Sharks remain the most prevalent predator in aquatic horror, thanks largely thanks to Steven Spielberg’s Jaws. Unfortunately, the crowded subgenre means that it’s more challenging than ever...
Blood Red Sky sets up expectations of an intense thriller with horror gimmickry thrown in for good measure between its title and the logline. Terrorists attempting to...
Paying homage to popular classics can be a tricky thing. It’s a delicate balance between appreciation and appropriation, and testing the boundaries without crossing them takes...
The content space is more crowded than ever, making it challenging to keep up with all of the genre titles available via streaming platforms, VOD, and...
Dachra marks multiple firsts at once. It’s the feature debut by writer/director Abdelhamid Bouchnak. More notably, Dachra earns the distinction of Tunisia’s first horror movie, and what an entrance...
The second entry in the Fear Street trilogy digs deeper into the Fier curse that’s plagued Shadyside for centuries by traveling backward in time. It leaves behind the...
The recent announcement of The Requin, an aquatic horror movie starring Alicia Silverstone and James Tupper, included a detail that it was filmed at Universal Studios Orlando....
The imagery and setup for Meander invoke instant comparisons to Vincenzo Natali’s Cube. Both center on characters that awake in a bizarre sci-fi environment rigged with deadly traps, unaware...
“Michael Myers is flesh and blood. But a man couldn’t have survived that fire. The more he kills, the more he transcends,” Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee...
Netflix’s Fear Street trilogy just kicked off with Part 1, blending ‘90s nostalgia with gruesome kills for its teen leads. Between this summer event, upcoming slasher novels The...
Every entry so far in the action-horror Purge film franchise winds down with the signaled end of The Purge, the annual 12-hour event that temporarily legalizes all crime....
Author Grady Hendrix tends to wear his influences on his sleeves. Or perhaps more accurately, Hendrix has a particular way of retooling familiar horror stories with...
Teen readers of the ‘90s likely grew up consuming R.L. Stine’s Fear Street series, the older and more mature sibling to his famous Goosebumps line. The sprawling Fear Street book series took...
Resident Evil fans may be spoiled for choice when it comes to content this year. Between another successful entry in the popular video game franchise, a live-action...
Home invasion horror movies are so prevalent that it often takes a twist or new angle to stand out from the pack. Till Death doesn’t just add...
A woman invoking the name of a vengeful spirit five times finds herself in a predicament when that entity embarks on a killing spree and refuses...
The final entry of The Purge franchise, The Forever Purge, hits theaters this week, and it’s hard to believe that the action-horror series began with an intimate home invasion...
The very nature of a werewolf lends well to metaphor. Lycanthropy and the brutal transformation it causes offers fertile ground for stories to explore sexual awakenings,...
Under the umbrella of doll horror exists a very niche subcategory that features life-sized mannequins or dummies used as a conduit for unhinged characters to explore...
At first glance, it’s near impossible to look at the creature designs of this South African horror-fantasy and avoid making comparisons to the highly popular game The...
It’s that time of year again, where the summer sun warms up the box office and heralds in a slew of big summer releases. Perfect timing,...
Few subgenres evoke revulsion and cringe-inducing terror quite like body horror. Becoming a stranger in your own body as it mutates or transforms in grotesque ways...
Prano Bailey-Bond’s feature debut, Censor, is now available on VOD. It stars Niamh Algar as Enid, a video censor working at the height of the video nasty...
Cringe-inducing socially awkward scenarios tread the very fine line between comedy and horror. One slight social misstep can tip the scales firmly into gut-busting comedy or...
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