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James Whale’s 1935 Bride of Frankenstein, with Boris Karloff as the monster and Elsa Lanchester as his bride.

The rise of dark romance and why we can’t get enough of beastly desire

The recent appetite for creature features reflects our long-held fascination with monstrous love.

  • Guy Webster

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Miley Tunnecliffe (left) and Kate Separovich (right) created the psychological horror Proclivitas.

‘Our experiences are horror’: Why Aussie women make killer psychological horror movies

A new Australian horror movie has landed – and, like many of the hit local horrors before it, the film was brought to life by a team of women.

  • Nell Geraets
Daisy Ridley is the centrepiece of Zak Hilditch’s film We Bury the Dead.

‘It’s vegan-friendly’: Daisy Ridley on her zombie film with a twist

A zombie movie about grief? It was a strong enough hook to land the Star Wars actor – and drag her all the way to WA to make it.

  • Karl Quinn
The episode in which Will (Noah Schnapp) comes out was review bombed online, but made perfect sense within the overarching narrative.

Netflix’s monster hit Stranger Things is finally over. Was it worth it?

After five seasons, the sci-fi-horror-nostalgia series has wrapped at last. But did the Duffer Brothers stick the landing?

  • Karl Quinn
Winona Ryder as Joyce Byers in season five of Stranger Things.

Stranger Things’ final season is here – and it’s much darker than you imagined

There’s no escaping that the show has morphed into an allegory about child exploitation and sexual abuse.

  • Karl Quinn
Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven in Stranger Things.

Stranger Things is finally about to end. But does anybody even care?

It was once the biggest show on streaming, but has the Netflix horror sci-fi series left its run too late?

  • Karl Quinn
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The gang’s all here: Jonathan Byers (Charlie Heaton), Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder), Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), Will Byers (Noah Schnapp), Jim Hopper (David Harbour), Nancy Wheeler (Natalia Dyer), and Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard) in season four.

Now, where were we? All you need to know ahead of Stranger Things season 5

The final season of Netflix’s biggest ever show is almost upon us. But if you can’t remember your Vecna from your Mind Flayer, we’ve got you.

  • Karl Quinn

When Nick met Night: The Hollywood meeting that begat a bestseller

Take one romance novelist (Nicholas Sparks), add one horror maestro (M. Night Shyamalan), and stir. What you get is Remain, perhaps the year’s most curious book.

  • Karl Quinn
Clown in a Cornfield doesn’t deliver much in the way of laughs or scares.

Turns out, the best antidote to anxiety is a horror film

It may seem counterintuitive to deal with stress by making yourself more stressed. But box office data, and studies, suggest the cure for fear is the poison itself.

  • Nell Geraets and Pablo Barnes
Think watching 31 movies in one month is a lot? Try making each one of them a horror.

I watched 31 horror movies this month. This is what I learnt

Horror movies are having quite a moment, but are they as enjoyable when you have to watch one every day of the month?

  • Nell Geraets