Keyword "Horror films" - List of latest news (434 results)

22/04 Sinners: vampires, racial politics and a surprise cameo – discuss with spoilers

Ryan Coogler’s ambitious box office hit combines genres to come up with something wholly original and fascinatingly complex

22/04 The Ugly Stepsister review – body-horror take on Cinderella is ingenious reworking of fairy tale

Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt upends audience expectations in a feature debut that’s hyper-aware of the origin story’s sexual and patriarchal imagery

21/04 Sinners is a horror film about the highs and lows of the Black experience | Andrew Lawrence

Ryan Coogler’s wildly ambitious period vampire movie is set around the great migration and uses supernatural and real-life horrors to smartly make its point

19/04 Sinners review – Ryan Coogler’s sexy southern gothic horror is a blast

Michael B Jordan stars as twin 1930s mobsters in the Black Panther director’s phenomenal-looking, blues-infused supernatural tale

17/04 ‘My heart broke’: director Ryan Coogler on mourning Chadwick Boseman, rebooting Black Panther and his new movie Sinners

The highest grossing Black film-maker of all time is known for his superhero movies and reinventing the Rocky franchise. Now he’s made his most personal film yet – and it’s a vampire thriller

12/04 Chhorii 2 Review: How is Nusrat Bharucha and Soha Ali Khan's 'Chori 2'? Read review before watching the film

Chhorii 2 Review: Every year some horror films continue to be released in Bollywood. In this horror films, we often hear old mansion, haze -filled paths and sudden hearing screams. But some horror films are such that which scares us and also leaves a deep impact on our mind. One such film has been released on Amazon Prime Video 'Chori 2'. The film is a sequel to the 2021 'Chori', which released on

10/04 Sinners review – Ryan Coogler’s deep-south gonzo horror down at the crossroads

Michael B Jordan plays a double role in Coogler’s intriguing period tale of anti-heroic brothers making their way into much wilder country

10/04 [Film reviewer] "Sugar Factory", there was laughter when the heart was beating fast.

The sugar factory film not only successfully provides a sensation of heartbeat, but also shakes the stomach with the comedy.

06/04 Death of a Unicorn review – Jenna Ortega shines in B-movie-style satire on big pharma

Murderous unicorns run amok in Alex Scharfman’s gory American horror that gleefully embraces a lo-fi aesthetic but lacks sufficient bite

01/04 Black Cab review – Nick Frost on outstanding form in creepy taxi-driving Brit horror

Though the narrative goes the long way round, there are plenty of strong performances and good ideas to keep this journey interesting

31/03 Screamboat review – rodent IP horror sends Mickey Mouse on a ferry rampage

A genetically modified mouse goes on the rampage in bloody Disney pastiche that offers Sharknado-level performances and kill scenes hindered by poor lighting

28/03 The Woman in the Yard review – pared-back horror is Grandma’s Footsteps: The Movie

A mysterious figure gradually advances upon a rural home in this confusing chiller, which wastes some decent nightmare fuel

16/03 The Rule of Jenny Pen review – John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush excel in malicious nursing home chiller

The twin terrors of dementia and an elderly psychopath hold sway in this striking psychological horror from New Zealand director James Ashcroft

13/03 The Parenting review – supernatural caper is a so-so comedy and a lousy horror

A gay couple are trapped in a haunted Airbnb with their parents in an initially amusing but progressively exasperating genre mishmash

10/03 Don’t Turn Out the Lights review – party-animal horror turns into backwoods road trip to hell

Andy Fickman’s tale of generically ill-fated obnoxious twentysomethings is cursed with thinly drawn characters

08/03 Streaming: Steven Soderbergh’s Presence and the best haunted house films

The director’s witty supernatural thriller joins Psycho, Hereditary, The Brutalist and more – films in which buildings are characters in their own right

06/03 Warning: if your name is David, you won’t survive a horror movie

A survey has revealed the most likely characters to be killed off before the end credits. Actors would be ill-advised to take on any Davids, Hollys or Dicks

03/03 Oscars 2025 big moments: Brody beats orchestra, Brits keep it classy and Kieran Culkin botches his big moment

The awards ceremony can’t escape Harvey Weinstein and two fairytales come a cropper

27/02 Mischa Barton: ‘I’m a huge Oasis fan. What kind of self-respecting Brit would I be if I wasn’t?’

The London-born US actor on having Richard Attenborough as a mentor, why she loves starring in horror films, and hanging out with the Killers on the set of The OC

19/02 The Monkey review – slapdash splatter comedy is a grating misfire

Writer-director Osgood Perkins follows up horror hit Longlegs with a tiresome, juvenile adaptation of a Stephen King short story about an evil toy monkey

19/02 Cronos review – Guillermo del Toro’s signature wit and gore on show in 1992 debut

A mysterious mechanical object offers life-giving vitality – but with macabre consequences – in the Mexican maestro’s steampunkish body-horror comedy

18/02 Cue the pig squeal! How The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’s score was stitched back together for its first release

A soundtrack of wildlife, drones and saucepans ensured the 1974 film became truly horrifying. Its co-creator recalls the can-do spirit that made it happen

18/02 Little Bites review – something wicked this way noms in mum-snacking horror

A single mother is terrorised by an evil entity sapping her lifeforce and threatening her child in this decent horror with a genre fan’s dream cast

18/02 The Birthday review – cult Corey Feldman movie arrives after 20 years in film wilderness

Given a boost by Jordan Peele, this hyped ‘lost’ movie from Eugenio Mira about freaky goings-on at a hotel finally gets a proper release

14/02 Bad romance: why Hollywood is focusing on anti-Valentine’s movies

Forget romcoms – this year sees new releases focusing on gore, toxic relationships and android romances

14/02 The Gorge review – guarding hellish monsters is aphrodisiac in silly horror

Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy flirt over an abyss full of creatures in a slickly made but increasingly dumb Apple mockbuster

12/02 The Dead Thing review – sexy state-of-dating thriller opens up the algorithmic death-drive

Office drone Alex meets Kyle on a dating app and he seems perfect. But all is not what it seems in Elric Kane’s clever supernatural foray

11/02 Mom review – neonatal horror leaves new mother in nightmare of guilt and terror

Debut feature does its best to keep things feeling supernatural as woman faced with impossible parenting demands slides into psychosis

11/02 The Baby in the Basket review – devilish convent horror is low-budget nun fun

The spawn of Satan raises hell at a Scottish nunnery in this retro-styled British fright fest

10/02 Cara review – psychosis-dogged sex worker goes on a grand guignol rampage

Low-budget British film’s attempt to blend psychological drama and extreme horror ultimately falls between two stools

07/02 Heart Eyes review – junky Valentine’s slasher is hard to fall for

An awkward cross between insipid romantic comedy and schlocky sleepover horror fails on both counts

03/02 ‘I was trying to explode the idea of beauty’: Coralie Fargeat on The Substance, women and Hollywood

Her gruesome horror has won her an Oscar nomination – and given its star Demi Moore’s career new life. But did taking down the patriarchy have to be so gory?

