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.

The Best Horror Movies As Of Nov 2009.
Posted By: Meh on Wednesday Nov,18
An on going piece I love doing is The top 30 Horror movies and I tend to do it about every 60 or 90 days. Rather then basing the top films off of my own personal views which would be pretty egotistica I base it off the best yard stick around... you guys. You all submit reviews good and bad for film... ( 16 Comments )

Woman Power in Horror Movies
Posted By: BlackTequilaKiss on Wednesday Nov,18
Ever since horror movies, a certain label has existed: The women play the damsel in distress and the men typically are the heroes of the day. But as the years pass, horror has changed. This mantra that once existed has long disappeared. Since the 70's and before, the woman protagonist has become a ... ( 43 Comments )

Are we all watching Modern Exploitation?
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Monday Nov,16
Do you smell that in the air? At first, you may be confused as you take in an odiferous blend of bad scotch, tweed, and your high school music teacher’s jacket. Don’t panic however; you merely smell the pretention that gets awfully stuffy in and around award season. You... ( 4 Comments )

7 Great Alien Horror Films
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Friday Nov,13
I figured that with the anticipated release of The Fourth Kind right around the corner, this would be the perfect time hop in the old time machine (case of whiskey) and revisit some solid horror films that utilized aliens as the driving force of fears. What exactly is it about aliens that tend... ( 20 Comments )

Horror Remakes, Throwbacks and Thoughts
Posted By: innspecter on Monday Nov,09
We’re going to talk about remakes today. And we’ll probably also segue a bit into the ‘80’s aesthetic that has seen a resurgence lately. I want to talk about remakes because, very plainly, The Wolfman with Benicio del Toro looks fucking awesome. I really lik... ( 8 Comments )

Horror Films, Projecting Your Fears
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Monday Nov,09
The popularity of horror films has never waned since their inception in the early 1900s. Other genres of movies have seen their times come and go including the 1940s boom of the musicals, the exploitation films of the 70s, and even the Vietnam films of the mid to late 80’s. These g... ( 9 Comments )

Horror Movie Box Office Report, November 8th
Posted By: Meh on Monday Nov,09
Lots of horror movies playing in the box office this weekend so its time to have a look and see what is making the bling and what is not. The Fourth Kind opened into theaters and has brought in $13million. The Box starring Cameron Diaz has raked in $8million and Paranormal Activity continues ... ( 0 Comments )

Missed it! – The Lawnmower Man (1992)
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Monday Nov,02
Missed it! is a new editorial topic designed to present thoughts, ideas, and analysis on horror films that this writer has personally let slip through their fingers with no valid excuse anywhere in range. We all have movies that we haven’t seen for some reason and this is a segment that ... ( 18 Comments )

24 Hour Halloween Movie Marathon Part 2
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Saturday Oct,31
So you’re still awake for Part II! I like your gumption sir/madam! I’m so proud of you considering you’ve been sitting down watching movies for the last 12 hours (and probably drinking… you dirty lush). This is the point of time where the marathon starts to get ... ( 7 Comments )

Entertainment Weekly's Top 20 Horror Movies....A Diffe...
Posted By: gardenofstone10 on Saturday Oct,31
These are the top 20 horror movies of all time as decided upon by the crew of Entertainment Weekly: 1. The Shining2. The Exorcist3. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 4. The Silence of the Lambs5. Jaws6. The Ring7. Halloween8. Psycho9. Seven 10. Rosemary's Baby11. Poltergeist12. 28 Days Later13. A Nig... ( 31 Comments )

Halloween Horror Movies Fan Poll Results
Posted By: Meh on Saturday Oct,31
Lots of groups do their yearly Halloween Horror Movies lists and even we have a few lists up on the site with more to come today. But the best list is always the list that involves the voices of our community. 497 of the horror fans within our community voted in the poll of What is your Favorite Hal... ( 8 Comments )

My Medicinal Horror Movies
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Thursday Oct,29
It happens to everyone once in a while. We wake up one morning feeling as if we’ve been hit by a Mac truck driven by a gaggle of body builders outfitted in swords and chainmail. Sore throats, stuffy noses, achy bodies; they are all unfortunate side effects of being sick. To w... ( 11 Comments )

A Slice Of Garlic: The Top 10 Giallos
Posted By: deadhorse13 on Wednesday Oct,28
The Giallos (or Gialli, in the native tongue) are a type of Italian literature and film that originally derived from early American crime pulp and mystery novels. The word giallo is actually Italian for "yellow" and refers to the genre’s paperback novels with yellow covers. Where the nov... ( 16 Comments )

