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There have been sixteen different short films in the three V/H/S anthology movies so far. With the announcement of a fourth instalment, V/H/S 94, it's time to find out which segment were mini horror classics and which were misfiring duds. The rapid release of V/H/S films from 2012 to 2014 provided a platform for the foremost horror directors of the day to take creative risks within the found footage subgenre . All the short films had a rough-and-ready quality, yet some seemed to capture lightning in a bottle while others failed to impress. Were the segments in V/H/S 2 really superior to those in the original? Can V/H/S Viral actually be as bad as you remember? Wonder no more - here are all sixteen short films from the V/H/S anthology series ranked from worst to best. There are no spoilers for any segments from V/H/S, V/H/S 2 or V/H/S Viral in this article 16/  Gorgerous Vortex Film: V/H/S Viral (2014) Director: Todd Lincoln Known for: The Apparition Plot in a sentence: A woman murd...

With the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the safest way to get your fix of Halloween haunt attractions is on the small screen. Luckily, movies set in Halloween scare mazes are a surprisingly interesting subgenre. Haunt attractions provide an enviroment where it can be difficult to tell if something has gone wrong, as evidenced by several times haunt actors have accidentally hanged themselves , with patrons passively watching them die in the belief it's part of the show. With the growing popularity of extreme haunts like Blackout and McKamey Manor - some have begun to question the motivations of scare actors who inflict such no-holds-barred terror. With the absense of a safe word at McKamey Manor and punters only being allowed out when Russ McKamey lets them, the boundary between paid-for scares and real-life psychological torture is deliberately thin. The following five films explore the idea of what can happen when the brakes come off and safe scares become frightening real. The House...

Let's face it - none of the nine Nightmare on Elm Street movies stick the landing. All end with various implausible and largely temporary deaths for Freddy Krueger - and they're all ranked below, from bad to inexsplicably terrible. WARNING: Spoilers for all films in the Nightmare on Elm Street series. Obviously. Let's start with the least stupid: 9/ Freddy vs. Jason (2003) This was the last time we saw Robert Englund in the fedora onscreen - and fittingly this was a cheeky sendoff to the character before he was butchered in the 2010 remake. After a lengthy faceoff with Jason (Ken Kirzinger), the final shot sees Mr Voorhees emerging from Crystal Lake with Krueger's decapitated head.  Englund closes the scene with a wink at the camera and a voice-over maniacal laugh - a tongue-in-cheek acceptance that both Freddy and Jason are not going to die permanently anytime soon.  8/ Freddy's Dead (1991)  Freddy's Dead is widely agreed to be the worst film in the Elm Stre...

Gratuitous sex scenes are a mainstay in most horror flicks, but some stick in the mind for their general WTF nature. Here are the four most bizarre scenes of intercourse, handpicked in four different categories. This list includes consensual encounters only, so there'll be no appearances from otherwise memorable scenes such as the Midsommar fertility ritual, the Evil Dead handsy tree branches or the various penile decapitations in Teeth . Weirdest Slasher Hookup We all know teens in slasher films exist to have sex and then be inventively killed. But which movie has the most out-there adolescent coupling? There can be only one answer: WINNER:  Madman (1981) - hot tub scene TP (Tony Fish) and Betsy (Gaylen Ross) are enjoying a bit of aquatic loving, unaware the murderous Madman Marz is on the prowl. The scene has distinct soft porn vibes - the song choice of Steve Horelick's 'I Don't Need Words'; the slo-mo undressing; and seemingly endless shots of the couple circl...

Mike Flanagan has been one of our most consistently brilliant horror directors. His character-orientated stories and explorations of trauma and grief have resulted in some of the best horror films of the 2010s . Despite being impressively prolific, he's never made a bad horror movie. Thanks to a distinctive artistic voice and a close knit team of collaborators - screenwriting partner Jeff Howard; producer Trevor Macy; actors Kate Siegel and Henry Thomas among others who have starred in several of his films - we have a clear idea of what makes a Mike Flanagan movie essential viewing. But which is his best? Starting with 2011's  Absentia -  not the director's first film but his first feature-length entry into the horror genre - his seven horror movies so far have been ranked below. Note:- This article does not contain spoilers for any Mike Flanagan movies. 7/ Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016) What goes down: It's 1967, and the Zander family run a phon...