Horror

Don’t believe anything you read. Hocus Pocus is a damn good movie. From its opening frame, the 1993 film contains all the magic and wonder you could want from a gateway horror movie – earning its place next to other ‘90s essentials like Halloweentown. It’s got a talking black cat, spooky spellcasting, a zombie, and

Don’t believe anything you read. Hocus Pocus is a damn good movie. From its opening frame, the 1993 film contains all the magic and wonder you could want from a gateway horror movie – earning its place next to other ‘90s essentials like Halloweentown. It’s got a talking black cat, spooky spellcasting, a zombie, and

The ultra-violent horror movie Megalomaniac (read Meagan’s review) premiered at Fantasia last year, and Dark Star Pictures is bringing it to US theaters on September 8, 2023. Watch the nasty, bloody, extreme trailer for Megalomaniac below, which is loaded with rave reviews from critics – including Bloody Disgusting’s 3.5 star review out of Fantasia. Winner of the

While you probably couldn’t tell just by looking at the contemporary comic-book landscape, there was a point in time when the industry wasn’t dominated by super-heroes. From horror to erotica, comics used to be just as varied as other artforms before masks and spandex became the norm – something that was almost certainly influenced by

Released in 1996, and co-directed by makeup effects artist Kevin Yagher and Joe Chappelle, fourth franchise installment Hellraiser: Bloodline served the dual role of being a prequel and a sequel, telling a centuries-spanning story that documents the puzzle box’s beginning and end. While horror fans have come to appreciate the ambitious “Pinhead in Space” movie

Take a trip with SCREAMBOX and Fandor’s freaky festival favorite All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, the hallucinogenic horror-comedy is finally getting a Blu-ray release thanks to Terror Vision! The slip cover variant is limited to only 2,000 units. The Blu-ray ships in late Sept/early Oct. Director Alex Phillips delivers an absurd adventure that

There have been a lot of strange gaming crossovers over the years. Freddy Krueger was in Mortal Kombat, Michael Myers in Call of Duty: Ghosts, and the Ninja Turtles in Street Fighter 6. But one crossover in particular had me turning my head in disbelief: Nicolas Cage in Dead By Daylight. For the uninitiated, Dead

A legendary British film company, known for classics including Tales from the Crypt and The Vault of Horror, as well as Scream and Scream Again, The House That Dripped Blood, Madhouse, and The Beast Must Die, Amicus Productions largely operated between 1962 and 1977, and we’ve learned this week that a fresh revival of the

Next month brings A Haunting in Venice, a supernatural horror movie from Oscar® winning filmmaker Kenneth Branagh (“Belfast”) that adapts Agatha Christie’s novel Hallowe’en Party. Today brings new character posters and a featurette, introducing the many suspects involved in the unsettling thriller. A Haunting in Venice will open in theaters nationwide September 15, 2023. Set in eerie, post-World War II Venice

Acquired out of Sundance by A24, the low budget horror movie Talk to Me has proven to be a massive success for the company, with a sequel – Talk 2 Me – already ordered up last week. How much has Talk to Me made at the box office so far? Thanks to strong word of

Acquired out of Sundance by A24, the low budget horror movie Talk to Me has proven to be a massive success for the company, with a sequel – Talk 2 Me – already ordered up last week. How much has Talk to Me made at the box office so far? Thanks to strong word of

The slasher-comedy Totally Killer is on the way from Blumhouse and Amazon Studios, and we’ve learned this morning that the film will be released in time for Halloween. Totally Killer hits Prime Video on October 6, 2023! The film is rated “R” for “Bloody violence, language, sexual material, and teen drug/alcohol use.” While you wait

Filmmaker William Friedkin forever changed horror with 1973’s The Exorcist, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Director. He returned to the genre again in 1980 with the Giallo-like thriller Cruising and fearlessly got weird with gory folk horror The Guardian in 1990. Fearless perfectly encapsulates Friedkin’s style and his approach to life; he was never afraid to speak

Originally launched for the PC earlier this year, developer ITEM42 and publisher HandyGames’ classical mythology-inspired co-op shooter Perish will finally be seeing a console release. While no release date was announced, Perish will be coming to the PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series and Xbox One. Perish is a four-player FPS that puts you as

Originally launched for the PC earlier this year, developer ITEM42 and publisher HandyGames’ classical mythology-inspired co-op shooter Perish will finally be seeing a console release. While no release date was announced, Perish will be coming to the PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series and Xbox One. Perish is a four-player FPS that puts you as

