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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
Writer/director Brian Lockyer reminds the viewer there’s great value in micro-budget horror filmmaking. You truly don’t need a big budget to make something people will remember. With his film, Snow[...]
Filmmaker Mark O’Brien has a way of crafting his work with a powerfully unsettling exposure to the darkest parts of human nature. His feature film debut, 2021’s The Righteous, peeled[...]
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[...]
If A Nightmare on Elm Street has taught us anything, it’s that sleep can be deadly. With his new found footage film, Go to Sleep, director Steven Espinoza taps into[...]
The horrors of a corporate retreat are nothing new—Final Destination 5, The Conference, and Severance quickly come to mind. In director Aaron Fisher’s very capable hands, though, the corporate retreat[...]
While everyone’s obsessed with Curry Barker’s Obsession and Kane Parsons’ Backrooms (for good reason!), folks are seriously sleeping on Daniel J. Phillips’ Diabolic—or at least severely underappreciating the work. In[...]
