Another modern horror icon, despite only appearing in one film to date, is Leslie Vernon, played by Nathan Baesel in 2006’s Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon.The meta horror film is one ...

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, like so many horror movies over the years, takes its inspiration from one of the country’s most bizarre killers: Ed Gein.But Gein was just a small piece of the movie ...

The grotesque mask from the 2012 horror movie “Smiley” (left) recalls the smiley emoticon. It’s well-matched to the movie’s theme, about a killer who can be summoned via the internet to ...