Horror Articles & Editorial

The Latest Horror Editorial. Fresh Weekly!
Its become quite cliche to say it but the editorials on this site truly are written by fans and for horror fans. All editorial writers do it for the love of the genre providing an unbiased look at all things horror. Updated weekly 2 to 3 times the articles below are written by many fans and gives you a great look at the horror genre... from many lights.

Fresh Meat: Jessica Dercks
Posted By: Meh on Sunday Mar,21
It has been far to long since we had a new Fresh Meat Vixen. Finally after weeks of silence on the sexy new horror vixen front we have a new Fresh Meat Horror Vixen and her name is Jessica Dercks from Bloodsucka Jones! Jessica Dercks plays the role of Christine the sweet vampire girl next d... ( 2 Comments )

Five Of The Best Indie Horror Movies
Posted By: Meh on Sunday Mar,21
Time for another Top 5 and this go around I am taking a look at the 5 best indie horror movies ever made and this was by no means an easy list to generate. I have deliberately tried to focus on the low budget but also not discrediting the mid budget horror films that impressed the hell out... ( 5 Comments )

5 Horror Villains That Got Theirs
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Friday Mar,19
Warning this editorial contains spoilers! Call it old fashioned retribution, but ever since the days of the bible, the common public loves a good story of a villain getting their just desserts. There are very few moments more satisfying that seeing the main bad guy fall from their reigning per... ( 8 Comments )

Top 30 Horror Movies Of All Time March 2010
Posted By: Meh on Wednesday Mar,17
By Far one of my Favorite Editorials to do is the top lists. Unlike alot of other top lists we base alot of our top lists off of you the readers and your votes. So to start this piece I want to point out that if you do not agree with this list dont blame me or any other staff of this site. This list... ( 13 Comments )

Retro Rewatch – The Burbs 1989
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Tuesday Mar,16
Retro Rewatch is an ongoing editorial that takes a look into certain films, conventions, crazes, and characters of the horror genre years after their heyday. It is an effort to try and put the magnifying glass up to the horror world with the much needed luxuries of time and perspective applied in or... ( 19 Comments )

Horror 2.0 : A Decade Of Horror Movies Part 2
Posted By: deadhorse13 on Thursday Mar,11
Hello again, friends. Welcome to the second installment of the 2000's in review. The first five years brought us a diverse amount of product that recaptured the interest of the movie going public and the studios. Halleluiah. Unfortunately, in waiting for the next cash cow to ... ( 9 Comments )

My Cast for the Re-animator Remake
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Thursday Mar,11
Hollywood is going to keep making remakes of our favorite horror film classics whether we want them to or not. In bad economic times, corners have to be cut somewhere so why not take off some of that marketing cost and just remake a horror movie that already has a “built in” audien... ( 4 Comments )

Top 5 Outbreak Horror Films
Posted By: Meh on Sunday Mar,07
I love films that revolve around apocalyptic outbreaks almost as much as I love zombie films. I think the reason I love them so much is primarily because so many filmmakers have such a great knack for scaring the shit out of the world population with doomsday infections that could very well come tru... ( 15 Comments )

Reflection on Cabin Fever 2
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Thursday Mar,04
When Eli Roth gave us his directorial debut “Cabin Fever” all the way back in 2002, I was very much in the camp that we were watching a future auteur of the horror genre being born (yes, I know I was wrong about that, but time will tell). The movie was a fun, weird, and excessively... ( 19 Comments )

Horror Movie Film Notes
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Monday Mar,01
When viewing a film, especially one of interest for the readers of horror-movies.ca, I often like to take down notes. These include themes, ideas, or insightful analysis as per my reaction to the events on the screen of whichever horror film I'm watching that day. Sometimes I’ll wr... ( 7 Comments )

The Advent of Slashers Films. Where To Next?
Posted By: BlackTequilaKiss on Sunday Feb,28
A little over a week ago I did a thread on Hm.ca entitled, 'Musings: Have Vampire movies lost their edge?', to my surprise it received a good response and in light of the discussion it started I decided to take it a step further into editorial form. So for all of you on HM I present Musings, a cont... ( 30 Comments )

5 Best Horror Films Set in Mental Institutions
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Friday Feb,26
Reader Jessica Legg requested we do an editorial on the Best Horror Films Based in a Mental Institution and around here we are all about delivering what you want. As a filming location, mental institutions hold a special place in every horror fan’s heart as well as in Hollywood’s templat... ( 31 Comments )

