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To paraphrase Doctor Frankenstein … the horror hub is alive. (Published.) Here’s our collection of all things creepy and crawly, spooky and scary. These are the articles and lists that go “bump” in the night, collecting all the best horror movies, TV shows, video games, books, and more. Brush past the metaphorical spider-webs and sink your fangs into some of Vulture’s best horror stories, including a dive into the 100 Scares That Shaped Horror, roundups of the best scary movies you can stream, and plenty of spine-tingling interviews.

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21 Great Movies Exploring the Unique Horror of Being a Woman

 This Halloween, the call is coming from inside the house, and by “the house,” we mean the patriarchy. By Martha Polk
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The 100 Scares That Shaped Horror

 From Frankenstein to Freddy to the “sunken place,” the terrifying moments that formed the genre (and our nightmares). By Jordan Crucchiola
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The 30 Most Influential Slasher Movies of All Time

 A guide to the horror subgenre with game-changing, rule-breaking, and absolutely terrifying films. By Meagan Navarro

Your Halloween Plans

  1. The 50 Scariest TV Episodes to Watch This Halloween By Brian Tallerico
  2. 21 Horror Games to Play This Spooky Season By Mike Rougeau
  3. Every Simpsons ‘Treehouse of Horror’ Segment, Ranked By Joshua Kurp

Scary Movies Streaming

  1. The 20 Best Horror Movies on Netflix Right Now By Brian Tallerico
  2. The 20 Best Horror Movies on Hulu Right Now By Brian Tallerico
  3. The 20 Best Horror Movies on Max By Brian Tallerico

For The Faint of Heart

  1. 21 Great Halloween Movies for Scaredy-cats By Marianne Eloise
  2. 25 Great Halloween Sitcom Episodes to Stream During Spooky Season By Jen Chaney
  3. 25 Horror-Comedies That Are Actually Funny By Bethy Squires

If You Cover Your Eyes at The Scary Part

  1. 5 Spooky Podcasts to Listen to Right Now By Nicholas Quah
  2. The Best Horror Novels of 2022 By Emily Hughes
  3. When Real Life Is Scarier Than a Slasher Movie By Grant Sutton

