2026 has delivered an exceptional year for horror, from Nia DaCosta’s brutal 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple to Curry Barker’s devastating Obsession. We rank the best horror films of 2026 so far, including Kane Parsons’ Backrooms, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride!, and Damian Mc Carthy’s Hokum.
Matthew Holness’s Possum isn’t just another psychological horror film with a monster-as-metaphor. It’s a devastating study of childhood trauma and the unheimliche — the state of being without home, without self. Sean Harris’s performance as Philip makes you live inside the aftermath of abuse rather than simply observe it.
“Liminal horror” has become a hipster buzzword, so here is what it actually means and where it actually lives: the back of the shop. From Skinamarink, The Exit 8 and Vivarium to Edinburgh’s Hunter’s Tryst and the council-house terror of Ghostwatch, this is the case that the Backrooms are just a British backshift, and that British working-class horror beats the American liminal void at its own game. The Americans get the empty void. We get the void plus a supervisor.
Izabel Pakzad’s Find Your Friends drops five wasted party girls into Joshua Tree and promises a survival-horror reckoning with toxic masculinity. There’s a real story of female rage swimming beneath the booze, the Molly and the desert menace — but does this Shudder revenge thriller ever let it breathe? Our review counts the cost.
Our Chum 2025 review wades into Jonathan Zuck’s AI-generated shark thriller starring Alice Eve. Here’s why this killer shark film sinks faster than a chum bucket with a hole in it.
Salome film review: The Shell Brothers compress Wilde’s tragedy into 76 minutes of claustrophobic horror, with Jessie Epstein’s stunning performance at its hypnotic centre.
A countdown of five essential horror movies about unlicensed doctors, from Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator to the Soska sisters’ American Mary, exploring what happens when the scalpel meets obsession.
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Kane Parsons’ Backrooms transforms YouTube-born creepypasta into a singular liminal space horror starring Chiwetel Ejiofor. Here’s why this feature debut demands attention.
The Scrappy-Doo plot twist buried inside James Gunn’s 2002 Scooby-Doo movie deserves a place among cinema’s great narrative subversions — here’s the case for taking it seriously.
