Sometimes, the arguable best movie of a year belongs to the horror genre, as seen in 1960, with Psycho, and in 1991, with The ...

American Psycho won’t be gender-swapped credit:Bang Showbiz Luca Guadagnino’s American Psycho won’t be gender-swapped. Last week, it was claimed that the Queer director’s reimagining of Bret Easton ...

So what came between? The ’60s, of course. Within that decade there were quite a few truly formidable trendsetters. Some of them haven’t aged well, mostly because 60 or so years of advancing ...

Masked killers and looming specters are scary and all, but sometimes it's whatever's rattling around our skulls that instills the most fear. Psychological horror established itself as a subgenre of ...

Gein was an American murderer and grave robber from Plainfield, Wisconsin, whose gruesome crimes shocked the world in the 1950s. Born on August 27, 1906, Gein lived an isolated life under the strict ...

Netflix’s Monster: The Ed Gein Story dropped on Oct. 3, 2025, and it is already reigniting America’s obsession with one of the most unsettling killers in true crime history. If you’re watching it on ...

Is one of the most chilling characters in horror movie history based on a real person? Before there was Norman Bates, the knife-wielding murderer obsessed with his late mother in the seminal 1960 ...

From silent monsters to digital-age demons, these scary-movie cornerstones are available to scream — sorry, stream. By Erik Piepenburg The best horror movies do more than frighten and entertain. They ...

Ed Gein's true crimes became a template for the modern-era serial killer in a string of horror movies. The horror novel and film "Psycho" were the first to draw upon Ed Gein's grisly murders. The ...

It’s almost October, which means it’s almost Halloween, which means it’s basically Halloween ... right? According to Boston’s local cinemas, it is. In the coming weeks, get in the right mind-set by ...