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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. chat room
    Lin Shaye Talks Insidious: The Last Key and Finally Being the HeroThe Hollywood veteran also shares her thoughts on the term “character actress.”
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  2. The 20 Most Anticipated Horror Films of 2018Halloween! Suspiria! Hagazussa!
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  3. catching up
    An Insidious Primer to Prepare You for The Last KeyInto the Further we go!
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  4. horror
    Lawsuit Over The Conjuring Says the Real Couple Was Less Wholesome Than in FilmsLegal documents include allegations that Ed Warren had a relationship with an underage girl.
    By Jackson McHenry
  5. box office
    Happy Death Day Breaks $100 Million As Horror Continues Its Box-Office DominanceThe suspense genre has proven to be Hollywood’s best investment option in 2017.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  6. Thelma Is Like Carrie Remade by Ingmar BergmanThe psychodrama is both more mysterious and more accessible than Joachim Trier’s other films.
    By David Edelstein
  7. Thelma’s Joachim Trier on Filming Lesbian Sex Scenes Sans the Male Gaze“I don’t think you can create art from a position of shame.”
    By Rachel Handler
  8. vulture lists
    The 20 Grisliest Death Scenes in American Horror StoryYou’ve been warned.
    By Brian Moylan
  9. Love Actually Can Very Easily Be Turned Into a Horror MovieYou can’t unsee it.
    By Granger Willson
  10. The Best Horror Films of 2017 (So Far)Get Out has captured all the buzz, but a lot of other great horror movies have hit theaters this year.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  11. Why Creep 2 Isn’t Actually a Horror MovieDirector Patrick Brice thinks it might be … a rom-com?
    By Kevin Lincoln
  12. backstories
    The Strangely Linear and Reasonable 30-Year History of ChuckyDon Mancini’s Child’s Play universe has endured since the 1980s, and it’s actually going strong.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  13. backstories
    Tracking the Wild History of LeatherfaceFrom Sawyer to Slaughter to Hewitt and back to being a Sawyer again.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  14. The Simple, Goreless Joys of Happy Death DayThe movie is no big deal, but its Groundhog Day conceit is kind of irresistible.
    By David Edelstein
  15. Carla Gugino Talks Playing a Sexual-Assault Survivor in Gerald’s Game“Many emotions you’re able to move through, but shame is one that often sticks for life.”
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  16. close reads
    Let’s Talk About That Scene With the Hand in Gerald’s GameIt’s not for the squeamish.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  17. trailer mix
    Mark Duplass Is Super Disturbing Again in the First Trailer for Creep 2The Duplass brother has too much fun playing a serial killer.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  18. sequels
    The It Sequel Will Arrive After Labor Day In 2019New Line wants to recapture that dark magic.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  19. stephen king adaptations
    Watch the Trailer for the Adaptation of Stephen King’s Novella 1922King is going for a seasonal hat trick at the movies.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  20. The 30 Best Female-Led Horror Films of All TimeFrom Alien to Halloween.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
  21. Here Are the Rest of the Horror Movies Coming Out in 2017Expect Leatherface, Jigsaw, and Madelaine Petsch being killed by a camera.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  22. casting couch
    Jamie Lee Curtis Will Return As Laurie Strode in HalloweenOf course death wasn’t the end.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  23. Stephen King’s Story ‘Suffer the Little Children’ Being Developed as a FilmFirst published in 1972, the short story is part of King’s Nightmares & Dreamscapes collection.
    By Halle Kiefer
  24. sequel news
    Director Andy Muschietti Shares Details About The It SequelThings don’t turn out great for Mike.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  25. a box office so big it’s scary
    The New It Had the Biggest Opening Weekend for a Horror Movie EverAs it turns out, ya do want it.
    By Halle Kiefer
  26. box office gold
    The New It Has Already Made a Record-Breaking Amount of MoneyHorror movies continue to bring in high returns.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  27. chat room
    It’s Andy and Barbara Muschietti on Changing Fukunaga’s Script and Scaring KidsAnd how no one wanted to know the backstory of Henry Bowers.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  28. The Complete History of Scary Clowns▶️ There’s a historical reason that clowns in pop culture strike fear in the hearts of audience members.
