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... You may have already seen some of those movies. But if you’re looking for more cinematic scares, here are 10 killer films that may have sneaked past your radar but are worth a scream, ahem, stream, in time for Halloween.

• In a Violent Nature
• MadS
• It’s What’s Inside
• Red Rooms
• Out Come the Wolves
• Caddo Lake
• Daddy’s Head
• What You Wish For
• Infested
• Oddity

It’s scary movie season, a time when many people watch films about zombies, serial killers, werewolves, magic and mysterious monsters who are impossible to kill.

However, as far as I know, there’s only one film that features all of those elements – and you’ve probably never seen it.

Made in 2007, “Trick ‛r Treat” consists of four interconnected horror stories, each about 15 to 20 minutes long, that all take place on a single Halloween night.

While characters from one story sometimes appear in other segments, the unifying force in the film is Sam, a mysterious creature wearing a burlap mask. He takes umbrage whenever a character disrespects a Halloween tradition, whether it’s by scaring away trick-or-treaters or blowing out a jack-o’-lantern before Halloween is over. Each meets a gruesome end.

Horror buffs eventually discovered the film. Today, it’s hailed as a modern classic...

... The belief in ghosts is a funny thing. Despite there being no evidence to support their existence, ghosts have haunted humanity wherever they have settled across the planet. Every age and every culture has its own type of ghost and ghost stories, each shaped by its own peculiar context. And despite the rise of scientific thinking in the 20th and 21st centuries, the belief in unquiet spirits is still very much alive...

This Halloween, comedian and filmmaker Mike Handelman has created a new vision in terror: a family restaurant called Verne Wells Lovecraft! With the help of director Joe Whelski, artists Rocco George and Dylan Mars Greenberg, and musicians hot glue and the gun, this short begins as a commercial for a family dining establishment that soon becomes something far more sinister. If you love Adult Swim’s surrealist brand of comedy, then this is a must-watch.

“Verne Wells Lovecraft was inspired by my time doing spooky improv comedy dinner theater at New York’s Jekyll and Hyde Club. It was an extremely cheesy (but fun) sort of Mel Brooks-ian animatronic experience where the fantasy was the restaurant run by magic, full of public domain characters like Frankenstein, the Mummy, and Wolfman, and of course, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. So for this project, I thought of making my own restaurant using a different set of public domain IP.

Because three is better than one, and it felt so weird and specific to the kind of crazy person who’d open a place like this, I went with Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and HP Lovecraft. And rather than Manhattan, which has been done, I put it in nearby Jersey City, for its own weird history and because New Jersey is kind of a joke unto itself (apologies to anyone from there, at least it’s not Long Island).

Verne, Wells, and Lovecraft, besides being in the public domain, come with such rich worlds and established fans, but the one I’m most drawn to is Lovecraft, because what’s funnier than cosmic horror? I’d love for Verne Wells Lovecraft to become a movie or TV show, but for now, I’m just happy I got to make something cool with my friends that incorporates my own weird sense of humor, puppets, Dylan Mars Greenberg’s amazing 3D world-building, and of course, music!”

Horror is the movie genre most positioned to take advantage of the fears and desires in the deepest parts of the human psyche. It’s also the genre that has pushed the boundaries of what can and should be seen on the screen, particularly in recent years. Horror films, particularly those released in the 1980s and afterward, have worked very hard to plumb the hearts and minds of viewers, bringing out those things that many people are afraid to face in their everyday lives and laying it all out on the screen. These films stay in the mind long after the final scene, demonstrating horror’s enduring power...

• 'Bone Tomahawk'
• 'The Wicker Man'
• 'Speak No Evil'
• 'The Witch'
• 'The Fly'
• 'Tusk'
• 'Jeepers Creepers'
• 'In a Violent Nature'
• 'Saint Maud'
• 'Funny Games'
• 'A Serbian Film'
• 'Martyrs'
• 'Cannibal Holocaust'
• 'The Human Centipede'
• 'Hostel'
• 'The First Omen'
• 'Get Out'
• 'Annihilation'
• 'Hereditary'
• 'Midsommar'

Horror movies often thrill audiences with their high-stakes tension, but a unique sense of discomfort comes from a movie where no one makes it out alive. Instead of a great "Final Girl" braving her way through a scary situation, nihilistic endings strip away any hope of survival, leaving viewers with a chilling sense of dread. Horror movies where absolutely everyone dies highlight the genre's darkest, most unforgiving conclusions.

Whether it's through ritualistic sacrifices, supernatural forces, deadly creatures, apocalyptic circumstances, or deadly viral outbreaks, a horror film may present a relentless march toward doom with a story that refuses to let anyone escape death. They don't just frighten with jump scares and gore but also emphasize the inevitability of death by creating movie endings so bleak that they linger even longer. Some horror movies don't let anyone escape, instead reminding audiences that sometimes the greatest terror is the absence of hope...

• The Thing (1982)
• Quarantine (2008)
• Unfriended (2014)
• The Blair Witch Project (1999)
• Dead Silence (2007)
• Cabin Fever (2002)
• House Of 1000 Corpses (2003)
• Final Destination 5 (2011)
• Night Of The Living Dead (1968)
• The Cabin In The Woods (2011)

Since the shocking revelation about the US Government's UFO research programme in 2017, the topic of extraterrestrial visitors has gradually shifted from conspiracy theories to mainstream discussion.

In recent times, military experts have sworn before the US Congress that the Pentagon ran a "multi-decade" programme which collected and attempted to reverse-engineer crashed alien crafts.

