Awesome Horror

“Is it you… or is just me?” Kristen Stewart turns in a critically-acclaimed performance in this psychological thriller. Stewart plays a personal shopper for celebrities who’s waiting for a sign from her recently deceased twin brother.

Some of the lead contributors to Fallout: New Vegas, Wasteland 2, and more are working on a video game adaptation of Apocalypse Now. The survival horror RPG will let you relive and rewrite the story of the movie’s protagonist, Capt. Willard. Its estimated release is in 2020.

(PG-13: Language) Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant star in this Netflix original series, a dark comedy about two ordinary real estate agents whose lives get turned upside down when one of them wakes up as a zombie – and is much happier that way. Drops 2/3/17.

(PG-13) Frame by Frame pays homage to filmmaker Bob Clark and his 1974 cult classic Black Christmas. Way ahead of its time, the film featured the main components of slasher films, including titillation, the holiday setting, the anonymous killer and even the phone gag.

(Gore) It’s Evolve, but with Jason Voorhees and stupid campers. Play as Jason or his potential victims in this asymmetrical multiplayer game. As the prey, you can try to hide and wait out the night, escape the camp or take on Jason. Drops 2017 for Windows, Xbox One and PS4.

IGN sums up a press-only demo of upcoming first-person horror game Resident Evil 7. It retains many of the series’ trademark elements – rooms gated by puzzles, jump scares, cranks – but the graphics and setting take it to the next level. #2REAL4US.

Antonio Maria Da Silva’s latest brilliant movie mashup envisions a sinister world in which all of our favorite horror movie characters live together. Its full title is Rise of the Boogeymen: Michael vs. Jason vs. Leatherface vs. Ash vs. Freddy vs. Chucky.

Take a helping of Alien, a dash of Gravity, and a smidgen of The Thing, and you’ll have a good idea what to expect from this sci-fi thriller about a team aboard the ISS who discovers the first evidence of extraterrestrial life on Mars. Sadly for the crew, it turns out to be a complete dick.

“Could you ask him to stop?” A phony psychic gets more than what she bargained for from a caller who had a legitimate request. RocketJump’s Halloween short milks the tension for way too long, but it does have a good first half.

(Gore, PG-13: Language) “It’s like, she should die ’cause she’s wearing those socks.” Wired showed Ash vs. Evil Dead stars Bruce Campbell and Lucy Lawless some of the most gruesome death scenes in horror movies.

Key and Peele fans know there was often a dark side lurking around the corner in their sketches. Now, Jordan Peele fully reveals his creepy tendencies with this horror flick he wrote and directed about a mixed-race couple lost in the country and subject to all kinds of evil.

(Gore) Colin loves to give teddy bears to his girlfriends. But when he inevitably breaks up with them, the stuffed toys are left to deal with the aftermath. Now they want payback. Comedy, horror, action and drama – this fun short film has it all.

(PG-13) Resident Evil 7 might as well be a new series. It’s in first-person and VR-ready, it’s set in Louisiana, features a normal citizen as your character, and it abandons the campy horror for a more realistic tale. Drops 1/24/17 for Windows, Xbox One and PS4.

In this horror film, Naomi Watts plays a widowed psychologist who’s also taking care of her catatonic son, who was paralyzed in the same accident that killed her husband. A troubled boy is left in her care but goes missing. Or so everyone thinks.

(PG-13) HBO gives us a better look at the A.I.-filled western theme park featured in their upcoming sci-fi/horror series, based on the classic 1973 Michael Crichton film. The process of making synthetic humans looks especially creepy this time around.

Santiago Menghini’s short horror film defies conventions and cliches, and doesn’t have a single word of dialogue, but his effective use of composition, lighting, and sound will still end up scaring the bejeezus out of you by the end.

Detail-oriented YouTube channel Ahoy explores the mythos of zombies. There have been countless movies, games, and TV series about the undead, and we owe a great deal about their traits to George Romero, and to video games for the gore and survival horror.

Conan‘s Andy Richter dropped by Bleak House, where director Guillermo del Toro stores his ever growing collection of horror, fantasy and sci-fi memoribilia. The Cronos Criterion Blu-ray also has a video of del Toro giving a guided tour of the creepy house.

Three girls are abducted by a man suffering from multiple personality disorder. He’s exhibited 23 different personalities, but it appears he has one more, and this one involves a change in his physical form as well. James MacAvoy stars in M. Night Shyamalan’s thriller.

The Film Theorists compare Japanese horror films’ use of sound effects and timing with their American counterparts. Also, American films love to telegraph scary parts through the music and the environment, whereas Japanese horror can ruin even freakin’ broad daylight.

Turn on the lights, lower the volume and watch this in a tiny window. Burger Fiction’s reel of jump scares from horror, sci-fi and even comedies is pretty scary – though they missed one of our faves. We wish we could finish it but we had other stuff to – BEHIND YOU

Screen Junkies is more flattering than usual as it recalls Steven Spielberg’s 1975 breakthrough classic, an amazing, memorable low-budget thriller that laid the groundwork for some of the best and worst genres of movies to follow.

From the creators of Limbo comes an even more haunting puzzle platformer. Inside puts you in the shoes of a boy trying to escape from a mysterious organization that’s performing experiments on controlling humans. Coming to Windows and Xbox One.