Summer camps became a new scare location after the slasher franchise of Friday the 13th changed them forever. Born from tragedy, the slashing Jason Vorhees took out his revenge on the camp counselors ...

Image: New Line Cinema We are now officially in October, in fact, a few days in, and you know what this month is also known for? Halloween, what else! And, it is during this time of the year that ...

For such a compelling concept, A Nightmare on Elm Street went on to many sequels, making Freddy a slasher icon. With a long legacy of a villain played mainly by Robert Englund, this long-running dream ...

When it was released in 2003, Freddy vs Jason had the herculean task of combining decades of lore into one movie, and it worked.

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The original cycle of the Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th franchises, which began in 1984 and 1980 respectively, effectively ended with Freddy vs. Jason. There were rumors of a sequel ...

➼ Other (Shudder, October 17) — There are surprisingly few Shudder originals this month, but this one stars Olga Kurylenko as a woman who returns home after her mother’s death to find the place has ...

In 1993, John Wayne Bobbitt made headlines after his wife, Lorena, cut off his penis with a kitchen knife. Thirty years later, in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, Bobbitt says that he “understands” ...

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