Horror

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

The cast for Eli Roth‘s video game adaptation Borderlands continues to grow, with THR reporting tonight that Florian Munteanu (Creed II) has come on board this week. Munteanu, who played Viktor Drago in Creed II, will be playing the Borderlands video game character known as Krieg. THR describes Krieg as “the musclebound, rhetorically challenged protector

It’s not much, but for DOOM Eternal fans, the news that next week Bethesda will drop the trailer for the game’s second expansion, The Ancient Gods – Part Two, is a great way to kick off the work week. The DLC’s trailer will be revealed on March 15th, and will look to be a fitting

Before John Carpenter’s Halloween there was Bob Clark’s Black Christmas, an early slasher film that helped lay the foundation for the eventual arrival of horror movie icons like Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger. After two remakes, we’ve learned this week that Black Christmas is next getting a behind-the-scenes book, set for release next

Casey Affleck, Sam Claflin, Michelle Monaghan, Veronica Ferres and India Eisley star in the thriller Every Breath You Take, which has been acquired by Vertical Entertainment. Deadline reports today that Vertical will release the film, directed by Vaughn Stein, in both North American theaters and at-home via Premium VOD on April 2nd, 2021. “Every Breath You Take

The latest update to Kinetic Games’ surprise hit Phasmophobia is here, and proves that ghosts can be trained. As detailed on the title’s Steam page, the update includes the usual bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements. However, the big news is the changes to the ghost AI. Not only can ghosts now turn and follow players

Ahead of the film’s premiere at SXSW, we’ve learned today via Deadline that Jaco Bouwer‘s South African horror movie Gaia has already been acquired for release by Decal. Decal, which Deadline notes is “the newly formed home entertainment distributor from Neon and Bleecker Street,” is planning to release Gaia in theaters this summer. “The plot

After finally seeing a release on the Nintendo Switch last October, Running With Scissors has released Postal Redux on the PlayStation 4. As with the Switch and Steam releases, the game includes all of the previously-released DLC, as well as the Redux-exclusive Rampage mode. It’s quite the ride for Postal Redux to the PlayStation 4,

phantom limb /ˈfan(t)əm’lim/ n. an often painful sensation of the presence of a limb that has been amputated. Welcome to Phantom Limbs, a recurring feature which will take a look at intended yet unproduced horror sequels and remakes – extensions to genre films we love, appendages to horror franchises that we adore – that were sadly