With Hollywood favouring franchise fare, horror films have become the last bastion of inventive film-making, producing a new generation of auteurs in the process

The ‘rough and ready’ genre’s current box office boom shouldn’t surprise us, say film-makers and experts

With Hollywood favouring franchise fare, horror films have become the last bastion of inventive film-making, producing a new generation of auteurs in the process

From those using shocks to shine a light on racial injustice to others who just know sadistic clowns are scary, here are the auteurs of chills currently ripping up the rulebook

Editorial: A new wave of socially engaged movies is storming the box office and changing how we think about the genre