Redux Redux comes to streaming off the back of a fair amount of hype after playing several festivals, including South by Southwest, where it had its premiere as part of their Midnighter strand last year. Festival hype is, of course, always to be taken with a grain of salt, but in the case of Redux Redux, it feels very warranted.

Anyone who’s ever spent any time in Japan will likely be familiar with the allure of the convenience store. The humble konbini is so much more than just a place to buy cheap coffee and cigarettes – it’s a beacon aglow on even the darkest of nights, where a fluffy egg sando or crisp sliver of Famichiki awaits, the convenience store serves as a reminder that you are never too far from creature comforts, and the company of another human being.

Fairy tales and horror almost go hand in hand; from a young age, we read cautionary tales, warning us about whom we should trust and, in Little Red Riding Hood’s case, to ‘beware of the Big Bad Wolf’. So it doesn’t come as a surprise that we see horror filmmakers take these stories and adapt them to the big screen with their own spin on the classic tales.

“This is not a George Romero movie. There is no such thing as a zombie, okay?” No girl, this is a Tina Romero movie! Funny, fabulous and unapologetically queer, Queens of the Dead is the debut feature from Tina Romero.

Kicking off the final day, we have Violence, a blood-soaked thriller set in an alternate 1980’s that will shake away any remnant of hangover from the night before and wake up the audience.

While many horror films may feature a similar set-up, few pack the emotional punch of Adam O’Brien’s new film Bury the Devil, which premiered March 6 at FrightFest Glasgow.

For years, I have been a woman obsessed with the sensational work of manga writer and artist Junji Ito

Originally starting in the Netherlands in 1999, Big Brother is a hit reality show that derived its name from a character in George Orwell’s dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Throughout its run, Big Brother has spawned over 500 series across 62 countries to date.

Buffy Anne Summers is more than just a vampire slayer. She taught us to be brave. To never give up and to always fight for who and what we love, all whilst wearing a cute outfit in the process. That is why 19 years after its final episode, Buffy the Vampire Slayer remains a cult classic that will make a difference to more generations to come. Remember, if the apocalypse calls, beep me!

Rather than a retro ‘60s comic book queen or a ‘90s sitcom with a teenager and a talking cat, Sabrina Spellman of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (CAOS) is a 21st century witch with 17th century problems.

brothers Dean and Sam travel cross country on the hunt for demons, ghosts and things that go bump in the night…

The film Scream (1996) was self-aware slasher at its finest…

It’s a subculture that leans decidedly, sinisterly far-right – and it’s with this thread of baked-in horror that author Saratoga Schaefer gleefully runs riot in their new novel, Tradwife (2026).

Happily, her new anthology The Book of Queer Saints Volume II is being released this October. With this new collection, queer horror takes center stage.

It's fitting that Elizabeth Hand's novel Wylding Hall (2015) won the Shirley Jackson Award; her writing echoes and pays homage to the subtle scariness and psychological horror of Shirley Jackson's works.

Penance is Eliza Clark’s eagerly awaited second novel following her debut Boy Parts, which found much love and notoriety in online reading circles.

However Nat Segaloff’s book The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear is a surprising and fascinating literary documentation of the movie that caused moviegoers to faint and vomit in the aisles of the cinema.

Nineteen Claws And A Black Bird packs in plenty of sublime and disturbing short stories across its collection.