Halloween

TV Ratings: Winners ("The Voice," ABC Fridays) and Losers (The CMAs, Halloween Night)

The 2012-13 television season just finished up week six, with NBC and CBS stealing back the 18-49 and overall viewers crowns after Fox's World Series-propelled wins in both last week. But ABC -- third in both regards -- offered up two of the most interesting ratings stories last week, both good ...

Eli Roth-Approved Canadian Filmmaking Twins Discuss Their Gory Follow-Up to 'Dead Hooker,' 'American Mary'

Halloween Pin-Ups

Here are some silly publicity photos of attractive actresses making faces to herald the arrival of Halloween. We begin with an unusual selection, as Jane Wyman was past the starlet phase when she took this picture at Warner Bros. to promote A 'Kiss in the Dark' (1949).

13 Indie Horror Movies From 2012 to Watch on Halloween

Last year, Indiewire inaugurated a new tradition by singling out 13 recent indie horror movies in time for Halloween. The truth is that great horror cinema surfaces all year long, but the national holiday presents a nice opportunity to champion films too often dismissed by the faint-hearted mainstre...

John Carpenter's 'Halloween' Returning To Theaters Just In Time For Halloween

Sequelized, remade and rebooted over the years, it speaks to the power of John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic "Halloween" that it still tops all of its subsequent iterations. At thirty-four years old, the film still remains a thrill, but if you haven't seen it or want a rare chanc...

Watch: 'The Green Ruby Pumpkin' Captures the Spooky Spirit of Halloween (VIDEO)

Rob Zombie on Going for Broke With 'Lords of Salem' and Why Making a Third 'Halloween' Would Be "Masochistic"

Rob Zombie impressed many (ourselves included) with his grisly and demented sophomore effort, "The Devil's Rejects," only to betray many admirers of that film with his tepid stab at the "Halloween" franchise. After helming the 2009 sequel to that reboot, new film "The Lo...

A Few Great Pumpkins VI—Seventh Night: Fear(s) of the Dark

It’s commonplace to bemoan the sad reality that animation has been so long considered a children's medium. The limitless possibilities for expression and beauty and terror and surreality offered by the form make it frustrating that it has been co-opted by the gatekeepers of kids’ entertainment. Ever...

A Few Great Pumpkins VI—Sixth Night: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Because Fredric March won the best actor Oscar for his double-role as the twin protagonists in the 1931 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the film is primarily remembered for his performance. Yet to ignore the astonishing filmmaking on display by the great Rouben Mamoulian is to miss one of the most elegant, technically audacious Hollywood horror films of all time, not to mention one of the most truly dangerous. This is definitely pre-Code stuff: a flash of nudity, sure (from madman's prey Miriam Hopkins, in bed), but also a surprising rawness in its violence and a vivid anger permeating its every shock. It feels particularly fresh today in the way it...