Horror

Carter Smith, the director of 2008 horror film The Ruins, makes his return to the genre this month with the New Year’s-themed Midnight Kiss, part of Hulu’s “Into the Dark” anthology. In the film, “A group of longtime gay best friends and their resident fruit fly head to a beautiful desert home to celebrate New

When Penny Dreadful ended its run rather abruptly, fans were left clamoring for more.  Well you’ll have to wait just a little bit longer as the sequel – spiritually speaking – is coming in 2020 and John Logan the creator, writer and executive producer of the original series will be back.  Penny Dreadful: City of

Carrion casts players as an oozing red spaghetti beast with hatred in its heart, or in whatever is at the center of all those meaty tentacles. Phobia Game Studio offered a demo of their “reverse horror game” as part of The Game Festival, an interactive Game Awards tie-in event that gave players short looks at

John Hughes was a prolific filmmaker with a reputation for having his fingers on the pulse of teen culture. He was a defining voice of youth in the ‘80s and articulated the trials and tribulations of adolescence in a way that left an indelible mark on cinema with many beloved films. His blend of emotional

Horror in any form isn’t usually acknowledged by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Only a hand full of films that live in the genre have gotten any kind of notoriety from them. From Silence of the Lambs to Get Out and The Shape of Water, more of them are being given the

*Keep up with our ongoing end of the year coverage here* In the digital age, we’re inundated with content constantly. Between endless streaming services and VOD, there’s a wealth of horror available at our fingertips at all times. So much so that it’s tough to keep up. It doesn’t help that the marketing for VOD,

The first teaser for John Krasinski‘s A Quiet Place: Part II is now playing exclusively in theaters, attached to Black Christmas, but the first image has arrived today for all to see. Courtesy of Games Radar, this first look at next year’s sequel highlights the return of Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe, reprising

The rage that is Stephen King adaptations continues to roll on down the tracks. This time it’s an adaptation of Stephen King’s book Firestarter that was already adapted back in 1984 by Mark L. Lester with Drew Barrymore in the lead role of Charlie, a hen King, child who has the ability to set fires

There was one point in time where Tim Burton was set to adapt Richard Brautigan’s 1974 novel The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western, and the late Hal Ashby had been attached to direct an adaptation before him. Alas, neither project came to fruition, with New Regency much more recently acquiring the rights to the novel

Jason Blum announced a couple years ago that Blumhouse and Akiva Goldsman (The Dark Tower) were developing a new adaptation of Stephen King’s Firestarter, which was originally adapted in 1984. Goldsman was said to be writing the screenplay for the Blumhouse/Universal film with Scott Teems (Halloween Kills), and the project now has a director. Collider reports tonight

Most of the time when you hear the name Glenn Danzig, you think of that skull shirt that everyone thinks is cool hanging on the wall at Hot Topic or the song “Mother” but now you have to add the title of filmmaker to his resume. While he has been on tour with his first

Despite walking away empty-handed amongst stacked competition at The Game Awards last Thursday, Obsidian has announced that their sci-fi RPG The Outer Worlds (read our review) that the game will be receiving DLC. In a post on the official Obsidian forums, Social Media Manager Shyla announced that in addition to thanking fans for their support

Fresh from the news that The Wolf Among Us 2 has been resurrected by the equally-resurrected Telltale Games, another Telltale property in the form of Batman: The Telltale Series is getting a re-release and some new DLC. Publisher Athlon Games and developer Telltale Games have announced in a now-deleted press release (someone hit the button

There are those artists in the comic book world who left a lasting impression on us. From each stroke of the pen or paintbrush, you know that something special is being put on the page to make our eyes widen in wonder. That’s what Bernie Wrightson did. Then at the end of the 1970s, the

The massive success of John Carpenter’s Halloween kick-started the Golden Age of Slashers from 1978-1984, and as the first of that era, Halloween essentially created the blueprint for the modern slasher. Laurie Strode became the definitive model of Final Girl behavior. But ranking high among the best Final Girls in horror alongside Laurie is Jess Bradford,

There’s a new Black Christmas in town, and this time it’s a very different film from the original. Even the killer is completely different this time. Instead of a mysterious creep named “Billy,” Sophia Takal’s remake is about sorority sisters who are hunted by a whole cult of homicidal misogynists. It’s a giant change to

