Horror

While we wait for DOOM Eternal‘s upcoming first DLC, Bethesda has given fans a treat with the recent update to the first-person shooter. New single-player content has been added, along with several tweaks to single- and multiplayer. First off are the empowered demons. Now, when a demon kills you, it’s powered up and transported to

For you dark fantasy enthusiasts, Devolver Digital and Ronimo Games have announced a new multiplayer dungeon crawler in the form of Blightbound. The game will launch for PC via Steam Early Access in 2020, and has a shiny new teaser trailer to go with the announcement. The story for Blightbound has a band of legendary

There’s been a recent trend in Korea of blending period dramas with horror, with zombie thriller Rampant and Netflix’s zombie series Kingdom taking advantage of the visuals of the Joseon era to make for a different horror experience. So too does the creature feature Monstrum. The film is introduced as “based on a true story,”

Adventure games seem to have risen from the dead in recent years, and why not? For those who love the idea of being immersed in the lore and characters of the game’s world, there’s plenty to choose from. One such game (especially if you’re looking into cyberpunk) is Blood Music and Theta Division’s VirtuaVerse, which

Recent releases like Monstrum and The Wretched continue to prove one thing: horror fans can’t get enough of monsters. Of all the branching sub-genres of horror, one of the cornerstones belongs to the creature feature. At its most ubiquitous of definitions, the creature feature is simply a horror movie in which a monster plays a prominent role; the

During the creation process of the original Scooby-Doo show (whose work-in-progress name was Mysteries Five) in the late 1960s, the creative team at Hanna-Barbera experienced rejection after rejection by the powers that be at CBS. Originally pitched as a show in the same vein as The Archie Show, Hanna-Barbera aimed at presenting the familiar cast

The CW‘s fall schedule was announced today and on that schedule is a brand new second season of “Two Sentence Horror Stories,” the half-hour anthology horror series that debuted on the network last year. The series will return on Wednesday nights in Quarter 4, 2020. “Two Sentence Horror Stories” began its life as a five-episode

Florence Pugh, Shia LaBeouf and Chris Pine were recently set to star in New Line Cinema and director Olivia Wilde‘s (Booksmart) psychological thriller Don’t Worry Darling, and Deadline reports today that Dakota Johnson (Suspiria) has also joined the cast. Here’s the logline we were recently provided with: A psychological thriller about a 1950s housewife whose reality begins to

With The Last of Us Part II‘s release date creeping closer, and with the anticipation for the follow-up to one of the greatest games of the past generation at an all-time high, Naughty Dog have begun a four-part documentary series called “Inside The Last of Us Part II“. The first part of the series is

When we last left Jordan Vogt-Roberts, he had just completed his draft of his script for the adaptation of Metal Gear Solid. And while there’s nothing new on that front, Vogt-Roberts did manage to give us a treat with a little help from David Hayter, Paul Eiding and Christopher Randolph. Much like what we got

From director Jong-ho Huh comes South Korean creature feature Monstrum, a Shudder Original movie that’s headed to the streaming service this Thursday, May 14th. Monstrum won the Audience Award at the Sitges International Film Festival back in 2018, and our own Rafael Motamayor raved in his review out of Sitges that it’s a “highly entertaining creature

Tired of Coronavirus content? Danny!, Tim, and Stavros bring you a conversation about a different kind of virus: RABIES. This week, the Double Murder crew debates the original (1977) and remake (2019) of the film Rabid. If you like your podcast content to feature dialogue around armpit vaginas, adult movies, flying moose, professional wrestler CM Punk,

There are actually a lot more Predator games than most people seem to realize. It’s not that surprising once you consider that the titular creature has become an iconic character rivaling the likes of the Universal Monsters, but folks tend to only remember its crossovers with the Alien franchise when it comes to gaming. Nevertheless,

After being hinted at in one of the more unpleasant ways, id Software has released a couple of screenshots for DOOM Eternal‘s upcoming DLC campaign, which is included with the $29.99 “Year One Pass.” No release date has been announced for the as-yet-unnamed DLC. They aren’t much, but do look cool. According to the Year

Twitter user Dusk Golem has teased more juicy tidbits regarding the as-yet-unannounced Resident Evil 8. Going along with their previous rumours (and the one regarding PSVR support), they also managed to squeeze in something to get the Silent Hill crowd buzzing again after Konami squashed fans’ hopes, and Suehiro Maruo reignited them. After tweeting that