More Bloodshed

  1. movie review
    M. Night Shyamalan’s Old Is Beautifully Made and Terribly WrittenThe Sixth Sense director still has a way with sinister shots, but is oddly invested in having the audience care about his cardboard characters.
    By Alison Willmore
  2. coming soon
    Palme d’Or Winner Titane Brings Car Sex to a Theater Near You on October 1No, not that kind of car sex.
    By Justin Curto
  3. thrillers
    Director James Wan Returns to His ‘Rough Thriller Roots’ With MalignantWatch the trailer for the “throwback kind of film.”
    By Cydney Lee
  4. movie review
    Maybe Netflix’s Fear Street Should Have Just Been a TV ShowThe delightfully nasty Fear Street exists in this strange space between movies and television, serving neither format well.
    By Alison Willmore
  5. cannes 2021
    Titane Director Julia Ducournau Doesn’t See Herself As a Provocateur“Honestly, I think if I were a man, nobody would say that.”
    By Rachel Handler
  6. cannes 2021
    The French Body-Horror Film That Has Cannes in StitchesJulia Ducournau’s Titane kicks off with a woman having sex with her car, and only gets more bonkers from there.
    By Nate Jones
  7. hbo
    HBO Cancels Lovecraft Country After One SeasonAnd creator Misha Green shares a glimpse of what season two would have been.
    By Rebecca Alter
  8. movie review
    The Forever Purge Finally Gives Up on AmericaThe franchise used to consider the innate awfulness of humans as a controversial notion. Not anymore.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  9. this is no dream!
    Why Today’s Horror Filmmakers Can’t Escape Rosemary’s BabyHulu’s False Positive, starring Ilana Glazer, joins a long list of recent movies that have evoked Roman Polanski’s classic.
    By Matthew Jacobs
  10. cannes 2021
    Julia Ducournau’s Titane Trailer Wants to Knock Us Out Cold AgainThe French writer-director’s second feature, about a woman on some kind of metal-related rampage, will premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
    By Rachel Handler
  11. candyman
    Candyman’s Nia DaCosta Talks ‘Duality of the Black Experience’ on Juneteenth“Horror is a really effective tool when it comes to telling stories about things that impact us on a social level.”
    By Rebecca Alter
  12. tribeca festival
    Tom Stourton’s Face was Not Allowed to Play Edward SnowdenHis role in ‘The Spy Who Dumped Me’ is still to this day shrouded in mystery.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  13. video nasties
    Censor Director Prano Bailey-Bond Is Going to Shock YouThe first-time filmmaker behind Sundance hit Censor chats with us about Britain’s censorship of video nasties and why we love horror movies.
    By Jack King
  14. spooky!
    Conjuring Writers and Spiral Director to Launch LaLaurie Mansion FranchiseIf it isn’t based on a true story, is it even prestige horror, bro?
    By Bethy Squires
  15. trailer mix
    Netflix Promises a Spooky-Girl Summer With Fear Street Trilogy TrailerThe final chapter premieres July 16.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  16. movie review
    The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It Should Have Stuck to the Haunted HousesThe Patrick Wilson–Vera Farmiga horror franchise tries to depart from its previous format, with some seriously mixed results.
    By Alison Willmore
  17. oh the horror
    Blake Lively to Flub First Rule of Horror In Netflix’s We Used to Live HereNever, ever, ever open the door to a family of perfect strangers.
    By Halle Kiefer
  18. love story
    Actually, The Conjuring Is a Love StoryThe power of the hugely successful horror franchise comes not in its scares, but in the rock-solid relationship between its two main characters.
    By Lillian Brown
  19. movie review
    Chris Rock and a Game Cast Can’t Quite Save Spiral: From the Book of SawIt’s more a tired cops-chase-a-serial-killer movie than a tired Saw sequel.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  20. purge 5eva
    What If The Purge, But Forever?The Purge starts comin’ and it don’t stop comin’.
    By Rebecca Alter
  21. trailer mix
    Julianne Moore Is Spooky on Main(e) in Lisey’s Story Trailer“Was it real or was it my imagination?”
    By Rebecca Alter
  22. horror
    Selena Gomez to Scare You Off TikTok With Body-Horror Thriller SpiralExecutive-produced by … Drake?
    By Halle Kiefer
  23. the streaming wars
    Shudder Knows What You’ll Stream This SummerHow the horror streamer built a service even the snobbiest superfans would approve of.
    By Josef Adalian
  24. movie review
    In the Earth Is a Slapdash Wilderness Horror Story for the Age of COVIDThe new horror film from Ben Wheatley, made quietly and quickly last year, evokes the pandemic but can’t figure out what to say about it.
    By Alison Willmore
  25. oh the horror
    Mike Flanagan Blasts Off With Christopher Pike’s Mars Novel Season of PassageSomeone warn Elon.
