Horror

Beyond Fest announced today its complete slate of 2020 programming comprising of seven nights of double-bill features including three world premieres, one North American Premiere, and two US premieres of unadulterated cinematic excess. Following a sold-out Summer residence with the American Cinematheque at the Mission Tiki Drive-In, Beyond Fest returns to the socially-distanced safety of
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The Toronto International Film Festival delivered a trio of pretty cool new horror films that will be coming our way in 2021. The first big acquisition comes out of the Midnight Madness program and has the honor of allegedly being the “first ever drive-in theater acquisition.” Vertical Entertainment and Redbox Entertainment have just closed a deal
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Sony was obviously busy today with the unveiling of the PlayStation 5 pricing and information, but they also managed to show off more of their lineup (and it wasn’t just Resident Evil Village) ahead of the PS5’s November launch. For starters, Bethesda and developer Arkane Lyon released a new gameplay trailer for Deathloop dubbed “Two
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Time is an illusion. For those who didn’t find what they were looking for with Tenet, Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead‘s (Resolution, Spring, V/H/S: Viral, The Endless) sci-fi thriller Synchronic promises to deliver all kinds of insane mind-fuckery that’s all wrapped up in what one critic called a “Lovecraftian nightmare.” As reported last week, Well Go
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Sure, the entire live-action Jurassic Park franchise is PG-13, but its sequences of dinosaur thrills and kills might be a bit too intense for younger audiences. Enter Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, a DreamWorks animated spinoff set during the events of Jurassic World. The result is a zippy Netflix series that doesn’t skimp on the thrills and dinosaur fun, yet
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Fresh off the Russell Crowe-starring road rage thriller Unhinged, director Derrick Borte has lined up his next project, and Deadline lets us know that it’s another horror-thriller. Borte will next direct Black Forest, which has the following synopsis… “The film will alight on a group of university students backpacking through Germany’s famed Black Forest. Through
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Rape and revenge films, by nature, offer one of the most uncomfortable and extreme subgenres of horror. They tend to follow a distinct formula that plays out in three acts; a female character is subjected to brutal degradation and sexual violence then left for dead; she survives and rehabilitates; then she exacts a harrowing vengeance
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*Spoiler warning for Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill: Origins, Silent Hill: Homecoming, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, and Silent Hill: Downpour* White noise from a dusty television pelts James Sunderland with echoes of a horrific act. Amidst the hissing cacophony of static are muffled screams, formerly tucked away deep in his subconscious. James came to Silent
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From its very first scene, director I-Fan Wang’s debut feature crackles with slapstick energy. The Taiwanese zombie comedy opens on a parliamentary session in complete chaos: men and women attack and bite each other, blood spraying everywhere as bystanders panic in the stands above. Among them is Hsiung (Megan Lai), who recounts a quick bit
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An upcoming horror comic titled Stray Dogs is getting an animated feature courtesy of Paramount Animation and It writer Gary Dauberman, THR is reporting tonight. Mark Perez (Game Night) will write the script, with Dauberman producing. THR notes that the mysterious Stray Dogs, being published by Image Comics next year, is being described as “Silence
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Paris-based Pulsar Content is launching sales on Russian-language serial killer crime thriller The Execution at TIFF, reports Screen Daily. The thriller is inspired by the case of an infamous Soviet-era serial killer who eluded police for a decade. The thriller marks the debut feature of award-winning Russian music video and commercials director Lado Kvataniya, who was
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Adam Sandler and Netflix are throwing a Halloween party this October with Hubie Halloween, a comedy-horror film directed by Little Nicky filmmaker Steven Brill. Hubie Halloween will be unleashed on October 7, with Sandler starring as Hubie Dubois, the “class clown” of Salem, Massachusetts who may be the only one who can save the town from
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Arielle Cimino and Jeff Ryan‘s horror-comedy Mass Hysteria, which was entirely filmed in Salem, Massachusetts, screened at Salem Horror Fest last Halloween season, and now it’s coming home just in time for this year’s Halloween season. The Horror Collective is bringing Mass Hysteria to at-home VOD on October 1st, we’ve learned today. The Horror Collective comments in a press
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Before he became Negan on “The Walking Dead,” Jeffrey Dean Morgan played the role of John Winchester on “Supernatural,“ the father to main characters Sam and Dean. The actor’s run on the show began with the pilot in 2005 and continued through the Season 2 finale in 2007, and it wasn’t until the landmark 300th episode in 2019
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The big home video release for this week is The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection from Universal, a 4K Ultra HD set that includes Psycho, The Birds, Rear Window and Vertigo. It’s available today, September 8th, and it notably includes the original uncut version of horror classic Psycho, which was released on home video for the first time back in 2018
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Not to be outdone by 3D Realms, Nightdive Studios has been busy with several reveals lately. The upcoming remaster of Shadow Man: Remastered received a new teaser trailer, which finally shows off the game in action (as opposed to just screenshots). We can expect the game to hit PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC
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One of the longest-running jokes in video games is getting the original DOOM to run on unconventional things. We’ve had it on printer displays, watches, cash registers, and microwaves, but the most recent port is perhaps the strangest yet. Finding out you have Hellspawn on a pregnancy test would normally be a bit worrying, but
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Bill Skarsgård had been set to star alongside his brother Alexander Skarsgård in Robert Eggers‘ (The Witch, The Lighthouse) new movie The Northman, but those plans have unfortunately changed. Speaking with Collider, the IT star says he was forced to drop out. “It’s been a scheduling nightmare during COVID. It is what it is. It’s
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