Horror

Short Film Depicts the Haunting Guilt of Ignoring Sexual Assault

Blame, a short horror film from writer and director Kellee Terrell, is a harrowing meditation on sexual assault and its aftermath, using the supernatural to show how ignoring assault has real consequences. Plotted in a manner that deliberately mimics real-life stories of assault like the Steubenville, Ohio rape case, Blame is about a young man…

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We Finally Have an Update on Horror Master John Carpenter’s Spooky New TV Projects

We’ve known since late 2015 that esteemed genre director John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing, They Live) has been working on several small-screen projects. Today, we got an update on exactly what televised awesomeness we’ll be seeing from him—and one project involves his favorite holiday. According to a press release, Carpenter and his producing partner Sandy…

Television Cheryl Eddy

Let This Video Remind You How PG Movies Messed You Up as a Kid

The first time I saw faces melt in Raiders of the Lost Ark, I thought it was cool. The nightmares that came after? Not so much. Take a gander at some PG/PG-13 scenes from yesteryear and marvel at what filmmakers got away with in work that was designated suitable for young audiences. In terms of…

Movies Evan Narcisse

You Do Not Want Your Picture Taken By the Camera in Polaroid

It’s often said that some cultures believe taking someone’s picture steals a piece of their soul. That seems like getting off easy compared to what happens in Polaroid. Polaroid, a new horror film directed by Lars Klevberg, is basically about a camera that kills you. Once it takes your photo, a shadow shows up and…

Trailers Germain Lussier

If The Mist Can Pull Off Everything It Sets Up, It’ll Be Amazing

We’ve seen the first episode of Spike’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Mist—and though it’s largely set-up, it reveals what the show is keeping from King’s original story, hints of how the novella’s being expanded for TV, and all the secrets and melodrama you’d expect from a King story. The Mist has some surprises in…

Television Cheryl Eddy

A Rookie Teacher Fights the Forces of Evil in Winning Comedy Horror Short The Sub

A substitute teacher who’s young enough to vividly remember the horrors of adolescence finds another reason to fear high school when she realizes there’s something very strange about her new gig. The teachers are secretive and weird—and the kids are oddly obsessed with “the curriculum.” Dan Samiljan’s horror comedy short The Sub is worth watching just…

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Syfy’s Ghoulish Blood Drive Embraces Grindhouse a Little Too Enthusiastically

Blood Drive has got to be Syfy’s most insane show ever. The 13-episode series pays homage to classic grindhouse films, knowingly pushing the boundaries of good taste at every opportunity. It’s overstuffed with a gleeful sense of “Can you believe we’re getting away with this?”—both for better and for worse The premise is ripped straight…

Television Cheryl Eddy

The New Annabelle: Creation Trailer Offers a Reminder That Orphans Shouldn’t Play With Haunted Dolls

The Conjuring universe will soon be adding a demonic nun and a Crooked Man to its firmament—but first, we’ll be getting more backstory on cinema’s scariest doll since Chucky. A second trailer for Annabelle: Creation dropped today, and it elaborates on the girls-in-peril plot we glimpsed in the first spot. Directed by David F. Sandberg…

Trailers Cheryl Eddy

Happy Death Day Looks Like Groundhog Day Meets Scream

A college student is forced to live the same day over and over again. The catch is that it’s the day that she’s murdered, and she’s stuck in her loop until she figures out the identity of the masked person who keeps killing her. Welcome to Happy Death Day. Directed by Christopher Landon, the film…

Trailers Germain Lussier

The Conjuring Series Is Getting Yet Another Spin-Off Movie

James Wan’s The Conjuring was huge hit, bringing forth The Conjuring 2 and spin-off Annabelle—as well as spin-off sequel Annabelle: Creation (due in August) and Conjuring 2 spin-off The Nun (due in 2018). And now, yet another movie inspired by the series is on the way. Can you guess what it is? If you’ve seen…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

The Dark, Painful Inspiration Behind the Horror Movie It Comes at Night

Three weeks ago, I got on a school bus just as the sun was setting and was driven into the woods 20 minutes south of one of Austin’s Alamo Drafthouse theaters. At a campsite tucked away off a walking trail, I saw one of the year’s most disturbing films projected onto an outdoor movie screen.…

Movies Evan Narcisse

Predator Is Brilliant Because It’s Rambo, But With an Alien

As Hollywood legend tells it, 1987’s Predator—which turns 30 today—was directly inspired by the Rocky series. But the Arnold Schwarzenegger classic even more closely resembles Sylvester Stallone’s other big 1980s franchise, Rambo, specifically 1985’s First Blood Part II. The major difference is that Predator improves upon the formula by adding a cunning, killer alien to…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

The Creepy New Killing Ground Trailer Will Make You Seriously Rethink Ever Going Camping Again

