Horror

I have loved the summer of 1816 since I was a kid, which probably tells you what kind of kid I was. It is the worst vacation in the history of literature and the best thing that ever happened to horror. Picture the villa above Lake Geneva. The rain will not stop, the cold has

Courtesy of Fantasia Ahead of the Fantasia Film Festival, Yellow Veil Pictures has boarded the NYC nightlight thriller, Corpus, reports Variety. Yellow Veil will handle world sales for the film. Corpus “follows Sayo, a soulful nightlife photographer and small-time drug dealer in the summer of 1998 in New York City. When he’s invited to a

For weeks the loudest thing about the new Blair Witch was a name that kept not showing up. Two thirds of the original trio signed on. The third stayed quiet. Now Rei Hance, the actress originally credited as Heather Donahue, has filled that silence herself. She is not part of this one. She was offered

Luna Blaise and Gideon Adlon in ‘Youth Juice’, courtesy of Live Nation Studios Production has begun on the curiously titled horror-comedy Youth Juice, reports Deadline. Described as “a creepy satire about aging and how far people will go to stop getting older,” the film “follows two best friends terrified of growing old who travel to

Picture waking in the dark with your nose a few inches from a wooden lid. You try to sit up and your forehead meets the wood. Your elbows will not spread. The air is close and going stale, and somewhere above you is a layer of packed soil and a small crowd of people who

Last night’s 10th Anniversary Broadcast for Dead by Daylight gave fans their first look at what’s ahead for the game’s eleventh year, and Behaviour Interactive packed the presentation with major reveals. While the biggest headline from the event was the announcement that Thordur Palsson will direct the upcoming live-action Dead by Daylight feature film for

Last week, AMC’s The Vampire Lestat premiered after an over two-year hiatus, finally returning viewers to Anne Rice’s increasingly chaotic vampire universe. The premiere episode, “Detroit,” dropped fans in media res of Lestat de Lioncourt’s (Sam Reid) North American rockstar tour as the story shifted away from Louis de Pointe du Lac’s (Jacob Anderson) narration

Lili Taylor in “I Shot Andy Warhol” (1996)Credit: Janus Films American Psycho remains and forever will be an iconic title for horror movie fans. But did you know that American Psycho director Mary Harron made another intriguing movie about murder? Before she brought Patrick Bateman from page to screen, Harron made I SHOT ANDY WARHOL,

Try explaining Dracula to someone living in the Middle Ages. Not the film, not the fanfiction, not the coat. The concept. A foreign nobleman with supernatural powers who crosses the sea specifically to seduce respectable English women, turning them into something their husbands no longer recognize. A medieval person would stare at you. They already

Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures Ed and Lorraine Warren are perhaps considered amongst the most controversial figures in the world of the paranormal. The married couple had started making a name for themselves through paranormal investigation as early as 1952, and during those years, they created their own group, New England Society for Psychic Research.

For a long time, horror asked one thing of the Final Girl, survive. Run through the woods. Find the knife. Crawl through the broken glass. Make it to morning. Then the credits rolled, and everyone acted like survival was the ending. Modern horror knows better. The Original Final Girl Carol J. Clover gave us the

Say a prayer and stock up on those puppy treats, because it’s time to dig up the weirdness with another forgotten horror gem! The Boneyard, possibly the most bizarre ’90s cult classic, celebrates its 35th anniversary. Packed with good puppies gone bad, a Pee-wee’s Big Adventure Large Marge-inspired animatronic puppet, ghoul-children that look appropriately disgusting,

After building an acclaimed career as an Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, former PBS producer/director, and television reporter, Robyn Symon is entering a new chapter with her first narrative feature, Queen of Shock. The Spanish-language thriller has been announced as an Official Selection at the 29th Dances With Films in Los Angeles, marking a major milestone in Symon’s

Last month, Dread Central sat down with Ginger Snaps director John Fawcett and stars Emily Perkins and Katharine Isabelle to discuss the iconic 2000 cult classic and what the future may hold for the franchise, including the potential for a series adaptation, something that has been in the air since 2020.  Revisiting Ginger Snaps reminded

Considered to be one of the most terrifying modern found footage movies ever made, Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum is getting a remake. But hold on, it’s not America (yet) that’s appropriating the idea this time. Let’s thank Indonesia, which might actually be a good thing. The country has put out some good horror movies in the

