Alfred Hitchcock once described audiences experiencing a horror movie in a fascinating way. "The audience is like a giant organ that you and I are playing. At one moment we play this note, and get ...

Carrie has been around for over 50 years. Stephen King's first published novel became a classic horror movie, along with subsequent films, sequels, and reboots. Why remake it again? That's a question ...

When we talk about classic horror movies, we usually list the same titles year after year. Horror movies like The Exorcist, John Carpenter’s Halloween, John Carpenter’s The Thing, The Shining, A ...

If you lost the person you love most in the world, would it be acceptable to simply disappear without any trace? If so, would it be an act of self-preservation? Or reckless self-sabotage? These are ...

Digger (Tom Cruise) is an eccentric billionaire whose oil drilling company has put the world at risk of a catastrophic environmental disaster. Now, it falls on him to use his influence and powers of ...

If you were a lonely, ostracized, slightly stinky fisherwoman in a nondescript medieval village, and you really wanted a man, what would you do? Your first answer probably wouldn't be to turn to a ...

What's your favorite scary movie? No, this isn't the start of a blog about Scream, but rather a deeper look into the subgenres of horror. Rarely is there a movie that falls right into the genre of ...

In "What to Expect in a General Meeting," I laid out what a general is: a professional introduction between a writer and ...

When the Avengers assembled to face Thanos in the final battle of Avengers: Endgame, theaters erupted. Few scenes are as crowd-pleasing as the moment reinforcements arrive to save the day at the last ...

Back in the olden days, people of all ages would flock to movie palaces — grand, ornate places where moving pictures were projected onto giant screens from reels of film. It’s hard to imagine since ...

Do you know the difference between all of the types of villains and antagonists in movies? "Each film is only as good as its villain. Since the heroes and the gimmicks tend to repeat from film to film ...