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It’s October once again, and to celebrate the spookiest month of the year, we’ve asked our writers to shout out the best horror titles of the 21st century so far. These are recent works, released in or after the year 2000, that have chilled us, thrilled us, or downright terrified

Walter White is the one who knocks. The meek science teacher turned notorious drug lord Heisenberg remains one of the most iconic figures in television history. But if you’re Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, you don’t necessarily want Walter to be the most important person of your life. At least,

One night, in November 1983, Will Byers didn’t come home. That central hook from the 2016 pilot episode of Stranger Things seems so simple compared to what the series became. Over the next nine years and four seasons, Stranger Things grew more and more intricate in its lore, adding telekinetic

Depending who you talk to, the most terrifying thing a scary movie can do is continue after the end credits. For film critics in the late 20th century, “horror movie” and “sequel” amounted to verboten words as ghastly as “plague,” “terminal,” and “holiday special.” They were seen as tacky add-ons,

In the 2022 A24 movie Talk to Me, teenagers discover a cursed plaster hand that allows spirits to possess anyone who grasps it. Despite knowing that it leads directly to Hell, and despite knowing that opens them up to all sorts of evil, the teens grasp it anyway, leading to