Good horror terrifies you, but great horror makes you think...while you're terrified. Social commentary is often present in the horror genre, forcing us to take a long, hard look at ourselves and the ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

This summer, after publishing my article relating King Kong to the male power fantasy, I received three different emails from angry readers. Two of them seemed to be explaining that I had ...

Jacques Tourneur's I Walked with a Zombie wasn't an immediate success upon its release in 1943, despite both the director's and producer Val Lewton's solid reputations as horror masters thanks to Cat ...

This Thanksgiving weekend, audiences returned to the world of Zootopia with its sequel, released by Disney, after waiting almost a decade since the first release in 2014. This return to the ...

The horror author Rachel Harrison recommends books that offer emotional insight and social commentary beyond the scares. By Rachel Harrison Rachel Harrison is the New York Times best-selling author of ...