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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.

James Button’s The Quackening is a 20‑minute horror‑comedy short about a grumpy Welshman who discovers his grandmother has been cursed by a demon duck. With midnight looming, he must save her, and possibly the world, from feathered doom. Blending surreal comedy, Welsh folklore, and DIY VFX, the film is described as Button’s most audacious project yet, a duck‑driven descent into mutation, chaos, and existential dread

Writer-director Daisy Bata and lead actor Beth Taylor dive into the emotional and physical intensity behind Bloodbuzz a short horror film set during a climate-driven heatwave. From script to screen, they explore fear, vulnerability, and the psychology of possession.

The brand new thriller, Dragonfly, can only be described as integrally raw and honest in its depiction of the hidden awry within the kindest of others. Check out Dead Northern's review of this unmissable feature.

Thrown straight back into the chaos of last week’s episode, we’re immediately shown another harrowing view of the massacre before moving into the following week.