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10 of the biggest blockbusters still to come in 2022
The year in cinema is not over yet, with new superhero smackdowns, star biopics, and genius horror headed our way.


Strange staycations: 6 genre films set in the British countryside
If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise: classic folk horror and mad villagers abound.


Phil Tippett is Frankenstein and Mad God is his painstaking, visionary monster
The Old Gods are dead: long live a potato with human teeth, in Tippett’s apocalyptic stop-motion feat.


The thrillingly gory The Quarry blurs the line between video game and interactive movie
Is it a game or an interactive movie? Either way, horror fans are gonna love it.


Horror is calling: 10 of the best phone-based scary movies
Who you gonna call? We’re celebrating The Black Phone with telecommunication tales of terror.


Men tries to teach men a lesson about women’s trauma—tedious in the extreme
With on-the-nose imagery, the folk horror sees Alex Garland return to simplistic ‘gendered brain’ analysis.


The best 25 horror movies on Stan
Got an hankering for dark, disturbing, flat-out terrifying genre films? Stan can help.


Adolescent horror fable Hatching might be the missing link between E.T., The Fly and Turning Red
Featuring one of the year’s most startling sights, it’s a delectably icky, purposefully discomforting good time.


The town that dreaded sundown: how to watch From season 1 in Australia
“Everyone in this town has been exactly where you are now”—on a never-ending, nightmare road trip.


Retrospective: Tucker and Dale Vs Evil flips the horror script by making our preconceptions the villain
Death has a sense of humour in the 2011 horror comedy, where hillbilly murderer tropes get subverted.


8 movies arriving in cinemas this June that we’re excited about
Gru! The Grabber! Gibberish subtitles written by top Aussie comedians!


The best 25 horror movies on Amazon Prime Video Australia
There’s a treasure trove of excellent horror movies to stream on Prime Video.


Australian trailer and release date for proper English nightmare Men
Can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em. Here’s the newest horror from Ex Machina director Alex Garland.


The 25 best horror movies on Netflix Australia
Having a tough week? Why not cheer yourself up by watching a bone-chilling scary movie?


How to watch egg-cellent Finnish horror Hatching in Australia
Trying to please her demanding blogger mum, Tinja begins to care for an egg with horrifying contents.


Australian trailer and release date for stop motion nightmare Phil Tippett’s Mad God
A special effects god has gone mad, in this dark feature from the mastermind behind Jurassic Park and Robocop.


Child’s play: horror cinema’s greatest creepy kids
Most kids are harmless. But, as horror films have taught us, some of them can’t be trusted.


How to watch pyrokinetic thriller Firestarter in Australia
Burn, baby, burn: Blumhouse’s newest horror remake is now setting Australian cinemas alight.


Compared to Carrie, lukewarm Stephen King adaptation Firestarter doesn’t sizzle
We never feel like pyrokinetic tyke Charlie might actually lose control, in this predictable supernatural thriller.


Spotlight on Alex Garland: sci-fi’s consistently brilliant ideas man
The UK writer-director keeps his horror human, whether he’s speeding up zombies or letting the Sunshine in.


Retrospective: Sam Raimi’s playful, nasty, uncompromising horror Drag Me to Hell
There’s a sense that Raimi’s satisfying himself first, and the film is all the more awesome for it.


The new Doctor Strange is a fun Sam Raimi movie but a weak MCU film
This is the worst example yet of an MCU film requiring you to have a lot of prior knowledge to understand what’s going on in it.
