Horror

Robert Eggers called Werwulf “the darkest thing I have ever written” when Focus Features brought footage to CinemaCon. Now we have the MPA’s full description of what Eggers has in store for Christmas. Werwulf is rated R for “strong bloody/disturbing violent content, gore, sexual assault, graphic nudity and strong sexual content.” Set in 13th-century England,

Christmas with the family can sometimes feel like a balls-to-the-wall fight for survival, but this is next level. Game Theory Films has unleashed a trailer for the holiday horror film, Unholy Night, bringing Evil Dead-style terror to the holidays this December. In the film, Gino’s traditional family Christmas Eve turns into a bloody battle for

Screenshot Godzilla Minus Zero is the No. 1 movie in America. Takashi Yamazaki’s R-rated, Japanese-language sequel opened to an estimated $31.6 million in North America and has already grossed $63 million worldwide. It’s the biggest debut in GKIDS history, with IMAX screens alone accounting for $12.7 million. That’s more than Godzilla Minus One made across

Clive Barker is giving readers something to listen to when they crack open Library of the Dead. With the Library of the Dead Kickstarter campaign surpassing $1.75 million in funding, backers have unlocked Compositions of the Dead, an original horror soundtrack curated by Barker himself. All Kickstarter backers will receive a digital download at no

We might be checking back into 1408. According to Daniel Richtman on Patreon, John Cusack (Identity) and Samuel L. Jackson (Deep Blue Sea, Snakes on a Plane) are returning for a follow-up to the 2007 Stephen King adaptation, with original director Mikael Håfström (The Rite) also coming back. Update (November 6): Variety adds that Natalia

Freddie Prinze Jr. (pictured above in I Know What You Did Last Summer) can forget closing time and get ready for Killing Time. Deadline reports that the actor is set to star in the home invasion thriller. Also starring are Shelley Hennig, Sasha Pieterse, William Moseley, Michael Evans Behling, and Michael Sirow. Described as a

BREAKING: Horror fans are anxiously awaiting Evil Dead Wrath from director Francis Galluppi. There’s no bad Evil Dead movie (personal opinion), and tons of rumors are already swirling about Galluppi’s prequel. With the hotly anticipated project on the way, the filmmaker has set his sights on a new one…and it’s HUGE. Deadline reports that Galluppi

M67 Katee Sackhoff stars in Relativity Media’s OCULUS. Photo Credit: John Estes ©2013 Lasser Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Jeff Howard, co-writer of Oculus (pictured above) and many other Mike Flanagan projects, is getting his chance to shine with a supernatural TV series dubbed The Invite, based on the haunting novels by Wendy Webb. Deadline

Halloween is over, but Pluto TV hasn’t put the fake blood away yet. The free, ad-supported streamer’s November horror and thriller lineup kicked off November 1 with The Exorcist, The Evil Dead, both versions of Child’s Play, and a deep bench of cult oddities most of us keep meaning to get around to. Pluto’s full

James Pratt plays Dr. Raimi, the power-hungry scientist running genetic experiments on pigs out of a hidden lab, in The 3 Killer Pigs, the retro creature feature that Quiver Distribution released on VOD on October 23 after a limited theatrical run that opened in New York on September 25. Pratt answered our questions over email

Isabelle Huppert spends The Blood Countess as Erzsébet Báthory, undead and loose in present-day Vienna. Director Ulrike Ottinger says she was pushed into cutting 15 to 20 minutes out of the film. “The film originally had a wonderful rhythm, exactly as it was,” she said at the Tokyo International Film Festival, in remarks reported by

Paul Giamatti was set to headline a Hostel series for Peacock. Eli Roth says the streamer has passed on it. “Peacock said no, they’re not going to do it,” he told interviewer Edward Douglas in a conversation that went up on YouTube in August and only began circulating this week. The scripts exist, and Roth

Here comes the Robocalypse. And not the one you might be expecting. THR reports that Imagine Entertainment and Weed Road are developing a Robopocalypse series based on the book by Daniel H. Wilson, with a concept that has Skynet would approve of. Here’s the logline for the novel: “Not far into our future, the dazzling

Asked what she has coming up, Neve Campbell listed two television shows she is developing, one she has already sold, and Scream 8. Pressed on the last one, she offered exactly one detail: “I can never tell you anything about Scream 8. I’ll be in it.” She was speaking to the Associated Press at the

A canceled influencer hides from the internet in rural Wisconsin, and the stranger who finds her there is played by Maria Bakalova. Get Off Your Phone has wrapped, with Chelsea Frei directing, writing and starring. Frei plays Daniela, who retreats to Wisconsin with her boyfriend Jackson to disconnect from the digital world. Jon Rudnitsky plays

