Horror

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

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.

We have some fresh updates this week that should make the Bloody Disgusting Database & Community a little easier to use and give horror fans more ways to engage with each other. We’ve also imported another batch of films, including a whole bunch of your requests, bringing the database to 11,406 films and counting. Fire

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

Home invasion horror, like The Heretiks, has always been one of those subgenres that’s more versatile than it looks. Even setting aside that you can always change who or whatis invading and who’s being invaded, it’s a form built on creative problem-solving right out there in the open, making the home at the center of

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

Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil brought the popular video game franchise back to the big screen this weekend, and the film is already smashing through franchise records at the box office. Resident Evil debuted in U.S. theaters this weekend with an estimated $60 million haul, which is by far the highest opening weekend in the entire

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

We may take this kind of content for granted these days, but there was a time when amateur travel blogs were revolutionizing online media. Back during the late 2000s, for the first time in history, internet users were given access to the unfiltered reality of regular people travelling across the world without being limited by

Heavily inspired by brutalist sculptures like Scottish sculptor Philip Jackson, and games like Control and the Brutalist mod for Quake, DreadXP and developer Games From The Abyss’ short psychological horror dungeon crawler Concrete Burial is now available on Steam. As an added incentive, you can grab the game with a 20% discount from now until

Lollipop Chainsaw fans not only have a new entry in the series to look forward to next year, but there’s also a new film adaptation to go along with it. Per Deadline, the new film will be an R-rated action comedy prequel to the events of the original game, centering around the game’s protagonist, Juliet

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.

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

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

Mickey Mouse. Bambi. Pinocchio. Winnie the Pooh. All your favorite childhood icons have been turned into slasher maniacs in recent years, and The Cat in the Hat is the next to get twisted. Coming soon, Scratches the Cat will be unleashed in The Cat and the Hatchet. A horror short from director Cameron Dodd,The Cat

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

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

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

In addition to their upcoming Monster High dolls of Buffy and Angel, Mattel has also announced this week that they’ve turned Buffy the Vampire Slayer into a retro Polly Pocket toy! Selling for $33, the compact set launches September 4, 2026 at 9am PT. Mattel previews, “Attention all mini monsters and diminutive demons: a tiny

Ahead of the release of Halloween: The Game on September 8, the original Halloween trilogy is headed back to theaters. All three screenings are presented by the game, and the movies are playing in Regal theaters across three consecutive nights. The slasher fun begins September 4. Here’s the lineup… Halloween (1978) — September 4 Halloween

Paranormal Activity is an inescapable horror franchise that helped usher in a second age of found footage filmmaking. It’s a franchise that completely changed the rules for how ghost stories are told and has inspired countless copycats. The films havegrossed nearly one billion dollars and it remains one of the most defining horror franchises of

Train to Busan filmmakerYeonSang-ho is back this week with Colony, the next evolution in his zombie oeuvre arriving in theaters on August 28. The South Korean horror movie follows Professor Se-jeong as she is thrust into a terrifying hellscape when a mutating virus is unleashed during a biotech conference, forcing authorities to seal the facility

Valor Mortis made an appearance during Gamescom Opening Night Live with a new story trailer, marking the first appearance of the Shrike, the rebel leader fighting Napoleon’s Empire in occupied Eastern Europe. In addition, the trailer for the first-person Soulslike also delivers new looks at the rest of the cast in this supernatural retelling of

BarbariandirectorZach Creggeris sendingAustin Abrams on a nonstop survival horror journey in Resident Evil, and its new MPA rating indicates it’ll be as gory as expected. Resident Evil has officially received its expected ‘R’ rating for “strong bloody violence, gore and language throughout.” The film is being billed as “a thrilling — and terrifying — reinvention

Horror fans are spoiled for choice when it comes to themed beverages this Halloween season. And for Fanta lovers, Halloween is going to be a Scream. For the first time ever, Ghost Face® is teaming with Fanta for a Halloween collaboration: Ghost Face® Punch – a brand-new limited-edition Dark Berry Punch flavor. The slasher icon

Darksiders Genesis fans have something to look forward to in DUST: Origins. Developed by Airship Syndicate, which is made up of devs behind the aforementioned 2019 top-down hack and slash, DUST: Origins had its debut trailer launch during Gamescom Opening Night, and has a Kickstarter underway ahead of its 2027 release on Steam. DUST: Origins

Panache Digital Games’ 1666: Amsterdam made as big of an splash as one could hope for launching into Early Access today by debuting its launch trailer during the opening night of Gamescom. The launch trailer offers a new look at the gameplay, world, characters, and mystical forces players will encounter in Amsterdam. Panache Digital Games

Ahead of its release later this week, Focus Entertainment and Asobo Studio have dropped the launch trailer for Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, premiering in grand fashion during Gamescom 2026 Opening Night Live. Set to a fitting cover of Depeche Mode‘s “Enjoy the Silence”, this final glimpse into Resonance explores themes of loss, betrayal and

Silent Hill: Townfall made an appearance at Gamescom’s opening night with the reveal of the English voice cast for the upcoming Screen Burn Interactive title. The cast includes Jovan Adepo (IT: Welcome to Derry, The Odyssey) as Simon, the game’s protagonist, Kezia Burrows (Observation) as Zoe, and Terry O’Quinn (The Stepfather, Millennium, The Walking Dead:

Onslaught is the perfect title for Adam Wingard‘s latest movie. For the past decade, Wingard’s been working with other people’s franchises, playing in the realms of Blair Witch, Death Note, and, of course, Legendary’s MonsterVerse. With his latest film, an action-horror assault set in the same world as You’re Next and The Guest, Wingard re-teamed