Not that long ago, while talking horror movies with an Asian film critic, I mentioned that ghost stories (especially the Japanese kind, where spirits haunt the living until some unresolved injustice from their past can be rectified) don’t really scare me,

However, it's the cannibal, Hannibal Lecter, who ranks as one of the best horror villains of all time. For his performance as the fava-bean-eating and Chianti-drinking Lecter, Hopkins became only the second performer in history to win a Best Actor Oscar in the horror genre. —S.T.

Do you have the bug for the odd horror film? Well, Katie Asha-Ramamoorthy dissects just what makes this genre so popular with a test to see how likely you are to enjoy the horror flick.

Blood Red Sky was the most successful German Netflix Original film at the time of release. It might not be the best horror on Netflix, but it’s got a unique hook that sets it apart from everything else. Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror