Horror Fans Had a Screamingly Good 2023
Saw XPhoto: Alexandro Bolaños Escamilla/Lionsgate Horror is, shall we say, a genre that’s very fond of sequels. We’re all for it when a part two (or a part 10) honors…
Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving Is a Dumb, Disgusting Delight
The idea for Eli Roth to make a horror movie about Thanksgiving was originally a joke. Several holidays are synonymous with Hollywood horror. Halloween, of course. Christmas has a few…
Peacock Is Adding The Exorcist: Believer to Your Christmas Stocking
Image: Universal Pictures One of the most anticipated horror movies of 2023 is about to make its Peacock debut. And while The Exorcist: Believer didn’t exactly set critics on fire,…
Five Nights at Freddy’s Trounces Mario and Halloween Ends to Smash Streaming Records
Image: Universal Pictures Step aside, Halloween Ends. Sorry ‘bout ya, The Super Mario Bros Movie. There’s a new boss in town, and he’s tall, furry, and reeks of pizza. After…
Peanuts’ Halloween Special Is a Timeless Testament to the Power of Imagination
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown—released on CBS in 1966, now streaming on Apple TV+—was one of the earliest made-for-TV Halloween holiday specials, and has now become an annual viewing…
Why do we love horror games? Psychologists explain our morbid curiosity
True horror is something no human wants to experience. Few would actively want to throw themselves in a powerless position against some life-threatening situation or fearsome creature. Isn’t it much…
NASA releases ‘ghostly cosmic hand’ image for Halloween
To mark Halloween, NASA has released a spooky image of what it describes as a “ghostly cosmic hand.” It actually shows MSH 15-52, a cloud of energetic particles that resembles…
Five Nights at Freddy’s Scares Up a Massive Box Office
Horror movies usually hit big no matter when you release them, but October can help them do especially well. Almost every year, there’s a particular movie that outpaces all the…
5 best horror movies on Hulu to watch this Halloween
Hulu may not be the top streamer, but it has some of the best horror movies that you can stream. Apparently, the team at Hulu really took Huluween seriously when…
Every Halloween movie, ranked from worst to best
When John Carpenter and Debra Hill created Halloween in 1978, they could never have anticipated that their low-budget independent horror movie would become one of the most long-lived film franchises…