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27) The Guest
Arguably not horror? Look, it takes place around Halloween and stars Maika Monroe. That's horror enough for me!
Dan Stevens turns in a killer performance as a young man returning from Iraq and staying briefly with the family of a fellow soldier. This one takes some TURNS. Super fun.
Arguably not horror? Look, it takes place around Halloween and stars Maika Monroe. That's horror enough for me!
Dan Stevens turns in a killer performance as a young man returning from Iraq and staying briefly with the family of a fellow soldier. This one takes some TURNS. Super fun.
October 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
27) The Guest
Arguably not horror? Look, it takes place around Halloween and stars Maika Monroe. That's horror enough for me!
Dan Stevens turns in a killer performance as a young man returning from Iraq and staying briefly with the family of a fellow soldier. This one takes some TURNS. Super fun.
Arguably not horror? Look, it takes place around Halloween and stars Maika Monroe. That's horror enough for me!
Dan Stevens turns in a killer performance as a young man returning from Iraq and staying briefly with the family of a fellow soldier. This one takes some TURNS. Super fun.
25/26) There Existed An Addiction To Blood
and
Visions of Bodies Being Burned
These brutal albums from rap group clipping are masterpieces of horrorcore. Metallic, heavy, percussive production and Daveed Diggs' usual lyrical skill turned to dark focus push the genre forward in extraordinary ways.
and
Visions of Bodies Being Burned
These brutal albums from rap group clipping are masterpieces of horrorcore. Metallic, heavy, percussive production and Daveed Diggs' usual lyrical skill turned to dark focus push the genre forward in extraordinary ways.
October 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
25/26) There Existed An Addiction To Blood
and
Visions of Bodies Being Burned
These brutal albums from rap group clipping are masterpieces of horrorcore. Metallic, heavy, percussive production and Daveed Diggs' usual lyrical skill turned to dark focus push the genre forward in extraordinary ways.
and
Visions of Bodies Being Burned
These brutal albums from rap group clipping are masterpieces of horrorcore. Metallic, heavy, percussive production and Daveed Diggs' usual lyrical skill turned to dark focus push the genre forward in extraordinary ways.
24) The Sexy Brutale
A murder mystery set in a casino-mansion nightmare staffed by bloodthirsty masked goons. You and the other victims are stuck in a time loop endlessly reliving your deaths, until a woman made entirely of blood (?) jostles you free and allows you to begin interfering with events.
A murder mystery set in a casino-mansion nightmare staffed by bloodthirsty masked goons. You and the other victims are stuck in a time loop endlessly reliving your deaths, until a woman made entirely of blood (?) jostles you free and allows you to begin interfering with events.
October 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
24) The Sexy Brutale
A murder mystery set in a casino-mansion nightmare staffed by bloodthirsty masked goons. You and the other victims are stuck in a time loop endlessly reliving your deaths, until a woman made entirely of blood (?) jostles you free and allows you to begin interfering with events.
A murder mystery set in a casino-mansion nightmare staffed by bloodthirsty masked goons. You and the other victims are stuck in a time loop endlessly reliving your deaths, until a woman made entirely of blood (?) jostles you free and allows you to begin interfering with events.
23) Anything For Jackson
I'm generally not into exorcism movies, but this works for me by being a total inversion of the genre while getting a ton of mileage out of its tropes. Sheila McCarthy and Julian Richings are excellent, managing to bring pathos to characters doing a truly monstrous thing.
I'm generally not into exorcism movies, but this works for me by being a total inversion of the genre while getting a ton of mileage out of its tropes. Sheila McCarthy and Julian Richings are excellent, managing to bring pathos to characters doing a truly monstrous thing.
October 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
23) Anything For Jackson
I'm generally not into exorcism movies, but this works for me by being a total inversion of the genre while getting a ton of mileage out of its tropes. Sheila McCarthy and Julian Richings are excellent, managing to bring pathos to characters doing a truly monstrous thing.
