Found Footage is one of the most popular subgenres of the horror genre, and for good reason. It helps put the watcher directly into the film and makes everything more terrifying because you can easily imagine yourself as the main character going through these various horrors. One of the most common styles of the found …
The Poughkeepsie Tapes is one of the best-known found footage horror films, and it helped to spawn a lot of the found footage films and YouTube videos that we now have today. It not only portrayed a very intense mockumentary but was so well done that it was difficult not to think the case being …
The slasher genre is one of the most common and best-known subgenres of the horror genre, giving rise to franchises like Friday the 13th, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hellraiser, Scream, and dozens more. Due to the sheer size of the genre, there is almost always something for everyone to watch and enjoy. One of the best …
Continuing my descent into niche horror movies, it’s time to visit another plane of existence, i.e., the Astral plane! Astral projection movies are not very common in the horror genre, even though there are ample opportunities to use the idea of traveling the astral plane and fending off the horrors that lurk on the edges …
The horror genre has killers of all shapes and sizes, but nothing can beat one with a masked killer. When it comes to some of the deadliest horror villains that have ever graced the silver screen, many of them have hidden their faces behind masks to deprive their victims of knowing the true identity of …
While the horror genre is filled with serial killers, masked murderers, supernatural creatures, and other such terrifying things, the creature feature subgenre pits humanity against a real threat that people still face. One of those predators is the mighty bear, with the grizzly bear being the most commonly used in the films. Large and brutal, …
Horror movies feature gore, death, and everything dark and disturbing, but that’s not all they are well-known for. Some of the best couples to ever grace the screen often come out of the horror genre, and their love often burns the brightest amidst the darkness that we see on the screen. These couples range from …
From Game of Thrones to Indiana Jones and numerous spaghetti Westerns, you might be surprised how many movies and television series have been shot in Andalusia in Spain. It’s a great place to start if you’re production company location scouting for your next Western fantasy movie. If you want to make a film in Andalusia, I recommend …
Puzzle horror movies combine the best parts of several horror genres to create a genre that most people will love watching. Most movies in this genre are escape room movies (similar to Panic Room (2002), which is actually not a horror movie but a thriller) of some type, whether they are deadly traps like Saw or …
Mermaids are often seen as creatures of beauty and made cute, thanks to films like the Disney adaptations of The Little Mermaid (1989/2023), but mermaids have a dark and horrifying history. In old mermaid legends, they are mythical creatures known for killing and eating sailors they came across, and they weren’t sweet, beautiful creatures. But …