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5 Hidden Gems You May Have Missed in 2025

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4 months ago

January 3, 2026

Another year has come and gone, with thousands of new horror films clamoring for your attention. By now, everyone has seen the big hits of the year. Sure, Sinners and Weapons were great films, but what about everything else that was released last year? Worry not, we have rounded up five of the best hidden gem horrors for you to peruse while you wait for all the new horrors of 2026.

Dead Talents Society

If you like your horror to be a little heartfelt, you need to watch Dead Talents Society. This hidden gem somehow flew under the radar when it was released last year, but we are aiming to change that. The film follows a pretty cutesy formula, but it’s worth every second.

Essentially, after we die, we become ghosts who travel the world somewhat aimlessly. However, once our families begin to forget about us, we disappear into the void. Luckily, you can become a professional haunter to extend your stay in the mortal world. As long as you get enough views, that is. Dead Talents Society is a wonderful gateway horror and is one of the best hidden gems of 2025.

Hallow Road

Hallow Road’s claim to fame is how the film is shot. As the audience, we are stuck in a car with two parents as they rush to save their daughter after a car crash. Now, the interesting thing about the film is that we never leave the car. Our only interactions with the other characters in the film happen via cell phone calls.

While watching two people in a car for an hour and a half may seem boring, it is quite the opposite. Hallow Road is filled with so much tension that it begins pouring out of the screen. Now, the film does have a secondary plot, but it honestly isn’t nearly as impressive as the panic and guilt that radiate off our two main protagonists.

Good Boy

The fact that more people are not talking about this film is a shame. Good Boy follows a pretty basic haunted house plot. However, the entire film is shot from the perspective of the family dog. However, unlike some of the other films that have tried this recently, Good Boy does a fantastic job at handling the difficulties of a unique plot structure.

Honestly, Good Boy isn’t even the best hidden gem of 2025; it is one of the best films of the year, hands down. If you haven’t seen this one yet, stop what you are doing and watch it now. And for the doggo lovers out there, don’t worry, our furry friend is fine.

Cannibal Mukbang

Cannibal Mukbang is exactly as uncomfortable as it sounds, and that is part of the appeal. The film taps into internet culture and turns consumption into something a little more literal. Watching this film feels like doomscrolling with consequences.

What keeps it from collapsing into gimmick territory is how committed it is to its premise. The horror is exaggerated but not lazy. It knows when to push the joke and when to let the discomfort sit. You may laugh, but it will probably be nervous laughter.

Dead Mail

Dead Mail takes something ordinary and makes it quietly unnerving. The idea of forgotten letters becomes a gateway into obsession, regret, and things that refuse to stay buried. It moves at its own pace and dares you to keep up.

There is a melancholy edge to the film that lingers after it ends. It is less about fear in the moment and more about the weight of unresolved lives. Sometimes horror works best when it whispers instead of shouts, and Dead Mail knows exactly when to lower its voice.

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[Exclusive Clip] ‘From the Beyond: High Strangeness in the Bennington Triangle’

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9 hours ago

April 26, 2026

Ryan T. Cusick

Audiences are invited to explore one of Vermont’s most mysterious regions in From the Beyond: High Strangeness in the Bennington Triangle, arriving later this month on streaming platforms and DVD.

The documentary will debut on April 28, 2026, on platforms including Apple TV, Prime Video, and Google Play. DVD editions will be available exclusively through the Small Town Monsters online shop.

Directed by Seth Breedlove, the film continues the company’s exploration of folklore, cryptids, and unexplained phenomena. Breedlove’s previous work includes The Mothman of Point Pleasant, On the Trail of Bigfoot, American Werewolves, and more than two dozen feature-length productions. In total, Small Town Monsters has released more than thirty films, along with investigative programs, web series, books, podcasts, and exclusive membership content.

From the Beyond: High Strangeness in the Bennington Triangle was made possible through the support of backers from the company’s 2025 Kickstarter campaign.

Set in rural Vermont, the documentary examines the legend of the Bennington Triangle, an area associated with reports of UFOs, ghosts, phantom lights, mysterious creatures, and a series of unexplained disappearances. At the center of the mystery is Glastenbury Mountain, where decades of unanswered questions continue to inspire speculation.

Going beyond folklore and campfire tales, the film asks a chilling question: Why is Glastenbury Mountain so inexplicable, and what happened to those who went missing?

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This Week in Horror: DC Goes Full Body Horror, A24 Has Its Chainsaw Man, and The Bone Temple Is Finally Yours

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2 days ago

April 24, 2026

Luna Gray

Good week. The Clayface trailer dropped and made DC relevant to this website for the first time in a while, A24 put a director on the Texas Chainsaw Massacre reimagining, and we got some interviews worth reading. Here is all of it.

Clayface Has a Trailer, and It Is Exactly What You Want

The Clayface trailer landed Wednesday, and it is DC’s first real horror film. Not horror adjacent. Not dark. Horror. Tom Rhys Harries plays Matt Hagen, an actor whose face gets disfigured by a gangster. He turns to a scientist, played by Naomi Ackie, who transforms his body into clay. Then the body horror starts.

James Watkins directed, which is the right choice. He made Speak No Evil and before that The Woman in Black, and he understands how to make dread feel physical. The screenplay is by Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini. That combination should tell you everything about the tone they are going for.

A24 Has a Director for Texas Chainsaw Massacre and His Last Film Cost Under a Million Dollars

Deadline confirmed that Curry Barker is writing and directing A24’s reimagining of the 1974 original. Barker made Obsession for under a million dollars. Focus Features paid north of fifteen million to distribute it. It sits at 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. A24 hired him before it even opens, which opens May 15.

Kim Henkel, who co-created the original with Tobe Hooper, is executive producing his own creation’s reimagining. That is either a blessing or a haunting. Probably both.

Astrolatry Is Going to Cannes and We Talked to the Actor Who Faced the Creature

Astrolatry is heading to the Frontières Buyers Showcase on May 16-17. The film has a sentient severed penis that grows into a ten-foot practical creature with spiky teeth. We interviewed star Ethan Daniel Corbett about what it was actually like to act against it. Short answer: genuinely terrifying. Long answer is on the site.

The Bone Temple Is Home

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple hit 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD on Tuesday. If you held out from the digital release in February, now is the time. The 4K presentation is supposed to be great. Extras include audio commentary and a deleted scene. If your gonna watch The Bone Temple, why not watch it where the snacks are better.

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Astrolatry Built a Ten-Foot Practical Penis Scorpion

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2 days ago

April 24, 2026

Luna Gray

A sentient severed penis grows into a ten-foot creature with spiky teeth. Genre cinema is doing fine.

Astrolatry follows Elliot, played by Ethan Daniel Corbett, who is every ingredient for quiet catastrophe assembled in one man. Socially isolated. Physically isolated. Craving dopamine and finding it in the wrong places. The romance guru pipeline, followed to its logical conclusion. Elliot does not just spiral. He loses a piece of himself, literally, and that piece does not cooperate.

Corbett described it as “a horror satire, a trippy mind-fuck roller coaster” and “a modern retelling of Maniac,” both of which are accurate and neither of which adequately prepares you. Director David Gordon is making his feature debut after shooting 14 films as a cinematographer and he is swinging for the fences.

The Creature

The effects company behind the creature has festival circuit work Corbett had already seen before signing on. He knew what they could do but he was not ready. “When I saw it in person it was kind of mind-blowing,” he said. “Everything that you see in this movie is practical. Very, very little else. It was genuinely terrifying to have a ten-foot creature coming at you with a big mouth and spiky teeth.”

A CG creature asks an actor to imagine something. A ten-foot physical creature on a set asks nothing. It just arrives. The fear on Corbett’s face in those scenes is not a performance. It is the normal reaction to a scorpion dick with sharp teeth.

Elliot

Corbett went into the character through the body. “I mainly focus on the physicality of it. Who this character is and who he is wholly. I strive in those kinds of moments as an actor.”

Gordon was explicit about the concept, the “nice guy” archetype and the overtly toxic one are the same problem, both aimed at the same object. That reading lands because Corbett does not play it as a reading. Elliot is not a symbol. He is a person.

Where It Is Going

Astrolatry is heading to the Frontières Buyers Showcase at Cannes on May 16-17. “To be able to get into that kind of room on David’s first feature is incredible,” Corbett said. “To be in front of buyers and to showcase the film and potentially get distribution through that.” Frontières is the correct room. It is full of people who understand that the most extreme premise, executed with precision, is not a punchline. It is an argument.