    By Halle Kiefer
  26. vulture recommends
    The Empty Man Is the Next Great Cult Horror FilmDon’t sleep on this sleeper hit.
    By Tres Dean
  27. trailer mix
    Chris Rock Is Spiraling in the New Saw TrailerOut May 14, 2021.
    By Rebecca Alter
  28. trailer mix
    Ben Wheatley’s In the Earth Trailer: Nature Is Healing, Humans Not So MuchWhat’s scarier than a pandemic? Surviving a night in the forest during a pandemic.
    By Halle Kiefer
  29. ahs
    Ryan Murphy Gets You Beach-Ready With AHS Season 10 Theme RevealTime to work on your bodies before heading to Provincetown, and no, we’re not talking about hitting the gym.
    By Halle Kiefer
  30. movie review
    Come True Will Haunt Your Dreams and Ruin Your NightsFun with nightmares and sleep paralysis.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  31. q&a
    How The Descent Ended Up With Two Famously Bleak EndingsWriter-director Neil Marshall breaks down his horror film’s alternate conclusions — and which one he thinks is the worse fate.
    By Rachel Handler
  32. snl
    Heidi Gardner Has Never Looked Less Like Freddy Krueger Than on Weekend Update“I’m part of kids’ dreams!”
    By Halle Kiefer
  33. icons
    Tate Taylor’s Ma Sequel Idea Is A-Ma-zing“I know Octavia would do it,” said the director.
    By Rebecca Alter
  34. a long talk
    Rose Glass on What’s Real and What’s Imagined in Saint MaudIs this a horror film? The director herself isn’t so sure. But she attempts to explain her unholy film ending anyway.
    By Rachel Handler
  35. profile
    Morfydd Clark Is a Star in WaitingThe Saint Maud actress’s breakout moment was supposed to come last year, but she’s been too busy shooting The Lord of the Rings to worry about it.
    By Joseph Bien-Kahn
  36. terrifying news
    Haunting of Bly Manor’s Mike Flanagan Has ‘No Plans’ for Future SeasonsSo, if someone could round up three ghosts and send them to his house, that’d be great.
    By Halle Kiefer
  37. cult followings
    Let Ari (Grande) and Ari (Aster) Make Something Weird TogetherThe most depraved creative minds of our time simply must collaborate.
    By Rachel Handler
  38. oh the horror
    What an Excellent Day for a David Gordon Green Exorcist SequelPazuzu’s schedule is wide open.
    By Halle Kiefer
  39. best of 2020
    The Best Horror Movies of 2020In a year defined by fear and anxiety, these ten films managed to provide haunts and delights.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién and Alison Willmore
  40. movie review
    Kindred Has Haunted Me for WeeksI can’t stop thinking about what the film suggests — just under the surface — about Blackness, maternal life, and inheritance.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
  41. movie review
    Freaky Is the Sweetest Body-Swap Slasher Comedy You’ll See This YearThe new film from Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton is clever about horror conventions, but its biggest surprise is its streak of sincerity.
    By Alison Willmore
  42. threequels
    Take Shelter Director Jeff Nichols Formally Invites You Back to A Quiet Place 3A Quiet Place 3: Let’s Get Loud.
    By Halle Kiefer
  43. horror
    Isabelle Fuhrman’s Esther Comes Home (Again) in Upcoming Orphan PrequelWait … a prequel?
    By Halle Kiefer
  44. horror
    Clive Barker Has Such Sights to Show You in HBO’s Hellraiser TV ShowThe author has finally escaped the Lament Configuration (we assume) and joined David Gordon Green’s upcoming series.
    By Halle Kiefer
  45. welcome to the blumhouse
    Jason Blum Won’t Let a Pandemic Stop His Low-Budget-Horror MachineHis new Amazon film series, Welcome to the Blumhouse, is plowing ahead for a second season in 2021.
    By Chris Lee
  46. movie review
    Netflix’s His House Is Terrifying on Just About Every LevelSocial thrillers are way better when they can actually scare the bejesus out of you.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  47. movie review
    Bad Hair Fails the Very Audience It Seeks to ReflectIf this movie is the love letter to Black women that its director promises, it’s written with a poison pen.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
  48. role call
    Muse Watson Answers Every Question We Have About I Know What You Did Last SummerThe career character actor on getting paid to scare the shit out of 1997’s hottest young actors and the chats he had with his “psychotic” villain.
    By Rachel Handler
  49. friday night movie club
    The It Follows Sex Demons, RankedFor this week’s Friday Night Movie Club, we are honoring the villain in David Robert Mitchell’s 2015 indie-horror sleeper hit.
    By Rachel Handler
  50. vulture lists
    Every Classic Universal Monster Movie, RankedA look back at the studio that created the blueprint for generations of horror films.
    By Keith Phipps
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