As you’ll see in this primer, David Cronenberg is not the only Canadian filmmaker who’s contributed to the country’s sick and twisted genre fare over the years. In fact, from giant brains to heavy metal demon slayers, Canada has a rich tradition of weird, wild and often woefully underappreciated monster movies that are worth looking out for.

A horror short by Mike Diva

So, the point of this article? GO FIND SOME HORROR NOVELIZATIONS! If you’re like me, you’ve already seen your favorite scary movies a hundred times. You’ve already read every bit of trivia on IMDB. You’ve seen all of the DVD extras and you’ve read all of the fan theories. What’s left? Well, this!

These are the 13 new horror filmmakers you need to know, if only so you can put a name to your future nightmares. A few work in pairs, others fly solo -- all of them will scare the daylights out of you.

From the director of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, this ghastly and hilarious sequel descends into your deepest, darkest fears as a wacked-out lawman goes after human meat-cutters with his own high-octane chainsaws in a horrific showdown with the legendary Leatherface and his entire cannibalistic family.

Horror scenes recreated with peeps, everyone. Alright, this is a bit silly, but it made me smile and might make for some good wallpaper.

Forty years ago, an incredibly powerful collection of horror movies filled American theaters, including The Omen and Carrie.

Lucifer. Damien. The Witch. A new TV show based on The Exorcist. Hell, even 'Once Upon a Time' is getting in on the current craze for Satanic, but this is certainly not the first time demons have infiltrated entertainment. A new book aims to trace the history of how the supernatural came to be so damn popular. By Cheryl Eddy.

Descriptions of Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s work slide inexorably into paradox: it is sincere and ironical, improvisational and elaborately structured, earthy and uncanny at the same time. His new film Cemetery of Splendor, in which a group of Thai soldiers have fallen mysteriously and, it seems, permanently asleep, the most nakedly political film of Weerasethakul’s career, is a gentle, open-hearted story of human connection, underlain at every moment by rage and dread.

Home is where the horror is. That’s the underlying logic of This House Has People In It, which debuted at 4am Tuesday on Adult Swim.

Fangoria's favorite horror books of 2015.

Meet the Man in Black and the Gunslinger.

Independent production studio Blumhouse needs an intervention.

I recently bought a former film buff’s collection of 1980s newspaper clippings, not knowing quite what to expect... As if the sheer volume of goodies wasn’t enough, the guy’s main interest seemed to be horror movies. Below are several scans from his (well, my) collection, all from the very late ‘80s.

In one of the most memorable scene in Poltergeist, JoBeth Williams is in the kitchen. When the camera follows her standing back up, all the chairs have been arranged in an elaborate stack atop the table. Layers of Fear loves this moment, but it doesn’t understand it. It accompanies its tricks with loud noises. It uses them over and over again. It makes the same mistake as lots of bad horror by confusing being startled with fear. There aren’t many layers to being startled. I count one.

A Hitchcock movie can be considered a form of direct-brain stimulation. The neuroscientist Uri Hasson and his team at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute have demonstrated in an experiment that a Hitchcock movie effectively takes control of your brain.

Composer/conductor, Lalo Schifrin. This score was used in an advanced trailer which some have called the “banned trailer.”

American Horror Story writers are plotting their next scare. The FX drama’s sixth season will likely focus on Slender Man, a black-suited character (created as an internet meme in 2009) who stalks children, a source reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly. “Someone else wrote the script, and AHS wants to adapt it to fit the show,” says the insider. “They have to buy the rights. Then they’re going to figure out the cast from there.”

Tom Cruise and Sofia Boutella are both confirmed for the reboot of The Mummy.

The flood of online tributes to the late, great Angus Scrimm (real name Lawrence Rory Guy), who passed away at age 89 on Saturday night, all say the same thing: Angus was the nicest guy in horror and a true gentleman. He made everyone he ever met feel special. Of all the celebrities I crossed paths with during my long FANGORIA tenure, Angus ranks as one of the few who became a true friend.