The pungent flower in question is a tropical plant called titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), a species of corpse flower.

What appears to be a single bloom is actually an enormous inflorescence, a cluster of many tiny flowers at the base of a tall ...

A grand jury has indicted a Colorado sheriff, undersheriff and three current and former sheriff’s office employees on multiple charges, including abuse of a corpse and assault. Costilla County Sheriff ...

Ex-Cannibal Corpse vocalist Chris Barnes (who founded and currently fronts Six Feet Under) has been estranged from his former band since his dismissal in 1995. In a new interview, he explained that he ...

The blooming of a titan arum, or corpse plant, is a spectacle like none other in the plant world. A pale spike resembling the decaying finger of a buried giant pushes up from the earth until it towers ...

Titular punctuation is the bane of a movie critic’s existence. Is it 28 Days Later or 28 Days Later … ? Do we really have to put quotation marks around “Wuthering Heights,” no matter how often Emerald ...

Instead, her creation is an amalgam of disparate concepts, brought together in defiance of storytelling logic (and the opinions of test-screen audiences). Jessie Buckley stars as Ida, a gangster’s ...

In some alternate universe, there’s probably a simpler, more straightforward version of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Frankenstein spin-off movie The Bride! that’s currently getting called a must-see ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal's "The Bride!" is a visually and narratively ambitious film that struggles to contain its many ideas. The movie features bold performances from Jessie Buckley as the bride and ...

Just as much as I am a fan of Tim Burton's films, I am equally enthusiastic about his longtime partner in crime. No I don't mean Johnny Depp, but Danny Elfman, the composer for almost all of Burton's ...

Twenty Halloweens ago, Tim Burton conjured Corpse Bride, a fantasy fable that spans the world of the living and the land of the dead. Building on the stylings of The Nightmare Before Christmas, which ...