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Carrie White, in a white blouse and long dark skirt, walking toward the camera down an empty high school hallway lined with green lockers, as flames burn along the floor behind her, in Mike Flanagan's Carrie on Prime Video
Horror · October 10, 2026 · 9 min read

Mike Flanagan's Carrie, The Exorcist: Martyrs and His 3 Best Shows

Mike Flanagan's Carrie is Prime Video's new hit. What we know about The Exorcist: Martyrs, his past work, and a fan's pick of his three best shows.

Black-and-white still from The Exorcist: a man in a hat and long coat, holding a bag, stands silhouetted under a street lamp in thick fog outside a brick house, with a beam of light pouring from an upstairs window
Horror · October 10, 2026 · 6 min read

Horror Movies by Subgenre: Where to Start With Every Kind of Scary

Horror movies by subgenre, with one film to start each: family frights, creature features, killer dolls, clowns, slashers, possession and horror TV.

Two cloaked desert fighters face each other with blades drawn, silhouetted against an enormous setting sun, from Dune: Part Three
New Releases · October 6, 2026 · 7 min read

AMC $8 Movie Tickets: 8 Movies I'm Seeing Before 2026 Ends

AMC's $8 Tuesday and Wednesday tickets run through the end of 2026. How the deal works, and the 8 new movies worth spending it on this fall.

Sicario key art: Benicio del Toro looming at the top, Emily Blunt in an FBI vest aiming a pistol and Josh Brolin in sunglasses holding a rifle, over a smoky burst with an armed convoy and a helicopter
New Releases · October 5, 2026 · 5 min read

Sicario 3 Is Finally Happening: Blunt, Del Toro and Brolin Return

Sicario 3 is official: Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro and Josh Brolin return, Padraic McKinley directs, Steven Knight writes, and filming starts early 2027.

John Stewart in a black leather jacket talking with Sheriff Kerry Kane, seen from behind on a floodlit high school football field at night, in the Lanterns season finale
TV · October 5, 2026 · 6 min read

Lanterns Finale Explained: Who Killed Hal Jordan, and John Stewart Finally Flies

Lanterns finale explained: who killed Hal Jordan, Noah's secret, Sinestro's yellow lantern, Guy Gardner's cameo, and the moment John Stewart finally flies.

Poster artwork for The Black Phone in red on black: the Grabber's horned devil mask with a wide grinning mouth, two raised hands dripping blood down the frame, and an old rotary telephone just visible below
Streaming · September 29, 2026 · 7 min read

The 5 Best Horror Movies on Netflix Right Now

The 5 best horror movies streaming on Netflix in the US right now: Alien, Psycho, The Black Phone, Gerald's Game and Ready or Not.

The three Sanderson sisters from Hocus Pocus against a black background: Winifred in the centre with red hair and pursed lips, Sarah with blonde hair on the left and Mary with a dark swept-up bun on the right, purple lightning crackling from their fingers around a full yellow moon
Guides · September 29, 2026 · 7 min read

The 5 Best Halloween Movies for Kids, and How Scary Each One Is

The 5 best Halloween movies for kids: Hocus Pocus, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline, ParaNorman and Monster House, with how scary each one is.

A girl in a white nightdress sitting in a wooden rocking chair in the corner of a bare, mould-streaked room with a stone floor, holding a doll with pale painted skin that stares straight at the camera, from The Conjuring
Horror · September 29, 2026 · 8 min read

5 Horror Movies Based on True Stories, and What Really Happened

The Conjuring, The Exorcist, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Amityville Horror and The Strangers: the real cases behind each film, and how much is true.

Ken Masters in a red gi and Ryu in a torn white gi with a red headband, both in fighting stances in a grimy concrete corridor, in the 2026 Street Fighter film
New Releases · September 29, 2026 · 6 min read

New Street Fighter Movie: Will It Beat the 1994 Original?

The new Street Fighter movie opens October 16 with Andrew Koji and Noah Centineo. How it stacks up against the 1994 Van Damme original.

