Category: Horror
The red band trailer for Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man dropped this week and the horror internet has not calmed down since. The premise is straightforward and deeply wrong. A mysterious ice cream man rolls into Bayleen Bay, a sun drenched seaside town that looks like it was designed by …
Sony confirmed it during the June 2, 2026 State of Play. Until Dawn 2 is real, it is heading exclusively to PlayStation 5 in 2027, and Firesprite Games is the studio building it. The announcement came with a trailer and just enough information to raise several questions that will not …
The Onslaught trailer landed this week and the horror internet had a very specific reaction within about thirty seconds. Jason Voorhees. Wrong franchise, right energy. What Is Onslaught? Adria Arjona plays an Army sniper. Genetically engineered super soldiers have escaped from a secret military base. Her daughter is in the …
June is here, which means the sun is out, the cookouts are happening, and every streaming platform has decided to remind us that staying inside with the curtains closed is still a valid lifestyle choice. This month is not equally stacked everywhere. Shudder came to play. Peacock brought a few …
SYNOPSIS:The Yellow Balloon (2026) is a horror-comedy where a group of friends, seeking to help their friend Mia recover from a breakup at a remote cabin, are terrorized by a demonic, occult ringmaster named Vincent Vile, who uses cursed VHS tapes and violent, haunted yellow balloons to turn them against …
The cinematic landscape is experiencing a seismic shift as independent horror completely upends the traditional summer blockbuster season. In a historic box office turn, lean indie horror productions are actively outperforming legacy Hollywood franchises on the scale of Star Wars. Driven by Gen Z creators who graduated from YouTube to …
The blood, gore, and visceral terror of Mario Cerrito’s highly anticipated underground sequel have officially taken top honors. Practical effects artist Charmaine Cerrito took home the prestigious Best Special FX award for her outstanding, stomach-churning work on Human Hibachi 3 at the New Jersey Horror Con and Film Festival. The …
One of the strangest horror success stories of the modern era officially opens in theaters today. Backrooms, distributed by A24 and directed by a twenty-year-old who was still weighing college applications when his career launched, is in cinemas nationwide as of May 29, 2026. It carries an 88% on Rotten …
Horror fans, I need you to sit down. Get a snack. Maybe a blanket. Because whoever is in charge of scheduling horror news this week apparently looked at the calendar, saw “last Friday of May,” and said, you know what, let’s just break everyone simultaneously. We got a major theatrical …
Any fan of Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles knows there are a few undeniable truths: Claudia’s death is the emotional core of the entire saga. The vampiric family tree is less a tree and more like a sprawling, chaotic web. Memnoch the Devil (1995) is either a masterpiece or an …
Sam Raimi already came back to horror. Evil Dead Burn is in July. Jane Schoenbrun has a new film in August. Tales from the Crypt just became streamable for the first time in its history. The Crypt Keeper is on Shudder right now, and I need you to understand what …
The official trailer for Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is here. The film opened the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes 2026 and came back with reviews that have critics sounding slightly unhinged in the best possible way. The Film Hannah Einbinder plays Kris, a young …
Devin Adams is a retired university lecturer who picks up video processing as a hobby and immediately gets handed some obviously cursed videotapes. He does not burn them. He investigates. This is the problem with Tribe, and also the entire plot. Written and directed by Dan Asma, co-owner of trailer …
Independent film distributor Cinema Epoch has officially unleashed the next two chapters of the notorious, award-winning found-footage horror franchise, Human Hibachi 2 and Human Hibachi 3: The Last Supper, on the leading free streaming service, Tubi. Following the massive underground success of Mario Cerrito’s original cult masterpiece, these highly anticipated …
There’s something deeply comforting about the idea of surviving an episode of The Vampire Lestat only to immediately sit down afterward with the cast and creators to unpack whatever emotional devastation just occurred. Thankfully, AMC seems to understand that too. AMC Global Media has officially announced The Vampire Lestat: After …
