It’s Halloween season, and 2025 has been a great year for horror movies. In fact, we’ve been in a modern renaissance for horror for several years now, so here are my picks for 25 horror films of the ...

It must be January, because someone’s pet chimpanzee has contracted rabies and is going on a killing spree. That’s the premise for Primate, the January horror du jour that’s actually a very solid year ...

It’s pretty rare that we get a good shark movie these days. The last really respectable one was The Shallows back in 2016. But now we can add Dangerous Animals to the list, and it’s so good because ...

There's something instinctual about the way most of us react when horror movies put animals at the center of the terror. For me, it's desperation—keep that precious ...

Olga Artemyeva is a film critic, screenwriter and film curator based in NYC. She has a PhD in Art History and teaches Film Studies. Her dissertaion was dedicated to the evolution of horror, and it ...