Horror

Recently, we wrote about how Netflix’s Dahmer was the streamer’s most-watched drama series of all time. With a staggering 115,600,000 unique viewers and over 1 billion hours streamed,  Dahmer is one of the platform’s reigning champs. The anthology’s next entry, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, might have a shot of ascending to the

This year has been remarkable for horror fans. Oddity scared the pants off everyone, Longlegs set the box office ablaze, and In a Violent Nature reinvented what a slasher movie could be. There were sequels and prequels better than their franchise starts, and the Top 10 horror movies at the domestic box office grossed nearly $600 million in total (I did the math).

J. A. Bayona is one of my favorite living filmmakers. His directorial debut, The Orphanage, is arguably the greatest ghost story of this generation. It’s a masterclass in horror filmmaking, all the more remarkable considering it’s a debut feature. It doesn’t rank among my Top 5 horror movies ever made for nothing. With The Orphanage, Bayona established a very

Quentin Tarantino, 2007. ©Weinstein Company LLC/Courtesy Everett Collection Quentin Tarantino is a visionary director known for infusing grindhouse cinema with arthouse flare. He and his filmmaker pal Robert Rodriguez have collaborated multiple times over the course of their respective careers. Perhaps most notably on the exploitation double feature throwback Grindhouse. Another impressive team-up saw Tarantino

Welcome to Dread Central Unearthed 2024, where we’re sharing our favorite films, moments, kills, scares, and more from this year in horror. Today, Sharai Bohannon is sharing the top 10 horror performances of 2024. As usual, horror had some of the best performances of 2024, and many will be sadly overlooked as award nominations roll

Streaming is a useful innovation. I’m mostly in favor of it. But it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. I don’t love that when I watch a picture on Netflix, Prime, or Hulu, the service keeps tabs on what I’m watching and when I pause, rewind, or turn on the captioning. Not to mention,

The first half of the decade has already proven to be a fascinating and profitable era for horror movies, proving to anyone who still needed convincing that our genre is more alive than ever. Horror has been carrying the weight of the rest of cinema on its back, with independent, low-budget fare revitalizing the sluggish

This Christmas, Santa is delivering a beautiful present to all us good horror fans: the release of Robert Eggers’ take on the classic horror story Nosferatu, originally made for the screen in 1922 by F.W. Murnau. Now, over a century later, Eggers is applying his signature visual style supported by a stellar cast led by

The most-watched horror movie on Netflix today is an absurdist zombie comedy from a decorated indie filmmaker. The feature of which I speak is Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die. The flick sits as the third most-watched film on the platform across all genres on this fine day. It’s surprising that The Dead Don’t Die

It was Halloween at Sarah Lawrence College, and more than 100 undergraduates had gathered to discuss the ethics of murdering health insurance executives. The year was 2023, fourteen years after the release of Saw VI, a famous horror movie in which a group of serial killers (Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor) torture and otherwise take revenge

Bokshi, the highly anticipated directorial debut from Indian genre filmmaker Bhargav Saikia (Awakenings, The Black Cat), will make its world premiere at the renowned International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) in January 2025. This marks a milestone for Indian genre cinema, as Bokshi is one of the few independent Indian films to debut at a Top-Tier

After years of silence about the 28 Days Later series, we’re now not only getting a new sequel in 28 Years Later, but an entire trilogy. And the second film in that trilogy has been announced. Titled The Bone Temple, director Nia DaCosta (Candyman, The Marvels) helms the film, set to be released on January

Welcome to Dread Central Unearthed 2024, where we’re sharing our favorite films, moments, kills, scares, and more from this year in horror. Today, we have our staff writer Tyler Doupé’s personal top ten horror films of 2024! As other film genres become more and more predictable, horror continues to surprise and delight me. Even the

‘Tis the season for warm beverages and Christmas horror movies. Luckily, there is a seemingly never-ending supply of festive frights, with more joining the ranks yearly. 2022 saw Violent Night turn David Harbour into a vicious (and hot) Santa, while Joe Begos’ Christmas Bloody Christmas had Twitter clutching its pearls over language. 2023 gave us

Quentin Tarantino, 2007. ©Weinstein Company LLC/Courtesy Everett Collection The Video Archives Podcast cohosts Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary recently appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience. When the conversation turned to TV, Tarantino commented on how far television has come and acknowledged that it’s “pretty good.” The Jackie Brown director then qualified that statement by saying,

