As Halloween approaches slasher movies draw their biggest audiences as All Things Considered host Andrew Limbong talks with NPR's Brianna Scott and Ryan Benk about what keeps the genre alive and why ...

An Alfred Hitchcock agnostic watches the horror classic Psycho for the first time, and finds himself pleasantly surprised.

For more than 40 years now, moviegoers have lined up to see the spectacle of people being slaughtered by a psycho with a chainsaw, a psycho in a Halloween mask, a psycho in a goalie mask, a psycho ...

Happy Friday the 13th! If the unluckiest of days puts you in the mood to watch a classic slasher movie like Friday the 13th, we have some recommendations. Curl up with your favorite black cat, look ...

While it is true that Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho is one of the earliest precursors to the entire slasher sub-genre, there was a direct influence the film had on cinema that eventually led to slashers ...

Do you smell children? Want to phone home? Get shivers in the shower? Well, here’s a special movie package just for you. The trend of orchestral concerts of movie scores, accompanied by a screening of ...

He’s the ultimate psycho killer. Serial killer Ed Gein may not be a household name like Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer, but he looms large in pop culture, inspiring a trio of iconic horror movie killers: ...