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Haunted by a personal tragedy, home care worker, Shoo (Clare Monnelly) is sent to a remote village to care for an agoraphobic woman (Bríd Ní Neachtain) who fears the neighbours as much as she fears the Na Sídhe – sinister entities who she believes abducted her decades before. As the two develop a strangely deep connection, Shoo is consumed by the old woman’s paranoia, rituals, and superstitions, eventually leading her to confront the horrors from her own past...

Fantastic Fest is fast approaching and that means a slew of new horror movies and interviews with their makers are coming your way! Last year’s fest happened during the SAG strike so there was no cast in attendance, but this year we’ll have cast and crew on the slab for you.

It’s hard to narrow this list down to an arbitrary number because, more often than not, my favorite movies from the festival end up being the ones that were quite possibly not even on my radar before I sat in a darkened theater to be absolutely wowed by the unexpected. Last year’s When Evil Lurks was a prime example of this. That thing came out of nowhere to traumatize our minds and win our hearts. What will the big surprise be this year? Not knowing is half the fun. In the meantime, here are 16 new horror movies we can’t wait to watch with the Fantastic Fest audience...

“If it’s in a word, or it’s in a look, you can’t get rid of the Babadook,” goes the famous line in Jennifer Kent’s 2014 horror classic of that name. Ten years after its original release, though, The Babadook’s storybook rhyme needs updating: Today, it’s in sitcoms, reality TV competitions, and stop-motion sketch comedy shows, too. Like Amelia (Essie Davis) and her son, Samuel (Noah Wiseman), popular culture can’t get rid of the nattily-attired boogeyman; unlike mother and son, pop culture apparently likes keeping him around, if we go by the number of times he’s surfaced in unexpected places over the last decade.

IFCFilms and ICONIC Events are re-releasing The Babadook to commemorate its 10th anniversary, two months ahead of its premiere in U.S. theaters; the movie debuted worldwide at the Sundance Film Festival’s 2014 edition, and did the rounds at other fests until its November opening. This is great news for the folks who missed the film at the time, comprising “most” on account of the scant number of screens it played on—a sign of the times, predating the horror new wave that crested later in the decade and continues to roll over the industry in 2024. To watch The Babadook now is to witness the seismic event that stirred the wave...

When asked to picture “body horror,” we conjure images that are best described as repulsive: growths of new appendages, spurts of pus and blood, dermatological mutation into some abject new form. But therein lies the beauty of the genre: What if you couldn’t distance yourself from something horrific, because it’s impossible to escape your own flesh and blood? If you find yourself in a body-horror film — perhaps you shared a ride in a teleportation pod with an insect, or were propositioned by transdimensional clergy to expand your kink horizons — you are probably in the process of losing agency over freaky stuff happening to your skin, organs, or tissue. If you’re lucky enough to just be watching some other poor sod fall victim to an inhuman metamorphosis, you are probably terrified that this could all happen to you. You also have a body, after all, and have just seen firsthand a few gruesome reasons to be very suspicious of it. But maybe, in both scenarios, you find something liberating in a new perception of your body, skin, or consciousness. Body horror doesn’t just see the body as a site of violation, but of fascination; filmmakers have for decades plumbed a tactile intimacy that attracts as much as it repels, and focusing on the tension between these impulses has given us the best, freakiest, strangest looks into these sacks of flesh we carry around with us...

Bridging the divide between the horror and science fiction genres, The Veil is a haunting tale about the mysteries of identity and perception told in the cadence of the classic American ghost story. As a powerful solar storm descends on the valleys of rural Pennsylvania, bathing the rustic pines in the shimmering emerald glow of aurora borealis, a retired priest named Douglas (Sean O'Bryan) rouses awake to urgent knocking at the door of his isolated farmhouse. His unexpected midnight visitor is Hannah (Rebekah Kennedy), a young Amish woman desperate for shelter after a personal crisis drives her to flee her insular community...

