Horror

Here you'll find coverage of all things horror, from jump-scare movies to frighteningly psychological games.

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Damian McCarthy's new horror masterpiece Hokum has been 10 years in the making

The Irish filmmaker behind Oddity and Caveat reveals how he cast Adam Scott, why he loves witches, and the secret to a good jump scare

Bryan (Austin Abrams) holds a door from zombies in Resident Evil 2026
Weapons director's new Resident Evil movie gets its first trailer

Zach Cregger's take on Capcom's survival horror franchise looks wildly different

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Resident Evil director Zach Cregger didn't watch the previous movies so he could stick closer to the games

'I was such a fan of the games and they just didn’t look like the games to me'

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Bryan (Austin Abrams) runs for his life through the street in Resident Evil 2026
Resident Evil 2026 director reveals his new movie takes place on the periphery of Resident Evil 2

Director Zach Cregger wanted to replicate the feel of playing the game for the first time

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Survivors of a plane crash, led by a pilot played by Aaron Eckhart, stand in the remnants of their downed plane, looking out at the unseen ocean, in a scene from the shark thriller Deep Water
Deep Water isn't a sequel or equal to the director's standout shark movie, Deep Blue Sea

Renny Harlin is back in shark-filled waters, but Deep Water doesn't run particularly deep

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Oddity and Hokum director Damian McCarthy reveals plans for his final (and scariest) horror movie

'It's self-contained, almost like a classic haunted house movie'

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Stephen King meets Jaws in Apple TV's inventive new thriller

The star and showrunner of Widow's Bay unpack their influences in an interview with Polygon

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Sydney Sweeney in Night Teeth from Netflix. Sweeney plays vampire boss Grace, and wears a studded vambrace with a black dress and spiked earrings.
Remember when Sydney Sweeney starred as a vampire mob boss in this Netflix thriller?

Night Teeth is far more compelling than it appears

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Cam in Him covered in blood and holding two footballs in front of a line of faceless cheerleaders
Jordan Peele's divisive sports horror movie is blowing up on Netflix

Him brings blood to summer sports and new life to streaming

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Anne Hathaway, as pop star Mother Mary in the movie of the same name, clasps her hands over her mouth in horror, with stylized lights blurred in the background
The man behind The Green Knight has delivered a ghost story like no other

In Mother Mary, David Lowery seems fixated on the less horrific dimension to ghost-like entities

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A shot from Dark Souls 3 at the end of the game featuring the player holding out heir arm towards Fillianore and her egg.
10 years on, Dark Souls 3 remains a work of art that refuses to fade

The flame lives on, even as it flickers

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An emergency save station in the sequel to Alien Isolation
First teaser for Alien: Isolation's long-awaited sequel doesn't feature a Xenomorph, but it's very eerie

We finally got a first look on Alien Day 2026

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One of the century's best zombie movies (and its lesser-known sequel) are leaving Netflix in 7 days

Watch while you can

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Mother Mary director David Lowery breaks down 3 scenes from A24's mesmerizing new thriller

Lowery on the power of dance, ghosts, and quantum physics

Steve and Dustin lie on their backs in an industrial space full of pipes, both looking astonished or scared, in Stranger Things: Tales from ’85
Netflix's new Stranger Things show wanted to create a monster as scary as Jaws

The animated spinoff draws on The Goonies, The Real Ghostbusters, Jaws, and Alien

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Nikki, a large girl with a spiky pink peak in her hair, holds a mallet and smiles as she prepares to play a carnival game while Will watches in Stranger Things: Tales from ‘85
Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 expanded the party to solve the problem with Will

The spin-off’s showrunner has big plans for more adventures

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Charlize Theron clings to Taron Egerton's back as they're both swept through rapids in 2026's Apex
Netflix's Apex really is a Predator movie with an all-human cast

Taron Egerton hunts Charlize Theron through an Australian forest in a grueling survival thriller that eventually goes full horror-movie

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The shadow of a lifeless man drifting through space backlit by a cross-like burst of light
Event Horizon's sequel comic just brought back a 232-year-old character from the original movie

Is this a retcon?

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A closeup shot of Clayface, with his hand on his chin and an unbroken flap of skin from forehead to chin, from the movie's first teaser trailer
Clayface trailer shows the DCU's first foray into unsettling body horror

After Superman and Supergirl, the DCU takes a dark turn with its first R-rated horror movie

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Watch the viral YouTube video set to become the next big horror movie event

You've really got to stop using so much AI, Cody

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