Horror

Children of the Corn (1984, Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton, R.G. Armstrong) Outlander! We have your woman! Quick Plot: A bunch of freaky looking kids form a corn-cult around an even freakier looking kid and murder every adult in town. Scariest Scene: The opening sequence in the diner really starts this movie off with a meat cleaver to the chest. Or the scene when a demonic Isaac rises from the corn. Final Say: Children of the Corn doesn’t rank the highest among King adaptations; it can be crude, somewhat distasteful, and definitely did not age well. But that is what makes […]

Continuing our monthlong celebration of Halloween with various scary movie and TV-related lists. Check out our online movie database at staytunedmag.com to see if any of these or other scary titles are on this month. BACK OFF, MAN — I’M A SCIENTIST: TOP 5 MADDEST MOVIE DOCTORS The doctor is out — way out. They all laughed at them back at the university, and with good reason! These demented docs may have started their research with good intentions (though not always), but in the end they learned the hard way that being God ain’t all it’s cracked up to be: […]

The Ring (2002, Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman) Before you die, you see the ring… Quick Plot: A mysterious videotape brings death to those who watch it, seven days later. Journalist Rachel Keller begins to investigate, but after she and her young son view the tape, her search quickly becomes a race against time. Can she piece together the tape’s clues and her son’s psychic connection to them before the seven days are through? Scariest Scene: Just as Rachel is closing in on the mystery, Noah, her ex and co-conspirator, is paid a terrifying visit from Samara. The television […]

The Thing (1982, Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter) Man is the warmest place to hide. Quick plot: A group of Antarctic researchers uncover a deadly alien that can imitate the human form. Scariest moment: The funny answer would be when we see Wilford Brimley turn psycho. Man, I didn’t even want to look at oatmeal after that! But seriously, this is one of the best slow burns in horror cinema. Every scene drips with tension and distrust. But that blood test scene, when Kurt Russell’s character has tied up his fellow survivors and tries to determine who is still […]

Continuing our monthlong celebration of Halloween with various scary movie and TV-related lists. Check out our online movie database at staytunedmag.com to see if any of these or other scary titles are on this month. SURREAL ESTATE: TOP 5 HORROR MOVIE DWELLINGS The real estate industry is down, and these nasty places certainly aren’t helping drive up values. Not nice places to visit, and you wouldn’t want to live there: 5. The Bates House, California (Psycho, 1960) An ultra-creepy version of your great-grandma’s house, this place makes its adjoining motel look the Ritz. We all know what waits in the […]

Dawn of the Dead (1978, David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott Reiniger) When there’s no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth. Quick plot: When the dead start coming back to life to feed on the living, a group of survivors holes up in a secluded shopping mall. Scariest moment: George A. Romero has always made good in the blood-and-guts department, but his real scares come from what his zombie films say about society. The walking dead flock to the mall. Why? Because they’re doing what comes natural. Then you realize a mall full of living, breathing people […]

Continuing our monthlong celebration of Halloween with various scary movie and TV-related lists. Check out our online movie database at staytunedmag.com to see if any of these or other scary titles are on this month. KEEP ’EM IN THE BOX: TOP 5 SCARIEST MOVIE DOLLS & DUMMIES No matter how nice a doll may look, there’s still just something about it that’s a little too creepy, too lifelike, almost as if it may, in fact, spring to life. As movies show us, sometimes these plastic creations do. And despite what their pre-programmed voices may tell us when we pull their […]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978, Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy) They’re coming to get you! They’re already here! YOU’RE NEXT! Quick Plot: Alien beings take over Earth, one sleeping human at a time. The alien spores create duplicate pod people, devoid of emotion, and destroy the original body. Duplicating factories spring up and the invasion spreads. A brave group of human survivors, led by Dr. Matthew Bennell (Donald Sutherland), looks for a way to stop the spread while escaping detection. But they have to sleep sometime and, one by one, they too are transformed. Scariest Moment: The pod […]

Continuing our monthlong celebration of Halloween with various scary movie and TV-related lists. Check out our online movie database at staytunedmag.com to see if any of these or other scary titles are on this month. SUSPENSION OF BELIEF: TOP 5 LAMEST MOVIE MONSTERS We’ll give you a rest from true terror for a little bit, as it’s doubtful that the following monsters would scare anyone over the age of 2. Just be careful not to die laughing: 5. The walking tree-stumpy thing in From Hell It Came (1957) Well, technically it’s a “tobonga,” a murdered South Seas prince reanimated in […]