This Week in Horror: Cannes, Obsession Fever, and Ghostface Comes Home

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The redesign rules.

Cannes Keeps Having Its Horror Era

Cannes also kept proving that horror is not the weird outsider genre anymore. Horror and thrillers were everywhere this year, and the festival lineup continued leaning into darker, stranger filmmaking instead of pretending prestige cinema only exists for people who whisper through three-hour dramas.

And yes, we were there promoting our new movie, Key of Bones: Curse of the Ghost Pirate.

Still feels surreal typing that sentence.

The interesting thing about Cannes lately is how openly genre filmmaking is being embraced now. Ten years ago horror still felt like something festivals tolerated. Now it feels like one of the few places audiences are actually finding exciting filmmaking again, because horror filmmakers are still allowed to take risks.

Obsession Completely Took Over the Internet

Meanwhile Obsession absolutely dominated horror conversation this week.

The movie dropped and within about five minutes horror Threads, TikTok, and basically every group chat online decided Inde Navarrette was officially entering scream queen territory. The internet became deeply unwell about this movie almost immediately.

Fair enough, honestly.

The bigger reason people are responding to Obsession is because it feels sweaty and dangerous in a way modern thrillers usually avoid. It has actual personality. The kind of movie that feels like somebody made it instead of a committee polishing all the sharp edges off it. Audiences have been starving for that energy again.

Scream 7 Comes Home to Paramount+

Ghostface is getting ready to completely dominate streaming algorithms again. Scream 7 officially arrives on Paramount+ on May 28, which means for the next month every streaming homepage is going to look like Ghostface is personally threatening your family.

The weird thing about Scream surviving this long is that the franchise keeps adapting without losing the nastiness that made it work in the first place. Most legacy horror franchises eventually become theme park rides. Scream still occasionally feels hostile.

That matters.

Streaming Horror Is Absurd Right Now

Streaming horror in general has been ridiculous lately.

Shudder has been on an unbelievable run, and the arrival of the complete Tales from the Crypt still feels slightly unreal. The full run has been on Shudder since May 1, and it has never been on any streaming platform before this. Younger horror fans are about to discover the Crypt Keeper and immediately understand why an entire generation developed warped senses of humor.

Meanwhile, The Vampire Lestat continues marketing itself like Anne Rice possessed an arena rock concert, which is exactly the correct energy for it. Season 3 of Interview with the Vampire arrives June 7 on AMC and AMC+, rebranded around Lestat in full rock star mode. It is as unhinged as advertised.

Even Netflix finally started acting like horror exists again.

Miracles happen.

Horror Feels Alive Again

The recurring theme underneath all of this is pretty obvious.

Horror feels alive again. Not overly polished. Not focus-tested into dust. Not terrified of being weird.

The genre feels meaner, stranger, hornier, messier, and more emotional right now, which is exactly when horror is at its best. Studios finally realized horror fans actually support things. We show up. We buy tickets. We stream movies repeatedly. We build communities around this genre in ways most fandoms barely do anymore.

And honestly? We are just more fun than everyone else.