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Every horror article on Social Entertainment — 9 guides and ranked lists, with trailers and where to stream each title.

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.

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.

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.

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.