Horror thrived throughout the 20th century, producing multiple towering, genre-defining masterpieces like Halloween, The Shining, and The Exorcist.

Every genre comes with tropes. In horror, there are too many to count. The final girl always lives. Killers have supernatural abilities that make them fast and immortal. A couple that has sex is ...

Throughout the history of slashers and monster movies, one prominent horror trope has stood above the rest as the most famous and most prominent in all of horror media: the blood-splattered, ...