Movies
The movie section aims to catalog, editorialize and analyze every scary movie, fantasy and sci-fi film ever made. Any movie that frightens, thrills the senses from action/violence, contains mysterious creatures, folklore, and anything generally creepy from thrillers to psychological torment. Readers will find this category helpful for research and for figuring out what to stream on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon or to buy on Blu-ray.
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A24 Is Selling Robert Pattinson as a $42 Set of 6 Nesting Dolls Based on His Film Roles
Robert Pattinson’s A24 characters now fit inside each other: the studio’s $42 nesting-doll set turns 6 of his film roles into painted wooden figures,…
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You Probably Haven’t Seen One of the Scariest Movies Ever Made
Pulse (2001) is a movie too few horror fans have seen because it is Japanese and subtitled in English. It is a techno-horror movie…
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‘The Cat and the Hatchet’ Turns Dr. Seuss Into a Home-Invasion Slasher, and the Costume Alone Is Nightmare Fuel
Scratches turns a boring day at home into a fight for survival. The full practical suit makes the killer cat feel disturbingly real. A…
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Summer H. Howell Says She Spent 12 Hours a Day Covered in Fake Blood While Filming Carrie’s Prom Scenes
Summer H. Howell’s prom scenes for Prime Video’s Carrie took about 2 weeks to film, with 3 blood drops performed for the cameras. For…
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A Doll Possessed by the Spirit of Jeffrey Dahmer Goes on a Killing Spree in ‘Jeffrey Dollmer’, on VOD November 3
This is one of those rare movies that sells itself entirely on its title. Jeffrey Dollmer. It’s Jeffrey Dahmer, but a doll. I bet…
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Curry Barker’s ‘Obsession’ Returns to Theaters in 4DX for 1 Night on October 14
For one night, Curry Barker’s horror hit “Obsession” comes back to Regal in CJ 4DPlex’s 4DX format on Wednesday, October 14, with motion seats…
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The True Stories That Inspired Wolf Creek (2005) Are Just as Scary as the Movie Itself
Wolf Creek’s killer, Mick Taylor, grew out of 2 real Australian crime stories: Ivan Milat’s murders of backpackers and the disappearance of British tourist…
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Mike Flanagan Says ‘The Exorcist: Martyrs’ Takes Possession “Out of the Bedroom and Out of Parental Torment” and Into a Serial-Killer Mystery
Scarlett Johansson plays a homicide detective whose serial-killer case continues after the killer’s execution in Mike Flanagan’s The Exorcist: Martyrs. The murders recreate the…
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Matthew Lillard Says He Still Has to Fight for Acting Jobs Because Hollywood Can’t Figure Out Where He Fits
Matthew Lillard, 56, says the audiences who turn up for him haven’t translated into Hollywood seeing him as a leading man. Asked by Tommy…
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Matthew Lillard Never Planned to Audition for ‘Scream’ (1996), But He Beat Out Freddie Prinze Jr. Anyway
Matthew Lillard didn’t even mean to audition for Scream — and then he went completely, unhinged, full-send feral in it anyway. Here’s the wild…
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Scream’s 30th-Anniversary 4K Set Comes with a Replica of Casey Becker’s Phone That Rings and Plays Movie Quotes
The Scream 30th-anniversary collector’s set arrives December 15, 2026, as an Amazon exclusive styled as a Woodsboro Police evidence kit. It includes the original…
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Rob Zombie Says Bob Weinstein Called Him About His ‘Halloween’ and Said, “I Hate Every Single Fucking Frame of This Movie”
Rob Zombie’s fight with the studio lasted beyond the first movie. He said he returned for Halloween II only because the sequel would release…
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‘Beware Boiúna’ Sinks at the Box Office
The giant-snake movie from director Mike P. Nelson made just over $550,000 total in its opening weekend. It was in 1,121 theaters across the…
