I am a lifelong antiwar activist and a diehard horror movie buff. A lot of people seem to find those two facts to be a contradiction, and I guess on the surface I can comprehend their confusion.

When watching an especially scary horror movie, it’s easy to dismiss the film’s frights as fake...unless, of course, the plot happens to be inspired by actual events. That makes things a bit ...

You wanted body horror? Here you go. Director Takashi Miike directs a lot of movies for younger audiences these days, but that's not where he built his reputation: The brutal Audition probably ...

It has been updated with additional movies ahead of Halloween. People say comedy and horror are intrinsically linked because they both go for a visceral reaction. A laugh or a scream: Either way ...

The 100 best horror films of all time. The 100 best vampire movies of all time. The 50 best zombie movies of all time. The 50 best movies about serial killers. The 50 best slasher movies of all ...

Sometimes, it’s good to be bad. The 1896 short film “House of the Devil” is widely regarded as the first horror movie ever made. In a handful of minutes, the devil conjures a woman from a ...

Conducted every year since 2020, MoneySupermarket’s Science of Scare study has involved hundreds of volunteers who watch hours of horror movies while having their heart rate monitored.

Half your crew always lobbies for a rom-com from the early aughts, and that one friend insists on one of the scariest horror movies of all time (I am that one friend). You, being the most ...

Whether it’s something gory and macabre, silly and irreverent, or eerie and unsettling, the genre of horror is as rich and varied as the multitude of ghosts, ghoulies, and homicidal maniacs that ...