Horror Movies For Halloween Viewing
Posted By: innspecter on Tuesday Oct,27
I’m generally opposed to lists. I think people go overboard with them. Best of this, scariest that, coolest so-and-so, etc. But rules were made to be broken, including my own self-made rules, and today I caved and wrote this list. It’s not a best-of list, it&rsquo... ( 7 Comments )

Five Films In Development Hell
Posted By: thegoldensimatar on Monday Oct,26
Development Hell, the place many films end up. No matter how many writers, producers or directors try, these movies just never seem to escape. Whether it is a matter of money, creative differences, change of taste or a mixture of both, many movies have found themselves suffering this fat... ( 10 Comments )

The Saw Franchise Reviews: How The Films Stack Up
Posted By: Meh on Sunday Oct,25
The SAW Franchise is one you either love or you hate or like me you sit on the fence about. I loved the first film and since then I have felt the films have been trying hard to re-capture the magic of the original. The Original SAW was made for $1.2million and made over $100million. The subsequent ... ( 9 Comments )

24 Hour Halloween Horror Movie Marathon Part 1
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Sunday Oct,25
So here we are again with another grueling 24 hour horror movie marathon programmed by yours truly in celebration of our dark lord Satan’s birthday (or Halloween or whatever the pagans call it). A successful marathon includes a good programming schedule, some good eats, and enough caffei... ( 12 Comments )

9 Halloween Horror Movies To Leave You Scared Stiff!
Posted By: Meh on Saturday Oct,24
There are alot of great horror movies out there and its never an easy task to pick some that are going to satisfy your Halloween needs but here is my list of horror movies to watch on Halloween that will surely leave you freaking out in a small closet somewhere. Some of my films might surprise you b... ( 13 Comments )

Its Almost Halloween... Horror Movies Now Playing!
Posted By: Meh on Saturday Oct,24
Its almost Halloween and there are a few titles now playing in theaters and in fact there are some titles playing which we have no reviews for on site... specifically one... even more specifically the vampire tale Cirque Du freak the Vampires Assistant. Despite that one we have reviews and lots of e... ( 5 Comments )

7 Truly Terrifying Horror Movies
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Saturday Oct,24
Us horror goons are a sick group of people. We watch films that most of society disregards because they contain scenes of rampant sex and violence that we find entertaining. Movies that leave the masses scared to death on Halloween are our Tuesday night time-wasters. We like to t... ( 33 Comments )

Fan Poll Results: Zombieland vs Shaun of the Dead.. Zo...
Posted By: Meh on Saturday Oct,24
We did a poll a few weeks ago when Zombieland hit theaters asking you two distinct questions. We compared Zombieland to the next great zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead asking Which is Better. Or are they both Equally good! With over 640 votes the results are now in. It would seem that as far as horro... ( 9 Comments )

Join our Horror Movies Facebook Page
Posted By: Meh on Thursday Oct,22
We have finally gotten some polish put on our Facebook page and its now up and running and we want you to come and be our fans! By joining our facebook page you will be entered into an exclusive group that gets a whole lot of nothing. Seriously... you will not get laid, you wont find a pretty lady o... ( 27 Comments )

Who Else Almost Got the Role
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Tuesday Oct,20
As we all know, Hollywood is a fast moving and swiftly decisive business. Pre Production can easily take months while the script is finalized, the locations are scouted, and the actors are selected and signed. In this process of finding the right person for the role, there are a lot of f... ( 18 Comments )

The Best Year of my life
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Thursday Oct,15
So as of today, I have officially been an editorial writer for horrormovies.ca for an entire year (October 8th, 2008 to be exact). To me the time has been so enjoyable that it seems as if I’ve been here only a week (Oh yeah, you can see where this is going, this is going to be the editor... ( 19 Comments )

Sub Horror Genre Frenzy
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Wednesday Oct,07
Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies; they all have their own specialized core of classic movies within the horror genre. Every horror fan worth their weight in blood and gore has at least one sub genre that they can’t live without at which time they will ritually and aggressively target any re... ( 16 Comments )

4 Zombie Games to Play After Watching Zombieland
Posted By: Meh on Monday Oct,05
Clearly Zombieland gave me wood as it was an awesome movie and its nearly 90% approval on site based on 17 reviews and counting reflects just how awesome the movie is and how much us genre fans love it. That said when I was done watching the film the whole drive home I was sweating to pop in my favo... ( 14 Comments )

Retro Rewatch: Horror Movies of 1994
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Monday Oct,05
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... ( 1 Comments )

