April means going to New Orleans for one of the best genre film festivals in the world and one of our favorites: The Overlook Film Festival. This year was a challenge for the festival as the 2023 SGA and WGA strikes had a diminishing effect on studio releases, the fest managed to pull in some terrific foreign films, and the short films shined too. Overlook isn’t the biggest festival. By comparison, it is significantly smaller than SXSW, Sundance, and Tiff. Fantastic Fest and Fantasia also may have more attendees. But, when it comes to getting quality horror films, few can compete with the quan ..read more

The 2024 Thingy Awards Nominations have arrived! Roll out the red carpet! We’re celebrating the best of 2023 Horror Movies and are recruiting YOU to vote for these deserving nominees. The Thingy Awards were developed to give voice to the movies that the Academy rarely recognizes. Horror Movies. This year, two films from our beloved genre received recognition at the Oscars. El Conde was nominated for Best Cinematography. Godzilla Minus One pulled a minor miracle and won for Best Visual Effects. Congratulations to both of them! Does that mean that they will win a Thingy Award? That will be up to ..read more

★★★ out of ★★★★★ Intensity 1/2 out of Directed by Kourtney Roy Trippy Canadian feature Kryptic relies heavily on its Lynchian and Cronenbergian inspirations, tripping up on other areas in this dark, mystical journey. Canadian feature Kryptic combines Lynchian uncanniness and Cronenbergian sexually-charged body horror with sylvan eeriness and creature-feature elements. The result is a head-scratcher that looks great and features a top-notch lead performance, but lacks in other areas. Kay Hall (Chloe Pirrie), who seems somehow off from the very get-go, joins a womens’ hiking group but wanders of ..read more

Spanish shocker Cursed (Malditas; 2023) has been picking up awards on the film festival circuit, and Red Owl has released the trailer and not one, but two, posters for the film. Following is the official press announcement. Red Owl, specialized in high quality genre cinema, presents the horror movie “CURSED”, directed by Carlos Marbán, who has mentioned it as a “love letter to horror cinema, where the first thing we see are its little protagonists… embodying complex, dramatic, violent roles, but always full of energy and meaning”.  The film was part of the Sitges Film Festival ..read more

Way back in June of 2023, The Scariest Things asked The Jersey Ghouls, Jackie and Marissa to play a game and spin the Wheel of Misfortune on Spooky Time Episode 18. Foolishly, they said yes and we all discussed our misfortunate franchise results on Podcast Episodes 173 and 174. We asked them to come back again to spin the wheel and…they said yes! This time it’s a Wheel of FORTUNE as we spin for Horror Studios! Liz took many of the horror movie studios from Eric’s exhaustive dead list and loaded up the wheel. Again we spun and chance gave us our assignments. Watch and listen to the results and ..read more

U.K. fright-fare fanatics, we have the trailers for two horror films headed your way in April. Following are the official press announcements. The Bad Shepherd Herd in the horror as The Bad Shepherd is set to bring sheer terror to your screen. This pulse-pounding supernatural survival thriller from director Geo Santini (After the Reign) is set for its UK debut on 22 April courtesy of Scatena & Rosner Films. A friends’ hunting trip turns dark and deadly when they accidentally run over a woman in the wilderness and discover she’s already been shot and is holding a bag full of cash. Fuelled b ..read more

London’s Pigeon Shrine FrightFest, the U.K.’s premiere horror and genre-film festival, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year from August 22-26. It does so in style, moving to the ODEON Luxe Leicester Square, and today revealing its stunning poster for this year. Following is the official press announcement. Pigeon Shrine FrightFest is proud to unveil Graham Humphreys’ stand-out poster design for 2024 which marks the 25th anniversary of the UK’s most popular genre festival and the festival’s move to the ODEON Luxe Leicester Sq. Graham said today: “Although FrightFest marks its first quarter ..read more

This is how a bad relationship ends in Kill Your Lover (2024)Intensity: out of Directed by Alix Austin and Kier Siewart The sexy body horror thriller film Kill Your Lover manifests a literal toxic relationship between a mismatched British couple who let things go a bit too far. This feature from The Overlook Film Festival will make you squirm uncomfortably. Come for the steamy sex scenes, then stay for the awkwardly painful dissolution of a partnership in body-altering collapse. The adage that opposites attract needs an addendum. Opposites can also repel. Lovers as a magnet metaphor has some ..read more

Here are the new trailer and posters for Black Mandala’s The Syndrome (Sindrom; Russia, 2021). Following is the official press announcement. Black Mandala acquires North American rights to supernatural horror movie “THE SYNDROME”, directed by Vyacheslav Rudenko. A story full of moments of tension and unexpected scares. Where the line between reality and the spectral world is blurred, leaving viewers in suspense until the final outcome. While their city is shocked by a series of strange suicides, Yegor prepares to move to another place to forget the past and start a new lif ..read more

Heeeeere’s Johnny! In a Violent Nature (2024)Intensity: out of Directed by Chris Nash The Canadian slasher film In a Violent Nature roared out of the gates with much buzz from The Sundance Film Festival. It was bolstered by a menacing trailer that similarly had horror fans excited. It has a great-looking monster, and a few spectacularly gory kills will make this movie pop and evoke fond old memories. The advance word on this movie was that it reinvented the slasher film. It’s different, to be sure. The odd pacing, however, cannot be ignored, and the movie plods along with its villain for far ..read more