Cheryl Eddy

The 10 Scariest Ways to Die

Death is scary no matter what–but it gets even scarier once your imagination, and all your most insane phobias, begin to take hold. We white-knuckled our way through this list of the most terrifying ways to die. (Got a scarier one? Share it in the comments. Nightmares for everyone!) 10. You’re exploring a cave deep…

Some 150 years after his death, a man is being pardoned for helping slaves escape. Samuel Burris, a free black man, was tried and found guilty in 1847—but spared his sentence (being sold into seven years of slavery) by an anti-slavery group who bought him and freed him, after which he returned to his post…

The Simpsons‘ Latest “Treehouse of Horror” Opener Is a Ghoulishly Retro Delight

Halloween season means a new “Treehouse of Horror” episode from The Simpsons—at least, it has for the past 26 years. Here’s the wonderfully surreal couch gag from “Treehouse of Horror XXVI.” Frank Grimes makes an appearance, looking quite unlike we’ve ever seen him before. [FOX]

Hitchcock’s FBI File Is Full Of Concerns About How He Portrayed FBI Agents

An FOI request filed by website MuckRock yielded 18 pages of the FBI’s file on director Alfred Hitchcock. Surprisingly, the notes on the director weren’t concerned with the obvious: the violent content of his works, that he was a foreigner, etc. They were far more weirdly personal. The MuckRock post has both the FBI and…

Man Blames Wife for Stashing 21 Pieces of Female Genitalia in Freezer; She Disagrees [Updated]

There just isn’t anything about this story that isn’t horrible, so naturally we’re here to share it with you. A Danish man was arrested in his Bloemfontein, South Africa home after his estranged wife tipped police with this grisly fact: he had 21 pieces of female genitalia stored in his freezer. The man, who owns…

Angela Bassett’s American Horror Story Return Was Well Worth Waiting For

As the episode title suggests, “Mommy” is all about American Horror Story: Hotel’s various mothers: Alex the Miserable Pediatrician, Iris the Pitiful Front Desk Clerk, and the Gold-Digging Vampire Countess. There’s also a new queen on the scene, and this show just got way more interesting because of her. Not that there were too many…

It’s official: Mythbusters is ending. But since Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman secretly knew this, they’ve been plotting a final season that’ll let them truly “go out with a bang” (probably several really huge bangs, actually). Entertainment Weekly speaks to the stars about 14 seasons of epic experiments, and what they plan to do after…

We Tried to Like It, But Scream Queens Is Just Terrible

Things have gotten bad on Scream Queens—and we don’t mean for the Kappa sisters. We mean for the audience. We’re not even at the season’s halfway point, and whatever suspense this show had going for it has completely evaporated. This annoyance doesn’t come out of nowhere. After several weeks of hit-or-miss episodes, “Seven Minutes in…

Alleged Mansion Squatter Plunders $300,000 in Fine Art [Updated]

The San Francisco housing market is notoriously insane right now. However, maybe don’t try to get around it by squatting in a conveniently vacant $12.5 million mansion abandoned by a bankrupt tech bro, and helping yourself to hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of artwork left hanging on its walls. That strategy didn’t work for…

Gremlins Director Joe Dante Will Make a Subterranean Supernatural Thriller

The most recent film from horror-fantasy director Joe Dante (Gremlins, The Howling, Explorers) was Burying the Ex, a zombie rom-com. His new project, Labirintus, sounds like it will be more seriously spooky in its tone. Here’s the description of Labirintus, via Variety: “Labirintus” tells the story of a paranormal investigator and psychiatric researcher, who join…

“Haunted” By Guilt For 33 Years, Milwaukee Man Finally Confesses to Murder

Jose Ferreira was 16 when 13-year-old Carrie Ann Jopek went missing from a Milwaukee house party they both attended in 1982; her body was found 17 months later buried beneath the home’s porch. Though he was considered a suspect at the time, he denied any knowledge of her death. Until now. Incredibly, Ferreira—now 50 years…

In 1948, the First Mass Fingerprinting Operation Snagged a Horrific Child Killer

It was an unbelievably monstrous crime: a three-year-old who was in the hospital recovering from pneumonia was snatched from her bed in the middle of the night, sexually assaulted, and murdered. It appeared the girl had been held by her legs and swung skull-first into a wall until she died. Who could have done such…

On The Leftovers, Ex-Cultist Laurie’s Found a New Path: Being a Rageaholic

So far The Leftovers’ second season has been about Kevin Garvey and his ragtag family’s life after leaving Mapleton. But episode three, “Off Ramp,” catches us up on the other Garveys: Laurie and Tommy, whose respective exits from cult life have left them with plenty of lingering scars. Spoilers follow. Laurie has returned to her…

Fake Cowboy Uses Real Bullets, Injures Two In Wild West Re-Enactment Gone Awry

Next week is the 134th anniversary of Tombstone, Arizona’s famed moment in Wild West history, the shootout at the O.K. Corral involving Wyatt Earp and other legends of the era. The annual celebration got off to a rocky start, however, when an actor fired a loaded gun during a show. Oops! Fortunately, nobody was killed,…

Fatal Shooting Erupts At Zombie-Themed Art and Music Festival in Florida

A 20-year-old man was killed and five other people were injured just before midnight on Saturday at “ZombiCon,” an undead-themed art and music festival in Fort Myers, Florida. As of Sunday night, the shooter was still at large. The event is billed as Florida’s “largest gathering of zombies and those who love them.” News reports…

Murder Victim’s Body Mistaken for a Halloween Decoration “Straight Out of a Horror Story”

Today in “is it too late to just get back in bed?” news, the body of an Ohio murder victim that was left dangling from a chain-link fence was initially ignored by passers-by, who mistook it for a ghoulish Halloween decoration. CBS News reports: Law enforcement officials in the southern Ohio town of Chillicothe said…

Your Kids Will Love Goosebumps (and You’ll Be Okay With It)

R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps book series has been making children squirm since 1992, and now there’s a movie that aims to capture that same mix of creepy monsters and silliness. But the scariest thing in Goosebumps is Jack Black’s weird accent. And this film is strictly for kids. Really, that the frights in this long-awaited release…

For a Movie About a Killer Doll, Child’s Play Is Actually Pretty Terrifying

The Child’s Play series—now up to six films, with a seventh apparently underway—is now best-known for its campier entries, especially 2004’s Seed of Chucky. But the 1988 original doesn’t take that tone at all. Yes, it’s still about a killer doll. But it’s also surprisingly unsettling, for a variety of reasons. Obviously, child-sized doll Chucky…

American Horror Story: Hotel Reminds Us That Nothing Lasts Forever, Even Undead Romance

“Chutes and Ladders” unfurls deep background on the cursed Hotel Cortez, via a flashback that pays sly homage to a real-life serial killer. But American Horror Story: Hotel knows we’re all here for Lady Gaga, whose preening Countess ably demonstrates that vampires can break hearts, too. Spoilers, ye creatures of the night … The episode…

The Final Girls Is The Smartest Meta-Horror Film Since Cabin in the Woods

The Final Girls is a slasher movie, a slasher-movie parody, a horror comedy, and a drama about coming to terms with regrets. Though it’s not especially scary in itself, The Final Girls is the smartest movie about scary movies since Cabin in the Woods. The set-up is brilliant. At an anniversary screening of Friday the…