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The new Australian film is an effective exploration of one woman’s eating disorder, and a worthy entry into the growing canon of contemporary female-led horror.
The Backrooms horror legend began as an anonymous 4chan post in 2019. Now it’s an A24 film by director Kane Parsons – just 20 years old.
In the microbudget horror comedy The Weed Eaters, a group of bumbling townies get high on someone else’s supply with grisly and ridiculous consequences.
Four of the big winners at this year’s Oscars were horror films – is the genre finally getting some respect from the industry?
A series of confessions, obtained under torture have shaped the order’s legacy in film.
I would be surprised if anything else at the cinema in 2026 can match the bizarre spectacle of The Bone Temple’s best sequence.
The horror film genre is driven by sound as much as image. Anxiety thrives not in what we can see, but in what we can’t.
The horror category in the West has roots in South Asian, African and Indigenous narratives — a truth often overlooked.
A contender for this year’s best horror picture, ‘Weapons,’ is part of film traditions that conjure terror out of stillness, partly through jump scares.
For decades, various kinds of disability have been used as ‘scary’ metaphors in horror. But a new wave of filmmakers is challenging this problematic framing.
Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ reconsiders the cultural imagining of ‘the monster’ and how stories reflect attitudes about difference — especially difference in embodiment.
All the films, books and exhibitions you should have on your radar this week.
The film illustrates how someone’s own brain can transform them from a decent person into the villain in someone else’s story.
Eat-the-rich films expose upper-class immorality and entitlement and offer revenge fantasies where those normally crushed by the system fight back or burn it all down.
The killer robot is far from a simple villain. It is a mirror held up to cultural questions we have about human autonomy and responsibility in the digital age.
Long before zombies were stars on the big screen, they roamed medieval Europe.
The Philippou brothers have done it again. You won’t be able to watch – but you won’t be able to look away.
Only seven horror films have been nominated for best picture at the Oscars since the first ceremony in 1929.
In 18th-century gothic, music was a light melodic release from dramatic scares. But with the arrival of melodrama in the 19th century, gothic music became much darker.
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