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Give Kevin Williamson credit: The screenwriter behind the Scream series isn’t afraid to recycle his greatest hits. His new addition to the slasher-film canon opens on a young man named Tyler (Joel Courtney) wandering the aisles of a cleaned-out supermarket. It’s April 3rd, 2020. Covid-19 cases are exponentially rising. Most …

The cardinal rule of bedtime is simple: Don’t look under the bed. Everybody knows this. Amoebas know this. Yet Kaylee, one of the two young kids in Kyle Edward Ball’s low-budget Canadian horror flick Skinamarink, does it anyway. Worse, she does so after a voice in the dark instructs her …

Ralph Fiennes as a kinky, authoritarian chef. Nicholas Hoult as his food-influencer sub. Anya Taylor-Joy’s wide-eyed final girl. The director of Succession. These are but a few of the ingredients to The Menu, a piquant class-warfare satire that’s now streaming on HBO Max. Director Mark Mylod’s film follows new couple …

Is there anything M3GAN can’t do? At 4 feet tall, she is small but mighty. When you forget to flush or wash your hands, she’ll remind you. She can explain the science behind using a drink coaster and ensure that you always will. At night, she can read you bedtime …

What better way to drown out wall-to-wall cable news coverage of the Capitol insurrection’s anniversary than with a campy horror flick about a killer-robot doll terrorizing Marnie from Girls? Yes, M3GAN is almost here. Directed by Gerard Johnstone and produced by horror maestros Jason Blum (Get Out) and James Wan …

Which movies can we legitimately claim are overlooked or underseen, two terms that are overused? Depending on where you’re standing, probably most of them. The movies most of us have heard about are a mere drop in the bucket of what’s being released. And that isn’t because of quality. Some …

If you’ve ever booked an Airbnb in a strange, new neighborhood, then Barbarian — the buzzy, word-of-mouth sleeper thriller — is the uneasy, horror-filled film for you. After becoming an unlikely hit, grossing over $42 million worldwide at the box office against a $4.5 million budget, you can now catch …

Carlota Pereda’s debut feature, Piggy, takes horror’s revenge trope and twists it just so. It isn’t so simple as a much-abused underdog getting a freakish chance to get her payback and painting the landscape with her enemies’ dispatched blood and guts, though in this case, as in many cases, you …

When Corey Taylor was five years old, Buck Rogers changed his life. If the Slipknot frontman hadn’t seen the 1979 film Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, he never would have seen the trailer for John Carpenter’s genre-defining slasher flick, Halloween. Taylor, now 48, still has total recall of the …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Halloween only happens once a year, but if you want to keep the thrills and chills going, there’s an abundance of scary shows and frightening films available on …