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A scene from Bring Her Back.

Australia’s horror twins are back with a new modern gothic

Bring Her Back looks set to match the success of its predecessor in Australia and beyond, especially given the involvement of British star Sally Hawkins.

  • Jake Wilson

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This horror movie about toxic men will make you laugh. You’ll need to

Sophie Thatcher’s robot companion is the kind of 1960s woman that every incel dreams of. But things are not that simple.

  • Michael Idato
Australian director Leigh Whannell first made waves as the star and creator of horror franchise Saw.

‘It’s heartbreaking when your body turns against you’: The personal story that inspired Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man

When a close friend succumbed to motor neurone disease, Australian filmmaker Leigh Whannell channelled his grief into his latest movie.

  • Thomas Mitchell
Mason Thames, Noah Cottrell, Julian Lerner and Abby James Witherspoon in Monster Summer.

Spielberg meets Stranger Things in this paranoid teen-horror fantasy

Monster Summer, which stars Mel Gibson, is reminiscent of Jaws, but with a more nebulous enemy.

  • Jake Wilson
Jon Bell created The Moogai, the first film about the Stolen Generations that was written, directed and produced by a First Nations team.

‘I made this movie for the stolen mob’: A horror about historic wrongs

The Moogai offers a perspective on the Stolen Generations that has been sorely missing in mainstream Australian cinema.

  • Nell Geraets
Whether you enjoy laugh-out-loud horror or genuine fright-fests, there’s plenty to stream this Halloween.

The best new horror movies to stream this Halloween

Whether you’re looking for a jump-scare horror or a genuine fright-fest, here are six new movies to stream this spooky season.

  • Nell Geraets
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Characters smiling freakily before dying was “a very effective marketing tool to get people into the theatres”: Writer-director Parker Finn.

‘Any early ideas I threw away’: horror filmmaker on creating Smile franchise

Rising American writer-director Parker Finn is on to his second Smile film in the lead-up to Halloween.

  • Garry Maddox
Art the Clown (played by David Howard Thornton) returns with even more creative and disturbing ways to kill in Terrifier 3.

This horror franchise made people vomit. So they made more

The physical response to the Terrifier films might sound gross, but director Damien Leone is convinced it’s the healthy release we all need.

  • Nell Geraets
Special effects artist Steve Boyle in his workshop in Brisbane.

Meet the master of monsters as he embarks on his biggest challenge yet

He has created grisly monsters for The Hobbit and The Portable Door, but now Australian Steve Boyle is taking up the scariest post of all: directing.

  • Nell Geraets
Max Schreck in the 1922 horror film Nosferatu.

Two tickets to horror reminded me of Paul’s message to us

At nearly 70, I went to my first horror movie. It has aged so badly that the audience tittered. But then I went to a harrowing opera that left me transfixed.

  • Barney Zwartz

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