10 Signs Your a Horror Movie Junkie
Posted By: MistressofHorror on Tuesday Feb,23
Are you addicted to horror ? Do you need your fix of terror and gore ? Here's a list of signs that you may be Horror Movie junkie . You've seen every movie in the Horror section of your local video store. Your Horror DVD collection is worth the price of a week's vacation on a tropical beach... ( 53 Comments )

Top 10 Horror Movies That Are Cheese-tastic
Posted By: BlackTequilaKiss on Tuesday Feb,23
It's fairly simple. On HM we currently have a thread designed for your all time favourite horror movies but I am curious as to what everyone's all time favourite cheesy movies are. We're talking the, 'it's so bad, it's good' films. The horror films that are so illogical that by that conclusion, they... ( 34 Comments )

Horror, Comedy, and Everything Else
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Monday Feb,22
I love the horror genre because in order to be successful, it has to evoke emotion a strong emotional reaction from the viewer. You heart has to race at least a little, you have to jump just a smidgen, or you have to at the very least, be uncomfortable. Those are just a few of the uncoun... ( 3 Comments )

Move over Guys, Ladies Are Horror Fans To!
Posted By: Meh on Friday Feb,19
When you look at the horror genre alot of mainstream press paint it with a very dark and not very flattering perspective. Many feel the genre is dominated by men who are into torture porn, gore and carnage and lack any sense of good taste. Unfortunately - or fortunately, that fact is... ( 54 Comments )

The Failure of Authority in Horror Movies
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Thursday Feb,18
Horror movies have thrived because of the extremely high stakes that get thrown at the characters around every turn. It’s a matter of life or death when the essential horror staple of isolation presents itself to create a situation where escape seems next to impossible. We’re... ( 25 Comments )

5 Great Time Bending Horror Flicks
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Tuesday Feb,16
The idea of time travel has always fascinated me. The concept of going back in time and reversing a terrible decision into a positive outcome is extremely tempting. In addition to that allure, the questions and theories regarding the ancillary effects of time travel are what really inter... ( 18 Comments )

5 Valentines Day Horror Movies To Watch
Posted By: Meh on Sunday Feb,14
Its Valentines Day the most commercial and romantic day of the year. The stores are open and ready to take your cash and plastic to please your loved ones. I already was out this morning buying flowers for my lovely lady and now its time to celebrate Valentines day in a most horrific way with 5 Vale... ( 8 Comments )

5 Great Indie Horror Films To Die for
Posted By: suspiria_89 on Friday Feb,12
Are you sick and tired of watching crappy mainstream Hollywood slasher flicks such as the Prom Night “remake”? I know I am, so to feed my slasher needs I try to track down and watch as many indie slashers as I can. In the process I have to sit through a lot of crap, but it eventually p... ( 19 Comments )

Thoughts on the Masters of Horror
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Thursday Feb,11
In case you’ve forgotten (with all the drugs you damn kids do nowadays), Masters of Horror was a short lived series that debuted on Showtime back in October of 2005. With only two short seasons, Mick Garris created a unique contribution to the horror genre that had never been seen before... ( 24 Comments )

Horror 2.0 : A Decade of Horror Movies Part 1
Posted By: deadhorse13 on Thursday Feb,11
As 2010 ushers in a new decade in Horror, I felt it an appropriate time to briefly look back at the past ten years. After the slasher pits of the 80's and their many in-carve-nations had been mined to death, the mainstream popularity of Horror suffered a notable decline. In fact, up unti... ( 12 Comments )

Horror Movies and Special Effects
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Saturday Feb,06
Special effects have been strongly associated with horror movies ever since Max Schreck donned the infamous vampire makeup in Nosferatu. Horror is a genre that puts everything on the line in regards to the physical boundaries of at least semi explainable human anatomy and any and all possible ... ( 10 Comments )

Whats so Wrong About Being a Blogger?
Posted By: Meh on Saturday Feb,06
I am going to be opening a whole huge can of worms especially when you consider I just did a post about Fangoria.com’s regrettable but very likely temporary demise but I had to post the question. What is So Wrong about being a horror blogger? The question comes from the fact that apparently ... ( 20 Comments )

HorrorMovies.ca Nominated for Award! Go Vote
Posted By: Meh on Thursday Feb,04
So this morning I got an email about an annual awards event called the Splatcademy Awards which has been going on for 3 years and it seems for some strange reason we got nominated. So clearly before they sober up and realize that we are but a bunch of fools babbling incoherently about horror with ba... ( 44 Comments )

Saw vs Paranormal Activity
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Thursday Feb,04
There was some news last week that a Mr. Kevin Greutert, who has been the editor of the Saw series since the initial installment, and the director of Saw VI had his directorial feet ripped out from underneath him when Lionsgate said that they would exercise an option on Greutert’s contract tha... ( 15 Comments )

