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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
100 scares

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
100 scares

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. a closer look
    Let’s Talk About the Torture Scene in PiercingChristopher Abbott and director Nicholas Pesce talk vulvic wallpaper and dream logic.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  2. casting
    Edgar Wright Recruits Anya Taylor-Joy For Horror Movie Last Night in SohoBut there are few other details to share.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  3. sundance 2019
    Sweetheart Is a Diamond-Sharp, No-Nonsense Survival ThrillerKiersey Clemons stars in J.D. Dillard’s no-frills, all-thrills film as a woman who washes up on a desert island and encounters … something.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  4. here’s chucky!
    Chucky to Terrorize TV in New Show From Child’s Play Creator Don ManciniHe’s working with Channel Zero’s Nick Antosca.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  5. return of the zack
    Zack Snyder Will Return to Directing and His Zombie Roots With Army of the Dead“There are no handcuffs on me at all with this one.”
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  6. horror
    HBO Planning to Wreck Your Sleep With Asian Mythology Horror Anthology FolkloreFeaturing tales from Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Korea, Singapore, and Thailand.
    By Halle Kiefer
  7. reboots
    Final Destination Being Revived by Saw Writers, So the 2000s Are Extremely BackMarcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton will show you all the benign ways you can die.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  8. trailer mix
    Watch the First Trailer for Documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black HorrorBased on the book by Dr. Robin R. Means Coleman.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  9. a closer look
    Director Sophia Takal Breaks Down the New Year, New You Interrogation Scene“I find women’s inhumanity toward one another extraordinarily upsetting and scary and horrific.”
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  10. christmas horror
    How Silent Night, Deadly Night Inflamed a NationIn 1984, a grimy Santa slasher movie raised the ire of parents and film critics, scaring a multimedia conglomerate into pulling it from theaters.
    By Jason Bailey
  11. trailer mix
    New Year, New You Trailer Confirms Your Suspicion That Influencers Are MurderersFrom director Sophia Takal.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  12. vulture recommends
    Channel Zero Is the Scariest Horror Show You’re Not WatchingA rich, gorgeous, and astonishingly frightening anthology series.
    By Sean T. Collins
  13. year in culture 2018
    10 Horror Films You Might Have Missed This YearIncluding The Ritual, The Domestics, and Are We Not Cats.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  14. best of 2018
    The 10 Best Horror Movies of 2018Women. Witches. Monsters. Vengeance.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  15. trailer mix
    Brightburn Trailer: Wait, What If Superman Was Basically Damien From The Omen?The nature versus nurture question goes out the window when your son’s nature is “some kind of homicidal alien super-being.”
    By Halle Kiefer
  16. interview
    Bridey and Abby Elliott Made a Movie in Their Family’s Haunted HouseThe sisters talk Clara’s Ghost, an off-kilter horror-comedy loosely based on their real lives — and starring the entire Elliott family.
    By April Wolfe
  17. vulture lists
    12 Days of Christmas Horror MoviesYou Better Watch Out because it’s going to be a Silent Night, Deadly Night.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  18. 100 scares
    57 Horror Directors on the Scares That Inspired (and Traumatized) ThemFrom John Krasinski to Karyn Kusama.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  19. 100 scares
    Horror Is Not Defined by What Scares YouAs the genre has grown in scope, the mainstream conversation around it has narrowed.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
  20. 100 scares
    A Beginner’s Guide to Women’s Horror FilmmakingThis A to Z list reflects the scope and longevity of women filmmakers and their work in horror.
    By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
  21. 100 scares
    The Story Behind Scream’s 12-Minute, Still-Terrifying Opening Scare“I wanted it to be just long enough that the audience thinks she might survive it.”
    As told to Lila Shapiro
  22. 100 scares
    15 Essential Horror Films Starring People of ColorCandyman, Night of the Living Dead, and more.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
  23. 100 scares
    What Is the Greatest Year in Horror of All Time?Let us discuss.
    By Jordan Crucchiola, Bilge Ebiri, and Michael Gingold
  24. trailer mix
    Happy Death Day 2U Trailer: This Girl Just Cannot Stop DyingWelcome to the multiverse!
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  25. 100 scares
    The 100 Scares That Shaped HorrorFrom Frankenstein to Freddy to the “sunken place,” the terrifying moments that formed the genre (and our nightmares).
