As usual, there were a bunch of horror movies to check out in 2025. The genre never has a lack of new contributions, thanks in part to its relatively low bar of entry for up-and-coming filmmakers, as ...

io9 watched a lot of TV this year. And while we enjoyed a great deal of what we saw, these 12 shows—listed in alphabetical order below—impressed us the most. They all took creative risks while ...

It’s pretty rare that we get a good shark movie these days. The last really respectable one was The Shallows back in 2016. But now we can add Dangerous Animals to the list, and it’s so good because ...

It was a damn good year for TV, especially genre TV. We feasted all year on quality Star Wars, freaky horror, endearing and exciting sci-fi, thrilling fantasy, gloriously weird storytelling, and ...

You wouldn’t call 2025 an “off” year for horror — more like an odd one. Both A24 and Neon continued to back several scary-movie auteurs (the prolific Osgood Perkins, the brothers Danny and Michael ...

It feels like I say “Wow, this was an amazing year for horror” every year these days, but even with that in mind, 2025 was something of a whirlwind of new classics. The year had barely started when we ...

It’s hard to look at the astounding box-office and critical success of Sinners and Weapons and say 2025 was not a great year for horror. And yet, here I am, bravely doing it anyway: 2025 was not a ...

I joined Dread Central in 2021, when the site acquired my podcast Development Hell, which has since grown beyond my wildest expectations. That project then pulled me deeper into the publication, and ...