Hell of an introduction to this new horror fairy tale. Check it out. Here's the first teaser trailer (+ poster) for Oz Perkins' Gretel and Hansel, direct from YouTube: ...

Many fairy tales and children's stories are peppered with darkness, so the leap to horror isn't quite so surprising. Winnie the Pooh, however, is at the other end of the spectrum completely.

But it's also a romance and a horror story and a parable and a story about a person on a quest, which means, when you think about it, that it really is a modern fairy tale or an updated Greek myth.

Fairy tales are filled with acts of horrendous violence that are expected in horror, including torture, murder, and cannibalism. Children are abandoned, and, like in ‘Cinderella’, terribly ...

So much of the horror genre stems from fairy tales: sinister witches, hungry wolves posing as men, merfolk, misunderstood beasts and child-stealing creatures, all bound by particular sets of rules ...

Fairy tales speak on a deeper level than what some graphically worded passages may suggest. Filled with archetypal characters, the fairy tale presents the bits and pieces within all of us. The ...

In a world filled with remakes, reboots, and sequels, fairy tales aren't exempt, either. While Disney recently released the controversial Snow White, Shudder has just taken things further with a ...