Horror

There’s an absurdist streak running through Deerskin, the French dark comedy about a man who slowly turns homicidal under the influence of a new – you guessed it – deerskin jacket. Quentin Dupieux (Rubber)’s new film strikes a delicate tone, mashing together the portrait of a man in a mid-life crisis spiral, a gentle critique

In the pre-screening Q&A at the world premiere of writer/director Jeff Barnaby’s Blood Quantum, the film’s producers mention that it took 12 years to raise the funds to make the film. It’s hard to believe that it would take financiers so long to see the appeal – and importance – of an Indigenous zombie film.

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

Fascinating, yet flawed Italian survival horror game Remothered: Tormented Fathers had already been lined up for a release on the Nintendo Switch and suffered delays, and now we know the new date for its launch is…well, right now! It’s been a busy old week for the Switch, with the latest Nintendo Direct giving us surprises

The very subject matter of Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days is enough to cement itself as a sordid, macabre escapade, with two hard-to-like dudes with a raging woody for cash and corpses face-shooting their way through modern-day Shanghai. Though it’s in the stylistically unique fashion in which the whole thing is presented, that Io

In amongst the flurry of title announcements yesterday afternoon with Nintendo Direct, Dontnod Entertainment finally announced that their 2018 WWI-era vampire game, Vampyr, will launch on the Nintendo Switch on October 29. The port, which was announced last year, never had a specific release date until now. No details on whether this will be a

UPDATE: No sooner did we publish this, but Nintendo announced that Devil May Cry 2 will be available on the Switch September 19th! Also, 3909’s Return of the Obra Dinn, which first launched for PC in October 2018, is coming to Switch this fall. Nintendo dropped several bombs for genre fans during this edition of

The story you know hides a dark secret. Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House) and Orion Pictures put a new spin on the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale with Gretel & Hansel, which stars IT and IT: Chapter Two star Sophia Lillis as Gretel. The film won’t be released until early

Warning: Light spoilers ahead. To those who love film, it comes as no surprise that Hollywood so often tries to distance itself from real-life tragedy. Horror, in particular, seems to feel the effects of this sort of sudden conservatism. One such example is the changing of iconic villain Freddy Krueger from child molester to “child

Capcom will be adding a new monster in the first free update to Monster Hunter World: Iceborne. During a livestream event, Capcom revealed for October that they will be adding Rajang, a Fanged Beast monster first introduced in Monster Hunter 2. In addition, Capcom revealed a trailer specifically for Rajang. Monster Hunter World: Iceborne will

Based on the Hit Film is a series of articles looking at the video game spin-offs and adaptations of popular horror movies. In 2016, fans of The Blair Witch Project were given the chance to return to the Black Hills Forest outside of the sleepy town of Burkittsville. Excitement and anticipation were at a high

Gearbox’s Borderlands 3 launches in only twelve days, but get ready for more, as the devs have announced that Borderlands 2 VR, which was originally launched for PlayStation VR last December, will hit PC later this Fall. Developed by Gearbox Software, Borderlands 2 VR brings the iconic world of Pandora to life like never before.

Publisher Private Division and developer Obsidian Entertainment have released a new trailer for the upcoming RPG The Outer Worlds. Dubbed “Come to Halcyon”, the trailer provides a closer look at life in the Halcyon colony, going from the bustling communities on Terra 2, to the dangerous frontiers on Monarch. Obviously done in tongue-in-cheek fashion, the

Not only is original Halloween character Tommy Doyle (this time being played by Anthony Michael Hall) coming back for next year’s Halloween Kills, but so too is Lindsay Wallace, the character Annie Brackett babysat in the original film. The cherry on top? As reported by @HalloweenMovies, original Halloween actress Kyle Richards will be reprising the

Spiral into the dark. Toonami has announced tonight the newest anime series created in partnership with Production IG USA: Uzumaki, a four episode mini-series based on the supernatural horror manga by legendary author Junji Ito, will premiere on Toonami in 2020! Directed by Hiroshi Nagahama, the series will feature music by Colin Stetson (Hereditary). Written