30/01 Opus review – John Malkovich plays an evil pop star in a silly horror dud

The cult of celebrity is targeted in a progressively nonsensical and poorly made debut starring Ayo Edebiri

28/01 Together review – codependent relationship body horror is a fun ride

Real-life husband and wife Dave Franco and Alison Brie play a couple put to the ultimate test in a slickly and sickly made thriller

26/01 The Thing with Feathers review – Benedict Cumberbatch’s grief horror falls apart

A unaffecting adaptation of Max Porter’s acclaimed novella is perched awkwardly between fantasy and reality, failing to convince on either level

26/01 Rabbit Trap review – Dev Patel gets lost in the woods in messy folk horror

Strong performances and an eerie atmosphere can’t save an increasingly baffling 70s-set curio

23/01 After Indonesia, the deceased's film will be shown in 49 countries

The film Almarhum raises the myth in Java about Tuesday Kliwon.

22/01 Presence review – Soderbergh’s ghost’s-eye movie plays it cool with an unhappy family

A judging spectre watches as depression and heavy drinking befall Lucy Liu’s home in an intelligent film full of uncanny, sudden-chill moments

21/01 Are you being watched? Soderbergh’s ghost voyeur movie taps strange truths

Presence, the story of a family haunting where the camera’s eye is the spectre’s point of view, draws on what are for many people all too palpable phenomena

21/01 Grafted review – Face/Off-style skin-graft horror has layers of punky attitude

A Chinese student arrives in New Zealand and continues her father’s experimental research in Sasha Rainbow’s cosmetic chiller

20/01 Oscar buzz and genre snubs: will the Academy finally give sci-fi, fantasy and horror their due?

Genre films typically only get the technical gongs, but critical smashes such as Dune: Part Two, Wicked and The Substance could make ‘prestige’ category wins a reality this year

16/01 Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter review – swashbuckling Hammer horror still has bite

Directed by legendary writer Brian Clemens this macabre vampire yarn is marked by the Edgar Allan Poe template but has a charm and humour all of its own

15/01 Wolf Man review – fear-free update of the lupine myth lacks bite and believability

Leigh Whannell’s unfocused follow-up to The Invisible Man is a howling disappointment, misjudged and dull

14/01 Werewolves review – post-apocalyptic lupine horror makes an enemy of the moonlight

In Steven C Miller’s intermittently effective film a supermoon turns those exposed to its light into werewolves – or rather people wearing hairy Halloween masks

14/01 ‘Quite scary’: Friends star’s shock confession

The one with the fame.

09/01 But what about … the most overlooked performances of this awards season

As Oscar voting kicks off and other bodies continue to reward a similar rotation of actors, there are others who deserve inclusion

07/01 The Damned review – atmospheric period chiller twists the knife on Iceland fishers

Mysterious deaths befall members of an isolated 19th-century fishing community after they choose not to aid the survivors of a shipwreck

07/01 Get Away review – Nick Frost ramps up the ridiculousness in comedy horror

An almighty twist and a demented finale rescue the Shaun of the Dead actor’s cartoonish homage to folk horrors – but co-star Aisling Bea deserves better

07/01 Street Trash review – grisly remake of cult horror sends exploding corpses to South Africa

A gang of homeless misfits fight for survival in this dull reboot of the 1987 American horror film

04/01 9 Indonesian Horror Films January 2025. Horror Lovers Come Closer!

January 2025, nine Indonesian horror films are ready to appear! Don't miss an unforgettable horror experience at the cinema of your choice!

31/12 Beezel review – impish jump-scare machine follows single house’s horrific history

Episodic tale spanning the decades from the 60s to the 00s is a little unoriginal but is delivered with toxic wit

31/12 Oddity review – deft Irish horror gets great value from ventriloquist’s dummy

A strong cast and a spooky mannequin deliver heavy gothic frisson as a blind woman investigates her sister’s unnatural death

29/12 Nosferatu review – Lily-Rose Depp is the dark heart of Robert Eggers’s extraordinary vampire tale

The actor’s brilliantly tortured performance matches the feral gothic atmosphere of this remake of FW Murnau’s 1922 silent classic

27/12 ‘I had to make the vampire as scary as possible’: Nosferatu’s Robert Eggers on how folklore fuelled his film

The director of the latest movie in the bloodsucker tradition explains why he went back to the Transylvanian source for his version of one of cinema’s enduring adaptations

24/12 Rippy review – kangaroo slasher bounces into Cocaine Bear territory

Horror drama about a marsupial in the frame for murder brings earnestness and maudlin backstory where none is needed

23/12 Santa slays and jingle hells: here's why Christmas horror films are the perfect antidote to the season | Paul Syvret

They can be silly and tasteless – and there’s something suitable for almost any age and audience

22/12 Death is at the heart of Christmas. That’s why we love to tell festive ghost stories | Kate Maltby

It’s a creepy time of year from The Archers to Nosferatu to Mark Gatiss’ Woman of Stone

17/12 Iconic 90s star makes rare public appearance 33 years after hit movie

An iconic 90s movie star was seen making a very rare appearance in Los Angeles 33 years after his hit film role.

16/12 Nosferatu: The Real Story review – insightful probe into a vampire classic

Robin Bextor’s documentary about FW Murnau’s 1922 silent masterpiece makes some sharp points but leaves noticeable holes

14/12 Nightbitch review – Amy Adams carries frustrating mum-on-the-edge comedy drama

Adams plays a struggling mother who starts to turn into a dog in Marielle Heller’s uneven adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s bestseller

11/12 Kraven the Hunter review – Russell Crowe busts up laborious superhero yarn

Crowe’s safari-going Russian oligarch is the main redeeming feature of this Spider-Man-adjacent tale but there’s not much to like elsewhere

10/12 Exceedingly good needle drops: why a 1915 Kipling poem is the cherry on top of the 28 Years Later trailer

Zombie movie action soundtracked by the unhinged vinyl screeches of Boots, Rudyard Kipling’s evocation of soldiers in battle? It’s a match made in horror movie heaven

10/12 Boy eats girl: horror comedy Fresh really is worth a second helping

What initially looks and feels like a standard romantic comedy with Sebastian Stan and Daisy Edgar-Jones deftly ends up in a far darker place …

06/12 Rumours review – close encounters for Cate Blanchett and the magnificent G7

Seven world leaders – including Charles Dance’s dozy US president – are trapped in a forest in this amusing but bizarre apocalyptic comedy

04/12 Indonesian Horror Film Stories Rule Cinemas in Cambodia, Many Like Danquot;Mak Lampirdanquot;

Indonesian films, especially the horror genre, receive a warm welcome in Cambodia. Indonesian Ambassador Santo Darmosumarto plans to hold an Indonesian Film Festival.

