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Netflix’s stop-motion nightmare The House goes to places you really can’t unsee

By Tasha Robinson
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The end of Scream 5 is a zinger aimed at toxic fandom

By Jesse Hassenger
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The 2022 Scream does for horror what Matrix Resurrections did for sci-fi

By Jesse Hassenger
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A wave of folk horror movies hits Shudder, inspired by an epic new documentary

By Austen Goslin

See For Me updates an all-time classic horror movie for the gamer age

By Tasha Robinson
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So Leatherface is just some guy in Netflix’s new Texas Chainsaw Massacre

By David Grossman
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Halo is at its best when it embraces horror

By Mike Mahardy
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Watch the first trailer for the latest horror series with a confusing title

By Tasha Robinson
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The new Resident Evil movie finally embraces horror, but it should be trashier

By Jesse Hassenger
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The Feast squishes its way through one of the year’s smartest, most sickening horror stories

By Roxana Hadadi
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New Resident Evil movie trailer is bad news for anyone who hates clowns

By Petrana Radulovic
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What to watch this Halloween weekend

By Polygon Staff
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Seance director Simon Barrett explains why tropes matter so much in horror

By Tasha Robinson

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Why every generation re-discovers Stephen King

A most American nightmare

By Joshua Rivera
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Possession is a gross yet masterful take on doppelgängers

By Roxana Hadadi
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Michael Myers is a stand-in for toxic something

By Dave Schilling
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Star Trek: First Contact is a meta movie about the creation of the Trek franchise

By Dave Schilling

Last Night in Soho is Edgar Wright at his Edgar Wright-iest

By Jack King
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Most ‘horror anime’ isn’t really horror, even when it scares us

By Rafael Motamayor
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The newest Dark Pictures game will take place in a serial killer mansion

By Petrana Radulovic
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Getting old might be the scariest new thing in horror movies

By Roxana Hadadi
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Heavy Metal’s drag-filled Halloween issue is a nexus of horror, glamour, and filth

By Chloe Maveal

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‘Everything new will kill you’ is the worst trope in horror

By Tasha Robinson
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The 6 types of masks that define slasher movies

What does the mask say about the killer?

By Noel Murray
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The Monster Girl gives classic horror movie villains a liberating twist

By Jesse Hassenger

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How horror movies found their spooky sound over 100 years

By Jake Kring-Schreifels

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Dude Bro Party Massacre III is the best horror-satire nobody’s watched

By Matt Donato
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The biggest sin you can commit in horror movies is being curious

Do not wonder why, fool

By Andy Crump
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Chucky isn’t just an evil doll, he’s a true Universal Monster

The long-running horror star has a new show, but exhibits all the traits of classic creatures

By Jesse Hassenger
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JoJo Siwa dances to Anything Goes as Pennywise the Clown, and it’s brilliant

By Petrana Radulovic
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The state of the horror trope: an expert roundtable

By Brian Collins
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Trick or Trope: Polygon’s celebration of horror scare tactics

Everything you ever wanted to know

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When the human sacrifice becomes the savior

By Rosie Knight
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