Nyctophobia is less a conventional horror film than a slow, surreal dive into the subconscious—a cinematic anxiety spiral wrapped in dream logic and drenched in atmosphere. Written and directed by Seayoon Jeong, the film follows Liz, a young woman struggling with the titular fear of the dark. As insomnia eats away at her sanity, Liz slips into a dream world where childhood memories and nightmares blur, and nothing—especially not time or space—feels safe or linear.
Read MoreShiver Me Timbers (2025)
There’s a fine line between campy fun and cinematic disaster, and Shiver Me Timbers, the feature debut from writer-director Paul Stephen Mann, cannonballs into the latter without much grace. Billed as a gory, comedic reimagining of Popeye with a horror twist, this film misses nearly every mark—hard. Set in 1986 California during the arrival of Halley’s Comet, the plot follows Olive Oyl, her brother Castor, and a group of forgettable friends on a camping trip that goes sideways when a meteor fragment lands in the pipe of a local fisherman.
Read MoreDangerous Animals (2025)
With Dangerous Animals, director Sean Byrne returns to the horror genre with a lean, vicious hybrid of survival thriller and psychological terror. It’s The River Wild meets Speak No Evil, only the river is the open ocean, and the evil is Jai Courtney at his most unhinged—and electrifying. Courtney plays Tucker, a rugged, shark-obsessed loner who kidnaps free-spirited surfer Zephyr and traps her aboard his fishing vessel for a twisted purpose.
Read MoreThe Woman in the Yard (2025) #BluRay
Blumhouse continues to be one of the most unpredictable studios in the horror game. For every Get Out or The Invisible Man, there's a dud that slips through quality control—and sometimes multiple. With The Woman in the Yard, their latest haunted release from director Jaume Collet-Serra, we get a film that doesn’t so much defy expectations as it quietly shuffles past them in a funereal black veil.
Read MoreThe Creep Tapes: Season One (2025) #BluRay
If Creep and Creep 2 crawled under your skin and never quite left, then The Creep Tapes will likely feel like a welcome, if slightly abbreviated, return to the chilling world of Mark Duplass’s most sinister character. The Peachfuzz saga continues in this episodic Shudder Original, which compiles six new slices of found-footage dread into a collection that’s both familiar and unsettlingly fresh. It’s no secret that the Duplass Brothers have long been indie darlings with a gift for raw, character-driven storytelling.
Read MoreFear Street: Prom Queen (2025)
Welcome back to Shadyside—where the blood never dries and the drama never ends. Fear Street: Prom Queen, the latest installment in the R.L. Stine-inspired series, hits Netflix on May 23, delivering a retro-styled slasher that plays like Carrie meets I Know What You Did Last Summer with a synth-drenched, neon glow-up. Directed by Matt Palmer and co-written with Donald McLeary, Prom Queen dives into the cutthroat world of high school royalty in 1988.
Read MoreRosario (2025)
Felipe Vargas makes an assured and stylish directorial debut with Rosario, a moody, atmospheric horror film that fuses supernatural terror with a sharp exploration of generational trauma and cultural identity. It’s a claustrophobic, unnerving experience that balances the grotesque with the emotional—and while it might not quite live up to the “scariest movie ever” hype it’s getting on TikTok, it still delivers plenty of chills, thrills, and vivid visual storytelling. The plot centers on Rosario Fuentes, a high-powered Wall Street stockbroker who returns to her late grandmother’s apartment during a snowstorm.
Read MoreClown in a Cornfield (2025)
Eli Craig’s Clown in a Cornfield is the kind of horror movie that knows exactly what it is—and executes with the confidence of a masked killer in broad daylight. Adapted from Adam Cesare’s novel by Craig and Carter Blanchard, the film is a back-to-basics slasher that manages to feel both comfortingly familiar and surprisingly fresh. Set in the economically shattered town of Kettle Springs, the story follows Quinn and her father as they attempt to rebuild their lives following a tragic past.
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