was a truly fantastic year for horror movies, and two new characters helped redefine what it means to scare an audience.

Dread Central Lead Critic Matthew Jackson weighs in on the state of horror in 2025 and picks his 10 favorite films of the year.

17 Excellent Horror Movies to Watch on HBO Max

Back in 2019, streaming service Shudder released the documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. It was widely seen as a success in the horror community and even led to an anthology movie in 2021 with the same name. Six years after its release, I ...

The horror film genre is driven by sound as much as image. Anxiety thrives not in what we can see, but in what we can’t.

Serial killer movies often draw inspiration from real life, but one particularly notorious example inspired three classic films.