Before it became a midnight movie ritual, The Rocky Horror Show was a stage production fueled by instinct, collaboration, & lot of glorious weirdness. Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror revisits how it all began. @sharai.bsky.social has the details! 👻 📽️ 🎭 nighttidemag.com/2026/04/30/f...

The second cohort of I AM HORROR is here. Writers, filmmakers, scholars, and storytellers pushing horror into new spaces; folklore, Afro-Gothic dread, psychological terror, and beyond. 👻 📽️ 📺 📚 🎭 🌏 nighttidemag.com/2026/04/30/t...

I’ve been sick for a few days & missed my newest heat dropping. Join me as I pick apart how the “cult of compulsory childbirth” collides with the “antinatalist abject” to create a new horror vocabulary! Thanks to @momoshaty.bsky.social for publishing this at the risk of pissing off, well, everybody.

File Under: Horror, the showcase created by Danielle A. Scruggs, returns with another program dedicated to Black femme-directed horror. Get the deets and tix 👇🏾👻📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/04/27/f...

Coffee break? Lunch break? We've got your #MustRead horror here! This week: @brendalatorre.bsky.social talks female doubles in horror film @nighttidemag.bsky.social, Anastasia Elfman looks back 25 years at The Devil's Backbone & @realgdt.bsky.social's best frights @dreadcentral.bsky.social ... 1/2

NightTide begins a conversation with dark fiction author Seth Voorhees, a writer drawn to the shadowy intersections of suspense, psychology, and horror. Part One introduces the mind behind the work, with a deeper dive into his craft coming later this week. 👻📚 nighttidemag.com/2026/04/27/s...

Childless by choice. Culturally suspect. Increasingly at the center of modern horror. @cullenwade.bsky.social examines how fertility anxiety, reproductive politics, and horror cinema collided in 2025. 👻📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/04/27/m...

Toxicity and suffocating containment run like a waistcoat stitch in Mother Mary. @micheleschultz.bsky.social digs into the fashion fantasy for #NightTideMag. 👻 📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/04/22/h...

For #NightTideMag, @brendalatorre.bsky.social dissects coming of age films that are less about innocence lost & more about the violent unraveling of the identities women are expected to perform. 👻 📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/04/24/m...

For #NightTideMag, @brendalatorre.bsky.social dissects coming of age films that are less about innocence lost & more about the violent unraveling of the identities women are expected to perform. 👻 📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/04/24/m...

Rick Baker deserves all the awards. In this article…

🚨 @sharai.bsky.social profiles Rick Baker, recipient of the 2026 Master of Horror Award at the #overlookfilmfest. A self-described “monster kid”, Baker’s journey reminds us just how much the genre runs through his veins, and his legacy runs through ours. 👻 📽️ 🪓 nighttidemag.com/2026/04/23/f...

Today, @micheleschultz.bsky.social looks at how fashion becomes a suffocating shroud in Mother Mary. nighttidemag.com/2026/04/22/h... 👻📽️

We've seen some incredible abstracts come in for #NightTideMag's second virtual horror symposium! This year's theme is: THE HORROR OF CONTROL Got an idea on control in horror cinema, comics, television, gaming, and performance? 👻 Details below - deadline is May 18th! nighttidemag.com/2026/03/31/h...

Overlook Film Festival Hangover Central: Angry alcoholic writer retreats to a haunted hotel is a trope for sure, but Damian McCarthy turns it into a grief-driven nightmare full of hares and heartbreak in Hokum. 👻📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/04/20/h...

Overlook Film Festival Hangover rolls on! Leviticus takes one of the Bible’s most weaponized books and turns conversion therapy into supernatural horror, where desire itself becomes the thing that hunts you. 👻📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/04/20/s...

Overlook Film Festival Hangover continues! Larry Fessenden gathers the creatures of Habit, Depraved, and Blackout in Trauma Or, Monsters All. It promises a monster mash, but the film’s blunt identity metaphors end up being the loudest thing in the room. 👻📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/04/20/t...

This movie is as haunting as it is gorgeous.

We’re back from our @overlookfilmfest.bsky.social hangover, we’ve had our coffee & we’re ready to talk film! @sharai.bsky.social brings us her insight on MĀRAMA and how colonization echoes through generations. 👻 📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/04/20/c...

Our first flick at #overlookfilmfest was 🔥. OBSESSION, the first feature film from breakout smash Milk and Serial writer/director Curry Barker is a cautionary tale that’s asks “what happens when the fantasy becomes real!?” 👻 💕 📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/04/10/l...

Hey horror fashion hounds; @micheleschultz.bsky.social sat down with Sarah Millman, costume designer of “Forbidden Fruits”! 👻 📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/04/07/l...

Introducing our #NightTideMag's first 10 cohorts of the I AM HORROR campaign. I AM HORROR is a growing archive of creators of color shaping the horror genre across the global diaspora. Our archive will grow bi-monthly, honoring 10 new cohorts each time. Join us! 👻🌏 nighttidemag.com/2026/04/01/i...

On Trans Day of Visibility, we’re celebrating the trans writers and creators who have trusted #NightTideMag with their work. Horror is a genre of transformation and identity. Trans voices help shape it into something more honest, more human, and more expansive. We’re grateful you’re here. ✌🏽 ❤️ 🏳️‍⚧️

This October, our theme for our 2nd online horror symposium is: THE HORROR OF CONTROL Gaslighting, indoctrination, paranoia. Medical authority, reproductive control, mutation. Enforced subservience, surveillance systems, and digital identities. Accepting abstract until 5/18. Details below! 👻📽️📚📺

Closing out Women in Horror Month with one of the best to ever do it! I sat down it @horrornonna.com do discuss the Donna Davies directed doc “1000 Women in Horror” and how will ALWAYS be center in the genre…in ways we love and ways we don’t. 👻 📺 📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/03/31/h...