One of horror’s most popular and enduring franchises began as a Halloween copycat. No, really. Producer/Director Sean S. Cunningham sought to capture the same success of Halloween by borrowing its formula and applying it to a film title he thought audiences wouldn’t be able to resist. To drum up interest and test the waters for any similarly

After directing Stephen King tales Gerald’s Game and Doctor Sleep, THR is reporting today that Mike Flanagan is now involved in a feature film adaptation of King’s Revival. Flanagan will write and produce for Warner Bros., “with an option to direct.” Trevor Macy (Doctor Sleep) will also produce. “The novel focused on the relationship between a

A24’s highly anticipated The Green Knight was set to rise on May 29th, but has finally lost the battle to the ongoing pandemic. There is no new date as of this writing. “From visionary filmmaker David Lowery comes a fresh and bold spin on a classic tale from the knights of the round table,” A24 explained of

Next week’s episode of hilarious FX series “What We Do in the Shadows” will feature a guest appearance from Mark Hamill, who most recently returned to the horror genre in last year’s Child’s Play remake. Fresh off voicing the new version of Chucky, Hamill will be playing an ancient vampire in the horror-comedy series. His

“Nobody trusts anybody now and we’re all very tired.” Creative people have a whole lot more free time on their hands right now than they normally do and the rest of us are benefiting from that. Case in point, Michael Dougherty (Trick ‘r Treat, Krampus, Godzilla: King of the Monsters) and editor Evan Gorski have

Announced today, UCP, a division of NBCUniversal Content Studios, and Nick Antosca (“The Act,” “Channel Zero”) have won the rights to Jan Broberg’s stranger-than-fiction story, with plans to turn the real-life tale into a limited series. The story had recently been told in Netflix’s shocking documentary Abducted in Plain Sight. The untitled Jan Broberg project

Actor David H. Thornton is back as Art the Clown in Damien Leone‘s hotly-anticipated Terrifier 2, and the film’s official Facebook page is promising a trailer soon. For now, they’ve shared a bloody new shot of Art tonight – our very first look at the killer clown in the upcoming sequel. “Here he is in

While entertainment productions here in America are still on hold for the foreseeable future, there are some filmmakers around the globe who are shooting during the pandemic. And one of those productions, believe it or not, is a never-announced new take on Stephen King‘s Children of the Corn. Relatively under the radar, producer Lucas Foster

Christopher Pike‘s 1994 novel The Midnight Club is becoming a Netflix series, Variety reports tonight, with Mike Flanagan (“Haunting of Hill House,” Doctor Sleep) as co-creator! Flanagan will adapt the book alongside Leah Fong (“Once Upon a Time”), and Flanagan will also executive produce via Intrepid Pictures along with Intrepid’s Trevor Macy. Fong will executive

What if you were forced to quarantine… in a haunted house? James Wan’s The Conjuring was of course based on a real case investigated by the real-life Ed and Lorraine Warren, documenting the nightmare endured by the Perron family at their Rhode Island farmhouse back in 1971. The house is said to be haunted by the spirit

The minds behind 10 Cloverfield Lane, Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken, will be penning an adaptation of Elizabeth Bear‘s short sci-fi story Covenant, Deadline is reporting today. Spyglass Entertainment acquired the story, and Eli Roth is on board to produce. In Bear’s short story, “A former serial killer — the beneficiary of “rightminding”, a process that cures psychopathy by

It’s by now common knowledge among horror fans that the mask Michael Myers wears in the original Halloween is actually a Captain Kirk mask that was converted for the production, meaning that yes, Michael Myers is essentially wearing William Shatner’s face. It was Tommy Lee Wallace who converted the mask back in the 1970s, and

While we’re still waiting on American McGee’s third entry in his Alice series, for those of you 3D artists out there, he’s got a little contest this month that just so happens to involve Alice. Teaming up with Manticore Games and Core, the Through The Looking Glass Art Contest is an Alice in Wonderland-themed environment

We’ve said it many times before, but the DOOM series has always had awesome music. And while Awe Interactive’s upcoming Bullets Per Minute doesn’t appear to share the same driving metal soundtrack as DOOM, there’s plenty of monsters and demons for you to mow down. If you can find the rhythm, that is. In Bullets

Heartbreaking news this weekend as the Lafia family has announced the passing of John J. Lafia, a co-writer on the first Child’s Play and director of its sequel, which many consider the best in the franchise. “It is with great sadness we announce that loving father, film and television writer, director, producer and musician John