BayView Entertainment has officially acquired and set a June release date for the acclaimed documentary All Hail the Popcorn King, a definitive look into the life and wildly imaginative mind of award-winning author Joe R. Lansdale. Known globally as the creator behind cult-classic masterpieces like Bubba Ho-Tep and the Hap …
A Mother’s Dream Becomes a Terrifying Battle for Survival in Nathan Ambrosioni’s Haunting New Vision. Bayview Entertainment invites audiences to witness a descent into maternal madness with the release of Hostile. Written and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Nathan Ambrosioni, the film explores the thin, terrifying line between mental fracture and …
Get ready for an absolute masterclass in indie horror insanity. Renowned genre director Joe Davison is bringing his supernatural nightmare, Sorority of the Damned, straight to Tubi. To celebrate the streaming launch, an all-new, blood-drenched trailer has officially been unleashed, giving fans a terrifying look at the practical FX chaos …
Joyhorror Entertainment Tonight is a brand-new television news program hosted by Marketing Macabre’s Michael Joy that is coming this Summer to Hart Fisher’s American Horrors Channel. Explore the world of independent horror and discover the genre’s best kept secrets, those underground productions that are the heart and soul that keep …
Tribe Movie Review by Matt Boiselle Tribe – written and directed by Dan Asma, and starring Keaton Asma, Justina Biosah & Tyona Bowman Synopsis: A desperate man lost in the west coast mountains has to reconstruct his past in order to step back from the edge of insanity. There was …
13 Souls Movie Review by Matt Boiselle 13 Souls – directed by Paulo Nascimento, written by Paulo Nascimento, Brittnay Johnston & Flavio de Castro Barboza, and starring Sienna Belle, Tim Shelburne & Brielle Tucker Synopsis: After the death of her mother, 15-year old Agne moves in with her father and …
Mike Joy 05/22/2026 Film Reviews Sight Unseen Movie Review by Matt Boiselle Sight Unseen – written by Stephen Parkhurst and Oriana Schwindt, directed by Stephen Parkhurst, and starring Debra Lord Cooke, Bart Shattuck and Daniel Burns Synopsis: Three siblings inherit their estranged father’s rural cabin after his mysterious death, and …
Kyle Gallner has officially signed on to join Brie Larson in Skeletons, the upcoming creature feature from director JT Mollner and producer J.J. Abrams. This reunites Gallner with Mollner for the first time since Strange Darling, and if you spent any part of 2024 trying to explain that film to …
We updated its interface this week because horror websites should not feel like abandoned internet malls from 2011. The goal was making the experience smoother without stripping out the personality. Horror should still feel slightly dangerous. Too many entertainment sites look clinically optimized now. We wanted something that still feels …
Krispr opens by making a philosophical decision and moving on. Clones are alive. They are just not human. The film announces this and immediately starts the story, which I appreciated, because we have all sat through the twenty-minute version of that argument in other science fiction films, and it rarely …
Strawstalker Movie Review by Matt Boiselle Strawstalker – written and directed by George Henry Horton, and starring Branika Scott, George Henry Horton and Dallas Steinback Synopsis: When a fame-hungry couple moves into an ideal L.A. home, their new dream life spirals into nightmares as an ancient scarecrow begins to stalk …
Leslie Vernon has returned, and he is excited to get back into the swing of things! The once aspiring killer, now legend, has released a video! As he talks to the camera, Leslie appears to be enjoying his personal stomping grounds of Glen Echo. In fact he seems perfectly at …
I once made someone watch The Fly on a third date. They stayed. That is either the best thing that ever happened to me or a sign that my judgment cannot be trusted, and honestly both of those things might be true. Horror romance is a specific kind of damage. …
Obsession opened nationwide May 15, 2026, and it did not sneak up on anyone. Director Curry Barker sold the film out of TIFF’s Midnight Madness section for a reported $15 million after a bidding war, on a production budget of $1 million. The film opened to a 96% on Rotten …
There’s a new trend emerging in the horror market of taking age-old stories and giving them terrifying new twists. There’s already been Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey and Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare, which completely flipped what viewers knew about these characters. The latest of these is The 3 Killer …
