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Five Terrifying Horror Movies That Bring Halloween Scares to Stream This Week

October 27, 2025 Meagan Navarro featured, Ghostwatch, Movies, Sinister, Stay Home Watch Horror, Terrified, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, The Changeling, topnews

The final week of October has arrived, which means it’s time to kick Halloween festivities into overdrive. We’re dedicating the final days of October to Halloween’s favorite pastime: inducing scares. “It’s Halloween. I guess everyone’s entitled to one good scare,” Sheriff Brackett says in John Carpenter’s Halloween. This week’s streaming picks are dedicated to terrifying horror […]

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‘Horror’s New Wave’ Is a Detailed Deep Dive into Blumhouse’s First 15 Years [Review]

September 24, 2025 Daniel Kurland blumhouse, Books, horror's new wave, Horror's New Wave: 15 Years of Blumhouse, Insidious, Jason Blum, Reviews, Simon & Schuster, Sinister, the purge

‘Horror’s New Wave: 15 Years of Blumhouse’ is an excellent distillation of one of horror’s biggest movers and shakers that’s a must-read for film aficionados. If one were to name some of the biggest horror movies of the past two decades, it’s not uncommon for titles like Paranormal Activity, Insidious, Get Out, The Invisible Man, […]

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Five Killer Kid Horror Movies to Stream This Week

February 27, 2023 Meagan Navarro Editorials, featured, Hard Candy, Ils, Movies, Sinister, Stay Home Watch Horror, The Good Son, The Innocents, Them, topnews

Creepy, homicidal children have long been a staple of the horror genre. This week brings the release of brand new movie Children of the Corn, the eleventh entry in the long-running franchise. It comes on the heels of Homebound arriving on SCREAMBOX and the release of Roxanne Benjamin’s new movie There’s Something Wrong with the […]

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10 of the Scariest Moments in Horror Movies Set Around Halloween

October 28, 2022 Meagan Navarro Editorials, featured, Ghostwatch, Halloween, Hell House LLC, House 1000 Corpses, Sinister, Slugs, something wicked this way comes, The Blair Witch Project, The Changeling, topnews

“It’s Halloween. I guess everyone’s entitled to one good scare,” Sheriff Brackett says in John Carpenter’s Halloween. While the seminal slasher delivered no shortage of creepy moments and well-placed scares, the Halloween movies aren’t the only ones to embrace holiday frights. Whether through subtle moments, gross-out gags, potent jump scares, or phobia-inducing chills, Halloween-set horror offers […]

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10 More Horror Prequels We Want to See After Ti West’s ‘Pearl’

September 15, 2022 Daniel Kurland Creep, Editorials, featured, Final Destination, Hellraiser, It Follows, Midsommar, Movies, Oculus, Pearl, Prequel, Pumpkinhead, Sinister, the descent, The Shining, topnews, X

The release of Ti West’s ‘Pearl’ this weekend raises the question of which other horror classics would benefit from the prequel treatment. Ti West has pulled off an impressive feat in 2022 by not only introducing audiences to Maxine, Pearl, and the world of X, but fleshing it out into its own horror trilogy within […]

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‘Sinister’, ‘The Black Phone’ and the Horror of Obsession

August 16, 2022 Marcus Shorter Editorials, Ethan Hawke, Movies, Scott Derrickson, Sinister, The Black Phone

Obsession is weird, right? Taken too far in one direction, it creates dogged saviors. But too far in the other way breeds psychos and killers. Like Alfred Hitchcock, Scott Derrickson seems intimately curious about people driven by their inability to let things go. Ethan Hawke plays two sides of this coin, first in Sinister and […]

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Stay Home, Watch Horror: 5 Horror Movies to Stream This Week That Bring the Scares

October 21, 2021 Meagan Navarro featured, Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, Movies, REC, Shutter, Sinister, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, topnews

“You know, it’s Halloween. I guess everyone’s entitled to one good scare,” Sheriff Brackett tells Laurie in 1978’s Halloween, and he’s not wrong. It’s the spookiest time of the year, and this week’s streaming picks aim to deliver the chills. These five horror movies build an unsettling atmosphere and demonstrate an uncanny ability to craft innovative […]

‘The Black Phone’ Review – Dialing into Terror With Ethan Hawke as a Skin-Crawling Villain

September 26, 2021June 20, 2022 Meagan Navarro Ethan Hawke, Madeleine McGraw, Mason Thames, Movies, Reviews, Scott Derrickson, Sinister, The Black Phone

Bloody Disgusting’s The Black Phone review is spoiler-free. For many, director Scott Derrickson and writer C. Robert Cargill’s Sinister ranks high among the scariest modern horror movies. The pair return to horror with an adaptation of Joe Hill’s short story The Black Phone from the compilation 20th Century Ghost. Derrickson and Cargill revive the same traits and structure of Sinister to transform […]

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