Nostalgia
The horror we grew up on: the hits, the cult favorites and the cast reunions.
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Disney’s 1999 Movie About a Hockey Player Who Sells His Soul for the Stanley Cup Has Nowhere to Stream Today
For one Sunday night in 1999, the company behind The Little Mermaid put a children’s movie on ABC about a hockey player who signs…
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Mike Flanagan Was So Scared of Killer Klowns from Outer Space as a Kid That He Refused Its Haunted House as an Adult
Mike Flanagan was so scared by Killer Klowns from Outer Space as a kid that he refused its haunted house as an adult. He…
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Clayface and the Secret World of Alex Mack Share a Shape-Shifting Premise. Here’s Where the Two Stories Split
Both The Secret World of Alex Mack (1990s Nickelodeon series) and Clayface (2026 DCU body-horror film) center on a chemical-induced transformation that turns an…
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Ron Perlman Says He’d Still Make Hellboy 3 with Guillermo Del Toro at 86. Here’s Why It Never Happened
Ron Perlman is 76 and still campaigning for the Hellboy ending he never got to shoot. In a new Deadline Q&A, the actor said…
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A Reporter Asked 13-Year-Old Christina Ricci If She’d Gotten Her Period During the Addams Family Values Press Tour, and She Answered with Sarcasm
While doing press for Addams Family Values, a reporter asked Christina Ricci if she’d gotten her period yet. She was 13. Her reply: “No,…
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Vinessa Shaw Says the Hocus Pocus Cast Felt “Ridiculed” When the Movie Bombed in 1993
Vinessa Shaw says the Hocus Pocus cast felt “ridiculed” when the film bombed in 1993, years before it became a cult favorite. Shaw remembers…
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Ken Russell’s the Devils Is Returning to Theaters with the Scene Censors Kept Off Screens for Decades
In the sequence critics dubbed the “rape of Christ,” possessed nuns defile a life-sized effigy of Christ amid a frenzied orgy, and it’s what…
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Guillermo Del Toro Was Asked Why He’d Criticize Fascism in Pan’s Labyrinth. He Compared It to Bell-Bottom Pants
Guillermo del Toro remembers being asked during the original Pan’s Labyrinth press tour why he’d criticize fascism when it had already been eradicated. His…
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The 8 Creepiest Episodes of ‘Tales from the Crypt’
Tales from the Crypt spent seven seasons on HBO delivering the kind of sharp, twist-heavy horror that the original EC Comics were famous for.…
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Josh Hartnett Recalls Cutting His Own Hair For ‘The Faculty’ and ‘Halloween: H20’ Roles
Josh Hartnett gave himself the uneven haircut that turned up in both The Faculty and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later in 1998. At 19,…
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Anjelica Huston and Bette Midler Both Turned Down Annie Wilkes in Misery Before Kathy Bates Won an Oscar for the Role
Anjelica Huston and Bette Midler both turned down the role of Annie Wilkes in Misery before Kathy Bates took it and won the Academy…
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Devon Sawa Used to Resent Being Asked About Casper, but Now He Says the Ghost Movie Is ‘What Got Me Here’
Devon Sawa’s “Can I keep you?” from 1995’s Casper turned into a line he can’t outrun, and for years he resented that. “There was…
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Joel Had a Much Bigger Role in Scream 2’s Original Script, Until the Script Leaked Online and Got Rewritten
In the original Scream 2 script, Joel (Duane Martin) had a much bigger role: he was dating Hallie McDaniel, Sidney’s best friend, and sat…
