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Here you'll find coverage of all things horror, from jump-scare movies to frighteningly psychological games.

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Bryan Fuller’s surreal hitman fairy tale arrives on HBO Max

Mads Mikkelsen slays monsters in the ultra-stylish film

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An image from Roadside Attractions' Dust Bunny. It features Mads Mikkelsen as an unnamed hitman. He looks distressed.
A Hannibal reunion, a movie for Sinners fans, and everything new to streaming this weekend

Explore a spooky amusement park or unleash some creepypasta

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A young girl faces the camera in close-up, grinning unwholesomely in a way that shows off her grayish teeth and blood dripping from her mouth, in a scene from Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026).
Lee Cronin unwraps a wilder, gnarlier version of The Mummy than any previous movie

This is a much gorier take on mummy movies than Brendan Fraser's action-adventure franchise

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Pepper (Dan Stevens), a man with a beard wearing a T-shirt over a long-sleeved shirt, looks confused while sitting down in The Terror: Devil in Silver
Dan Stevens is giving me Legion flashbacks in The Terror: Devil in Silver trailer

The Legion star is back in a mental institution where reality is questionable

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In a scene from the 2016 thriller Green Room, Amber (Imogen Poots), one of several young adults trapped at a white-power club, issues a warning while Pat (Anton Yelchin) looks on in the background.
10 years ago, Green Room predicted a future more terrifying than a horror movie

Jeremy Saulnier's intense siege thriller still hits hard and sharp

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A blonde woman in a dark room lies on a bed as a small figure stands silhouetted in the open doorway behind her in Paranormal Activity 4
Undertone director says his Paranormal Activity movie will 'define the found-footage genre'

'I'm a big fan of the series, so I'm excited for other fans to get hit with some big reveals'

A frightened-looking Korean woman tries to keep emotion off her face while a blood-covered humanoid sniffs at her in Colony
Train to Busan's director is reinventing the zombie movie again and you really have to see how

Watch the first teaser for Colony, Yeon Sang-ho's latest blood-soaked horror movie

A screenshot from the Exit 8 trailer, as a young Japanese commuter realizes with horror that a man with a stretched, creepy grin is standing right next to him
Here's the Exit 8 scene the director cut because it was too scary for Cannes

Read an excerpt from the director's novelization, and his explanation of why he filmed and cut that scene

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A man wearing a white ceramic mask and a beanie stares ahead.
10 years ago, Mike Flanagan proved that silence in horror can be more terrifying than screaming

There is fear in the silence

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A Critter grins
40 years later, this Gremlins 'knock-off' is still full of B-movie magic

Critters is everything you want in a cheesy horror movie

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faces of death
Barbie Ferreira says filming Faces of Death's ultra-violent ending was 'sticky,' 'nasty,' and 'the funnest thing I've done in my career'

The director, writer, and stars of the 2026 slasher break down its gory final scene

The Bride
The Bride, Netflix's killer shark thriller, and every movie new to streaming this weekend

Keanu Reeves looks for redemption while The Yeti emerges on VOD

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A close-up of a thin, balding Japanese man laughing with a rictus grimace that seems like pain in Exit 8, the movie
Video game movies won't work unless you break the rules, says Exit 8 director

'I wanted to blur the boundaries between what the movie medium represents, and what the video game medium represents.'

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The creepy cryptkeeper, a dried out undead creature, smiles at the camera from his crypt
Tales From the Crypt haunts streaming for the first time

Shudder will be adding all 7 seasons in May

A woman played by Phoebe Dynevor, largely submerged in water and holding on to the wreckage of a destroyed house, cries out for help in a scene from the Netflix shark thriller Thrash.
Thrash lets Netflix take another enthusiastic bite at shark thrillers

It isn't one of the best recent creature features, but it gets the job done

A salaryman standing in a white tiled subway corridor smiles with a distorted-looking, unsettling rictus grin in Exit 8
The creepy Exit 8 movie is much more than a video game adaptation

It's an effective horror movie that models an ambitious new way to put video games on screen

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A low-angle shot of Margot (Barbie Ferreira) staring up at the glow of a TV screen in a dark room as she watches footage from the cult horror VHS Faces of Death in the fictional 2026 remake of the same name.
Barbie Ferreira drowned herself in horrifying old internet videos to make Faces of Death

'I tried to get back into that headspace of the early internet: You click a link, you accidentally see something crazy.'

A young boy and girl pose against the backdrop of a spiral in Uzumaki
Horror manga legend Junji Ito says he isn't done with cosmic horror

The acclaimed artist tells Polygon he'd like to 'push it a little further'

FACES OF DEATH - Still 7
Faces of Death’s villain was inspired by a forgotten 2015 found-footage thriller

'It's literally the most disturbing thing ever'

In a scene from the 2016 horror film The Invitation, Will (Logan Marshall-Green), the bereaved lead character in the 2016 film The Invitation, is shown in close-up. He has long hair, a beard and mustache, and his eyes look lightly watery, as if recalling a sad memory.
10 years later, Karyn Kusama's psychological thriller feels more relevant than ever

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the movie about a death cult plays differently now that so many real-life people have joined up

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