After the Texas school shooting, Netflix has added a warning to the season premiere of 'Stranger Things.
The 'Russian sleep experiment' is among the earliest and most successful stories from what's known as 'Creepypasta' – a genre of highly believable, viral...
This is part of a larger trend where a number of writers over the years have had their stories on internet forums or social media turned into books and films.
Childhood reminisces of encounters with a ghost in sylvan Shillong
According to several studies and texts, horror is often designed to make one afraid because 'it is advantageous to our survival'.
The concept of the ‘witch’ draws from the European Wicca traditions. Wicca is a Neo-pagan religion that was introduced to the world in a codified form in...
In the West, All Saints' Day is celebrated to honour the dead ancestors – it is believed that their souls come to visit, on this day. In India, we have Bhoot...
Over the years, horror movies have changed. They are no more what they used to be -- mere jump scares with cheap thrills. A look at the recent trends of horror...
The best horror films play on our minds rather than make us jump out of our seats. Here is a sampling, most of which are available on YouTube and OTT...
Filmmakers like Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch and Micheal Haneke are masters in highlighting the dark sides of human beings in society. Their influence in...
A Delhite recalls stories of djinns, haunted havelis, ghosts and mouthwatering street food that made up his childhood in the capital city.
Outlook Magazine’s current issue takes a look at horror films beyond the cinematic aspect. Are there certain periods like post war, pandemic that sees the...
The horror movie as a separate genre has long been a favourite of cinephiles—the fantastical tales of ghouls and goblins providing nail-biting experience to...
For the most part the world of spirits is judged to be a bad thing. Think black magic, evil spirits trying to possess people.
The ghost as the empowered woman is a new theme in Hindi horror movies
The genre has never taken root in Bollywood. Maybe because real-life horrors are enough to give us sleepless nights.
Hallucinations? Fear? Rumours? In the Valley and beyond, people keep finding threats from the unknown
With its overload of superstition, myths, ghosts and evil spirits, the Indian market for ghost hunters is niche. But social media may have finally given it...
Bad djinns may offer fodder for films, but it was through the help of good djinns that the author saw aflatoons produced from thin air
The landscape and setting of a story often set the tone in literature and cinema dealing with horror
Lonely, alienated people and haunted houses are two of the most distinct tropes of the horror movie. And sometimes the twain do meet
From a pale woman clad in a white sari to eerie sounds of ghungroo coming from a distance, the genre of horror in Bollywood has mostly been similar, though OTT...
In a post-apocalyptic world, with a war playing out on our handheld screens and bodies dumped on the streets, with mindless consumption ravaging our planet,...
Indian horror was once all about sleazy movies from the Ramsay stables. It’s now seeking to scare the audience with better fare.
“How was your day?” I ask my wife as if I can still ruin it...
