The 1950s were an intriguing era for horror cinema, reflecting the anxieties of a post-war world and the dawn of the atomic ...

Some of the best horror movies of the last 75 years include undeniable classics like The Exorcist, The Shining, Alien, and ...

Many of the most famous and beloved horror movies of the 1950s are monster pictures, creature features, things of that nature – horror starting to cross-breed with sci-fi, often remade into ...

But it was really the sci-fi B movies of the 1950s, like Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.’s “The Blob” and Kurt Neumann’s “The Fly,” that solidified the various body horror tropes as their own ...

Early American horror movies of the mid-1920s and 30s, particularly those produced by Universal Studios, ... During the 1950s, the nuclear arms race set off an alarm in American households.

In hindsight, though, films such as Quai des Orfèvres (1947), The Wages of Fear (1953), and, of course, Les Diaboliques, were ahead of their time, representing a new pessimistic variety of ...