I'm generally not into exorcism movies, but this works for me by being a total inversion of the genre while getting a ton of mileage out of its tropes. Sheila McCarthy and Julian Richings are excellent, managing to bring pathos to characters doing a truly monstrous thing.
22) They Look Like People
Two old friends struggle with their perceptions of what it means to be a man in the modern day, one somewhat more than the other. This is the film that brought me back to horror movies after many encounters with jump scare garbage convinced me that they weren't for me.
Two old friends struggle with their perceptions of what it means to be a man in the modern day, one somewhat more than the other. This is the film that brought me back to horror movies after many encounters with jump scare garbage convinced me that they weren't for me.
October 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
22) They Look Like People
Two old friends struggle with their perceptions of what it means to be a man in the modern day, one somewhat more than the other. This is the film that brought me back to horror movies after many encounters with jump scare garbage convinced me that they weren't for me.
Two old friends struggle with their perceptions of what it means to be a man in the modern day, one somewhat more than the other. This is the film that brought me back to horror movies after many encounters with jump scare garbage convinced me that they weren't for me.
19) The Old Dark House
A pre-Code classic that's definitely not just on here because I'm self-conscious about how many of my recommendations are from the past ten years. I don't always gel with older horror movies for a number of reasons, but this one earns every bit of its reputation and status.
A pre-Code classic that's definitely not just on here because I'm self-conscious about how many of my recommendations are from the past ten years. I don't always gel with older horror movies for a number of reasons, but this one earns every bit of its reputation and status.
October 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
19) The Old Dark House
A pre-Code classic that's definitely not just on here because I'm self-conscious about how many of my recommendations are from the past ten years. I don't always gel with older horror movies for a number of reasons, but this one earns every bit of its reputation and status.
A pre-Code classic that's definitely not just on here because I'm self-conscious about how many of my recommendations are from the past ten years. I don't always gel with older horror movies for a number of reasons, but this one earns every bit of its reputation and status.
I've never quite been able to put into words what it is that I love so much about Hellboy and his strange almost-adventure-serial universe, but it has always struck deep into my heart. I'm just a sucker for things like pulp hero Lobster Johnson shouting "HERE IS THE CLAW!" as he machineguns Nazis.
October 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I've never quite been able to put into words what it is that I love so much about Hellboy and his strange almost-adventure-serial universe, but it has always struck deep into my heart. I'm just a sucker for things like pulp hero Lobster Johnson shouting "HERE IS THE CLAW!" as he machineguns Nazis.
18) Hellboy: The Chained Coffin and Others
Take this as a recommendation of all of Hellboy, really, but for the unfamiliar looking to get started this is the collection I always recommend first. It's got great grumping, hunting, and punching, and my favorite HB story (the Wolves of St. August).
Take this as a recommendation of all of Hellboy, really, but for the unfamiliar looking to get started this is the collection I always recommend first. It's got great grumping, hunting, and punching, and my favorite HB story (the Wolves of St. August).
October 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
18) Hellboy: The Chained Coffin and Others
Take this as a recommendation of all of Hellboy, really, but for the unfamiliar looking to get started this is the collection I always recommend first. It's got great grumping, hunting, and punching, and my favorite HB story (the Wolves of St. August).
Take this as a recommendation of all of Hellboy, really, but for the unfamiliar looking to get started this is the collection I always recommend first. It's got great grumping, hunting, and punching, and my favorite HB story (the Wolves of St. August).
17) Mom And Dad
A thrashy little horror-comedy about every parent suddenly being overwhelmed by the desire to murder their own offspring. Featuring excellent work from Selma Blair and Nic Cage (in one of his hugest performances) as the primary pair of parents, it's fast and brutal fun.
A thrashy little horror-comedy about every parent suddenly being overwhelmed by the desire to murder their own offspring. Featuring excellent work from Selma Blair and Nic Cage (in one of his hugest performances) as the primary pair of parents, it's fast and brutal fun.
October 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
17) Mom And Dad
A thrashy little horror-comedy about every parent suddenly being overwhelmed by the desire to murder their own offspring. Featuring excellent work from Selma Blair and Nic Cage (in one of his hugest performances) as the primary pair of parents, it's fast and brutal fun.
