Since all of us are choking on inflation and likely aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, let’s take a look at the top road trip horror movies to watch this summer.

The retro-futuristic land of Phil Tippett’s newest release Mad God revives scary stop-motion animation in a mostly silent movie that pays homage to films across the dystopian horror genre.

Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream (2000) dragged us down the rabbit hole of addiction. It was never considered a part of horror, despite its many genre tropes.

Sidney Furie’s film attracted a fair amount of attention—not least because this film, like The Amityville Horror before it, was based on a true, and well-documented, story.

The Outcast and the Rite: Stories of Landscape and Fear, 1925-1938, the latest single-author collection from Handheld Press, makes for both an enchanting read, and something that may be a tough nut to crack for readers new to horror.

The Book of Queer Saints, an anthology of queer horror fiction edited by Mae Murray, is a groundbreaking achievement in horror fiction, and an exemplar of the golden age of indie genre fiction.

In Horror Library: Volume 7, edited by accomplished anthologist Eric Guignard and published by Dark Moon Books, the reader is treated to stories from sharp social horror to thrillers with a supernatural flair.

With the Easter Bunny scheduled to make his rounds this weekend, the contributors at What Sleeps Beneath wanted to celebrate with delightfully creepy Easter eggs.

Digging Up the Marrow (2014), a found-footage comedic metacommentary on the horror community, is a fun watch, while also raising some interesting points on the disregard of disability and scapegoating of difference.

Based on real-life tragedies, Smiley Face Killers misses the potential of what could have been an enjoyable exploration of true crime.

When a Stranger Calls Back is a stalker-slasher that stands apart from other films in the genre, giving fans a more rounded, nuanced vision into how trauma might be dealt with in a horror film, without sacrificing the scares.

Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas, an anthology released in 2021 by Hex Publishers, is a fantastical exploration of identity, landscape, and what happens when the two intersect.

Arrebato (Rapture) is the 1979 cult-hit from Spanish director Iván Zulueta that has thrilled and mystified international audiences for decades and will soon be available for the first time in the United States.

America’s First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster, authored by Mary Kay McBrayer, is an interesting and experimental novel focused on exactly who you’d expect: Jane Toppan.

In Global Horror Cinema Today: 28 Representative Films from 17 Countries, this broad-strokes perspective on the genre’s recent filmic history will have horror fans keeping Letterboxd open—so many amazing moves, so little time.

After summoning a holiday shark cartoon and wishing to be alone this Christmas, Cody must fight to protect his family from being killed by his own creation.

Though Brotherhood of the Wolf has its rough edges, this genre mashup of a movie has much to offer for horror and history fans alike.

Shudder’s newest original film, The Advent Calendar, is an impressive French-language feature from writer-director Patrick Ridremont, and features strong cast performances sure to add some chills to your holiday lineup.

The saga of murderers, Joe and Love, turned married progresses as a newborn baby throws a wrench into their new chapter in an upper-class suburban neighborhood.

The horror in Midnight Mass isn’t its vampire, though that is horrifying as well, but in its people—that an entire town of good, well-meaning families could be so easily convinced to turn on each other and their humanity. It’s a difficult but necessary pill to swallow in a post-COVID, post-QAnon world.