★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ Striking visuals and strong lead performances highlight this slow-burning feminist parable that is punctuated by sudden...
The Acrylic, a Thingy Award write-in candidate for best Horror Short, is available for viewing right here! That painting is just plain wrong.
Grady Hendrix breathes new life into to the often cliche vampire genre with his best novel to date!
You’ll scream, screech, gasp, cough wheeze, and, well…hopefully it’s just a common cold and it’ll be done in a couple days. One of the best ways to determine whether it is a common cold? Check the current CDC guidelines and consult with your local health department.
After you’ve done the requisite diagnosis, grabbed some vitamin C, and little DayQuil — THEN check out this gallery of the weirdest, wildest, wackiest and just plain BEST pandemic horror posters ever created!
These posters are infected so wash your hands after you’ve touched this gang of impurity!
Welcome to the new reality, folks! While you are at shuttered in at home, many of you have been curious...
★★ out of ★★★★★ Sometimes less really is more. And sometimes way less is really way more. Eschewing all prior entries in Paranormal Activity franchise, and more importantly questioning the simple aesthetic of the found footage horror sub-genre. Enter Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension. For those of you keeping track at home — and sadly, at this point, you really need to keep track to follow this franchise — this is number six.
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While it's more comedy than horror, this splattery witch-based tale is an entertaining cat & mouse chase around Salem, Massachusetts.
★★★ out of ★★★★★ Young women. Adventurous young women. Genetically perfect adventurous young women. Impossibly tight spaces. Blind killing creatures who’ve not seen the light of day for millennia. It’s the Descent for the tween generation! Plus, did we mention the forever hunky John Corbett?
★★★★ out of ★★★★★ Shudder’s Cursed Film series takes an entertaining, even-keeled, engaging, and often emotional look at why some...
The horror genre lost one of the great rebel independent horror movie directors in Stuart Gordon, who passed away at age 72 from unknown causes.
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It's a remake? It's a reboot? It's a... sidequel! And we've got jump scares aplenty in the most recent addition to Grudge lore.
Hey baby. How ya doin? Why don't you come sit a little closer? Wait! That's close enough. Six feet please. Yeahhhh, good, that's better. Ok, relax, it's time to Netflix (or Shudder) and Chill to the erotic side of the horror genre. The Scariest Things has now strutted into the realm of the scary AND steamy. Mike even put his finest fishnets on for this one.
Popcorn Frights, one of our favorite film festivals, is going to try and help you get over being scared about corona virus, and making scared about something else! They are providing links to how to find their festival movies past, for your enjoyment.
Womp Stomp Films -- makers of the astounding Friday the 13th fan film, Never Hike Alone (2017) -- have their very first original short film hitting the festivals this year.
★★★★ out of ★★★★★ If you are in the mood for a mind-blowing cinematic experience, look no further than the...
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Don'tcha hate it when a gang of crazies interrupts your relaxing weekend at a remote cabin with an unexpected home invasion?
The old notification on medieval maps stating "Here there be monsters!" still applies within modern genre film. Many of our greatest, and more than a few of the worst genre films are set at sea. The Scariest Things has a guide for those of you who like a little salt water with your scares.
★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ An oblique mystery thriller with supernatural horror elements, Exit 0 boasts strong performances and plenty of...
Funny... it doesn't look that scary. But we all know the truth, don't we? That damned virus is crushing everything in it's path, including the cinema.
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Michael David Wilson wants to slide into your DMs with The Girl in the Video.
★★★★ out of ★★★★★ Disappearance at Clifton Hill is a horror-adjacent mystery thriller that should please viewers who have a...
We had so much fun recording this episode, it's a two parter! Now we get to the real hard-to-stomach material. The Bridge Too Far movies. How did our sissy chicken friends fare? Listen and find out!
Atlanta’s Women in Horror Film Festival offered a fine selection of shorts, including these tales of psychic baggage, inevitable doom,...
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A mildly raunchy, splattertastic, alien invasion creature feature with a Mean Girls twist crossed with a teen pregnancy after school special? Yes, please!
Forget Super Tuesday! Vote for something that really matters... like the best horror movies, actors, actresses, and directors from the genre in 2020! The Scariest Things 2020 Thingy Awards are being made open to our fans to be the jury for our second annual awards!
The scaredy cat is back! And this time in comes in the form of our friends (and patron) Dan Bradbury and Mike Halstead. These two gentlemen are what you would call horror movie averse. So, we decided to challenge them to watch nine horror movies, and to see if they could handle it! Heh... heh... heh...
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What you can't see can kill you in this terrifying and timely update of Universal Pictures' The Invisible Man.
Our universal fav' film from 2019 gets its official release on March 6! Prepare to laugh, cry, and get 👻 spooked.
Candyman... Candyman... Candyman... Candyman.... no, I can't do it! One of the great villains in all of horror is getting a reboot. Yahya Abdul Mateen stars as a man returning to Cabrini Green, and the famed killing grounds of the Candyman. Check out the trailer here!