Amongst the cast of DreamWorks’ horror movie The Ruins, Laura Ramsey has the most experience with the horror and supernatural having appeared in Venom and The Covenant, which may be why her character Stacy is put through some of the most grueling and gut-wrenching situations in the new movie from Carter Smith, based on Scott [...]

 
The horror movie “Shutter,” with a premise reminiscent of a “Twilight Zone” and filled with its share of “gotcha” jolts, seems at first blush like typical Hollywood fare.
What makes it more than a popcorn movie for American audiences, says the film’s star, Joshua Jackson, is that its Japanese director, Masayuki Ochiai, simultaneously made a different [...]

 
Name a film that has scared the hell out of you. Does it haunt you to this day? I thought so. Were you terrified by the relentless tension, or a single terrific twist? Does it feature an iconic scene - Jack Nicholson chopping through the bathroom door, for instance; or a sausage popping out of [...]

Roll the credits on New Line Cinema, the 40-year-old studio behind such iconic movie franchises as “The Lord of the Rings,” “Austin Powers” and “A Nightmare on Elm Street.”
The company will lay off hundreds of employees between its Los Angeles and New York facilities and be merged into its corporate sibling, Warner Bros.

The consolidation marks [...]

 
Instead of “Plastics,” the older guy in “The Graduate” should have whispered this career advice: “Cannibal zombies.”
George A. Romero created horror’s most popular subgenre 40 years ago with “Night of the Living Dead,” and if you think of him as just a cult director, you should have seen his rock-star appearance at last summer’s San [...]

 
There is a good reason why Guillermo del Toro is one of the most beloved directors among genre and horror fans, and it isn’t just because his body of work is so solid, many of them setting the standards for horror in whichever sub-genre he chooses to work at any given time.
For instance, del Toro’s [...]

MoviesOnline recently had a chance to sit down with the creative team behind 30 Days of Night including Sam Raimi, David Slade, Josh Hartnett, Steve Niles, Ben Foster and Ben Templesmith. It isn’t often you get this much talent to sit down with you at once, much less talk about a huge film like this!  [...]

 
He’s the sultan of screams, the head honcho of horror, the duke of disgust — whether you measure by the sheer metric tonnage of his output or the harder-to-quantify level of his influence, Stephen King bestrides modern American horror like a colossus. And with horror film interpretations like Carrie, The Shining, Christine and The Dead [...]

 
Graphic novelist and screenwriter Steve Niles called into Cinematical headquarters this weekend from the Fangoria Weekend of Horrors Convention in New Jersey . Speaking about 30 Days of Nights, from the marketing push that will include a series of short films based on the comics, to the ComicCon plans for the film, to the rating — [...]

Stephen King knows it’s the little things that frighten the most. 
So it’s fitting that the best-selling novelist, who has had more film adaptations from his work than any modern author, finds his short stories capturing Hollywood’s attention these days. 
Among them are the sinister hotel-room thriller 1408, opening Friday, the creatures-in-the-fog story The Mist, coming [...]