Actually, a lot

"We do not realize that 'normal' behavior needs to be explained at all."
–Laura Cosmides
"Monsters today seem to be everywhere, and they cannot be destroyed. "
–Stephen Prince

"The explicit nature of this wave of filmmaking can be interpreted as a riposte to modern cultural sensibilities."

by David Thomson

"We keep returning to this story about pod people because we're terrified of the continuing erosion of our physicality in the postmodern era."

"You can depend on Jason."

Bwaaah!

"Think, for Pete's sake. What have you got now?"

"These two people are stuck in life."

"I should like to keep that out of me"

"We are always already in a state of being on the cusp of an unraveling, a violent deconstruction, an explosive discharge of disruption and freeplay."

"If there's a beast in men, it meets its match in women too."

Not the usual suspects

Romero's canonical work remains timely decades later

How Jessica Biel's Moral Hotness Tamed the West

We have met the enemy and he is us

Lewton's struggles to make magic had their own horrors

"Lewton's deep faith in humanity quietly waits for the smoke to settle so it can step in and start patching up the wounds."

"Nothing is so transient as sanity and safety."

This ghost story's charms are far from ephemeral

"She's supposed to be shriveling away," observed Davis, "but her tits keep growing. I keep running into them, like the Hollywood hills."

Girlflesh 'n boyflesh 'n apocalypse

Poe's favorite story dressed to kill by a legendary surrealist auteur

An interview with the man who created one of cinema's most enduring genres

Takashi Miike's notorious film has earned both awards and mass walkouts

These seminal sleazefests — and a couple of arty classics — will make you twist and shout

The normals are the real freaks in this still gut-wrenching horror classic

Monsters are bad enough, but their relatives?

If looks could kill, this dude wouldn't need a blade

Hitch's — and by now the whole damn culture's — seminal Oedipal nightmare revisited

Graverobbers and drag queens from outer space! A big limp octopus! Charming "anti-classics" from the intensely weird and constantly surprising world of Ed Wood.

This beautifully photographed film stars Elke Sommer as one of the least convincing architecture students in cinema history

What do horror and homosexuality have in common anyway? The all-pervasive, barely disguised, downright queerness of classics like Dracula, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, and Dracula's Daughter

No institution — society, religion, marriage, or heterosexuality — was safe from the penetrating queer eye of James Whale. Make way for the homosexual creator!

See Val Kilmer feed psychedelic mushrooms to the crazed beast-people! See Aissa's forbidden jungle dance! See the terrible white monster who lumbers across the sets in pancake makeup and Bea Arthur's old caftans!

With his lacerations, deformities, faux stump legs, and shaved head, Chaney was the original Modern Primitive