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For die-hards, no horror movie can be too scary. But for you, a wimp, the wrong one can leave you miserable. Never fear, scaredies, because Slate’s Scaredy Scale is here to help. We’ve put together a highly scientific and mostly spoiler-free system for rating new horror movies, comparing them with classics along a 10-point scale. And because not everyone is scared by the same things—some viewers c...[Read More]

We recently asked horror movie fans of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us which religious horror films have the scariest scenes of all time. We also found some good entries on Reddit, too (here and here). This is what everyone said:🚨Warning: Spoilers ahead.🚨1.The Wailing (2016) — "I saw The Wailing on my small TV, which wasn’t great for an immersive experience, but my heart still dropped into my st...[Read More]

We recently asked horror movie fans of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us which religious horror films have the scariest scenes of all time. We also found some good entries on Reddit, too (here and here). This is what everyone said:🚨Warning: Spoilers ahead.🚨1.The Wailing (2016) — "I saw The Wailing on my small TV, which wasn’t great for an immersive experience, but my heart still dropped into my st...[Read More]

While horror makes wild claims of “based on a true story” from time to time, not every instance seen in the genre is a gimmick formed from a shred of truth. Quite the opposite is 2016’s Lake Bodom (a.k.a. Bodom), a film based on a well-documented true story — a true crime, in fact. The real-life inspiration for this offering of Finnish horror also has the distinction of being a famous cold case; f...[Read More]

Coinciding nicely with the release of the long-awaited sequel 28 Years Later, hitting theaters on June 20, Danny Boyle's post-apocalyptic horror 28 Days Later is finally getting the physical release treatment it deserves from Sony. The 4K UHD Limited Edition SteelBook release of 28 Days Later is currently only available for pre-order in the UK via Zavvi or HMV, so fans outside of the UK make sure ...[Read More]

We recently asked horror movie fans of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us which religious horror films have the scariest scenes of all time. We also found some good entries on Reddit, too (here and here). This is what everyone said: 🚨Warning: Spoilers ahead.🚨

Jim VejvodaUpdated April 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM28 Years Later Ponders What Living With the Rage Virus for Decades Does to Britain and the Infected“In 28 Years Later, we tried imagining how a world would rebuild itself after an apocalypse,” director-producer Danny Boyle explained in this exclusive behind-the-scenes video, which you can watch via the player below. (Check out the latest trailer here.)Bo...[Read More]

[embedded content] Back in 2022, Get Out, Us, and Nope writer/director Jordan Peele‘s production company Monkeypaw Productions acquired the genre film pitch Goat from writers Zack Akers and Skip Bronkie, the plan being that Peele would be producing Goat as part of Monkeypaw’s overall deal with Universal Pictures. The sports-related horror project made its way through production under the title...[Read More]

28 Days Later plunged viewers into a dark, post-apocalyptic world plagued by a highly contagious virus that caused those infected to fly into an uncontrollable fit of rage. Although it’s not technically considered a zombie movie, the franchise put a unique twist on the classic genre, and that twist has gone on to influence a wide array of media since the early ’00s. More than 20 years after the fi...[Read More]

Lower your brow and grab the popcorn as it’s time to look at ten unmissable B-movie gems…. The point of the humble B-movie (which has effectively now become the A-movie as far as mainstream tent pole cinema is concerned), was  -without too many airs or graces or deep psychological study – to provide escapist entertainment for its audience. Unlike today’s blockbuster budgets in the tens or hundreds...[Read More]

This week’s new releases include a Blumhouse horror movie that’s fresh out of theaters and now available at home, a vampire epic from Ryan Coogler in theaters, the latest from returning master David Cronenberg, and, quite fittingly, a Cronenberg-inspired body horror take on Cinderella that made headlines after someone vomited while watching it on the festival circuit. Here’s all the new horror tha...[Read More]

 Have YOU got a story? Email [email protected] CAROLINE PEACOCK Published: 05:34 EDT, 18 April 2025 | Updated: 07:11 EDT, 18 April 2025