However, it's the cannibal, Hannibal Lecter, who ranks as one of the best horror villains of all time. For his performance as ...

Each and every Halloween season (which we here call “Nerdoween”), folks put on their favorite horror movies and celebrate the icons that have made the genre beloved. Your Frankenstein(‘s monster), ...

Horror is not a genre for everyone. The idea of watching people run for their lives from crazed killers is not all viewers' idea of a good time (it’s hard to imagine), and they’ll gladly choose from ...

Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, Art the Clown, Norman Bates, John Kramer aka Jigsaw, Candyman, Leatherface, Chucky, Ghostface, Dracula, Pennywise the Dancing Clown, Freddy Krueger, Hannibal Lecter, ...

It's that simple, but hopefully it won't be that easy.

What scares the people who make a living from scaring us? At the annual Fantastic Fest film festival in Austin, Texas, Polygon talked to a lot of horror directors about their new movies, so we took ...