Sleep demons paralyze😈, 'The Wait' cracks bones🦴, Wes Craven's 'New Nightmare' turns 30💭, & more!

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The final trailer for A24’s Heretic is here. The film premieres exclusively in theaters on November 8th.

Variety came out with their 100 Greatest Horror Films of All Time list. Check out the list on Letterboxd and let us know what you think.

The FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards, hosted by David Dastmalchian, will be streaming LIVE on Shudder on October 13th at 9pm EST. Click here for more details.

In Jason Yu's Sleep, a young couple expects a baby any day now. But the husband's sleepwalking threatens to destroy their lives. Hyun-su (Lee Sun-kyun) doesn't realize what he's doing and brushes it off when his wife Soo-jin (Jung Yu-mi) confronts him. From scratching his face and arms to nearly walking off the balcony, Hyun-su's nightmarish behaviors present a barrier to his already complicated marriage. Once the baby arrives, the couple plot a way to keep the baby safe - locking Hyun-su inside their bedroom at night. But things escalate unexpectedly and launch into a terrifying tale about a woman's mental break. The toll it all takes on Soo-jin proves to be the real danger, as her psychological decay grows stronger and more ferocious. Sleep veers in a direction you won't expect, and you may be gasping every step of the way. In exploring the importance of sleep, the film takes real-life consequences to the extremes and manages to inject brutal terror right into the veins. One of the year's best, Sleep juggles drama and horror in surprising ways. [written by Bee]

Writer/director F. Javier Gutiérrez guides the viewer into a descent into folk-horror hell. The Wait follows a man named Eladio (Víctor Clavijo) and his tight-knit family. Living on a secluded estate, Eladio's job is to look after the property and care for his wife Marcia (Ruth Díaz) and son Floren (Moisés Ruiz). When Floren gets old enough, he learns to shoot a gun, much to his mother's staunch objections. After a hunting excursion goes wrong, Eladio plots murderous revenge on those who've wronged him - but he soon encounters a series of strange events that signal something far more sinister at work. Through a folk-horror lens, Gutiérrez supplies plenty of harrowing emotion to the story, allowing the audience to feel what Eladio feels. Through earthy, gritty tones, the film makes great use of time and space. Through a calculated unraveling, he allows the story to expand and swell, leading to a well-earned payoff in the finale. It's as grim as storytelling can be. Gutiérrez roots the story deep into human frailty, as Eladio's existence cracks until only bare bones are left. It's a bit depressing, but it's real, honest, and unapologetic. [written by Bee]

Falling Stars utilizes folk-horror building blocks to tell a human story about intrigue, gumption, and guilt. Co-directors Gabriel Bienczycki and Richard Karpala, who penned the screenplay, invite the viewer into an unexpected script-flipping arrangement of your typical witchy tale. In a world where witches exist and ride brooms, the film injects excitement into the genre with its reliance on what you don't see or experience, instead allowing your imagination to run wild. When family friend Rob (Greg Poppa) claims he buried a dead witch on the outskirts of town, three brothers - Mike (Shaun Duke Jr.), Sal (Andrew Gabriel), and Adam (Rene Leech) - venture out into the night. When they come across the burial ground, Rob drags the tarp-wrapped skeleton out of the dirt and demands Mike to unwrap the body. Against his better judgement, he does, and the group beholds a ghastly sight - a charred, gnarled body that carries with it intense cursed energy. After an accident, the brothers are caught in a whirlwind of the damned and must torch the witch's remains before sunrise to break the hex. While low-budget constraints keep the film from soaring high, Bienczycki and Karpala craft a mystical world that casts a hypnotic spell and keeps you gripped in your seat. [written by. Bee]