Is Fangoria.com Dead?
Posted By: Meh on Thursday Feb,04
I am not a regular reader of Fangoria.com but I have always had alot of respect for the print magazine and the strong voice that it was in the horror genre for decades. The site has linked to us in the past which is saying alot since most commercial sites have little respect for fan sites like ours.... ( 18 Comments )

Horror Movies We Refuse to See
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Friday Jan,29
We all have our personal tastes when it comes to movies. There are popular antagonists, directors, and actors that we love, and ones that we absolutely can’t stand. For example, Paranormal Activity came into theaters and scared the hell out of me, while one of my friends thought th... ( 47 Comments )

Horror Movie Homage or a Rip-off?
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Thursday Jan,28
When speaking with friends about the current splattering of remakes in horror cinema, we somehow made our way to a discussion of the differences between paying homage to a great horror film, or a blatantly ripping them off. Since this conversation interested me as to where the imaginary line b... ( 7 Comments )

Poppascotch’s Top 50 Horror Movies
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Sunday Jan,24
It’s almost February and I completely understand that at this point in the year, you have probably already grown tired of comprehensive lists. End of the year countdowns, top lists of the decade, and even my 10 “Great Whatever” lists are in need of a bit of a cool down period... ( 13 Comments )

5 Great Home Invasion Movies
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Thursday Jan,21
Throughout my adult horror movie watching life, home invasion movies have always struck a very specific uneasiness in me. The idea that your home could be taken over and invaded in brutal and menacing ways at any moment is something that I’m sure almost everyone fears. Your home is... ( 25 Comments )

Horror Franchises Head to Head
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Thursday Jan,21
I sometimes actually enjoy crunching numbers, especially when it involves a large number of films that I absolutely love. While rewatching the Saw films recently with a friend that has never seen them, I thought that maybe it would a nice little exercise to see how the biggest franchises in th... ( 7 Comments )

Retro Rewatch: Heavenly Creatures 1994
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Tuesday Jan,19
Retro Rewatch is an ongoing editorial that takes a look into certain films, conventions, crazes, and characters of the horror genre years after their heyday. It is an effort to try and put the magnifying glass up to the horror world with the much needed luxuries of time and perspective applied in or... ( 3 Comments )

Fresh Meat: Shannon Lark Returns Sexier Then Ever
Posted By: Meh on Wednesday Jan,13
Shannon Lark was one of our first Fresh Meat Vixens and she recently reached out to point out some new things she is working on and included some truly stunning photos of herself and I thought it was only right to make her a Fresh Meat Vixen a second time. She is the first genre woman to be fea... ( 6 Comments )

I love the Twilight Zone
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Friday Jan,08
Every New Years Eve, the Sci Fi SyFy channel puts on a marathon lasting over 30 hours that shows nothing but the classic series The Twilight Zone. When I was but a child, my two sisters and I would plant ourselves in front of the TV and watch the marathon until the ball dropped, and then we wo... ( 6 Comments )

Video Games and Horror Movies
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Wednesday Jan,06
Like many of the young men and women of my generation, I play a lot of videogames. I grew up with Mario and Donkey Kong on a beautiful grey and white Nintendo while playing on one of those TV’s that doubled as a large table with a doily and a lamp on top of it. Now when I fire up t... ( 5 Comments )

5 Brutal Horror Movie Scenes from 2009
Posted By: Meh on Monday Jan,04
Honestly overall 2009 was a pretty damn good year for horror but unfortunately if you were looking for good scares you needed to look in most cases overseas but regardless I have managed to come up with 5 Shocking Horror Movie Moments from 2009. Make note kids this post contains spoilers if tha... ( 72 Comments )

Top Horror Editorials of 2009
Posted By: Meh on Sunday Jan,03
With the end of the year now come and gone its time to take a peak at some highlights from 2009 and what better thing to look at then the Most Popular Editorials of 2009. Its pretty amazing just how many readers take time to read the editorials written on this site and kudos to all of the VERY talen... ( 6 Comments )

The Best Horror Posters of 2009
Posted By: Meh on Sunday Jan,03
I am a big poster fanatic and love them with whats left of my rotting heart. I wanted to take a minute and share what I consider to be some of the best posters of 2009. The really fun part is that 1 poster on this list is not even a real poster but a poster made by an artist who is a fan of films an... ( 15 Comments )

My internship at MNU
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Sunday Jan,03
As you may have heard, the MNU head offices in Johannesburg South Africa are looking for people to aid in the relocation of the alien species that landed there over 20 years ago. I was a little intimidated considering there was a possibility that I may die, but then again it came with college... ( 6 Comments )