Paramount Plus’ Evil show always deserved better than it got — which was ultimately cancelled by CBS. But even X-Files comparisons don’t do the show justice

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Mr. Sun’s Hatbox lets you manage a rogue paramilitary operation, AKA a delivery system for a company called “Amazin” that must retrieve stolen packages. It combines the goofy air balloon recruitment mechanic from Metal Gear Solid 5 and the daring 2D platforming of Spelunky.

Netflix’s Beef, the new A24 show starring Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, lets its stars be assholes as they feud across season 1 and its various twists.

The hybrid tactics game on PC, which was released on Feb. 28, features intricate combat between hulking robots. But it struggles to explain its own systems.

In the second season of the Chucky show on USA Network, Jennifer Tilly faces an existential crisis as the show revisits the events of Seed of Chucky. It makes Chucky one of the strangest shows on TV.

The best horror movies about isolation and fear of disease are more than just reflections of ordinary fears, and The Harbinger shows why — like so many COVID-era movies, it draws on anxiety about disease, but the imagery goes deeper. In theaters and on VOD and digital Dec. 2.

Anna Diop and Michelle Monaghan star in Nanny, a compelling immigrant story full of horror-movie visions and racial tension in the spirit of Get Out and His House. Debuts in theaters Nov. 23; streaming on Amazon Video Dec. 16.

Moon Knight, Synchronic, and Netflix’s Archive 81 directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead disappear into a meta conspiracy theory in Something in the Dirt, an amiable hangout movie and meta conspiracy theory that floats away on its own gas. In theaters on Nov. 4, and available on VOD on Nov. 20.

Terrifier 2 started as a small release, but it’s gradually gaining infamy and expanding into more theaters on the strength of David Howard Thornton’s performance as killer mime Art the Clown. Here’s why the exploitative Terrifier movies and shorts have such an impact in the “elevated horror” era.

Scorn, the first-person survival-horror game on Xbox Game Pass, has grotesque visuals in its H.R. Giger-inspired world, but its gameplay gradually loses momentum

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Masaaki Yuasa's rock opera adaptation of a historical novel goes hard but falters at the finish line. Some of Inu-Oh‘s most gorgeous visuals don’t even involve its centerpiece, a series of musical performances flagrantly anachronistic to its setting…

Remember OVAs? They're back, in streaming form. Maybe you’ve heard them whispered about in hushed tones, part of some diatribe about the way things used to be: the anime OVA, for “original video animation.” OVAs can be (and have been) just about…

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Go to the Steam page for Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate, which made a splash as the winner of the 50th Ludum Dare game jam, and you might note the distinctive name of its developer: Punkcake Délicieux. Click on their name and you’ll learn that…

After a middling sequel and a detour into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the collaborators behind 2012’s Sinister reunite to test out what more or less worked last time. Like that film, The Black Phone is a Blumhouse horror-thriller tangled up in old…