It’s impossible to think about Halloween while you’re wiping away sweat seated in a movie theater in New York City in June, yet somehow, Ben Sottak‘s feature debut, Hallowarrior, had me longing for hot apple cider and the comforting glow of a jack-o’-lantern–or in this case, junk-o’lantern. Equal parts coming-of-age story, post-apocalyptic thriller, and home

Apple TV+’s new Cape Fear series is now streaming, and early reactions suggest viewers are getting something far different than a simple remake of the 1962 classic or Martin Scorsese’s 1991 thriller. The basic setup remains familiar. Max Cady, played by Javier Bardem, emerges as a terrifying force in the lives of the Bowden family.

Stephen Lang (pictured above in Don’t Breathe) has been cast in the supernatural horror film Mercy Good, reports Deadline this afternoon. The film “follows a family that relocates to Salem, Massachusetts for a fresh start, only to discover their historic home may be tied to a centuries-old supernatural force waiting to return”. Don’t you just

Salem draws around a million visitors every October for a holiday built on the worst thing that ever happened there. June is quieter. It should not be. On the morning of June 10, 1692, Bridget Bishop was carted from the town jail to a rocky ledge west of the village and hanged, the first execution

Lionsgate is bringing hard-hitting martial arts action to theaters this weekend with The Furious (read our review), a brutal revenge thriller arriving exclusively in theaters June 12. Directed by Kenji Tanigaki, The Furious stars Xie Miao as Wang Wei, a desperate father who takes matters into his own hands after his daughter is kidnapped by

There is something deeply rude about a horror movie where the game refuses to stay in the game. Jitters takes that cursed media anxiety and drags it into a British detective thriller, where one supposedly natural death leads to trauma, technology, and a very bad time online. Written by George Willcox and directed and produced

The MPA has officially rated Evil Dead Burn R for “strong bloody horror violence and gore, and language.” The rating is in line with the franchise’s recent entries. Evil Dead (2013) received an R rating for “strong bloody violence and gore, some sexual content and language,” while Evil Dead Rise was rated R for “strong

As audiences once again fall in love with Lestat through AMC’s Interview with the Vampire, it is worth remembering that the original vampire panic had very little to do with seductive immortals. It began when frightened people dug up graves and found bodies that appeared unnervingly alive. No candlelit drawing rooms. No tragic backstory delivered

Ari Aster put himself on the map with his horror haunter, Hereditary. The terrifying film features an astounding performance from Toni Collette that had fans clamoring for her to get an Oscar win…or even just a nomination (she received neither, because of course). His debut feature also introduces some curious lore, much of which is

Not every horror movie needs a cinematic universe. Some horror movies should feel like they crawled out from under someone’s porch at 3 a.m., hissed at the moon, and somehow got distribution. That is a compliment. What Is a Weird Little Freak Movie? This is not a technical term. I am not going to cite

Kane Parsons’ Backrooms has pushed liminal horror into the mainstream, but there are many other impressive examples out there to discover. Horror is such an evergreen and enduring storytelling genre because absolutely anything — even ordinary spaces — can become terrifying nightmare fuel in the right context. “Liminal horror” is a fascinating trend that’s grown

If you’ve read Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles, you already know the tonal whiplash that comes with moving from Interview with the Vampire into The Vampire Lestat. If you haven’t, the new season premiere of AMC’s critically acclaimed vampire series, an episode called “Detroit,” will do an admirable job of disorienting you anyway — in

Hugo Ruíz won the Best New Director Award at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival for his breakout, single-take thriller, One Night with Adela. The acclaimed filmmaker is back at the fest’s Midnight Section this year with his latest gonzo spectacle, Dante, and Ruíz more than lives up to his genre credos. Dante is foul, an

Somewhere in rural Ireland a few centuries back, a parent stood over their baby’s crib and thought, something is wrong. The kid who had been fine was not fine anymore. Maybe the eye contact had gone. Maybe the babbling had stopped. The parent had no doctor, no diagnosis, no framework for what they were looking

Lil’ guy cinema is back courtesy of Mutter: The Diary of a Mother, Alphan Eseli’s stunning, gut-wrenching horror parable premiering at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Honoring the legacy of horror classics such as Rosemary’s Baby and even It’s Alive, Eseli’s Turkish feature is a hellish descent into madness and the never-ending, inexorable limits of