British filmmaker Adam Mason has never been afraid to make audiences uncomfortable. Whether he is turning found footage into a nightmare in Hangman or making a pandemic thriller at the height of an actual pandemic with Songbird, Mason has built his career on stories that crawl under your skin and stay there. Now, he is…
Nothing is more terrifying than puberty, except maybe whatever is going on in the trailer for The Plague. This new psychological thriller is ready to make audiences deeply uncomfortable in the best possible way when it opens in New York and Los Angeles on December 24, before spreading nationwide on January 2 through Independent Film…
Some killers do not need chainsaws or clown masks. Some just need fangs, an old house, and the confidence to pull off a blue skin tone. Today, we welcome Kurt Barlow, the nightmarish Nosferatu of Salem’s Lot, into the First Class tier of the Hall of Killers — the resting place of those who make…
November 9th, 1990. The world was in a strange place. The Cold War was over, video stores were thriving, and horror was desperately trying to keep its edge. Then, out of a box labeled “Good Guy,” came a familiar freckled face and a filthy mouth. Child’s Play 2 arrived to remind audiences that dolls are…
Before Lights Out haunted cinema screens, it was just a two minute homegrown experiment in fear, a tiny short film shot in a Swedish apartment that somehow scared its way around the world. No studio, no budget, and no reason to expect it would change a career. But that is exactly what it did for…
Everyone’s favorite pint sized psychopath is back, and this time she is taking her twisted talents to Europe. Production has officially begun on Orphan 3, with filming now underway in Budapest, Hungary. Isabelle Fuhrman, who has somehow managed to remain both ageless and terrifying since 2009, is once again stepping into the saddle shoes of…
Every so often, the Hall of Killers opens its polished doors to someone a little different. We have our monsters, our slashers, our claws and fangs — but sometimes the most dangerous weapon in horror is not a machete or a mask. Sometimes it is a pen. Which is why Peter Neal, the homicidal author…
It looks like the sauna from hell is officially open for business. Hereditary star Toni Collette and House of the Dragon breakout Milly Alcock are joining forces in Hot Mother, an Australian survival thriller that promises sweat, screams, and more emotional baggage than a family therapy retreat. The film comes from writer and director Lucy…
Break out your satin sheets and VHS nostalgia, because Last Slate Video is giving Snapdragon the high definition treatment it always deserved. The sultry 1993 erotic thriller starring Pamela Anderson in her first major film role is finally making its Blu ray debut in the UK, newly restored in full high definition and loaded with…
There was a glorious, blood-soaked moment in the early 2000s when French cinema collectively decided that horror should make you question your sanity. The movement, later dubbed New French Extremity, hit the world like a beautifully deranged fever dream. These were not your standard jump-scare slashers or polite ghost stories. No, these films were made…