Category: Horror
Everybody has a version of the same memory. The jingle starts three streets over, tinny and slightly off pitch, looping a song nobody has ever heard all the way through. It gets closer. Then it stops, and you cannot tell whether the truck parked or the driver just turned the …
Aaron Bennett is expanding the horror-inspired world ofJokers WildwithJokers Wild: Lazarus Risen, the follow-up to his acclaimed fan film starringDavid Howard Thornton(Terrifier) as the Joker. This time, the spotlight shifts to Harley Quinn, with actress and longtime Harley Quinn cosplayerLauren Aleniastepping into one of DC’s most recognizable roles. During a …
Family gatherings for Christmas can either be the best time or the very worst time of the year. It definitely is the latter in Michael Gabriele’s feature film debut, “Unholy Night,” which made its world premiere at Fantasia International Film Festival, in Montreal, Quebec. All is not calm; all is …
1991. For some, it was the beginning of a decade of nonstop fun, brand new pop, and the sounds of the approaching millennia. For others, its was the marker of a decade of struggle thought an epidemic that had swept the world, quietly erasing friends and family, charging public fear …
The zombie apocalypse is about to get a lot easier to binge. On July 30 Netflix and AMC Global Media announced a multiyear global licensing agreement that gives both companies co-exclusive streaming rights to the original The Walking Dead and all six of its television spinoffs. That means Fear the …
Any medium. No restrictions. Entries close August 15 — and the iHorror fanbase picks the winner. A storm washes cursed pirate coins onto a Key West beach. A tourist stiffs his waitress with one. That’s all it takes to wake Anne Bonny, dead three hundred years and furious about it. …
On April 24, Karl Huber took a photo of a single eyeball. It’s sitting on a workbench, wired into a breadboard, surrounded by a nest of jumper cables that look like they’re holding each other hostage. He captioned it, with visible exhaustion,“Trying to figure out animatronics.” The next photo in …
I went into Mockbuster expecting to laugh at a studio. I came out having to sit with the fact that I have spent years making jokes about films without once thinking about the person who had fifteen minutes to shoot a seven-page scene. That is the trick of Anthony Frith’s …
The first teaser for Mike Flanagan’s Carrie does not lead with blood. It leads with a girl trying to work out why she was chosen. “All I ever wanted was to go to school. I never did anything to you,” Summer H. Howell’s Carrie White says in voiceover, addressing the …
AMC Global Media returned to San Diego Comic-Con this weekend, where it debuted the first footage from its upcoming mystery thriller YAGA and confirmed the series will premiere on AMC+ this October. The eight-episode, half-hour drama stars Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix), Noah Reid (Schitt’s Creek, The Vampire Lestat), Clark Backo …
Revenge is a dish best served cold… and violently bloody. The next most satisfying tale of vengeance, “Penny Lane is Dead,” from writer/director Mia’kate Russell, made its international premiere at Fantasia Festival’s 30th annual edition. Australia. Summer. 1986. Penny Lane (Bailey Spalding; “Scrublands” TV series) just got accepted in a …
Marcus Slabine, director of The Dark Offerings (2021), has released the trailer for his new movie Sundown. The trailer just premiered this past month at Mad Monster Party in Arizona and immediately sparked excitement in the horror community. You may recognize Slabine’s name. The director has been attached to many …
Written and directed by Brendan Rudnicki, Evil Follows is a chilling demonic-possession horror film steeped in folklore. A forgotten relic unleashes an ancient evil when Sarah opens a mysterious dybbuk box, inviting a relentless spirit into her life. As the possession grows more violent and reality begins to unravel, her …
Dripping with Lynchian style, The Dollmaker (Encantador; Argentina, 2025) is part charming, funny, decidedly weird and enjoyably bloody. Things are not all they seem to be in a cheerfully idyllic town that soon becomes a hotbed of female kidnappings. No one seems to care much about the missing women including …
Janel Spiegel 07/24/2026 Books, News We’re two weeks out fromNew York Timesbestseller Tiffany D. Jackson’s sophomore middle-grade novelGHOST IN THE NIGHT(Scholastic Press; ages 9-12; 8/4/26)! Perfect for readers looking to celebrate summerween, set against the atmospheric backdrop of Savannah, Georgia, famously known as “America’s Most Haunted City”, the novel follows …
Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (2010) – Blu-ray Review by Matt Boiselle More than two decades afterTetsuo: The Iron Manbecame one of the most influential cyberpunk body horror films ever made, director Shinya Tsukamoto returned to his twisted metallic universe withTetsuo: The Bullet Man. While it differs in style from its …
