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Monster Mashup: Superman vs. Dracula

Superman #120 Written by Jeph Loeb and Geoff Johns Art by Ian Churchill May 2002 DC Comics Unlike Marvel, with its successful Tomb of Dracula series, DC never integrated a specific iteration of...

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How to Revive a Slasher Villain ‘Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child’

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child Written by Leslie Bohem Directed by Stephen Hopkins 1989 USA The Nightmare on Elm Street franchise has nine films spread across three timelines (granted,...

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Why Tim Burton’s ‘Sweeney Todd’ is Kind of Terrible

I spent my Halloween attending the tale of Sweeney Todd. Though I did go out later (I’m not a total shut-in), most of my day consisted of watching four versions of the Stephen Sondheim’s razor sharp...

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Childhood Film Fascinations That Became All-Time Favorites

In celebration of Sound on Sight’s 7th anniversary, writers were asked to come up with articles that present their childhood favorites in the realm of films, TV shows, books or games. I chose films...

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Ryan Murphy’s ‘Scream Queens’ casts Jamie Lee Curtis and Emma Roberts

Ryan Murphy’s horror-comedy anthology series on Fox, Scream Queens, has cast its first two major leads. The Hollywood Reporter confirms that Emma Roberts and Jamie Lee Curtis have been cast, but...

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‘Halloween Returns’ in the works from ‘Saw’ writers

Michael Myers is back from the dead yet again, with another Halloween sequel/reboot in the horror franchise reportedly planned from Dimension and The Weinstein Company. Moviehole first broke the news...

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How Wes Craven Taught Me to Love Horror

When I was a kid, I was taught that horror movies were things to be avoided; Violent, sadistic, even satanic items made by sick people. Which of course only made them more intriguing. On our trips to...

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10 Commonly Overlooked Horror Films Worth Seeing

When I was a kid, I used to love a scary movie. I remember catching the original The Haunting (1963) one night on Channel 9’s Million Dollar Movie when I was home alone. Before it was over, I had...

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The Things That Make Gamers Scream

Horror in video games is not the same as horror in books or movies. There’s a certain artistic realism to horror in games that makes players more immersed in the nightmare the developer creates. In...

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120 Essential Horror Scenes Part 6: Stalkings

Horror films are built on our voyeuristic impulses. Our desire to witness or experience the obscene, the taboo, and the grotesque draws us into films about crazed killers or unseen forces. We don’t...

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How ‘Trick ‘r Treat’ Became the Newest, Most Unlikely, Halloween Tradition

  The dream came true on October 28th, 2013 at Los Angeles’s Egyptian Theater, where the 2013 Beyond Fest was being held.    Trick ‘r Treat (2007) was appropriately closing out the evening, but the...

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Interview with ‘Tommy’ Artist Juan Navarro

Juan Navarro is an artist and co-founder of the small press indie comic book company Creature Entertainment located in Miami, Florida. He writes the supernatural crime drama Rez and draws the...

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200 Greatest Horror Films (20-11)

– 20. The Innocents Directed by Jack Clayton Written by William Archibald and Truman Capote UK, 1961 Genre: Hauntings The Innocents, which was co-written by Truman Capote, is the first of many screen...

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120 Essential Horror Scenes Part 10: Legends & Omens

Almost every horror movie stops for a moment of exposition that sets up or explains the horrors that await or that have been endured. These are the scenes where directors can either conjure their inner...

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This Podcast Came From the Moon #15

  All Hallows’ Eve is upon us once more, and with it all things spooky.  The chills and thrills have even made their way in to Destiny in the way of a two week even, Festival of the Lost.  Listen to...

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