13 Great Simpsons Treehouse of Horror Halloween Stories

The Treehouse of Horror specials are an annual Halloween staple. Check out our all-time favorites! Heres the list… 13. Fantastic, while Lisa gains super-strength. Lou, cancel the prom! In short, itsThe Birds, but with dolphins. Homer tries to convince the town that they can outsmart the dolphins, but… they cant. By the end, they surround the townspeople, poised to attack, giving way to a mass fist-fight. Its more odd than scary, certainly, but either way, its a funny one....

October 30, 2019 · 3 min · 472 words · Jeffrey Weiss

13 Horror Movies That Take Place on Halloween

Tales of Halloween Okay, soTales of Halloweenis practically tailor-made for this sort of list. Whats not to love about that? Its certainly noMiseryorCarrie, but it gets the job done while creating some genuinely creepy scares along the way. Keeping with this theme, evenPet Sematary Twochooses to unleash a good deal of carnage on Halloween night. I bet your monster costume isnt going to top Pazuzus. Its just a nice little button to this already disturbing endeavor....

October 30, 2019 · 1 min · 213 words · Amanda Barnett

Scariest TV Episodes to Revisit on Halloween

We take you on a chilling journey through the history of our favorite legitimately terrifying TV episodes. Theres a long history of television shows playing dress up for Halloween. Sometimes that helps, to be sure, but its not a hard and fast rule. Watch this Rod Serling masterpiece and you will. When she is locked in the store with the mannequins, things get terrifying quickly. Watch this episode and then hit Macys....

October 30, 2019 · 9 min · 1899 words · Elizabeth Green

A Brief History of Retro Horror Gaming

Horror games have been around since the early 1970s. Scary titles have been around since the birth of the video game industry. Others will be mere curiosities, forgotten relics of an arguably simpler time. Perhaps the earliest scary game of note is SegasKiller Shark. To mask this shortcoming, they gave each of their titles elaborate cover art. This imagery was simple but effective, tapping into potential players primordial need to be scared....

October 29, 2019 · 3 min · 548 words · William Edwards

Why Zombies Ate My Neighbors Should Rise from the Grave

Zombies Ate My Neighbors is one of the great LucasArts games of the ’90s. Here’s why it deserves a sequel… And how would you save them all? By using a homemade arsenal of water guns, soda cans, and fire extinguishers, of course! Sadly, the series died withGhoul Patrolin 1994. I dont think so, especially not in todays gaming environment. And the good news is Im not the only one. And so I guess well all just keep dreaming like that until our brains get eaten....

October 29, 2019 · 1 min · 104 words · Steven Johnson

The Best Haunted House Movies and TV Shows of All Time

Do houses have memories? These ones seem to. We pick our favorite haunted house movies and TV shows… The haunted house is a staple horror gear. But making this list wasnt as easy as youd think. DittoInsidious, which has some ghosts, but theyre not tied to any house in particular. If you fancy something spooky that wont give you nightmares, this might be the one. Youd do the same, right?...

October 27, 2019 · 1 min · 196 words · John Thompson

The Weird History of Nightmare on Elm Street Comics

On the other hand, its a completely broken idea. The fact that its a franchise makes it completely hollow. Freddy Krueger has what Id call, for the lack of a better term, bullshit invulnerability. The heroes of each story have to struggle to stop him in some way and destroy him. But youcantdestroy him because then how can you do a sequel? See you next year! Freddy is so ill-defined and relentless that even the first movie is kind of ruined by the final minutes....

October 26, 2019 · 8 min · 1609 words · Teresa Martinez

Top 21 Scariest Horror Movie Masks

Any good horror movie villain needs a mask. We give you 21 of the most frightening face-hiders in the movies… Here then are 20 of the scariest masks ever to turn up in horror movies: 21. read more: Best Modern Horror Movies 20. read more: Best Horror Movies on Netflix 19. What makes it scary is what it does. read more: Best Horror Movies on Hulu 18. But in context, the cutesy masks are pretty frightening....

October 26, 2019 · 3 min · 518 words · Joseph Fletcher

Resident Evil: How Sweet Home Inspired the Series

Before Resident Evil, there was Sweet Home. This is how a half-forgotten film and game spawned a video game genre… This article originally appeared atDen of Geek UK. Ring,Audition,Dark Water,Onibaba,House,Kuroneko… TheSweet Homemovie is a curious genre mishmash with an impressive pedigree. In one scene, a cameramans lower body is reduced to a streak of crimson goo. In another, an old man (played by producer Juzo Itami) is stripped to his bare bones....

October 25, 2019 · 1 min · 176 words · Rhonda Patton

13 Horror Podcasts To Terrify You This Halloween

October is the time for all scary things. Here are 13 horror podcasts to help get you in the spookiest mood. Nothing can get you back into the mindset of childlike wonder quite like the experience of getting scared. Usually they do quite a good job despite the difficulty of the medium, bless them. Books have been killing the spooky story game for awhile. Now its the podcasting mediums turn to pick up the horror flag and run with it....

October 24, 2019 · 2 min · 380 words · Richard Dunn MD

Best Horror Game Box Art

Some big name talent contributed to cover art, too, such as H.R. Giger (the man who designed the look of Alien) and sci-fi artist Richard Clifton-Dey. We just dont get work like this on cover art anymore. First things first: this is not a good game. Its not even so bad that its good and worth spending a few minutes watching on YouTube. The actual gameplay has no redeeming qualities....

October 24, 2019 · 3 min · 506 words · Nathaniel Ford

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Revisiting 4 Classic Halloween Episodes

Halloween is both fun and scary, both trick and treat. Its the creepy haunted house, and its the joy of free candy. The same could be said of the now classic millennial supernatural drama,Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Both campy humor and genuinely deep, dark storylines gave this show the cult audience enjoys to this day. Watching these pivotal installments could just be the perfect way to honor the frightening fun of Halloween!...

October 24, 2019 · 2 min · 313 words · Erica Ellis

13 Essential Horror Comics

Need some Halloween reading? We’ve got some of the best horror comics to scare you stupid. Other than superheroes, one genre has ruled the comic book world. As a visual medium, comics are perfect for horror. Read Ed Brubaker and Sean PhillipsFataleto find out. Ad content continues below Fatalecenters around a seemingly undying woman named Jo who has lived for decades. Jo has the gift (or curse) to make men become obsessed with her....

October 23, 2019 · 3 min · 456 words · Emily Barrett