Rachel is a contributor at Collider who specializes in the horror genre. She was raised in Atlanta and moved to Colorado in 2016. In 2022, she graduated from The University of Colorado Boulder with a ...

Practical gore effects are best when they’re as close to life as they can be. Yes, that really is a limb getting twisted and stretched into pieces, even if it’s a fake one. Yes, that really is an ...

‘Sound Effects No. 13 – Death & Horror’ courted controversy upon its release in 1977—but despite graphic track titles like “Red Hot Poker Into Eye” and a campaign to have it banned, it became an ...

1982's The Thing — a remake of The Thing From Another World three decades earlier — is regarded as one of the best horror movies ever made, thanks to the direction of John Carpenter and the ...

Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...

Campy excess is the name of the game in Stuart Gordon’s celebrated 1985 cult hit Re-Animator. His comedy-horror movie has all the hallmarks of a schlocky zombie movie, with tawdry special effects and ...