The creator of a monster called Siren Head scored a rich deal as studios hunt for the next “Backrooms”-style hit.

BBC journalist and horror obsessive Mel Ramsay explains how the likes of Kane Parsons and Curry Barker have shown how their success online can be translated to the box office.

A24 started off as a little-known independent film distributor, but now it is one of Hollywood’s hottest companies. With ...

The $750,000 relationship horror about a cursed wish is set to outgross a new Star Wars movie, energizing Gen Z audiences and creating a rare cultural conversation ...

Warner Bros. Pictures wins a bonkers bidding war for the Gen Z obsession.

The line between YouTuber and filmmaker has only gotten blurrier in recent years. Now, video essays regularly appear on “Best Films of the Year” lists; the Philippou Brothers, aka Racka Racka, made ...

Curry Barker's film hit a box office milestone not seen since Steven Spielberg's "E.T." more than 40 years ago.

The movie industry is still riding the box office high of 'Obsession' and 'Backrooms.' But in true Hollywood fashion, studios ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chiwetel Ejiofor, left, and Kane Parsons arrive at the premiere of "Backrooms" on Thursday, May 7, 2026, at Aero Theatre in Santa ...

The development pipeline for Hollywood just took a scary, but welcome, turn. Two films that were born out of Alphabet’s GOOG GOOGL YouTube and online culture turned into box-office smashes over the ...

Dust Bunny, the new fantasy-horror film from writer-director Bryan Fuller, has a deceptively simple logline: Mads Mikkelsen must help kill the monster under a little girl’s bed. It’s a storybook-like ...