Two women fighting back, two completely different conversations: mistaking Ready or Not 2 and They Will Kill You for the same story exposes how quickly media literacy collapses when Black girl rage takes center stage. @sharai.bsky.social would like a word. 👻 📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/03/30/s...

The theme for this year's MEETING OF THE MORBID MINDS will be announced tomorrow! If you enjoyed last year's symposium, 'THE HORROR OF BECOMING', you're gonna gasp at what this theme brings! Abstract submissions open tomorrow! Stay tuned for details! 👻 📽️ 📺

Once more with feeling

Buffy shaped a generation of fans, so the sadness, anger, & confusion around it now are real, but nostalgia burning doesn’t give us permission to burn each other. @sharai.bsky.social looks back (and hopefully forward) at Buffy the Vampire Slayer. 👻📺 nighttidemag.com/2026/03/27/m...

We’re spotlighting HORROR IN SECONDS, a festival dedicated to 60-second silent horror films made by filmmakers of color around the world. Shot on smartphones. No dialogue. Pure atmosphere. This year’s theme: Monsters. Submission details below! 👻📽️📱🩸 nighttidemag.com/2026/03/22/f...

The first half of the year was a wash for #NightTideMag’s Monthly Macabre, but hells bells, we're ready for Spring! April's Monthly Macabre is Horror Curses - what's your fave? Pitches open until April 24th at nighttidemag.com/pitch 👻 📽️ 📺

Our EIC @momoshaty.bsky.social dives into language in horror…from neural linguistics to cursed languages to giving a voice to voiceless. Let’s talk….or not! 👻📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/03/19/m...

Ghost hunting didn't disappear; it simply logged on. @micheleschultz.bsky.social explores how A24's Undertone crawls beneath our skin. 👻📽️🎧 nighttidemag.com/2026/03/18/m...

Black Zombie does the homework. Now we’re asking what comes next. 👻 📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/03/18/f...

Get into these movies and support more international women filmmakers today!

🚨 @sharai.bsky.social's 11-film list cuts through performative support and asks a simple question: are you actually watching women in horror? This is your watchlist. This is your follow-through. Save it. Watch it. Talk about it like it matters. 👻📽️🌏 nighttidemag.com/2026/03/18/s...

ALWAYS appreciate @fangoria.bsky.social for their incredible support of #NightTideMag. They're one of the most equitable mags around, and I'm so happy they understand this need! I AM HORROR is live, y'all! 👻📽️📚📺🎭🌏 www.fangoria.com/nighttide-ma...

ALWAYS appreciate @fangoria.bsky.social for their incredible support of #NightTideMag. They're one of the most equitable mags around, and I'm so happy they understand this need! I AM HORROR is live, y'all! 👻📽️📚📺🎭🌏 www.fangoria.com/nighttide-ma...

Today, we launch I AM HORROR. A global archive documenting creators of color shaping the horror genre across disciplines and continents. The work exists. The archive should, too. 👻 📽️ 📺 🎭 📚 🌎 Submissions are now open: nighttidemag.com/iamhorrorjoin/

Today, we launch I AM HORROR. A global archive documenting creators of color shaping the horror genre across disciplines and continents. The work exists. The archive should, too. 👻 📽️ 📺 🎭 📚 🌎 Submissions are now open: nighttidemag.com/iamhorrorjoin/

🚨#NightTideMag's I AM HORROR campaign begins TOMORROW. What's it about? How does it work? Get your answers here! 👻📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/03/14/i...

If you missed last year's Muse djent banger, Unraveling is another preview of glory to come: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXmU... I've been a Muse fan from day ONE, here's my 25-year journey of "Weird Sh*t Muse Taught Me" chronicled by the great @nighttidemag.bsky.social nighttidemag.com/2024/11/27/m...

Woohaaa! We're heading to NOLA next month for The Overlook film festival, and friends....we're HYPED! 👻📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/03/13/f...

Independent horror criticism matters. Dead Pretty: Beauty in the Horror Genre is a new essay collection exploring how horror preserves, distorts, and punishes beauty. The project is currently crowdfunding its first print run. Get the deets here to support! 👇 👻📽️💅 nighttidemag.com/2026/03/13/d...

🚨1428 Publishing is seeking contributors for Embracing the Abject: Exploring Abjection in Cinema, a new collection examining horror, the body, and social boundaries. They’re especially encouraging submissions from marginalized writers. Sub deadline: 29 May 2026 👻📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/03/13/s...

I AM HORROR A global archive documenting creators of color shaping the horror genre. The archive begins March 15. Submissions open the same day. #NightTideMag 👻 📽️ 📺 🎭 📚 🌎 Archive matters. Record matters.

Since the New York Times wants to play about Wunmi, please see our celebratory NightTide piece from Feb 👻 📽️ ✊🏾 nighttidemag.com/2026/02/01/s...

Indie Horror 4 Eva! @micheleschultz.bsky.social has the highlights from the @winterfilmfest.bsky.social! 👻📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/03/07/f...

... @sharai.bsky.social discusses the dread of being pushed into motherhood in Huesera: The Bone Witch @nighttidemag.bsky.social, @jenabrownwrites.bsky.social chooses 8 horror novels whose social commentary matches The Substance for The Lineup ... 2/3

Spring seduces the outsider. Summer mutates the rules. Autumn erases the map. Winter waits for you to freeze. From The Wicker Man to The Thing, horror keeps repeating the same lesson: the seasons were never ours to conquer. 👻📽️ New on #NightTide nighttidemag.com/2026/03/10/s...