The day has finally arrived for Apogee Entertainment and developer Trigger Happy Interactive. Their over-the-top sci-fi shooter Turbo Overkill finally hits 1.0 on PC via Steam and GOG for $24.99, with a special 15% launch discount until August 18th. The 1.0 launch concludes the three-part epic with “The Final Episode, Part 2”, and ups the

The phrase “they don’t make them like they used to” is thrown around a lot in the context of nostalgia, but in the case of the first teaser for Magic, it’s quite accurate. Imagine sitting around the TV with your family and seeing this commercial pop up on screen back in the 1970s. The simple

While you probably couldn’t tell just by looking at the contemporary comic-book landscape, there was a point in time when the industry wasn’t dominated by super-heroes. From horror to erotica, comics used to be just as varied as other artforms before masks and spandex became the norm – something that was almost certainly influenced by

Both All Jacked Up and Full of Worms and The Outwaters, two of this year’s SCREAMBOX Originals, are coming to fully functional VHS, we’re thrilled to announce today! A partnership between Lunchmeat, SCREAMBOX, Cineverse, Bloody Disgusting, 5100 Films, and Fathom Film Company, both titles drop for pre-order tomorrow (Saturday, August 12) at 12pm ET exclusively

Filmmaker William Friedkin forever changed horror with 1973’s The Exorcist, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Director. He returned to the genre again in 1980 with the Giallo-like thriller Cruising and fearlessly got weird with gory folk horror The Guardian in 1990. Fearless perfectly encapsulates Friedkin’s style and his approach to life; he was never afraid to speak

I first saw Lifeless Moon at the Seattle Indies Expo in 2022. At a glance, the game’s got a great visual hook: an astronaut exploring the surface of the moon crests a hill, and is suddenly confronted by a well-lit American diner. My first thought was that I really wanted to know what was happening

Based on the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Mike Flanagan‘s final series for Netflix is “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and it’s going to be unlike anything Flanagan has ever done before. The limited series from Intrepid Pictures is “based on multiple works from Poe,” and Netflix has announced this morning that “Usher” will

Gore Verbinski’s The Ring led the first wave of early 2000s horror remakes that partially defined the era’s landscape alongside Saw torture-porners and other reactionary post-9/11 subgenres. Granted, remakes have always been a foundational pillar that keeps horror reinventing itself decade after decade — but the 2000s were different. Production companies like Platinum Dunes and

The following contains major spoilers for The Meg and Meg 2: The Trench. Sharksploitation movies live and die based on the strength of their bite. In order to make us afraid to go in the water, genre filmmakers usually deploy a barrage of visual and practical effects to bring to life the ocean’s most feared

Kill List, Free Fire, and High-Rise director Ben Wheatley announced plans for the Brexit zombie drama “Generation Z” for UK’s Channel 4 back in 2019. Our friends at Fangoria report that Wheatley teased upcoming plans for “Generation Z” at a recent screening of his latest feature, Meg 2: The Trench. “Generation Z” was initially set to go into production in 2020, but we all know how

For the first time since the filming of the horror classic, The Silence of the Lambs actor Brooke Smith, who infamously played the unforgettable role of Catherine Martin, will return to visit Buffalo Bill’s House, the real location where the climax to the film was shot! Brooke last stepped foot inside “Buffalo Bill’s House” over thirty years ago

The upcoming The Exorcist: Believer will be the sixth movie in the franchise – don’t forget, there are two different versions of the 2004 prequel – and much like every single other installment in the saga to date, the brand new sequel has officially been rated “R” this week. Universal and Blumhouse’s The Exorcist: Believer

A meteorologist journeys to a deserted island to investigate his father’s death, where he is confronted by strange and mysterious occurrences in Shadow Island. A brand new trailer and poster for upcoming horror movie stirs up an eerie storm for the wayward soul arriving on a deserted island. Brainstorm Media is bringing Shadow Island to

Now streaming on SCREAMBOX is the fan-made documentary focusing on the 80’s cult classic, Clue: The Movie. In the spirit of The Shark Is Still Working (Jaws) and Back In Time (Back to the Future), Who Done It: The Clue Documentary is lensed by filmmaker fans who want to know the entire story of the production. The doc features interviews

A meteorologist journeys to a deserted island to investigate his father’s death, where he is confronted by strange and mysterious occurrences in Shadow Island. A brand new trailer and poster for upcoming horror movie stirs up an eerie storm for the wayward soul arriving on a deserted island. Brainstorm Media is bringing Shadow Island to