Horror

Of Course There’s A Movie Called Ebola Zombies

Ebola movies are nothing new (hellooo, Ebola Syndrome), but as Fangoria reports, the world will soon see its disease fear du jour explored in all its flesh-ripping glory in cinematic form: Wild Eye Releasing will unleash EBOLA ZOMBIES on DVD March 24, with a making-of featurette and trailers. The Category III Hong Kong production, written…

Master Of Horror Webcomics Emily Carroll Just Posted A Creepy New Story

Emily Carroll has won our black, horror-loving hearts with the short and spooky comics she posts on her website and with her recent book, Through the Woods. Now she has a new comic online, just in time to make holiday parties terrifying. https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-horror-story-from-the-absolutely-chilling-thr-1606732634 Go and read Carroll’s latest, “All Along the Wall,” on her website.…

Joyful Krampus Gifs Tease Next Year’s Holiday Horror Movie

This time next year, we will all celebrate the wonder of this holiday season with a brand-new Krampus movie. So start sharpening your whoopin’ sticks, the anti-Claus is coming! Director Michael Dougherty (and friends) have created three Krampus gifs that tease the new monstrous movie. With a projected release date of sometime at the end…

An STD Is A Supernatural Horror In Creepy New Trailer For It Follows

Maika Monroe — so great as the goth waitress in The Guest — returns to genre turf in writer-director David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows. Behold the new, synth-tastically scored trailer, and see why the label “STD horror” so eerily applies. The film earned mega-buzz after its Cannes debut and played in festivals all over the…

Guy Wakes Up With A Hole In His Skull—And Finds Something Gross Inside

You’ll have to forgive the morbid short comedy The Grey Matter a few dozen puns, but it makes up for it by being deliciously macabre. A working stiff comes to on the street covered in blood with a nasty hole in his head. Naturally, he’s worried—at least until he suddenly hits it off with a…

This is what a biblical plague (and my worst nightmare) looks like

Come spend your vacation in the beautiful fields of Madagascar, they said. It will soothe your soul, they said. That’s what I imagine Michele Martinelli—the author of this photo featured by National Geographic’s Your Shot—thought when millions of locust took to the skies with a deafening bone-chilling buzz. A dense swarm of locusts obscures a…

Selfie-Themed Horror Movie Is Inevitable Sign Of Our Times

It was only a matter of time before selfies became the basis of a horror-movie plot — after all, the genre sure does love tapping technology as a fear-delivery mechanism. Stepping up the haunted-phone plot of One Missed Call (and its remake) is Selfie, a just-announced Singapore-Cambodia co-production that will be “built around the me,…

The New Out of the Dark Trailer Is Bursting With Tropical Terror

“Move to Colombia,” they said. “Start a whole new life with your curious young daughter in this probably-haunted mansion,” they said. “Don’t worry toooo much when Stephen Rea starts spouting off about ancient legends and burning children alive,” they said. As the new, ultra-spooky international trailer for Out of the Dark — the debut film…

Simon Pegg Cast As The Devil in The Gathering? Yes, Please

Some exciting news from the director of comedy-horror movie The Gathering (not to be confused with Magic: The Gathering, also in pre-production) has emerged: Simon Pegg has been cast as the devil. He’ll appear in the anthology film’s framing device, which director Jon Keeyes describes thusly in his Fangoria interview: On Halloween night, the devil…

Iggy Pop Is Indeed Playing A Serial Killer In Dario Argento’s New Film

Italian horror master Dario Argento made his mark with gorgeously gory films like Suspiria, Inferno, Deep Red, and Tenebre. His creative heyday (late 1970s to the mid-1980s) may be over (though 2007’s Mother of Tears had its moments) — but the 74-year-old’s latest boasts a bit of stunt casting so intriguing, it just might make…

Scream’s New Ghostface Mask Is Revealed! UPDATE: No It’s Not

Long have we been speculating what Wes Craven’s new MTV Scream series Ghostface mask would look like. And now we know…. it’s green. For reasons. Behold the new horror. UPDATE: Phew, it’s not the mask after all! For a while ,there was even a rumor that there would be no Ghostface serial killer mask, but…

This Sexy Bollywood Horror Movie Has Absolutely Everything

It really doesn’t get more epic than the poster for Alone, a new horror film starring Bollywood scream queen du jour Bipasha Basu. Here’s the trailer, which doesn’t contain any subtitles, but … who needs ’em? And here’s the movie synopsis, via distributor Panorama Studios: “The story revolves around conjoined twins Anjana and Sanjana, who…

A Horror-Comedy About Small-Town Cops Who Take Every Supernatural Call

In a town where there are no Slayers and no Winchesters coming to the rescue, Luke and Carl end up responding to every call about monsters, ghosts, and magic. But for these two, there’s something even more terrifying than the slimy creatures of the night. Bundle of Nerves was directed by Ryan Spindell, and it…

Scream Queens Horror Show Casts The Original Scream Queen 

Ryan Murphy may have (falsely) claimed to have invented the horror-comedy genre for his new show Scream Queens, but at least his casting is still spot-freaking-on. The new series welcomes the biggest Scream Queen of them all. Today it was announced that one of the original scream queens, Jamie Lee Curtis, is also one of…

Impressive images of massive fire in downtown Los Angeles

“A massive fire in downtown Los Angeles early today engulfed an apartment tower that was under construction, damaged two other buildings and left freeways and roads closed,” reports the LA Times. Thisimage by Gautam Trivedi is impressive, almost like the aftermath of a nuclear mushroom. This impressive image above by Eric Politzer looks terrifying too:…

Don’t Miss The Moody Vampire Western A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

There’s a lot that’s unique about Ana Lily Amirpour’s striking new film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. This will likely be cinema’s only black-and-white feminist Western vampire movie, shot in a California ghost town but with all dialogue in Farsi … unless Amirpour decides to make a sequel. But as singular as this…

The First Trailer For Spike Lee’s Kickstarter-Funded Quasi-Vampire Film

Director Spike Lee raised $1.4 million on Kickstarter to help him make Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, a film about a high-society scholar who becomes cursed by an artifact and develops a relentless craving for blood. And the first trailer hints at the movie’s themes of social status, violence, and addiction. Lee filmed the low-budget…

Can You Survive To The End Of This Interactive Zombie Movie?

After a battle with a zombie, John may have become infected with the zombie virus. The first symptom, memory loss, appears within five minutes of exposure to the virus. Can you perform a series of tasks quickly enough to ensure that he retains his memory and doesn’t turn? Five Minutes is an interactive short film…

The Exorcist was a holiday movie. It was released December 26, 1973. So the next time someone in your family starts screening Frozen for the 10,000th time, remind them this: “Somewhere between science and superstition … there is another world … of darkness,” and maybe make a Captain Ho-Ho-Howdy joke.

The disturbing horror portraits of Danielle Tunstall (NSFW)

Danielle Tunstall told Sploid that she is as a horror photographer who wants to share her psychosis with us. She lives up to her description. Her images are highly stylized, often bloody and always obsessively crafted. Sometimes there is a sexual component, but every time her photos are disturbing. NSFW. She uses a combination of…