Dread Central Lead Critic Matthew Jackson weighs in on the state of horror in 2025 and picks his 10 favorite films of the year.

As we enter a new year, scare hounds will be happy to know that there are a ton of upcoming horror movies for 2026 on their way. Not only are we getting zombie sequels, a new Robert Eggers monster movie,

The genre doesn’t carry the same stigma it did in the mid-90s or even the early 2000s, and now big-name, Oscar-nominated directors are creating polished horror movies that appeal to everyone. The question is,

The Sundance Film Festival has revealed its 2026 slate, and we've got all the details on every horror film sure to take next year by storm.

Blumhouse has delivered some of the best horror movies of the 21st century. Here are the studio's 12 best horror offerings, ranked.

HBO Max is an excellent choice for scary films. In addition to the 17 outstanding options you'll find below, you can watch Bring Her Back, The Substance and the supernatural horror entry The Conjuring: Last Rites. The streaming service starts at $11 per month or $110 per year, and you can also get it free with a DoorDash DashPass annual plan .

The horror film genre is driven by sound as much as image. Anxiety thrives not in what we can see, but in what we can’t.

Before he directed the 2025 DC Universe movie "Superman," James Gunn produced a hidden gem horror flick that subverts the Man of Steel's origins brilliantly.

Considered to be the only horror film ever made by Ingmar Bergman, Hour of the Wolf is an intense psychological horror with love at its core. It follows an artist, who, tortured by his insomnia and nyctophobia, begins maintaining a diary about his everyday psychological sufferings.