Horror films often build their scares around what’s concealed within their environment. Filmmakers use editing and cinematography to construct a sense of spatial continuity within a scene, but in ...

Rachael Severino is a writer from New York. She was awarded her Bachelor's in Classical Archaeology and Literature from Sarah Lawrence College. She is currently completing her MFA at Columbia ...

There are horror images so lasting that they define an entire genre. The stabbing of Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho is undeniably one of them. The shower curtain pulled back, ...