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Trailer for The Babadook, the creepy horror film that scared Sundance

The little Australian horror movie The Babadook is terrifying the critics at Sundance. Now’s your chance to get a first look at what people are buzzing about. The movie’s first trailer introduces a brand new monster, The Babadook. Written and directed by Jennifer Kent, the movie features a widow and her eerie little boy. Together…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

Things get creepy in the first real Penny Dreadful trailer

There have been plenty of teasers, but this new video — with nearly a minute of actual footage, including actual monsters, Timothy Dalton, and a contortionist — is the best look yet at Showtime’s somewhat literary, vaguely historical supernatural horror series Penny Dreadful. Thoughts? [Via Geeks of Doom]

Television Rob Bricken

Emoji in Real Life Are Terrifying (But Could Save a Kid’s Life)

What do you get when you apply the kindly, whimsical emoji you know and love to actual human faces? Nightmare fuel for days. But also very clever ad campaign that aims to stop sexual predators from occupying your child’s open tabs. The offputing images come from ad agency Rosapark for a group called Innocence en…

Tech News Brian Barrett

American Horror Story Season Four Will Take Place in…

The fourth season of American Horror Story is moving forward, while the third season comes to a close. And details for the next rebooted year of crazy have been revealed…get excited. Entertainment Weekly announced (via show creator Ryan Murphy) that the new season will take place in the year of 1950 and that Jessica Lange…

Television Meredith Woerner

Devil’s Due directors on the horrors of childbirth and found footage

The movie Devil’s Due, a horror story about a demon fetus and its vicious attack on a sweet, newlywed couple, is 95% percent improvisation. The rest is all screaming. Devil’s Due, created by the directorial collective of Radio Silence isn’t a found footage movie, it’s a “point-of-view” movie. This makes sense as this group of…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Helix will definitely freak you out — but will it stay gold?

Helix is the new Fringe-style thriller series from Syfy, featuring an unregulated Arctic research facility, a black goo zombie virus, and menacing scientists with glowing eyes. Which sounds great. But it also suffers from some clunky, old fashioned scifi clichés. Let’s ponder this show’s possible fate. Spoilers ahead! It’s always hard to judge whether a…

Television Annalee Newitz

This stop-motion horror film was crafted by one animator over 4 years

Takahide Hori spent four years making the 30-minute film Junk Head 1, and you can see the love that went into crafting its grimy subterranean future and sculpting the bizarre creatures that inhabit it. It follows a human sent underground to investigate a world filled with freakish people and vicious monsters. You can read the…

io9 Lauren Davis

Never-before-seen Alfred Hitchcock’s Holocaust documentary unearthed

The film you can see over these lines has never seen the light. It was made by Alfred Hitchcock after being traumatized by the images recorded by the British Army Film Unit at the Nazi concentration camps of Dachau and Mauthausen. It’s a devastating film that should be shown at high school everywhere. Directed and…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

The most comprehensive zombie classification chart we’ve ever seen

While most attempts to classify the different types of zombies limit their analysis to fast vs. slow, alive vs. dead, Jason Thompson‘s massive zombie taxonomy map goes far beyond that, cataloguing more than 350 different types of zombie. Thompson is an obsessive fan of the of the horror genre—we’ve previously highlighted his comics adapting H.P.…

io9 Lauren Davis

Christopher Lee’s greatest horror movie is getting a director’s cut

Yes, 40 years after The Wicker Man came out — and of course I mean the British movie, please pay no attention whatsoever to the Nic Cage clusterfuck of the same name — director Robin Hardy has returned to the horror masterpiece to make his definitive version. Plus Archer, Enterprise, Kurosawa and more! • The…

io9 Rob Bricken

Has Creepypasta Reinvented Classic Folklore?

