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,” ...

In the time that Scary Movie has been gone, the horror genre has given us plenty of moments worthy of parody. However, the Wayans’ brand of comedy is always uniquely their own, so even though there ...

A24's Backrooms is now playing in theaters, and with the new horror movie out, many are wondering just how scary and gory it is. We're here to prepare you for the horrific descent into the backrooms.

Horror fans who aren’t already well-versed in the viral “Backrooms” creepypasta may have a hard time understanding, at first glance, why a bunch of empty rooms with yellow wallpaper and fluorescent ...

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With more than a decade between the last movie in the series and the next, that leaves a generation’s worth of horror movies for the new film to put in its sights and mercilessly mock. Now that the ...

Meet the year's buzziest new nightmares, from A24's "The Backrooms" to Neon's "Hokum." In January 2026, American life sometimes resembles an episode of “The Munsters.” The U.S. is a twisted, backwards ...

It was a banner year for horror, which not only dominated commercial markets but also broke through the awards barrier. The Oscars shortlist highlighted the genre’s critical success by recognizing ...

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 ...

What's your favorite scary movie? When putting together this 2025 ranking, that delightful horror-film catchphrase suddenly became an impossible question. Ranking these movies felt like an impossible ...

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 ...