But Scream and The Cabin in the Woods called out those tropes for a reason. Horror fans can often expect to see the same plot devices over and over again. The worst of them can be a sign of lazy ...

Joshua Kristian McCoy is a freelance writer and film critic from the United States. He is a lifelong film buff, a voting member of the Georgia Film Critics Association, a tournament-winning Smash Bros ...

Aya Tsintziras is a freelance writer who writes about TV, movies, and has a particular interest in the horror genre. She has a Political Science degree from the University of Toronto and a Masters of ...

Few things have the staying power of horror tropes. Ghosts. Demonic possession. Zombies. Haunted houses. Vampires. Werewolves. Witches. Masked slashers of the human and supernatural varieties. Aliens.

Back in the mid-1980s, the nighttime soap opera Dallas set the all-time gold standard for terrible uses of the “It was all a dream!” plot reveal, with a ridiculous twist erasing the entire previous ...

Our columnist reviews three new horror books out this month. By Gabino Iglesias Gabino Iglesias is a writer, editor, literary critic and professor, and the author of “The Devil Takes You Home.” His ...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. It’s an adage that resonates throughout IT: Welcome to Derry, a town with a dark underbelly, seemingly idyllic but terrorized by a disturbing ...

Janelle has an extensive career as a writer, with over a decade of freelance experience, especially when it comes to pop culture. Although her first love was music, she also enjoys digging into ...

Jennifer Fox’s iconic role as a demonically possessed high school student who survives off of male flesh played with the classic slasher structure and idea of a virgin sacrifice, but took control of ...