Nearly everyone with a dog (or cat) has had an unsettling moment where their pet seems aware of something that’s not there, be it staring at a seemingly blank wall or reacting to a sound beyond the range of human frequencies. Ben Leonberg‘s Good Boy takes that eerie feeling and builds an entire movie around […]
‘Hell House LLC’ Returns With a Format Change and Plenty of Frights
Across four films, the Hell House LLC series has used found footage to investigate the diabolical goings-on in Abaddon, New York, where you’ll find a creepy old hotel, a murder mansion, vicious cultists, and an unholy number of camera-toting journalists. The fifth film in Stephen Cognetti’s series, Hell House LLC: Lineage, returns to that hellish […]
The Final ‘V/H/S/Halloween’ Trailer Promises Grimy Tricks and Gory Treats
Shudder’s latest entry in the found-footage horror anthology series hits the streamer October 3. We’re just over five weeks away from Halloween—but just over one week away from V/H/S/Halloween. The long-running found-footage horror anthology has just dropped its full trailer, and while it offers little in the way of narrative teases, the unsettling sights and […]
‘Night of the Reaper’ Is a Retro Babysitter Slasher With a Mystery Twist
Night of the Reaper begins with a familiar slasher movie scenario: a babysitter being stalked by a killer. The masked menace puts on a big show of toying with her, leaving creepy notes that almost feel like a prank until the danger gets all too real. It’s a freaky opening sequence that signals director and […]
A Creepy Corn Maze Awaits at the ‘Clown in a Cornfield’ Activation
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 […]