How directors and writers striving for a PG-13 rating have learned to ration the use of a four-letter obscenity.

This underrated 80s slasher inspired Ti West while he was working on 'MaXXXine,' and you can watch it now on Tubi.

What's achieved through noose-tight tension and unrelenting dread informs an entire subgenre of horror that, in turn, would misunderstand the strengths of Black Christmas and devolve into cheap sleaze ...