Horror

There’s few Halloween traditions as beloved as The Simpsons‘ annual “Treehouse of Horror” specials, despite the fact that these episodes might not debut until November. Additionally, with the series having been on the air for nearly four decades, the anthology installments that parody beloved horror movies have run out of a lot of titles to
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Ripcord’s Halloween Film Festival has unveiled the programming lineup for its inaugural edition: 50 horror, sci-fi, thriller and fantasy shorts, curated from more than 500 submissions and organized into seven themed programming blocks. The festival launches online at ripcord.film on October 19th and is free to attend. Registered fans can watch every film and vote
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All eight episodes of “Crystal Lake” were released onto Peacock this morning, and the streamer has wasted no time uploading a massive gallery of spoiler-filled images from the series. From the reveal of young Jason Voorhees (Callum Vinson) to a handful of absolutely brutal kills and some big reveals involving Jason and his loving mother
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A mangled ghost crashes a hang after hours in our exclusive clip from the upcoming supernatural horror movie Never After Dark. The Japanese horror movie,written and directed byDave Boyle, releases in theaters onSeptember 25, 2026. Never After Dark starsMoeka Hoshi (“Shogun”) as “Airi, a wandering medium who spends her life guiding restless spirits out of
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International treasure Isabelle Huppert is a singular presence. A frequent collaborator with controversial directors like Michael Haneke and Paul Verhoeven, the regal actress often chooses nuanced, complex roles, with nary a weak entry in the bunch. That’s what makes the idea of her portraying alleged historic serial killer Elizabeth Báthory so enticing. Huppert commands the
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Patience is greatly rewarded in director Jordan Downey’s The Cycle, a dour crime procedural that transforms into a thrilling practical effects-fueled horror movie. Downey, who co-writes with his cinematographer Kevin Stewart, dedicates quite a lot of its runtime to a methodical deduction of coincidences and the impossible, until only an improbable, exciting supernatural solution remains.
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Amidst the recent drama regarding Sony and Hideo Kojima‘s Physint (and Xbox gladly scooping up the game), Kojima has dropped a little update regarding his upcoming horror game, OD. Tacked onto the end of the video shown at the end of Xbox‘s Tokyo Game Show presentation, Kojima thanked Xbox for believing in his devteam’s vision
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Lost media and its close cousin, found footage, fascinate us because of the instant tension between the passive and the actively menacing. There is nothing inherently dangerous about watching a movie, or stumbling upon some half-remembered public access kids show while you’re trawling through the least-watched videos on YouTube, but our brains are hard-wired to
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Despite the release delay to next year, 505 Games and developer ArtPlay had something to show during the Xbox Showcase at Tokyo Game Show for Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement, unveiling an all-new gameplay trailer for the upcoming gothic action RPG. The newly released gameplay footage showcases plenty of previously unseen content, providing fans with their
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A24 dropped a mysterious and unexpected teaser for an upcoming horror movie ahead of Resident Evil in theaters this weekend, loaded with what looks like security camera footage from inside a terrifying haunted attraction. “A24 invites you,” the teaser trailer explains, “to an experience you’ll never forget.” The title of this mysterious horror movie? Slayground.
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The original trio of horror icons from Wes Craven’s Scream franchise are being immortalized with their own POP! vinyl toys from Funko, and they’re going up for grabs next week. Based on their appearances in the recent Scream trilogy, Sidney Prescott, Gale Weathers, and Dewey Riley will be available from Funko beginning Wednesday, September 23
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Ruthless vampires splattering blood in the desert continue to be a winning combo in writer-director Samjad’s Half. Only this time, the vampires in question are the protagonists enacting vicious vengeance in a gory genre-hybrid that enlists the talents of Very Tri Yulisman (The Raid 2, The Night Comes for Us) for its visceral martial arts
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We always appreciate when a horror movie can take complex themes and find new ways to shed insight into the human experience, but we don’t always need complex ideas, and sometimes we are just as happy watching what happens when someone is trapped with a deadly animal. That’s exactly the case of Alexandre Aja‘s Crawl,
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Trees are Watching, the latest film from Kurdish-Iranian writer/director Bahman Ghobadi, opens with the quote “Trees are not silent. They perceive, remember, and bear witness.” This is apt considering the malevolent spirit that’s haunting the film is, in fact, a wooden chair; it creeps, it lurks like a shadow under closed doors. It even, in
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The last time there was an attempt to reboot Resident Evil, we got 2021’s Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. The movie wasn’t entirely without merit, but it ultimately failed to capture what makes the games so special, even if it was a welcome tonal shift from the Milla Jovovich-starring Paul W.S. Anderson series. We’ve
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John Waters famously said that there’s no such thing as a good, long joke. The filmmakers behindFlapjax, a campy horror comedy that too often mistakes enthusiasm for ingenuity, have clearly not taken that pearl of wisdom to heart. What few jokes there are wear thin long before the credits roll, despite the evident passion on
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