Top 10 Horror Series

I have often thought that a Haunted House or Ghost movie are the scariest type of Horror Movie.  They usually have a lot of suspense leading up to a jump scare or two, and often have a mystery to solve surrounding the Entity’s death.  They are normally set in a large creepy Victorian House, Hotel, [...]

This is gonna be tricky.  When I decided to do a top ten list of decapitations, I realized that of the hundreds that are out there preserved on celluloid, I will inevitably miss some.  So, I have put this list together of the ones that have stuck in my mind.  These may not be your [...]

It’s no secret that the 70′s are my favorite decade for film. The old Hollywood code had cracked and finally fallen away, leading to a whole new group of film makers who finally could push the boundaries of their art to places it had really never gone before. Regardless of the genre, be it comedy, [...]

Howard Phillips Lovecraft created the Cthulhu Mythos, a grand and horrific complex world of ancient gods that was very unique to Lovecraft and to Horror literature at the time. Cthulu, Azathoth, and Yog-Sothoth are the ancient old ones and the heart of the Lovecraft stories. Lovecraft created stories that were far before his time and [...]

Peter Cushing was one of the greatest Horror Icons of his time.  He was mostly known for his roles in Hammer Films such as The Curse of Frankenstein and The Horror of Dracula, but he played a wide range of characters.  He could somehow make any character, no matter how silly, seem believable and serious. [...]

Admit it.  You love it when you watch a film that sits with you for hours, even days after.  Your stomach twists and turns, you cover your eyes but peek through your hands because you can’t miss a minute.  You get that strange internal shudder that goes down your spine all the way to your [...]

When I went to see Cabin in the Woods recently, I loved the parts of the movie that made fun of the cliches of Horror films. I started to think of all the other great Satires or Spoofs on Horror, and wanted to watch a few again. There have been some really good ones and [...]

Top 10 Horror Sequels on Netflix If there was ever a red-headed stepchild of movies, it’d be the sequel. They tend to do more harm than good – tanking at the box office and going straight to video [yay for direct-to-video!] – but we do tend to have a soft spot for them within the [...]

I Love a good Gothic Movie, but most of them were filmed in the 30s to the 70s.   So I started to wonder are there any good “Modern” Gothic Horror movies? After searching my Dvd collection and looking around on the internet, I have come up with an interesting list…It seems there is a [...]

I was recently watching – for the millionth time – The Return of the Living Dead. For me, it’s a classic as I saw it for the first time when I was about 12, so it’s been burned into my psyche forever.  Some would say traumatized.  Whatever, I love this movie.  My favorite scene is [...]

Top 10 Roger Corman Movies on Netflix Roger Corman is the King of low budget horror and b-movies. Always looking to save a penny, he’s notorious for being a tight wad with ridiculous filming schedules, and a bad habit of repurposing stock footage, even when it doesn’t make sense. But it all worked out for [...]

For as long as we have had the modern slasher movie, we have had countless weapons to dispatch the weak or the immoral. Sometimes the victims just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. One of the most feared and revered weapons of the genre has to be the chainsaw. It’s [...]

10 Best Stephen King Movies on Netflix I’m a die-hard Stephen King fan. And with over 350 million books sold over the span of his career, I know I’m far from alone. The list of film adaptations spawned from his books is just as impressive! Mick Garris, Stanley Kubrick, Tom Holland, Brian De Palma, David [...]

Much to the pleasure of us horror fans the 21st century has been a bastion for great horror films. Admittedly there have been alot of really bad ones but there has also been an abundance of horror that both new and traditional horror fans love and are passionate about. I have put together a list [...]

Horror movies thrill us, entertain us, and, sometimes, teach us important lessons about life and how to live it. That’s why I’ve come up with this short list of films that teach us just such lessons while scaring us out of our collective wits simultaneously. Lesson One: Don’t Swim in the Ocean until at Least Thirty [...]

10 Netflix Horror Documentaries You Must See! Stacy here, with yet another top 10 for your U.S. Netflix queues. This week I thought it would be fun to focus on the history and truth behind horror, perhaps learn something new. Do you ever wonder what your favorite horror folks think of their own work? Where [...]

In celebration of the upcoming DVD release of CREATURE starring Mehcad Brooks Serinda Swan, Aaron Hill, and and Sid Haig, CREATURE pays homage to the creature feature and slasher movies of the 1980s.  The film tells the tale of the “Lockjaw” – part man, part alligator.  When a group of friends on a road trip to New Orleans stumbles upon the [...]

The 90s was a bit of a low period.  The mainstream was steering towards the psychological thriller and neglecting the horrors.  Mike Myers, Freddy, Jason, Chucky and Leatherface all suffered mediocre iterations of their former glory days.  However, all was not lost. Among the mediocrity, there were some shining examples of what the face of [...]

Every so often you’ll be watching a movie and all of a sudden somebody gets clipped. It’s a surprise for the viewer and generally more of a surprise for the movie character. Sometimes you might get tipped off a half second before the action takes place, but sometimes it comes out of the blue. I [...]

Every year, I make two very special lists for the loyal and attractive readers of horror-movies.ca.  The first is my Top Ten films from the previous year which is an absolute pleasure to write.  The second list is my horror film preview of the year to come, which also being a fun assignment, it is [...]

10 Horror Movies To Watch on Netflix Canada About three weeks ago we started a new feature on site looking at 10 Horror Movies to watch on Netflix. You all rightfully gave us heat for not having a weekly Canadian version given that 15% of our readers are Canadian.  What kind of international news site [...]

