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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

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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
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
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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
Maika Monroe plays FBI agent Lee Harker, assigned the task of investigating a series of murders stretching back 30 years.

How son of Psycho star Anthony Perkins came up with horror hit of the year

Longlegs has taken everyone by surprise, rekindling hope that people will still go to the cinema for the right movie.

  • Karl Quinn
Russell Crowe stars in The Exorcism.

Exorcism movies are everywhere. Why are we obsessed with them?

Fifty years since The Exorcist themes of demonic possession still loom large, with Russell Crowe starring in yet another exorcism film.

  • Jake Wilson
Indie horrors are holding their own while other large-scale films are struggling.

It’s been a terrible year for cinema, but one genre is holding strong

Why are these smaller-scale movies attracting decent audiences while major studio films flop?

  • Nell Geraets

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