02/12 Nosferatu review – Robert Eggers’s respectful homage to a vampire horror classic

The second remake of FW Murnau’s unofficial Dracula adaptation is handsomely shot and stylised, with a forbiddingly gruesome monster, but walks the line between self-conscious and scary

27/11 Your Monster review – Melissa Barrera excels in cheery romance with nice-guy beast

The Scream star shows impressive range in this horror-comedy, where the real peril she faces comes from a much more ordinary man

19/11 Top Horror Movies Free On OTT: If you are also fond of horror movies, watch these extremely scary movies for free on OTT.

Watch Horror Movies Free On OTT: Even in childhood, our grandmothers and grandfathers used to tell ghost stories. We used to enjoy listening to them, but also felt very scared. Similarly, some people like watching horror movies, but they also get scared after watching them. If you are also one of them, then this article is for you. Actually, today we are going to tell about some horror films in th

19/11 Monster Summer review – Mel Gibson finds berth in teens v supernatural forces throwback

Gibson is one of a recognisable adult cast slumming it in this toothless 80s-style tale of kids duking it out with evil menaces

14/11 Blood Show review – splattering violence becomes gross-out comedy

Ocean Chillingworth’s show depicts a brutal fight that turns into something altogether messier

14/11 Febby Rastanty's Totality in the Film Women Are Experts of Hell: From Heavy Scenes to Training to Become a Good Wife

Febby not only has to fight her fear in carrying out scary scenes, but also learn to play a wife with totality

13/11 3 Horror Films Starring Ari Irham

Making his debut through the film I Love You from 38,000 Feet, Ari Irham's acting was then widely noticed.

12/11 ‘I feel like that was me’: how have Mormons reacted to Hugh Grant horror Heretic?

The hit new thriller, about a psychopath toying with missionaries, has sparked conversation within the community it focuses on

12/11 Piper review – Elizabeth Hurley dances a merry tune in cheesy rat-based folk horror

Hurley arrives in Pied Piper territory with her daughter to take a teaching job at a creepy private school. Soon enough the town’s infamous rodent problem starts being an issue

10/11 The Babadook at 10: how a tiny Australian film became a horror hit – and an unlikely queer icon

They had $2m and six weeks. Everyone hated the name. Test audiences hated the film. Here’s the oral history of how Jennifer Kent’s debut got made – despite the odds

09/11 The owner of the Candyman series.. The death of a famous American actor

American actor Tony Todd, known for his role in the horror film series Candyman, died on Friday evening at the age of 69.

09/11 A Nightmare on Elm Street at 40: Wes Craven’s horror still causes sleepless nights

The film-maker’s 1984 shocker gave pop culture a new, physics-defying villain in the misshape of Freddy Krueger

09/11 Tony Todd, star of Candyman, dies aged 69

Prolific actor with more than 200 film and TV credits, including Final Destination, The Rock, The Crow and Platoon, died at home after a long illness

06/11 'Terrifier 4' will bring back Art bloodier and more violent than ever: The definitive ending?

Director Damien Leone assures that 'Terrifier 4' will be the most experimental of the saga, with unexpected events and a possible scenario in hell.

06/11 Demi Moore: the US is ‘built on Puritans, religious fanatics and criminals’

At the French premiere of The Substance, the actor said ‘fear in America around the body’ could be seen in the country’s election

06/11 Synopsis of Devils Stay, a Korean Horror Film with an Exorcism Theme

The film Devils Stay will star Lee Min Ki as the main character.

05/11 Pontypool review – scattershot horror with a shock jock but few frights

The 2008 Canadian film about zombie-like hordes spreading a verbal virus is given a Welsh update, with a radio host refusing to rein in his divisive rhetoric

05/11 From romantic icon to sinister villain: Hugh Grant's transformation in his new project

The actor surprises in horror films with a role that challenges his previous roles and explores the darkest corners of the human condition

04/11 From Joker to Terrifier to It: why killer clown characters are on the rise

The great clown panic of 2016 may have passed – but in Hollywood, these curious circus folk are multiplying

03/11 Heretic review – Hugh Grant’s move to the dark side is a triumph

Two young missionaries get more than they bargained for in this taut horror menaced by Grant’s devil disguised in comfortable knitwear

02/11 This is the reason the film 'Santet Segoro Pitu' is interesting to watch, according to Sara Wijayanto

Predicted to be a very powerful black magic, Sara Wijayanto reveals the story behind her latest film, 'Santet Segoro Pitu'!

01/11 ‘Downright terrifying’: readers on their scariest horror villains

After Guardian writers listed their most nightmarish baddies for Halloween, now it’s our readers’ turn

31/10 Heretic review – religious horror with a suave, dapper and evil Hugh Grant

Two young missionaries visit a man at his cavernous house to discuss Mormon doctrines but get drawn into a psychological game of terror and manipulation

31/10 ‘Genuinely disturbing’: Guardian writers on their scariest horror villains

For Halloween, critics pick their most nightmarish baddies, from Count Orlok in Nosferatu to Annie Wilkes in Misery

30/10 The Guardian view on female-led horror: time for a new formula | Editorial

Editorial: Bloodied women’s bodies are once more to the fore in a seasonal crop of hagsploitation films

30/10 Time Cut review – tinny time-travel Netflix slasher offers too much deja vu

The streamer’s gimmicky and over-familiar Halloween offering sees a teen going back to 2003 to save her sister from a masked killer

30/10 ‘After the shoot, we had a party in a slaughterhouse’: horror movies’ creepiest kids reveal all

What’s it like to be the spine-chilling child in a scary film? In a Halloween special, we speak to the girl who played a demonic telepath in Village of the Damned – and the star of homicidal-virus shocker The Children

28/10 Vampires, satanists and mad scientists: the evolution of horror in 10 revolutionary films

Recent releases like Terrifier 3 show that the business of scaring cinema audiences is in rude health. But such horror flicks are standing on the blood-soaked shoulders of giants

26/10 No more Mr Nice Guy: how Hugh Grant transformed himself into an edgy national treasure

