Fright Club

Fright Club is where Ginger Nuts of Horror gets opinionated about horror films. Each Fright Club special counts down five films on a theme, from werewolf movies and teen vampires to Texas and Appalachian horror, alongside our best horror films of the year and conversations from the Fright Club podcast.

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The Blair Witch Project Is Found Footage’s Jaws

The Blair Witch Project Is Found Footage’s Jaws

Michael C. Williams has a theory about The Blair Witch Project: every found footage film since 1999 gets judged against it, the way every shark movie gets judged against Jaws. With a reunion tour underway and Lionsgate’s 2027 reboot from Dylan Clark on the way, we look at who escaped that shadow, who got crushed by it, and what the new film needs to survive.

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Horror Movies About Temptation: The Five Films That Know Your Sins: A Fright Club Special

Horror Movies About Temptation: The Five Films That Know Your Sins: A Fright Club Special

Horror movies about temptation are practically the whole genre in miniature, so picking five meant leaving Nosferatu and The Lure bleeding on the cutting room floor. Our countdown runs from Amat Escalante’s The Untamed to Julia Ducournau’s Raw, taking in Jennifer’s Body, Ken Russell at his most unhinged, and Al Pacino doing the devil in a power suit. Five films, five appetites, no survivors.

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