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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.

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

Occult historian and author Gavin Baddeley delivered a lively Dead Talks session at Dead Northern 2025, tracing Dracula’s evolution from Vlad the Impaler to Hammer horror cinema. Mixing folklore, film analysis, and offbeat anecdotes (including a York connection with a ceremonial “Dracula” sword), Baddeley explored how the medieval warlord became a tragic, monstrous, and endlessly adaptable cultural figure. His lecture combined scholarly depth with showman’s flair, making dense history vivid and entertaining

Chris Nials, founder of the Independent Horror Society, talks about building a grassroots horror movement, empowering new filmmakers, and why low-budget horror is the beating heart of genre cinema.