Mike Miller is the executive editor on the movies team at Entertainment Weekly. He previously worked as a writer-reporter for PEOPLE and TMZ. Writer-director Chris Nash takes a stab at answering that ...

Fifty years ago, two independent filmmakers named Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel had a gruesome vision for a new kind of film. Their idea involved merciless kills, a chainsaw, a group of youths and a ...

Adapting a YA novel, director Eli Craig tries to pass off a lack of originality as "meta." The result is neither scary nor fun. Here’s why the film, lunkish and plodding as it is, thinks it’s meta. We ...

For decades, one of the most prevalent subgenres in horror is the slasher. The barebones definition of a slasher, according to Merriam Webster, is a person who kills with an edged blade. Along with ...

Horror underwent a radical change in the 1970s and early '80s, as religious tropes and monster movies gave way to more human threats in masks, creating the rise of the slasher. While many credit ...

Slayer icons such as Ghostface prove that anyone can be the killer, adding to its meta-commentary and parodic elements. Michael Myers terrifies his victims with cold callousness in the Halloween ...