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 ...

Quite a few gothic rock classics by The Cure could make it to the soundtrack of a horror movie, but I’m partial to the 1989 tune “Lullaby”. That opening melody is so melancholic and ahead of its time, ...

Horror, a genre long hated by critics and adored by the public, has always strived to challenge the status quo. Between pushing what can be shown on screen and the sanity of mothers everywhere, the ...

In the year-long series Sounds Of Blaxploitation, Craig D. Lindsey plays the hits that defined a genre, drawing connections between the music of the moment and the films that gave it a platform. UCLA ...

Musical holds so much emotion. With one or two notes, an artist can convey a wealth of information. In the case of the three songs below, the musicians who made them inadvertently created a haunting ...

"I think comedy and maybe the limits that you can push have changed," Regina Hall says, reflecting on the Scary Movie franchise reboot.

With the fast-approaching celebration of Halloween, fearsome frights and horror flicks are as much a staple as jawbreaker-related trips to the dentist. From the ghosts that swing from the trees to the ...

Written and directed by Curry Barker (Milk & Serial), Obsession currently holds an impressive 97% on Rotten Tomatoes and was named #2 on Letterboxd's top horror movies of 2025. For context, Ryan ...

Need help picking a scary movie to watch? 2025 was a good year for horror films—here are some new recommendations to watch this Halloween on streaming. Sinners was a box office hit for good reason, a ...