Awesome Horror

YouTuber Bobby Burns transformed Pixar’s classic UP into a dark and disturbing horror film about a crotchety old sociopath who holds an innocent boy hostage in his home. Clearly Carl Fredricksen didn’t handle his wife’s passing well.

(NSFW) A loner stumbles upon the girl of his dreams, but his childhood obsession twists his reality. This short film is illustrator Charles Burns’ (Black Hole, X’ed Out) contribution to the horror anthology Peur(s) du noir (Fear(s) of the Dark).

(NSFW: Gore, Language) From the warped mind of clay animator Lee Hardcastle comes a redo of one of the most disturbing scenes from John Carpenter’s horror classic The Thing, in which the cast of Frozen drop by the Antarctic outpost.

A young American man meets a beautiful and mysterious woman while backpacking through Italy, but all is not as it seems on the surface. What starts out as a chick flick quickly turns into a dark psychological horror.

A young bride discovers her charming husband’s dark past thanks to his family’s super creepy house. Guillermo del Toro tells a haunted house story with Crimson Peak. Stars Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston and Jessica Chastain.

The only reason we’re giving the Poltergeist remake a chance is that Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead, Army of Darkness) was involved. The plot is the same as Tobe Hooper’s horror classic – a family moves into a home possessed by angry spirits.

Five Nights at Freddy’s 3 is set 30 years after the first two games. Now shut down, the events in Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza have become urban legends. That is, until an opportunist makes a horror theme park based on the restaurant.

(SPOILERS) A group of medical students stumble upon a way to bring back the dead. When one of them is killed in an accident, they end up using their miraculous trick. Bad idea. Starring Olivia Wilde, Donald Glover and Mark Duplass.

(NSFW: Language) “Kung fu is life and death. Especially at Christmas.” Matt Highton’s low-budget film melds horror and comedy, as a group of friends head to an abandoned department store to investigate a horrific urban legend.

(Gore) Adult Swim brings back Halloween with this amazing short film. If you thought Too Many Cooks was creepy, hug your loved ones tight, turn the lights up, put a diaper on and press play. Claridryl: not even once.

(Gore) Eight friends are trapped with a masked killer in a mountain retreat. Exclusive to the PS4, Until Dawn is essentially an interactive slasher flick, filled with quicktime events and jump scares. Starring Hayden Panettiere.

The sequel to the hit indie horror game is already available for Windows. Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 features new mascots. Also your room has no doors. Thankfully you have other means of surviving, such as a Freddy Fazbear head.

(Gore) Analog synth maestros FartBarf’s horror music video for Homeless in Heathrow about an innocent looking seductress psychopath should simply be retitled Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s a Serial Killer.

IKEA Singapore pays tribute to Stanley Kubrick’s classic horror film The Shining, following a child on his tricycle as he winds his way through the store. This confirms what we already knew – shopping at IKEA can be the stuff of nightmares.

It is said the eyes are the windows to the soul, and the late, great director Alfred Hitchcock had quite a way with eyes. Though most of the peepers shown in Kogonada’s tribute to Hitch reveal dark, disturbed and fearful souls behind them.

In Ryan Patch’s taut short film, a father and son must deliver an offering of items to a mysterious creature. Despite its minimal budget and lack of visual effects, the effective use of sound and lighting makes for an incredibly tense setting.

A point-and-click horror game where you play a security guard at a children’s restaurant. You only have a limited amount of electricity, and everything you do – e.g. keeping your door locked – consumes power. Dude, just build a door.

A new Silent Hill game was revealed through an unassuming horror mini-game for the PlayStation 4. The game’s ending reveals that Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro are working on Silent Hills, which will star Norman Reedus.

A recent medical school grad takes a position at a mental institution and gets himself into a creepy jam in Brad Anderson’s Edgar Allen Poe-inspired Stonehearst Asylum; with Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley.

(NSFW: Language) This crowdfunded short film by Mitch Cohen tells the tale of a terminally-ill, introverted nerd who manages to rise to the occasion during the zombie apocalypse, to become the greatest zombie assassin ever.

Sculptor turned baker Annabel de Vetten is known for her morbid and horror-themed creations. She said she’s often asked what’s inside her decorated cakes, and what they taste like. This is Annabel’s answer.

An illustrated psychological horror game, inspired by the developer’s own struggles with mental illness, in which players wake from their sleep into their nightmares. Coming Fall 2014 to PC, Mac, Linux and Ouya. Recent footage here.

DM Pranks’ freakish killer clown is back to torment passersby with more horrific and creepy sights. In all honesty, if someone in a clown suit came running after us with a live chainsaw, we’d shoot first and ask questions later.