Horror

Last month we wrote a story about Lionsgate partnering with an AI company as a creative tool for making future projects. It’s a hot-button issue that some fear reduces the need for human creatives, leaving them obsolete and jobless. Now comes news that Jason Blum, co-founder of Blumhouse, has done the same thing with an

Stephen King and Mike Flanagan / photos by Josh Korngut Carrie is one of Stephen King’s most adapted stories to date. We have De Palma’s Carrie, The Rage: Carrie 2, the made for TV adaptation from 2002, and the 2013 remake starring Chloë Grace Moretz. So, I was a little surprised to learn (via Deadline)

It’s a slow time at the theater this month. Thanks partly to the actors’ and writers’ strikes and projects being pushed back or needing to be finished, 2024 is a choppy year for movies. The event movie of October, Joker 2, failed and it was up to an unrated indie horror film featuring another psychotic

The Disney+ series “Goosebumps” is coming back for a brand new second season, and the new season is titled “Goosebumps: The Vanishing.” Watch the official trailer below! “Goosebumps: The Vanishing” premieres January 10, 2025 on Disney+ and Hulu. For starters, the previously announced series regular cast for Season 2 includes David Schwimmer (Anthony), Ana Ortiz (Jen), Sam McCarthy (Devin), Jayden Bartels (Cece), Elijah Cooper (CJ), Galilea La Salvia (Frankie)

Day Three of Nightmares Film Festival 2024 kicked off at Gateway Film Center with a screening of the wild comedy The Invisible Raptor. I sidestepped that screening in favor of attending the live recording of the Fright Club podcast, the annual panel on the ever-shifting world of film distribution, and a writing workshop with Bram

TikTok is the most recent social media space where people post their experiences with the supernatural. The problem is you can’t always trust what you are seeing. In the pursuit of likes and comments (and money), TikTokers have been known to create compelling videos with the use of fishing lines, CGI, and AI technologies. But

Melt the rich. The new Street Trash is here and it couldn’t be more timely. Set to premiere tonight at the New Beverly Cinema (tix), Bloody Disgusting is excited to share the face-meltingly gory trailer debut for our new take on the 1987 cult classic Street Trash, which hails from Fried Barry director Ryan Kruger.

Filmmaker Parker Finn returns to deliver a fun, mean, and maddeningly inventive sequel to his surprise 2022 genre hit Smile. This time, the action feels like an intravenous drip of nonstop anxiety from concentrate … but thankfully, all the macabre mayhem is grounded by a healthy dose of pitch-black humor, something the previous chapter could

DC and Warner Bros. are probably having interesting staff Zoom calls this morning after their latest big-budget movie, Joker 2, couldn’t snatch the top spot at the box office over the weekend. Meanwhile, lunchtime at Cineverse probably includes a pizza party; their indie hit Terrifier 3 was victoria–ous. It took the number one spot earning

RLJE Films and Shudder have acquired Ash, a new sci-fi horror film from Grammy Award Winner and filmmaker Flying Lotus (aka Steven Ellison). The news comes from  Shudder’s New York Comic Con panel today, where the streaming service also unveiled a trippy, violent first look trailer. RLJE will release Ash in theaters wide in 2025, followed

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The latest trailer for the upcoming sequel Smile 2 includes a shining example of a Hollywood legend’s offspring taking up the family business. Introducing Ray Nicholson, Jack’s 32-year-old son who shares a toothy resemblance to his father. Ray has been in some great indie films since his debut in 2006’s The Benchwarmers, including Emerald Fennell‘s

In the mood for a delicate tale of a man’s self-exploration in search of absolute love and happiness amongst the decay in a western urban CA city? Yes? Check out the Hallmark Channel then, because American Trash will suffocate you with anguish and despair. Army veteran Milles (the brilliant Robert LaSardo, who also writes and

With the holidays coming up, now might be a good time to start shopping for your horror-loving collector friends and family. NECA has put together a new diorama based on the original Beetlejuice movie. It’s a scaled-down version of Dante’s Inferno Room, an otherworld brothel, made by the afterlife case worker to temporarily distract Beetlejuice

Filmmaker Benjamin Barfoot brings eerie atmosphere and new nightmare fuel in the form of a terrifying creature in Daddy’s Head, and an exclusive new clip introduces just one of many bone-chilling scares. Daddy’s Head debuts exclusively on Shudder on October 11. In the film, “In the wake of his father’s untimely death, a young boy is left

OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL, director Mike Flanagan, on set, 2016. ph: Justin M. Lubin/© Universal Pictures /Courtesy Everett Collection It’s Halloween season, and we just realized we are not seeing The Life Of Chuck until next year. This is obviously a huge blow to people who want to see Mike Flanagan’s latest Stephen King adaptation.

