Awesome Horror

“Come meet the others.” A teenager discovers that there are children born with peculiar features or abilities. They hide in havens with incredible defensive mechanisms to protect them from powerful enemies. Their best protection? Him.

HBO’s creepy new series reimagines Michael Crichton’s 1973 sci-fi horror classic about robots working at a theme park who become self-aware. Written by Jonathan Nolan (The Dark Knight, Interstellar) and Lisa Joy (Burn Notice), and executive produced by J.J. Abrams.

In Shortwave, a scientist and his wife move to a secluded research facility after the loss of their only child. While he’s looking into the origin of a cryptic radio signal, his wife begins to have hallucinations of their past.

The villains from classic Japanese horror flicks The Ring and The Grudge recently opened a baseball match in Japan’s premier league. The actors were promoting an upcoming movie starring the two characters.

“There was never just one.” Sister Location is a spin-off of the hit horror video game series Five Nights at Freddy’s. The title is most likely based on a recorded phone call from FNaF 3 about the animal suits being deemed unfit for use after “an unfortunate incident at the sister location.”

Director Kevin Smith takes a trip back to the mini mart, but this time it’s populated by a pair of yoga-addicted high school girls names Colleen who end up on an increasingly more trippy adventure, with the help of the acting chameleon better known as Johnny Depp.

Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren return to take on the Enfield Poltergeist. Ironically it’s because of two gullible paranormal investigators – i.e. hacks – that the real world case has been debunked as a prank. But that doesn’t make this trailer less scary.

A young man discovers a secret haven for children with unusual abilities. But he soon finds out that he has both supernatural friends and enemies. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is Tim Burton’s adaptation of the eponymous horror fantasy novel.

Horror fiction always requires a suspension of disbelief, by virtue of the fact that you’re aware that you’re getting into a scary story. But Ivan Zanotti’s cult hit IMSCARED knows it’s a game, and that’s how it messes with you. Demo here.

Walt Disney’s animated version of Alice in Wonderland was already pretty creepy if you ask us, so it didn’t take much more than some appropriate music for Mashable’s Watercooler to turn Lewis Carroll’s trippy fairy tale into a serious horror flick.

(PG-13: Language, Gore) A pair of bumbling burglars spend more time fussing over what masks they’ll wear than with the actual break-in itself. Jason Kupfer’s dark comedy will have you Googling how much blood is in your face.

Before Scary Movie and Scream, there was There’s Nothing Out There. Rolfe Kanefsky’s 1991 horror comedy copied horror movies to poke fun at them. But as Charlie Lyne notes in this documentary, Rolfe’s life took a bizarre turn when another movie seemingly copied his.

The Film Theorists’ Frame by Frame explains that Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak is a grand homage to horror pioneer Mario Bava. The prolific Italian filmmaker loved to use contrasting lighting, elaborate sets and period plots, all of which are in del Toro’s film.

A woman runs out of her apartment after seeing something watching her in her room. Naturally, her friend tells her that they should come back and check it out. Sensible ideas are said and ignored, and terrible things happen.

(PG-13) A low budget 1987 mystery horror flick about a California punk band. Some of their groupies died, but is it because of an illegal drug or something more sinister? Drops 10/30/15 on VHS, DVD, digital download and streaming on Bleeding Skull.

Screen Rant’s Halloween special features 10 creeptacular real life inspirations for several popular horror films, including the Black Dahlia killer, the Zodiac Killer and the inhuman Ed Gein. Sweet dreams tonight.

(PG-13: Language) A security guard at an art gallery hears and smells something awful in the basement warehouse, which his colleague warned him not to visit. The Boxleitner Brothers’ comedy horror short isn’t innovative, but it’s scary all right.

(PG-13: Language, Gore) A full length film based on the legendary horror comedy short film, The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon. It will reveal Ginosaji’s origin, motivation and weakness. We sincerely hope he has none of the above.

In Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street, Freddy Krueger was the unstoppable man of your dreams. The only way to kill him is to send Leonardo DiCaprio into the deepest levels of your subconscious to root him out for good.

The Farce awakens. Adam Scott, Toni Collette, David Koechner and more star in this movie about the mythical Christmas devil who punishes bad children. We’re calling it: the climax will be a Grinch vs. Krampus throwdown.

A 17th century Puritan family is struck with occult misfortune after being banished to the edge of wilderness. The Exorcist meets The Shining in this critically acclaimed horror film. Goat. What are you doing. Goat. Stahp.

(Gore) The Deadite have returned. Good thing Ash never went away. Bruce Campbell reprises his role as the reckless Ash Williams in the official sequel to Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead trilogy. The TV series starts 10/31/15 on Starz.

(NSFW: Language, Gore) A man wakes up to find that the whole world dreamed about him. And now everyone’s afraid of him. Writer and director Carles Torrens crafts a creepy urban legend in this awesome horror short film.