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  26. chat room
    Anna and the Apocalypse’s Star on Singing, Dancing Through a Zombie Apocalypse“It’s a relief to be pressing the fuck out of something that I loved making.”
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  27. urban legends
    Jordan Peele Is Producing a ‘Spiritual Sequel’ to CandymanNia DaCosta will direct.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  28. close reads
    Let’s Talk About the ‘Jazzercise Scene’ in CamMadeline Brewer explains the horrors of watching yourself die.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  29. close reads
    The Haunting of Hill House and the Madness of FamilyHorror is about the ghouls we know and what goes bump in the night, and especially the place where those two become one.
    By Lauren Michele Jackson
  30. chat room
    Madeline Brewer on Trading Her Handmaid Robes for a Flogger in Cam“This movie took me to a level where I feel comfortable fighting for my body.”
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  31. overnights
    American Horror Story: Apocalypse Finale Recap: The End Justifies the MeanIt’s the Antichrist’s blood-soaked last stand as the season comes to a close in peak AHS fashion.
    By Ziwe
  32. horror
    Amazon Makes a Deal With Blumhouse for 8 Horror FilmsThe studio wants its share of the “social thriller” pie.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  33. vulture recommends
    If You Loved Haunting of Hill House, Watch These 6 Mike Flanagan Horror FilmsThere’s so much more unresolved trauma to experience.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  34. trailer mix
    The Internet Is Coming to Steal Your Whole Life in the Cam TrailerMadeline Brewer is no Handmaid in this twisted horror picture.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  35. vulture recommends
    Which Mutant Nazi Movie Is Right for You?Overlord is in theaters now, but are you more of a Trench 11 person?
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  36. overnights
    American Horror Story: Apocalypse Recap: All My Friends Are DeadAs the apocalypse draws nigh, humanity’s last hope may be … time travel?
    By Ziwe
  37. season renewals
    USA Network Uses Election Day To Announce A Second Season of The PurgeThere’s still a lot of purging to do.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  38. fashion du jour
    Suspiria’s Costume Designer Explains 10 of the Film’s Chic Looks“With Suspiria there was no limit,” says Giulia Piersanti.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  39. best of 2018
    The Best Horror Movies of 2018 (So Far)The humans are scarier than the monsters.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  40. overnights
    AHS Apocalypse Recap: Are You There Satan? It’s Me, MichaelA very special Halloween episode of American Horror Story.
    By Ziwe
  41. deep dives
    How Suspiria Created Its Dances of DeathChoreographer Damien Jalet talks about pagan rituals and the influence of Gorgons.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  42. movies
    Lon Chaney Jr. Is the Perfect Movie Monster for Our Era of Large Adult SonsEven under mounds of makeup, Chaney usually just seems like he’s been dropped into a movie by accident.
    By Keith Phipps
  43. podcast review
    Halloween Unmasked Is a Nostalgic Appreciation of a Horror ClassicThis vibrant audio documentary examines the history and the legacy of John Carpenter’s iconic 1978 horror flick.
    By Nicholas Quah
  44. horror
    The Original Wicker Man Is the Perfect Horror Movie to Watch This HalloweenWomen provide its central terrors, and a theme that resonates strongly this year: the fear men have that women are colluding against them.
    By Talia Lavin
  45. horror
    How Scary Is Haunting of Hill House, Really?A terrified wimp investigates.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  46. horror
    Mothra, Jigoku, Godzilla: a Postwar Japanese Horror PrimerTales of the supernatural reflected the anxieties of a society that had suffered the unthinkable terrors of war, and was still processing.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  47. horror
    Halloween, The Haunting of Hill House, and Every Parent’s Worst FearParents worry about keeping their kids safe. The new Halloween and Netflix’s Hill House capture that anxiety to an extreme.
    By Jen Chaney
  48. a closer look
    How Luca Guadagnino Brought Suspiria’s Bloodiest, Wildest Scene To Life“I’ve never filmed anything like that, and I doubt I’ll ever film anything like it ever again.”
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  49. horror
    What Makes a Movie Monster Scary?As technology has improved, our monsters have gotten more ornate and grotesque — but less genuinely terrifying.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  50. horror
    Papier-Mâché Eyeballs, Go-Go Dancers, Secret Passwords: A Look at The EyeslicerDan Schoenbrun and Vanessa McDonnell’s traveling horror experience combines short films and art with an internet-savvy sensibility.
    By Max Cea
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