Surrealist black comedy Me, Myself, & The Void tells the tale of stand-up comic Jack (Jack de Sena) who becomes stuck between the here and there. He awakens inside a purgatory-like place where he must confront himself and figure out why he's passed out on the bathroom floor. De Sena and real-life comedy buddy Chris Smith (playing his friend Chris) work their comedic magic within a dramatic arena, pulling on the heartstrings and tickling the funny bone when necessary. Jack isn't a good guy. He's quite the jerk, as writer/director Tim Hautekiet exposes throughout the film. Beneath the layers of comedy, which Jack uses as a coping mechanism so he doesn't have to deal with anything in his life, there lives and breathes an actual human being - someone so insecure with themselves that they push people away. His fractured relationship with Mia (Kelly Marie Tran) leads to this inescapable existential crisis. Within 80 minutes, Hautekiet shares an honest snapshot of one man's journey to self-actualization. It's as truthful as you can get when stepping back and reexamining life. Surprisingly emotional, Me, Myself, & The Void masterfully blends genres in a way that makes you think and reassess your own life. [written by Bee]

Bee Delores founded B-Sides & Badlands in 2017. Initially a music blog, they expanded to cover all things horror in 2018 and has since reviewed everything from ultra-indie gems like Death Trip to such breakout hits as In a Violent Nature. Check out all the fresh and rotten reviews.

Every night when we sleep, we dream about whatever our brains decide to feature. Not only that, some of us daydream and, once again, our brains are in the driver's seat. During both of these times, we're either taken to a place of comfort and luxury, or a dark place that we cannot wait to escape. For this week's list, we chose our favorite dream sequences from some of our favorite horror films. Dream on, baby! Check out the list on Letterboxd.

Everyone has to sleep. And if we don’t sleep, we go mad. Dreams and nightmares spill into the real world, and as the mind swells and aches, often triggering a host of disorders, the lines between states of consciousness become a blurred mess. Such is the case with Michael Venus’ Sleep (or Schlaf). Venus analyzes mental health, sleep, psychosis, and trauma so deep and gruesome that it stretches through time, stemming from raw, unimaginable horror. Read Bee's review.

Come True tells the tale of Sarah Dunne (Julia Sarah Stone), who’s already stricken with the worst kind of sleep paralysis you might imagine. Torturous shapes and figures come to her at night, and it’s become so overwhelming she’s downright terrified to even sleep a wink. It’s torment to know, or at least firmly believe, that even a cat nap could inflict the darkest and most raw sort of hypnotic sorcery around your body. Read Bee's review.

Before he became one of the best villains in Blade, Stephen Dorff made his film debut in 1987’s The Gate. This film is shlock horror at its finest, but still manages to shares some great effects in the form of stop motion. Whatever you do, skip the sequel as it’s an abomination. [Review by Brett]

One year ago, Anthony Hickox passed away. His approach to filmmaking was something out of the ordinary, but it worked. His two Waxwork films, Waxwork and Waxwork II: Lost in Time, to me, are classics, and are a fine merit to the horror/comedy genre. The acting isn't great, but the story and sets are fantastic, especially for low budget, cheesy features. His turn at directing the first Hellraiser film after Clive Barker stepped away from the chair, Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, was a decent effort, too, giving us both a great story and new Cenobites to fathom over until the following segment, Hellraiser: Bloodline, took us back to where it all began. Back to Waxwork. The concept of jumping into wax displays, living out its story, and, if you don't survive, becoming permantly a part of it is one of the main reasons why I love the film. In fact, Horrorverse friend and Dread Central writer Tyler Doupe' agrees. Take our word for it: Waxwork is fucking awesome. [Review by Brett]

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The debut novel from Ian Rogers, who Sam Raimi calls "a fantastic storyteller of horror."

The Bennett family is broken. After a series of devastating events, they leave their old lives behind and start over in a new town. The move is supposed to give them a chance to heal and to help mend their familial bonds, but they soon discover some wounds run deeper than others, and they always leave scars.

And there’s something seriously wrong with their new house.

There’s a presence lurking within the walls, walking the halls at night, and it seems to know everything about the Bennetts. Their secrets, their desires…and their fears.

What starts out as mild paranormal activity quickly escalates into a full-on supernatural assault by an entity whose motives are as nebulous as its origins.

If the Bennetts hope to survive, they will have to confront the horrors of their past, forgive each other for the wrongs they’ve done, and come together as a single powerful force.

As FAMILY.

Order FAMILY here.