In Richard Curtis and Bridget Jones romcoms he was everyone’s favourite foppish Englishman. Now the actor shows his steel as a menacing villain in a new horror movie

26/10 Streaming: The Substance and the best body horror for Halloween

Coralie Fargeat’s body horror satire on ageing is a welcome female take on a genre that preys on our deepest physical fears

25/10 Don’t Move review – high-concept Netflix survival thriller has its moments

A grieving woman is paralysed by a psychopathic serial killer in a solid Sam Raimi-produced shocker that boasts some genuine suspense

23/10 A Nightmare on Elm Street review – jauntily outrageous slasher is still cheerfully crass

Johnny Depp makes his film debut in Wes Craven’s imperfect but entertaining horror that still has considerable black-comic energy

22/10 Family Pack review – Jean Reno is game for a laugh in card-based time-travelling caper

A family playing a game are sent back in time to a medieval village where they must kill werewolves in order to return to the future

18/10 Saint Maud review – desire, despair and ‘godgasms’ as Rose Glass’s shocker comes to life

Brogan Gilbert gives an extraordinary performance as the troubled nurse caring for a terminally ill dancer in a compelling adaptation of the 2019 horror film

17/10 Smile 2 review – gory pop star horror sequel sings a familiar tune

Glossier follow-up to 2022’s hugely successful curse horror is well-made and well-acted but the franchise is struggling to carve out its own identity

17/10 Carrie review – Brian De Palma’s horror masterpiece is a death metal spectacle of carnage

Sissy Spacek unforgettably evolves from ugly duckling to swan to something else entirely in the groundbreaking film of Stephen King’s novel

16/10 How the gory Terrifier movies became a shock phenomenon

Violent low-budget slasher sequel dethroned Joker 2 at US box office and gave the industry insight into what audiences are looking for at this strange moment

15/10 Children of the Pines review – David Lynch-style teen-angst horror takes a big leap

The emphasis is on the psychological in Joshua Morgan’s ambitious debut feature of family dysfunction, but it just doesn’t come together

15/10 Members Club review – male strippers meet bloodthirsty witches in gory comedy horror

Hapless dance troupe Wet Dreams get a taste of the dark arts when they’re lured to a gig to raise the dead. Plus: a cameo from Peter Andre

14/10 Terrifier 3: this low-budget film makes audiences vomit. Why is it No 1 at the US box office?

How did a $2m horror sequel trump $200m movie Joker: Folie à Deux this weekend? By shocking viewers – and steering clear of songs

07/10 ‘Rutger Hauer said he didn’t play bad guys’: how we made chiller classic The Hitcher

‘Rutger seemed to terrify everyone on the set and was pretty much left alone. I once went to his trailer for lunch and we sat in dead silence as he chain-smoked’

04/10 Hold Your Breath review – Sarah Paulson gets lost in scattered horror

A 1930s-set thriller, about a family battling mysterious dust storms and a possible intruder, is impressively made and acted but falls apart by the end

03/10 Young Frankenstein review – Mel Brooks monster comedy is wonderfully alive as ever

Gene Wilder’s giddy brilliance is backed by a tremendous supporting cast and only a few gags lumber as the film is re-released for its 50th anniversary

01/10 Salem’s Lot review – Stephen King’s small-town vampire rework lacks bite

After being kept on the shelf for three years, a middling adaptation of the 1975 novel proves to be a lacklustre non-event even for hardcore genre fans

01/10 Inherit the Witch review – like an am-dram theatre group doing a murder mystery party in an Airbnb

Pseudo-schlock such as Sharknado is trying to be so bad it’s good – this is just bad

01/10 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre at 50: a brutal yet artful shock horror

Tobe Hooper’s terrifying 1974 slasher remains one of the most effective and masterly horror films ever made

01/10 Blood Star review – young tearaway fights for survival in cat-and-mouse thriller

Vintage-car driver is chased through New Mexico by a small-town sheriff in Lawrence Jacomelli’s snappily shot debut

30/09 The Deserving review – mute serial killer yarn takes cues from horror classics of the past

A murderer is tormented by the ghosts of his victims in this frustrating story that doesn’t have the storytelling heft its premise deserves

29/09 Never Let Go review – Halle Berry shoulders the mother lode in sinuous survivalist horror

French genre specialist Alexandre Aja’s chiller builds up a palpable sense of menace but fumbles the last act

28/09 Going International, the Horror Film Sorop Will Be Present at the ACFM Event

MD Pictures will present the horror film Sorop at the ACFM event in Busan, South Korea.

28/09 Is The Substance brilliant feminist critique or a soulless mess?

The divisive body horror about ageing has won plaudits for star Demi Moore yet some remain unconvinced of its depth

26/09 ‘She’d never done anything like this before’: behind the scenes on Shelley Duvall’s extraordinary final film

Duvall hadn’t acted for more than 20 years when she agreed to appear in Scott Goldberg’s film The Forest Hills. Ahead of its release, three months after her death, the cast and crew tell their story

26/09 The Mouse Trap review – parasitic IP horror gives birth to slasher Mickey Mouse

As Disney’s rodent enters the public domain, director Jamie Bailey strikes first – but with a disappointingly meek and convoluted horror

26/09 Home Sweet Home: Where Evil Lives review – fresh take on pregnant-woman-in-peril horror

Unfolding in what looks like a single take, Thomas Sieben sends his protagonist into a house that’s haunted by historical trauma

25/09 Apartment 7A review – Rosemary’s Baby prequel is a vacant rehash

Strong performances from Julia Garner and Dianne Wiest can’t add enough weight to a pointless horror that fills in gaps we didn’t need filling in

25/09 Azrael: Angel of Death review – dialogue-free sci-fi horror takes cues from A Quiet Place

Samara Weaving excels in post-apocalyptic horror where humanity has renounced words – which might have been useful to decipher what’s going on

23/09 Escape review – blonds have much less fun in sleazy throwback survival horror

With its gang of cartoon villains and wardrobe of bikinis, this low-budget thriller is reminiscent of old-style video nasties

23/09 Shocks delivered: why pregnancy body horror is on the rise

Films including Immaculate, The First Omen, Apartment 7A and Alien: Romulus show terrifying depictions of childbirth – in tune with post-Roe v Wade America

23/09 Cult Movies are Eternal Thanks to Loyal Fans

Although sometimes unpopular at the box office, cult films can achieve legendary status thanks to the dedication of their fans.

