I bugged out when I found out that matter is simply condensed energy…energy that has been contained. I basically came to the conclusion that even us feeble creatures have more power in us than we give ourselves credit for. Without sounding too much like a nerd (too late….) the concept of the atom and the energy it contains is not even a century old. The atom and it’s parts were discovered in the early decades of the 20th century. But the realness of its full potential was realized during the Second World War when the United States, along with the most brilliant minds of science at the time, created the first nuclear weapon. It was this weapon that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, officially ending World War II with the Japanese surrendering and having to deal with the horrors of what this weapon has done.  For the first time in history the human species has been able to harness and use the power that before was reserved for nature only…in the insides of the stars…yep….bill...

Tom Savini is arguably the best make up artist of all the horror films. Oh sure we can call out many others throughout the years, but his work in films like Dawn of the Dead (1979), and Friday The Thirteenth IV The Final Chapter (Or so we thought….) is downright uncontested as being the most awesome work in the horror film genre. Yet there is only one thing that bothers me as I watch these films and others like it alongside my fellow horror fanatics…and that is their idea of what drives them to see the horror films in the first place. Is it the effects of blood gore and guts or the fright element of the unknown that makes us jump out of our seat? I think there is a thin line between the two and I want to just rant about that for a bit in this article. John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978) continues to be my point of reference in regards to this contest between gore and scare. I say this because if you watch this film, there’s really no blood in the film at all. No gut entrails….no ...

A big part of the horror film genre has always been ghosts and demons. These things have not ceased to scare the pants off of us because they tap into a part of us that may consider such things to be true. No, I’m not talking about Casper the friendly ghost and Bill Cosby’s Ghost Dad. I’m talking about the possibility that there may be a world outside our physical realm that cannot be explained by the natural order of things. Perhaps after a person dies, they continue to exist in a state that we cannot understand or explain until we go through that door on our deathbeds. Our personalities…our “I”s……continue to exist after our bodies cease to. It’s the great unknown. It’s scary. Many scientists doubt it…atheists scoff at it, and Hollywood has made money out of it. The supernatural has our attention, and the movie industry is eating it up. As a child I remember films like Burnt Offerings and The House on Haunted Hill, which were very spooky. I used to stick more closely to mo...