The 32 Rules of Zombieland
Posted By: Meh on Sunday Oct,04
Zombieland has 32 rules and for the most part alot of them go unspoken and some I simply cant remember. So I thought what better job then fill in all the missing rules to give everyone a good and proper education on how to survive a zombie outbreak. So with only about 6 of the Zombieland Rules ... ( 35 Comments )

Top 30 Zombie Movies, October 2009
Posted By: Meh on Thursday Oct,01
Time for another look back at top rated films based off our staff and fan reviews. This list updates each and every time a reader or staff member writes a review which is why we do these top lists from time to time. For the most part I agree with this list. Dawn of the Dead continues to hold its pla... ( 59 Comments )

New Horror on DVD September 29th
Posted By: Meh on Monday Sep,28
Tomorrow is going to be a very busy day as a ton of new films make their way onto dvd. We have lots of old goodies out and we also have some new flicks. This is the busiest day for new dvd releases we have seen in awhile so there should be something to suit all tastes. As always use the approval ra... ( 7 Comments )

Top 10 Horror Films That Aren’t Horror
Posted By: deadhorse13 on Monday Sep,28
Horror films by literal definition are movies that elicit the emotion of fear or terror from the viewer. Their plots normally involve the central themes of death, violence, psychosis, the supernatural, the unexplained, or science gone awry to name just a few usual suspects. However, the Horror genre... ( 52 Comments )

Why its Great: Dawn of the Dead
Posted By: LoudLon on Sunday Sep,27
Epic. Astonishing. A horror movie must-see. Critics hailed it. Audiences devoured it. After three decades of imitation and (an admittedly impressive) remake, George Romero’s grand, raucous and regaled Dawn of the Dead still stands as his masterpiece, a satire of mammoth proportions hailed by r... ( 12 Comments )

Horror Movies Now Playing & Worth Watching, September ...
Posted By: Meh on Sunday Sep,27
Time for another episode of Horror Movies Now Playing and worth watching.This is of course where we take a look at what is playing in theaters and more importantly what you the readers think of each film. Use this editorial as a means to filter where you spend your hard earned dollars. As alway... ( 20 Comments )

The Girls of Frontière(s)
Posted By: StoneCypher on Friday Sep,25
Warning: Here be spoilers! One of my favourite recent horror films is Xavier Gens’ brutal Frontière(s). It tells the story of a group of young criminals who flee Paris in the midst of riots taking place following severe political unrest. Unluckily for them, they find themselves out of t... ( 15 Comments )

Is Fandom Ruining Horror Movies?
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Friday Sep,25
As I was playing that new fangled Batman Video game (Arkham Asylum) the other day, I came to a startling realization. Not only was the game pretty darn good, but the level of detail and immersion into the world of Batman (comics, movies, animation, all of it) was absolutely staggering. I... ( 32 Comments )

New Horror on DVD September 22nd
Posted By: Meh on Tuesday Sep,22
Once again its time for New Horror on DVD and today there is a whole slew of goodies being released onto dvd. Most of which we have reviews for so you wont have to blind buy anything. As always if you have seen any of the films below submit your reviews, earn some toe tag points and help us all as a... ( 33 Comments )

HorrorMovies.ca Exceeds 300,000 Posts!
Posted By: Meh on Monday Sep,21
I never thought the day would come when I would be posting about the long life of this site. Unfortunately I must also announce I am shutting down the site..... ok yeah I am kidding on the last bit :) As community member Gardenofstone10 pointed out this morning as of today our... ( 41 Comments )

Your Favorite Horror Icons vs Vampires
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Monday Sep,21
Since teenagers and their mothers are treating vampires as if they are brand f**king new (they aren’t), Meh is forcing me to write an article about vampires (he said he would return my cat unharmed, and I really want to believe him). Since I’m half wacked out on liquor and sharpies... ( 30 Comments )

The Five Most Ridiculous Horror Weapons
Posted By: PoppaScotch on Wednesday Sep,16
When slashers became prominent in the 80’s, we went into a magical segment of horror film history where as the box office (and fan based) draw no longer became the protagonist of the story. It was all about seeing out favorite masked killers named Freddy, Jason, and Michael Myers s... ( 32 Comments )

The Unfilmable Lovecraft
Posted By: Innspector on Monday Sep,14
It’s hard to pinpoint the exact date when movies became so technically advanced that literally anything could be filmed, but there was a time when authors could conceive of such crazed imaginings that filmmakers simply couldn’t do the authors’ stories justice. Today we can put anyt... ( 17 Comments )