22/09 The Substance review – Demi Moore is fearless in visceral feminist body horror

The star plays a middle-aged TV host who signs up for a drug to generate a replicant of her younger self in Coralie Fargeat’s blood-soaked satire

21/09 Explanation of the Ending of the Film Talk To Me (2022), Horror Film 17 Years and Over

The film Talk To Me, which will be released in 2022, could be a spectacle this year. Horror film for 17 years and over, here is an explanation of the ending.

19/09 Never Let Go review – Halle Berry takes hold of uneven woodland horror

The Oscar winner is a sturdy presence in an intriguing post-apocalyptic puzzle that can’t quite find all of the pieces

19/09 Strange Darling review – grisly but audacious serial-killer horror outside the comfort zone

Provocatively disarranging its chronology, this gruesome shocker sports with misogyny but its technical brilliance is undeniable

17/09 Clawfoot review – Hollywood nepo babies do fine in horror-comedy bathed in gore

The unexpected arrival of an inept tradesman kicks off this suspenseful and witty thriller, with Francesca Eastwood proving the film’s secret weapon

16/09 Last Straw review – waitress holes up in diner in twisty low-budget siege horror

This debut feature from Alan Scott Neal shows plenty of promise, with its classic setup and innovative midpoint switcharound

13/09 Speak No Evil review – James McEvoy gives roaring life to red-blooded holiday horror

Remake of a Danish story of an unwary family who follow a charismatic couple on holiday has lost some of its nihilism but McEvoy packs real power

12/09 What is Friday the 13th and why is it considered unlucky? Here's why some are superstitious

Friday the 13th is considered by many to be an unlucky day. Here's the history behind why people are superstitious about the day.

11/09 Film Remakes, Hollywood Strategy to Make Money

Film remakes are a powerful tool in the world of cinema, but they must be used with caution.

11/09 Subservience review – Megan Fox’s AI home-service android goes rogue in schlocky thriller

Fox’s creepy robot servant tries to take over in this sci-fi horror, playing on AI fears. Were it less predictable, it could have been a cult classic. But it’s not

10/09 Film Remakes and Reboots, What's the Difference?

Both remakes and reboots have been an important part of Hollywood for years.

10/09 Heretic review – Hugh Grant has devilishly dark fun in talky, twisty horror

The actor takes an unusually villainous turn in a button-pushing descent into hell that works best before its cards are revealed

09/09 The Vourdalak review – deviously fun horror is très drôle vampire chamber piece

A foppish French aristocrat encounters a clan of peasants and their blood-sucking patriarch in a deliriously camp period yarn

09/09 Nightbitch review – Amy Adams turns into a dog in rough dark comedy

The multiple Oscar nominee has some fun as a mother at the end of her tether but this unsubtle mix of comedy and horror doesn’t go far enough

08/09 Starve Acre review – Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark hole up in brooding Yorkshire folk-horror

A grieving couple are plagued by an ancient menace – if not actual scares – in Daniel Kokotajlo’s adaptation of Andrew Michael Hurley’s novel

08/09 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice review – Tim Burton has fun with pleasingly idiosyncratic sequel

The director’s long-imagined follow-up to his 1988 cult movie Beetlejuice revels in some gleefully silly moments while narrowly avoiding that dated feeling

06/09 ‘I’ve failed, badly – and I’m good with it’: James McAvoy on class, comfort and carnage

He says that acting is a gamble – but is a dead cert to terrify audiences with new film Speak No Evil. The Scottish actor talks about marriage, therapy – and why Ken Loach would never cast him

05/09 The Front Room review – Brandy Norwood shines in muddled camp horror

The actor-singer returns to horror as a new mother confronted with the hell of living with her creepy and boundary-crossing mother-in-law

03/09 Red Rooms review – fashion model fixates on a serial-killer in unsettling dark-web horror

Juliette Gariépy’s disquieting performance overcomes the more unbelievable elements of this tale of snuff-movie murder rooms

31/08 Mark Kermode on… Martin Scorsese’s love of British cinema

The director’s new BFI season championing hidden gems of British film, hot on the heels of his Powell and Pressburger documentary, reveals some of the inspirations of a film-making great and passionate fan

30/08 AfrAId review – throwaway AI-themed horror devoid of suspense

A sinister Alexa upgrade exerts control on California family in an increasingly nonsensical attempt to capture the moment

28/08 Milk & Serial: the vicious, viral $800-budget horror that’s free to watch

Found-footage horror about YouTube pranksters turns into an online phenomenon, giving its star and creator a Hollywood inroad

27/08 Broken Bird review – creepily brilliant psych-horror of control-freak funeral-parlour attendant

Rebecca Calder is superbly supple as the damaged protagonist in a richly imagined horror story

26/08 Horror films were reviled as one step up from pornography – now the genre is a force to be reckoned with

Horror’s fingerprints are everywhere, not just in the grindhouse and VOD, but in mainstream multiplex fare – now Demi Moore and Lady Gaga are joining the gore-fest

25/08 Cuckoo review – Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens carry bonkers Alpine body horror

The Euphoria star plays a US teen uprooted to a dodgy German spa resort, where Stevens is in full scenery-chewing mode, in Tilman Singer’s hot mess of a thriller

24/08 Church refuses to let Danny Boyle film zombie apocalyse scenes at historic St Mary’s

Court claims using consecrated site to portray dystopian future would ‘offend’ Christian doctrines and ‘profane’ the house of God

21/08 Hell Hole review – creature feature is fracking fun

A crew of engineers drilling in Serbia find more than they bargained for in this endearing, low-budget horror from the Adams family

20/08 Hostile Dimensions review – goofy no-budget horror opens portal to a parallel world

When a graffiti artist vanishes through a freestanding door, two film-makers open up a wittily told mystery

19/08 Lore review – Brit-horror anthology tells its gruesome stories around the campfire

Richard Brake is well cast as the host for this portmanteau of grisly yarns, where the girls’ tales are made of stronger stuff than the boys’

19/08 Queen Sofya was hit by a punch while filming the film Kromoleo

Actress Ratu Sofya was punched by her co-star while filming the film Kromoleo. His eyes were blue as a result of the incident.

16/08 The Deliverance review – Lee Daniels exorcism horror runs with strong cast in real-life story

Lee Daniels film starts well as it points up the social pressures that informed the Latoya Ammons case, but succumbs to tired horror tropes

14/08 Edinburgh film festival 2024: 12 of the best movies on show

From uplifting drama to gonzo body-horror and an intensely personal documentary, here are our favourite picks

12/08 A Nightmare on Elm Street rating change defended by BBFC

Certificate lowered from 18 to 15 after 1980s classic is deemed ‘relatively discreet in terms of gore and injury detail’

09/08 Hollywood Horror Films: If you are crazy about Hollywood and horror, then this list will be useful for you... Watch it easily in Hindi on OTT?

