In the early 1980s, Britain was gripped by a moral panic over the rise of home video (for an entertaining depiction of the time, check out the movie Censor). Horror and exploitation films, once ...

Psychomight be one of the most important and groundbreaking horror films of all time, but many other movies had a profound impact on the genre. Adapted from the novel by Robert Bloch, Alfred Hitchcock ...

Laura Patterson loves a good scare—turning the lights down, popping on a horror film, and watching the blood splash across the screen. But the scholar, an assistant teaching professor in the ...

IF SOMEONE pointed to a closed door and told you that behind it was something that might make you faint, vomit, miscarry or have a heart attack, would that make you want to open it? For most, the ...

Horror films have always held an interesting place in cultural and cinematic circles. Despite proving consistently profitable and boasting a considerable fanbase, the genre has also been the target in ...

Writing from the Chicagoland area in Illinois, Robert is an avid movie watcher and will take just about any excuse to find time to go to his local movie theaters. Robert graduated from Bradley ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sweta Kaushal writes about Bollywood and Indian films. Jun 26, 2025, 11:15pm EDT Indian star Kajol on a poster of the Hindi film ...

What makes a good horror movie? Is it the capacity to scare? The ability to make you squint at the screen or cover your ears before the big kill? Is it the spectacle of gore, an ominous haunting or ...

I was recently watching a scene from the 2025 film Weapons for a monograph I’m writing and noticed a familiar sound: a low, unsettling drone as a character walks down a hallway. It’s the same kind of ...