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One Halloween night long ago, which also happened to be a full moon and the anniversary of a local massacre carried out by escapees from a nearby asylum, we stayed at the Listicles office working into the early morning hours, the entire room immersed in pitch black darkness save the light from our computer. Then, [...]

After the recent hilarity of the Crank 2 tagline, we’ve been combing the recesses of our brains in search of terrifically tasteless movie poster taglines. After all, what could be better than “He was dead… But he got better”? The answer comes to us via Horror Hacker’s listicle of the Top 10 Horror Movie Taglines, [...]

Though horror devotees often display a ritualistic distrust of movies that try to fuse other genres onto a horror structure, we believe there’s something to be said for the giddy recombination of generic registers. After all, so many of the greatest horror films are also extremely funny (Suspiria, Friday the 13th, etc.). David Wellington of [...]

It’s Friday the 13th again, and it’s Freudian Fridays again, so time for some subconscious slasher movie psychoanalysticle synergy. As Sigmund (or Siggy as we now call him) would tell you if he were still around and an avid consumer of splatterfest films (which he totally would be), killers in such movies are often motivated [...]

In keeping with our coverage of Friday the 13th (incidentally, the film with that title that’s a sequel to the first film with that title comes out today, check out my point-counterpoint with The L Magazine’s Henry Stewart) we’ll all be cuddling up tonight with a big bowl of popcorn and a stupid-scary movie, right? [...]

As we helped you do over Thanksgiving, we here at Listicles are all about avoiding the awkwardness of prolonged family interfaces through the magic of film. And with most of the obvious holiday movie picks already way backed-up on Netflix queues and missing from video stores everywhere, the movie trivia masters at AMC’s blog Horror [...]