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As 2025 comes to a close, the team at Dead Northern takes a look at some of the best horror films that the year had to offer.

Dead Northern presents Christmas Evil, the ultimate festive cult classic at the unmissable pop-up event, Happy Horror-Days

The Australian filmed, set and produced 'Shed' rips its story straight from a hellish playbook of worst nightmares and distressing realities, as we witness a collision of horror and unnerving trepidation.

We are dropped back in time to 1935 in Juniper Asylum, the footage washed in black and white while Pennywise’s red balloon, and the eyes of the clown god himself are the only things in colour.

Bleak, moody, dark and disturbing epitomise the brand new horror film ‘Herman’, a frightful indie feature that teases the viewer with unexplainable forces as the fantastical horror slowly unravels.

It’s been over three years since the epic season 4 left us all wondering: What’s going to happen to Max? Did Vecna actually die? And seriously, what hair products is Steve Harrington using?

From the mind of the smash-hits, Longlegs’ and ‘The Monkey’, comes Osgood Perkins' latest horror, ‘Keeper’; a film that both terrifies and baffles on its dark descent into otherness.

The kids are back this week - with a twist. Matty, played by Miles Ekhardt, who was traumatised and supposedly killed by Pennywise in Episode One, returns.

We drop straight back in with the kids, who show the cops their photos - only to discover Pennywise, the massive joker, has wiped himself clean off them.

The town of Derry returns this week with another episode guaranteed to give horror fans the willies.

Coming from the 'land down under' is Pelverata, a brand new and indie-made elevated thriller that explores the dark past lurking beneath the Tasmanian wilds

From the macabre beauty of this woefully melodramatic tale to the meticulously crafted gothicness that is continually present, Frankenstein is a hyperbolised, theatrical experience in every sense of the word.