With their 3D action platformer Pumpkin Jack launching later this week, publisher Headup Games and developer Nicolas Meyssonnier have released the launch trailer. The title will launch on October 23 for Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam, GOG, and the Epic Games Store. The PlayStation 4 version will launch “a few weeks later”.
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Survios Inc. and AMC have released a new patch for The Walking Dead Onslaught that addresses many of the concerns players had regarding the game’s combat system and walker behavior. Known as the “Rebalance Patch,” the new update provides an overall improved experience for players on all platforms, including Steam, Oculus Rift, and PlayStation VR.
It’s Halloween; everyone’s entitled to one good scare. With this week’s streaming picks, expect many potent chills. Ghosts and hauntings tend to frighten more effectively than any other subgenre of horror because there’s no set rules or tangible way to fight them. The inherent unpredictability of incorporeal entities lurking in your home keeps you on
While it’s not quite Resident Evil Village-related, any time you have Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami talking about his legendary series, it’s worth a listen. That’s what you’re getting from this interview with Mikami, courtesy of YouTube channel Archipel (who have made it a habit of interviewing various Japanese game creators). In celebration of his
Grimrukh, the mind behind the popular Dark Souls mod Daughters of Ash, is at it again with another mod. This time, they’ve pulled together a team of other modders to make something ambitious: a whole new game built on top of Dark Souls called Dark Souls: Nightfall. From what Grimrukh has revealed on their website,
The iconic cereal monsters Count Chocula, Boo Berry and Franken Berry are currently back on store shelves for the Halloween season, and General Mills has just launched a “Monster of a Sweepstakes” contest in order to find a home for three one-of-a-kind busts. The busts are the work of award-winning special effects artist Karlee Morse,
Presenting itself as a “lost scene” from David Gordon Green’s Halloween (2018), the 13-minute short Happy Halloween: A Halloween Kills Fan Film has been unleashed, coming along as a special fan-made treat on the very weekend Halloween Kills was originally supposed to be released in theaters. And to its credit, it’s a highly satisfying way
Just in time for Halloween, cat treat brand Temptations has released a new animated short titled Scaredy Cat: The Movie. It stars an adorable orange and white cat as it playfully follows a ball of string that rolls down the hallway and throughout the rest of the house. Some spooky things are happening in this
Welcome back to Nightmare Alley, fiends; The spooky little sidestreet in the Nightmare on Film Street podcast feed. This week, Kim & Jon are joined by writer/director Ryan Spindell to discuss his super HalloweenTastic horror-anthology The Mortuary Collection, now available to stream on Shudder! If you aren’t afraid of tentacle monsters, creepy old morticians, or
It’s hard to believe that it’s been just over a year since Rutger Hauer passed away. But, as always, his iconic roles in film and video games will live on. As part of the lead-up to Observer: System Redux‘s release next month, Bloober Team have released the first of a two-part interview with Rutger Hauer
Can 2020 get any scarier? “The Simpsons” are back for another round of animated terror in “Treehouse of Horror XXXI” this Sunday night, the long-running show’s annual celebration of Halloween. This year’s special parodies Toy Story, offers a frightening look at the 2020 election, and spoofs Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse by unleashing several Homers from other dimensions. “Treehouse
It was announced earlier today that Shudder has acquired North American rights to the vampire comedy Boys from County Hell, and we’re serving up their poster for the film tonight. Take a bite down below! Shudder will premiere the film in the US and Canada in 2021. “The film follows Eugene Moffat, who spends his
SEPTEMBER 1999 developer 98DEMAKE is back again with another project, this time teasing fans with a trailer for 02:32. If the name wasn’t cryptic enough, the trailer asks even more questions than it answers (while still looking cool). Certainly, there’s not a heck of a lot to go on, but the slow overhead crawl down
Friday the 13th fans have been dying to see Jason slash his way through the snow for many years, and the team behind fan film Never Hike Alone has finally made that a reality. Womp Stomp Films and director Vincente DiSanti are back with Never Hike in the Snow tonight, a brand new Friday fan film that’s set 3 months prior to
The next great wild and crazy Nicolas Cage movie is on the horizon, it would seem, with IGN debuting the official trailer for a brand new sci-fi/action film titled Jiu Jitsu today. Cage stars alongside Alain Moussi, Frank Grillo, Rick Yune, Marie Avgeropoulos, Juju Chan and Tony Jaa in the film, co-written/directed by Dimitri Logothetis. The
