Horror

Storage 24 is like Doctor Who without all the things that make Doctor Who great

Probably the main reason why anybody’s aware of Storage 24, the new British monster movie, is the Doctor Who connection. Star and co-writer Noel Clarke played Mickey Smith in the first two seasons of nuWho, and the movie’s setup feels very Who as well: people trapped in a claustrophobic space, being hunted by an alien…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Never get too attached to a cute dog in a horror movie

Here’s your first clip from The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia, the movie they couldn’t just call The Haunting in Georgia for some reason. Two things are clear from this scene: 1) That dog is probably not going to make it to the end of the movie. 2) This film is really committing…

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First trailer for The Last Exorcism: Part II picks up right where we left off

We seriously enjoyed the horror movie The Last Exorcism. The success of that flick has inspired a seque, but we’re not sure how we feel about that. The sequel ditches the found footage format and picks up with Nell right after her last possession. With everyone in her family dead and little memory of the…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Quite Possibly the Most Revolting Severed Penis Scene Ever Filmed [NSFW]

Piranha 3D had one of the greatest severed penis scenes in science fiction movie history — so how does the sequel, Piranha 3DD, follow that? With something so horrible and wrong, you may require several years of therapy after watching the above video. It’s NSFW! https://gizmodo.com/the-ten-greatest-severed-penis-scenes-in-science-fictio-5622801 Seriously. Years of therapy. Or possibly just watching a…

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Four clips from Mama ask what’s scarier, little feral children or ghosts?

Get a good look at Andrés Muschietti and Guillermo del Toro’s little horror show Mama. The story revolves around two little girls who were abandoned in the woods and cared for by a strange creature they call “Mama.” When the two little girls are discovered and taken in by their uncle, the creature comes with…

io9 Meredith Woerner

The new red-band Evil Dead trailer barfs up buckets of blood on the new cast

Fede Alvarez’s remake of the ultra-gory Evil Dead (with Sam Raimi’s blessing and financial support) has a lot of horror purists reeling. To them, we say watch this trailer. If the tongue-slicing, blood-vomit-retching and chiding from little actress Jane Levy doesn’t win you over, nothing will. This remake is disgusting, and we think that’s a…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Watch the best singing nun scene in American Horror Story history

I’ve never adored and simultaneously abhorred something as much as this week’s American Horror Story: Asylum. After a long vacation from watching Santa screaming about bringing rape down the chimney, the drama has returned with… well, more rape and a fun little song. So let’s watch what happens when American Horror Story channels Glee. Spoilers…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Celebrate H.P. Lovecraft with amazing fiction and essays!

It’s always a great time to pay homage to the master of eldritch horror — and The Revelator is here for you, with a fantastic H.P. Lovecraft themed issue. There’s a highly entertaining editorial, plus amazing fiction by Meghan McCarron and Laird Barron. McCarron’s “Lovecraft in Brooklyn” not only takes its name from a great…

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What if Disney’s princess movies were horror stories?

Disney’s so-called princess movies are reworkings of myths, fairy tales, history, literature, and legend, but the series Seven for a Secret, written by an anonymous writer on the fanfic community Archive of Our Own (as part of Yuletide 2012) starts with the Disney versions of these stories and then twists them back into darker fables.…

io9 Lauren Davis

Don’t pirate John Dies at the End or you will spontaneously (and violently) explode

Now this is how you get people not to pirate your movie—politely and with some gory humor. The makers of John Dies at the End beg you to watch their indie horror film legally, or else suffer the bloody curse that befalls the movie’s pirates. NSFW for graphic violence and language, but mostly violence. [via…

Movies Lauren Davis

Here’s the scariest short film Guillermo del Toro has ever seen

We’re exceptionally intrigued by Guillermo del Toro’s next producing project, the feral child ghost story Mama. And if you still haven’t gotten the chills from this strange little production, check out the short film that inspired GDT to back the movie. Andres Muschietti, who wrote and and directed this short, is also direcing the feature-length…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Support new original horror fiction from Ellen Datlow!