Horror movies about rural jaunts gone horrifically awry are nothing new, but Killing Ground, from writer-director Damien Power, tightens the screws in a few key ways. One, as we noted when the first trailer dropped, is by bringing a baby into the mix. The other is by setting the movie in Australia, where nature is…

Trailers Cheryl Eddy

The Mist TV Show Will Be Like a ‘Weird Cousin’ to the Movie and the Original Story

From the very first trailer for Spike TV’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Mist, we noted how much it expanded on the original story. A new featurette, “Reimagining The Mist,” explores how the show’s creator turned a 180-page novella into a series, while still staying true to the spirit of King’s tale. Quite obviously, the…

Television Cheryl Eddy

Horror Doc Series Primal Screen Examines How Pop Culture Can Scar You for Life

What scared you so much as a kid that you’re still afraid of it today? Rodney Ascher—who examined the horrors of sleep paralysis in The Nightmare, and obsessive fans of The Shining in Room 237—puts a pop-culture spin on that question in Primal Screen, and applies his trademark filmmaking style to it. We’ve got an…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

It Comes at Night Gouges Out an Intensely Intimate Horror Story From an Unseen Apocalypse

There’s an apocalypse happening in It Comes at Night but we never get to see it. We see and hear only faint inklings of its terrors. What we do see—the desperation of a family trying to stay alive—is far more terrifying than any monster or zombie lurking in the darkness. It Comes at Night examines…

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Tune Into the First Episode of Creepy Animated Web Series Ghost Radio

From Argentinian filmmaker Cristian Ponce comes an intriguing new animated web series, Ghost Radio, about a midnight-hour talk show broadcasting from the very mysterious and apparently monster-infested city of Kirlian. Here’s the first episode, followed by a trailer for the series. Obviously, if you don’t speak Spanish, make sure you enable the English subtitles to…

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This Scifi Horror Short Contains One of the Creepiest Space Monsters We’ve Ever Seen

Jerónimo Rocha’s scifi horror short Dédalo is reminiscent of Alien in both visuals and story. It follows a woman who appears to be the lone survivor of a gruesome attack on her space freighter. Her frantic struggle to survive is suspenseful as hell, but the real draw here is that alien creature, specifically its freakishly…

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The Mist Looks Surprisingly Timely for a Show About a Monstrous Cloud

We’ve gotten a few evocative trailers for Spike TV’s eerie, violent Stephen King adaptation, The Mist. Now we have a behind-the-scenes featurette that explains a bit more about the characters, and how the show will focus not just how they’re affected by the titular menace, but also on how living in terror will reshape the community…

Television Cheryl Eddy

The Shining Joins Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights to Terrify Visitors Forever and Ever and Ever…

Every year, the Universal theme parks in Orlando and Hollywood go all-out for Halloween, adding haunted mazes to their usual attractions. But for some reason, cinema’s most iconic spooky maze—y’know, the one at the Overlook Hotel—hasn’t been included. Until now. The press release welcoming The Shining into the fold was accompanied by this short video,…

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Short Film Depicts the Haunting Guilt of Ignoring Sexual Assault

We Finally Have an Update on Horror Master John Carpenter’s Spooky New TV Projects

Let This Video Remind You How PG Movies Messed You Up as a Kid

You Do Not Want Your Picture Taken By the Camera in Polaroid

If The Mist Can Pull Off Everything It Sets Up, It’ll Be Amazing

A Rookie Teacher Fights the Forces of Evil in Winning Comedy Horror Short The Sub

Syfy’s Ghoulish Blood Drive Embraces Grindhouse a Little Too Enthusiastically

The New Annabelle: Creation Trailer Offers a Reminder That Orphans Shouldn’t Play With Haunted Dolls

Happy Death Day Looks Like Groundhog Day Meets Scream

The Conjuring Series Is Getting Yet Another Spin-Off Movie

The Dark, Painful Inspiration Behind the Horror Movie It Comes at Night

Predator Is Brilliant Because It’s Rambo, But With an Alien

The Creepy New Killing Ground Trailer Will Make You Seriously Rethink Ever Going Camping Again

The Mist TV Show Will Be Like a ‘Weird Cousin’ to the Movie and the Original Story

Horror Doc Series Primal Screen Examines How Pop Culture Can Scar You for Life

It Comes at Night Gouges Out an Intensely Intimate Horror Story From an Unseen Apocalypse

Tune Into the First Episode of Creepy Animated Web Series Ghost Radio

This Scifi Horror Short Contains One of the Creepiest Space Monsters We’ve Ever Seen

The Mist Looks Surprisingly Timely for a Show About a Monstrous Cloud

The Shining Joins Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights to Terrify Visitors Forever and Ever and Ever…

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