Movies

Horror Movies (Feature, Short, Student & Fan)

Details: Written by: Gary Johnston; Category: Movies; Published: 17 June 2026

There are few things in life more satisfying than discovering a classic horror movie for free. Finding twenty dollars in an old jacket pocket? Nice. Getting an extra chicken nugget in your order? Wonderful. Realizing you can watch Alice, Sweet Alice on Tubi without spending a single penny? Absolutely glorious.

For those unfamiliar with the 1976 cult classic, Alice, Sweet Alice is a creepy little slice of nightmare fuel featuring strange masks, mysterious murders, and enough awkward family drama to make Thanksgiving dinner look relaxing. It's also famous for being one of the earliest film appearances of Brooke Shields, proving that even future superstars aren't safe from creepy horror movies.

Details: Written by: Gary Johnston; Category: Movies; Published: 11 June 2026

In a world full of expensive streaming services, password-sharing scandals, and monthly subscriptions multiplying like gremlins after midnight, Pluto TV has quietly committed an act of pure comedy heroism: you can now watch Scary Movie 1 through 5 absolutely FREE.

Yes. Free. As in zero dollars. As in less expensive than a stale gas station hot dog. As in your wallet just fainted from relief.

Details: Written by: Gary Johnston; Category: Movies; Published: 03 June 2026

There are movie successes, there are surprise hits, and then there's Obsession—a film that appears to be doing so well that people are starting to wonder if it has somehow hypnotized the population.

Industry experts are reportedly baffled by the film's success. One analyst stared at the box office numbers for three straight hours before finally whispering, "I think... I need to see it again."

Details: Written by: Gary Johnston; Category: Movies; Published: 31 May 2026

Well, it happened.

A movie based on endless yellow hallways, buzzing fluorescent lights, and the collective anxiety of getting lost in an office building somehow became one of the biggest box office stories of the year.

Backrooms didn't just open in theaters—it kicked the door off the hinges, wandered into a mysterious corridor, and emerged carrying bags of cash.

The film earned a staggering $38 million on its opening day and finished its debut weekend with approximately $81.5 million domestically, instantly becoming the biggest opening in A24 history.

Details: Written by: Gary Johnston; Category: Movies; Published: 29 May 2026

There are fan films… and then there’s Never Hike Alone, the movie that made horror fans collectively say, “Wait… why is this better than half the official sequels?”

Created by Never Hike Alone mastermind Vincente DiSanti, this fan-made love letter to the Friday the 13th franchise somehow accomplished the impossible: making people afraid of hiking again. Not bears. Not dehydration. Not twisted ankles. Just one extremely angry undead campground employee with abandonment issues.

Details: Written by: Gary Johnston; Category: Movies; Published: 19 May 2026

Cinemassacre revisits Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe film series (1960–1964), praising its Gothic atmosphere, production efficiency, and Vincent Price’s performances across eight features, while noting variations in quality and the series’ eventual fatigue.

Overview of the eight Poe films produced by Corman (1960–1964)
Discussion of each film: House of Usher, Pit and the Pendulum, Premature Burial, Tales of Terror, The Raven, The Haunted Palace, The MasK of the Red Death, Tomb of Ligeia
Emphasis on production constraints, color Cinemascope, and set design ingenuity

Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984) - Clip

Details: Written by: Gary Johnston; Category: Movies; Published: 18 May 2026

For decades, comedy was the place where society tested its limits. Comedians were the court jesters of civilization — the people allowed to say the uncomfortable thing everyone else was thinking. They poked fun at politics, religion, relationships, culture, and even themselves. Nothing was sacred, and that was the entire point.

Then political correctness showed up like an angry hall monitor carrying a clipboard and a list of forbidden words.

Suddenly, jokes needed permission slips.

Fantasia (1940) and Bela Lugosi from Dracula (1931)

Details: Written by: John Schollian; Category: Movies; Published: 12 May 2026

Before Fantasia became one of The Walt Disney Company’s most ambitious animated masterpieces, it nearly featured the King of Horror himself: Bela Lugosi.

Yes, the man who terrified audiences as Dracula apparently spent time creeping around a Disney soundstage pretending to be a demon for a cartoon. If that sounds like a fever dream caused by eating expired Halloween candy, welcome to old Hollywood.

Details: Written by: Gary Johnston; Category: Movies; Published: 08 May 2026

Long before Disney gave us singing snowmen, emotionally unavailable lions, and enough live-action remakes to bankrupt popcorn manufacturers, there was The Skeleton Dance — a cartoon where a bunch of dead skeletons leave the graveyard at midnight to absolutely tear up the dance floor like it’s Halloween at a retirement home for xylophones.

Released in 1929 as part of Disney’s Silly Symphonies, this short basically asked one important question:

“What if human bones had jazz?”

And somehow, the answer was “masterpiece.”