Portraits Of The Apocalypse (2026) – DVD Review by Matt Boiselle Zombie films have become a crowded subgenre over the years, making it increasingly difficult for new entries to stand out. Fortunately,Portraits Of The Apocalypsemanages to breathe fresh life into the undead by delivering an intense, character-driven survival story that …
The Mortuary Assistant has officially arrived on **Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital! Based on the critically acclaimed indie horror game,The Mortuary Assistantfollows newly certified mortician Rebecca Owens (Willa Holland) as what should be a routine overnight shift quickly descends into a terrifying battle against demonic entities, disturbing hallucinations, and the sinister …
Cinephobia Releasingis proud to announce the North American release of directorJose Maria Cicala’s(Shadow of the Cat, Sola) latest featureThe Dollmakeron VOD, digital onAugust 25. ”The Dollmakeris creepy, bloody and surreal…and I loved every minute of it”, said Ray Murray, President of Cinephobia Releasing. “Cinephobia Releasing is excited to bring this …
Janel Spiegel 07/23/2026 News Iconic Scary Movie character Ghostface has entered into the world of OnlyFans to celebrate the film’s arrival on digital. Ghostface is introducing himself to fans and teasing “spicy content” made just for subscribers — and he’s not doing it alone. image.png Original Scary Movie star and …
Psychological horror comes knocking at Fantasia Festival’s door in the Canadian horror film “Ancestral Beasts” from writer/director Tim Riedel. His first narrative feature film made its world premiere at the Montreal-born festival and digs into mental health, a threatening entity, and everything else in between. Ancestral Beasts Elyse (Morgan Holmstrom; …
Horrornews.net (HNN) has officially been ranked among the best in Feedspot’s prestigious Top 100 Horror Movie Blogs to follow in 2026. This recognition cements the website’s long-standing reputation as a premier destination for horror journalism, indie film promotion, and mainstream genre coverage. As a cornerstone of the horror community, HNN …
Marc Price is heading back into the horror genre. The actor, best known to millions of television viewers as Skippy Handelman on NBC’s hit sitcom Family Ties, has signed on to star in Witchcraft: The Lanterne of Light, the latest installment in the long-running Witchcraft horror franchise. The casting also …
The worst moment in the Other Mommy trailer happens over a pot of pasta. Jessica Chastain, home on her lunch break, stands at the stove and asks her eight-year-old daughter whether she can go inside her heart. The kid does not scream. She goes still, the way children go still …
Don’t we all love a monsters’ collaboration? Or when they actually face-off against each other? Think of 1987’s “The Monster Squad”, or “Freddy Vs. Jason” from 2003. Well, indie-horror legend Larry Fessenden succeeds at both with his latest film, “Trauma Or, Monsters All”, completing a quadrilogy along with three of …
Sony Pictures has officially landedHollow, a new reimagining ofThe Legend of Sleepy Hollowthat will star Sweeney and be written and directed byPet Sematary: Bloodlinesfilmmaker Lindsey Anderson Beer. Instead of following Ichabod Crane,Hollowshifts the spotlight to Katrina Van Tassel, reimagining one of literature’s most recognizable characters as the center of the …
Anthony C. Ferrante struck gold with his franchise, Sharknado. The series spawned five follow ups, with a seventh in the works. Instead of another sequel, this will be a prequel titled Sharknado Origins, with Ferrante back at the helm. However, if you can’t wait for the newest Sharknado movie, iHorror …
Terror Films Releasing has teamed up with Microhouse Films, the mobile-first vertical platform that launched July 7, and it is bringing horror along for the ride. The indie genre distributor behind the Hell House LLC franchise, Patient Seven, The Taking of Deborah Logan and Savageland is putting select titles on …
Every zombie story made in the last half century walks through the same door. The shuffling dead, the barricaded survivors, the bite that dooms you, the headshot that saves you, the radio that stops helping: all of it comes from a farmhouse outside Pittsburgh in 1968. What most of those …
Adam Wingard’sOnslaughtis coming in hot, and it just picked up anR ratingforstrong bloody violence, grisly images, language throughout, and some sexual references. If you were hoping Wingard would hold back, it doesn’t sound like that’s happening. The upcoming A24 action horror film reunites Wingard with longtime collaboratorDan Stevens, and that’s …
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