Name: Behind the Monsters
Uploaded: 2024-10-04T21:25:14.000Z
Description: Examine the horror icons who have broken free of the confines of the film from which they were born and become the stuff of legend.

Examine the horror icons who have broken free of the confines of the film from which they were born and become the stuff of legend.

AMC - Scares by Shudder

The genre's first black slasher showed up in 1992, rich with subtext about racial tensions in American history. In 2021, he's coming back - and is perhaps the most relevant horror icon imaginable.

Candyman

What started as a nasty spin on 80s consumerism flourished over three decades into an unlikely progressive horror property that refuses to get back on the shelf.

Chucky

In 1984 Wes Craven saw the slasher boom filling screens and took it to the next level by leaving reality behind. Other slashers carved through teen bodies; Freddy invaded their minds.

Freddy Krueger

The producers just wanted to rip off HALLOWEEN. What happened instead was the accidental creation of a machete-wielding avatar of conservative 1980s morality.

Jason Voorhees

Emerging from a low budget independent film, this character who was simply called "Lead Cenobite" would become the undeniable symbol of pleasure and pain and the icon of the "Hellraiser" franchise.

Behind the Monsters

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