In wasting our most precious years watching a shameful amount of horror movies, we noticed certain patterns emerging. Whether the familiar faces that we see in horror movie after horror movie, or the skulls that we so gleefully award, those patterns become hard to ignore. The Special Collections wing of the Horror Film Compendium is devoted to a different kind of research. The following pages contain lists and indices of some of the harder to quantify elements of horror. Each individual page has its own self-contained definition, so we invite you to click on them and explore some of the more interesting portions of the horror film world.

We do offer this warning, however: one of the items is cursed.

Essays and Academics      Rankings and Awards
What's the Point? or Why I Like Horror - Rish Outfield
Horror in the Strictest Sense - tyranist
I Like That Ending: Or Scream and Me - Rish Outfield
Halloween: 22 Years Later - Rish Outfield
Did It Have To Be So Bad? - Rish Outfield
An attraction to the darker side - tyranist
George A. Romero gives the Pal Lecture on Fantasy - Rish Outfield
The Bitter End - Rish Outfield
A Nightmare on My Street - Rish Outfield
Michael Jackson's What? - Rish Outfield
When There's No More Room in the Mall . . . - Rish Outfield
Video Killed the Video Star - Rish Outfield
Terror in the Aisles - Rish Outfield
Last Seventeen Cents - Rish Outfield
The Curse of M. Night Shyamalan - Rish Outfield
Remakes: Sequels Only Worse - Rish Outfield
Elm Street Revisited - Rish Outfield & tyranist
New Golden Age - Rish Outfield
     HFC Horror Film Awards
Rish Outfield's Worst Films in the Horror Film Compendium 1999 edition
Rish Outfield's Worst Films in the Horror Film Compendium 2007 edition
Rish Outfield's Top Twenty
tyranist's Top 20 Horror Films I've Ever Seen
HFC's Short List of the Best/Goriest Horror Movie Deaths
HFC's Haunted Houses Aplenty
Lists      Special Events and Occasions
Scream Queens
Scream Princesses
Classic Scream Fiends
Modern Scream Fiends
Anthology movies
Makeup Wizards
The UNREVIEWABLE
2006 Year in Review
     Holiday 1999 Horror Film Festival
Rish Outfield's Dollar Thirteen
tyranist's Horror Movies Nobody Wanted
Thanksgiving Horror Marathon 2000
Holiday 2000 Horror Film Festival
Holiday 2001 Horror Film Festival
Holiday 2003 Horror Film Festival
Filmographies      Interviews
Stephen King - a horror filmography
Universal Classic Horror movies
     Rish interviews Dan Myrick and Comic-Con 2007
Archives      Specialized Indices
HFC Quote/Tagline of the Week Archive
HFC Poster of the Month Archive
     Bad Titles List
Auteur (Writer/Director) List