The Howling
The Howling (1981) doesn’t get enough love. The Howling was the first of the 80s werewolf movies with An American Werewolf in London and Wolfen both released in the same year…
Häxan
Häxan (Witch) is such a fascinating film! And very much underappreciated. The 1922 silent film is part documentary and part fiction with a little comedy mixed in about the evolution of witchcraft. ..
The Other Witch Trials
Everyone knows about the Salem Witch Trials. Salem may be the most talked about, but it wasn’t the first or the worst….
The History of the Witch
Witches don’t fly around on brooms, eat babies, or worship Satan. They are healers and caretakers. They always have been. So where did it all go wrong? To answer that we have to take a look at the history of the witch.
Haunted Portugal
Welcome to Portugal! As part of Scary Matter’s virtual trip around the world, we found you some of Portugal’s most haunted places…
Diogo Alves
Imagine being a student at the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Medicine. You’re walking past a shelf in the anatomy theater and there, in a jar on a shelf, is a head. Not an unusual sight for a medical student. Until you learn that it’s the actual head of one of Portugal’s most famous killers – Diogo Alves.
Luisa de Jesus – The Founding Wheel Killer
Luisa de Jesus (a/k/a The Foundling Wheel Killer) had a terrible habit of adopting babies. A lot of them. And she killed them all.
Paul Bateson – From The Exorcist to Murder
We’ve all heard the rumor that The Exorcist movie was cursed. Did it affect Paul Bateson too? He was a successful radiologist, but could he also have been a serial killer in his spare time? He was arrested and sentenced to twenty years in prison for the murder of Addison Verrill. He also confessed to killing and dismembering six other men…
All Hail the Chin
Bruce Campbell once said “…If I had all the money in the world, I’d still make movies. But I’d want them to pay me in donuts.” That statement really shows the sense of humor that makes all his movies so fun to watch. And who doesn’t love a Bruce Campbell movie? …