Filth Eaters crosses a millennium without wasting a word, a vampire epic sharpened to the breadth of a novella.

S(p)lasher Flicks makes a compelling case that the swimming pool belongs alongside the haunted house, the Gothic castle, and the dark forest as one of horr

Buffet Libre turns cultural friction and bad decisions into a darkly funny spiral of escalating horror.

Adorable Humans sustains a distinct dark, sometimes playful, tone by adapting Hans Christian Andersen tales into a horror anthology.

The Kirlian Frequency may be best suited to listeners attuned to radio-style horror, where narration shapes the experience more than action.

Part memoir, part film analysis, and packed with wonderfully strange trivia, Partially Devoured proves there are still new ways to think about George A. Ro

Infinite Summer, where a teen coming-of-age story meets techno-horror.

The Death Grip Shorts Block showcases alien visitations, haunted reflections, and predatory conversations.

From haunted forests to cursed podcasts, the Nightmare Fuel shorts mixes moody atmosphere with sharp takes on horror tropes.

Surreal, stylish, and unsettling, each film in the Head Trip shorts block takes you somewhere new, though you might not make it back.

Scripture meets scream theory.

A quiet horror of devotion and decay, Anoxia finds its ghosts in the shutter-click of a camera and the stillness between disasters.

Though it’s not a drive-in thrill ride, Beyond the Planet of the Vampires is a seething text of bodily hauntings, poetic ruptures, and fractured desire.

A selection of shorts from Panic Fest 2025

Chainsaws Were Singing is part slasher, part musical, and all gonzo midnight-movie insanity.

Devils Stay blends exorcism horror with a meditation on grief while delivering a visually striking and emotionally heavy tale.

Strange Pictures unspools like a haunted scrapbook or a giallo told through crime reports and unsettling drawings.

Pay the Piper delivers atmosphere, strong themes, and a memorable setting, though it never quite finds the raw power of Romero’s best work.

Catherine the Ghost is Kathe Koja’s darkly poetic love letter to Wuthering Heights.

Written by and starring Nick Frost, Get Away blends folk horror conventions with a mix of dark humor, eerie tension, and bursts of blood-soaked chaos.

A journey through cosmic horror and literary homage, Joe R. Lansdale's In the Mad Mountains celebrates the weird with wit and grit.

Trve Cvlt thrashes its way through black metal riffs, cosmic horror, Midwestern ennui, and tenuous band dynamics. 

If you can’t ball it up in Albuquerque, you can get the next best thing: the new Plan 9 from Outer Space novelization.

For fans of folk horror, trauma horror, or quiet, atmospheric horror, Starve Acre offers a ride worth taking.

Celebrates the enduring relevance of the genre, how it reflects the anxieties and preoccupations of its time.

Bertrand Mandico's She Is Conann is a striking visual and thematic experience, rich in symbolism and narrative complexity.

Within the nine minutes of screen time, Daniel Carsenty and crew showcase serious cinematic chops.

Blue Sunshine is a fast and fun read and delivers as a horror noir.

Here's another batch from the great variety of shorts that played at Film Maudit 2.0 last week!

In THE HOUSE OF LAST RESORT, Christopher Golden skillfully navigates gothic traditions and realism.

Stephen McClurg checks out some of the longform shorts that screened at Panic Fest 2024.

Stephen McClurg checks out some of the long form shorts from Panic Fest 2024

Stephen McClurg checks out some of the shorts from Panic Fest 2024