The latest trailer for the upcoming sequel Smile 2 includes a shining example of a Hollywood legend’s offspring taking up the family business. Introducing Ray Nicholson, Jack’s 32-year-old son who shares a toothy resemblance to his father. Ray has been in some great indie films since his debut in 2006’s The Benchwarmers, including Emerald Fennell‘s

Airing as part of ABC’s Wide World of Mystery in 1973, five-part horror series The Classic Ghosts has been rescued from obscurity for a Blu-ray release on October 29. Bloody Disgusting is teaming up with Kino Lorber to give away three copies of the Blu-ray set. Click here to enter! This contest is open to

Art the Clown has become a pop culture phenomenon in recent years. From action figures to ugly Christmas sweaters, the clown slasher is everywhere these days and now he’s also causing havoc in Prime Video. Released by our DREAD distribution arm, Terrifier proved to be the little indie movie that could. And thanks to the

Coming off the success of his summer horror hit Longlegs, director Oz Perkins took no breaths and is already back on the marquee with another horror movie called The Monkey. The latest teaser reveals a little more about the story which is apparently about a cursed toy monkey that carries out the wishes of its

Nickelodeon brought the 1990s horror anthology series “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” back to television with a reboot season back in 2019, which subsequently spawned two follow-up seasons that each told their own unique stories with different “Midnight Society” kids. For Halloween, Nickelodeon has packaged all three of those “Are You Afraid of the

Coming to digital on October 15, 2024, from 20th Century Studios is Fede Alvarez’s latest in blood-soaked terror, Alien: Romulus. Packed with practical effects and zero-gravity xenomorph battles, the newest entry in the iconic horror franchise is ready to terrify you this Halloween season. In honor of the release, we’ve partnered with 20th Century Studios

DC and Warner Bros. are probably having interesting staff Zoom calls this morning after their latest big-budget movie, Joker 2, couldn’t snatch the top spot at the box office over the weekend. Meanwhile, lunchtime at Cineverse probably includes a pizza party; their indie hit Terrifier 3 was victoria–ous. It took the number one spot earning

Slaughterhouse Rules. Back in mid-September, we began a themed collection of episodes featuring Gay Icons and Anniversaries. Trace and I kicked off the series with a revisit of  Jennifer’s Body (listen) before delving into Jonathan Glazer’s controversial Birth (listen), and David Fincher’s Gone Girl (listen) for its 10th anniversary. Now it’s time to tackle the

You may know Jennifer ‘JWoww’ Farley from her time on the reality show Jersey Shore. Now, Farley is adding writer and director to her resume with the upcoming release of her found footage horror film, Devon. In the film: Devon’s parents never stopped searching for answers after her disappearance from a notorious asylum. Years after

The NC-17 rating first appeared in 1990 for the movie Henry and June. It replaced the X-rating used throughout the 70s for sexually explicit American films, or as it’s referred to: porn. Don’t get it confused with NA which applies to films that haven’t been submitted to be rated by the Motion Picture Association (MPA).

Talk about a perfect storm. I still can’t believe I’m sitting here writing an article about how our little slasher movie is the number one film in the entire country. Yes, it’s true. Terrifier 3 beat all the odds by defeating not only the criminally overly-panned Joker: Folie à Deux but also the modern animated cinematic marvel The Wild

Late Night with Conan O’Brien and NBC/Universal I have reported on countless cinematic suggestions from master of the macabre Stephen King throughout my tenure at Dread Central. Today, I am sharing a recommendation that is very close to my heart. This pick is likely my favorite remake of all time. A zombie movie that delivers

The NC-17 rating first appeared in 1990 for the movie Henry and June. It replaced the X-rating used throughout the 70s for sexually explicit American films, or as it’s referred to: porn. Don’t get it confused with NA which applies to films that haven’t been submitted to be rated by the Motion Picture Association (MPA).

Hand to god, I swear this is not a stunt. Damien Leone’s Terrifier 3 is on its way to becoming the #1 film in the country and along the way it has been the center of several major stories, including being banned to minors in France, having two people pass out in Australia, and one person