Horror Movies

‘Terror Train’ (1980) keeps Curtis’ golden age on track

Jamie Lee Curtis became the first slasher Scream Queen thanks to a surprisingly small batch of films – “The Fog,” “Prom Night” and “Terror Train”

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Self-cannibalizing ‘The Monkey’ is more dark than comedic

“The Monkey” is the fourth-biggest Stephen King adaptation of 2025, but it’s the one that most cynically comments on the fact that Hollywood can’t get

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‘Christmas Evil’s’ (1980) reels should’ve been slashed up

Watching 15 minutes of “Christmas Evil” (1980) and then hoping it will get better is like asking a large woman if she is pregnant. You

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This time, the ‘Final Girl’ (2015) is fully prepared

Two similarly titled movies came out in 2015, “The Final Girls” and “Final Girl,” and neither has much to say about the roots of the

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‘Final Girls’ (2015) makes fun of old tropes, unfortunately shepherds new one

“The Final Girls” (2015) continues the grand tradition of making fun of slasher movies, something that has always happened to some degree even within serious

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‘The Fly’ (1986) is a classic fairy tale … in reverse and inside out

“The Fly” (1986) is writer-director David Cronenberg’s most mainstream piece of body horror, but that’s a contradiction because body horror will never be a mainstream

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‘Conjuring’ saga applies wallpaper as fast as it peels in ‘Last Rites’

The Smurl family home in “The Conjuring: Last Rites” includes peeling wallpaper in the stairwell, an accidental metaphor for the way the film uses top-shelf

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I’m not scared of clowns. Can I still enjoy ‘It: Chapter Two’ (2019)?

“It” – in all its incarnations – strikes me as Stephen King’s (and the adapters’) attempt to expand the themes of “Stand By Me” (the

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‘House of Wax’ (2005) doesn’t melt under pressure to be a good romp

“House of Wax” (2005) falls on the right side of that line with horror movies where you generally know what’s going to happen. On one

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‘Child’s Play’ (2019) is ChINO: Chucky in name only

In RFMC’s “All Dolled Up” series, I’m taking my first journey through the seven original films, one reboot film and one TV series of the

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