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[Movie Review] Steffen Haars’ ‘Get Away’ Coming to Theaters
Steffen Haars' Get Away, a horror-comedy blending dark humor and folk horror, debuts December 6 in U.S. theaters and streams on Shudder in 2025.
Top 10 Most Haunting Roads You Shouldn’t Drive Alone
An empty road late at night, your car suddenly stops, fog shrouding the way, and you sense a sudden chill beside you. Scary, isn't it? But sometimes the uneasiness you feel is due to an unknown presence or perhaps something more! Mankind's obsession with the paranormal has persisted through urban legends, uncanny places, and scary movies.
Short Film Showcase: Serial Killers On The Rise
In both mainstream and indie circles, true crime-inspired thrillers are on the rise, and directors at this year’s Pittsburgh Moving Picture Festival Thriller Picture Show did not disappoint.
WSB x Moving Picture Review: Heretic
Chloe East and Sophie Thatcher deliver stunning performances in A24’s latest horror film Heretic, a take on religious horror that is timely and bold.
Short Film Showcase: Three Shorts with a Taste for Blood
With the long-awaited remake of Nosferatu by Robert Eggers quickly approaching, it’s a great time to dust off your old favorite vampire flicks to amp yourself up. Whether you’re an Interview with the Vampire (1994) person or you’re more into The Lost Boys (1987), or even if you’re a 30 Days of Night (2007) fanatic, vamps have the unique ability among monsters to adapt to almost any kind of story.
Fracturing Identity: Self-Injury and Societal Violence in ‘The Substance’
Self-harm is a subject so taboo that even the horror genre struggles to depict it. The Substance is a film that embraces this difficult topic alongside aging, and bodily mutilation through the lens of societal pressures.
An Unfinished Story: The Menendez Brothers
Unlike traditional true-crime retellings, Ryan Murphy’s Monsters: The Erik and Lyle Menendez Story dives into the chilling abuse allegations and complex family dynamics that led to the 1989 murder of José and Kitty Menendez.
Pittsburgh Moving Picture Festival’s Thriller Picture Show Recap
This past weekend saw the conclusion of the Pittsburgh Moving Picture Festival’s third annual Thriller Picture Show, where dozens of horror-loving filmmakers descended on the Lindsay Theater in Sewickley to meet, chat, and above all, enjoy a wide variety of shorts and features.
WSB x Moving Picture Review: Terrifier 3
In Damien Leone's Terrifier 3, the franchise delivers another grotesque yet darkly comedic horror. A standout in modern horror, the film combines over-the-top gore with laugh-out-loud moments, cementing its place as essential holiday viewing for horror fans.
PMPF Returns To The Lindsay Theater For Its Third Annual Thriller Picture Show
What Sleeps Beneath is excited to sponsor the Third Annual Thriller Picture Show, with our Director of Content, Ande Thomas, honored to serve as one of this year’s judges.
A Terrifying Cocktail—Honoring Art the Clown
Make a toast to the latest and greatest horror icon in this terrifyingly delicious cocktail inspired by Art the Clown of the Terrifier franchise.
Book Review: All These Steps Lead Down
Journey into the abyss in Nelson W. Pyles’s forthcoming title, All These Steps Lead Down.
Fact or Fiction: Bears as Super-Predators in Animal Horror Cinema
Movies like Cocaine Bear and Unnatural have captured audiences for their extreme depictions of bears, but how does this dramatization of unpredictable bear attacks effect our relationship to wildlife off screen?
True Nature Contained: A Bear’s Primal Terror In Animal Horror Cinema
A lifetime combination of fictional and nonfictional encounters will weave terrifying images in our minds about encountering a bear in the woods. Grizzly and The Edge exploit the primal fear of being hunted by a brown bear, realistic or not.
Immersed in Grizzly Bear Country: My Trip to Alberta After Reading ‘Mauled’
Welcome to Bear Month at WSB! Grizzly bears have long held anxieties for hikers and campers in the backcountry, and have made their way into the horror genre as a pseudo serial killer - but are these fears unwarranted?
WSB x Moving Picture Review: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Don't ever say his name! Our favorite undead character is back again. Destiny reviews Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice—the perfect beginning to spooky season.
Pascal Plante’s 'Red Rooms' Challenges Our Fascination with True Crime
The new release Red Rooms offers an intense and accurate take on true crime, cyber hacking, and the depths one will go to uncover the truth.
[Movie Review] Steven Boyle’s Debut Film ‘The Demon Disorder’ Coming to Shudder
The Demon Disorder stars Christian Willis as Graham Reilly, whose estrangement from his brothers Jake (Dirk Hunter) and Phillip (Charles Cottier), following the death of their father George (John Noble), comes to an abrupt end when Jake arrives unannounced at Graham’s auto shop, to tell him that Phillip is suffering from the same affliction that befell their father.
[Movie Review] Full Moon Features Presents: ‘Quadrant’
Full Moon Features' 400th film, Quadrant, takes audiences into a dark, AI-generated virtual world where fears become reality, but its rapid pacing and uneven dialogue may overshadow the eerie, hallucinatory visuals that make this horror thriller stand out.
WSB x Moving Picture Review: Cuckoo
The newly released horror film Cuckoo, written and directed by Tilman Singer and starring Hunter Schafer is a fresh new take on sci-fi adjacent horror that will leave you confused and horrified in the best way.