Not everything is as it seems at the old Royal Fulton Hotel. Norman Forrester, played brilliantly in a career-defining performance by the iconic Corey Feldman, is finally going to meet his girlfriend’s family at her father’s lavish birthday party. But what was supposed to be an important step forward in their relationship doesn’t exactly go as planned; he’s not on the guest list, his girlfriend is ignoring him, and her father doesn’t like him at all. Rejected and heartbroken, Norman wanders away from the party, only to find something far more sinister than his girlfriend’s family lurking deep within the churning bowels of the ailing hotel: an ancient evil that threatens to bring about the end of the world...

Popular social media platforms and video streaming services pose serious risks to user privacy, with children and teenagers most at risk, the Federal Trade Commission found in a report published Thursday.

The report, which stretches more than 100 pages, details the data, advertising and recommendation-system efforts by these companies, and how they rely on information about users to sell ads. Users also “lacked any meaningful control over how personal information was used for AI-fueled systems” on the companies’ platforms, according to the report.

“While lucrative for the companies, these surveillance practices can endanger people’s privacy, threaten their freedoms, and expose them to a host of harms, from identify theft to stalking,” FTC Chair Lina Khan said in a press release...

Here's another look at gameplay from Ritual Night in this latest trailer for the upcoming social deduction game meets roguelite with no player elimination. Ritual Night will be available on PC in 2024, and a demo is out now on Steam. In Ritual Night, through teamwork and betrayal, attempt a ritual to summon Cthulhu. Watch out! Someone is an icky human who wants to sabotage the ritual. After every round, the game evolves, granting potent magic powers to each side to deduce or deceive.

Decadent is an atmospheric exploration, Lovecraftian horror that sees players take the role of John Lorn, a royal explorer and a veteran of the Great War, who has become an occultist. During one of his occult experiments he has become host to a mysterious parasite, one that gives him strange abilities at the expense of his sanity. As he follows the lost Miskatonic University expedition to find his missing son, John will walk the fine line that separates good and evil and sanity and insanity.

"The Bureau of Meteorology is shifting the way it communicates about climate phenomena such as El Niño and La Niña, because global heating is making predictions based on the past less reliable.

This week the bureau kept the country on a “La Niña watch” and said if the climate system in the Pacific does develop, it’s likely to be short-lived and weak.

Historically, La Niña events – where warmer waters gather to the north of Australia – have been associated with cooler and wetter conditions from across north-western Australia to the south-east. El Niño events are often warmer and drier.

But Dr Karl Braganza, national manager of climate services at the bureau, said climate change and the amount of heat being added to the oceans made those old relationships less reliable.

Climate change may not have “broken” them, he said, “but the number of times when the climate is inconsistent with what we saw in the past will only increase”...

"Summer has increased by an average of 36 days across Spain over the last 50 years.

Spain is slipping into a desert climate, according to a new study into the relationship between global heating and drought.

The Mediterranean country is clearly on the frontlines of climate change in Europe. Now researchers at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona have delved deeper into its climate vitals.

By 2050, they predict that rainfall will decrease by up to 20 per cent compared to current levels. This would tip Spain from a temperate Mediterranean climate into a steppe- or even desert-like one, as per the Köppen system which divides the world into five different climate zones based on plant growth.

“The warming process resulting from climate change has been very pronounced in mainland Spain and the Balearic Islands, representing a true hotspot,” the researchers write..."

A party game turns into a supernatural nightmare in the upcoming supernatural horror movie Spin the Bottle, featuring Justin Long (Barbarian) as the local authority savvy to the paranormal. Paramount has debuted the new trailer today, giving a closer look at the haunted rules.

The film’s official synopsis: “When a group of friends plays spin the bottle in a house marked by a brutal massacre, they unknowingly unleash an evil spirit and start dying in terrifying ways. Now, the survivors must stick together to uncover the house’s dark secrets and end the bloodshed.”