John Carpenter clearly had a few ideas pinging around in his brain about how he figured the world could end. Would it be a shapeshifting parasite unearthed from the permafrost, would it be the Lovecra...

Well, ghouls and gals, it's officially October and the Halloween season is upon us. There's no better time than now to check out creepy locations with haunted history, filming locations of famous horr...

Animal attacks have long been a baked in fear of the human psyche. We are clearly at the top of the food chain but there are very specific moments where we can quickly find ourselves prey. This is inh...

Picture this. It's 1999. The internet is in its early stages with that familiar dial-up sound and AOL's "You've got mail" signaling the age of e-mail. Meanwhile, Kurt Cobain has been dead for five yea...

Welcome to the first of what will be 31 articles featuring films, books, games, and podcasts that the team here at The Horror Lounge think are worthy of your limited time during the Halloween season! ...

Mike Flanagan's newest project is the Amazon Prime Video series Carrie, and, as everyone knows, it is an adaptation of Stephen King’s first published novel. The novel released in 1975, and Brian DePal...

With October just about upon us, there's plenty of ways to celebrate the best time of the year. One option is to enjoy the return of Cinemark's Fear of Missing Out horror movie series. Like previous y...

We at The Horror Lounge are so excited about Halloween, as are horror fans everywhere! In honor of spooky season, we will be running a 31 Days of Horror series, where each of our contributors will hav...

What differentiates a ghost in Latin America from one in the United States, or another that appears in Europe?As summer comes to a close, and we finish reading the terrifying stories in last month’s r...

Many horror movies have dealt with influencer culture lately, including Deadstream, Influencer and its sequel, Influencers, the recent Faces of Death remake, along with a host of other films. Some, of...

Rufus Butler Seder's Screamplay is a hodgepodge of its influences, including Nosferatu and German Expressionism more broadly, cheesy horror and sci-movies from the 1940s and 1950s, and even melodramas...

As October inches closer and closer and the days get shorter and cooler, it's just about time to make some popcorn and watch some horror movies. While several streamers will be adding plenty of horror...

A few years back, Netflix & Chills was an annual Halloween event; now it’s a category that is always available on the streaming platform. But Netflix still increases their horror library in time for s...

When it comes to horror movies, Tubi isn't holding back during Halloween season. Their October line-up is absolutely stacked with genre classics and exclusives, some of which are part of the Terror on Tubi category, which showcases horror year-round. The schedule contains plenty to keep horror hounds happy in October, so let's dig in and look at the schedule.Tubi's October additions include plenty of originals, such as R.L. Stine's Pumpkinhead 2 and Bite Sized TerrorsIncreasingly, Tubi has been

Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story recently began streaming on Netflix, and even those who didn’t care for the storyline (or the way it was presented) have to admit that the cast is pretty solid. And as it turns out, they have quite a bit of horror/thriller cred.Ella Beatty (Lizzie) – Ella is the daughter of actors Warren Beatty and Annette Bening. She appeared in the hit film If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, but she also starred as Hannah in the psychological thriller Act One.Charlie Hunnam (Andrew) –

Writer/director Luka Marcetic's second feature, Girl in the Night, is a clever take on the mundanity of modern life with loads of deadpan humor. It's also a story about two lonely souls who meet each ...

Before my screening of Kylgor in the Grisly Abyss began (review for that one coming soon), I was presented with a piece of one of the most underrated aspects of Fantastic Fest, the short films, and I'...

October is just days away, and to celebrate, Regal Cinemas announced this year's schedule for its annual 31 Screams on Screen. Each day throughout October, the theater chain will screen a different ho...

It’s hard for followers of true crime to be unbiased when watching Ryan Murphy’s Monster series on Netflix. Those of us who are fascinated with what are basically TRUE horror stories are pretty well-v...

On day one of Fantastic Fest, I got to attend the midnight movie Flapjax. Flapjax follows a group of fast food employees, who, led by their overly ambitious manger, begin selling a controversial and a...

I'll just say this immediately. Writer/director Kyle Mangione-Smith's found footage thriller, Compliance, is a feel-bad movie. It uses a rape to kick off a larger conspiracy plot that's stepped in hea...

AMC Global Media has appointed the Crypt Keeper as host of this year’s FearFest celebration. The iconic figure was the host of Tales from the Crypt in the 1990s, and returned to serve as spokesperson ...

ID is releasing a new true crime docuseries in October, and it’s about a very unusual bond that was formed between the survivor of a serial killer and the killer’s wife. The 3-part docuseries The Seri...