A thrashy little horror-comedy about every parent suddenly being overwhelmed by the desire to murder their own offspring. Featuring excellent work from Selma Blair and Nic Cage (in one of his hugest performances) as the primary pair of parents, it's fast and brutal fun.
My favorite moment of the stream, courtesy of Moonsigil Atlas:
(RIP The Moon, better luck next time)
(RIP The Moon, better luck next time)
October 19, 2025 at 6:12 AM
My favorite moment of the stream, courtesy of Moonsigil Atlas:
(RIP The Moon, better luck next time)
(RIP The Moon, better luck next time)
13) Lake Mungo
An absolute triumph of fake-documentary film-making. Lots of words have been said about this one, even here on this website already this month, so I'll just add that I think this one might be particularly effective on trans people. Quiet and slow and simply one of the best ever made.
An absolute triumph of fake-documentary film-making. Lots of words have been said about this one, even here on this website already this month, so I'll just add that I think this one might be particularly effective on trans people. Quiet and slow and simply one of the best ever made.
October 10, 2025 at 4:16 AM
13) Lake Mungo
An absolute triumph of fake-documentary film-making. Lots of words have been said about this one, even here on this website already this month, so I'll just add that I think this one might be particularly effective on trans people. Quiet and slow and simply one of the best ever made.
An absolute triumph of fake-documentary film-making. Lots of words have been said about this one, even here on this website already this month, so I'll just add that I think this one might be particularly effective on trans people. Quiet and slow and simply one of the best ever made.
12) The Invitation (2015)
My favorite dinner party thriller and, for my money, Karyn Kusama's best work. Friends with complicated, difficult relationships all come together for the first time in years and slowly feel out the ways they've all changed. This film does an extraordinary job placing...
My favorite dinner party thriller and, for my money, Karyn Kusama's best work. Friends with complicated, difficult relationships all come together for the first time in years and slowly feel out the ways they've all changed. This film does an extraordinary job placing...
October 10, 2025 at 4:16 AM
12) The Invitation (2015)
My favorite dinner party thriller and, for my money, Karyn Kusama's best work. Friends with complicated, difficult relationships all come together for the first time in years and slowly feel out the ways they've all changed. This film does an extraordinary job placing...
My favorite dinner party thriller and, for my money, Karyn Kusama's best work. Friends with complicated, difficult relationships all come together for the first time in years and slowly feel out the ways they've all changed. This film does an extraordinary job placing...
It's a brilliant time with/against friends: short frenzied matches full of monsters, traps, and stolen humanity backed up by extraordinary production values that give the action a real crash, thump, and splash. Who doesn't want to end an evening with their friends drenched in little red squares?
October 10, 2025 at 4:16 AM
It's a brilliant time with/against friends: short frenzied matches full of monsters, traps, and stolen humanity backed up by extraordinary production values that give the action a real crash, thump, and splash. Who doesn't want to end an evening with their friends drenched in little red squares?
11) Crawl
A pixel-art splatterpiece from the studio that put out this year's excellent The Drifter, this is a co-op/etitive multiplayer game in which one player tries to escape from a dungeon while the others act as the dungeon, each competing to kill the survivor to be allowed to take their place.
A pixel-art splatterpiece from the studio that put out this year's excellent The Drifter, this is a co-op/etitive multiplayer game in which one player tries to escape from a dungeon while the others act as the dungeon, each competing to kill the survivor to be allowed to take their place.
October 10, 2025 at 4:16 AM
11) Crawl
A pixel-art splatterpiece from the studio that put out this year's excellent The Drifter, this is a co-op/etitive multiplayer game in which one player tries to escape from a dungeon while the others act as the dungeon, each competing to kill the survivor to be allowed to take their place.
A pixel-art splatterpiece from the studio that put out this year's excellent The Drifter, this is a co-op/etitive multiplayer game in which one player tries to escape from a dungeon while the others act as the dungeon, each competing to kill the survivor to be allowed to take their place.
