Rebekah Faubion’s adult horror debut delivers the bloodshed promised by its “good for her” premise, then asks whether justified anger can become permission to control and punish. Its inherited-trauma metaphor is stronger than its softened final reckoning, but that moral tension gives the revenge story weight.

Revenge asks very little of the reader. Establish a wound. Point the wounded party toward whoever made it. We handle the rest quickly because the arithmetic feels good, and we have been practicing it since we were old enough to be treated unfairly. Scott Hawkins gives you that arithmetic early in Blacktail, then spends the rest of the book taking the calculator apart on the table in front of you.

The Land Down Under has a way of making its landscapes feel—deliciously hostile. In Wake in Fright, the scorched outback is the biggest threat of all; in Wolf Creek, the miles of empty road are essentially accomplices. In Mia’Kate Russell’s Penny Lane is Dead, however, the outback gives way to a beach house, but make no mistake—the beach is no less terrifying than the bush.

The revenge film is back, baby! Izabel Pakzad’s directorial debut looks to add a new voice to the resurgence of the revenge film with Find Your Friends, a movie about five friends partying in Joshua Tree who find themselves at odds with a group of locals.

To celebrate Women in Horror Month, we put together a list of women directors you should know.

During our first time attending Sundance, we're keeping an eye out for the best in new horror, including work from directors Ben Wheatley and Sion Sono.

Though you never stop rooting for Soo-hyeon, there are several times when you have to ask yourself, “Is he going too far? Should I be feeling the way I feel?”