Sinners, Frankenstein, and Weapons took home eight Oscars, breaking new ground for horror movies at the 2026 Academy Awards.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world is terrifying sometimes. But one of the best ways to manage the horrors of the real world is to contain those extremes in a movie. Unlike life, horror movies actually end, and ...

Four of the big winners at this year’s Oscars were horror films – is the genre finally getting some respect from the industry?

Image Credit: American Horror Story (Image: FX) The 98th Academy Awards made history for the horror genre, but it was probably Sarah Paulson‘s take on the ceremony that stole headlines. The actress, known for her iconic roles in ‘American Horror Story,

Terrifying modern classics like It Follows, The Babadook, and Hereditary are all among the best, most perfect horror movies of the 21st century.

From ambitious, auteur-driven swings on the big screen to smaller indie horror flicks on streaming, genre fans basically have an embarrassment of riches to work their way through.

In 2015, Landman's Billy Bob Thornton teamed up with James Marsden and some other recognizable faces to fight a grizzly bear in a direct-to-video horror film.

Horror movie classics like Alien, The Shining, and The Exorcist are so great and important that anyone who calls themself a cinephile must watch them.