Filmmakers take note: Australia's Dark Nights Film Fest wants your fear fare as they call for entries!
The Scariest Things has some short film recommendations for Panic Fest 2026!
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If Guy Maddin and Roger Corman collaborated on a British comedy sketch about ghostly folk tales, filmmaking, and the creative process, it might look something like The Peril at Pincer Point — but then again, it absolutely might not . . .
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Turning 15 years old is hard enough, but when a monstrous event affects your best friend and a quinceañera goes horribly wrong, things get gory and violent, indeed, as Quince (Fifteen) shows in great detail.
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Virtuosos get violent in Pretty Lethal as a troupe of American ballerinas find themselves in a dangerous situation facing Hungarian mobsters. This fun feature delivers genre thrills at an allegro pace.
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A young woman abandoned in the forest falls in with a pair of bank robbers in Canadian thriller A SAFE DISTANCE.
The Scariest Things has four more SXSW 2026 feature film recommendations for you!
Here are five SXSW 2026 feature films we're greatly anticipating
Here's a trio of short horror shorts premiering at SXSW 2026.
Brazil's Fantaspoa film festival is ready to boggle your mind with its 2026 lineup!
A Night of Horror International Film Festival's 2026 first wave lineup blends the supernatural with the surreal.
FrightFest Glasgow unleashes its fantastic 2026 lineup!
Check out the trailer and poster for retro sci-fi/horror comedy VAMPIRE ZOMBIES . . . FROM SPACE!.
Check out the octet of oddness that is the first wave of feature films for MidWest WeirdFest!
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Writer/director Zak Hilditch focuses on personal grief and loss in this dramatically gripping take on a zombie outbreak.
If you're in the mood for some throwback Spanish horror, check out the trailer for LILY'S RITUAL!
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Australian shark shocker Beast of War balances its drama and creature feature elements impressively, boasting good performances and plenty of great-white gore.
PARASOMNIA is a solid entry in the horror subgenre of night terrors.
Here's the mind blowing trailer for the new release of Yoshihiro Nishimura’s HOLY MOTHER!
The Scariest Things has some more FilmQuest short film recommendations for you!
The Scariest Things has our first installment of short film recommendations from FilmQuest 2025!
The Scariest Things has the trailer and poster reveal for Argentinian sci-fi horror MAR.IA.
The Scariest Things has a trailer alert for a film releasing on October 7th: cult-based horror feature THE HEALING.
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Psychological horror JACOB'S LADDER gets a gorgeous 4K restoration for a 35th anniversary theatrical run.
Here's the trailer and poster for violent 1970s throwback horror BRUTE 1976, now available on VOD and digital platforms.
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Animated German feature FELIDAE is a dark excursion into noir horror featuring a cast of cats.
EDGAR ALLAN POE'S "THE OVAL PORTRAIT" premieres this weekend at Portland's H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival before its October 10 wide release --- here's the new trailer!
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RABBIT TRAP offers a hypnotic serving of Welsh folk horror that boasts evocative sound design.
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Slayings! The supernatural?!? A child in peril! Seth Daly's gripping feature debut THE ROWS offers all this and more.
Australia's Dark Nights Film Fest announces its eerie 2025 lineup!