What is a “jumpscare”? Well, if you live in a home without teenagers to explain it to you, it’s the thing that happens when you’re watching a horror movie and some abrupt sound, image, or other bump ...

The iconic shower scene in Psycho was originally supposed to play out without music. Instead composer Bernard Herrmann created “The Murder”: as the killing transpires, violins shriek and scream along ...

The weather is cooling down, and what better way to enjoy spooky season than with a horror movie? From cult classics to modern-day monsters, Halloween movies have a special place in pop culture. And ...

Over decades of television airings and later Criterion restoration, the movie gradually earned praise for its eerie mood, ...