The following iconic movie characters, for reasons too obvious and straightforward to even mention, all ended up gathering at an abandoned summer camp one spooky weekend.
The following people and their bone-chilling exploits are totally real, and at least three-quarters of them are totally still alive.
Do I see myself in the same rarified atmosphere as Alfred Hitchcock or the incomparable Orson Welles? Let's answer that question with an anecdote.
Freddy Krueger's music video: a spooktacular bootique of questionable decisions that reduces Freddy to a variety show host playing hide-and-seek with his rapping nephews.
I think you're a better fanboy if you don't praise everything. You have to own up to your heroes' failures.
Sometimes seeing where these horror movies were filmed is so jarring that it makes it impossible to think of them the same way.
We've used a whole lot of turd polish on these movies.
There are a handful of mediocre-to-terrible '90s movies that are only remembered fondly (or remembered at all) because they had hugely popular soundtracks.
Even we aren't dumb enough to die like these people.
When you look at the statistics, people just aren't doing this stuff in real life.
Sometimes strong sexual tension doesn't explode into erotic release -- and yet nobody has blue balls.
These directors turned their sets into torture chambers for artistic purposes, and/or because they just hated actors.
Many jokes no longer make sense, as they're based on observational humor of things that can no longer be observed.
It's good to know this stuff exists.