2025 is a banner year for horror, in part because of Weapons, Zach Cregger’s creepy film about a group of children who suddenly disappear in a small Pennsylvania town. The film’s antagonist, the ...

Horror-film villains become nightmare fuel for kids for decades. Some villains like Freddy, Jason, and Ghostface have multiple films to get under your skin. Others, like Annie from "Misery" or Jack ...

Movie villainy in the 21st century has been as diverse as it has been chilling, including everything from Nazi colonels to ...

The evolution of horror villains has allowed monsters, villains, and antagonists to haunt our dreams. We started off with the Universal villains like Frankenstein and Dracula. Then, the slashers like ...

People may find fictional villains surprisingly likeable when they share similarities with the viewer or reader, according to ...

This constant cycle of resurrection proves that iconic monsters and killers are a bankable commodity, but the intense focus on these top-tier properties has left a wealth of untapped potential in the ...

Producer Jason Blum is hellbent on locking down the rights to two horror icons so he can bring them back to the big screen ...

Horror has existed in cinema since the medium was invented in the late 19th century. But horror films as we know them really began in the 1920s. And the genre changed with each subsequent decade. But ...

Horror fans are going to be eating well in 2026, as there are some huge franchises are rising from the grave back to the big ...

There’s nothing more emotionally resonant than a good monologue. We all love to hear our heroes make sweeping speeches (sometimes set to a soaring score) that really drive home their current ...

In virtually every horror film, the protagonist character(s) acts as the audience surrogate. We are meant to be right there with them in this stressful and deadly space as they fight for their lives ...