There are those artists in the comic book world who left a lasting impression on us. From each stroke of the pen or paintbrush, you know that something special is being put on the page to make our eyes widen in wonder.  That’s what Bernie Wrightson did.  Then at the end of the 1970s, the

As we wait for Glenn Danzig‘s hotly-anticipated Verotika to arrive on VOD platforms sometime next year, the film continues to quietly tour across the country. Those in Philadelphia got the chance to experience the next great so-bad-it’s-good movie when it screened tonight at the Philadelphia Film Society. Danzig was on hand for the screening and dropped two

Back in 1983, Bernie Wrightson illustrated Mary Shelley’s classic tale Frankenstein for Marvel Comics, and the late artist’s original wraparound cover art was put up for auction earlier this week as part of “Comic & Illustration Art: The Property of a Distinguished American Collector” in Los Angeles. According to the press release, the art sold

We all know the story of Hansel and Gretel. Hansel and Gretel are a young brother and sister kidnapped by a cannibalistic witch living in a forest in a house constructed of cake, confectionery, candy, and many more treats. The two children escape with their lives by outwitting her. A German fairy tale recorded by

Fresh from the announcement that Telltale Games has resurrected The Wolf Among Us 2 development, the first game in the series is now available for free for the week on the Epic Games Store! The game will be available for free until December 19th, after which the Epic Games Store will kick off its 2019

It Came From the ‘80s is a series that pays homage to the monstrous, deadly, and often slimy creatures that made the ‘80s such a fantastic decade in horror. A quick look back at horror’s output in the ‘80s puts one recurring argument among fans to rest; horror remakes don’t always suck. There’s a hardy number

Due in theaters this Friday, the second remake of Black Christmas, written by April Wolfe and Sophia Takal and director by Takal drew a lot of notice when it was announced that the film garnered a PG-13 rating instead of the ever sought after R-Rating that horror films seem to covet.  Today, write April Wolfe

Actor Jason Bateman is also a phenomenal director (he won an Emmy for “Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series” with Netflix’s “Ozark”) and is next getting behind the camera for Shut In, the spec script by first time scribe Melanie Toast that New Line acquired in September, Deadline reports. The spec is an edgy thriller in

Originally set for release in March of the same year, Warner Bros. will now release the James Wan-produced Mortal Kombat earlier on January 15, 2021. The ensemble cast includes Ludi Lin as Liu Kang, Hiroyuki Sanada as Scorpion, Chin Han as Shang Tsun, Joe Taslim as Sub-Zero, Jessica McNamee as Sonya Blade, Josh Lawson as Kano, Mehcad Brooks as Jax, Tadanobu Asano as Raiden, stuntwoman Elissa Cadwell as Nitara, and Sisi

Regardless of what seems to be the overall dislike of the Purge franchise of films going forward, the television series that appears on USA on Tuesday Nights is approaching its second season finale and is going to have quite the special guest star. USA announced that Ethan Hawke will be reprising his role as James

Thanks to our friends over at the great website Ghostbusters News for the heads up that a German trailer for Jason Reitman‘s Ghostbusters: Afterlife – or Ghostbusters: Legacy, as it’s being called over in Germany – was uploaded to YouTube this week, and it’s capped off with a sneak peek at a brand new scene

The Purge franchise began with a contained home invasion film back in 2013, which starred Ethan Hawke as the affluent James Sandin, a security system salesmen who didn’t survive his family’s hellish ordeal on Purge Night. Naturally, we never expected that Hawke would ever be able to return to the franchise, but he’s actually coming

Adapting anything written by a member of the King family seems to be the law of the land these days, what with Doctor Sleep getting the critical success it’s had to Joe Hill’s NOS42 hitting smaller screens on AMC Now it seems the folks behind Doctor Strange and Sinister are throwing their hats back into

Up next from Scott Derrickson is the horror-heavy sequel Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness for Marvel, and the Sinister director revealed tonight that he’s making his return to rated “R” horror in the immediate wake of his return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe! “I’m often asked if I’ll ever return to R-rated horror.