5 Movie Characters That Freaked Me Out as a Kid
Halloween isn't anywhere in sight, but that doesn't matter because I've decided to reflect on the movie characters that traumatized me as a child and caused a few issues and fears.
Halloween isn't anywhere in sight, but that doesn't matter because I've decided to reflect on the movie characters that traumatized me as a child and caused a few issues and fears.
Mallika Rao | Posted 03.28.2012
Here's a video for anyone who misses getting good and scared at the movies. French production company La Pompadour came up with a visual alphabet that...
Posted 02.21.2012
Some movie villains seem to haunt film-goers more than others. These guys are the stuff of nightmares: the characters who give us skin crawling flashb...
Heather Donahue | Posted 03.22.2012
I've been here before. Not just Sundance, but a midnight screening of a horror movie at the Egyptian. That was almost thirteen years ago to the day, f...
Heather Donahue | Posted 04.02.2012
The Pact's genre vocabulary is vast and fluid, held taut by Nicholas McCarthy's masterful sense of tone. But, really, who cares? The scares are awesome.
Julian Sancton | Posted 03.28.2012
The great thing about America is that I can choose not to go see The Devil Inside. The terrible thing about America is that I can't choose not to see the trailer for The Devil Inside. To be honest, I had it coming.
Posted 12.31.2011
If you've seen a scary movie made in the last ten years, you may have noticed a pattern in the casting. Whether it's "The Ring" or "The Grudge," it se...
Posted 12.03.2011
The book "The Exorcist", famously made into a movie in 1973, came out 40 years ago. To celebrate this anniversary, the author William Peter Blatty...
Posted 10.29.2011
You may think you know why we stopped making lunar landings, but there's always another narrative lurking in the great beyond. According to NASA, A...
Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011
Boo! Did it work? Did I scare you? If that didn't do the trick, try some of these new DVDs that came out in the last few weeks.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 05.25.2011
Ben Tripp | Posted 05.25.2011
Come with me, kiddies, down to my dungeon of cinematic despair. There's something here for every palate.
Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011
Halloween's a-comin': Time to bar the door, darken the lights, wring out the cat and scare the holy crap out of you and your main squeeze with some ex...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Many of the best and scariest movies out there were first books, though it's easy to forget sometimes. Just in time for Halloween, here are 7 scary mo...
Scott Mendelson | Posted 05.25.2011
The Children isn't the most violent film, nor the goriest or showiest. It haunts because it boils itself down to an unanswerable question: would you kill your own sick children to prevent them from killing you?
Jamie Lee Curtis | Posted 05.25.2011
Halloween is a breeding ground for a seemingly unending gruesome gore fest. Being a mother I've had to make the hard choices of what scary images my young children digested.
One For The Table | Posted 11.17.2011
After you've seen one severed head you've seen them all. I prefer to be scared with style... and Hitchcock was the master. If you don't believe me, you should see my electric bill.
Ken Levine | Posted 05.25.2011
My idea is to hire Gordon from SESAME STREET as the psychopath. Can you imagine how disturbing THAT would be to anyone who grew up with that show?
J.L. Sirisuk | Posted 05.21.2012