The Cherry Hill Chainsaw Massacre

March 30th, 1992 was the night for The Silence of the Lambs , Jonathan Demme's masterful adaptation of Thomas Harris' psychological horror novel of the same name. At the 64th Academy Awards ceremony, this movie took the Dolby Theatre by storm, earning seven nominations and walking away with five. To date, The Silence of the Lambs holds two singular accomplishments: 1) it remains the only horror film to have ever won the Oscar for Best Picture (and one of only six to have received the prestigious nomination in history), and 2) it remains the last of three films in history to have achieved the coveted grand slam, following the romantic comedy,  It Happened One Night , and the psychological darkly comic drama, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest .  By the end of the night, The Silence of the Lambs walked home with the following five, beyond-deserved major Oscars: Best Picture, Best Director (Jonathan Demme), Best Adapted Screenplay (Ted Tally), Best Actor (Anthony Hopkins), and ...

On the morning of November 16th, 1957, Bernice Worden, the 58-year-old owner of a hardware store in Plainfield, Wisconsin, disappeared without a trace. Her son, Deputy Sheriff Frank Worden, entered the store around 5:00 p.m. to discover the cash register open and blood stains on the floor. Worden informed investigators that, on the evening prior to his mother's disappearance, Ed Gein, a 51-year-old farmer, known by the townspeople as a timid and somewhat strange but overall harmless little man living alone in the farmhouse in which he was raised, had visited the store and was expected to return the following morning for a gallon of antifreeze. A sales slip for that antifreeze was the final receipt written by Worden on the morning of her disappearance.  Later that evening, Gein was arrested at a West Plainfield grocery store, and as the Waushara County Sheriff's Department searched his farm, a sheriff's deputy discovered Worden's decapitated body in a shed, hung upside d...

A pair of young couples driving across the country to investigate the urban legend of a serial killer get more than they bargained for when they run afoul of a family of eccentric sadists in heavy-metal frontman-turned-filmmaker Rob Zombie's directorial debut, House of 1,000 Corpses , a harrowing, bizarre, balls-to-the-wall gruesome nightmare brought vibrantly to life with thrillingly imaginative set design, a stellar quartet of villainous performances, and gory yet grounded makeup effects that pays homage to Tobe Hooper's 1974 groundbreaker, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre , while amplifying the carnage and surrealism to an 11. When I was a kid, all throughout my elementary years up until I started middle school, one of my favorite things to do after school, especially on Friday nights, was pay a visit to a Spirit Halloween store. Walking into one of these places was like walking into another world populated by a horde of monsters, many of which I grew up watching religiously. The...