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  1. Faces of Death review – rework of notorious video nasty turns horror voyeurism into moral panic fable
    By Mike McCahill

    A retelling of the 1978 ‘video nasty’ follows an online content moderator faced with steadily more appalling footage but reverts to generic bloodletting

    theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/

    #Film #Horrorfilms #Culture #TheGuardian #MikeMcCahill

  2. Hungry review – hippo horror sees multi-ton mammal run amok among bayou boat-trippers
    By Leslie Felperin

    A group of thinly drawn characters on a Louisiana tour fight for survival against a rampaging vegetarian

    theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/

    #Film #Horrorfilms #Culture #TheGuardian #LeslieFelperin

  3. Onslaught review – super soldier slasher doesn’t go hard enough
    By Benjamin Lee

    There’s a committed performance from a spunky Adria Arjona in the Guest director Adam Wingard’s decent B-movie but it’s missing some sharper weaponry

    theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/

    #Thrillers #Actionandadventurefilms #Film #Culture #RebeccaHall #DanStevens #Horrorfilms #TheGuardian #BenjaminLee

  4. Parasomnia review – sleep-schedule horror conjures up a succubus on the loose in waking nightmare
    By Phil Hoad

    Debut director James Ross II shows promise in this gore fest, but the fear factor suffers from an overly complex plot

    theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/

    #Film #Horrorfilms #Sleep #Culture #Lifeandstyle #TheGuardian #PhilHoad

  5. For no reason whatsoever... hey, horror crew: join the BFS!

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    A little public service announcement for the horror community: You are always welcome in the British Fantasy Society. We exist to celebrate and support ALL of speculative fiction - including horror, dark fantasy, paranormal and supernatural, and crime stories - across the spectrum.

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    #horror #horrorcommunity #hwa #horrorwritersassociation #horrorFam #horrorbooks #horrorfilms #horrorfiction

  6. Oops I put up the wrong clip - this my horror movie poem with Jakko, Isaac and Steve - a very improvised joyous moment celebrating Ingrid Pitt, Bela Lugosi and more

    patreon.com/RobinInce/posts/fo

    #horrorfilms #movies #poetry #poem

  7. Memo to Ridley Scott: no one needs more Alien: Covenant movies – get the franchise back to stalk’n’slash
    By Ben Child

    News that Scott is working on a follow-up to his maligned 2017 film leaves me worried the franchise has run out of shocks

    theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/

    #Film #Alien #RidleyScott #Sciencefictionandfantasyfilms #Horrorfilms #Television #Culture #Televisionradio #MichaelFassbender #TheGuardian #BenChild

  8. ‘He could arch both eyebrows and curl his lips in every direction all at once’: Tim Curry’s five best screen roles
    By Laurence Phelan

    The actor fully embraced his physical talents and outsized personality with a line in theatrical baddies teetering deliciously on the edge of serious and silly

    theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/

    #Film #TimCurry #Culture #TheMuppets #Horrorfilms #Musicals #Sciencefictionandfantasyfilms #Comedyfilms #Comedy #StephenKing #Books #TheGuardian #LaurencePhelan

  9. Colony review – zombies return to the mall with a fresh and frenzied range of scares
    By Laurence Phelan

    This time the ranks of the undead have acquired a hive mind, making them even more formidable adversaries. Can a maverick academic save the day?

    theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/

    #Horrorfilms #Film #Culture #SouthKorea #Zombies #Actionandadventurefilms #Sciencefictionandfantasyfilms #TheGuardian #LaurencePhelan

  10. Kirsty Mann: Corpse review – a comedy so creepy you’ll fear the next revelation
    By Chris Wiegand

    Summerhall, Edinburgh The comedian brings a calm authority to her tale of a haunted house and digs out maximum horror from a minimal staging

    theguardian.com/stage/2026/aug

    #Edinburghfestival2026 #Theatre #Comedy #Comedy #Culture #Edinburghfestival #Stage #Horrorfilms #TheGuardian #ChrisWiegand

  11. Penny Lane Is Dead review – Aussie slasher comedy zips from Neighbours to nasty
    By Leslie Felperin

    Mia’Kate Russell’s 80s-set Ozsploitation horror is a tad slapdash, but the grungy gore and seething catfights save it from dud status

    theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/

    #Film #Horrorfilms #Australianfilm #Culture #Worldnews #TheGuardian #LeslieFelperin

  12. ‘A bit like meditation’: why Saw is my feelgood movie
    By Emma Madden

    The latest in our series of writers picking their go-to comfort films is a grimy and gory trip back to the start of a surprisingly uplifting torture porn franchise

    theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/

    #Horrorfilms #Thrillers #Film #Culture #TheGuardian #EmmaMadden

  13. Illicit deeds have just gotten a new Halloween video game banned in Australia – and it’s not because of the violence
    By Jackson Ryan

    Academics – and a former director of Australia’s Classification Board – say Halloween: The Game’s ban due to ‘incentivised drug use’ highlights an incoherent set of standards

    theguardian.com/games/2026/aug

    #Games #Culture #Australianews #Halloween2018 #Horrorfilms #TheGuardian #JacksonRyan

