There Is a Monster, a small budget supernatural horror film from writer and director Mike Taylor, is fresh out of the starting gate on VOD platforms. Based loosely on his own family’s experiences, There Is a Monster is a personal work for Taylor, starring Joey Collins as Jack, a veteran portrait photographer whose small studio is just starting to gain traction.

As we find ourselves in the midst of the years’ most frigid days, we are also at our most reflective. Seasonal solitude coinciding with holiday festivities creates a space to contemplate relationships past and present. Do you traipse around your house in the shadows of early nightfall? Catch a glimpse of a specter of the previous you? Or maybe, someone you used to know? Film grants us the opportunity to explore these experiences of isolation, contemplation, and fear of someone near and dear not being exactly the same as you remember.

Renowned author of the novel Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia weaves occult, supernatural, and conspiracy in her latest novel Silver Nitrate.

Obsession follows protagonist Shion, a loner-type teenage boy struggling with his relationship with his parents, his friends, and keeping his magic abilities secret.

In collaboration with Falk School, What Sleeps Beneath is proud to publish a scary story written by Mr. Kevin Goodwin’s first grade class. These youngsters tackle what makes something scary, and how teamwork can comfort even the most frightened.

Author Gregory William Mank reviews a piece of Hollywood history in Clive Dawson’s I Walked with A Zombie.

Mike Flanagan’s lesser known film Oculus has the trappings of your average haunted house story, but with a twist up its sleeve.

Released one year ago today, Michael McGovern’s Blood Ending takes you on a decades-long adventure filled with vampires and an angry alchemist with little-to-no opportunities to catch your breath.

Call it karmic retribution, or karma, call it fate, destiny even—everything is said to have its consequence. In the case of Mike Flanagan’s The Fall of The House of Usher, Consequence inevitably returns to collect on a deal made with the Ushers.

Get ready for Halloween weekend with a Beetlejuice inspired cocktail recipe that’s sure to raise the dead.

Flanagan’s remarkable understanding of the ghost story subgenre pulls through in his 2011 film Absentia in which the ghost stands in for a character’s pain.

Investigating screenplay genres and how they are narratively separated based on their relationship to death.

Pittsburgh’s Moving Picture Festival: Thriller Picture Show will showcase a collection of independent films from October 7-9 at the Lindsay Theater and Cultural Center in Sewickley, Pennsylvania.

Set in the Arctic Circle, Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories is a collection of haunted tales by award winning Indigenous authors that chill to the bone.

Join us on September 22 for a special screening of George A. Romero’s psychological horror film, The Amusement Park.

Indie filmmakers are the heart of the horror genre. While mainstream horror flicks bring in large numbers, it is the indie films that typically push the boundaries and take on ambitious themes. Often uncomfortable, gross, or downright strange, here are some of our very favorite indie horror films.

Destiny covers the new release Piglady - a film inspired by the true brutal murders in Oregon.

Heading into the Chattanooga Film Festival, there were a few films that I had my eye on. One that managed to sneak in under my radar, however, was a quiet, unassuming title directed by first-time feature film directing duo Perry Home Video called Soft Liquid Center, which centers around a character trying to extricate herself from an ex-boyfriend who refuses to move on. It’s a deeply unsettling film dripping with style, so unlike any other film you may have seen and yet seems so effortlessly familiar. 

Adapted from Stephen King's novel, the 1983 film Cujo is still scaring us. From rabid dogs to being stuck in a car in a heatwave, Cujo is a staple film for summer horror.

Finally, audiences will get to see the dark art of yoga for what it truly is. Coming into Chattanooga Film Festival, Mind Body Spirit, a found footage-style horror film about a hopeful yoga influencer, was one of the higher profile draws featured in the festival’s lineup.