Horror Movies

THINGS

Toward the end of Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock spliced in a frame of a skull on top of Norman Bates’s smiling face, confounding viewers who caught the split-second clip.

THINGS

Audiences may be surprised to learn just how close to the truth some of the scariest movies out there come.

THINGS

Nothing beats a good horror flick—but the stories behind the scenes are sometimes even more chilling. Read these with the lights on!

PEOPLE

Heather O’Rourke was the angel-faced child actress who rose to fame as Carol Anne Freeling in Poltergeist. But her breakout role came with a terrible curse.

EDITORIAL

Real footage of a team of filmmakers being stalked and massacred by a tribe of killers in the Amazon rainforest. Could it possibly be real?

THINGS

The character of Freddy Krueger was inspired by a real-life phenomenon that’s straight out of a nightmare.



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