Shaun of the Dead and Baby Driver director Edgar Wright‘s next film will be a psychological horror movie, set in London and with Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch, Glass) in the leading role. Focus Features will release Last Night in Soho on September 25, 2020. Wright has taken to Twitter tonight to announce that “main unit photography” on the film is now complete, and he’s

Control is one of the summer’s biggest (and best) games. While the game certainly has performance issues, The Bold and the Beautiful actress Courtney Hope’s turn as heroine, Jesse Faden, isn’t one of them. Earlier this week, we had a chance to chat with Hope about her favorite horror films, what gamers have in common

Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) learned of the impending Judgment Day in James Cameron‘s sci-fi slasher Terminator, which was revealed in the film’s sequel to take place on August 29th, 1997. In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which took place in 1995, Sarah and her son John believe they have stopped the apocalypse by destroying recovered technology

Another day, another new poster for “American Horror Story: 1984“! Full disclosure, we internally promised not to annoy you guys by posting every single piece of promotional material from “AHS: 1984” – FX tends to go pretty overboard with this stuff – but we’ve been digging these posters so much that we just can’t help

Man of Medan isn’t officially out until tomorrow (it’s quite good), but its teaser for the next installment in Supermassive Games’ The Dark Pictures Anthology has found its way into the wild, and it’s good news if you miss getting spooked in the woods like you could in Until Dawn. The Dark Pictures: Little Hope

Films like Pet Sematary and Hostel have memorably exploited the horror of the sliced Achilles tendon, which always tends to make for a downright painful-to-watch moment in any movie. The latest poster for FX’s slasher-inspired “American Horror Story: 1984” preys upon that fear, with masked maniac “Mr. Jingles” armed and ready to slice from underneath

In the wake of its recent premiere at UK Frightfest, the animated horror film To Your Last Death is now headed to the Big Apple Film Festival, and The Wrap scored the trailer today. Directed by Jason Axinn, the film centers on Miriam DeKalb, who survives a harrowing night of terror — but her family

Several years before he took up residence in Derry, Andy Muschietti made his feature debut with the excellent Mama, an expansion of a scary short film that had caught the attention of Guillermo del Toro. As executive producer, del Toro was instrumental in making the 2013 movie happen, so you could say that it was del

Spawn will be included as a playable fighter in the Kombat Pack for Mortal Kombat 11, and we’ve learned tonight that Keith David (The Thing, They Live) will be voicing the character! David, of course, voiced Al Simmons/Spawn in HBO’s “Spawn: The Animated Series.” The Kombat Pack includes: 6 new add-on playable characters including Shang

Though David Cronenberg has long left horror behind, he’ll forever be intertwined with the genre for the indelible mark he left on body horror. One of his earliest efforts was 1977’s Rabid, a film that centered around a woman who develops an insatiable thirst for blood after an experimental plastic surgery, which in turn causes

Unfold Games’ psychological side-scroller DARQ will have multiple free DLCs for release before the end of the year. The dev made the announcement via Steam after earlier explaining their refusal to make the game an Epic Games Store exclusive. The DLCs, which are currently at the early concept stages, will add new levels to the

Gamescom 2029 is over, but developer One More Level has left attendees with another treat: Gameplay footage for their recently-announced cyberpunk game, Ghostrunner. As was alluded to when the game was announced, the gameplay footage demonstrates the speed at which you’ll be moving as you navigate the environment, as well as take out enemies that

If there’s one thing we’ve learned it’s that every horror movie, no matter what it’s about, can lead to a sequel if it’s popular enough. And given the critical acclaim getting heaped on Ready or Not (read my review), starring Samara Weaving as a woman who marries into a rich family, only for her in-laws to hunt her

Well before the MCU and DCU took over cinema, superheroes were finding their way into video games. From X-Men to Superman and more, there have been a variety of games that have provided joy for players who love comic books. Some of these games are absolute gems, providing excellent gameplay that makes you feel immersed

So I just saw Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark recently and surprisingly, the story of the film wasn’t what I remembered the most coming out of it. When the opening weekend reared its head, all I had on my mind was to just have some fun with a movie or two that I’d