Magical books. Possessed dolls. Children's games turned deadly. Cursed objects in horror movies take many forms, but one thing is always certain. If one is introduced, the characters in the film are ...

Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, Norman Bates and countless other bogeymen have been terrorizing movie audiences for decades. As various sequels, prequels and remakes featuring their ...

There are plenty of haunted houses — and hotels and summer camps — in horror movies, but some of the most disturbing cinematic scares are thanks to evil objects. Like the eponymous toy in Oz Perkins’ ...

Horror antagonists have taken on a variety of unexpected shapes and sizes: killer dolls, shark tornadoes, lava-tarantulas, velociraptor pastors. And the list goes on. For today’s purposes, we will be ...

Like the Disneyland ride upon which it’s based, The Haunted Mansion opens with a spooky voice intoning, “Welcome, foolish mortals!” Scary objects, like candelabra and tarot cards, float in front of ...

Editor’s note: the article contains discussion of self-harm and body dysmorphia. In Wind Gap, Missouri, the tips of a tongue cut deeper than any knife. Life is fickler than an errant eyelash, plucked ...

Commenters flocked to one viral internet post after thousands of parents came together to share their most bizarre stories about confiscating random—and potentially dangerous—objects from their ...

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Alien abduction stories are as old as, well, The Pyramids I suppose, but it’s only recently that the deed could be done not only on Earth, where scientists can easily look for evidence (crop circles ...

Averting our eyes from things that scare us may be due to a specific cluster of neurons in a visual region of the brain, according to new research. Researchers found that in fruit fly brains, these ...