This week, our horror recommendations come from Wendy, Gabriella, MK, Corey, and Alyssa. Thanks, friends!
From Wendy:
FILMS: Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018) and As Above So Below (2014)
From Gabriella:
FILMS: Train to Busan (2016), Sinners (2025), Us (2019), The Blackening (2022), The Voices (201), The Lost Boys (1987), and Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
TELEVISION: The Fall of the House of Usher (also a story by Edgar Allen Poe!) and Yellowjackets
BOOKS: My Heart is a Chainsaw, by Stephen Graham Jones, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson, and The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson, and Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley.
From MK:
FILMS: Final Destination (all of them) and The Long Walk (2025, also a book by Stephen King!)
GAMES: Silent Hill 2
From Corey:
FILMS: Sinners (2025), Reanimator (1985), Spree (2020), and Jennifer’s Body (2009)
From Alyssa:
FILMS: Midsommar (2019), Fear Street Triology, (2021), Jennifer’s Body (2009), The Craft (1996), Silence of the Lambs (1991), Weapons (2025), Rosemary’s Baby (1968, also a book by Ira Levin!), The Shining (1980 , also a book by Stephen King!), The Lost Boys (1987), The Blair Witch Project (1999), and Battle Royale (2000)
TELEVISION: Yellowjackets, Hannibal and Channel Zero
BOOKS: Camp Damascus, by Chuck Tingle and The Final Girl Support Group, by Grady Hendrix
GRAPHIC NOVELS/COMICS/MANGA: Exquisite Corpses, series by James Tynionn IV & Michael Walsh, Uzumaki, by Junji Ito, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, by Robert Aguirre-Sacasa, Home Sick Pilots, by Dan Watters, and John Constantine, Hellblazer, by Jamie Delano
PODCASTS: The Left Right Game, The Magnus Archives, The No Sleep Podcast, Alice Isn’t Dead, and Lore