Horror

A bizarre stop-motion short film starring puppets made of meat

Wolfgang Matzl’s shot M is for Meat is a wonderfully weird bit of horror, starring people made of prosciutto and one appetite-ruining chicken wing. Matzl created the short as part of the competition for The ABCs of Death 2. Each ABCs of Death film consists of 26 shorts, one for each letter of the alphabet.…

The Absolute Best Lines from Last Night’s Vampire Diaries

Vampire Diaries was once again on top of its game last night, with an episode co-written by Caroline Dries, whose name I’ve noticed on a lot of great hours of television lately. And this might have been the funniest episode, line for line. Here are all the funniest lines, for your perusal. In this week’s…

Anti-Communist propaganda is more awesome than any horror movie poster

Horror movies and Weird Tales magazine have given us some beautiful, spooky and unnerving works of art. But if you really want a dose of scary brilliance? Check out the posters that warned people of the evils of Communism. These are scarier, and more beautiful, than pretty much any horror art you’ve seen. British Conservative…

All Cheerleaders Die looks like an undead sexploitation classic

Check out the first trailer for All Cheerleaders Die, in which T&A meet teenage revenge fantasies. In a nutshell, four “mean girl” cheerleaders are killed — but the school goth girl brings them back to life, except now they’re super-powered and bent on revenge. Looks like stupid good fun. Variety reviewed All Cheerleaders Die at…

Blockbuster In Memoriam: What’s your favorite video store memory?

The movie rental giant is dead. Blockbuster is closing its 300 remaining US stores and shuttering its DVD mail business. Thus ends the era of publicly flaunting your movie musings under the nose of some 16-year-old store clerk. So let’s raise a glass, and toast goodbye to Blockbuster—and the smaller video stores it killed years…

Get trapped inside an outpost with a gooey killer, in Syfy’s Helix

Check out the first official footage from Syfy’s horrific new series Helix, after the teaser we exclusively premiered back in July. It looks as though that black goo isn’t just killing people — it’s also turning them into murderers. Or possibly taking them over? https://gizmodo.com/ronald-d-moore-unleashes-a-black-gooey-hell-in-the-new-841435433 Favorite line from the above trailer: “We aren’t just violating…

A haunting short film about the ways a body moves after death

While we tend to associate death with stillness, the short film Danse Macabre explores the ways in which a human body can move in the hours and days after death, giving its subject an unexpected grace. Be warned, this is an especially grim short, set in the aftermath of a murder suicide, and it’s most…

Creature Feature: The Original Frankenstein Text Is Now Readable Online

In the pantheon of classic horror, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein ranks as one of the first, and most memorable, monster tales ever told. And while it’s easy enough to pick up a new copy of the spine-tingling 1818 narrative from pretty much any bookstore, it’s now possible to pore over the original, hand-penned manuscript online. The…

A Midnight Visit to the Apothecary of Horrors

Here’s wishing everyone a safe and fun Halloween evening. May any monsters you encounter be mere mortals in suits. May any scares be waved off tomorrow as thrilling nightmares. And may your candy prove sweet and satisfying. Above is a crop from a much larger, grander image by John Kenn Mortensen. Mortensen, a.k.a. Don Kenn…

The Shining is the scariest movie of all time, says science

The British movie site Play.com had a wonderful idea. First it asked people to pick the scariest movie of all time. Taking the top ten, the company organized an experiment: get test subjects connected to heart monitors to watch the movies while recording their beats per minute. The winner: Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. The scariest…

A Map of Where All Your Favorite Horror Movies Take Place

The monster in a horror movie is scary, sure. But an eerie setting is just as important. Fortunately just about anywhere can be freaky as hell when you’re alone in the dark, but some places get more horror movie love than others. And this great map by the folks at Esri shows you the horrible…

Dead girls take over a woman’s house in this creepy webcomic fairytale

If you’re looking for a sad and chilling story to read this Halloween, Emily Carroll’s webcomic story Out of Skin delivers a fantastically terrible dose of body horror. A woman comes across a pit filled with dead girls who refuse to stay hidden beneath the ground. If you haven’t read them before, I highly recommend…

Nine two-sentence horror stories scarier than any Hollywood movie

Not so long ago, Reddit users gathered around a digital fire to tell horror stories using only two sentences. The experiment demonstrated that the power of suggestion is infinitely more powerful than the explicitness of modern Hollywood gore. Here are the top 10: I begin tucking him into bed and he tells me, “Daddy check…

Hammer returns to the ’70s with the retro-horror flick The Quiet Ones

Hammer was the British master of horror movies in the ’60s and ’70s, and now the famed production company is returning to its heyday with The Quiet Ones, about a group of students led by professor Jared Harris who manage to create a ghost. Here’s the trailer. The official synopsis, as per Hammer’s website: Inspired…

In event of an emergency, consult our handy Monster Safety Card!

Monsters are everywhere tonight — so be prepared for every eventuality! We’ve created a handy Monster Safety Card, to help you cope with every possible type of monster attack. Plus what to do if classic horror monsters attack in space! Print this card out and keep it with you at all times. Graphic design and…

Of course you want Freddie with kittens on your chest

This is my new favorite kitten tee, after the one I already have with Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys saying, “A dope trailer is no place for a kitty!” Freddy Kruger is covered in kitties, and tells us that we are ALL HIS KITTENS NOW. You can pick this one up from Fright Rags for…

We think the trailer for Open Grave is about REVERSE ZOMBIES. Neat.

Sharlto Copley has a new movie! And we have no idea what it’s about, but we have our suspicions. Check out what happens when Sharlto Copley wakes up in a mass grave. GROSS. Here’s the official rundown: A man (Sharlto Copley, DISTRICT 9, ELYSIUM) wakes up in a pit of dead bodies with no memory…

13 things you didn’t know about Poltergeist

Before there was Paranormal Activity 15 and Insidious 12,there was Poltergeist—the classic horror movie set in the suburbs starring unknown actors who could have been your neighbors. But this movie was so much more than a collection of timeless scares and crawling meat; it was a model example of practical magic. So let’s celebrate this…

Beloved Halloween horror story Trick ‘R Treat (by director Mike Dougherty) is getting a long-awaited sequel! Finally! [Via Badass Digest]

Horror movies reimagined as Goosebumps book covers

What if The Shining, The Evil Dead, and Videodrome had started life as books in R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps series? If It Were Stine pictures the book covers that would result, complete with the expository titles and the terrible tagline puns. Theodore Holmstead-Scott puts together these faux covers and Jude Deluca writes the titles and blurbs.…