Adria Arjona as Celeste in Onslaught, standing outside a pale blue trailer in flat desert daylight, her face and hands washed in blood, hair tied back with a soaked red headband, wearing a torn olive quilted jacket over a bloodstained shirt
New Releases · September 4, 2026 · 9 min read

New Movies in Theaters This Week: Onslaught, By Any Means and Fall 2: Deadpoint

New in theaters September 4, 2026: Onslaught, By Any Means and Fall 2: Deadpoint. What each one is and which to book first.

Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton and Jane Fonda standing arm in arm and laughing in a 1970s office, Parton in the centre in a blue western shirt, in 9 to 5 (1980)
Tributes · August 25, 2026 · 9 min read

Dolly Parton, 1946 to 2026: Her Best Movies and TV Shows

Dolly Parton's best movies and TV shows, from 9 to 5 and Steel Magnolias to Hannah Montana: the six performances to watch tonight.

Moody black and white poster art for Romeo Must Die: Aaliyah's face large across the top of the frame, with Jet Li in dark sunglasses below her, both reflected in wet asphalt
Tributes · August 25, 2026 · 7 min read

Aaliyah, 1979 to 2001: Every Movie and TV Show She Made

Every Aaliyah movie and TV role: Romeo Must Die, Queen of the Damned, her one TV appearance, and the Matrix role she never finished.

The Hill House mansion at night, lit blue through drifting mist with amber light burning in every gothic window, its overgrown grounds strewn with fallen timber, in Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House
Horror · August 25, 2026 · 10 min read

The Top 5 Horror TV Shows of All Time, Ranked

The 5 best horror TV shows, ranked: Hill House, American Horror Story, Midnight Mass, FROM and The Terror, plus what to watch after each.

Michael Myers in the blank white mask, lit blue at the top of a staircase and holding a kitchen knife, in John Carpenter's Halloween (1978)
Horror · August 23, 2026 · 8 min read

The 5 Best Horror Movie Masks, and Where to Get Them

The 5 most iconic horror movie masks: Michael Myers, Ghostface, Jason, Pennywise and Art the Clown. Where each came from, and where to buy one.

M3GAN in close-up: a life-size android girl doll with long blonde hair, oversized pale eyes and a striped bow at the collar of a beige dress, staring past the camera in a dim room lit by a window behind her
Horror · August 20, 2026 · 8 min read

The Top 5 Doll Horror Movies

The 5 best doll horror movies, ranked: Child's Play, M3GAN, Annabelle: Creation, Magic and Dead Silence. Trailers for all five.

Terrifier 2 key art: Art the Clown's white and black painted face under a tiny top hat, lit red against a full moon, with a spiked weapon raised in one hand and flames burning along the bottom of the frame beside a lit funhouse ride
Horror · August 18, 2026 · 7 min read

The 5 Best Clown Horror Movies

The 5 best clown horror movies, ranked: It, Terrifier 2, Clown in a Cornfield, Clown and Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Trailers for all five.

John Stewart and Hal Jordan sitting side by side in empty metal bleachers at night, in the pilot episode of HBO's Lanterns
TV · August 17, 2026 · 6 min read

Lanterns Episode 1, Explained: What Actually Happens in the Pilot

Lanterns episode 1 explained: the three timelines, the Nebraska shooting, the Hal Jordan twist, and what episode 2 has to answer.

The Jaws artwork: a woman swimming alone at the surface of deep blue water while an enormous great white shark rises open-mouthed from below her
Horror · August 17, 2026 · 8 min read

The 5 Highest-Grossing Horror Movies of All Time

The 5 highest-grossing horror movies of all time, what each earned, and why none of them cost more than $55 million to make.

A close-up of Pennywise the Dancing Clown, half lit red, from the 2017 adaptation of Stephen King's It
Horror · August 16, 2026 · 7 min read

The 5 Scariest People in Horror Movies

The 5 scariest horror movie villains: Freddy, Michael Myers, Jason, Leatherface and Pennywise. Why each one works, and where to start.