The iconic shower scene in Psycho was originally supposed to play out without music. Instead composer Bernard Herrmann created “The Murder”: as the killing transpires, violins shriek and scream along ...

Horror, a genre long hated by critics and adored by the public, has always strived to challenge the status quo. Between pushing what can be shown on screen and the sanity of mothers everywhere, the ...

Halloween is next week -- and it’s commonly celebrated with kids trick-or-treating door-to-door, haunted houses and costume parades. But in ancient times, the occasion was observed as the eve of the ...

Horror is in the eye of the beholder. What makes one person shudder might make another laugh, or simply lean in with curiosity. Whether truly terrifying or just deliciously macabre, this year’s batch ...

The horror film genre is driven by sound as much as image. Anxiety thrives not in what we can see, but in what we can’t.

Quite a few gothic rock classics by The Cure could make it to the soundtrack of a horror movie, but I’m partial to the 1989 tune “Lullaby”. That opening melody is so melancholic and ahead of its time, ...

From 'Sinners' to 'Weapons,' horror movies reigned supreme in 2025. Some were instant classics and others were cult classics.

Disclaimer: “Hell of a Summer” has not yet been released in theaters, with its wide-scale distribution officially set to begin Friday. The Lantern recently participated in an early film screening as ...

Fans of slasher horror movies understand that there is an underappreciated variance within the genre, whether it is a darker, slow-burn with a relentless killer, or ...

Written and directed by Curry Barker (Milk & Serial), Obsession currently holds an impressive 97% on Rotten Tomatoes and was named #2 on Letterboxd's top horror movies of 2025. For context, Ryan ...