‘Bug’ Review: Carrie Coon Is Superb in an American Gothic Tale

Tracy Letts’s eerily topical, decades-old play about a woman’s descent into a world of conspiracy theories makes its ...

Boardroom’s Picks: The 25 Most Anticipated Movies of 2026

A look ahead at the most anticipated films arriving in theaters throughout 2026. From major franchise returns to buzzy ...

Alien: Isolation's Xenomorph doesn’t need to resort to try-hard jumpscares

Players do get little glimpses of the Xenomorph before this point — they'll witness it kill an NPC with its tail, hear it ...

The horror is almost secondary to the menial task: From Crow Country to Resident Evil 9, here's how horror games keep us scared

If horror had swung to one extreme, with too many enemies, guns and explosions, Amnesia dragged it back to the opposite pole: ...
Hardcore Gamer

ROUTINE Review: Atmospheric Horror on a Lunar Base

Zach McKay is a writer from the United States, and a game lover since he stole his dad’s N64 controller to play Ocarina of Time. He has been playing video games for the better part of 25 years and ...
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HBO Max's Streaming Hit 'Weapons' Proves That the Jump Scare Isn't Dead, Horror Just Got Lazy

Billy is a Senior Features Author for Collider. Having written over 300 articles in just over a year, Billy regularly covers the biggest TV shows and films releasing while also analysing some of the ...
The Conversation

Creepy cicadas, ticking clocks and jump scares: How frightful films conjure terror out of quiet

James Deaville does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
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Alien: Isolation writer says the game "is too scary" for a lot of people and "we probably could've sold more if we'd watered it down," and speaking for the scaredy cats, I'm so ...

Alien: Isolation is one of the most terrifying games I've ever played, and even its own writer admits it's straight-up too scary for a lot of people. Chatting on the FRVR podcast, former Creative ...
PC Gamer

Alien Isolation is way too long because its Xenomorph got way too smart: 'At the time it didn't seem that long'

The tricky AI ended up prolonging an otherwise shorter game. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Alien Isolation is my favourite ...
New York Post

‘Alien’ DNA found inside humans — it was inserted into our genes, bonkers new study claims

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...
Yardbarker

Developer of Alien: Isolation Reveal The Real Monster Was The Runtime

A developer recently came out and stated that Alien: Isolation‘s famously long 20-hour runtime was actually an unexpected outcome. In an interview with the FRVR podcast, the game’s writer, Dion Lay, ...
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Alien: Isolation writer admits its Xenomorph got too smart for the devs, which is why the horror game runs longer than most

Hades Hades 2 spent half as long in Steam Early Access because its devs already knew "what needed to be in" it RPGs Clair Obscur Expedition 33 lead "underestimated" the popularity of side content, ...