Like most Xennials, I grew up reading Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series. Our school library had all three books available. Reading them was like a rite of passage. Those terrifying Stephen Gammell illustrations haunted me in my formative years. They are still quite jarring today. The André Øvredal film inspired

I’m obsessed with documentaries and reality TV about the paranormal. Not because I’m a believer, but because, even if the supernatural contents of these ghost and cryptid hunting shows are hoaxes perpetrated by the filmmakers, the stories they share will always say something real about the storytellers and their audience. That’s why I was intrigued

Image via Netflix I love Christmas action movies. Die Hard is a seasonal staple in my household. Though it doesn’t quite recapture the magic of its predecessor, I’m also a big fan of Die Hard 2. The airport setting makes for a great backdrop and memorable setups, like the fight sequence on a baggage conveyor.

Welcome to Dread Central Unearthed 2024, where we’re sharing our favorite films, moments, kills, scares, and more from this year in horror. First up is our editor-in-chief Mary Beth McAndrews’ personal top ten horror films of 2024! 2024 was, at least from my perspective, an incredible year for horror. Between the astounding box office success

If you’re missing Stephen King’s quips, commentary, and media recommendations on Twitter, miss no more. The bestselling author has pivoted his focus to Threads. He still serves up his signature snark and makes time to share what he’s watching. So, it’s just like his Twitter profile, but without all of the baggage that one unhinged

What do Robocop, Police Academy, Rambo, and The Toxic Avenger have in common? If you answered that these were all rated R movie franchises turned into children’s cartoons, then you’re absolutely correct. It was a strange phenomenon, but the 80s (and into the early 90s, when The Toxic Crusaders was released) were a weird time

Welcome to The Overlooked Motel, a place where under-seen and unappreciated films get their moment in the spotlight. I hope you enjoy your stay here and find the accommodations suitable. Now, please take a seat and make yourself comfortable. I have some misbehaving guests to ‘correct.’  Watch the latest episode: This week’s pick is a film

Living Dead Media has officially announced a fresh new visit to the Return Of The Living Dead universe, which is set to hit theaters next year! It’s appropriate, too, because 2025 will mark the 40th anniversary of the release of the 1985 cult classic that crafted a new kind of brain-hungry zombie. For the first

On election night, political lightning rod Nick Fuentes tweeted: “Your body, my choice. Forever.” That chilling refrain has been lodged in my brain ever since. The internet quickly flooded with countless incels responding to women’s posts with those barbaric words. Such online vitriol irrefutably spills over into real life, feeding victim blaming and sexual violence

Julie James is back! Today, I Know What You Did Last Summer star Jennifer Love Hewitt took to Instagram to confirm that she would, in fact, be returning to the series in the latest installment, set to release next summer. She joins Freddie Prinze, Jr. as the two confirmed series alums reprising their iconic roles

Rebekah McKendry is a jack of all horror trades, writing, directing, and producing horror films while also teaching about horror. Now, she and her husband, David Ian McKendry, are adding comic book writers under their belt. While they dipped their toes in that pool with the Hellraiser: Anthology graphic novels, they’ve now written an original series,

Winter is upon us, which means it’s time to crack open some nice chilly thrillers—or chillers, if you will. Horror has always been fortunate enough to have an abundance of wintery gems. We see people get hunted in the snow all the time. We even have classics like Misery and The Thing (1982), which are

Jack Quaid as “Nate” in Novocaine from Paramount Pictures. I’ve been tricked by a trailer before. So, do not take my word as gospel. However, the preview for the upcoming action horror comedy Novocaine looks pretty promising to me. The action appears to be intense. The humor seems appropriately quippy. And the setup seems like

I’m a bigger fan of Blumhouse than most contemporary horror fans. Yeah, their reputation proceeds them (not always for the better), but at its core, they’re still the micro-budget horror studio I fell in love with. Some of their IP filmmaking has been less than great (The Exorcist: Believer, oooph), but otherwise, they’re still one of the better

Before Alien: Romulus was shifted to a theatrical release, the plan was to go the Prey route and premiere the film exclusively on streaming. Whoever was responsible for making the call to opt for a more traditional release must be sitting pretty– thus far, Alien: Romulus has grossed $350 million at the worldwide box office. For comparison’s sake, Alien: Covenant wrapped its run