  14. Crybabies: The Scaring review – chills and laughs abound in twisty tale of demonic possession
    By Brian Logan

    Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThis fantastic comic play from the Radio 4 trio unleashes a torrent of great gags and illusions

    theguardian.com/stage/2026/aug

    #Edinburghfestival2026 #Stage #Culture #Edinburghfestival #Comedy #Radio4 #Theatre #Comedy #Horrorbooks #Horrorfilms #TheGuardian #BrianLogan

  15. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma review – Gillian Anderson superb in queer slasher spectacular
    By Peter Bradshaw

    Young indie film-maker Kris tracks down Anderson’s Final Girl for a remake of a beloved horror, to find fantasy and reality collapsed

    theguardian.com/film/2026/may/

    #Film #Culture #Festivals #GillianAnderson #Horrorfilms #Cannesfilmfestival #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

  16. It Ends review – gripping micro-budget horror ranks among the year’s best
    By Owen Myers

    Led by a stellar cast of gen-Z newcomers, Alex Ullom’s directorial debut is an expertly crafted nightmare about a road trip gone wrong

    theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/

    #Horrorfilms #Film #Culture #Thrillers #TheGuardian #OwenMyers

  17. Insidious: Out of the Further review – evil returns but so does boredom
    By Scott Tobias

    Uninteresting mythology and junky effects push a once-promising horror franchise further from what it once was

    theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/

    #Horrorfilms #Film #Culture #Thrillers #TheGuardian #ScottTobias

  18. ‘I’ve always been fond of hairy creatures!’ Visual effects maestro Rick Baker on a monstrously good career
    By Rory O'Connor

    Rick Baker helped define Hollywood’s creature features with his wild makeup effects skills. From Locarno, he talks Gremlins, his love of simians– and why AI will never replace expert design

    theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/

    #Film #Filmindustry #Culture #TheExorcist #Horrorfilms #Awardsandprizes #Sciencefictionandfantasyfilms #Business #KingKong #TheGuardian #RoryOConnor

  19. Film posters for The Mummy banned from public display in the UK
    By Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent

    Watchdogs say adverts in London tube stations broke its rules with ‘realistic impression of a dead child’ – warning: graphic image

    theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/

    #Film #Horrorfilms #AdvertisingStandardsAuthority #Advertising #London #LondonUnderground #TheGuardian #NadiaKhomamiArts #culturecorrespondent

  20. The Whispering was the third film for a our Spooptober group watch, and it was baaaaad. A bunch of teens just making dumb decisions, not really scary when it should have been, and the ending was terrible.

    The only thing I give the movie credit for is atmosphere and aesthetics. They did silence really well, so you really heard the creepy noises and sounds.

    Final rating: 3 / 10

    #Spooptober #HorrorMovies #HorrorFilms #KoreanFilm #TheWhispering #MovieNight #Movies

  21. Hannah Lauren Murray writes about GET OUT (2017) & Robert M. Bird’s Sheppard Lee (1836) in which Black bodies unwillingly "bolster Whiteness" by helping escaping it. "Get In and Get Out..." is #OpenAccess in Humanities from MDPI. #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
    doi.org/10.3390/h12060129

  22. Horror fans, grab your smelling salts. Barbara Creed's seminal book "The Monstrous Feminine" is out in a 2nd Edition & now in multiple formats. Expanded w/Creed's thoughts on post-2000 films such as GINGER SNAPS, ATLANTICS, BORDER & TITANE. #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
    routledge.com/The-Monstrous-Fe

  23. Two more new books to cure your candy hangover: "Queer Gothic," tackling everything from wolf-boyz on TV to AIDS art & "Transgressive Art Films," a look at today's extremes in sex and violence on screen. From Edinburgh UP. #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
    tinyurl.com/3re2ntt3
    tinyurl.com/3j6rbcrf

  24. 🧛Fangs for frosh🧛 "Queering the Vampire Narrative" is new from Brill w/classroom-ready essays on gender, family & identity in VAMP, BUFFY, THE HUNGER, TWILIGHT, Anne Rice + more. Eds Amanda Hobson & U. Melissa Anyiwo. #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia #vampires
    brill.com/display/title/69517

  25. Tod Browning's LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT is "Lost, but Not Dead." Gary D. Rhodes walks thru the history of the film's reception in the 1920s and its many reanimations, both legit and fraudulent. #openaccess in Film International. #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
    filmint.nu/london-after-midnig

  26. CINEJ journal is all new and #openaccess with thoughts on THE HANDMAIDEN and visual pleasure, THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER as myth adaptation, & the female gaze of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. Authors Javier Zapata Claveria, Poya Raissi, Morteza Ghaffari, Emily Moeck. #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
    cinej.pitt.edu/ojs/cinej/issue

  27. Studies in the Fantastic is dressed up for Halloween! The new issue has essays on haptics in the ANNABELLE trilogy, patriarchy in THE WITCH & THE LOVE WITCH, plus reviews of Gen Z critique BODIES BODIES BODIES & Lenzi's BLACK DEMONS. Access via @ProjectMuse. #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
    muse.jhu.edu/issue/51732

  28. The new Science Fiction Film & Television issue has essays on the kaiju-human connection in SHIN GODZILLA (2016) and the feminist liberation, or lack thereof, in MEDUSA (2020). Timothy S. Murphy, Phillip Zapkin, access via #ProjectMuse. #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia #kaiju #godzilla
    liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk