October is an excellent time to go out at night. To cause mischief under a bright moon in the dark sky. But when you're out there, look up at that sky and imagine seeing a fiery object fall from the s...

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In autumn of 2016, an unsettling trend swept across the U.S. and eventually reached other pockets of the world. People in clown costumes began showing up at random places, often emerging from the wood...

When I was a kid, I was horrified of anything scary. A few scenes had caught my eye in passing, whether they be on a friend's big brother's screen or a parent's friend's tv when we were visiting. The ...

The latest installment in the V/H/S franchise, V/H/S/Mixtape, is upon us just in time for the Halloween season. V/H/S/Mixtape continues the franchise tradition of gathering a handful of genre filmmake...

Stephen King once described the opening paragraph in Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House as one of the finest passages in the English language and added that it's "the sort of quiet epi...

Anyone who watched Ryan Glover's last movie, his feature debut The Strings, knows that his work is heavy on vibe and mood. That's very much true of his latest feature, Split Rock. It's not quite as tr...

As we all know by now, Joe Bob Briggs’s time on Shudder is nearing its end. Joe Bob’s Halloween House Party will air on the horror streaming platform later this month, and there will be another specia...

Well, it's official. Paramount Skydance has officially taken over Warner Brothers Discovery in a massive $110 billion dollar merger. These are two of the oldest and longest-running studios in Hollywoo...

A day doesn’t go by that someone in one of the horror social media groups I am part of doesn’t beg for a movie that will truly terrify them. They even proclaim they want a movie that will traumatize t...

Who doesn’t love a good sea creature tale? Well, Netflix has a pretty great one in its six-episode series Below, which stars Josh Hartnett (Trap). Hartnett is Calvin Penney, a fisherman who resides in...

Every horror fan learns two things very quickly: that humans can be darker monsters than anything lurking on the other end of a Hollywood special effects team and that faith in a higher power can be either vital or useless, depending on the horror in question. While Dracula is bested by a crucifix in the Hammer Horror version, Lestat in Interview with a Vampire laughs them off. While its utility can be limited in plot, faith in horror, as in any genre, often serves as a key element in the theme

Religion is no stranger to horror films. Popular horror movies including The Exorcist, The Omen, and Rosemary’s Baby all have religious themes and symbols. But most of us would not think to examine su...

Never Whistle at Night Part II: Back for Blood was released in August, offering a second round of horror stories from indigenous voices that began with 2023’s first installment of the series. One of t...

Investigation Discovery (ID) is one of the leading true crime networks around, and they are constantly adding new series and specials. Their newest special takes a look at a 2023 family annihilation t...

Horror has many subgenres, and one of the biggest of those subgenres is found footage. Found footage is a special type of horror. It's one most anyone can follow and one most any filmmaker can make, a...

HBO Max has been a solid destination for horror, with access to several Warner Brothers and A24 titles. This October, the streamer is stacked with horror franchises and classic genre movies. There's p...

Humans have probably been telling scary stories for thousands of years - even cavemen around the fire surely had an early version of the boogeyman. But the genre was we know it was shaped by writers l...

Portland, Oregon is a city famous for many things; Voodoo Doughnut, Powell’s City of Books, the interesting (but bleak) underground shanghai tunnels. But nestled in Rose City is a small move theatre i...

Writers/directors Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kölsch made a name for themselves with their breakout hit Starry Eyes and then the more recent Pet Semetary remake. Their latest, The Swallow, is a creature ...

Spooky season is finally upon us! It’s time to bask in the company of slashers, ghosts, witches, vampires, etc. From Bella Lugosi’s blood sucking all the way to Michael B. Jordan’s spit sucking in Sin...

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...