10 Horror Movies to Watch on Netflix, Feb 20th 2012 Time for another great round of 10 Horror Movies to Watch on Netflix. This is a new weekly feature where we scour netflix for new and old horror movies worth watching on Netflix. This one focuses on the American Netflix but some titles will also [...]

I recently did a short article about Jason Voorhees and the best kills from the 80s. Before CGI ruled supreme, special effects artists had to rely on odd things like latex and buckets of fake blood. They would take painstaking hours to create horrific and life-like grievous wounds. With the advent of CGI, a couple [...]

10 Horror Movies to Watch on Netflix, Feb 15th 2011 This is the latest edition of our new regular feature where we look at what horror movies are currently on Netflix and make recommendations to you all. Please note these titles are on the American Netflix so some may or may not be on the [...]

I recently did a short article about the movie Christine and why it resonated so strongly with me. While my mind was wandering down the 80s horror movie path, I started fondly remembering some of my favorite kill scenes starring one of the greatest slasher artists of the time: Jason Voorhees. So, I decided to [...]

10 Must See Horror Films on Netflix When it comes to finding a decent selection, Netflix has you covered. With so many to choose from, how do you know what to watch? I recommend filling the queue with these awesome horror flicks. This is a new on going series where myself and the rest of [...]

What is the best part about a zombie movie? Some say it’s the fiendish way in which the living get torn apart and eaten by the dead. Those in favour of the human race will say it’s the creative and gruesome ways that we dispatch the re-animated. Personally, I don’t really care, as long as [...]

In addition to expensive cars, great food, and Silvio Berlusconi’s Bunga-Bunga girls, Italy is responsible for creating the Giallo sub-genre. The word literally translates to “yellow”; a reference to the Italian pulp novels of the early 20th century, which were traditionally packaged in yellow. The Giallo films (plural: Gialli) exude a certain dreamy sensibility. When in color, [...]

This comes thanks in part to RGriffin for posting some horror films he forgot where awesome. The thing with doing a top anything is that you will always forget something that you have watched or something came out in the last minute. Anyway, I have heard many people say that 2011 was a rubbish or [...]

The problem with doing a top ten list is you sometimes leave films out that you either forgot about because you saw so many or you didn’t realise it was released this year. This was the case with my Top 10 Horror Films of 2011 list and I’m here to select a few more films [...]

There are a lot of horror movies that have been recommended to me by friends, colleagues, family etc.  As they all know I’m a major buff for all things spooky, gory or just plain crazy, and they love having a chat to me about the films that give them the heeby-jeebies.  And because I try [...]

Admit it, you knew The Devil Inside was going to suck. Let’s look at the facts – First and foremost, January is the dumping grounds for all of the crappy films that Hollywood could never otherwise unload on the public. Secondly, we’re at the point where any new entries into the “Found Footage” genre are [...]

Happy Friday the 13th! It’s such a wonderful holiday for us die hard horror fans. Also, I love that the first thing people ask me on this glorious day is “Stacy, what should I watch tonight?” Besides the obvious, of course? Here, let me help. Vampires, serial killers, creatures, zombies… try to pick a little [...]

I’ve never been on a big subway. I was recently reading some Clive Barker and there was something about the way he described how creepy they could be that it got me thinking about subway themed horror movies. So here are my top 5. Maybe you’ve seen them all, maybe you haven’t. 5.) Raw Meat [...]

I am so excited that I actually had to sit down and THINK about what it is I’m looking forward to this year when it comes to the 2012 horror movie line up — there are so many great horror films on the horizon! This leads me to believe that either the horror genre is [...]

In my previous article, ‘The Reanimation of Horror’, I promised that I would follow up with a list of my favourites remakes. However, why write them when I can have so much fun writing the worst remakes? Everyone loves dissing a crappy movie and we all think we can do it so much better (which, [...]

I’m drawn to different movies for different reasons - sometimes it’s the acting, or the script, sometimes the cinematography. Sometimes it’s less high-minded than that. Admittedly I’ve been drawn over the years to films that don’t necessarily sit on the same shelves as something that Clint Eastwood or the Coen Bros would pump out this close to [...]

2011 has been a very average year, for every good film we’ve had there has been alot of bad ones, here’s a list of  what I consider to be the worst horror movies of 2011. I will assume at this point that you have already read my list of the Best Horror Movies of 2011. [...]

I have this theory, that horror movies are a lot like wine. It takes a few years to really appreciate that while some of them transcend into something worth experiencing, a lot more diffuse into so much piss and vinegar. Horror is somewhat of a refracted lens of the world we live in, a sign of [...]

It’s the end of the year and that means that I’m supposed to put my chips in about the top 10 horror movies of the year. This is a pretty daunting task when I look back at all of the horror that came out. It’s just totally unrealistic to have seen them all with any [...]

I’m pretty sure you guys have seen every single Christmas-themed horror movie known to man, and lets be honest, you can only watch the same few over and over. So here I bring to you 7 Christmas horror shorts, that you may have seen before, if not, then please enjoy and have a safe Holiday. A [...]

The theme of 2011’s worst offerings was: disappointment. Why am I walking out of this theater under whelmed and over confused? Did you feel like making this movie because you were bored? Short and sweet, I only have 5 films that I should have skipped to avoid the disappointment and need to listen to myself [...]