While the influences of writer/director David Boyle's Never After the Dark are clear, especially The Shining and the Korean film A Tale of Two Sisters, Boyle has a way of constantly subverting expecta...

This week Fantastic Fest unveiled a very special world premiere, the sequel to the 2024 horror film In a Violent Nature. The film was promoted as a secret screening, and audiences were not told what t...

Director Quarxx's latest movie, The Ones Who Grieve, is not an easy watch. It's a period horror film where religion is used by a family's patriarch to maintain his power and assault those he views as ...

So the question in many fans minds becomes how closely Resident Evil follows the style of the gameplay, as while many film adaptations capture elements of the classic style, Survival Horror doesn’t a...

Into the Sky isn't your typical alien movie. Yes, it contains alien abductions, which leave abductees abandoned in corn fields with blue goop covering their body, but more than anything, the film is a...

Writer/director Agata Trzebuchowska isn't afraid to tackle the taboo in her feature Sick. While several horror movies address fears of aging, most recently The Substance, for example, Sick is so harr...

Fantastic Fest 2026 kicked off this week with their opening night film, Zach Cregger's Resident Evil. Cregger has been building a name for himself in the horror genre the last couple of years. His 202...

The fourth annual Access:Horror Film Festival will begin at the Winchester, Virginia Alamo Drafthouse later this month with an in-person opening night showcase on September 25. Virtual programming will stream October 4 through November 1.There are plenty of horror film festivals out there, but Access:Horror is definitely unique in its focus. Access:Horror celebrates the impact, history and future of disability within the horror genre. The press release states: “We believe in horror as an agent o

Whew! Shudder sent out three exciting press releases in one day, and we can’t wait to talk about the news they announced.First Up: A new Director of Programming has joined Shudder, and she is someone ...

The remake of The House on Sorority Row is headed for a Steelbook release. The film – which was titled Sorority Row – was originally released in 2009, and starred Briana Evigan, Leah Pipes, Rumer Will...

FANGORIA's Angel Melanson has joined AMC Global Media as the new Director of Programming for our horror pals over at Shudder.

Demon babies are nothing new within the horror genre. In fact, there could be a whole subgenre dedicated to a woman birthing the spawn of Satan. Rosemary's Baby is probably the most famous example, bu...

September has been a great month for horror films. Zach Cregger's highly anticipated Resident Evil adaptation releases this Friday, and on September 25th we'll see Maika Monroe (It Follows) play an un...

Writer/director Agata Trzebuchowska’s Sick is a transgressive film that isn’t afraid to tackle taboo subjects. It’s also a film that depicts desire, youth, and aging and has some generally unsettling ...

Fright-Rags has made a big splash in the horror community thanks to its high quality t-shirts featuring licensed art from new and classic horror films. Of course, Fright-Rags also sells other horror m...

There have been plenty of horror movies about demonic babies, such as Rosemary's Baby, It's Alive, The First Omen, among others. Writer/director Raymond Creamer's feature debut, Goody Goody, follows i...

Peacock and A24 just dropped a new Crystal Lake trailer. The entire series will stream on Peacock beginning October 15, but the trailer gives away several clues about the series' narrative and plenty ...

Now that we have covered the original and exclusive titles for the first two months of Shudder’s Season of Screams event, along with September’s “resurrected” titles, let’s move on to October.That’s r...

Now that the Labor Day Weekend has come and gone, spooky season is in full swing, at least unofficially. For horror fans, this means we have plenty of new movies and TV series to look forward to. We a...

The Horror Lounge sat down with filmmaker James Ross II and actress Jasmine Mathews about the latest Shudder original film, Parasomnia, and chat about the inspirations for the film as well as some of ...

Fantastic Fest, one of the best genre film festivals in the United States, is just days away. This festivities kick off on September 17 and conclude on September 24 at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar...

Furious was a great binge series, a tense thriller with complex characters and a storyline that kept us on our toes. But it wasn’t the first series to do that sort of thing, so if you liked it, here a...

It's been ten long years since writer/director Na Hong-jin's last movie, The Wailing. His new movie, Hope, is a creature feature that continually toys around with genre filmmaking and expectations, an...

For the fourth year in a row, 19 Crimes is releasing a lineup of Universal Monsters-related wines, perfect for the Halloween season. Newly added to this year’s lineup is The Wolf Man, one of the best-...

It's been quite a year for Donnie Darko fans. First, filmmaker Richard Kelly announced a book sequel to the 2001 film, which will release later this year through Range Literary Publishing. Titled The ...

Hulu original thriller series Furious is getting a lot of positive press right now, and there are solid reasons for this. Is it wholly original in its story and characters? No, but it combines its ele...