If you ever read a story online about a haunted TV episode, you’ve already eaten the creepypasta. Scary viral stories, images, and vids, often very short, are creepypasta — some will scare you so much that they’ve been nicknamed “shitbrix.” And they could be the closest thing we have to folklore in the twenty-first century.…

io9 Annalee Newitz

This six-second Vine will make you scream of pure horror

Kottke found this horrifying six second video by Paglo,a Vine user from Cholula, in Mexico. It looks like a bunch of hairs, some ridiculous abandoned mustache on a plastic container, but wait until he touches it with his finger and try no to recoil and/or scream with what happens next: The caption means: “Super pubic…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

The new Paranormal Activity movie is a great introduction to the series

There have been precisely 1,179 movies in the Paranormal Activity series, about a fame-whore demon and the feckless humans who capture him on video. It’s daunting. But even if you’ve never seen a PA movie, or you’ve missed a few, the new spin-off is a great intro to the series. It’s fresh, scary and bursting…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

OH MY GOD THE ZOMBIES HAVE LEARNED TO FLY PLANES

Warning! This video is NSFW! It contains breasts, violence, and violence against breasts. It’s the trailer for Umberto Lenzi’s completely insane zombie movie Nightmare City, where the zombies are fast, smart, sadistic, and look like they stuck their heads in a deep fryer. • Nightmare City If you didn’t or can’t see the trailer above,…

io9 Rob Bricken

What’s the most revolting TV show, book or movie you’ve ever seen?

The flipside of a sense of wonder is often a sense of total disgust and revulsion, when you see just how gross and awful things can be. But which science fiction, fantasy or horror story has grossed you out the most? Please include a (work-safe) picture or clip of this revolting spectacle. And let us…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The Haunt trailer has a magical radio that talks to the dead

Well this is a new one — check out the trailer for Haunt. A movie about a couple of kids and a wacky box that allows them to speak to the dead. Children, when will you learn? The dead have nothing good to say. Looks like your classic “Don’t go sticking your nose in dead…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

30-second Dedalo teaser is crammed with gorgeous space horror

Check out the first glimpse of Dédalo, a short film from director Jerónimo Rocha in which a woman tries to survive on an orbital refinery, while being hunted by nasty long-fingered aliens. It’s very reminiscent of Alien… but the visuals are pretty insane. This teaser comes via Dread Central, which also posted a pretty neat…

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders

Amazing photo of severed hand surgically attached to an ankle

Medicine is amazing but sometimes it can look like the darkest corners of Stephen King’s brain. This is exactly the case: Chinese doctors saved a man’s severed hand by attaching it to his ankle, creating some impossible anatomy in the process. Xiao Wei—an industrial worker in Changde, China—suffered a dramatic accident in which his hand…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

A young woman tries to aid a mentally ill man, but can’t see his demons

After Bernard, a mentally ill vagrant, comes to the aid of compassionate university student Lourdes, she tries to repay him with a meal and a sympathetic ear. But Bernard’s vision is increasingly crowded with vicious demons. Peter Szewczyk‘s Our Lady of Lourdes uses visual effects to portray the horrors in Bernard’s head—and leaves a bit…

io9 Lauren Davis

Does The Vampire Diaries laugh at any notion of absolute morality?

Last night’s episode of Vampire Diaries asks a pretty simple question: Why can Damon be forgiven over and over, for being a serial-killer and bad friend, when Katherine is beyond forgiveness? The answer seems to be: moral relativism is sexy, dammit. Spoilers ahead… It’s worth remembering that Vampire Diaries started out as a show with…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Trailer for The Babadook, the creepy horror film that scared Sundance

Things get creepy in the first real Penny Dreadful trailer

Emoji in Real Life Are Terrifying (But Could Save a Kid’s Life)

American Horror Story Season Four Will Take Place in…

Devil’s Due directors on the horrors of childbirth and found footage

Helix will definitely freak you out — but will it stay gold?

This stop-motion horror film was crafted by one animator over 4 years

Never-before-seen Alfred Hitchcock’s Holocaust documentary unearthed

The most comprehensive zombie classification chart we’ve ever seen

Christopher Lee’s greatest horror movie is getting a director’s cut

Has Creepypasta Reinvented Classic Folklore?

This six-second Vine will make you scream of pure horror

The new Paranormal Activity movie is a great introduction to the series

OH MY GOD THE ZOMBIES HAVE LEARNED TO FLY PLANES

What’s the most revolting TV show, book or movie you’ve ever seen?

The Haunt trailer has a magical radio that talks to the dead

30-second Dedalo teaser is crammed with gorgeous space horror

Amazing photo of severed hand surgically attached to an ankle

A young woman tries to aid a mentally ill man, but can’t see his demons

Does The Vampire Diaries laugh at any notion of absolute morality?

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