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.
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Catriona Silvey’s Vervain Hollow is a masterclass in folk horror and psychological suspense. Through the eyes of an unreliable narrator, this cult horror novel weaves a tale of memory and magnetism that lingers long after the final page.
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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.
Avalon Fast’s Camp takes the bones of a summer camp horror and grows something stranger from them. This sapphic, witchy coming-of-age tale follows Zola Grimmer’s grief-stricken Emily into a coven of damaged young women, trading slasher mechanics for melancholy magic. Here’s why this girl horror lingers.
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.
Forty years after Stephen King published IT, Pennywise the Dancing Clown is still showing up: on HBO, in academic criticism, and now in Still Floating: 40 Years of Pennywise, edited by Bram Stoker Award-winner Tom Deady. The book brings together thirty contributors, including Stephen King expert Bev Vincent and co-author Richard Chizmar, to examine the cultural weight of a 1,138-page novel that never quite let go. This retrospective makes the case for why IT belongs in a different conversation than most horror fiction, and why that conversation is long overdue.
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.