There are remarkably few places that publish new short horror fiction nowadays — and there are also relatively few anthologies that don’t have a rigid theme, like zombies or witchcraft. Enter editor Ellen Datlow, who used to edit stories for Omni and SciFiction, and now puts out a lot of our favorite anthologies. Datlow has…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Count every single failed joke in the Scary Movie 5 trailer

Here’s a fun game — watch the brand new Scary Movie 5 trailer and start counting every single time you were supposed to laugh, but threw up in your mouth a little instead. Yes, the Scary Movie franchise is back with their fifth installment. So get ready for dick thwaps, terrible stereotypes and the deafening…

io9 Meredith Woerner

What if E.T. was more like Alien?

Second-year students at the Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark, were asked to make a 30-second trailer based loosely on E.T.: The Extraterrestrial. Their response: take several of the heartwarming film’s core images, such as the boy framed against the moon and E.T.’s glowing finger, and twist them into the trailer for a horror movie. [via…

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Saturday Webcomic: Broodhollow is the friendliest little town ever to harbor a Lovecraftian secret

When compulsive, paranoid encyclopedia salesman Wadsworth Zane arrives in Broodhollow to collect an inheritance, he expects the worst. But the citizens of the quaint little “Town of a Thousand Holidays” are a cheerful bunch, always ready to lend a helping hand and involve Zane in the town’s unusual traditions. But no amount of cheer can…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

This is clearly the best moment from any Christmas episode of any TV show ever

The trick of juxtaposing extreme, crazy violence with sugary, happy music is as old as the hills — I would have said The Prisoner perfected it in the series finale — but last night’s Vampire Diaries breathed new life into it, with this scene of Klaus ripping apart his rebellious hybrids to the strains of…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Watch the entire Large Hadron Collider zombie movie—shot at CERN—online now

We were excited to hear about Decay, the movie filmed by physics PhD students at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider facility. Now you can watch the entire 75-minute film on YouTube and see what happens when you give physicists a camera, some zombie makeup, and access to one of the world’s top research facilities. [via Nerdcore]

Movies Lauren Davis

One of Ben Edlund’s Finest Hours: The Secret History of Supernatural‘s Deadly Turducken Slammers

Supernatural has had a few really great ideas since original showrunner Eric Kripke left — but few of them have been more thrilling than the “Turducken Slammers” episode, “How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters,” last season. Writer Ben Edlund pulled out all the stops, and then built new stops so he could pull those…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

The Angel of Death came to American Horror Story, and refused to kill off any plot lines

Possessed nuns, crazy people, serial killers, Nazis, zombie monsters, aliens and now THE ANGEL OF DEATH. That is a list of the all the monsters crammed into the second season of American Horror Story: Asylum. And now there is an Angel of Death. I’m so full of monsters, I fear if they add one more…

Television Meredith Woerner

Detective tale Mockingbird pits a psychic against a serial killer

Miriam Black has returned, along with her unpleasant precognitive power to see the time and manner of death of any person she touches. She’s trying to settle into a normal life, but when she discovers a group of girls will be brutally murdered by a serial killer, she can’t stay on the sidelines. Mockingbird is…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Storage 24 is like Doctor Who without all the things that make Doctor Who great

Never get too attached to a cute dog in a horror movie

First trailer for The Last Exorcism: Part II picks up right where we left off

Quite Possibly the Most Revolting Severed Penis Scene Ever Filmed [NSFW]

Four clips from Mama ask what’s scarier, little feral children or ghosts?

The new red-band Evil Dead trailer barfs up buckets of blood on the new cast

Watch the best singing nun scene in American Horror Story history

Celebrate H.P. Lovecraft with amazing fiction and essays!

What if Disney’s princess movies were horror stories?

Don’t pirate John Dies at the End or you will spontaneously (and violently) explode

Here’s the scariest short film Guillermo del Toro has ever seen

Support new original horror fiction from Ellen Datlow!

Count every single failed joke in the Scary Movie 5 trailer

What if E.T. was more like Alien?

Saturday Webcomic: Broodhollow is the friendliest little town ever to harbor a Lovecraftian secret

This is clearly the best moment from any Christmas episode of any TV show ever

Watch the entire Large Hadron Collider zombie movie—shot at CERN—online now

One of Ben Edlund’s Finest Hours: The Secret History of Supernatural‘s Deadly Turducken Slammers

The Angel of Death came to American Horror Story, and refused to kill off any plot lines

Detective tale Mockingbird pits a psychic against a serial killer

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