Clown in a Cornfield is a million-dollar title—so eerie, so evocative, and so perfectly descriptive of Eli Craig‘s horror movie, which hit theaters earlier this year. It’s headed to Shudder and AMC+ August 8, but even if you’ve been waiting to catch it on streaming, there’s much to scream about with its San Diego Comic-Con […]
‘Best Wishes to All’ Proves J-Horror Can Still Find New Ways to Freak You Out
New Shudder release Best Wishes to All begins with a nightmare, and that sets the tone for everything that follows. A nursing student, never given a name and played by the instantly sympathetic Kotone Furukawa, dreams she’s a child again visiting her grandparents—and wakes up screaming after spotting something deeply alarming beyond a cracked-open door. […]
The Best Social Media Horror Movie You Haven’t Seen Is Getting a Sequel
In 2023, Influencer made io9’s year-end list of the best movies you might have missed, and we’ve continued to recommend it ever since. It’s definitely one you don’t want to know too much about before watching it for the first time—but the title hints at the subject matter, and it’s not a spoiler to say […]
Folk Frights Meet Family Trauma in Fréwaka
Filmmaker Aislinn Clarke, who became the first Northern Irish woman to direct a horror film with The Devil’s Doorway, reaches another milestone with Fréwaka, a dread-infused folk-horror narrative that’s one of the first Irish-language horror films. Memorable found-footage horror films are increasingly rare, but 2018’s The Devil’s Doorway remains a standout. It’s a 1960s-set tale […]
Dead Mail Is a Grimy Retro Horror Thriller Well Worth Seeking Out
In a random Midwestern town in a nondescript moment in the 1980s, a man wrapped in chains bursts out of a home and crawls toward a blue mail collection box, barely managing to slip a scrap of paper in before he’s recaptured by a blurry figure behind him. Thus begins Dead Mail, a refreshingly unconventional […]
Horror’s Stephen Cognetti on 825 Forest Road, Hell House LLC
After a family tragedy, an estranged brother and sister set out to repair their relationship—but they pick the wrong place for a fresh start. In 825 Forest Road, the new narrative film from found-footage favorite Stephen Cognetti (Hell House LLC), the siblings move into a vintage house being sold for a surprisingly low price, in […]
10 Shudder Original Double-Features to Freak Out Your Next Movie Night
Shudder‘s library of horror movies is huge—and its exclusive and original sub-category is no slouch, either. If you’re looking for a spooky, freaky, unsettling, gruesome, or otherwise genre-perfect pair of films for your next movie night, here are some curations to start with. Get Away and Black Cab Have yourself a Nick Frost mini-festival and […]
Black Circle Infuses the ‘Cursed Media’ Genre With Psychic Terrors
A relic from the 1970s—a self-help record purporting to teach the listener to “reach your full potential”—stirs up frightening chaos for two sisters in Black Circle, a 2018 horror film that’s well worth seeking out now that it’s streaming on Shudder. Made in Sweden by Spanish writer-director Adrián García Bogliano (2022’s La Exorcista), Black Circle […]