Category: Blood and Listicles

Pride 2026: 22 Queer Horror Essentials

For Pride Month 2026, B-Sides & Badlands is raising money for The Trevor Project. Our celebration of queerness features interviews with filmmakers and artists, reviews of queer horror and albums, and queer essays. Donate here. Horror has always been queer. And don’t let the fragile incels of the internet tell you any different. Since Mary Shelley wrote…
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June 6, 2026
11 Best Mad Women in Horror

Mad Women is among the best subgenres of horror. Who doesn’t love a bit of feminine rage cut through the lens of the anti-hero or the straight-up villain? Cinema is littered with mad women getting revenge or sinking into the depths of insanity. It’s a staple. Even more, actors slither into these roles with poison-tipped…
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May 30, 2026
15 Best Horror Remakes of All Time

Remakes in horror have been a thing since the 1920s and ’30s. It’s strange when casual horror fans complain about remakes when they’ve always had a place in horror. Remakes didn’t quite hit their stride until the 1980s, when the advent of gooey practical effects (as we know them today) gave way to fresher perspectives…
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May 21, 2026
10 Essential Proto-Slashers

Slashers might arguably be the most popular horror subgenre there is. Before John Carpenter’s Halloween perfected the formula in 1978, proto-slashers, including Psycho, Blood Feast (also part splatter flick), and Black Christmas, were a thing for at least 15 years or so. Many of those pre-Halloween entries mangled various slasher elements, such as a masked…
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May 10, 2026