Horror

Melancholy monsters from your gloomiest nightmares

Anton Semenov’s flesh and fabric monsters haunt gloomy houses and post-apocalyptic wastelands. But as unnerving as these horrific beasties seem, they also seem tinged with more than an ounce of sadness. Semenov has been creating an impressive series of these disturbing digital paintings — filled with nightmarish narwhals, spooky surrogate dolls, and mutant creatures. Each…

io9 Lauren Davis

Costumed children meet gruesome ends in “The Last of the Trick-Or-Treaters” webcomics

One little trick-or-treater finds a haunted house more haunted than he could have imagined. Another brings her new friend a grisly treat. Candy-hunting children meet all sorts of macabre ends in the watercolor comic series “The Last of the Trick-Or-Treaters.” Randy Milholland, creator of the long-running webcomic Something Positive, occasionally posts one-off comics to his…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

The Science of Horror Movie Screams

As horror-flick titles go, Night of the Living Chaos and Rosemary’s Nonlinearity aren’t the catchiest. But filmmakers know that chaos – the mathematical kind – is scary. Now scientists know it too. Filmmakers use chaotic, unpredictable sounds to evoke particular emotions, say researchers who have assessed screams and other outbursts from more than 100 movies.…

Movies Rachel Ehrenberg -- ScienceNews

Paranormal Activity 3: Actually scary, unlike Paranormal Activity 2

Home movies full of murder and ghostly carnage? It must be time to check in with Katie, Kristi and the family of the damned! While the third installment of the Paranormal Activity saga is a massive step up from the godawful second movie, the scares couldn’t save PA3 from suffocating under all its unwelcome over-explaining.…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Why are there so many ghost stories about a “woman in white”?

Does your town have a Woman in White? Of course it does. There is no town that doesn’t have a woman in a white dress who wafts around drafty halls of the local manor, or paces the widow’s walk of the local hotel. Find out about the woman in white legend, some local examples, and…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Stare Into the Unseeing Eyes Of Real-Life Zombie Homer Simpson

You know we’re suckers for real life portrayals of any fictional cartoon — but real life zombie Homer Simpson is twice the amazing. It’s two great tastes that taste great together, people. Created by Deviant Art’s TranzorZ3D, behold Zombie Homer, who probably has waaaay too big of a brain! And we threw in the artist’s…

Television Meredith Woerner

Nine substances (and one sound) that can induce fear, anxiety and dread

So you want to terrify somebody. It’s the kind of thing we all want, some of the time — and it turns out there are some substances (and sounds) you can use to do it fairly reliably. For your morbid edification, we present this list of fear-inducing chemicals, proteins, hormones, and frequencies. Please do not…

io9 Annalee Newitz

How H.R. Giger’s Brilliant Madness Helped Make Alien “Erotic”

The new book Alien Vault gives you a terrific insight into the insane amount of craftsmanship — and the craftsmanlike touches of insanity — that went into Ridley Scott’s Alien. Ian Nathan’s new book is a ridiculously comprehensive and beautifully assembled tribute to one of science fiction’s all-time great movies. And nowhere is it more…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Bradley Cooper wasn’t using his tongue for anything anyway

Add Midnight Meat Train to the list of movies that you think are just slasher movies, but actually turn out to be science-fictional. The other day, we shared a totally insane clip from Triangle — thanks to James for directing us to the Midnight Meat Train as our next stop. https://gizmodo.com/the-most-horrifying-crawling-over-a-pile-of-your-dead-5850708 Yes, it’s a whole…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Why George Romero rejected The Walking Dead to make The Zombie Autopsies

We scored a few minutes with the Zombiefather George A. Romero at the kick-off to AMC’s Fear Fest celebration. He shared his thoughts on undead sensation Walking Dead — and his plans for his next project, adapting The Zombie Autopsies. What do you think of Walking Dead? I love the books, I haven’t seen any…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Why do we want to feel sorry for monsters that scare us?

Scary monsters are awesome — there’s something undeniably cool about being scared witless by something that won’t ever stop or show mercy. But some of the most famous monsters, like Frankenstein’s Monster and King Kong, inspire our pity or empathy along with terror. Why would we want to feel sorry for the monsters that terrify…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Watch Daniel Radcliffe fight off a horrifying ghost without his wands!

