When Sony Pictures announced that a movie based on Slender Man—a piece of Internet folklore circulated online around 2009—people were worried it was a shameless attempt to capitalize on the recent attempted murder trial in which two 12-year-old girls stabbed a classmate to impress the fictional creature. The film is …
Oh, you’re only going to see Unfriended: Dark Web once in theaters? Well, think again, because there are reportedly two different endings.
When last we saw the Losers Club, they were fighting off Pennywise the clown and NOT at all taking turns having sex with Beverly, which is what happens in Stephen King’s novel. But they couldn’t just get rid of this shapeshifting, purely evil monster so easily, and now the kids have to return to Derry to finish the…
Last week, I met Ari Aster, the writer and director of the horror film Hereditary, in the A24 office. For about 20 minutes, we talked about genre (he originally shopped Hereditary as a “family tragedy that curdles into a nightmare”), subverting expectations (undoubtedly a reason the film has proved so divisive), the…
A dialogue-free teaser for Luca Guadagnino’s riff on Dario Argento’s 1977 classic Suspiria has arrived. While both take place in the world of dance, Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name, I Am Love) has been adamant that his Suspiria is not a “remake” (“The word ‘remake’ gives the impression that we want to erase the…
Ever since Jordan Peele released his Academy Award-winning Get Out (and, frankly, set off 2017's incredible horror renaissance in the process), he’s had a slew of projects lined up.
I can never get enough horrible roommate stories (hello, remember Lo Mein man?), and I certainly can never get enough horrible roommate movies. And now, joining the canon of movies like Single White Female, Shallow Grave, and The Roommate, comes the future adaptation of New York Magazine’s “Worst Roommate Ever” story.
Horror movies—schlocky, gory, full of jump scares, and shrieking violins—are rarely “good” by critical standards. But now that Get Out’s Jordan Peele won an Oscar, and Jim Halpert’s The Quiet Place is set to spend another week at the top of the box office charts, it is time to take a closer look at the genre.
Anytime a trailer begins with a violent spike of strings, you know you’re not exactly in for something pleasant or relaxing. As proof, I give you the trailer for Hereditary, the upcoming horror film about a dollhouse aficionado (Collette), her family, and an angry dead grandmother who’s not quite ready to exit the…
Girls Trip writer Tracy Oliver recently announced she was writing and directing a horror movie based on the novel Survive the Night, to be produced by Pharrell. But according to a recent interview, Oliver says it took awhile to even get the ball rolling on the film since apparently male film executives don’t think…
In the past few years there have been movies about haunted dolls, haunted picture books, and haunted boardgames. And now the latest childhood pastime to get the horror movie treatment is a good ol’ game of truth or dare.
The inevitable Slender Man horror movie is finally here, because apparently the fact that he inspired a real life murder isn’t horrifying enough!
The only sell you need for this movie is that Nicolas Cage scream-sings “Hokey Pokey” while cursing and wielding a sledgehammer in one scene. Mom and Dad is set in a crazy dark-comedy fantasy world where parents become murderous toward their children in droves, almost like the opposite of Boss Baby, where babies got…
I challenge you, Jezebel readers, to dream up a greater artistic triumph than this iPhone video of a stone-faced Melania Trump watching two ballerinas dance to Tchaikovsky’s Waltz of the Flowers during her “Christmas walk through.” On the heels of a Vanity Fair report that quoted a longtime friend saying our visibly…
Lately I’ve been thinking about forcing my boyfriend to attend an escape room with me just so I can see how strong of a couple we’d be in the event that the world falls apart. But real life couple John Krasinski and Emily Blunt have taken that hypothetical exercise one step further by creating and casting themselves…
Everything in the world has seemed more terrifying in the past few hundred days, so of course it makes sense that 2017 would be the highest grossing year in the history of horror films.
Horror movies: They tickle as much as they terrorize. At least, that’s my experience—it is often a film’s silliness that I recall much more vividly and hold onto more fondly than its scariness (or attempt at it). Hammy acting, baffling dialogue, stupidity beyond your wildest high-school highs—these help fuel my…
Jake Gyllenhaal’s appearance in the newest ad for Eternity, Calvin Klein’s perfume that makes me sneeze, is supposed to be sweet, but instead feels like the beginning of a terrible horror movie.
The rape revenge movie is at once a relic of more sensationalist horror era, and a genre that feels forever relevant. From its bloody, borderline-pornographic roots in 1970s movies like I Spit on Your Grave or Last House on the Left, the plotline of women characters or their loved ones enacting revenge on rapists…
Yesterday, Hollywood trade site Deadline published a story that announced “It Becoming Biggest Horror Pic Ever Beating The Exorcist,” noting that the domestic gross of It (as of today, $228.3 million) was breathing down the neck of that of The Exorcist ($232.9 million). Now, per Box Office Mojo, were The Exorcist’s…
