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Liminal Horror Is the Only Subgenre That Actually Gets Worse the More You Think About It

Congratulations. You’ve just remembered that hallways exist. That’s liminal horror in a nutshell. It doesn’t need a monster. It doesn’t need a jump scare. It doesn’t need a single...

5 Upcoming Movies That Could Be the Next ‘Obsession’ or ‘Backrooms’: Horror’s New Wave Is Coming for Your Sleep

The cultural moment that ‘Backrooms’ created has made one thing unmistakably clear: audiences are hungry for horror with atmosphere, mythology, and the kind of slow dread that ling...

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...

“This Town Is the Monster”: 6 Horror Novels Where the Setting Itself Is Evil

Everybody loves a haunted house story: The Haunting of Hill House, The Turn of the Screw, House of Leaves. But the haunted house story is only one example of a much vaster, darker...

Making a Movie Out of a Vibe Is Harder Than It Sounds

A24’s new horror movie Backrooms has incredible atmosphere — too bad about the rest of it.

Atmospheric Crime Dramas Continue Shaping Indie Storytelling

1. Discover how atmospheric crime narratives redefine indie filmmaking with raw emotion and visual storytelling in 2026. Independent cinema thrives on raw... The post Atmospheric C...

Seven Works of Suburban Folk Horror

When something sinister's lurking in every sunny backyard or seemingly innocent sub-basement... The post Seven Works of Suburban Folk Horror appeared first on Reactor.

Indie Horror Film SUSURRUS Reimagines “Backrooms” Mythos as a Multiverse Nightmare

Emerging filmmaker Ten-Headed Skeleton announces the release of SUSURRUS, an ambitious independent horror film inspired by the unsettling internet phenomenon known as Backrooms. Dr...

The Backrooms, and other horror concepts that collapse under the slightest scrutiny

HORROR movie The Backrooms is being praised by critics for its clever liminal concept, but will audiences agree? Here are more terrifying ideas that don’t stand up to much scrutiny...

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...

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...

Sci-fi horror film Backrooms is a triumph for its 20-year-old director

With its origins in a creepy image posted on 4chan, Backrooms is an unusually potent big-screen experiment in fear and perception, says Davide Abbatescianni

Backrooms Is the Best Nightmare You’ll Ever Have

Liminal spaces are excellent for horror, but it's even better when the liminal space IS the horror. The post <em>Backrooms</em> Is the Best Nightmare You’ll Ever Have a...

Horror Beat: BACKROOMS bores and astounds in equal measure

Control a huge drilling vessel rife with bloody religious symbolism in Mole, a horror sim from former GTFO developers

"There is a hole in the world," writes Ursula K Le Guin in The Farthest Shore, "and the light is running out of it." Alas, The Farthest Shore contains no terrible mechanical instru...

The Fear of the Unknown: How Horror and Financial Markets Both Thrive on Uncertainty

Fear is rarely about what we can see. In horror, the most effective moments are built on what remains hidden, something implied but not fully revealed. A shadow that lingers too lo...

The Mortuary Assistant Understands Fear, But Not Storytelling

I honestly believe there are two types of people in this world: The people who think haunted attractions stop being scary once the customers leave and the people who have actually...

7 Nights with Vroombi combines the horror of a haunted house with the mounting irritation of being a robot vacuum cleane...

Many years ago, Suzy Eddie Izzard did a stand-up routine about different makes of vacuum cleaner, including the immortal "Hodededededer" of undecided linguistic origin. Izzard also...

How to Recreate the Techniques of Horror Films in a Novel

I can’t remember the first scary movie I saw but I read my first horror novels and ghost stories probably far too young: enjoying Stephen King, James Herbert, and M.R. James from t...

‘Never After Dark’ finds fresh chills in familiar J-horror territory

Written and directed by Dave Boyle, the film begins as a paranormal investigation and transforms into another type of horror story altogether.

Welcome to the ‘Backrooms’: We’re Officially In the Liminal Horror Era

Matt Konopka looks at the rise of the liminal horror genre and how films like Exit 8 and Backrooms have solidified the era in a big way.

‘Backrooms’ Review: Kane Parsons Turns Creepypasta Nightmare Fuel Into A Terrifying Mental-Health Tragedy

Like conceptual architecture—seductive, striking from a distance, but often impractical once someone has to actually live inside it—most internet-born horror phenomena can’t surviv...

Subversive Memories Review – Political Horror

Horror can come from all sorts of inspirations. Whether cultural anxieties or forgotten legends, there is often a clear connection with specific times and places and this is especi...

Iron Lung: Almost A Great Cosmic Horror Film

I watched Iron Lung at an odd time. Within the last few months, I’ve seen both Project Hail Mary and Ash, and in a way Iron Lung could be described as a combination of both those m...