The theaters may be empty but the horror is coming home in giant waves. Let’s take a look at the massive assortment of scary movies, TV shows and games coming your way the third week of October! Blumhouse welcomes you back to Welcome to the Blumhouse on October 13, with another double feature of horrifying new
Grief, Satanism and black magic is rife in Anything For Jackson, the Canadian horror film about a pair of grandparents who will quite literally do anything to bring back their deceased grandson. The premise is surprisingly fresh: grieving elderly couple Audrey (Sheila McCarthy) and Dr. Henry Walsh (Julian Richards) abduct pregnant Shannon Becker (Konstantina Mantelos)
Those itching to get into Bulletstorm and Painkiller devs People Can Fly’s upcoming dark sci-fi shooter Outriders will have to wait until next year. Originally scheduled for release this December, publisher Square Enix has announced that the title will release next year on February 2, 2021. As a consolation, the game will have cross-play up
“This species of cartoon has been extinct since 1998.” The 1990s animated series “Animaniacs” comes back to life next month courtesy of Amblin Entertainment, Warner Bros. Animation and Hulu, and the streaming service dropped a pretty spectacular clip during the virtual New York Comic Con this weekend. The Steven Spielberg-produced reboot series heads to Jurassic
One glance is all it takes to know that Frank & Zed is unlike most horror movies you’ve ever seen, if any. Made entirely by hand, this Grand Guignol-style feature blends high fantasy with Gothic horror, starring a sprawling cast of puppets. Yes, puppets. A significant DIY labor of love, the blood, sweat, and tears it
In the wake of a short teaser trailer last weekend, Paul W.S. Anderson shared a sneak peek first look at the massive Great Rathalos from his Monster Hunter during NYCC today. “We wanted to put these creatures on the screen as accurately as possible,” Anderson said during the virtual panel, promising monsters faithful to the Capcom
The synopsis for Honeydew reads like a horror setup that’s been done countless times over. A couple finds themselves stranded in a backwoods area in need of help, and they wind up at a house in the middle of nowhere inhabited by a deranged family. Devereux Milburn, making his feature debut, takes that familiar setup and transforms
One of the most exciting things about the upcoming Jurassic World: Dominion, which was unfortunately just pushed to Summer 2022, is that it’s set to reunite Jeff Goldblum‘s Ian Malcolm, Sam Neill’s Alan Grant and Laura Dern’s Ellie Sattler, the original trio from Jurassic Park. Goldblum, of course, already returned to the franchise in Jurassic
In case you missed the news, Bloody Disgusting and Cinedigm launched Bloody Disgusting TV last week, a *free* streaming channel that’s live 24/7 exclusively on The Roku Channel through the month of October. The channel can be viewed right here in your web browser or it can be accessed by heading over to The Roku
From Image Comics and “The Walking Dead” creator Robert Kirkman comes Amazon Prime’s animated series “Invincible,” which adapts Kirkman’s violent superhero comic books. “Invincible” is an adult animated superhero series that revolves around 17-year-old Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun), who’s just like every other guy his age — except his father is the most powerful superhero
Finally, a bit of good news out of this tedious year! It appears that the sequel to Fede Alvarez‘s Don’t Breathe has not only gone behind cameras but is close to, if not done filming. Stephen Lang, who returns as the “Blind Man”, tells fans on Twitter that he’s personally wrapped in Belgrade. I’m wrapped!
Werewolves are long overdue for a horror resurgence. The movie monster hasn’t gotten nearly as much of the spotlight as vampires, zombies, or witches. Werewolves are a tricky creature to nail on celluloid, between the transformation, body horror, and their victims’ utter evisceration. The Wolf of Snow Hollow brings us one small step toward a werewolf renaissance.
In case you missed it, Sucker Punch’s Ghost of Tsushima will be receiving a free update (entitled Legends) in the form of a multiplayer co-op mode. In fact, it’s arriving next week on October 16, and Sony has taken the occasion to release a new trailer touting the update. Sucker Punch revealed more about the
Do you like scary movies? How about scary elections? In an effort to prepare us for the “impeding terror” of both the election and Halloween, Samantha Bee and the “Full Frontal” correspondents revisit classic horror films for a series of short spoof videos that have been airing this Halloween season. Bee and the team become
Warner Bros/DC’s The Batman had been set for release on October 1st, 2021, but we’ve learned tonight that the hotly anticipated film has now been bumped clear into 2022. From director Matt Reeves, The Batman will now release March 4, 2022. The film has faced both production stoppages and release date delays due to the ongoing