halloween (2018)
It was only a matter of time before the Halloween franchise had another chance to simultaneously scare and please audiences around the world. But unlike many cynical...
Desolate Madness: A Look at the ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Franchise Part 3
As part of October, the scariest movie month of the year, MovieBabble is looking back at one of the most prominent horror franchises out there:...
Desolate Madness: A Look at the ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Franchise Part 2
As part of October, the scariest movie month of the year, MovieBabble is looking back at one of the most prominent horror franchises out there:...
Get Scared: When Is It Appropriate for Children to Watch Horror Movies?
It’s October, fools. Time to get spooky. I’m going to be completely honest right now: I hate horror movies. I don’t like being scared. I...
Desolate Madness: A Retrospective on ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Franchise Part 1
Leatherface is one of my favorite horror icons. I know that compared to his murderous colleagues he isn’t as colorful. He never uttered a memorable...
Film Review – The Nun (2018)
Here we go again: another film set in Conjuring Universe. At the end of Annabelle: The Creation, viewers were teased about a solo film about the...
The Best Scenes in Each Film in the Conjuring Universe
The Conjuring Universe is going to expand much wider this weekend as The Nun hits theaters. The film will explore the origin of the disturbing...
You Should Rewatch These Classic Stephen King Movies Before You Watch Hulu’s Castle Rock
Hulu’s Original Castle Rock premiered July 25th and is just what fans of Stephen King’s multiverse have been waiting for. The two and a half minute...
‘Slender Man’ and What We Can Expect
Slenderman is perhaps better known as a terror-inducing game that starts the player off in the woods with a torch and only one objective: finding...
Top 10 Best John Carpenter Endings
Recently, I got tickets for John Carpenter’s upcoming Anthology Tour (I’m beyond excited) and it seemed like the perfect moment to finally tackle this list....
Film Review – Unfriended: Dark Web (2018)
It has become rather obvious to studios in recent years that the found footage template for low-budget horror is becoming tired and stale, but something...
‘Innocent Blood’: Exploring One of John Landis’ Most Underrated Films
Author note: I know John Landis is a controversial figure. Considering his possibly culpability on The Twilight Zone accident, there’s ample reason for that. I...
Examining the Post-Credit Scene of ‘The First Purge’
After the fourth installment of the Purge franchise, The First Purge, audiences worldwide were given the news that a 10-episode TV series is the next thing...
15 Years Later: What Happened to the Stars of 28 Days Later?
15 years later sounds less poetic than 28 Days Later, but alas, here we are. The post-apocalyptic film with wicked fast zombies came out in the USA...
What Modern Horror Films Can Learn from John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness
For many people horror films are nothing more than a series of jump-scares, creatures lurking in the shadows waiting to jump at you when you...
Film Review – Hereditary (2018)
After debuting at Sundance earlier this year, many called Hereditary one of the “scariest movies ever made.” Surely, no one overreacted to that statement and others like...
Film Review – Ghost Stories (2018) (Watch)
While Avengers: Infinity War is running roughshod through the world and taking all the box office money away from literally every other film that’s currently...
Film Review – Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare (2018)
Now that Blumhouse routinely pumps out low-budget films that score big at the box office, they have the gall to stick their name in front...
Film Review – A Quiet Place (2018)
It’s no secret that Paramount Pictures has struggled in recent months at the box office. Coming off a year where they collected only 5% of...
Great Horror Films That Use Little to No Sound
As A Quiet Place releases this weekend, let’s take a look back at some horror movies that have little to almost no sound in them....
Film Review – The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018)
Roger Ebert once said, “no movie executive has never been fired for greenlighting a sequel.” That quote could not be more true in 2018 with...
Film Review – The Ritual (2017)
Netflix is beginning to release original films on a weekly basis, adding to its stronghold in the streaming market. Its next film, entitled The Ritual, is...
Film Review – Winchester (2018)
Hollywood is no stranger to fudging real life events to create a horror film. We’ve seen it with The Conjuring Universe and countless other projects throughout the...
Film Review – Insidious: The Last Key (2018)
In an attempt to continue an admired horror property, Blumhouse Productions has taken over the Insidious franchise for the fourth installment in the series: Insidious: The Last Key. ...
