Kane grins maniacally in a cave in "Poltergeist II: The Other Side" (1986) - MGM Entertainment Co. For Gen-X kids and Xennials who grew up in the '80s, childhood looked a lot different than it does ...

The 1980s were a tough time to be a horror director. Between the Satanic panic, the "video nasties" list, and wide-ranging protests from religious groups and organizations like The Legion of Decency, ...

I’ve always loved horror. My parents were fine with me watching just about anything growing up, but they didn’t want me anywhere near horror, which made it the most important thing in my young life.

Horror films have always been popular with fans, but critical acclaim was often a different story. However, in the 1970s, thanks to movies such as The Exorcist and Alien, horror also started to garner ...

As the video game industry began to pick up in the '80s, it began branching into a multitude of genres, including horror. From titles that used common genre aesthetics, like haunted houses and creepy ...

JoBeth Williams as Diane Freeling screaming in the rain in Poltergeist - Amblin Productions For many years, Tobe Hooper's 1982 horror film "Poltergeist" was said to be cursed, largely because of the ...

Charles Lee Ray (better known as Chucky) really has a stranglehold on one of the craziest genres in film history: the killer ...

There have been many exceptional horror films released throughout film history, from all-time classics like Psycho to recent ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The 1980s were a perfect time to be a horror fan. With the explosion of the slasher craze and the ...

Adam Page on the 80s horror obsession with with suburbia… Horror cinema puts us in some uncomfortable places. It always has.