Awesome Horror

(Gore) Based on the book series, Guillermo Del Toro’s upcoming FX show looks darker and more horrific than other vampire shows, thanks to the parasitic nature of Del Toro’s bloodsuckers and decided lack of sexytime.

Eli Roth has stated that his film is a rant against slacktivism. It takes more than ideals and a smartphone to change the world. Though being the first to film a tribe only to portray them negatively isn’t something to be proud of either.

(Gore) A guy dressed as a creepy clown messes with people’s heads (and smashes some too) as he pulls a series of pranks that would quickly get him arrested, tazed or shot by cops if he did this anywhere near where we live.

In Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno, a group of student activists travel to the Amazon to save a tribe from extinction. When their plane crashes in the jungle, they become food for the very same tribe. So… mission accomplished?

(Gore) Robert Jones created this compilation of some of the best, bloodiest and scariest moments in the history of horror, accompanied by the catchy pop strains of Muse’s Panic Station (which coincidentally sounds a whole lot like Thriller.)

This upcoming sci-fi survival horror game SOMA takes place in a remote undersea research facility in which machinery begins to think that it’s human. Coming to PS4 and PC in 2015. Early gameplay teaser here.

A woman sees something in the dark. David Sandberg won Best Director at this year’s Bloody Cuts Horror Challenge for Lights Out. In other words: this is freakin’ scary. We had to mute the sound just so we could finish it.

(NSFW: Gore, Language) Meat Loaf rocks a mustache while attempting to manage a snooty performing arts camp being stalked by a musical-theatre hating, blood-thirsty killer, in Jerome Sable’s future camp classic Stage Fright.

A widow’s son insists that the monster in his recurring nightmares is real. One day a book about that monster turns up in their house. The Babadook is an offshoot of writer and director Jennifer Kent’s short film Monster.

TWD is coming back soon enough, but meanwhile let’s cherish the genre and enjoy David Freyne’s creepy short film about a mysterious outbreak, a woman in a hospital and the terrifying bedlam that led her there. (Thanks Badu!)

We don’t know if Devil’s Due will be a film for the ages, but their promotional campaign will be logged in the annals of history. Enjoy as a robotic devil baby in an RC stroller scares the bejeezus out of New York passersby. (Thanks everybody!)

At the risk of spoiling the ad, we’d rather you not watch this if you don’t like or if your heart can’t take surprises. Seriously. Japanese tire maker Autoway could literally lose a few customers with this commercial.

A rookie postman’s first stop turns out to be quite an unsettling affair when the young girl who receives him at their door relays her family’s tragedy. An adaptation of H.H. Munro’s short story The Open Window.

(NSFW: Language) Almost all horror films count on the stupidity of its characters so that they can go on for more than 15 minutes. Let’s give Joe Nicolosi a standing ovation for hilariously pointing out the sad state of the genre.

We knew that Jughead loves to eat, but we didn’t know he’d develop a taste for human flesh. The zombie apocalypse comes to Riverdale in Afterlife with Archie by writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and artist Francesco Francavilla.

Originally from the Halloween 20th Anniversary VHS Set, this collectible puts a morbid twist on the snow globe. It shows Michael Myers attacking Laurie Strode. Skip to 4:35 in the video to see the globe. Thumbnail image via I-Mockery.

(NSFW) Don’t worry, there’s nothing wrong with your browser. Graphic designer Kim Taylor turns annoying online advertisements into serious fuel for your nightmares in Instant tentacles with this one weird trick!

Director Guillermo del Toro handled the opening bit for The Simpsons’ latest Halloween special. The sequence is filled with fantasy and horror authors and characters, including ones from del Toro’s movies. Can you spot Gipsy Danger?

A crew member of the first manned mission to Mars discovers fossils of bacteria right before leaving the planet. Against orders, he sets out to get more. He doesn’t return. We guess he hasn’t seen Prometheus. From the director of Blinky™.

(Gore) The creator of Resident Evil, Shin Mikami is behind this survival horror that’s sure to give you nightmares every time you play it. Mikami demoed it for us back at E3, and it took us hours to get it out from under our skin.

Escape from Tomorrow is a surreal horror film about a family man who is devastated when he loses his job. He takes his kids to Disney’s theme parks, but the Magic Kingdom’s constructed happiness only worsens his inner turmoil.

Red Barrels’ critically-acclaimed first person survival horror game. Play as a journalist investigating a recently reopened asylum for the mentally ill. Never a good thing to do. Now on Steam for Windows, with a PS4 version to follow.

If you saw The Conjuring you know that 3:07AM is the film’s witching hour. Vice and the makers of the surprise blockbuster teamed up to present 4 horror shorts for The 3:07AM Project. One Last Dive is more than sufficiently creepy.