Horror

Good god, this bloody mutant monster can’t be a real spider

I don’t even know what I’m looking at here. I think I see some eyes and a beak attached some oversized head attached to the body of a spider. It’s a pelican spider. “They look like little birds,” says Hannah Wood of the University of California, Davis. The spider’s body is about the size of…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Watch a physics professor try to use science to control a poltergeist

Next up in the line line of old timey ghostbustering movies is The Quiet Ones. And here’s the trailer. Science vs. Ghost. My money is on the ghosts. Here’s the official synopsis of this film, directed by the writer of Ghost Ship: A university student and some classmates are recruited to carry out a private…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Eric Bana fights the boogeyman in first Deliver Us From Evil trailer

Deliver Us From Evil looks like your standard haunted horror movie. However, it has Eric Bana in it, so by law we are required to watch it. Because he is delightful. Behold Eric Bana versus… some ghosts? Deliver Us from Evil doesn’t really clarify what big bad they’re chasing. However it does say that it…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

Oculus is a strong early contender for year’s creepiest horror film

Oculus, the horror movie about an evil mirror starring Doctor Who’s Karen Gillan, has been gettingrave reviews since it hit some festivals last year. And now, here’s a trailer that shows why that is, along with explaining a lot more of the movie’s plot. Warning: trailer is spoilery! The first trailer for Oculus, which came…

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders

Watch the trailer for Afflicted, Best Horror winner at Fantastic Fest

Found-footage horror flick Afflicted had a pretty good run at Fantastic Fest (THE festival for all things genre). The pictured walked out with Best Picture, Best Screenplay and Best Director in the horror category. Now take a look at the trailer. Directed, written and starring Derek Lee and Clif Prowse, Afflicted is getting a lot…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

Odd Thomas is the type of feel-good horror movie they made in the 80s

Odd Thomas is an adaptation of a successful novel by Dean Koontz. But the actual movie has a breezy, quippy tone and a small-scale storyline that remind me of nothing so much as a low-budget 80s adventure film. It’s not a great movie, or even a particularly good movie, but it’s fun and cute and…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The New Gothic anthology ditches romance for fear and gloom

The New Gothic is a collection of unsettling tales, including a story by horror grandmaster Ramsey Campbell, that seeks to regain gothic territory ceded to defanged vampires and bantering demon hunters. It’s an ambitious undertaking to revise the definition of gothic literature. What exactly “gothic” is has been under revision and argument since the term…

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The Returned shows what happens after you cure a Zombie

We’ve got an exclusive look inside the thriller The Returned, which takes place after a zombie apocalypse is stymied by a cure. Well sort of. The infected have to inject this solution every single day or they will turn back. So what happens when they run out? This clip features Kris Holden-Ried, who is neither…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Be sure to watch this creepy stop-motion horror film in the dark

Turn off the lights and enjoy a quick shiver with Harrison Browning’s Pluto and the Vessel, an animated short about a man who enters a mysterious structure and encounters something malevolent in the darkness. [via The Animation Blog]

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Zombeavers is a classic cabin horror flick but with Zombie Beavers

The trailer for Zombeavers is everything we expected a movie about zombie beavers to be, chock full of “beavers is also the word for vaginas” jokes. Created by Jordan Rubin, the slapstick hor-com is filled with undead beavers that are hungry for human flesh. And yes, when you get bitten, you too will turn into…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

Supernatural borrows a random story idea from Doctor Who

Well, almost. Last night’s Supernatural certainly felt like a lesser copy of some of Russell T. Davies’ more out-of-left-field writing. Watch a clip and see for yourself. Spoilers ahead… Yep, it was the Adipose all over again, with a few tweaks. Instead of a miracle fat drug that turns your bodyfat into cute white critters…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

The Odd Thomas trailer explains why bad things happen to good people

The movie adaptation of Dean Koontz’s horror novel, Odd Thomas, puts an actual face on the demons that make bad shit happen to good people. And they are ugly. From Stephen Sommers, director of The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, Mummies and Mommies, and Van Helsing, this new indie production stars Anton Yelchin as Odd Thomas,…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

Will Smallpox Reemerge in Siberia as Corpses Thaw from Climate Change?

