Chrissy Stockton

Dario Argento Used Disney’s Snow White as the Color Guide for Suspiria

By: Chrissy Stockton

Dario Argento asked cinematographer Luciano Tovoli to watch Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as a color reference for Suspiria.

Halloween Premiered 48 Years Ago Today, Made for About $300,000 with Jamie Lee Curtis in Her First Film

By: Chrissy Stockton

When Halloween premiered on October 25, 1978, Jamie Lee Curtis was making her film debut in an independent horror movie made for roughly $300,000.

Peter Medak, Who Directed the Ghost Story the Changeling, Has Died at 88

By: Chrissy Stockton

Peter Medak, the director of the 1980 supernatural thriller The Changeling, died in Los Angeles on October 27 at 88.

Fastball’s Hit ‘the Way’ Was Inspired by an Elderly Texas Couple Who Vanished in 1997

By: Chrissy Stockton

Fastball's "The Way" grew out of a missing-persons story: an elderly Texas couple set out for a festival 15 miles from home and ended up dead hundreds of miles away.

Minnesota’s 1991 Halloween Blizzard Dumped 28.4 Inches of Snow, and Some Kids Went Trick-Or-Treating Anyway

By: Chrissy Stockton

Some Minnesota kids went trick-or-treating through falling snow on October 31, 1991, with parents pulling them on sleds.

HBO Is Developing a New ‘the Birds’ with Sarah Snook, and Tippi Hedren’s Memory of Making the Original Is Brutal

By: Chrissy Stockton

Sarah Snook's The Birds is in development at HBO, with a story about a mother protecting her daughter as deadly bird attacks become entangled with a crime.

Why People Are Suddenly Arguing Over Whether Freddy Krueger Should Be Canceled

By: Chrissy Stockton

The question of whether Freddy Krueger should be canceled picked up online this month after Freddy joined Fortnite's Fortnitemares event as a character skin.

Fairuza Balk Bought the Occult Shop Where She Researched Nancy Downs for the Craft

By: Chrissy Stockton

Preparing to play Nancy Downs took Fairuza Balk to Panpipes Magickal Marketplace, an occult shop in Los Angeles, where she researched the subject and spoke with people who knew it.

Night of the Demons Turned a Halloween Party in a Cursed Funeral Parlor into a Cult Classic

By: Chrissy Stockton

A Halloween party in an abandoned funeral parlor turns into a fight to make it to sunrise in Night of the Demons (1988).

The Sorority House Where Ghostface Kills Cici in ‘Scream 2’ Is Alison’s House from ‘Hocus Pocus’

By: Chrissy Stockton

The staircase Sarah Michelle Gellar runs up to escape Ghostface in Scream 2 is the same one Vinessa Shaw walks down as Alison in Hocus Pocus.