Horror

Faces of Death
Movies

Faces of Death: The VHS-Era Urban Legend

Mickey Yarber

In 1978, a low-budget pseudo-documentary called Faces of Death emerged from the shadows and quickly became one of the most infamous underground films of the VHS era. Marketed as a “shockumentary,” it promised viewers a

Movies

John Carpenter, The Master of Horror

Pitfall Gary

With Halloween right around the corner I have a few movies from the master of Horror himself, John Carpenter. Not the normal Carpenter movies, these are a few of his underrated and often overlooked movies.

Television

Freddy’s Nightmares: The Top 5 Episodes

Pitfall Gary

Freddy’s Nightmares A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Series Freddy’s Nightmares was a television spin-off of the highly successful A Nightmare on Elm Street film franchise, airing during the height of Freddy Krueger’s popularity in

Alien Autopsy
Television

The Alien Autopsy That Fooled the World

Mickey Yarber

In the mid-1990s, when grainy VHS tapes and tabloid TV ruled the airwaves, one broadcast sent shockwaves through living rooms across America: Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction? Airing on Fox in 1995, the special promised

Scream
Movies

How Scream Resurrected Horror in the ’90s

Mickey Yarber

By the mid-1990s, horror movies had lost their bite. The slasher boom of the ’80s had fizzled into formulaic sequels and straight-to-video fare. Audiences were yawning at masked killers and recycled tropes. Then came Scream…a