The swaths of pitch-black in Barbarian are no fun to stare at, and your heart rate may agree.

A woman rents a property in derelict Detroit only to find it’s already occupied, in this excellent chiller

A holiday rental turns into a nightmare for a young woman in director Zach Cregger’s horror debut.

A committed performance from Georgina Campbell is a rare highpoint in a competently made yet increasingly frustrating shocker about a sinister basement

Bill Skarsgård and Georgina Campbell get stuck sharing a literal nightmare Airbnb in this wild thriller from comedy writer Zach Cregger.

A woman is forced to stay in a double-booked Airbnb in this tone-shifting horror. Read the Empire review.

Georgina Campbell and Bill Skarsgård star in this craftily-structured and frighteningly tense horror-thriller out in time for Halloween

Barbarian bashes ahead with a brilliant new vision of horror

Ready to put your scares on for Halloween? We review Barbarian plus a round-up of more scary movies, from Halloween Ends to Smile.

If you like your horror dark and nasty, 'Barbarian,' a FUBAR suburban nightmare is a grim tale that will nourish you.

Score one for un-elevated horror.

A sleeper hit in the US, this is a movie that consistently turns the tables on its audience’s expectations

“Barbarian” starts at night with a heavy downpour and a thunderclap. So far, so good, for what seems to be a classic horror movie. Hold onto your ponchos.

Zach Creggar’s Halloween horror has deservedly become a seasonal US hit — and a terrific argument against rental properties

Zach Cregger serves up some unexpected twists in this nerve-shredding horror

Writer-director Zach Cregger ("The Whitest Kids U'Know") brilliantly baits and switches over the course of an exquisitely crafted scary story

Fans are loving the mix of dread, disgust and comic relief. Just like a superior video game, this gruesome thriller pushes all the buttons.

An Airbnb arrangement takes a turn in a clever new thriller while Robert Zemeckis fails to bring a wooden puppet to life.

Compounding twists and a dark sense of humor make for one of the most surprising horror films of recent years. Read our Barbarian review here.

An unnerving thriller that never goes quite where you’d expect, the film with ″Pennywise″ star Bill Skarsgård is one of the best scary movies of the year.

Simple is better. Less is more. And never explain anything the camera can let the viewer figure out. "Barbarian" is a horror movie that gets the basics right. All of them. Well-cast -- in a cast-against-type way -- sparing in its use of music and so utterly uncomplicated that most everything you use to describe…

Buried secrets make for the year's smartest, scariest horror

A genuine sleeper hit and a new A24 prequel — along with the extraordinary Danish nightmare 'Speak New Evil' — have just given us a mini-horror renaissance.

Director Zach Cregger taps into the subconscious fears of Airbnb travel, women travelling alone in the horror film Barbarian

Writer/director Zach Cregger takes a simple premise and spins it into a series of unexpected permutations. Some tropes work better than others, but we’ll give him credit for inventiveness.