Horror Film

Candyman review round-up: Nia DaCosta, Jordan Peele's sequel is a 'rich meditation on the social terror' of the original

"Who can take a reboot, sprinkle it with something new, cover it with blood and bumblebees and a pointed social commentary or two?": Entertainment Weekly writes in its review of Candyman.

As Spiral releases on Lionsgate Play, a look back at the choreographed violence of the Saw franchise

Saw brought a sense of choreography to violence, the simple yet ludicrously effective idea that if imagined, pain, and death can have countless different designs, each more sinister, more creative if you like, than the others.

Netflix's Fear Street trilogy is a motley of gore and nostalgia as told through an endearing cast of teenage rebels

The Fear Street trilogy on Netflix eschews the doom-and-gloom sobriety of recent horror successes such as Bird Box and A Quiet Place, or the nihilism of The Purge franchise.

Midsommar movie review: Ari Aster disguises a break-up movie as folk horror in Hereditary follow-up

Where Ari Aster’s Hereditary used the American horror playbook to tell a story of trauma and grief, his follow-up Midsommar steps outside those aesthetic constraints while zeroing in on similar ideas.

The Lodge movie review: Riley Keough turns up the heat in icy psychological horror from makers of Goodnight Mommy

Full marks to The Lodge directors for swimming against the tide of contemporary horror movies stuck on old gimmicks.

The Invisible Man movie review: Elisabeth Moss brings the chills in a showcase of the unseen horrors of domestic violence

The Invisible Man works because its message is timely, its scares legitimate, and its truth undeniable.

Ready Or Not trailer: Samara Weaving looks to survive a deadly game of hide-and-seek

Ready or Not is the second joint directorial venture by Devil's Due makers Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett

Bhoot Chaturdashi movie review: Scares arrive way too late in this unevenly paced horror film

For more than one hour of this 90-minute film, there are — simply put — zero scares in Bhoot Chaturdashi.

Taapsee Pannu to reunite with Manmarziyaan director Anurag Kashyap for yet-untitled supernatural thriller

After Manmarziyaan and Saand Ki Aankh, Taapsee Pannu and Anurag Kashyap will collaborate for a supernatural thriller.

Hereditary, The Babadook, Don't Look Now: How horror films help us cope with grief, death and loss

Horror films not only make us psychologically engage with our deepest fears but they also help us process our repressed emotions.