However, the official government "disclosure" of contact with aliens, whether through interstellar craft landings or the recently reported "non-human technological signature" allegedly detected by an Australian radio telescope, seems as distant as ever.

Nick Pope, who was once in charge of analysing UFO reports for the Ministry of Defence, shared his unsettling theory about why that might be with Simon Holland in a leaked email...

Folk horror is one of the richest and most intriguing horror subgenres, having a rich history. Focusing on elements such as themes of mythology, cultural clashes and cults, folk horror is fertile ground for disturbing psychological horror. Additionally, folk horror films frequently take place in remote locations in order to emphasize the isolation and danger that their protagonists find themselves in, leading to beautiful visuals and unique settings.

From its cinematic origins in the 1960s and 1970s, folk horror films have been frightening and fascinating audiences for generations. In order to truly stand the test of time, the best folk horror films involve rich mythology and lore, great acting and compelling mysteries, keeping viewers hooked with their eerie atmospheres from beginning to end. With this in mind, these are 10 folk horror films that are almost perfect...

• 'The White Reindeer' (1952)
• 'The Ritual' (2017)
• 'A Field in England' (2013)
• 'Lamb' (2021)
• 'The Devil’s Bath' (2024)
• 'Impetigore' (2019)
• 'The Wailing' (2016)
• 'Kill List' (2011)
• 'Midsommar' (2019)
• 'The Wicker Man' (1973)

... Before remains more of a mood piece than a full-on ghost or gory horror story. It is at least as interested in the manifestations of guilt in real life as it is using them as fuel for the supernatural narrative, and maintains the grief-stricken atmosphere as well as it does the spine-tingling stuff.

And Crystal is brilliant. His commitment to the part and this new mode is total. He never takes refuge in his comedy persona, and he utterly convinces as a man struggling with experiences he never imagined he would have to go through. His pain is both acute and chronic as he learns more about his wife, how he failed her, and how she turned to others to help her process what he could not. What kind of man, what kind of husband, what kind of therapist would allow that are questions that haunt him as deeply as Noah’s visions do him. Speaking of whom – as someone old enough to remember when the sight of a child actor made the spirit quail because children couldn’t act, I remain beyond grateful that those days are behind us and that Jupe only adds to the lustre of the new age. I don’t know what mighty forces are responsible for the change, but thank you, thank you.

In Irish folklore and literature dating back to the 1500s, writers from the island nation have written about mythical beings known as “Fetches” that haunt people whose days are numbered. According to legend, Fetches take on the physical form of the humans they visit — and if your own creepy doppelganger visits you in the evening, it means your death is imminent. But if they visit you in the morning, you can prepare yourself for a long life ahead of you.

That mythology is set to come to life in “The Fetch,” a new horror movie debuting at the Austin Film Festival that promises to fuse Irish folklore with modern day scares. According to an official synopsis, the film follows a grieving father who finds himself haunted by the Fetch as he mourns the death of his only son...

Featured in the DreadXP’s Indie Horror Showcase and coming December 2024 – A bizarre road trip buddy comedy meets Appalachian cosmic horror in this psychological horror story full of fear, heart, and strange sights.

After 3 years of development, Duonix Studios is excited to announce that their critically acclaimed 10 Dead Doves is launching on Steam this December. The exact release date will be announced soon, but fans of its unique "Dovecraftion" horror can already have a look at the new teaser trailer that was just featured in DreadXP’s Indie Horror Showcase today!

“One of the most ambitiously cinematic indie narratives I’ve seen in a while – it’s impossible to not be charmed by the back-and-forth between leads Mark and Sean.” ​- Rock Paper Shotgun

“It truly takes something wild, weird, or just plain spectacular, to remind you that actually, yes, horror can still surprise you. 10 Dead Doves is very much its own thing from the off.” ​- DreadXP

“10 Dead Doves (A+ name) makes a strong statement with its staggeringly strong production value, intriguing mystery, and polished gameplay. Simply put, 10 Dead Doves is not to be missed.” - Bloody Disgusting

Halloween is just around the corner so it's safe to say that we're firmly into spooky season. For some of us, it means binging some classic horror movies before the Christmas vibes kick in.

For others, it's an appropriate time to lean into the scary vibes and delve deeper into the lore behind these horror flicks. That can mean visiting haunted locations that inspired some of our favorite movies, like The Conjuring and The Amityville Horror.

Below is a list of 15 horror movies accompanied by the real-life haunted locations that inspired them. Although some of them remain private residences, there are others that you could actually visit!

• The Amityville Horror - The Amityville House (Long Island, New York)
• Lizzie - The Lizzie Borden House (Fall River, Massachusetts)
• American Horror Story: Coven - The LaLaurie Mansion (New Orleans, Lousiana)
• The Shining - The Stanley Hotel (Estes Park, Colorado)
• The Conjuring 2 and The Enfield Poltergeist - The Enfield Poltergeist House (London, UK)
• The Axe Murders Of Villisca - The Villisca Axe Murder House (Villisca, IA)
• Haunting Of Queen Mary - The RMS Queen Mary (Long Beach, CA)
• The Conjuring - The Conjuring House (Burrillville, RI)
• 1408 - Hotel del Coronado (Coronado, CA)
• American Horror Story: Hotel - Cecil Hotel (Los Angeles, CA)
• Bram Stoker's Dracula - Bran Castle (Transylvania, Romania)
• An American Haunting - The Bell Witch Cave (Adams, TN)
• Winchester - Winchester Mystery House (San Jose, CA)
• The Changeling - Henry Treat Rogers Mansion (Denver, CO)
• The Innkeepers - Yankee Pedlar Inn (Torrington, Connecticut)