Obsession: Focus Features; Hokum: Neon; Touch Me: Yellow Veil Pictures; They Will Kill You: Warner Bros. 2026 has already been a wild year for horror, from low-budget box office hits (“Backrooms,” ...

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In 2026 Horror is hip. Between the overwhelming success of A24’s “Backrooms” and Focus Features’ “Obsession” (which have made $368 and $429 million respectively), the studio thrills of “Evil Dead Burn ...

A 1970s horror movie has been named the best of all time. Here’s why the film still shocks and terrifies viewers. "The Exorcist" was ranked the best horror film by Rolling Stone in 2022. Noted for ...

From genre-defining hits ('Sinners') and surprise breakouts ('Weapons') to hidden gems ('Dead Mail') and auteur-driven awards contenders ('Frankenstein'), these were the best scares studios and ...

Rachel Shatto, Editor-in-chief of PRIDE.com, is an SF Bay Area-based writer, podcaster, and former editor of Curve magazine, where she honed her passion for writing about social justice and sex (and ...

As usual, there were a bunch of horror movies to check out in 2025. The genre never has a lack of new contributions, thanks in part to its relatively low bar of entry for up-and-coming filmmakers, as ...

From a sticky meditation on relationships to a Valentine's Day slasher, there was a lot to love this year. By most metrics, 2025 was a brutal year to be alive — but a comparatively gentle one for ...

You wouldn’t call 2025 an “off” year for horror — more like an odd one. Both A24 and Neon continued to back several scary-movie auteurs (the prolific Osgood Perkins, the brothers Danny and Michael ...

It’s hard to look at the astounding box-office and critical success of Sinners and Weapons and say 2025 was not a great year for horror. And yet, here I am, bravely doing it anyway: 2025 was not a ...

Joshua Speer is a Staff Writer at DualShockers who has been covering games professionally since 2013, with a focus on indie games, retro games, platformers, deckbuilders, roguelikes, and Nintendo ...