Late November of 2014, a YouTube video titled “Wrinkles the Clown Caught on CCTV” by user HvUseen Wrinkles went viral, and put South Florida parents on high alert. The video, grainy home security footage, showed a sleeping girl oblivious to the creepy clown emerging from underneath her bed. The clown tucked her in before ominously
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Butcher Block is a weekly series celebrating horror’s most extreme films and the minds behind them. Dedicated to graphic gore and splatter, each week will explore the dark, the disturbed, and the depraved in horror, and the blood and guts involved. For the films that use special effects of gore as an art form, and the fans
WARNING: The following review contains spoilers. After such a long wait, I was super excited to finally be able to screen 3 From Hell as part of a Fathom Events three-night only theatrical release. The movie was long overdue. Rob Zombie created quite a name for himself when he made his directorial debut of House
The documentary Scream, Queen! My Nightmare On Elm Street will be premiering at Fantastic Fest this weekend, telling the story of Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge star Mark Patton. The doc invites fans “not only to delight in the batshit uniqueness of NOES2, but also asks them to reckon with what it means
Saber Interactive and Focus Home Interactive’s World War Z keeps on trucking with the announcement of its Season 2 Content Roadmap. As with the previous season, players will have a lot of free content to feast upon, as well as new paid DLC. In update 4, World War Z will add new PvE missions in
Many of you may have noticed that over the past few months, Horror Freak News has been on a small hiatus. That is all about to change. If you have previously been enjoying the content on Horror Freak News, you can rest assured that we are going to continue to provide you with the best
“It was one of the most creatively satisfying experiences of my life.” Five years ago, Kevin Smith ventured into the body-horror genre with Tusk, a wacky (and kinda wonderful) film wherein the late Michael Parks turns Justin Long into…well, a walrus. Love it or hate it, Tusk was the film that reignited Smith’s passion for
After a 3-night run in theaters, Rob Zombie’s diabolical trio returns to home video when 3 From Hell arrives on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray and Digital), Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital), DVD, Digital, and On Demand October 15 from Lionsgate. Take home 3 From Hell and immerse yourself in its blood-soaked world with
Man’s best friend…until the end. A very Good Boy becomes a Good Guy doll in this week’s most adorable viral video, brought to our attention tonight by the Twitter account @FavoriteHorror. Yes, there really does exist a Chucky costume that’s made for dogs – more on that in a second – and the short but
While Ari Aster‘s extended Director’s Cut of Midsommar was recently released in select theaters, the bummer is that it’s not actually scheduled to receive a psychical release here in the States. Aster’s follow-up to Hereditary is arriving on Digital and On Demand on September 24, and on Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital) and
This year marks the 15th anniversary of Fantastic Fest, the largest genre film festival in the United States. Founded in 2005 by Tim League, Paul Alvarado-Dykstra, Tim McCanlies and Harry Knowles (the latter of whom is no longer associated with the festival), Fantastic Fest focuses on genre films such as horror, science fiction, fantasy, action,
Show of hands – who believes Silence of the Lambs is a horror film? Okay, keep ‘em up if you think the same about Seven. Alright then, how about George Sluizer’s The Vanishing (either version)? Think that’s a horror film? Sure, all three films are decidedly thrillers. But given the nature of their villains and
If there’s one thing we’ve all learned about horror movie villains it’s that they can never truly die, but there was still something about the finale to Rob Zombie‘s The Devil’s Rejects that felt quite different from the norm. Just a couple years after he created a trio of iconic characters with Otis, Baby and
Now in its 23rd consecutive year, AMC’s annual horror marathon FearFest is bringing the frights in the lead up to Halloween with 19 days of genre programming this year. This year’s event features 104 films, including classic horror franchises like Alien, Halloween, Friday the 13th, Final Destination, The Omen, Leprechaun and more. FearFest 2019 begins on Sunday, October 13 at 10:00am ET. AMC noted
So, remember that fan remake of Dino Crisis? The one that showed off a couple of the environments, but no dinos? Team Arklay have finally released gameplay footage of their efforts that remedies that. The results are admittedly a little rough, and the T-Rex roar is shamelessly lifted from Jurassic Park (hey, why not?), but
