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The best horror news in movies and TV, especially with a focus on streaming platforms like Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, Shudder, HBO Max, and Paramount Plus. We also cover theatrical releases.
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Psycho, by Way of David Lynch, in Argentina. The Dollmaker Is Now on Prime Video
The town of Palacios, the place where nothing bad can happen. Or so the sign welcoming people into the city says. The truth is, women in Palacios have been disappearing. When a new inspector begins working in the town, his prime suspect for the crimes is Tomás, a video-store clerk who wears a boy scout…
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What the Indie Horror Comedy ‘Desert Fiends 2’ Might Lack in Taste, It Makes Up for in Gore. And It’s Now on VOD
The first Desert Fiends movie was released last year, and I can’t say I was the biggest fan of it. But comedy, like horror, is extremely subjective, and the brand of comedy offered just wasn’t for me. Clearly many people enjoyed Desert Fiends, because hundreds of people helped crowdfund the sequel with over $165,000. If…
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‘Cat Cam’ Is Like ‘Paranormal Activity’ Crossed with ‘Good Boy’, but with a Cat Named Nug, and It’s Now Available on VOD
Cat Cam is a found footage movie in the vein of Paranormal Activity. It’s set inside a house where a cat owner named Riley has set up stationary cameras pretty much everywhere. Riley and her wife Sammy are about to go on vacation, and Riley is worried that her cat Nug might not be settled…
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Robed Cultists, Blood, and Something Ancient: The Behemoth Is Now on Prime Video
The Behemoth is a German horror film with upsetting cult rituals and plenty of practical effects and gore. Rebecca and Ryan take a vacation together in a snowy mountain town. The trip takes a turn for the terrifying when robed and masked cult members show up one night with the intent of performing a ritual…
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Above and Below Is What Happens When 47 Meters Down Gets Mixed Up in a Drug Run (and it’s now on VOD)
Above & Below looks like a cross between 47 Meters Down, Into the Blue, and the Tubi Original movie Great White Waters. The story of Above & Below involves friends vacationing in Mexico. They’re offered a chance to go on a shark-cage diving excursion, but they eventually learn the real reason they’re out there. Two…
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Nicolas Winding Refn’s Divisive ‘Her Private Hell’ is Now Available to Rent and Buy Digitally
Her Private Hell has been one of the more polarizing releases of 2026, with the overall consensus leaning towards the negative. But don’t let that stop you if you want to check it out, because it’s now available to watch at home on VOD. Her Private Hell is the latest film from Nicolas Winding Refn,…
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Pinocchio Decided Murder Was the Best Way to Become a Real Boy. ‘Pinocchio Unstrung’ is Now on VOD!
Pinocchio Unstrung is now available to rent and buy digitally in the U.S.! As of this post, the prices on different streaming platforms vary. Fandango at Home appears to have the best price at the moment, though by the time you read the prices might have been changed to be more uniform across the board.…
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A Man in a Chucky Mask Terrorized Pedestrians in Philadelphia, but He Picked the Wrong Woman to Ask “Are You Ready To Die?”
The man in the Chucky mask approached as many as 16 people near Philadelphia’s City Hall around 5 a.m. on August 12, possibly recording the interactions on his phone. He got in front of one 40-year-old jogger and asked “Are you ready to die?” twice. She screamed, ran, fell, and needed medical treatment. Jameka Wilson,…
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A Man Took an Ancestry Test to Find His Biological Father. It Turned Out to Be Charles Manson
For most of his life, Daniel Arguelles had wondered who his biological father was. The answer, when it finally came, was one he wasn’t sure his own daughter was ready to hear. Sophia Maddox is a 22-year-old filmmaker in Los Angeles. Her father called with an unsettling update. An Ancestry test had returned a result…
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Ridley Scott Says He’s Not Actually a Filmmaker, He’s an Influencer
Ridley Scott has spent nearly 50 years shaping how movies look and feel, from the acid-blooded terror of deep space to the neon rain of a dystopian future. So when The Times of London recently asked the director to name the through line across his career, his answer wasn’t “filmmaker.” It was something a little…
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Hayden Panettiere Called Her First Mushroom Trip, a Glamping Night with Her Scream 4 Castmates, One of the Funniest and Most Carefree Experiences of Her Life
During Hayden Panettiere’s last known public outing, she was laughing about something that happened during Scream 4 (2011). Cameras caught her at LaGuardia on May 20, 2026, the day after her memoir “This Is Me: A Reckoning” hit shelves, and she waved off questions about its most talked-about moments while walking through the terminal with…
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Is Set 53 Years Ago Today
53 years ago today was the worst day of Sally Hardesty’s life. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre didn’t reach theaters until October 1974, but the events it depicts are set on August 18, 1973 — which is why fans and filmmakers now mark August 18 as “Chain Saw Day.” Directed by Tobe Hooper, the film…
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The ‘Friday the 13th’ Prequel ‘Crystal Lake’ Has “Blood Everywhere,” Says Star Linda Cardellini
The gore in Crystal Lake is practical, not digital, and star Linda Cardellini says shooting some scenes got so bloody it made her wish for CGI. “There’s a couple of gory moments on set that were very practical that were pretty gross. Blood everywhere at one point,” she told Variety. Produced by A24, Crystal Lake…
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The ‘Scream’ Cast Is Mourning Hayden Panettiere, “A Brave And Brilliant Soul”
Hayden Panettiere played horror fan Kirby Reed in the Scream movies. She injected the franchise with heart and like Hayden in real life, her character was a ferocious survivor. Her castmates are now mourning this incredible loss. “Hayden should still be here,” Melissa Barrera told USA Today. “I feel so incredibly lucky that I got…
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Ryan Murphy Says American Horror Story Season 13 Is “Like The Avengers,” with Every Season’s Characters Teaming Up to Defeat One Ultimate Evil
Ryan Murphy says season 13 will be American Horror Story‘s Avengers moment. After twelve seasons of self-contained horror stories, season 13 gathers the franchise’s most memorable characters to deliver some real fan service. He told Entertainment tonight “Everybody thinks it’s a Coven season and it’s not…It’s all the seasons.” Murphy added that we’ll see “characters…
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Snooki Has a Ghost Hunting Show in Canada and She Drinks “Spirit Juice” When the Spirits Get Too Close
Nicole “Snooki” LaValle was on the Good Guys Podcast with Josh Peck and Ben Soffer when she casually revealed that her next chapter is paranormal investigator. The show is called “Snooki: Paranormal Rookie.” It’s a real eight-episode unscripted series commissioned by Crave, Bell Media’s Canadian streaming platform. Crave announced it on October 30, 2025, and…
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Sam Levinson Based Nate’s Buried-Alive Death on the 1973 Grindhouse Film The Candy Snatchers
Beware multiple spoilers from last night’s Euphoria are in the caption. Sam Levinson told Esquire that Nate Jacobs’ death in Season 3, Episode 7 (“Rise and Shine”) is a direct homage to The Candy Snatchers, a 1973 grindhouse thriller in which kidnappers bury a young girl alive in a box with a breathing pipe sticking…
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He Uploaded His $800 Horror Feature to YouTube for Free Last August. A24 Now Has Him Rebooting the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Curry Barker dropped out of the New York Film Academy’s Los Angeles campus after meeting Cooper Tomlinson. The two of them built a YouTube and TikTok sketch channel called “that’s a bad idea,” a Key and Peele-influenced dark comedy duo that ran from around 2017 through the early 2020s. Barker worked at Starbucks during the…