Author: Neil Mayne
Damian McCarthy’s Irish folk horror masterpiece opens May 1 — and it just became 2026’s most essential horror film Opening May 1 in cinemas nationwide via Neon, Hokum arrives not as a horror film that needs defending, but as one that demands to be reckoned with. Written and directed by Damian McCarthy, it premiered at SXSW on March 14 this year and walked out with a near-perfect critical reception — 98% on Rotten Tomatoes from 43 critics, the consensus declaring McCarthy a modern master of the genre. That isn’t hyperbole. After Caveat and Oddity announced him as a filmmaker worth…
Alien: Isolation 2 Just Broke Cover on Alien Day — And the Wait Is Finally Over Twelve years. Twelve years of silence, of waiting, of fans replaying one of the greatest horror games ever made and wondering if Amanda Ripley would ever get another chance to run, hide and survive. On April 26 — Alien Day — Sega and Creative Assembly answered. Alien: Isolation 2 is real, it is coming, and the first teaser has just dropped. It is called False Sense of Security. That title alone should tell you everything about what Creative Assembly intends to do to you.…
Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil Just Showed Its First Footage — And It Is Nothing Like You Expected The man who made Barbarian and Weapons has just shown the world what he is doing with Resident Evil — and it is smaller, weirder and scarier than anyone anticipated. Zach Cregger took the stage at CinemaCon this week to debut the first footage from his highly anticipated reboot of the most cursed franchise in horror cinema history. The crowd reaction was immediate. This is not the Resident Evil anyone was expecting. This is something genuinely new. And that is exactly the point.…
A24’s Backrooms Trailer Has Arrived — And The Internet’s Greatest Horror Just Got Very Real Everyone who has spent any time in the darker corners of the internet knows what the Backrooms are. The endless yellow rooms. The moist carpet. The hum of fluorescent lights that never switch off. The feeling — the absolute bone deep certainty — that something else is in here with you, somewhere deeper in the maze, and it is getting closer. Now A24 is bringing it to a cinema near you. And the trailer suggests they have done the impossible — taken one of the…
Insidious: Out of the Further — The Franchise Just Changed Everything For sixteen years the rules of the Insidious universe have been clear. The Further is a place you go to — a vast purgatorial darkness inhabited by the tortured souls of the dead, a world you enter at your own peril and pray you can find your way back from. It does not come to you. It does not follow you home. It stays where it belongs — on the other side of the dark. Until now. Insidious: Out of the Further — the sixth chapter in one of…
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Hits Physical Media Today — And Britain Has Never Looked More Terrifying Twenty-eight years after a weaponised virus reduced Britain to a blood-soaked wasteland, the nightmare is back — and this time it fits in your hands. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple lands on 4K Ultra HD SteelBook, Blu-ray and DVD today, giving horror fans the chance to own one of the most audacious, divisive and genuinely disturbing films of 2026 in the format it deserves. This is not a film that apologises for itself. Directed by Nia DaCosta and written by Alex…
FROM Returns for Season 4 — And the Town Has No Intention of Letting Go The series that critics call “the most unsettling show on television” is back — and this time, it brought answers. Or so it wants you to believe. There is a town somewhere in America. No map shows it. No road leads out. And once you arrive, the darkness that lives there will make very sure you never leave. Horror series FROM returned yesterday for its fourth season on MGM+, picking up directly after the third season’s gut-wrenching finale — an ending that left fans second-guessing…
Alright, folks, get ready to dive into the weird, the wild, and the utterly terrifying world of Lovecraftian horror. Now, if you’re expecting creepy monsters that want to eat your face off, you’re in for a shock—this is the kind of horror that messes with your mind more than your body. It’s the horror of the unknown, the unexplainable, and the feeling that something is watching you from just beyond the reach of your understanding. If you’ve ever watched a horror movie that made you feel like you might never look at the stars the same way again… congratulations, you’ve…
Let’s talk about something that doesn’t get enough credit in the horror genre: sound. We’re not just talking about the creepy soundtrack that kicks in right before the demon jumps out (though, yeah, that’s part of it). No, sound is the unsung hero in horror. It’s what makes those quiet moments so chilling—when your heart is pounding and your senses are on high alert because of the tiniest creak or hum. Spoiler alert: the thing that terrified you as a kid might not have been what you saw, but what you heard… Ever heard footsteps in the attic when you…
Why We Can’t Stop Watching Slasher Villains Let’s face it, there’s something thrilling and terrifying about slasher villains that makes them unforgettable. Whether it’s a masked face, a weapon of choice, or just the sheer persistence to kill, these villains are the heart of some of the most iconic horror films. Why do they haunt us so? Maybe it’s the fear of the unknown, or that we secretly want to know what drives someone to such madness. Whatever it is, we can’t look away. And let’s be real, who hasn’t looked twice at that creepy mask in the store, wondering…