Horror

Today, April 1, 2022, marks ELEVEN YEARS since the release of James Wan‘s Insidious, Wan and writer Leigh Whannell‘s third horror collaboration in the wake of Saw and Dead Silence. Much like Saw several years prior, Insidious proved to be a massive hit at the box office, further catapulting Wan’s career and launching a franchise that

Today, April 1, 2022, marks ELEVEN YEARS since the release of James Wan‘s Insidious, Wan and writer Leigh Whannell‘s third horror collaboration in the wake of Saw and Dead Silence. Much like Saw several years prior, Insidious proved to be a massive hit at the box office, further catapulting Wan’s career and launching a franchise that

Goosebumps: Say Cheese and Die! was originally published in November 1992 (Spine #4). The series adaptation later aired on Friday February 9, 1996 (runtime: 22 minutes). Whatever the number of copies of the Goosebumps book series that my elementary school library actually housed was decidedly not enough to meet the demand of its ravenous patrons. Checking

On the way this summer from Black Spot Books and Crystal Lake Publishing, Classic Monsters Unleashed has been unveiled this week, the book headed our way on July 12, 2022. What is Classic Monsters Unleashed, you ask? Featuring 450 monstrous pages and 29 thrilling stories, it’s a brand new collection of horror tales based on

Ah, Ghoulies – the other, other Gremlins knock-off. This label is something of unfair misnomer, as the first Ghoulies film was in production at the same time as Joe Dante’s classic film. This little franchise that could sit on a porcelain throne of cult appreciation alongside other Tiny Terror pictures like Critters and Troll. The

For this installment of Phantom Limbs, we’ll be diving back into the I Know What You Did Last Summer franchise with filmmaker Mike Mendez, the director behind The Convent, The Gravedancers and Big Ass Spider!. As Mendez noted during a recent appearance on the Best Films Never Made podcast, he had pitched to write and

Goosebumps: Say Cheese and Die! was originally published in November 1992 (Spine #4). The series adaptation later aired on Friday February 9, 1996 (runtime: 22 minutes). Whatever the number of copies of the Goosebumps book series that my elementary school library actually housed was decidedly not enough to meet the demand of its ravenous patrons. Checking

Ten years ago, the 2D psychological horror Lone Survivor made its mark on the indie games scene. Often cited as one of the strongest spiritual successors to Silent Hill, the crunchy pixel art and haunting soundscape felt like David Lynch by way of SNES. The story follows an isolated man wearing a surgical mask trying

After becoming Shudder’s biggest movie premiere to date, Bloody Disgusting’s V/H/S/94 is next headed to physical media, with the home video release announced today. RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to the fourth installment of the hit horror anthology franchise V/H/S from Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror,

Ten years ago, the 2D psychological horror Lone Survivor made its mark on the indie games scene. Often cited as one of the strongest spiritual successors to Silent Hill, the crunchy pixel art and haunting soundscape felt like David Lynch by way of SNES. The story follows an isolated man wearing a surgical mask trying

Ti West‘s new slasher movie X was released by A24 in theaters on Thursday, March 17, scaring up $4.4 million in its opening weekend across 2,865 theaters in the United States. In its second weekend of release, X has fallen to the #6 spot on the box office charts, with the current domestic total at

Any time a dev mentions Silent Hill as one of the inspirations for their game, we’re interested. Developer MystiveDev hopes to capitalize on that inspiration with their upcoming psychological Survival Horror game, Mirror Forge, which is set for release on September 29 on PC through Steam, and even has a demo available for download. The

For this entry of Phantom Limbs, we’ll be taking a look at the planned but sadly unproduced second and third seasons of Amazon Prime’s I Know What You Did Last Summer. Though the show’s initial outing tied up its central murder mystery by revealing its killer and their motives, there were still plenty of plot

QCODE‘s hit horror podcast series, The Burned Photo, will return for a second season, it was announced this week. Based on the suspense-filled and popular Reddit thread, The Burned Photo, tells the story of Felicia and Kira, two women, whose lives become intertwined when they discover they are being terrorized by the same generational curse

Developers Saber Interactive have provided us with a new look at the upcoming Evil Dead: The Game this week, giving us our first taste at the game’s single-player missions. Evil Dead: The Game is coming on May 13, 2022, and this latest gameplay footage spotlights how good the game will look with NVIDIA DLSS enhancements. This latest

