From classic monsters to modern mayhem, HBO Max offers some seriously scary films in its catalog. These are 28 of its best for when you want a spooky night in.

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A tragic old folk custom in China forced unmarried girls aged between 16 and 25, to become brides for a legendary “Cave God”. The young women then had to fast to their death while living in the cave ...

In a tragic and mysterious ancient custom in China, unmarried girls were chosen as brides by a legendary “Cave God” and sent to live in caves, where they would fast to death as a form of sacrifice.

There is no music on a moonless night during a crucial scene in The Mummy of 1932. There is almost no music in the movie at all beyond a derivative, if ever effective, use of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake ...

A lonely gravedigger tries to Frankenstein love in Grace Glowicki’s macabre queer romance. By Erik Piepenburg When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an ...

It’s difficult to say what’s more surprising: that one of the leading surgeons in Chicago from the 1900s through the 1940s was named Victor Frankenstein, or that after Victor Frankenstein was born in ...

Titular punctuation is the bane of a movie critic’s existence. Is it 28 Days Later or 28 Days Later … ? Do we really have to put quotation marks around “Wuthering Heights,” no matter how often Emerald ...