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Slayings! The supernatural?!? A child in peril! Seth Daly's gripping feature debut THE ROWS offers all this and more.
The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Announces its Full 2025 Program! The East Coast Genre Fest Resurrects for 10th Anniversary.
Apparently, the long TV format suits Alien perfectly. Fox continues its remarkable rehabilitation of its two valuable action/horror IPs, with Alien Earth doing for the xenomorph franchise what Prey did for the Predator franchise. It has injected lyrical symbolism into a series that has waxed and waned in intellectual rigor.
Australia's Dark Nights Film Fest announces its eerie 2025 lineup!
If you hear squeaky shoes, run away! The very popular trope of coulrophobia, the fear of clowns, taps into childhood fears and manages to go to almost unthinkable extremes. With the rise of Art and Pennywise, the horrorverse knows there is a vein that taps into real, deep-seated fears. Join Heather, Mike, and Eric in our breakdown of some clown-themed films for your consumption.
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Crossword (2024) is a psychological thriller that pays close attention to the smallest details and is rich in symbolism. James is struggling to come to terms with the drowning of his young daughter, Lily. His grief is expressed through the daily crossword puzzle, which he believes is an omen communicating with him.
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Being an independent horror movie maker isn't easy. Eddie Mathews sacrifices everything in his power to keep his directing dreams alive. If that means living in his disapproving mother-in-law's house and pitching presidential bobbleheads as a side hustle, then that's what he has to do. The horror must be made!
The Scariest Things presents a FrightFest curtain raiser preview.
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What the Tide Dragged In (Lo Que Trajo La Marea) is an emotionally charged, Chilean tale of sisterhood and loss. Two sisters go to the coast to comply with their mother's wish to have her ashes cast to the sea. Their mom warned them of the mysteries of the sea, and it has a vast power that will come to claim what it wants.
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Teacher's Pet goes back to school and follows Clara, an overachieving foster care teenager who has become the target of a serial killer masquerading as a substitute teacher. The characters are compelling, even if the plot has some blind spots regarding distinctive red flags that should have exposed the villain's deception.
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Weapons has arrived in theaters, and it is one of the most original horror mysteries in memory. Give Zach Cregger the keys to the horror castle. He has elevated himself to the top of the ranks of horror storytellers. With Weapons, he has delivered an engrossing and wicked puzzle that comes together with shocking revelations, dark humor, and brutal viscera. The movie is a masterclass in character building, non-linear editing, and bravura acting from the entire cast.
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Have you ever desired to be a haunted house? Deck of Haunts will feed that desire, as well as many hapless investigators who want to discover the horrible truth about what you are. There is a dark heart beating at the center of this old mansion on a blasted hill, and it needs to feed on the souls and sanity of those who dare enter it. This is a digital card deck-building game that combines with a construction simulator. This game presents a significant strategic challenge. Good luck! It starts easy and becomes deviously hard.
Here's the pster debut and premiere information about new folk horror feature BLOOD SHINE.
Last, but certainly not least. The final content announcement for the much-anticipated Popcorn Frights Film Festival 2025. They're pullin' out all the stops!
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Place famously eccentric actor, John Malkovich into a story about a messianic pop star leading a death cult commune, under the A24 umbrella and you have the makings of an art house classic, right? Almost. It's a combination of The Menu, Midsommar, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This A24 production falls a bit shy of its incredible promise.
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A fun found footage mash-up of Paranormal Activity (2007) and The Amityville Horror (1979) with some DIY home renovation YouTubers thrown in for good measure.
Horror Mockumentaries succeed because of the implied truths they pretend to offer. The authenticity, tangibility, and verisimilitude all convey that what you are watching actually happened. And, it could happen to YOU. Because it is a MOCKumentary and not a DOCumentary, this is all fiction, though, and thank goodness for that. Some of the most brutal and horrific stories originate from this favorite subgenre of horror. Join us in Episode 199, as the Scariest Things investigates the truth of Mockumentaries.
The Closing Night selection has just been announced for the Florida-based Popcorn Frights Film Festival and it's a doozy!
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Self-image, beauty norms, popularity. Grafted takes all that, mixes it with a corpse flower, and comes up with some murderously gnarly body horror.
18 years and counting! Atlanta's Buried Alive Film Festival is back for its 2025 season and it's better than ever. This year the 13-day Sinema Challenge festival/contest stands on its own!
One of the biggest, one of the best! Florida's Popcorn Frights Film Festival returns for its 11th season of shocks, scares, and screams. We've got the official Second Wave announcement giving even more fantastic details about the upcoming event!
The vengeful spirit of a hitman possesses a university student in the fun Japanese genre-mashup GHOST KILLER.
This summer, it’s bigger, bloodier, and bolder than ever as the 11th Annual Popcorn Frights Film Festival returns August 7-17 for an electrifying 11-day takeover of South Florida.
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A quirky, mildly violent, mystery-filled entry in the fun sub-genre of religious horror starring Bella Thorne, Rebecca De Mornay, and Ryan Phillippe.
A quirky, mildly violent, mystery-filled entry in the fun sub-genre of religious horror starring Bella Thorne, Rebecca De Mornay, and Ryan Phillippe.
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When a film becomes so firmly ensconced in our nation’s, nay the world’s, cultural zeitgeist there’s often nothing left to say about it. The film score, the triad of perfectly perfect actors, one of the best villains of all time, and more metaphorical subtext than you can shake a stick at.
We have reached a milestone recording episode, and also a good milestone date for horror movies. The first 25 years of the century, nay, the millennium, have passed. It is an opportune time to look back at the first quarter century and show our favorite movies of the past 25 years. We like our lists and rankings here at The Scariest Things!
The Scariest Things presents six Fantasia 2025 selections that have our keen attention!
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Are you a fan of obscure and cheesy cult films? Odds are, you would appreciate the efforts of Sinister Cinema, the Medford, Oregon-based distribution company that lovingly restored and distributed thousands of almost-forgotten films. This documentary from Jack Perez goes in-depth on the company that wouldn't let these films die.
The Scariest Things brings you the droolworthy lineup from London's FrightFest 2025!