Horror

I’m looking at a listing for an “alternative” Elf On the Shelf outfit, based on the popular horror movie It, which…

In a way, the slasher subgenre functions like its movies’ antagonists: It refuses to die. Just when you think it’s…

Almost 30 years after its release, Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs still shocks me. No matter how much I’m…

“It’s never as good as the first time,” Sade Adu sang of love. I have rarely, if ever, found this to be true (third…

It is impossible to discuss William Friedkin’s 1973 film adaptation of the William Peter Blatty novel The Exorcist…

Now that it’s out, it’s clear Craig Zobel’s The Hunt was way more interesting as something that didn’t yet exist.…

Leigh Whannell’s reimagining of the classic Universal Studios horror film The Invisible Man starts where many movies…

Good news! We are soon to be blessed with a prequel to 2009's wildly entertaining and underrated domestic thriller Or…

“Not knowing anything would be the best,” is Austrian director Veronika Franz’s message to prospective viewers of The…

Robert Eggers’s followup to his beloved 2015 hit The Witch is a descent into madness of the most unorthodox kind.…

America doesn’t really make monsters anymore. Rare is the blockbuster horror movie where a werewolf or vampire poses…

Nickelodeon released the reboot of its series Are You Afraid of the Dark? on Friday, which got me thinking about the…

The category is ’80s slasher realness, and American Horror Story: 1984 has more hallmarks of the genre than you can…

Throughout the crawling duration of It Chapter Two—all two hours and 50 minutes of it—I felt like I was being taken…

Finishing school—reforming young rich kids into adopting the behaviors of their rich parents—has always struck me as…

Can you believe that the latest Annabelle movie, Annabelle Comes Home, is the third movie about that damn…

It’s always the girl who hears the bump in the attic. “What was that?” “It’s nothing, babe!” If horror heroines are…

For a while, Lars Klevberg’s remake of the 1988 slasher classic Child’s Play will have you thinking that Chucky has…

Ma is a trashy exploitation flick about a delusional sadist and a sensitive character study of a lonely middle-aged…

Festivals suck. It’s usually just a lot of people rolling around in the field, horny for each other, wearing weird…