    By Granger Willson
  29. accidental activations
    Someone in Pennsylvania Is Tying It-Like Red Balloons to Sewer GratesThe Lititz Police Department would like the local prankster to stop creeping them out.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  30. exclusive
    James DeMonaco Shares New Details About The Purge: The IslandThe fourth movie will focus on the first “experimental Purge” and be set on Staten Island.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  31. When Horror Films Reflect Reality: The Purge and American PoliticsThe writer-director shares new details about The Purge: The Island, the forthcoming TV show, his political prescience, and his fear of Nazis.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  32. possible necessary remakes
    Director Andy Muschietti Might Have Just Confirmed the IT SequelThe studio has not confirmed a second movie yet, but the director says it’s his first priority.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  33. Drew Barrymore Is Bringing a Women-Helmed Horror Anthology Series to the CWIt’s called Black Rose Anthology.
    By Hunter Harris
  34. not a joke
    The World Clown Association Blames It for Giving Clowns a Bad RapThanks for nothing, Pennywise.
    By Hunter Harris
  35. deaths
    Director Tobe Hooper Dead at 74The father of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre died on Saturday.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  36. Bushwick Is an Alarmingly Timely Thriller With a Shallow PlotThe real threat, it says, is from within, from white men in states like Texas and the Carolinas who view multiculturalism as the enemy.
    By David Edelstein
  37. a closer look
    These Australians Are Here to Scare the Hell Out of YouFour of Australia’s on-the-rise horror directors on brutality, reaching American audiences, and why Australia can “drive people toward madness.”
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  38. the industry
    Justin Simien to Direct Horror Satire Called Bad Hair About Evil Autonomous HairThe story of a woman battling impossible beauty standards who ends up with an evil weave.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  39. Five Easy Steps to Making a Better Horror SequelHow Annabelle: Creation and Ouija: Origin of Evil blew their predecessors out of the water.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  40. movie review
    Annabelle: Creation Proves Slower Isn’t Always Better in HorrorThat doesn’t mean the jump scares won’t still floor you.
    By Emily Yoshida
  41. gasp emoji
    17 of the Most Disturbing Moments in The Emoji MovieA taste of the horrors that await.
    By Jackson McHenry
  42. horror movies
    Berlin Syndrome Is the Summer’s First Big Horror Film. How Scary Is It?Teresa Palmer stars as a woman trapped after a one-night stand goes wrong.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  43. An Occult Ritual Has Begun in This Exclusive Clip From A Dark SongA grieving mother embarks on a grueling ritual to contact her dead son.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  44. the sense of an ending
    Let’s Talk About the Ending of The Blackcoat’s DaughterParsing the alternate timelines and severed heads.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  45. trailer mix
    First Trailer for A Dark Song Features Horrors of the OccultOne of the year’s most anticipated horror films follows a grieving mother who turns to dark magic to bring her son back.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  46. trailer mix
    Teresa Palmer Stars in the First Trailer for Entrapment Thriller Berlin SyndromeWorst. Date. Ever.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  47. pregnancy horror
    Prevenge Is Proof We Need More Horror Movies About Pregnancy“When someone tells you to just ‘trust nature,’ you’re like, ‘No! We don’t live in nature!’”
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  48. possible necessary remakes
    J. D. Dillard in Negotiations to Direct a Remake of The FlyA wave of promising young genre filmmakers are getting ready to take on huge legacy properties for studios — and they could actually be great.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  49. your box office explained
    2017 Is Horror’s Best Year at the Box Office in a Long TimeIn Get Out and Split, the genre has already seen two $100 million grossers.
    By Kevin Lincoln
  50. chat room
    Raw Director Julia Ducournau on Cannibalism As a Horror Metaphor“I do think it says something about our society that the monsters we see right now are actually human.”
    By Jordan Crucchiola
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