Filmmaker and horror icon Larry Fessenden has developed an extensive career creating and supporting independent horror. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is celebrating with a retrospective of Fessenden and Glass Eye Pix, the New York independent production shingle headed by the genre auteur. Running March 30 through April 19, the retrospective will run 26 feature films and

Across five films, the Final Destination franchise treated us to some of the most memorable moments of brutality in horror history, from the opening highway disaster in Final Destination 2 to the gruesome destruction of a gymnast’s body in Final Destination 5 that still lives rent-free inside my brain. The franchise made it clear that

Netflix’s supernatural horror series “Archive 81” debuted in January, where it quickly broke into the streaming service’s Top 10 and became a buzzed-about title. However, despite that attention, Netflix has opted not to move forward with a second season. Executive produced by James Wan, Deadline speculates that the numbers of viewers “did not meet the threshold

Based on the classic short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, movie adaptation The Yellow Wallpaper is set for release this month, and IGN has shared the official trailer today. From Mutiny Pictures, The Yellow Wallpaper movie comes to Digital on March 29. The film is said to be a “chilling and boldly original vision of

Welcome to the Hammer Factory. This month we dissect Lust for a Vampire (1971). While Hammer Studios has been in business since 1934, it was between 1955 and 1979 that it towered as one of the premier sources of edgy, gothic horror. On top of ushering the famous monsters of Universal’s horror heyday back into the

It should come as no surprise whatsoever, but we thought we’d let you know that the official MPA rating for Evil Dead Rise has been handed down, and have no fear, it’s a hard “R”! The new Evil Dead movie from New Line Cinema is rated “R” for… “Strong bloody horror violence and gore, and

We’re living in a golden age for video game adaptations of horror franchises, with recent Friday the 13th, Predator and Alien games paving the way for upcoming games based on The Evil Dead and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. It would seem that all franchises are up for grabs on the video game front at

We pick up a proton pack and throw out a trap to catch a glimpse of IllFonic’s ‘Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed’ in our preview of the new multiplayer experience. In hindsight, it’s actually quite surprising we hadn’t seen an asymmetrical multiplayer Ghostbusters game before now. The format feels right for the license. IllFonic has spent the

Announced last year, Scare Package is getting a sequel with Scare Package II: Rad Chad’s Revenge, and Fangoria has announced the new cast and director lineup today. The upcoming horror anthology sequel will feature returning Scare Package actors Jeremy King, Zoe Graham, and Byron Brown, with newcomers to the franchise including Kelli Maroney (Night of

Add Asobo’s A Plague Tale: Innocence to the list of upcoming video game-to-TV series adaptations. According to French publication Allocine, the adaptation of A Plague Tale will have French director Mathieu Turi (who directed 2017’s Hostile and 2020’s Meander) directing the series, while Merlin Productions and the game’s publisher, Focus Entertainment, will be in charge

Okay, we’re all still waiting on Bloodlines 2. But there are other Vampire: The Masquerade titles in development that are very much on their way, such as Big Bad Wolf Studio’s Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong, which has just had a new gameplay trailer released. The gameplay trailer gives a brief overview of the abilities and

This installment of Phantom Limbs finds us cutting into the intended third and fourth seasons MTV’s Scream: The TV Series. While the first two seasons of the film series-inspired television slasher followed one particular group of characters whose stories were left unresolved when MTV rebooted the series with the unrelated Scream: Resurrection, the initial plan

Celebrating her 40th anniversary this year, Elvira has announced a brand new upcoming comic book as part of her partnership with Dynamite Comics, titled The Death of Elvira! Chatting with Bloody Disgusting’s Boo Crew Podcast this week, Cassandra “Elvira” Peterson teased the upcoming comic, which should be a must-read for all Elvira fans. “I’ve got

23 years ago, Kevin Williamson wrote and directed Teaching Mrs. Tingle, a film that saw a good student (Katie Holmes) hold a vindictive teacher (Helen Mirren) hostage in her own home after she is caught cheating. It was a dark comedy, but due to its proximity to the Columbine High School massacre it was a watered-down

This installment of Phantom Limbs finds us cutting into the intended third and fourth seasons MTV’s Scream: The TV Series. While the first two seasons of the film series-inspired television slasher followed one particular group of characters whose stories were left unresolved when MTV rebooted the series with the unrelated Scream: Resurrection, the initial plan