The only horror movie review guides you'll ever need

Do you often ponder which horror movie you should watch at Halloween or perhaps on a Friday or Saturday night, only to pop in a trusted movie you’ve seen countless times that you know is good, so that your long awaited horror film watching night doesn’t end in disappointment?

There are hundreds of horror movie review guides. Some are good. Some are not so good. And it’s usually a frightening thought to get horror film advice from mainstream movie critics in your run-of-the-mill movie guide, because many of them are not fans of the horror genre to begin with.

It’s for these reasons you need a trusted horror movie guide. Written by someone who is a horror film historian and fan of the entire genre (from the silent era to the modern era), and will give you a bare bones, no-holes-barred honest critique of hundreds of films they’ve watched because they wanted to watch them, and are passionate about reviewing and discussing them.

Listed below are five great guides to get you started that will make your horror movie watching experience fun and informative.

Creature Features

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John Stanley’s Creature Features is THE definitive horror film guide. This long time and former San Francisco horror host created the horror film review guide. His incredible guide covers it all, and presents plenty of critical and humorous reviews of horror films, science fiction, fantasy and every medium in between – silent films through the modern era. Films you love. Films you hate. Films that matter, and films that splatter. If you only buy one, this is the one guide every horror fan should own.

VideoHound’s Horror Show

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Author Mike Mayo, former radio host of “Max and Mike on the Movies,” has written several movie review guides for VideoHound, as well as being a contributing writer for the “Roanoke Times” and “Washington Post.” His crown jewel, however, is his Horror Show review guide, which gives you “999 Hair-Raising, Hell-ish, and Humorous Movies” to sink your teeth into. Entertainment Weekly describes it as “A must-have for horror film junkies.” Mayo’s guide is simply outstanding. An added feature that makes this guide special are the excellent sidebar profiles on directors, actors, as well as intelligent horror film facts to whet the appetite of any fan of the macabre. This guide is a must have for any horror film aficionado.

The Definitive Guide to Horror Movies

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James Marriot and Kim Newman are two of the most notable horror critics in the business. In the Definitive Guide to Horror Movies, they provide an incredible historical perspective about the horror film tracing it decade by decade from the black and white classics like Phantom of the Opera and Dracula, written in a scholarly style prose that take you on a horror ride journey through the genres humble beginnings to the present era. Packed with images and informative reviews of more than 300 movies including TV series and literary masterpieces, to overlooked gems and box office flops. Diehard and new horror fans will enjoy this excellent expose of their favorite genre.

Classics of the Horror Film

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William Everson’s classic guide reviews horror films during its most important period – from Universal’s classic monsters through every important horror film up to William Friedkin’s, The Exorcist (1973). Everson is a true horror film historian who understands the golden age of horror, and his passion comes through in his reviews, which are written in critical detail and packed with black and white photos on every page. If you’re an old school horror fan or a newbie to the genre, this review guide is an absolute must have.

Fangoria: 101 Best Horror Films You’ve Never Seen

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Since 1979, Fangoria Magazine has been the go-to horror film magazine for diehard horror fans. With 101 Best Horror Movies You’ve Never Seen, author Anthony Lukeman has compiled a must-have guide for casual horror fans and hardcore horror junkies alike. Inside include feature flicks that went straight to video or fell short of being box office smashes, such as Cherry Falls and Apt Pupil. But also includes such classics as The Beyond and The Changeling.

Beyond a brief analysis of each film, this condensed powerhouse guide compiles a list of cast and crew, terror-trivia tidbits, and lesser known facts about these unknown gems that will take your horror movie knowledge to the next level.

Therefore, if you love horror movies or you’re simply a casual fan and want a great reference that you can count on and turn to time and time again, you cannot go wrong with either of these outstanding horror film guides.

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Edward Mugarian

Editor of Halloween Living Magazine, and a Detroit, Michigan native. After earning a B.A. in English at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, Ed pursued opportunities in public relations and management that helped mold him personally and professionally, developing his skills in writing and editing, marketing and advertising, public speaking and media relations. As well as broadening his experience in administrative leadership. In addition, he pursued film and special effects makeup programs in both Detroit and Los Angeles and worked on set as a special effects make-up artist. His passion for being a Halloween and horror film “geek” have been a constant throughout his life - cutting his teeth on the extraordinary works of Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, H.P. Lovecraft, and the great Shirley Jackson. His youth was spent hustling through haunted houses, and seeing the latest 70’s & 80’s horror films at the midnight drive-ins and local movie houses. He's also an avid horror film and movie memorabilia collector. One could say, he's autumn over summer. Pumpkins over pineapples. Horror over drama; and wearing black over anything else.