17 of the Most Disturbing Films Ever Made
Like a list of the “funniest” or the “anything-est” movies, a list of the most disturbing films is going to be subjective. Everyone says Requiem for a Dream is super…
‘The Quarry’ Lets You Experience What’s Great About Slasher Films
The Quarry is a carefully threaded tapestry of horror cliché. The camp itself is the kind of place where you might take the scenic route—an area is literally called “scenic…
‘Men’ Is an Excellent Movie and I Have No Idea Who It’s For
Ever since 2017’s Colossal came out, I’ve been trying to find people to share it with. I’ve run into a wall. The people for whom the story might resonate are…
‘Dredd’ Deserves a Better Place in Alex Garland’s Filmography
On Friday, the 51-year-old English writer-director Alex Garland’s new movie, Men, opens in theaters. Garland’s not a celebrity auteur on the scale of your Martys, your Quentins, your PTAs. But…
How to ‘No-Clip’ Reality and Arrive in the Backrooms
You are alone and disoriented, waist-deep in pool water. Wading aimlessly around the interior room with wall-to-wall tile, your memory evades you. After making your way through a doorway bathed…
‘We’re All Going to the World’s Fair’ Is a Coming-of-Age Creepypasta
In June 2009, 20-year-old aspiring filmmaker Troy Wagner uploaded a remarkably spooky 47-second clip to YouTube. The beginning of a web series based on a story he read on the…
How Ghostwire: Tokyo Fuses Japanese Folklore and Modern Intrigue
Ghostwire: Tokyo, the upcoming game from Japanese developer Tango Gameworks, leverages the technologically advanced environment of Tokyo while incorporating traditional Japanese landmarks like shrines, temples, and torii gates. This mix…
‘Yellowjackets’ Is the Internet’s Favorite Anti-Internet Show
Nostalgia, they say, comes in waves, each one crashing as a new generation learns how their parents lived. In the 1990s, the narrator of Radiohead’s song “The Bends” proclaimed, albeit…
Is ‘Scream’ Even Creepier in the Era of Smart Gadgets?
This, it seems, is where the new Scream (which is, confusingly, also called Scream) is going to find its chills. In the two-minute trailer for the film, after a terrifying…
18 Halloween Thrillers That Are Scary but Not Gory
Screenshot: The Conjuring/Warner Bros. I give director James Wan an awful lot of credit. After making a boatload of money creating the Saw franchise (a series of movies that popularized…