Entertainment Desk, Indore. Hollywood Horror Films: Nowadays, whatever content you want to watch, it is available on OTT or online. You can watch all types of content on the internet and pass your time. Be it a weekend or a festival holiday, if you want to enjoy, then you have many options available. If you are a fan of Hollywood and horror, meaning if you are a fan of Hollywood horror movies, the

06/08 Cuckoo review – stylish horror offers atmosphere with incoherence

Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer is a convincing scream queen in this Germany-set chiller which prioritises mood over plot

04/08 A Place Called Silence review – suspenseful Malaysian high school horror reboot

Sam Quah’s entertaining but caricature-filled Chinese remake of his 2022 film about bullying and worse has been a box-office hit across Asia

02/08 Grab your Ouija board: behind Fear the Spotlight’s 90s-inspired horror

When two horror movie fans took the leap into game development, the last thing they expected was for an actual movie production company to want to get involved

23/07 A bucks party in the bush is the sordid setting for this gen Z take on Wake in Fright

A bucks party in the bush serves as the setting for Birdeater, a debut psychological thriller that re-evaluates contemporary masculinity.

14/07 Longlegs review – Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage grip in brooding horror thriller

Monroe plays a dogged, antisocial FBI agent on the trail of Cage’s occult serial killer in the latest buzzy, atmospheric film from Osgood Perkins

13/07 Forget the tired franchises, a new wave of horror movies will make us jump out of our seats

Longlegs, released last week, is a beautiful and complex film that highlights how far the genre has evolved

11/07 Schlitter: Evil in the Woods review – tightly crafted horror turned DIY torture tutorial

Director Pierre Mouchet’s film is a showcase of economy, style and woodwork skills as three friends stay over at a lumberjack’s house and experience his ingenious ways to inflict pain

11/07 Longlegs review – Nicolas Cage is a miscast killer in misfiring hokum

A distractingly outsized performance is one of many unsuccessful elements in Osgood Perkins’ stylish yet progressively silly horror

10/07 ‘The catharsis was profound, but I’ll never watch it’: Alicia Witt on facing her demons on film

The actor and singer explains how starring alongside Nicolas Cage in the deeply unsettling new horror Longlegs helped her deal with a cancer diagnosis and the tragic death of her parents

08/07 Thine Ears Shall Bleed review – occult horror-western heads into the wilderness

A 19th-century preacher is seduced by the devil in this atmospheric but meandering debut feature

08/07 ‘If my babysitter’s evil, I’m screwed!’: horror director Ti West on outraging the moral majority

As his X trilogy concludes with MaXXXine – starring Mia Goth as a porn star pursued by a serial killer – the filmmaker explains how the demonisation of heavy metal fans ignited his youthful imagination

07/07 MaXXXine review – Mia Goth chills in grisly conclusion to Ti West’s horror trilogy

Goth excels as porn star and aspiring actor Maxine Minx, who makes the leap to horror movies as a killer stalks the Hollywood Hills in this predictable end to the X series

07/07 Mark Kermode on… Kathryn Bigelow, a stylish ruffler of feathers

From vampire noir to Bin Laden, Point Break to Detroit, the first woman to win an Oscar for best director has never pulled her punches

05/07 Review of the film "Blood Promise", Don't Just Say Promises

The film Promise of Blood tells the story of a promise brought to death. When someone who has died claims his promise to those who are still alive.

02/07 Intimate scene as husband and wife, Natasha Wilona invites Emir Mahira to hug and kiss him

Natasha Wilona and Emir Mahira are paired as husband and wife in their latest horror film entitled 'Blood Promise'.

27/06 A Quiet Place: Day One review – noise-free alien-invasion prequel starts with a bang

The latest in the alien-terror series finds Lupita Nyong’o connecting with stranger Joseph Quinn as the monsters terrorise a city into trembling silence

26/06 MaXXXine review – a horribly watchable Hollywood tale of sex, death, fear and gore

Mia Goth returns for the third chapter of the X trilogy as an adult film star trying to take a crack at horror while a serial killer stalks the city’s sex workers

22/06 Streaming: Godzilla, Kong and the best monster movies

We look at what makes a great creature feature – from Jaws and Gremlins to low-budget indies like The Descent

21/06 The Exorcism review – Russell Crowe v the Devil in cursed horror about a cursed horror

The actor plays an actor struggling with a demonically bad film shoot in a well-made yet increasingly messy chiller

21/06 Alien: Romulus could be the back-to-basics Alien reboot we’ve all been waiting for

After so many disappointments, whisper it, but on the evidence of a sneak peek, this could be the episode to remind us all why we loved these movies

18/06 Deadland review – melancholy horror smuggles deep themes across the US-Mexico border

Lance Larson’s feature debut uses horror tropes to tackle themes of racism, immigration and post-traumatic stress disorder

17/06 Blumhouse comes to video games with six different indie horror projects

In LA last week, horror production company Blumhouse announced that it was entering the video game market with its indie horror label Blumhouse Games. Jason Blum, Louise Blain and Zach Wood discuss its approach

13/06 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre review – original 1974 shocker is grotesque but brilliant masterpiece

Tobe Hooper’s gonzo massacre movie set the template for so many horror films that were to follow – but retains a uniquely disturbing power all of its own

13/06 Fantasia to Flesh and Fantasy, the Coens to Cavalcanti: anthology films – ranked!

With Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness hitting UK cinemas next week, we ask where it features in the pantheon of anthology masterpieces

11/06 After the Winnie-the-Pooh slasher, now there’s a Mickey Mouse horror movie. This is not necessarily a bad thing

Steamboat Willie, the first Mickey cartoon, has fallen out of copyright. Enter Screamboat: a slasher flick set on a New York ferry. Will gory versions of Bugs Bunny, Popeye and Betty Boop be next?

08/06 Gremlins at 40: Joe Dante’s untamed classic is a love letter to chaos

Even in the less conventional summer of 1984, the Spielberg-produced comedy horror was a gleeful rule-breaker

07/06 Get to know 8 sub-genres of horror films that have their own characteristics

Horror genre films have various sub-genres. Each sub genre has its characteristics.

06/06 The Watchers (AKA The Watched) review – M Night Shyamalan’s daughter tells us a silly old story

The famed director acts as producer for his offspring’s directorial debut but her tale of mythical creatures in the Irish woods goes from intriguing to absurd

06/06 Lumberjack the Monster review – an explosion of horror strangeness from a master of the art

Takashi Miike’s operatically over-the-top new film concerns a serial killer but who needs a plot with all this trademark violence, alienation and nihilism?