10) Green Room
A punk band out of money on tour makes the inadvisable decision to play a show at a club with... questionable politics in order to afford the return leg of the trip.
Things spiral.
The violence in this one might be tough for some, especially given... everything. Tense and brutal.
A punk band out of money on tour makes the inadvisable decision to play a show at a club with... questionable politics in order to afford the return leg of the trip.
Things spiral.
The violence in this one might be tough for some, especially given... everything. Tense and brutal.
October 10, 2025 at 4:16 AM
10) Green Room
A punk band out of money on tour makes the inadvisable decision to play a show at a club with... questionable politics in order to afford the return leg of the trip.
Things spiral.
The violence in this one might be tough for some, especially given... everything. Tense and brutal.
A punk band out of money on tour makes the inadvisable decision to play a show at a club with... questionable politics in order to afford the return leg of the trip.
Things spiral.
The violence in this one might be tough for some, especially given... everything. Tense and brutal.
9) The Vourdalak
A fairy tale about what a nightmare it is to be nervous and French, and also there might be a vampire about. Excellent visual design, drenched with unease.
A fairy tale about what a nightmare it is to be nervous and French, and also there might be a vampire about. Excellent visual design, drenched with unease.
October 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
9) The Vourdalak
A fairy tale about what a nightmare it is to be nervous and French, and also there might be a vampire about. Excellent visual design, drenched with unease.
A fairy tale about what a nightmare it is to be nervous and French, and also there might be a vampire about. Excellent visual design, drenched with unease.
8) Pontypool
Set almost entirely in the recording booth of a radio station as... something... begins to take place outside and meaning itself begins to tear at the walls. This one is small and weird and human and weird and gory and just an absolute delight.
Set almost entirely in the recording booth of a radio station as... something... begins to take place outside and meaning itself begins to tear at the walls. This one is small and weird and human and weird and gory and just an absolute delight.
September 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
8) Pontypool
Set almost entirely in the recording booth of a radio station as... something... begins to take place outside and meaning itself begins to tear at the walls. This one is small and weird and human and weird and gory and just an absolute delight.
Set almost entirely in the recording booth of a radio station as... something... begins to take place outside and meaning itself begins to tear at the walls. This one is small and weird and human and weird and gory and just an absolute delight.
Anyway, in short, Warframe good, I like it, and it counts. Big smiles.
September 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Anyway, in short, Warframe good, I like it, and it counts. Big smiles.
The plot has a lot of really compelling horror elements as well, and it is at least in places much better written than it needs to be, and ultimately it's a story that a lot of queer people identify with and appreciate. Here's some pictures to communicate the vibes!
September 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The plot has a lot of really compelling horror elements as well, and it is at least in places much better written than it needs to be, and ultimately it's a story that a lot of queer people identify with and appreciate. Here's some pictures to communicate the vibes!
Lots of strong horror aesthetics, is my point. Even the "cute" warframes are at least a little scary.
But maybe that doesn't count as horror to you. Maybe if you're the monster it's just power fantasy stuff. Well, I am loathe to spoil the plot too much because I think it's actually good, but....
But maybe that doesn't count as horror to you. Maybe if you're the monster it's just power fantasy stuff. Well, I am loathe to spoil the plot too much because I think it's actually good, but....
September 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Lots of strong horror aesthetics, is my point. Even the "cute" warframes are at least a little scary.
But maybe that doesn't count as horror to you. Maybe if you're the monster it's just power fantasy stuff. Well, I am loathe to spoil the plot too much because I think it's actually good, but....
But maybe that doesn't count as horror to you. Maybe if you're the monster it's just power fantasy stuff. Well, I am loathe to spoil the plot too much because I think it's actually good, but....
Maybe you do it in the form of Voruna, feasting alongside a pack of ethereal wolf spirits. Maybe you're Oraxia, bigass spider monster. Maybe you're Garuda, a hot lady who fires flying claws and can turn people's very blood against them. Or perhaps you're merely Kullervo, The Most Stabbed Man.