The next movie being directed by Guillermo del Toro will be Nightmare Alley, an adaptation of the novel by William Lindsay Gresham. Published in 1946, the novel spawned its first feature film just one year later starring Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell, and this new take on the material for Fox Searchlight has been written by del Toro
With horror industry heavy hitters already in place from the 1970s, the 1980s built upon that with the rise of brilliant minds in makeup and effects artists, as well as advances in technology. Artists like Rick Baker, Rob Bottin, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr., Tom Savini, Stan Winston, and countless others delivered groundbreaking, mind-blowing practical
The dark side of Disney will be explored once more in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil on October 18, and today the IMAX and RealD 3D posters for the film have been unleashed. They’re both quite beautiful, and you can check them out below. Angelina Jolie is back as the sinister Maleficent, with Elle Fanning returning as Aurora. Michelle
“If we win this, we’re free.” Fourteeen years after it began, “Supernatural” is coming to an end with its fifteenth and final season this October, and The CW has shared the trailer and poster art with us tonight. Old foes are back from hell in Season 15, and it looks like the Winchester brothers (Jared
What if an app could tell you…when you’re going to die? A seemingly inescapable fate awaits a group of youths who download a new app and learn precisely when they’re going to die in writer/director Justin Dec‘s new horror film Countdown, which STXfilms will be releasing on October 25. Sounds a bit like Final Destination,
Announced today, on the eve of Friday the 13th, Waxwork Records is bringing the soundtrack to Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives to vinyl for the very first time! The release of Harry Manfredini’s soundtrack includes killer new art by “Ghoulish” Gary Pullin, deluxe packaging, 180 gram vinyl, and two different vinyl variants to
‘Wealth is finite’ seems to be a trend at TIFF this year, with movies like Parasite and even Knives Out having characters that, in order to achieve financial security, see themselves forced to take someone down from the metaphorical socioeconomic ladder. Galder Gaztelu-Irrutia’s The Platform takes that concept and makes it literal, in a grotesque,
Horror and science fiction have always been a part of the television canvas, and constant attempts have been made over the years to produce classic entertainment. Some have fallen by the wayside, while others became mainstream phenomena. With “TV Terrors,” we take a look back at the many genre efforts from the 80’s, 90’s, and
When you think of the great Universal horror icons, who springs to mind? Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, and the Wolf Man, to be sure. Probably the Invisible Man and the Creature from the Black Lagoon, too. Maybe even the Phantom of the Opera. But what about Abbott and Costello? Sure, the gruff straight man Bud Abbott
The release of Home Sweet Home: Episode 2 is now on the horizon and based on what we’ve seen so far, that’s a prospect worth getting excited about. It’s obvious that a lot of love and care has been poured into this one and that the developers. YGGdrazil, are sincere about their desire to improve
Casting is well underway on James Wan‘s new horror film for New Line, which has Maddie Hasson, Annabelle Wallis, Jake Abel and George Young attached to star. Plot details, at this time, are still under wraps. All we know is that it’s an original movie, not part of any existing property, and that Wan is aiming
The Collins family will return to television in “Dark Shadows: Reincarnation,” Deadline reports tonight, a brand new sequel series from The CW and Warner Bros Television. The pilot for the hour-long gothic horror drama will be written by Mark B. Perry (Revenge). “The re-imagined show will be a modern-day continuation of the strange, terrifying, and
Yeah, it’s another story about the “what could have been” P.T.. Sorry to pull at those heartstrings. Despite not being available to download for a number of years now (and the fact that Kojima gave the metaphorical middle finger to Konami years ago), we’re still finding secrets in that demo. Although, the way they were
We previewed Big Robot Ltd’s procedurally-driven survival thriller game The Light Keeps Us Safe last October while it was still in Early Access. Flash forward almost a year, and the game is now out of Early Access on Steam with a host of improvements and fixes. The biggest new feature of the 1.0 build is
In the new film by Richard Stanley (Hardware and, more notoriously, 1996’s The Island of Dr. Moreau), a meteorite falls out of the sky and onto the Gardner property. It happens relatively early in the film, shortly after the family – amateur gardener/whiskey connoisseur father Nathan (Nicolas Cage), workaholic mother Theresa (Joely Richardson), pot-smoking son