This month, we’re not interviewing a celebrity, though depending on how you look at things, we might as well be. Shudder, the ultimate destination for horror fans since its debut in 2016, is perhaps more recognizable among horror fans than any other platform out there. Shudder is where horror feels like home, and for so

There is a version of Obsession that runs 20 minutes longer than the one that made more than $500 million worldwide, and Curry Barker would like to put it out. The writer-director told Rolling Stone that the extra footage exists and that he is fond of it, and that nobody has scheduled a release for

$3.3 million in ticket sales, for a 55-year-old picture rated NC-17. Ken Russell’s The Devils has done well enough in its restored director’s cut that Warner Bros. Clockwork is keeping it in theaters with no end date. The reissue opened October 16 as a one-week exclusive engagement, took $1.725 million from 350 North American locations

Interview with the VampireCredit: Warner Bros. / Caroline Colvin New Orleans, Louisiana, is long-awaited holy ground, both literally and figuratively, if you’re anything like me: A spooky individual, with an interest in the esoteric sides of Catholicism, an insatiable lust for blood, and an insatiable lust for knowledge. What I love about NOLA is that,

Getting the game banned somewhere was on the wish list. Antony De Fault, narrative director on Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival, told IGN that the team treated a ban, a refused rating or a sales restriction as a way of grading its own work. “It was an unofficial goal of the team to be banned, unrated,

Dread Central is premiering the full four-minute version of Patches, a new horror short from Jesse Blanchard and Portland-based studio Puppetcore, made in partnership with Public Storage. The short will also appear in Season One of Scary Good, the hosted horror shorts anthology on Be Afraid TV. Watch Patches below. According to the filmmakers, Patches

The 20th anniversary return of Pan’s Labyrinth took in more than $2 million in theaters, and the 4K restoration behind it arrives on digital November 10. Cineverse struck the restoration from the original 35mm elements with Guillermo del Toro overseeing it, and it is the same version that played the October engagement with Fathom Entertainment

Keke Palmer plays both Dr. Frankenstein and his monster in “Keke Frankenstein”Credit: @keke via Instagram Do you ever feel like Dr. Frankenstein’s monster? Keke Palmer, the heart and soul of Jordan Peele’s Nope and star of Peacock’s The ‘Burbs, just admitted that she does. On Oct. 30, the Scream Queens alum dropped “Keke Frankenstein,” where

Nearly all of KNB EFX Group’s work on its first feature was cut out before the movie reached video shelves. That footage is going back in. Grindhouse Releasing is taking the unrated director’s cut of Intruder, Scott Spiegel’s 1989 supermarket slasher, into art-house theaters across the United States and Canada this holiday season, in partnership

Courtesy of Focus Features Curry Barker‘s Obsession was one of this year’s hottest horror films. Nathan Fielder‘s Elizabeth Holmes documentary, You Can See Everything, is what everyone is talking about right now. And if we’re lucky, the two filmmakers could eventually combine their talents. During a chat with Variety at the Time100 Next Gala at

Season 3 of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters would come back with different monsters and a different writers’ room. Apple TV and Legendary Television are in renewal talks, Deadline reported Thursday, and a third season would be rebuilt around new Titans out of Legendary’s Monsterverse. Chris Black, who created the series with Matt Fraction and ran

Kojima Productions has released a new teaser and some additional story details for Death Stranding Isolations, an upcoming animated series based on Hideo Kojima’s acclaimed game. The series is set to launch on Disney+ in 2027, and now we have our best look yet at what’s poised to be one of the most stunning anime

Two guitars, two drum machines, two synthesizers, a farm outside Los Angeles and one day of recording. That is what Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields used to make Lost in the Night, the first Dead Man’s Bones song since their self-titled album in 2009. ANTI- Records put the single out on Tuesday. Tim Anderson, who

Big news for Karyn Kusama (Jennifer’s Body) fans. Hey, that’s me! Ten days ago, we reported that an adaptation of the horror video game Mouthwashing was in the works. Now, THR reports that Sony is teaming with Scott Derrickson (Sinister) to bring it to the big screen! The move comes after the studio’s massive success

Peacock spent the back half of October with a Voorhees in the house. Crystal Lake, the A24-produced Friday the 13th prequel, dropped all eight episodes on October 15, and Peacock says the series racked up 1.3 billion minutes watched in its first 11 days, its fourth-biggest scripted original debut. NBCUniversal also reports it ranked No.