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Good Boy turns what sounds like a silly premise—a dog’s-eye view of a haunted house—into an oddly moving horror story about loyalty, loss, and what it really means to be a “good boy.”

We’re all self-centered. We have no choice. For creative types, this natural and unavoidable self-centric impulse can result in painters creating self-portraits, writers including themselves in novels, and in movies we find movies made about making movies: Meta Movies!

It’s that time of year again! Time to get your spooky on and conquer NerdNet’s October Film Challenge. 31 horror movies selected from our contributors as we slowly drag our worm-ridden corpses toward Halloween.

Endorsing scary movies for kids is impossible. What is or isn’t scary for a particular kid is impossible to predict and some movies you wouldn’t think are scary at all can still result in your child having nightmares and wanting to sleep with you after watching them.

I’m not a horror fan. I don’t enjoy the feelings they bring—anxiety, fear, disgust, dread. I try to keep those emotions out of my daily life. Still, these films managed to creep onto my screen… and into my nightmares. Consider this a warning list—or an invitation, depending on your tolerance for terror.

Today, I’m taking a trip down memory lane to a childhood classic that pretty much set me up for life: *The Return to Oz*. Turns out, it wasn’t just nightmare fuel for me as a kid; it also taught me two crucial life lessons.

While The Conjuring: Last Rites was a fine send off for the Warrens it struggled to produce true tension and scares. There are a few good, jump-out-of-your-skin moments.

These 5 Sci-fi thrillers turn 25 in 2025. Are they worth a rewatch or best left in the past?

Tired of superhero movies? Do you like comedy-horrors and splatterpunk? Then you should see The Toxic Avenger.

We love to put movies into neat little boxes—sci-fi, horror, romcom—but sometimes those boxes don’t really fit. Alien is just as much a haunted house flick as it is a space saga. Blade Runner? Strip away the neon skyline and you’ve got a classic noir detective story. And don’t get us started on Rogue One—it’s basically a heist film in a galaxy far, far away. From Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon reimagining wuxia as a superhero tale to Wrath of Khan playing like a submarine thriller, these films prove that genre isn’t a cage—it’s a playground.