Horror

ThanksKilling Is Almost So Bad It’s Good … But Not Quite

So you’re casting about for something fun to watch on Thanksgiving. You’ve already seen the grande dame of B-movie turkeys about turkeys: Blood Freak. Your search turns up a 2009 ultra low-budget bit o’ giblet entitled ThanksKilling. Is it worth it? Well … https://gizmodo.com/in-blood-freak-marijuana-and-mutant-turkeys-lead-to-aw-1661380945 Spoilers, though this might be a totally un-spoil-able movie crafted entirely…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Joan Collins Nearly Starred in This Movie About a Killer Pike

In 1982, Cliff Twemlow, a former nightclub bouncer turned library music composer for De Wolfe Music, sought to adapt his novel, The Pike, into a feature film starring Joan Collins. “The freshwater equivalent of Jaws”, The Pike told the story of a twelve-foot killer pike mutilating the locals of Lake Windermere, and the recently divorced…

Movies Gordon Jackson

John Carpenter Has Developed Four New Horror and Science Fiction TV Shows

Adjust your eye patches and put on your sunglasses, John Carpenter fans, for this great bit of news that shook loose from horror podcast Killer POV: the famed genre director (Halloween, The Thing, They Live, Escape from New York, Big Trouble in Little China) is making a serious foray into television. Reported by both Blastr…

Television Cheryl Eddy

SyFy Is Jumping Onto The Anthology Season Trend With Channel Zero

Anthology television shows have gotten popular in recent years with hits like True Detective and American Horror Story. Now, SyFy is jumping on the trend by greenlighting two seasons of Channel Zero, a horror anthology. Variety has reported that the channel will air two seasons of the show with a total of 12 episodes. The…

io9 Andrew Liptak

Ash vs Evil Dead‘s Exec Producer Talks Season 2—Plus a Clip From the Next Episode!

It’s been a while since we’ve been as excited about a new show as we are about Ash vs Evil Dead, which expands the world of Sam Raimi’s movies with humor, horror, and so much glorious Bruce Campbell. We spoke with executive producer Craig DiGregorio to learn what’s next for the show. Spoiler warning: if…

Television Cheryl Eddy

Here’s Your First Look at the Next Fantastic Novel From M.R. Carey!

M.R. Carey’s novel The Girl With all the Gifts blew our minds, in a very good way. It was Joss Whedon’s new favorite book, too. So it’s absolutely fantastic news that Carey has a new novel coming in early April 2016! Here’s your first look at Fellside, exclusively at io9! Here are the first two…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

11 Horror Movies That Are Scary Because of What They Say About Humanity

We go to see horror movies to see terrifying monsters — but sometimes the scariest monsters in a horror film are the people. In many of the best scary movies, the real horror is how terribly the humans behave. Here are 11 of the most misanthropic horror films ever made. 1) Let The Right One…

Movies Emily Stamm

The Best Creepypasta Stories to Give You Nightmares Forever

This story is completely true. It happened right here on the internet, on a night just like this. The True Tale of Creepypasta Not too long ago, people shared jokes, stories, and lame inspirational messages by copy/pasting text into message board posts or email. On the message board 4chan, users started calling these text memes…

Tech News Kiona Smith-Strickland

A Play Casts a Sinister Spell on Its Actors In Takashi Miike’s Spooky New Film

Takashi Miike has made nearly 100 films in 25 years. And his maniacal drive is reflected in his work—his films are often edgy to the extreme (just a few examples: Audition, Ichi the Killer, Thirteen Assassins). His latest, Over Your Dead Body, infuses a classic Japanese story with his signature flair. Here’s the official synopsis:…

Trailers Cheryl Eddy

The 5 Spookiest Movies That President Nixon Watched in the White House

I’ve become obsessed with the movies that US presidents watched while they were in office. So much so that I recently compiled my own list of all the movies Jimmy Carter watched in the White House. [Update: Here’s Clinton’s list.] And now I’ve pored over Nixon’s complete list, compiled by author Mark Feeney. Nixon watched…

Movies Matt Novak

8 Found Footage Horror Movies That Are Genuinely Scary

One of the biggest complaints about found footage horror films is that they rely too heavily on boring, cheap jump scares to get audience reactions. But these eight examples actually dig deeper—and bring genuine terror to the screen as a result. 8) Grave Encounters TV’s Ghost Adventures is as cheesy and staged as most reality…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Woman Dies in Cryotherapy Accident, Body Found After 10 Hours in Freezing Chamber

Remember that traumatizing scene in Final Destination 3 where hapless characters get fried to death in tanning beds? This story is like that, but reversed, and real, and fucking horrifying: A salon manager died inside a cryotherapy chamber last week. Twenty-four-year-old Chelsea Ake worked for Las Vegas cryotherapy salon Rejuvenice, which promises health and beauty…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

