Category: Horror Movies

Review: ‘Autonomous’ drives over our fear of robot cabs

Much like AI itself, AI-focused horror permeates our lives these days. And not every single film or TV show works (e.g., Chris Weitz’s 2024 film, Afraid). When it hits, though, it really hits. Kyle Valle’s Autonomous film, shown in bite-sized episodes on Screamify, firmly sits in the latter category. Its exploration of a fractured relationship,…
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July 13, 2026
Review: ‘Stream’ slashes through our salivating fixation with the macabre

The slasher renaissance continues raging on with Michael Leavy’s Stream. When it comes to a post-Scream world, slashers either comment on current culture or harken to the slasher boom of the ’80s. For every Totally Killer, there’s a Terrifier feeling ripped from yesteryear. Leavy, who co-wrote the script with Steven Della Salla, Jason Leavy, and…
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July 6, 2026
The 50 Best Thrillers & Horror Movies of 2026 (So Far)

2026 is a banner year for horror. While Backrooms and Obsession wrecked the box office, there are dozens of indie films that were just as good as, if not better than, the tentpole theatrical releases. With the mid-year point, it’s time to take stock of what we’ve seen so far and what’s stood out most.…
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July 4, 2026
Fantasia Festival 2026: 20 Most Anticipated Horror Films

Fantasia Film Festival‘s 30th edition is less than two weeks away! It seems just like yesterday that the 2025 festival took place. This year’s lineup might be the best yet, with countless films ranging from vintage slashers to bone-rattling psychological thrillers, promising to blow the minds of horror audiences. When it comes to narrowing down…
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July 3, 2026
5 Horror Movies That Made Me: Chris VanderKaay

Steven Espinoza’s Go to Sleep may be a bit of a, well, sleeper. A FoundTV original, the film follows a newly separated man suffering from sleepwalking. His midnight wanderings become so dangerous that he installs cameras to find out exactly what he’s up to. Chris VanderKaay, writer and actor of the project, shares the five…
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June 30, 2026
Pride 2026: A Conversation with Isaiah Rice (Axel’s Night)

For Pride Month 2026, B-Sides & Badlands is raising money for The Trevor Project. Our celebration of queerness features interviews with filmmakers and artists, reviews of queer horror and albums, and queer essays. Donate here. Isaiah Rice, the writer and actor of the short film Axel’s Night (review), doesn’t want to be called a “horror filmmaker.” He…
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June 30, 2026
Stream & Scream: Shudder (July 2026)

Summer is just barreling ahead. With rising temperatures (and inflation), there’s no better place to beat the heat (and prices) than in your home with Shudder. This July looks to be the best yet, with the streaming service adding several original and exclusive films. There are also several watch parties planned, including one featuring a…
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June 29, 2026
Review: ‘I Don’t Like It Here’ doesn’t shy away from heart-pounding scares

Robbie Smith demonstrates that, once again, indie horror is where all the good stuff is. His new film, I Don’t Like It Here, co-written with Dashiell Arkenstone, marries the creep-out factor of Dutch Marich’s Horror in the High Desert films and the later sequels in Turner Clay’s The Blackwell Ghost series, with a dash of…
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June 27, 2026
Review: ‘Jacked’ jolts the slasher genre awake

The slasher boom of the 1980s was a special time for horror. The genre eventually moved on to other styles, but through the decades, the pendulum has swung back at various points. From the brief Scream-induced period of the late ’90s and early 2000s to the current slasher renaissance, slashers always come back. Just like…
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June 26, 2026
Chattanooga Film Festival 2026: ‘Night After Night’ is wonderfully confusing

Liminal Horror is having a moment. In addition to Backrooms crashing the box office, entries like Exit 8 have stirred up plenty of conversation online. Now, Josh Lobo throws his film Night After Night into the ring. Lobo, who co-wrote the script with Rowan Russell, builds a hypnotic and strange tale that doesn’t make a…
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June 25, 2026
Stream & Scream: Screambox (July 2026)

Screambox is a bit of a sleeper. Horror fans take it for granted, but in the last year, it’s been biting at Shudder’s heels. With its mid-summer lineup, the streaming service plots four new episodes of Bloody Bites, an exclusive film release, catalog highlights, and so much more. As the temperature continues to boil (here…
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June 24, 2026
Horror in Frame: A Conversation with George Henry Horton (Strawstalker)

Influencer Horror is all the rage these days. Especially on the indie circuit, the subgenre is easy to tap into and exploit for some good frights. And who doesn’t love to see the most insufferable people on the internet be killed? With his film, Strawstalker (review), writer/director/actor George Henry Horton goes for a deliciously silly…
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June 22, 2026
Review: ‘This Tempting Madness’ relishes in mind trickery

The unreliable narrator, as you’ll find in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), one of the earliest horror films, continues to fuel and inform horror storytelling 100 years later. Director Jennifer E. Montgomery, who co-wrote the script with Andrew Davis, injects the age-old cinematic device with a dose of adrenaline in her new film. This…
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June 19, 2026
Review: ‘Hacked: A Double Entendre of Rage Fueled Karma’ scams you (complementary)

Even the smartest, most detail-oriented people find themselves victims of an elaborate scam. Director Shane Brady and producer Emily Zercher anticipated the purchase of their new home. But wires were crossed, and financial institutions were hacked. That happens sometimes. Brady uses that experience as the basis for his new film, Hacked: A Double Entendre of…
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June 19, 2026
Pride 2026: A Conversation with Paul Etheredge (Hellbent)

Paul Etheredge changed the game with Hellbent, the first gay slasher. While it may have been overlooked or dismissed in the early 2000s, it has only grown in popularity over the years. Now, it's an essential foundational film for all queer horror fans. The supposedly unintentional queer-coded A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge…
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June 17, 2026