In an article primarily about the potential folly of holding onto stockpiles of smallpox virus for research purposes—a now-eradicated plague that humans no longer have natural immunity to and that would very likely cause a worldwide catastrophe should it escape from the lab—the BBC includes one awesomely horrible detail. Could the frozen bodies of smallpox…

Climate Change Geoff Manaugh

The Biggest WTF Moments from Three Years of American Horror Story

This week, the third season of the most fucked up show on cable TV ended. And while there’s still plenty more American Horror Story to come, we couldn’t help but take stock of all the horrors this series has wrought. And then rank them. Here is our collection of the most WTF moments from three…

Television Meredith Woerner

Vampire Diaries shows that bad people should feel bad about themselves

Last night’s Vampire Diaries romp was the show’s 100th episode, and it felt sort of like a party, with everybody coming back for cameos. But also like a summation of what the show was about, and its three main ex-villains: Damon, Katherine and Klaus. They all want to stop hating themselves, but we know that’s…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Everyone has bizarre secret fears. Here they are in comic form.

Sometimes while the mind is ticking away, it comes up with absurd terrors that are unlikely or even impossible. But that doesn’t make them any less frightening. Deep Dark Fears pulls back the curtains on the strange personal fears we think no one else knows about. Some of the fears in the comics belong to…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

What happens after medicine finds a way to fight the zombie outbreak

In the midst of a zombie epidemic, a woman wakes in a medical facility that seems to have found a way to control the outbreak. But the epidemic may have left behind deeper scars than her physicians are ready to treat. David Freyne’s The First Wave is meant to be a prequel to a feature…

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Amy Pond and Kara Thrace have major mirror problems in Oculus

Karen Gillen and Katee Sackhoff are set to — well, I was going to say “star in Oculus, a new horror movie from the Paranormal Activity people”, but does it really matter? I bet I could have written “Karen Gillen and Katee Sackhoff play a game of Battleship”, and I’m pretty most of you would…

Trailers Rob Bricken

We, Frankenstein: The Deeper Meaning of the Frankenstein-vs-Demons Film

Kevin Grevioux has had a long career acting in science fiction TV shows and movies, and he also created the story that became Underworld. And now, he’s created I, Frankenstein, the story of Mary Shelley’s artificial human fighting in a war between gargoyles and demons. He explains to us where this story came from, and…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

It’s the ultimate serial killer showdown as Dexter faces Patrick Bateman

Forget Freddy vs. Jason; the real horror movie battle we want to see is between pop culture’s two favorite serial killers, Dexter and American Psycho’s Patrick Bateman. Now you can see what this (literal?) face-off might look like, thanks to this awesome mash-up. Admittedly, we’d need to figure out a way for Dexter to head…

io9 Rob Bricken

Good god, this bloody mutant monster can’t be a real spider

Watch a physics professor try to use science to control a poltergeist

Eric Bana fights the boogeyman in first Deliver Us From Evil trailer

Oculus is a strong early contender for year’s creepiest horror film

Watch the trailer for Afflicted, Best Horror winner at Fantastic Fest

Odd Thomas is the type of feel-good horror movie they made in the 80s

The New Gothic anthology ditches romance for fear and gloom

The Returned shows what happens after you cure a Zombie

Be sure to watch this creepy stop-motion horror film in the dark

Zombeavers is a classic cabin horror flick but with Zombie Beavers

Supernatural borrows a random story idea from Doctor Who

The Odd Thomas trailer explains why bad things happen to good people

Will Smallpox Reemerge in Siberia as Corpses Thaw from Climate Change?

The Biggest WTF Moments from Three Years of American Horror Story

Vampire Diaries shows that bad people should feel bad about themselves

Everyone has bizarre secret fears. Here they are in comic form.

What happens after medicine finds a way to fight the zombie outbreak

Amy Pond and Kara Thrace have major mirror problems in Oculus

We, Frankenstein: The Deeper Meaning of the Frankenstein-vs-Demons Film

It’s the ultimate serial killer showdown as Dexter faces Patrick Bateman

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