Scott Derrickson (Dr. Strange, Sinister) is headed back to the horror genre to direct The Black Phone for Blumhouse and Universal, and the film was already a Sinister reunion with Ethan Hawke recently joining the cast. On top of that, THR reports tonight, Hawke’s Sinister co-star James Ransone (It: Chapter Two) has also signed on to reunite with Derrickson.
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We all handle trauma in different ways. Some of us self-isolate, some seek the comfort of others and some seek professional help. There are many other ways to cope with trauma, but what Alex Noyer‘s Sound of Violence posits is that a very select few of us do so by hurting others. It’s an admittedly odd
The early ‘80s marked a handful of notable ultra-violent, hand-rotoscoped animation features aimed toward adults. Gerald Potterton’s Heavy Metal, based on the magazine, and Ralph Bakshi’s Fire and Ice– a collaboration with artist Frank Frazetta- are chief among the notable standouts of the era. The Spine of Night is a love letter to the classic animation style and draws
Fresh off last year’s Relic, my personal pick for the best horror movie of 2020, director Natalie Erika James will continue playing around in the genre space, THR reports tonight. The film is titled Apartment 7A, and Natalie Erika James will be co-writing and directing for Paramount and Platinum Dunes. John Krasinski (A Quiet Place)
If there’s one trend among the genre films screening at this year’s SXSW Film Festival, it’s that they’ve all got a message to deliver. Some have been ill-advised, while others have been heavy-handed. The Feast is following this trend but it does so in a more subtle way, prioritizing its characters and their unsettling situation while
Last spring, Sony’s Columbia Pictures delayed their highly anticipated Venom: Let There Be Carnage from its planned October 2, 2020 date all the way to June 25, 2021. Now, with that date quickly approaching, the studio has shifted plans by pushing the Venom sequel to September 17, 2021, adding the Spider-Man spinoff to a growing
In addition to spinoff anthology series “American Horror Stories,” the pandemic-delayed 10th season of “American Horror Story” is headed to FX later this year, and creator Ryan Murphy has taken to Twitter tonight to share a short little beach-themed teaser trailer and announce that the official title/theme announcement will be made this coming Friday, March
Chicago-based HIDE is back with more head-pounding dark industrial electronic music, today announcing their third album, Interior Terror, which is said to “further abandon traditional concepts of song structure in favor of splintered rhythms and fevered, immediate release. “Expanding on previous themes of autonomy and empowerment, Interior Terror addresses and questions the corporeal and immaterial
Film writer and programmer Kier-La Janisse has dedicated much of her life to exploring horror’s history and culture from a critical and scholarly perspective. Janisse authored House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films, published and edited numerous horror non-fiction anthology works, founded the on-going Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, and
Follow the tapes. World Premiering tonight at SXSW is The Signal director Jacob Gentry‘s thriller Broadcast Signal Intrusion, billed as “an unsettling journey into our collective technological nightmares, confronting our deepest, darkest fears of both man and machine.” “While logging tapes of decades-old TV broadcasts, video archivist James discovers a surreal and disturbing clip that
Shark attack movie Great White, an aquatic nightmare starring Tucker and Dale vs. Evil actress Katrina Bowden, is swimming our way this year, and we’ve got your first look. Michael Boughen (Tomorrow, When The War Began, Killer Elite, The Loved Ones) wrote the script, while commercial director Martin Wilson makes his feature directorial debut. Take a bite out of the
Follow The Tapes. One of the new horror movies premiering at SXSW this month is Jacob Gentry‘s Broadcast Signal Intrusion, billed as “an unsettling journey into our collective technological nightmares, confronting our deepest, darkest fears of both man and machine.” The film will be World Premiering at SXSW 2021 on Tuesday, March 16 at 9pm
Clover Bite has released a new gameplay video for their upcoming “soulslike Metroidvania” in GRIME. Unlike the previous gameplay video, this new video narrated by GRIME director Yarden Weissbrot focuses on the “Unformed Desert” area, as well as giving a brief overview of the weapons system. GRIME is an action-adventure RPG where you have been
The time has come. Years after 2017’s Justice League disappointed fans in theaters, Zack Snyder has brought his official director’s cut to HBO Max. The original film was plagued with behind the scenes issues, from competing visions to personal matters leading Mr. Snyder to step away from the project. How could the extremely anticipated team-up
“People ask me, where are all the great exploitation movies today? The low-budget horror films? They’re on the Lifetime Network!” Shudder’s horror host Joe Bob Briggs once said, and he’s not entirely wrong about that. Mind you, Lifetime’s movies are virtually never “great,” but they’re damn sure churning out low-budget exploitation thrillers on a regular
