Horror

The top 10 Stephen King horror adaptations

The top 10 Stephen King horror adaptations

While he’ll probably never be regarded in the same literary echelon as H. P. Lovecraft or Edgar Allan Poe, you can’t deny Stephen King has commercialized horror on a scale that’s never been seen before him or since. He could take a sweatshirt and turn it into...

22 of the best retro songs to add to your Halloween playlist

22 of the best retro songs to add to your Halloween playlist

It’s that spooky time of year when your spine begins to tingle with a familiar feeling: being judged by your friends based solely on your Halloween playlist. But fear not — I’ve been refining mine since I was but a wee vampire. If you’re looking for some killer...

The best Halloween TV specials from the 90s

The best Halloween TV specials from the 90s

Halloween is the best holiday and I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise. Halloween specials were some of the most exciting events as a kid leading into the spooky season. These specials were a chance for a show to really go off the rails and get nuts with concepts and...

Ten of the cheesiest horror movies from the 1990s

Ten of the cheesiest horror movies from the 1990s

When my son first saw a tab open for a website called Classic Nerd, he was intrigued — and then he immediately started making demands. First and foremost, he demanded I write an article of his choosing. For some reason, a kid who knows literally nothing about horror movies or the...

The 10 most important lessons from 80s vampire movies

The 10 most important lessons from 80s vampire movies

Once seen as dusty, old dental cases in frilly shirts who’d lounge in their coffins and listen to baroque between victims, vampires received a major makeover in the ‘80s. They rocked out to Bauhaus. They invaded high schools and suburbia. They wore an absolute ton of sunglasses. The decade...

10 music videos that homage classic horror cinema

10 music videos that homage classic horror cinema

Thanks to directors like David Fincher (Madonna’s “Vogue”), Michel Gondry (Kylie Minogue’s “Come into My World”), and Spike Jonze (Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” and Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice”) the music video has been elevated to an art form—one that challenges filmmakers to tell a complete narrative...

Top 10 spooky movies that are actually set on Halloween

Top 10 spooky movies that are actually set on Halloween

Halloween’s a pretty theatrical holiday. Maybe the most theatrical holiday. I mean, we carve faces in pumpkins and light them up with candles, dress our lawns with cardboard tombstones and cotton cobwebs and creaking coffins, and go out in elaborate costumes — or stay in and scare ourselves sleepless with...