04/06 Netflix released Takashi Miike’s new film without telling anyone. Please stop doing this! | Stuart Heritage

Lumberjack the Monster, the Japanese director’s long-awaited return to out-and-out horror is a huge event. So why has it been noiselessly launched into oblivion?

03/06 Lupita Nyong’o had therapy to overcome her fear of cats for new horror role

Oscar-winner says she wanted her character to have an armadillo pet instead but now the actress has adopted her own feline companion

02/06 Sting review – spider horror with plenty of bite

A rundown block of flats is terrorised by a very hungry arachnid in Kiah Roache-Turner’s taut shocker

01/06 Mark Kermode on… David Cronenberg, master of gore as a metaphor for our deepest anxieties

From The Brood to Crash and new film The Shrouds, the Canadian body horror pioneer has outraged the censors and inspired countless directors

30/05 The Crow review – Brandon Lee’s heavy metal horror is still a potent goth fantasy

After Lee’ accidental on-set killing, speculation of a curse elevated this grungy revenge fantasy to cult status. Its violent, cartoonish energy still holds power

29/05 Sting review – low-budget alien-spider horror offers laughs and out-of-your-skin shocks

A fun-filled terror yarn featuring a flesh-eating alien secretly reared by a 12-year-old that delights in cutting its teeth on the apartment block’s pets

29/05 New Life review – stripped-back virus thriller goes hard on bubo-popping horror

John Rosman’s effective debut intertwines the lives of a woman escaping a black-site facility and a woman hired to contain the outbreak

22/05 In Flames review – Pakistani horror mines the patriarchy for terror and despair

Societal threats are already heavy for medical student Mariam when bereavement leaves her undefended and the story untethers from realism

22/05 Pandemonium review – wintry gloom as ghost of dead driver meets the biker he killed

Director Quarxx’s underworld car-crash drama chances little humour as it dolorously teases out morals and metaphysics

21/05 Demi Moore's New Horror Film Gets a Perfect Score on Rotten Tomatoes

The new film from director and writer Coralie Fargeat is a horror film that focuses on the possibility of people creating more perfect alter egos.

20/05 The Substance review – Demi Moore is game for a laugh in grisly body horror caper

Moore plays a fading Hollywood star whose career is set to be axed by misogynists when she’s offered a secret new medical procedure

19/05 Tiger Stripes review – entertaining Malaysian horror shows its claws

TikTok meets south-east Asian folklore in Amanda Nell Eu’s fierce directorial debut, an allegory about the onset of puberty

18/05 Weekend Special, Here is a List of XXI Promos to Watch Your Target Horror Film

The following is a list of XXI promos to give to loyal viewers.

16/05 The Strangers: Chapter 1 review – unnecessary horror retread

The grimly effective 2008 home invasion shocker gets a strange semi-remake that sucks out all of the suspense

16/05 Review of the film "Vina: Before 7 Days", the tragic story of a beautiful teenager

The tragic story of 2016 was made into a film entitled Vina: Before 7 Days. Being beautiful can even be life-threatening. The three perpetrators have not been found.

14/05 Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever review – Danish morgue sequel returns from the dead

Ole Bornedal follows up his 90s suspense thriller Nightwatch and goes back to the same creepy building

13/05 The Coffee Table review – horror comedy takes its cue from gaudy furniture item

Caye Casas’s second feature is audacious and sharp, but the shifts between acidic comedy of manners and humour-free horror are grating

12/05 Roger Corman obituary

American film director and producer who liked to describe himself as the ‘Orson Welles of the Z movie’

12/05 Roger Corman – cinema's pulp genius whose talent to shock was rocket fuel

Heists, horror and carnivorous plants were all grist to Corman’s staggeringly prolific movie mill, as were his pivotal collaborations with other film-makers

11/05 ‘I want to make movies for my people’: Jane Schoenbrun on making a soon-to-be cult classic

The writer-director’s film I Saw the TV Glow brings together themes of fandom, pop culture obsession and trans identity

10/05 Playing the Horror Film 'Do You See What I See', Shenina Cinnamon Reveals This Strange Experience While Filming: Suddenly It Turns On Alone

Actress Shenina Cinnamon stars in the horror film Do You See What I See. Angga Yunanda's girlfriend shared a strange experience while filming.

07/05 ‘It was terrifying but screw it’: the director who had to disown her film to get an Oscar nomination

Tiger Stripes, about a girl who turns into a jungle cat when her periods start, was chosen by Malaysia as its Oscar entry. But they wanted cuts. Amanda Nell Eu relives a ‘painful and comedic’ experience

04/05 Nostalgia horror I Saw the TV Glow speaks to 90s trans teens like me

The buzzy coming-of-age film, about teens obsessed with a schlocky TV show in the 90s, makes for a haunting allegory

03/05 Tarot review – disappointment is in the cards with silly supernatural horror

Final Destination inspires yet another throwaway teen schlocker, this time with an increasingly risible astrological bent

01/05 The Animal Kingdom review – Romain Duris leads post-Covid fantasy of virus-triggered mutants

Duris stars as a father protecting his son, who may or may not be mutating, in Thomas Cailley’s well-crafted thriller

22/04 The Blair Witch Project’s original cast ask for retroactive payments as reboot announced

Actors Rei Hance, Joshua Leonard and Michael Williams – who improvised most of horror film’s dialogue – claim they didn’t have proper union representation in 1999 and seek residuals

21/04 Abigail review – Dan Stevens throws himself into gleefully gory kidnap horror

A​fter forming a one-off criminal gang, Stevens and co come to regret kidnapping a gangster’s daughter ​– played by Matilda star Alisha Weir

19/04 Playing the Main Character in the Film 'Vina: Before 7 Days', Nayla Purnama Feels Protected by the Deceased: Like It's Not Me

Nayla Purnama was chosen to be the main character in the crime horror film based on a true story entitled 'Vina: Before 7 Days'.

18/04 Abigail review – Dracula’s daughter gets kidnapped in fun-sucking horror

There’s some low-stakes pleasure to be had in the first half of the gory new film from the team behind Ready or Not and Scream but things fall apart disastrously

17/04 3 Zodiac Signs Most Afraid of Watching Horror Films, Who Often Screams When They See Satan?

Shio is the most afraid of watching horror films, anyone?

17/04 All You Need Is Death review – Irish horror finds evil in taboo folk ballad recording

The story of two historians unleashing evil while recording a song is a strong idea and there are good moments and performances, but it is too chaotic and unfocused to resonate

06/04 David Dastmalchian on spooks, scarecrows, and drag queens: ‘An old horror movie lulls me to sleep’

We ask the longtime horror aficionado – and now leading man – a bunch of mostly random questions. It gets scary

05/04 ‘Good and evil are at war': how Satanic horror has returned to haunt the age of Trump

The devil and his minions crop up in a rash of new horror films, from Deliver Us and Immaculate to reboots of The Exorcist and The Omen. What does this tell us about our current anxieties?

