Cheryl Eddy

Scream Queens Is Really Just a Parade of Horror In-Jokes At This Point

Though “Pumpkin Patch” is only its fifth episode, Scream Queens has already exhausted every slasher-movie cliché, and has moved on to aping other horrors: The Shining, The Silence of the Lambs, and, uh, Orange is the New Black. More problematic: the show has become virtually plotless. But still, we soldier on. While we’d love to…

Check Out These Awesomely Evil Sketches from New Horror Anthology Film Tales of Halloween

Creepy horror anthology film Tales of Halloween contains segments directed by Neil Marshall (The Descent), Darren Lynn Bousman (the Saw series), and Lucky McKee (May), among others—including newcomer Paul Solet, whose segment “The Weak and the Wicked” yielded these creepy demon sketches. They’re by artist Jason Shawn Alexander, and we’re premiering them here for your…

The Alarming Tale of a Stalker Whose Violent Urges Weren’t Tempered By Time, Or By His Arrest

In May 1980, Taiwan-born, Minnesota-raised Ming Sen Shiue acted on a sick fantasy he’d been having for 15 years, kidnapping and sexually assaulting his former high-school math teacher, Mary Stauffer. The crime would have been nightmarish enough with just those facts … but it was worse. First, there was the length of time Shiue had…

A Terrifying Entity Makes a House Call in This Chilling Clip from The Diabolical

It’s Halloween season, and to paraphrase the movie of the same name … everyone deserves a good scare at least once a day. Here’s an exclusive clip from the upcoming horror-scifi movie The Diabolical that just might do the job today. First, check out the official synopsis for the film: When a single mother (Ali…

A Cult Murder Emerges from the Darkness in True-Crime Book Death on the Devil’s Teeth

The year was 1972; the place, suburban Springfield, New Jersey. One September day, a bizarre murder shattered the town’s sense of safety, and set in motion a cult-tinged mystery that’s become a local legend—and now, the subject of a new true-crime book. Was 16-year-old Jeannette DePalma killed as part of a Satanic ritual—or was she…

Where Are These Young Travelers Headed, and What’s Happened to the World Around Them?

A destroyed train displaying a tattered flag forms a gateway to a brighter land located further down the tracks. Are the taller figures some sort of futuristic miliary, cobbled together to police the post-apocalypse? Are they merely collecting a toll, or giving helpful directions? What happened to this countryside? Where did the train used to…

We Need to Talk About The Leftovers‘ Kevin

We still don’t know where all the departed people went, and that includes the newly-missing Evie Murphy and friends. And what’s more, “A Matter of Geography” introduces some new mysteries into The Leftovers’ roiling pot of WTF … most of them revolving around Kevin Garvey. SPOILERS! But first, we did get some answers this week.…

Meet the Horror Fan Who Built (and Lives In!) an Incredible Replica of the Halloween House

Tucked into the woods near Hillsborough, North Carolina is a house that might look like a quaint Victorian to most. Horror fans will instantly recognize it, though: it’s a mind-blowingly exact replica of one of the genre’s most infamous dwellings: home base for Halloween boogeyman Michael Myers. This is no accident. It’s the home of…

5 Gruesome Real-Life Murders That Inspired Spooky Ghost Stories

Nearly every town’s got a ghost story. Far more rare is when a ghost story can be traced back to one specific, legally documented criminal case. Still, they do exist, and the stories they spawn are even scarier with real-life context. Here are five horrifying murders that created five spooky legends. 1) Zona Heaster Shue,…

American Horror Story: Hotel Is Basically The Lady Gaga Show, and That’s OK

American Horror Story returns to Los Angeles and sets up camp at the Hotel Cortez, which boasts a lushly restored art-deco lobby and a super-swanky penthouse—but ordinary guest rooms reek of recent death and nasty surprises. Spoilers ahead! Upon this gorgeous/creepy onslaught of visuals drapes a plot that’s either tissue-thin or amazingly uninteresting, or both.…

The Fascinating Life and Tragic End of the Polish Countess Who Became a Heroic British Spy

Krystyna Skarbek was said to be “Winston Churchill’s favorite spy;” she led an extraordinary life that peaked with clandestine acts of heroism during World War II—and ended tragically just a few years later. Six decades after her death, a biopic is said to be in the works. It’s about time. Skarbek, who was said to…

Disney Confirms A Huge Slate of Release Dates, Including Incredibles 2 and Toy Story 4

Along with the announcement of all manner of Marvel release dates, we now know when to expect some of Disney’s most anticipated new titles, including the much-longed-for sequels The Incredibles 2 and Toy Story 4. Variety has the whole list (and it includes all those Marvel movies mentioned in the post linked above), but here…

In Hawaii, the First Humpback Whale Sighting of the Season Means Winter is Coming

This still, taken from a Sept. 29 video shot by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, captures the first sighting of a humpback whale in Hawaii this season. The whales head to Hawaii to breed every winter, after spending the summer feeding in Alaskan waters. Image: Steve Matadobra/NOAA via AP

Scream Queens Heralds the Coming of “Chanel-O-Ween” By Driving a Cleaver Into Your Skull

We get two semi-big revelations (and one admittedly funny Matthew McConaughey impression) on this week’s Scream Queens; the rest is a whole lotta filler studded with handy reminders that one could actually be watching a real campy horror flick (Leprechaun FTW!) instead. OMG spoilers! The episode’s title, “Haunted House,” refers of course to Kappa house,…

The Troubling, Still-Unsolved Case of the 1977 Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders

The bare-bones facts would be disturbing enough on their own: in June 1977, three Girl Scouts—ages 8, 9, and 10—sharing the most remote tent at summer camp were found raped and brutally murdered. It’s the stuff of nightmares and horror movies. But the story got even worse. Prior to the murders, Camp Scott in Locust…

The 9 Weirdest Italian Horror Movies

Italian horror is, by its very nature, weird as hell. Even the genre’s most acclaimed standouts (Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond, for instance) are disgustingly freakish nightmares. But there are certain titles lurch into realms so intensely bizarre, we can’t quite believe our eyes … or stop showing them to our friends, and quoting their most…

Adorable Black-Footed Ferret Sure Does Like the Taste of Freedom

This sweet li’ll face belongs to a rare black-footed ferret, one of 30 released today by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in Commerce City, Colo. The 25-square-mile site was once a toxic waste dump, but has gotten new life (literally) after a billion-dollar cleanup. AP Photo/David…

After last night’s episode of The Leftovers and this news tidbit, we’re declaring goat sacrifices to be the new trendy thing: a Libertarian running for senate in Florida told an Orlando paper that he “sacrificed [a goat] to the god of the wilderness” and drank its blood. Curious? Learn more about candidate Augustus Sol Invictus…

The Leftovers Returns and Finds Itself In An Even Stranger New World

It’s a whole new Leftovers, y’all—in the intriguing season two opener, “Axis Mundi,” we’ve left the dark insanity of Mapleton, New York for Miracle, Texas, a town that’s been re-named as such because none of its residents were raptured on that fateful October 14. Spoilers follow! The former burg of Jarden has become a national…

The Tremors Critters Are Back With a Terrifying New Strategy

Remember Tremors, the 1990 monster comedy in which Kevin Bacon battles giant underground worms in the desert? Of course you do. Tremors rules. But did you know the series is still going, with a fifth installment—Tremors 5: Bloodlines—coming to Blu-ray and DVD tomorrow? Indeed it is! Here’s the synopsis: The stakes are raised for survivalist…