The 1950s were an intriguing era for horror cinema, reflecting the anxieties of a post-war world and the dawn of the atomic ...

Many of the most famous and beloved horror movies of the 1950s are monster pictures, creature features, things of that nature – horror starting to cross-breed with sci-fi, often remade into ...

But it was really the sci-fi B movies of the 1950s, like Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.’s “The Blob” and Kurt Neumann’s “The Fly,” that solidified the various body horror tropes as their own ...

Famous for writing the novel Psycho (1959), the basis for the influential 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name, author Robert Bloch understood the horror genre more than most.So when you ...

Only one horror movie has ever won Best Picture, and only seven or eight films (depending on how you count) have even been nominated. Let’s hope those numbers only continue to grow.

Horror movies have sunk their teeth into the box office and held up a cracked mirror to our frightening times. In this special series, we survey the genre’s bright lights — and dark corners.