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<em>The Bride of Frankenstein</em>, 1935.
horror

Peer Into the Horror That Is Kirk Hammett’s Movie Poster Collection

They're watching you.
Anika Burgess August 4, 2017
The Forensic Anthropology Research Facility.
San Marcos, Texas

Freeman Ranch Body Farm

Human remains in varying states of decay are strewn about this Texas State facility for scientific study.
The moment the larger squid strikes!
horror

A Squid-on-Squid Ambush

Behold the horrors of the open ocean.
Eric Grundhauser April 3, 2017
Aldgate Pump.
London, England

Aldgate Pump

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.
Holy Cross
Culver City, California

Holy Cross Cemetery

A bright California graveyard with a decidedly dark side.
Halloween House
Los Angeles, California

Halloween House

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.
London, England

Strawberry Hill

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'
Morristown, Tennessee

The 'Evil Dead' Cabin

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."
31 days of halloween

Do You Remember Candle Cove?

How a creepypasta grew from story to legend to television show.
Eric Grundhauser October 7, 2016
Another view of the courtyard
Velké Losiny, Czechia

Velké Losiny Château

This renaissance château was home to an infamous witch hunter who sent a hundred suspected witches to their deaths.
The Last Chance Gas Station as depicted in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
horror

The Creepy Gas Station from 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' is Becoming a Resort

Because who wouldn't want to vacation there?
Jessie Guy-Ryan April 2, 2016
Thornewood Castle
Tacoma, Washington

Thornewood Castle

"The House That Love Built" is shying away from "The House That Ghosts Love."
The Colonial Theatre
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania

Colonial Theatre

This historic old movie house was the scene of one of the Blob's most iconic attacks.
Madison, Wisconsin

Dapper Cadaver

"Looks so real, it's scary!"
horror

The Fin-de-Siècle Paris Theater Whose Performances Were Literally Torturous

Eric Grundhauser October 30, 2015
The gaping maw of Orcus
outsider art

100 Wonders: The Park Of Monsters

Dylan Thuras October 28, 2015
film locations

Why Every Horror Film of the 1980s Was Built On 'Indian Burial Grounds'

Dan Nosowitz October 22, 2015
Dikwella, Sri Lanka

Wewurukannala Vihara

To gaze upon the visage of Sri Lanka's biggest Buddha, one must first pass through the Tunnel of Hell.