Some huge news from Entertainment Weekly tonight, with the site reporting that Fiona Dourif will be reprising the role of Nica Pierce in USA/Syfy’s “Chucky” series from Don Mancini! Fiona Dourif, the daughter of Child’s Play icon Brad Dourif (yes, he’s also back for the series), first played Nica Pierce in Curse of Chucky, reprising
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Series of Frights is a recurring column that mainly focuses on horror in television. Specifically, it takes a closer look at five episodes or stories — each one adhering to an overall theme — from different anthology series or the occasional movie made for TV. With anthologies becoming popular again, especially on television, now is the perfect time to see
Up next from director Jim Cummings (Thunder Road, The Wolf of Snow Hollow) is The Beta Test, and Variety reports tonight that IFC Films has acquired the movie for U.S. release. Cummings wrote and directed the film, and he also stars. “An engaged Hollywood agent receives a mysterious letter for an anonymous sexual encounter and
Horror stalwart Barbara Crampton‘s appearance in You’re Next marked the start of a prolific genre renaissance that includes producing as well as acting. All of that experience culminates in a monster-as-metaphor feature that attempts to retool the vampire mythos to allow its leading lady to sink her fangs into a meaty lead role. She’s acting opposite indie horror darling Larry
A new werewolf movie is on the way with Brainstorm Media’s upcoming female-driven and directed Bloodthirsty, and the official trailer has just been unleashed this afternoon. Directed by Amelia Moses (Bleed With Me), conceived and written by mother-daughter duo Wendy Hill-Tout and singer-songwriter Lowell, and featuring the original music of Lowell, Bloodthirsty stars Lauren Beatty
Capcom has kicked off their 25th anniversary celebrations of the Resident Evil franchise by announcing that the pack-in with Resident Evil Village, the PvP multiplayer game Resident Evil RE:Verse, will have an open beta across consoles and PC in April. Announced via Capcom’s official Biohazard Twitter, the beta will run from April 8 at 2am
Since 1993’s Cronos, filmmaker Guillermo del Toro quickly became synonymous with horror hailing from Mexico. More recent releases like Issa Lopez‘s Tigers Are Not Afraid, Emilio Portes‘s Belzebuth, and even Gigi Saul Guerrero‘s Culture Shock indicate an emerging new class of talented genre contemporaries. While that’s exciting for horror’s future, there’s already a vast, rich history of Mexican
Atlus and Sega have announced that the upcoming Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne HD Remaster will finally arrive in the West on May 25. Pre-orders are now available, including a new Digital Deluxe Edition that allows players to get early access to the game. Available on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC via Steam,
Godzilla fever is sweeping the nation on the road to Godzilla vs. Kong‘s release, and today we’ve got a sneak peek at an upcoming King of the Monsters collectible from Mondo. Being put up for pre-order next week, Mondo’s officially licensed “Godzilla 89” Premium Scale Statue measures a towering 18″ tall, with pre-orders kicking off
It would seem that we’ve been going about the Resident Evil film reboot all wrong. At least, in terms of the film’s title. According to director Johannes Roberts, and reported on by IGN during an interview at SXSW’s online event, the official title for the upcoming Resident Evil movie is Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon
Another day, another new trailer for Adam Wingard‘s Godzilla vs. Kong. This one comes courtesy of IGN, and it features some bits of new footage including an underwater battle, a trip to the Hollow Earth, and a whole lot of destruction. At the very end of the trailer, a monstrous new threat is introduced, one
Be sure to follow @BDisgusting on Twitter for daily horror news and more! As promised, Ryan Murphy has officially announced the Season 10 theme for FX’s “American Horror Story” tonight, and it’s “American Horror Story: Double Feature“! That’s right, we’re getting TWO stories in ONE season this year. “One by the sea… and one by
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.
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