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This Week in Horror: Obsession Makes History, Leslie Vernon Is Back, and The Backrooms Arrives

Horror fans, I need you to sit down. Get a snack. Maybe a blanket. Because whoever is in charge of scheduling horror news this week apparently looked at the calendar, saw “last Fri...

‘Backrooms,’ ‘Obsession,’ and Why Two Gen Z Horror Directors Are Taking Over Hollywood

On this week's episode of "Screen Talk," we wrap up the Cannes Film Festival and dive into the horror phenomena scaring up big box office.

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Horror Keeps Beating the Shit Out of Hollywood as ‘Obsession’, ‘Backrooms’, and ‘Scary Movie’ Hit Massive Milestones

It’s box office time again, and I’m not going to bore you guys this week with a long rant. You […]

HORROR CONTINUES TO WIN BIG AS “BACKROOMS” AND “OBSESSION” SLAY THE BOX-OFFICE

This past weekend saw the release of A24’s Backrooms, a movie born of a viral creepypasta. Initially, Kane Parsons’ feature adaption was projected to open to a modest $20 million d...

A Secluded Retreat Becomes a Living Nightmare in the Horror Short Film DEFILE

10 Great Horror Movies You Can Now Stream For Free (June 2026)

The horror genre is one of the broadest and most consistently popular genres in cinema, with countless incredible movies and franchises that fall under its banner. Horror itself en...

Obsession/Backrooms: The Horror of Ideas Instead of Monsters

For decades, horror films relied on familiar threats. Audiences expected haunted houses, serial killers, supernatural entities, or creatures lurking in The post Obsession/Backrooms...

Raindance After Dark: The Horror Films Ready To Ruin Your Sleep

Independent horror is having another moment. Not the polished studio kind built by committee and market research. Not horror diluted into “elevated content” for streaming algorithm...

This Week in Horror: Deadites Land, Goodman Signs, and the Witches of Camp Move In

The loud story this week is a franchise chainsaw revving back to life in a multiplex near you. The interesting stories are quieter and stranger, scattered across a Miami festival l...

Horror Beat: OBSESSION and BACKROOMS break the Box Office and beat Star Wars

The Best Horror Movies of 2026 (So Far), Ranked: ‘Obsession,’ ‘Backrooms,’ ‘Hokum’ and More

2026 has already been a wild year for horror, from low-budget box office hits (“Backrooms,” “Obsession”) to sequels the world could have lived without (“Scream 7,” “The Strangers –...

These Horror Movie Facts Are Killer

The 15 Horror Flicks That Keep Us Up at Night the Most

There are plenty of movies that are meant to be scary, with gore to impact us and jump scares to startle us. Yet not all of them stay with us after the credit’s roll, making us sec...

‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Aren’t the Year’s Only Box Office Horror Hits

"Hokum," "Faces of Death," "Lee Cronin's The Mummy," and more helped redefine the genre this spring.

Hollywood Snatches Another Viral Internet Horror Following the Success of Backrooms

Image courtesy of A24 A24’s Backrooms turned an unassuming YouTube horror series into one of 2026’s biggest theatrical surprises. Kane Parsons, only 20 when the film hit theaters,...

Horror Beat: BACKROOMS bores and astounds in equal measure

This Week in Horror: Cannes, Obsession Fever, and Ghostface Comes Home

We updated its interface this week because horror websites should not feel like abandoned internet malls from 2011. The goal was making the experience smoother without stripping ou...

Best Horror of June 2026: ‘Scary Movie’ Returns, Spielberg Revisits Aliens, Javier Bardem Tackles Another Villain Role a...

Welcome to Horror Explorer, a curated column showcasing the month’s best movies, series, books and everything else spooky worth checking out. I’m William Earl, the executive digita...

The Best Overlooked Horror Movies of 2026 So Far

The past month has been a game-changer for the film industry in every sense of the word. The monumental successes of Curry Barker’s Obsession and Kane Parson’s Backrooms have prove...

Jump Scare

Writer/director Donnie Hobbie brings us Jump Scare, a shout-out to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre while adding his own touch to this horror... The post Jump Scare first appeared on Fi...

Obsession: A Chilling Revival of Psychological Horror

Every so often, a horror film arrives that reshapes expectations of the genre. Just as Scream revitalised slashers in the 1990s and Paranormal Activity breathed new life into found...

This Week in Horror: CAMP Lands in New York, Obsession Refuses to Die, and Rupert Grint Has a Monster Baby

I usually write this column from my couch with a blanket and a strong opinion. This week I wrote part of it from a sidewalk on Sixth Avenue, because the genre decided that June was...

Halfway Through 2026, These Hidden Horror Gems Deserve Your Attention

The spring release window does something unkind to horror. Everything not named after a legacy franchise or produced by a studio big enough to buy a Super Bowl ad gets sorted into...