Freakishly Good, Your Weekly Horror Edit
Friday, May 15, 2026
Life gets hectic. Your horror picks shouldn’t be.
Freakishly Good, Your Weekly Horror Edit is where taste replaces endless scrolling. Each Friday, I curate one horror book and two films worth your time. No algorithms, no trend chasing, no filler. Whether you’re unwinding, resetting, or chasing a specific vibe, these picks are chosen with intention. This isn’t about watching more horror. It’s about choosing horror better.
Ready? Let’s get into it.
📖 Book of the Week
What’s It About: The Haar - Muriel lives in a small Scottish coastal town that’s slowly being bought up and stripped of the things that made it feel like home in the first place. She’s grieving, isolated, angry, and honestly not in the mood for anyone’s nonsense anymore. Then one night, something comes in from the sea fog.
What starts as a lonely seaside horror story slowly shifts into something stranger, bloodier, sadder, and oddly sweet all at once. The fog rolling in off the water - the “haar” - becomes tied to something ancient and deeply personal, and Muriel finds herself connected to it in ways she absolutely did not expect.
Why You’ll Love It: If you love horror that gets emotional without losing its bite, this book really works. Muriel is the kind of character you immediately root for. Tired. Rough around the edges. Completely over being dismissed.
It’s also one of those books that reminds you horror can be funny, gross and weirdly touching at the exact same time. One minute you’re fully invested in the emotion of it all, the next minute something happens and you’re sitting there thinking, “Well, that was horrifying.” That balance is part of what makes this such a fun read.
Vibe Check:
Myth & Folklore 🏺 – Rooted in cultural horror and legends.
Gory & Gruesome 🩸 – Blood, guts, and all the visceral details.
🎬 Movies of the Week
What’s It About: We Are What We Are (2013, currently available on Tubi) After the death of their mother, the Parker family struggles to maintain the traditions that have kept their isolated household running for years. From the outside, they seem deeply religious, reserved, and maybe just a little too intense about family duty. Inside the house though, things are much darker.
As the daughters are pushed to take on responsibilities their mother once handled, cracks begin forming in the family structure. Secrets start surfacing, questions get harder to avoid, and the rituals holding the family together begin feeling less sacred and more horrifying.
Why You’ll Love It: You’ll notice pretty early on in the movie that the real fear comes from family pressure and obligation, with everyone in this family feeling trapped by expectation in one way or another. However you will not see the twist coming, I promise you. This movie does something horror is very good at, which is taking tradition and asking, “Okay…but what happens when nobody questions it?” Watching people cling to something destructive simply because “this is how it’s always been” gives the whole movie an extra layer that sticks with you.
Vibe Check:
Twisted Turns 🔁 - Keeps you guessing with unexpected plot twists and shocks.
Slow Burn 🔥 – Builds tension gradually with a deep, unsettling atmosphere.
What’s It About: Final Girls (2015, currently available on Tubi) After losing her mother, Max reluctantly attends a screening of the cult slasher movie that made her mom famous in the ‘80s. Then, through a very horror movie sequence of events, Max and her friends end up literally inside the film.
As they try to survive the movie’s rules, Max is also forced to confront something much more emotional, which is seeing a younger version of her mother alive again inside the fictional world.
Why You’ll Love It: This movie is so fun and cheesy in all the right ways. It knows every trope, loves every trope, and still manages to make them feel fresh instead of corny. But the underneath all the camp chaos and jokes, it’s a story about grief, memory, and wanting one more moment with someone you lost.
Vibe Check:
Campy 🍿 – Fun, over-the-top horror with a wink and nod.
Darkly Humorous 😈 – Crazy humor mixed with horror elements.
This week’s energy is simple…all three stories are really about people trying to hold onto family, connection, or tradition long after things have started going very, very wrong.
So enjoy!
Until next Friday fellow horror connoisseurs, when I’ll have another batch of horrors worth your time.
