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7 Chilling Winter Horror Films to Beat the Summer Heat
Does anyone else feel like they’re melting right now? Now, personally, I’m a Texan and I’ll take the heat over the cold just about any day of the week, but even my thoughts turn to cooler weather when I get into my car and the temperature reads 108*.
With the baking heat of summer, it’s definitely time for a respite of sorts, and this morning my thoughts turned to chilling winter horror films filled with snow and howling winds and all the things that go with them.
Fortunately, there are a lot out there, and here are seven of my favorites to help you think cool thoughts.
#1 30 Days of Night
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Josh Hartnett (Halloween H20), Melissa George (Mullholland Drive), and Danny Huston (American Horror Story) lead this film by director David Slade (Hard Candy) about an Alaskan town preparing for their annual extended period of darkness. This year is different, however. A gang of violent, bloodthirsty vampires has set their sights on the small town and as the sun sinks low in the sky, the slaughter begins.
This is a gripping, often terrifying and transgressive vampire film and you can practically feel the cold radiating from your screen as you watch.
#2 Misery
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Poor Paul Sheldon (James Caan). It’s bad enough that he crashed his car in the middle of a blizzard, but then he’s rescued by his number one fan. Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) isn’t just a fan, however. She’s obsessed with his work and him, and she’ll do anything to keep Paul, now that she’s got him right where she wants him.
There’s a reason this movie has stood the test of time. The acting and writing is brilliant as is the source novel by Stephen King. Bates won a much-deserved Oscar for her work in the film. And of course, there’s that hobbling scene…
#3 The Thing
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If we’re talking winter horror films, John Carpenter’s remake of The Thing from Another World was ill-received when it was first released but has become one of those classic films that became a defining point in genre history.
Set in the frozen wasteland of Antarctica, the film focuses on an outpost of men who find themselves in fight for their lives when they discover a shapeshifting alien able to take on the form of any life form that it consumes.
#4 Frozen
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No, not the one with the singing snowman…
Adam Green (Hatchet) wrote and directed this chilling tale of a three people stranded on a chairlift high above the ground as a ski resort closes down for the night and the temperature steadily drops to dangerous lows.
This slow burn thriller stars Emma Bell (The Walking Dead), Shawn Ashmore (X-Men), and Kevin Zegers (Dawn of the Dead), and it’s definitely one that will turn you thoughts to cooler temperatures, and also hungry wolves.
#5 Krampus
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Toni Collette (Hereditary) and Adam Scott (Little Evil) lead a brilliant cast in this Christmas-set horror film about a dysfunctional family who finds themselves in a battle for their lives against the biggest baddest anti-Santa in the world as Krampus descends upon their home.
The howling winds and blinding snows become a character all their own in this one. It’s a delightfully demented horror-comedy that is worth multiple viewings, especially on hot July afternoons.
#6 Dead Snow
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College students on a ski trip versus Nazi zombies. That’s it. There’s really not much else to say except that it’s co-written and directed by Tommy Wirkola who also wrote and directed Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters. It’s the kind of film that you either love or hate. Check it out and see which side you’re on!
#7 The Shining
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Set in the scenic Overlook Hotel based on the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, the film focuses on Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) who takes a job as an off-season caretaker for the sprawling hotel and brings along his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and their son Danny (Danny Lloyd). What they don’t know is that the hotel is seriously haunted and their psychically gifted son is exactly what it craves.
It’s perhaps one of the most well-known winter horror films on this list, and for good reason.
Bonus: Let the Right One In
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A lonely boy named Oskar (Kare Hedebrant) befriend what he believes to be the girl next door. Eli (Lina Leandersson) is much more than she appears to be, however, and she soon becomes a friend, companion, and an avenging angel for the boy.
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[Exclusive Clip] ‘From the Beyond: High Strangeness in the Bennington Triangle’
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?

Check out our exclusive clip below.
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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
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
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.
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