The iconic shower scene in Psycho was originally supposed to play out without music. Instead composer Bernard Herrmann created “The Murder”: as the killing transpires, violins shriek and scream along ...

Quite a few gothic rock classics by The Cure could make it to the soundtrack of a horror movie, but I’m partial to the 1989 tune “Lullaby”. That opening melody is so melancholic and ahead of its time, ...

Halloween is next week -- and it’s commonly celebrated with kids trick-or-treating door-to-door, haunted houses and costume parades. But in ancient times, the occasion was observed as the eve of the ...

In the year-long series Sounds Of Blaxploitation, Craig D. Lindsey plays the hits that defined a genre, drawing connections between the music of the moment and the films that gave it a platform. UCLA ...

Musical holds so much emotion. With one or two notes, an artist can convey a wealth of information. In the case of the three songs below, the musicians who made them inadvertently created a haunting ...

With the fast-approaching celebration of Halloween, fearsome frights and horror flicks are as much a staple as jawbreaker-related trips to the dentist. From the ghosts that swing from the trees to the ...

In the age of cancel culture and social media, will the “Scary Movie” franchise’s typical controversial jokes still land? These are the questions actress Regina Hall asked herself before signing on to ...

Bodybuilding ‘Scary Movie’ actor Jayne Trcka is dead at 62. Her cause of death isn’t known. She was found unresponsive in her ...

Scary Movie helped launch a new generation of raunchy parody films, with a plot that primarily satirized the late '90s teen-slasher boom — namely Scream (1996) and I Know What You Did Last Summer ...