From the early 1960s to the end of the 1970s, horror films went through a period that produced some of the best scary films ever made. With a few exceptions, movies produced earlier seem old fashioned ...

The 1970s were an amazing year for cinema. Many talented emerging directors had untethered creative reign and financial backing to use the medium as their playground. Back in 1973, reports of ...

What has an industrial apron, someone's else face, and his grandad trying to bash your skull in with a mallet? Yeah, Leatherface is on here. Whether you’re ticking off deadly sins or counting down ...

From "Alien" to "The Brood," many horror movies in the 1970s were ahead of their time. Here are several films that were ...

The 1960s spanned the worldwide shift from post-war conservatism to the supposedly freewheeling Age of Aquarius. Hair came down, skirts went up, pants flared out, and social equality issues of race, ...

While Ridley Scott’s Alien kicked off a franchise that’s going strong to this day it works just as well as a one-off as it does the beginning of something much larger. It’s one of the ultimate single ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jack Nicholson in The Shining - Alamy Perhaps more than any other genre, horror inspires extraordinary passion among cinema-goers.

Rachael Severino is a writer from New York. She was awarded her Bachelor's in Classical Archaeology and Literature from Sarah Lawrence College. She is currently completing her MFA at Columbia ...

Only one horror film has ever terrorised me so completely that I didn’t sleep at all the night after watching it. It’s at number 37 on the top 50 below, which is an attempt to sort almost 130 years of ...