Horror

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

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