The Shining‘s Hotel Is Hoping To Build Its Own Horror Museum

Stephen King was famously inspired by the Stanley Hotel of Estes Park, Colorado, and now, the hotel is looking to add on to their heritage as a horror destination: by adding on a museum dedicated to horror. According to the LA Times, the hotel has issued plans to build a horror museum onto the premise,…

io9 Andrew Liptak

Friday the 13th Part 4 Is the Best Friday the 13th Movie

A bold statement. But a true one. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter is the best Friday the 13th film, and I say that as a diehard fan of Betsy “Mrs. Voorhees” Palmer. Here are all the reasons why part four is number one. It Acknowledges What Came Before … Then Moves Forward In an…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

The Most Disturbing Monsters From Our Favorite Horror RPGs

You can’t play an RPG without monsters, and you can’t play a horror RPG without some really, really f$%&ing scary monsters. Here are some of our favorites. Excruciator (Monsters and Other Childish Things) There are two things we can all agree are really scary: mean math teachers and eldritch horrors from another dimension. Now imagine…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Gremlins Director Joe Dante Will Make a Subterranean Supernatural Thriller

The most recent film from horror-fantasy director Joe Dante (Gremlins, The Howling, Explorers) was Burying the Ex, a zombie rom-com. His new project, Labirintus, sounds like it will be more seriously spooky in its tone. Here’s the description of Labirintus, via Variety: “Labirintus” tells the story of a paranormal investigator and psychiatric researcher, who join…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Your Kids Will Love Goosebumps (and You’ll Be Okay With It)

R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps book series has been making children squirm since 1992, and now there’s a movie that aims to capture that same mix of creepy monsters and silliness. But the scariest thing in Goosebumps is Jack Black’s weird accent. And this film is strictly for kids. Really, that the frights in this long-awaited release…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak Is So Beautiful, It’ll Drive You Slightly Mad

Guillermo del Toro has an amazing gift for mixing the grotesque and the gorgeous. And his latest film Crimson Peak, out today, takes that visual panache to a brand new height. With every shot, del Toro overloads our senses more and more, until madness beckons. Incredibly minor spoilers ahead. Like, seriously, don’t worry about it.…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

For a Movie About a Killer Doll, Child’s Play Is Actually Pretty Terrifying

The Child’s Play series—now up to six films, with a seventh apparently underway—is now best-known for its campier entries, especially 2004’s Seed of Chucky. But the 1988 original doesn’t take that tone at all. Yes, it’s still about a killer doll. But it’s also surprisingly unsettling, for a variety of reasons. Obviously, child-sized doll Chucky…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Why So Many Action Movies Are So Bloody Boring, According to Neil Marshall

Neil Marshall is one of our favorite action directors. From movies like The Descent, Dog Soldiers and Doomsday to Game of Thrones, he’s brought some of the best and bloodiest action to the screen. And now, he’s got a segment in Tales of Halloween, out tomorrow. So we had to ask him the secret of…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

ThanksKilling Is Almost So Bad It’s Good … But Not Quite

Joan Collins Nearly Starred in This Movie About a Killer Pike

John Carpenter Has Developed Four New Horror and Science Fiction TV Shows

SyFy Is Jumping Onto The Anthology Season Trend With Channel Zero

Ash vs Evil Dead‘s Exec Producer Talks Season 2—Plus a Clip From the Next Episode!

Here’s Your First Look at the Next Fantastic Novel From M.R. Carey!

11 Horror Movies That Are Scary Because of What They Say About Humanity

The Best Creepypasta Stories to Give You Nightmares Forever

A Play Casts a Sinister Spell on Its Actors In Takashi Miike’s Spooky New Film

The 5 Spookiest Movies That President Nixon Watched in the White House

8 Found Footage Horror Movies That Are Genuinely Scary

Woman Dies in Cryotherapy Accident, Body Found After 10 Hours in Freezing Chamber

The Shining‘s Hotel Is Hoping To Build Its Own Horror Museum

Friday the 13th Part 4 Is the Best Friday the 13th Movie

The Most Disturbing Monsters From Our Favorite Horror RPGs

Gremlins Director Joe Dante Will Make a Subterranean Supernatural Thriller

Your Kids Will Love Goosebumps (and You’ll Be Okay With It)

Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak Is So Beautiful, It’ll Drive You Slightly Mad

For a Movie About a Killer Doll, Child’s Play Is Actually Pretty Terrifying

Why So Many Action Movies Are So Bloody Boring, According to Neil Marshall

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