From genre-defining hits ('Sinners') and surprise breakouts ('Weapons') to hidden gems ('Dead Mail') and auteur-driven awards contenders ('Frankenstein'), these were the best scares studios and ...

You wouldn’t call 2025 an “off” year for horror — more like an odd one. Both A24 and Neon continued to back several scary-movie auteurs (the prolific Osgood Perkins, the brothers Danny and Michael ...

Josh Speer has been writing about videogames for more than a decade now, but he's loved them since he was a small boy. He grew up with Mario and Mega Man, moved onto RPGs with Chrono Trigger and Final ...

This Halloween: give yourself over to absolute comic pleasure. In Bride of Rocky Horror, Janet Weiss has traded suburban repression for a life of decadent freedom. But a mysterious invitation reunites ...

Watching horror films is a very popular form of entertainment – for some people. Research on horror films suggests which elements are particularly scary, and reveals the kinds of people who are ...

The early 2000s is not generally regarded as a great era for movies — let alone the horror genre. It was the 2010s that marked a mainstream turning point for the genre, with the popularization of ...

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Ever since Resident Evil exploded onto the scene in 1996 and made inventory reshuffling in the face of a zombie outbreak popular, players have been regularly fighting down to their very last bullet.

Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...

Horror films have been a staple of cinema since at least the 1920s, when “The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari” and “Nosferatu” defined postwar German Expressionism. Today, the genre has been defined and ...