Horror

Paramount Pictures has picked up the rights to Jonathan Behr‘s short film, The Follower, and the accompanying pitch by screenwriter Aaron W. Sala, writes THR. Behr’s short film tells the story of a young babysitter who is being mysteriously followed through her various devices. Part of the creepy story is told via the devices. The

Despite Invader Studios not having announced a console release date in North America or Europe for their Resident Evil 2 tribute in Daymare: 1998, Japan players will be able to snag digital and physical copies of the game in the new year. A listing on Rakuten has the game being released on February 20, 2020

When Stephen King first released the novel to Doctor Sleep, a lot of folks were wondering how he could continue on the story of Danny Torrence. When people read it they found out just how.  Now with the Mike Flanagan helmed film in theaters, one would expect it to have a really good showing financially.

Back in 1961, writer Michael Moorcock introduced Elric of Melniboné in the novella The Dreaming City, and he would go on to become the main protagonist in the multi-story epic collectively known as The Elric Saga. Reported by Deadline today, the fantasy-horror series has been acquired by New Republic Pictures’ Brian Oliver and producer Bradley

We’ve talked about Sega’s Alien Isolation several times this past month. And why not? The game just hit its five-year anniversary, it’s still scary as hell to play, and the modding community is still strong. In fact, one modder, Matt Filer, has just created a mod that cranks the game’s difficulty up that, while it

Everything in life has rules. Some of them may seem stupid and are made to be broken, but even then some of them are made to keep us all safe. For instance, Don’t Text and Drive, Always Wear Your Seatbelt, Avoid Sunlight, Don’t Get Them Wet and Don’t Feed Them After Midnight. Well those last

While Valve still can’t quite count to three, they will be returning to the Half-Life series in the form of their first VR game! Half-Life: Alyx will be revealed at 10 am PT/1 pm ET on November 21. On top of that, according to a leaked transcript from a new interview, Alyx will be shown

Syfy announced during the third season last year that they were pulling the plug on the TV series “The Expanse,“ but it didn’t take long for Amazon to swoop in for the save. On December 13th, the fourth season of the revived series will begin streaming on Amazon Prime, and today the official trailer for the

When it comes to horror games, one that is heralded overall as one of the best games ever is THE LAST OF US. And since they pushed back the released date to May of 2020 to fine-tune things, you have to wait a little while longer to get behind the controller and enter another adventure. 

One could say that Left 4 Dead 2 is much like DOOM 2. Both games came out around a year after the first game, but more importantly, the games also took their predecessors, changed nothing of the base game, and threw in a few new things. And much like DOOM 2, L4D2 was criticized for

It was recently announced that The Last of Us Part II has been delayed so that it can be polished to a satisfactory ‘’Naughty Dog quality’’.  With a new release date of May 2020, this means that we are going to have to be a little patient before we can experience the continuation of Joel

While plot information is still unavailable in regards to the 5th installment of The Purge franchise, there is some new information to pass on to you. The film will be directed by Everardo Gout and written by Purge creator James DeMonaco who also wrote and directed the first three installments.  And as mentioned before there

Although the North American console port of Terminator: Resistance is slated for release in December, European players can pick it up right now on the Xbox One and PS4. Should they choose to purchase a physical copy of Reef Entertainment’s latest, then they will be treated to a free bonus: in the form of an

Despite being released all the way back in January, it would seem that Capcom’s outstanding Resident Evil 2 upgrade has left an enduring impression on gamers. How else would you explain its runaway success at this year’s Golden Joystick awards, where it not only picked up the prize for ‘’Best Audio’’, but also for ‘’Ultimate

It’s just one of those days when the news starts to overlap and today we seem to be focusing on the horror work of Patrick Wilson. Earlier this week, Lin Shaye was asked about INSIDIOUS 5 that is still in the works and said that it will “probably” be released in the next year or

It’s been five years since the release of feature film sequel Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, and Deadline reports today that Frank Miller‘s world is next headed to the small screen! Legendary Television, the site notes, has closed an agreement with Miller to turn Sin City into a television series. A deal with Robert

After two seasons that aired between September 2015 and December 2016, the Ryan Murphy-created slasher-comedy series “Scream Queens” was axed by Fox back in 2017. And while there was once a time when a show’s cancellation meant that it was never coming back, that isn’t exactly the case anymore. So what are the chances “Scream Queens” gets

If you were a child at any point there is a good chance that you read a Goosebumps book penned by the author of childhood nightmares, R. L. Stine.  After two Goosebumps films, they are not only adapting Stine’s Fear Street books into a movie trilogy, but Variety has reported that HBO Max is working

There was a video game news story from 2016 that always stuck with me about exploring an abandoned multiplayer game. YouTuber Vinesauce live-streamed himself going to Active Worlds, a virtual online world from the 90s that had long since gone dormant, and he had an experience straight out of a creepypasta. It was an eerie

It seems that Resident Evil 2 might not be the only one to be in line for more DLC. After it was made known that Capcom added a hidden achievement in the latest update to their successful remake of the survival horror classic, Devil May Cry 5 has also received a similar update. According to

In the pantheon of horror television, no show delivers on the unsettling and unnerving than Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone.  To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the seminal show, Fathom Events is putting on a one night only event entitled “The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration” that will showcase  6 digitally restored episodes of

Tom Holland is playing Nathan Drake in Bumblebee director Travis Knight‘s adaptation of the video game Uncharted, and Variety reports tonight that Mark Wahlberg is now in final talks to join the cast. He’ll be playing “Victor “Sully” Sullivan, an American treasure hunter, fortune seeker and businessman, as well as a friend, mentor and father

We’ve learned the sad news today (via THR) that actress Virginia Leith, best known to horror fans as the star of The Brain That Wouldn’t Die, has passed away at the age of 94. The actress played Jan Compton in the 1962 horror film, a woman decapitated in a car accident. A mad doctor takes

Can fluff float?  Currently, we don’t know one way or another, but if it’s up to Stephen King, we will certainly find out.  In a recent tweet, the master of horror commented on how the antagonist of his incredibly popular novel IT, Pennywise should come up from the sewer and venture to the popular HBO

Jeffrey Dean Morgan (“The Walking Dead”) will continue hanging around in the horror genre with Screen Gems’ upcoming Shrine, an adaptation of the same-titled novel penned by James Herbert, and we’ve learned via Deadline tonight that Jordana Brewster (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, “Lethal Weapon”) has joined the cast as well. Evan Spiliotopoulos is on board to

Well folks, today is the day. The most hotly anticipated streaming service has arrived with the launch of Disney+, which is loaded up with Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars content both new and wholly original for the service. While most subscribers have been streaming “The Mandalorian” all morning, it’s all that spooky Disney content

Here at Horror Freak News, we reported on the release that the Sony/Blumhouse reimagining of the 70s/80s television classic FANTASY ISLAND had released their official first poster. Since then, the trailer that had previously only been in theaters has now made its way to the internet for all to enjoy.  On the TV show, sometimes

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

Laced Records are at it again. Last year, the UK-based company released vinyl editions of the REmake and Resident Evil 2 soundtracks. And now, they’re set to release vinyl editions of the Resident Evil CODE: Veronica X and Resident Evil 0 soundtracks. The sets, which are available for pre-order, will features deluxe double LPs of

If the announcement of DIABLO IV wasn’t enough, Blizzard has released some more footage of some particular classes that are returning in the fourth installment.  The footage touches on the Druid and Sorceress. It shows them in action and goes over their skill and talent trees as well as an overview of the abilities of