Now that the Harry Potter series is dead and buried, Daniel Radcliffe has moved on to his next supernatural project The Woman in Black, about a young lawyer and a vicious she-ghost. Watch the new trailer, now with more creepy monkey toys. Heres’s the brief synopsis, directed by the writer of The Descent: Part 2…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

The scariest deaths you’ve watched on screen, and how they would really happen

Whenever we watch the Saw movies, or a particularly gruesome episode of The Tudors, people bite the big one in extremely awful ways. Although the sight is repulsive, we still want to take a peek because we’re a little bit curious. What would the scariest kinds of death be like, and how long would they…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Piranha 3DD trailer has Gary Busey, David Hasselhoff, and Ving Rhames’ magic gun legs!

Here’s the first footage from Piranha 3DD, the sequel to the fish movie that bit off a man’s penis on camera! And this time, the Piranhas are traveling through the sewer system, eating up all the folks lounging in their pools. Their end game? Invading a busty water park. The film — which was penned…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

The Devil Inside trailer tries to one-up The Exorcist — with 4 demons possessing one woman

Take your paltry singular demon possession and step aside — the new trailer for exorcism flick The Devil Inside puts multiple demons inside each victim. And that’s just the ones they can hear! Take a look at this insane new horror trailer. Here’s what it’s about: In 1989, emergency responders received a 9-1-1 call from…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

Ask Richard Kadrey whatever you want about the new Sandman Slim novel, Aloha from Hell

The third book in Richard Kadrey’s Sandman Slim series, Aloha from Hell, comes out today. And to celebrate, we’re giving you a chance to ask Kadrey some questions about urban fantasy, navigating the underworld, or whatever else you want. The best questions will be posted to Kadrey at an event on October 24, and we’ll…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Insane Secrets About the Making of Ridley Scott’s Alien

You think you know all about Ridley Scott’s Alien? There are still plenty of dark corners in the backstory of the movie that helped birth (so to speak) the genre of space horror. A new book, Alien Vault, is chock full of amazing art and totally weird Alien facts. Writer Ian Nathan has interviewed everybody…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Mansquito rises again, and this time he’s horny!

Watch in horror as a mosquito man searches for his bloody meal and takes a mate. Technically, it’s not an official “mansquito” but it’s still a man whose body has mutated into a half-skeeter, half-man creature. Close enough! Check out the trailer for Sucker. And yes, that is Michael Manasseri from Weird Science! Here’s the…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

The Most Horrifying “Crawling Over a Pile of Your Dead Alternate Selves” Scene Ever Filmed

You know how sometimes a movie seems like just an ordinary slasher flick, and then it gets weirder and weirder, and finally you get to a scene where a mortally wounded woman is climbing over a pile of her dead duplicates from another timeline, which are being eaten by seagulls? Yeah. That. The above clip…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

New Woman in Black trailer shows Harry Potter scared out of his wits

Finally, a Woman in Black trailer that isn’t all dusty antiques and creepy whisperings. The ghost that possess Daniel Radcliffe’s haunted house is pissed off, and going to scare you all to bits — or so she hopes. Here’s the quick synopsis of James Watkins’ vinage ghost story: Young lawyer Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe) travels…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

Melancholy monsters from your gloomiest nightmares

Costumed children meet gruesome ends in “The Last of the Trick-Or-Treaters” webcomics

The Science of Horror Movie Screams

Paranormal Activity 3: Actually scary, unlike Paranormal Activity 2

Why are there so many ghost stories about a “woman in white”?

Stare Into the Unseeing Eyes Of Real-Life Zombie Homer Simpson

Nine substances (and one sound) that can induce fear, anxiety and dread

How H.R. Giger’s Brilliant Madness Helped Make Alien “Erotic”

Bradley Cooper wasn’t using his tongue for anything anyway

Why George Romero rejected The Walking Dead to make The Zombie Autopsies

Why do we want to feel sorry for monsters that scare us?

Watch Daniel Radcliffe fight off a horrifying ghost without his wands!

The scariest deaths you’ve watched on screen, and how they would really happen

Piranha 3DD trailer has Gary Busey, David Hasselhoff, and Ving Rhames’ magic gun legs!

The Devil Inside trailer tries to one-up The Exorcist — with 4 demons possessing one woman

Ask Richard Kadrey whatever you want about the new Sandman Slim novel, Aloha from Hell

Insane Secrets About the Making of Ridley Scott’s Alien

Mansquito rises again, and this time he’s horny!

The Most Horrifying “Crawling Over a Pile of Your Dead Alternate Selves” Scene Ever Filmed

New Woman in Black trailer shows Harry Potter scared out of his wits

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