September 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Maybe you do it in the form of Voruna, feasting alongside a pack of ethereal wolf spirits. Maybe you're Oraxia, bigass spider monster. Maybe you're Garuda, a hot lady who fires flying claws and can turn people's very blood against them. Or perhaps you're merely Kullervo, The Most Stabbed Man.
7) Warframe
To some extent, this is a game where you play the part of the scary monster in a sci-fi horror movie; many missions take the form of you, alone, with powers terrifying to your foes, stalking through their starships or facilities and ripping them apart as they try to call for help.
To some extent, this is a game where you play the part of the scary monster in a sci-fi horror movie; many missions take the form of you, alone, with powers terrifying to your foes, stalking through their starships or facilities and ripping them apart as they try to call for help.
September 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
7) Warframe
To some extent, this is a game where you play the part of the scary monster in a sci-fi horror movie; many missions take the form of you, alone, with powers terrifying to your foes, stalking through their starships or facilities and ripping them apart as they try to call for help.
To some extent, this is a game where you play the part of the scary monster in a sci-fi horror movie; many missions take the form of you, alone, with powers terrifying to your foes, stalking through their starships or facilities and ripping them apart as they try to call for help.
6) Bit
One of my favorite treatments of a transgender character ever, and also just a good movie about a coven of (mostly) lesbian vampires. In particular, I think Duke's flashback is an absolutely perfect sequence and one of my favorite things on film.
One of my favorite treatments of a transgender character ever, and also just a good movie about a coven of (mostly) lesbian vampires. In particular, I think Duke's flashback is an absolutely perfect sequence and one of my favorite things on film.
September 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
6) Bit
One of my favorite treatments of a transgender character ever, and also just a good movie about a coven of (mostly) lesbian vampires. In particular, I think Duke's flashback is an absolutely perfect sequence and one of my favorite things on film.
One of my favorite treatments of a transgender character ever, and also just a good movie about a coven of (mostly) lesbian vampires. In particular, I think Duke's flashback is an absolutely perfect sequence and one of my favorite things on film.
5) The Deeper You Dig
A quiet, weird story about the way an accident (for some value of the word) shatters everyone connected to it. This was my first Adams Family film, and it's still my favorite. I really love how surreal it gets as it explores the lengths that love and loathing can drive us to.
A quiet, weird story about the way an accident (for some value of the word) shatters everyone connected to it. This was my first Adams Family film, and it's still my favorite. I really love how surreal it gets as it explores the lengths that love and loathing can drive us to.
September 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
5) The Deeper You Dig
A quiet, weird story about the way an accident (for some value of the word) shatters everyone connected to it. This was my first Adams Family film, and it's still my favorite. I really love how surreal it gets as it explores the lengths that love and loathing can drive us to.
A quiet, weird story about the way an accident (for some value of the word) shatters everyone connected to it. This was my first Adams Family film, and it's still my favorite. I really love how surreal it gets as it explores the lengths that love and loathing can drive us to.
4) Hannibal
I should have led with this, my favorite work of any kind ever. Beautiful, dark, dense, by turns grim and garish, with a wicked sense of humor and an extraordinary cast and just so, so much gayness. If you can handle a fair bit of gore, this gets my absolute highest recommendation.
I should have led with this, my favorite work of any kind ever. Beautiful, dark, dense, by turns grim and garish, with a wicked sense of humor and an extraordinary cast and just so, so much gayness. If you can handle a fair bit of gore, this gets my absolute highest recommendation.
September 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
4) Hannibal
I should have led with this, my favorite work of any kind ever. Beautiful, dark, dense, by turns grim and garish, with a wicked sense of humor and an extraordinary cast and just so, so much gayness. If you can handle a fair bit of gore, this gets my absolute highest recommendation.
I should have led with this, my favorite work of any kind ever. Beautiful, dark, dense, by turns grim and garish, with a wicked sense of humor and an extraordinary cast and just so, so much gayness. If you can handle a fair bit of gore, this gets my absolute highest recommendation.