Horror (TV)
American Horror Story: Delicate review – Kim Kardashian is scarily not bad
The reality star makes for a believably bitchy publicist in the 12th season premiere of Ryan Murphy’s campy horror show
Benjamin Lee
22, Sep, 2023 @1:45 PM
The Other Black Girl review – workplace thriller mixes satire with silliness
A blunt but mostly entertaining adaptation of Zakiya Dalila Harris’s bestseller explores the complexities of race in the office
Gloria Oladipo
13, Sep, 2023 @6:04 AM
‘My life is a bit like a horror story’: the TV visionary making creepy tales inspired by his Down syndrome
Otto Baxter’s gruesome Victorian romp – complete with sweary musical numbers – is loosely based on his life. It’s a unique, monster-filled scare-fest, with its own incredibly moving documentary
Tim Jonze
21, Aug, 2023 @2:00 PM
The week in TV: Wimbledon; Evacuation; The Horror of Delores Roach; The Idol – review
A sodden Wimbledon opens without Sue Barker; the brutal inside story of the British campaign to evacuate Kabul lingers in the mind; and The Idol staggers to a close
Barbara Ellen
09, Jul, 2023 @8:30 AM
Lock up your bunnies: Fatal Attraction is back, and still stuck in the 80s
Rachel Cooke was looking forward to a TV reboot of the controversial 1987 thriller – only to find that, despite being made by a team of women, its attitudes have barely changed
Rachel Cooke
16, Apr, 2023 @1:00 PM
The Outwaters review – extreme found-footage horror runs amok in the desert
For all its purported mystery and experimentation, Robbie Banfitch’s tale of four unlucky friends out in the wilds comes off as decadent
Leslie Felperin
04, Apr, 2023 @12:00 PM
Yellowjackets season two review – this wonderfully imaginative sequel is even better than last time
Juliette Lewis is sublime, Christina Ricci finds her perfect co-star and you’re constantly kept on your toes with parallel timelines and tons of creepy thrills. What a follow-up!
Leila Latif
24, Mar, 2023 @7:00 AM
Bad buzz: gory stan satire Swarm is a shallow look at extreme fandom
Amazon’s comedy horror series is the rare show to explore the potent cultural force of fandom, for better or – mostly – for worse
Adrian Horton
22, Mar, 2023 @2:33 PM
Welcome to the age of ‘dark copers’ – where morbid curiosity is a means of survival | Emma Beddington
From haunted dolls to horror films, there is a big appetite right now for fear-as-fun. Are we all just practising for what 2023 throws at us?
Emma Beddington
22, Jan, 2023 @2:00 PM
‘Pure terror in musical form’: Dead Space’s composer shares its unsettling secret
Jason Graves explains how the cult horror game’s score began as a modern, Hollywood soundtrack, but ended up drawing on a 20th-century orchestral technique to create something much scarier
Dom Peppiatt
20, Jan, 2023 @12:00 PM
‘Just too frightening’ – the most terrifying art, from horror films to haunted ruins and sinister songs
A bear-infested casino, a horse-drawn hearse, a humanoid stalker and the ghost of Mr Pipes who was eaten by his cats … in a Halloween special, Guardian critics pick their scariest ever work
Guardian writers
31, Oct, 2022 @6:00 AM
Chapelwaite review – a wife blasting off her husband’s head is the only thrill in this Stephen King bore
Adrien Brody is fine as a widower who inherits a creaky old mansion in this short story adaptation. But no amount of worms or shackled bathtubs can turn this into great horror
Lucy Mangan
19, Oct, 2022 @2:14 PM
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