04/04 The First Omen review – stylish horror prequel is damned by its franchise

This 70s-set prelude to the classic satanic horror has flair but struggles with the weight and familiarity of what came before

01/04 Man wearing 'Scream' mask kills neighbor with chainsaw then watches movie, affidavit says

Zak Moyer is charged with homicide in the death of his next-door neighbor Edward Whitehead Jr. Police say he wore a 'Scream' mask during the attack.

01/04 ‘We shot it in the murder capital of the world’ … how we made The Lost Boys

‘I had no interest in teen vampire films and turned it down five times. But Joel Schumacher promised I wouldn’t have to wear the makeup and teeth, or have to fly around. Of course, he lied’

28/03 20 Scariest Horror Films Based on True Stories with the Highest Ratings, Best in the Genre Bun!

Based on true stories, here are 20 of the scariest horror films, from Memories of Murder to The Conjuring. Check out the synopsis here.

26/03 Qibla Film Poster That Reaped Controversy Passes Censorship, This is LSF's Explanation

LSF responded to the controversy surrounding the Qibla film poster. The promotional materials for the film Qibla, namely posters and trailers, had previously been declared to have passed censorship.

26/03 The Ghost of Jeruk Putu, Isn't Just a Myth or Film Scenario, It's Real

Kaffir Lime TPU. A public cemetery in East Cilandak. It has an area of ​​912 hectares. There are many famous figures buried there.

25/03 John Carpenter on horror classic The Thing: ‘It was an enormous failure and I got fired’

‘Audiences hated the ending. They wanted to know who the Thing was. But I don’t care. That’s how I wanted it’

25/03 Horror film Late Night With the Devil takes $666,666 on Sunday in the US

The found-footage film took a suspiciously satanic number on a spooky weekend at the US box office that saw Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire top the charts

24/03 15 Recommendations for the Best Thai Horror Films with the Highest Rating, Really Scary Bun!

The following are the 15 best Thai horror films with scary stories and the highest ratings that you can watch. Read the full synopsis here.

21/03 See the first photos of 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' cast, including Michael Keaton

See the first photos of Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Justin Theroux and Jenna Ortega in "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice."

20/03 Alien: Romulus: first trailer for Ridley Scott-approved franchise restarter

Latest chapter in sci-fi series comes from Evil Dead director Fede Alvarez but has approval of those behind the originals

20/03 Immaculate review – Sydney Sweeney plays scream queen in gory nun horror

The Euphoria breakout goes all-in with a fun, nasty slab of nunsploitation that also acts as commentary on female bodily autonomy

19/03 One Cut of the Dead: the gloriously inventive low-budget film that made box office history

This Japanese zombie film hides its secrets so well that once you finish it, you will want to watch it again straight away just to spot how it was done

18/03 Brightwood review – enterprising sci-fi horror sees jogging couple caught in a loop

Dane Elcar writes, directs and films this innovative indie movie that follows a bickering couple with seemingly no end

18/03 Late Night With the Devil review – demonic talkshow channels horror of 1970s TV

The directors have fun sending up TV conventions, as a failing host attempts to revive his career by communing with a demon, supposedly possessing a teenage girl

13/03 The film "Exhuma 2024" is the main focus of news in the world of entertainment

The film Exhuma (2024) is a Korean thriller-mystery genre film which is packaged into a humorous and interesting work.

12/03 Neve Campbell returning to Scream franchise after controversies

Original star of hit slasher franchise will return after a dispute over salary and with actor Melissa Barrera fired for pro-Palestine comments

08/03 Imaginary review – a shoddy and unimaginative creepshow

Blumhouse has churned out some critical and commercial hits, yet continues on a losing streak with a sloppily put together horror about an imaginary friend

05/03 Glasgow’s disastrous Wonka character inspires horror film

A villain devised for the catastrophic Willy’s Chocolate Experience, who makes sweets and lives in walls, is to become the subject of a new horror movie

03/03 Lisa Frankenstein review – lumbering teen zombie romcom by Diablo Cody

The screenwriter’s mashup of 80s teen horror tropes falls flat in Zelda Williams’s erratic feature debut

03/03 Mark Kermode on… director Wes Craven, who made horror ‘a positive force in a world filled with fear’

As A Nightmare on Elm Street turns 40, here’s to the softly spoken American creator of some of cinema’s most memorable scares, from razor-clawed serial killer Freddy Krueger to the sequel-spawning Scream

23/02 Ferrari to Spaceman: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Adam Driver plays the legendary car manufacturer in an exhilarating drama, and Adam Sandler and Carey Mulligan star alongside a giant talking spider in a deeply odd slice of sci-fi

20/02 Out of Darkness review – stone age survival thriller finds horror in the Highlands

Six settlers arrive in a Scottish forest 45,000 years ago, where ‘bloodthirsty things’ await but bathos fails to arrive

15/02 Interview With the Vampire review – Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt’s brilliant bloodsucking bromance

Neil Jordan’s horror-comedy features Cruise in scene-chewing form in a film that outrageously explores the vampire’s actually rather complex lived experience

13/02 Deliver Us review – delirious baby antichrist horror smothered in surreal visions

A nun pregnant with a devil twin! A murderous one-eyed priest! This film had all the right elements, but the plot just drags on

08/02 Lisa Frankenstein review – Diablo Cody’s throwback comedy-horror is monster mush

The Oscar-winning screenwriter aims to recall 80s classics from Heathers to Beetlejuice but there are too many parts missing

07/02 Slotherhouse review – sorority-house slasher brings homicidal sloth to mean girls

A killing machine sloth named Alpha gets her claws out on a group of sorority sisters in this silly – and sadly unfunny – comedy-horror

06/02 The Seeding review – redneck-biblical horror-thriller offers perverse Edenic refuge

Scott Haze shines as a man who takes shelter with a mysterious woman in a tin shack at the bottom of a canyon

06/02 ‘It’s supposed to be hard!’: the computer game that forces you to face your demons

Inspired by horror films, artist Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s lo-fi games tackle everything from addiction to walking home alone. Just don’t expect a high score

05/02 Dagr review – perma-snarking YouTubers cancel the fear in paganistic slasher

Matthew Butler-Hart’s film lurches from social-media comedy to shaky-cam bloodletting, but never comes near the primeval emotions of the Blair Witch Project it so often references