Jeremy Smith Why Carrie Played An Important Role In Creating The Ending For Friday The 13th If you'er going to use this 'classic' scare ending, you better have a fresh take on it. Read More
Witney Seibold A Legally Dubious Halloween Costume Inspired Tobe Hooper's Leatherface Design In which Tobe Hooper's doctor inspires a horror legend. Read More
J. Gabriel Ware Tobe Hooper Kicked Off The Texas Chain Saw Massacre With A Dump Truck Of Dead Animals That's why I opened the film in a graveyard. You're immediately repelled by this stuff.' Read More
Fatemeh Mirjalili James Wan Returned To Direct The Conjuring 2 Just For One Patrick Wilson Scene 'We love the characters.' Read More
Anya Stanley How Dr Pepper Helped Land David Naughton His Role In An American Werewolf In London Good think John Landis was a big Dr Pepper drinker. Read More
Drew Tinnin David Bruckner Doesn't See A 'Way Back Into' The Friday The 13th Franchise Chh chh chh, ahh ahh ahh. Read More
Mike Shutt Ingrid Bergman Had To Test The Waters Before Trusting The Hollywood System Bergman never let Hollywood consume her. Read More
Steven Ward Alfonso Cuarón Had Little Interest In Children Of Men Until Tragedy Struck It took one cataclysmic global event for Alfonso Cuarón to realize that he could do something important with the Children of Men script. Read More
Sarah Musnicky Darren Lynn Bousman Doesn't Think Jigsaw Can Be Compared To Freddy Krueger Or Jason Voorhees Jigsaw is one of the most unique slashers in horror, neither performing the killings himself nor doing them for simple reasons. Read More
Devin Meenan George Romero Had To Reinvent His Visual Style Going Into Dawn Of The Dead George Romero reinvented what we think of as a zombie movie, not just once, but twice. Read More
Sarah Musnicky A Disastrous Screen Test Didn't Stop Ava Gardner From Becoming A Movie Star Ava Gardner is remembered as a vampy femme fatale from classic Hollywood, but thanks to her screen test, she almost didn't get into the industry. Read More
Miyako Pleines John Carpenter Was On A Tight Deadline To Create Halloween's Signature Score "I had three days to record the score for Halloween...' Read More
Walter Roberts From Here To Eternity Ending Explained: Was It Worth It? If "From Here to Eternity" has one defining legacy, it would be the tapestry of characters and storylines it presents. Read More
Joshua Meyer The Daily Stream: If You Enjoyed Werewolf By Night, The Wolf Man Should Be Your Next Stop Werewolf By Night director/composer Michael Giacchino was inspired by the alpha werewolf movie: The Wolf Man. Read More
Witney Seibold Why Xenomorphs Are Obsessed With Killing Humans The xenomorphs of the Alien franchise aren't just bloodthirsty monsters -- well, they are, but there's an in-universe logic to why! Read More
Matt Rainis Casting Johnny Depp In A Nightmare On Elm Street Came Down To Wes Craven's Daughters 'Part of it was having a daughter who was 14 at the time.' Read More
Devin Meenan Silence Of The Lambs' Original Ending Was Much More Grim For Dr. Chilton The original conception of the scene was more open and shut. Read More
Joshua Meyer How Two Failed Wes Craven Projects Made Nightmare On Elm Street A Tough Sell Before he broke the horror mold, the brilliant director was struggling. Read More
Jeremy Smith John Wayne Held One Writer In Higher Regard Than Any Other 'The trick was to do it without over-asserting the actor's natural dominance.' Read More
Demetra Nikolakakis John Wayne's Health Made The Shootist An Expensive Role For Him To Take John Wayne's final movie The Shootist was complicated by the late actor's ailing health. Read More
Christian Gainey How The Twilight Zone Helped Rod Serling Heal His Own Psychological Scars Rod Serling used The Twilight Zone to work out his own personal traumas surrounding war, violence, and bigotry. Read More
Kayleigh Donaldson Park Chan-Wook's Thirst Is One Of The Best Vampire Movies Of The 2000s I don't have faith. I'm not going to Hell. Read More
Shania Russell Supernatural Storylines You Should Revisit Before Watching The Winchesters You may not have time to rewatch 327 episodes of 'Supernatural' before 'The Winchesters' premieres, but you might be able to squeeze these in as a refresher. Read More
Matt Rainis A Shift In Filmmaking Pushed Gene Wilder To End His Acting Career We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. Read More
Devin Meenan Harrison Ford Was Key To Casting River Phoenix For The Lost Crusade's Young Indy Role The two had worked together on The Mosquito Coast and Harrison Ford recommended River Phoenix for the role. Read More
Anya Stanley Why Michael Myers Is Obsessed With Killing People: An Investigation 'Inside every one us, there exists a dark side.' Read More
Jeremy Smith Oliver Stone Thinks Quentin Tarantino Sunk Natural Born Killers' Critical Chances In 1994, Oliver Stone and Quentin Tarantino had something of a showdown. Read More