We all love Fallout: New Vegas, but let’s be honest. There’s something missing along that New Vegas Strip: people. It’s no secret that Obsidian had to chop some things from the final game, and diehard modders have managed to put back a lot of them into the game, including PushTheWinButton’s The Strip NPCs Uncut mod,
John Boyega, whose career took off in the wake of 2011’s genre favorite Attack the Block, has made no secret of the fact that he’d love to reprise the role of Moses at some point down the road, and indeed there have been rumblings about a hotly-anticipated sequel several times in recent years. What are
All of you thirsty people can finally get that drink with Movie Games Lunarium’s Lust From Beyond, which after a couple of delays, has finally been released on Steam. Inspired by Lovecraft (obviously) and works by H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński, the described “esoteric” horror game has a launch trailer to go along with its
Zombies are everywhere, and they’ve been everywhere for a while now. From Romero’s 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead to Zack Snyder’s upcoming Army of the Dead, it’s actually quite fitting that these bloodthirsty revenants have endured in fiction after all this time. Of course, after having been spoiled by quality zombie media like
Boom! Studios launched R.L. Stine‘s comic book series Just Beyond in 2019, and we recently learned that Disney+ is turning the horror/comedy terror tales into an anthology series. Disney+ has given an eight-episode order to the series, which hails from writer/showrunner Seth Grahame-Smith (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) and 20th Century Fox Television. Stine will serve
Shudder will be delivering classic haunted house thrills and chills with Black Death director Christopher Smith‘s The Banishing next month, and their trailer has arrived tonight. The film is being billed as “the true story of the most haunted house in England.” “A young reverend and his wife and daughter move into a manor with
Soman Chainani’s debut novel The School for Good and Evil, which was published in 2013 and launched a franchise, is getting a movie over at Netflix, with Paul Feig (Ghostbusters, Last Christmas) on board to direct the film. David Magee (Life of Pi, Mary Poppins Returns) and Laura Solon (Office Christmas Party, Let It Snow) are adapting. Charlize Theron will play Lady Lesso and Kerry Washington will
After nine twisty episodes, the TV series WandaVision left Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) sitting in a cabin in the mountains, studying a book that Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) called “the Darkhold.” For many viewers, even those who know the comics, this was a bit of a disappointment. Many expected big additions to the Marvel Cinematic
Originally thought to be a movie, Netflix announced today the voice cast for their forthcoming Resident Evil original CG anime series, Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness, while also sharing a brand new piece of art and a lengthy synopsis. Bloody Disgusting learned tonight that Leon S. Kennedy will be voiced by Nick Apostolides, and Claire Redfield
The flesh is family… This weekend marks the very first release of the Bloody Disgusting x Dark Star Pictures collaboration, Honeydew, which calls back to classics like Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre with a modern A24-esque flair. Tickets are now on sale for this weekend’s theatrical release of Honeydew, which Nerdist called “a hallucinogenic nightmare
Filmed and set during the ongoing pandemic, the Michael Bay-produced Songbird (read our review) has been given a home video release after going straight to Premium VOD last December. Billed as “the first film to shoot in Los Angeles entirely during the pandemic,” director Adam Mason‘s Songbird will infect Digital HD, DVD and Blu-ray on March 16, 2021. “In
After directing last year’s Delivered for the Hulu and Blumhouse TV feature film anthology series “Into the Dark,” Emma Tammi (The Wind) is back with this year’s season two finale. In the film, “When Esme (Megalyn Echikunwoke) and her ten-year-old son, Luna (Yonas Kibreab), move to a small desert town looking for a fresh start they attract all the
Announced just last month, the next movie from Paul W.S. Anderson (Mortal Kombat, Event Horizon, Resident Evil, Monster Hunter) is titled In the Lost Lands, with Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista attached to star. FilmNation launched the project at the European Film Market, and Deadline reports that international rights to the movie have sold out.
Annie Murphy, who often steals the show as Alexis on “Schitt’s Creek”, has been tapped for an unknown role on the second season of Netflix’s “Russian Doll”, reports Deadline. They’re remaining tight-lipped on the next season of “Russian Doll”, which is a Groundhog Day-esque nightmare of a series in which Nadia, played by Natashia Lyonne,
The King of the Monsters is soon making his way to Netflix with Toho’s anime series “Godzilla Singular Point,” which features character designs by Blue Exorcist’s Kazue Kato and a brand new Godzilla design from legendary Ghibli animator Eiji Yamamori. The latest official trailer has been unleashed tonight, showing various monsters (plus Jet Jaguar!) in action. “Singular Point” is coming to