Horror

Welcome to Dread Central Unearthed 2024, where we’re sharing our favorite films, moments, kills, scares, and more from this year in horror. Today, Sharai Bohannon is sharing the top 10 horror performances of 2024. As usual, horror had some of the best performances of 2024, and many will be sadly overlooked as award nominations roll

Nothing says the year’s over for horror fans more than when not a single horror title appears in the top 10 at the weekend domestic box office. Thankfully, this year, the holiday dry spell lasts only a few days because in a rare move, Hollywood is releasing a horror film in December. Nosferatu hits theaters

One of the most fun aspects of horror is the endless creativity when it comes to on-screen carnage, and 2024 has delivered no shortage of memorable horror movie kills. It’s been a fantastic showcase for special makeup effects artists when it comes to on-screen slaughter; 2024 provided multiple extended kills that cumulatively threatened to wipe

How great does 28 Years Later look? Danny Boyle’s long-awaited follow-up to the 2002 horror classic looks incredibly promising, all the more so because Nia DaCosta’s (Candyman) sequel was filmed back-to-back with the first. Movies really are back, baby. With the release of the sequel’s trailer—which, by the way, is one of the best movie trailers in a

Nothing says the year’s over for horror fans more than when not a single horror title appears in the top 10 at the weekend domestic box office. Thankfully, this year, the holiday dry spell lasts only a few days because in a rare move, Hollywood is releasing a horror film in December. Nosferatu hits theaters

Welcome back to DEAD Time. I hope you left a light on for me because this month I talked with the man who has earned the nickname the Godfather of the Paranormal. John Zaffis is a paranormal investigator, researcher, and author, and his aunt and uncle were Ed and Lorraine Warren. The Warrens were well-known

Some historians have argued for years over which movie was the first slasher. Some believe that films like Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 horror masterpiece Psycho and the Giallo sub-genre have all influenced and shaped the slasher into what it ultimately became. This year, two of those influential films are celebrating milestone birthdays: director Tobe Hooper’s The

It’s been speculated over the past few months that Courteney Cox will return to the Scream franchise for the upcoming sixth sequel. Critical thinkers would assume she would, but it wasn’t confirmed until yesterday. Cox has played Gale Weathers, the hard-nosed journalist, for nearly three decades. The release of Scream 7 on February 27, 2026,

After bringing Terminator: Resistance to fans back in 2019, Reef Entertainment are set to return with another Terminator game, thanks to the Australian Classification website. A listing has been discovered for an as-yet-unannounced title called Terminator 2D: NO FATE, which is slated for release on the PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series, Xbox One, Nintendo

Welcome to Dread Central Unearthed 2024, where we’re sharing our favorite films, moments, kills, scares, and more from this year in horror. Today, we have our staff writer Tyler Doupé’s personal top ten horror films of 2024! As other film genres become more and more predictable, horror continues to surprise and delight me. Even the

There might be no other show other than Lost where fans got excited about a series finale as season five of Stranger Things. It has finally finished filming. Now comes the hard part: the editing process and post-production work. Netflix says the final season will drop in 2025. They also posted some great behind-the-scenes production photos

A live-action Masters of the Universe movie is in the works at Amazon MGM Studios and Mattel Films, and Deadline reports that the project has found its Skeletor in Jared Leto, along with a few of Skeletor’s henchmen. Masters of the Universe has now been set for theatrical release on June 5, 2026, with Travis Knight (Bumblebee) on

‘Tis the season for warm beverages and Christmas horror movies. Luckily, there is a seemingly never-ending supply of festive frights, with more joining the ranks yearly. 2022 saw Violent Night turn David Harbour into a vicious (and hot) Santa, while Joe Begos’ Christmas Bloody Christmas had Twitter clutching its pearls over language. 2023 gave us

It’s been speculated over the past few months that Courteney Cox will return to the Scream franchise for the upcoming sixth sequel. Critical thinkers would assume she would, but it wasn’t confirmed until yesterday. Cox has played Gale Weathers, the hard-nosed journalist, for nearly three decades. The release of Scream 7 on February 27, 2026,

A live-action Masters of the Universe movie is in the works at Amazon MGM Studios and Mattel Films, and Deadline reports that the project has found its Skeletor in Jared Leto, along with a few of Skeletor’s henchmen. Masters of the Universe has now been set for theatrical release on June 5, 2026, with Travis Knight (Bumblebee) on

Bokshi, the highly anticipated directorial debut from Indian genre filmmaker Bhargav Saikia (Awakenings, The Black Cat), will make its world premiere at the renowned International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) in January 2025. This marks a milestone for Indian genre cinema, as Bokshi is one of the few independent Indian films to debut at a Top-Tier

It’s been speculated over the past few months that Courteney Cox will return to the Scream franchise for the upcoming sixth sequel. Critical thinkers would assume she would, but it wasn’t confirmed until yesterday. Cox has played Gale Weathers, the hard-nosed journalist, for nearly three decades. The release of Scream 7 on February 27, 2026,

Bestselling novel The Housemaid is getting a feature film adaptation from director Paul Feig (A Simple Favor, Ghostbusters), and Lionsgate has set a release date in stone today. The Housemaid will arrive in wide theatrical release on December 25, 2025. In Paul Feig’s suspense thriller The Housemaid, which adapts Freida McFadden’s novel, “Millie (Sydney Sweeney)

Welcome to Dread Central Unearthed 2024, where we’re sharing our favorite films, moments, kills, scares, and more from this year in horror. Today, we have our staff writer Chad Collins’ personal top ten horror films of 2024! The greatest challenge in narrowing down the year’s best horror movies to a list of just 10 is

Our favorite Jason, Kane Hodder, had a message for his fans this week. He took to social media to promote his latest film The Activated Man. But he also says this is unlike any movie he has ever done, adding he believes it’s the best acting performance of his career. “It’s very close to my

The involvement of franchise mainstay Courteney Cox has been expected but unconfirmed for Scream 7 up to this point, but Variety reports tonight that she has officially signed on. Courteney Cox has of course played iconic character Gale Weathers in the previous six films in the Scream franchise, who just barely survived the events of

Welcome to Dread Central Unearthed 2024, where we’re sharing our favorite films, moments, kills, scares, and more from this year in horror. Today, we have our managing editor Joish Korngut’s personal top ten horror films of 2024! The true value of 2024 horror was in how goddamn weird so much of it was. Maybe it

Our favorite Jason, Kane Hodder, had a message for his fans this week. He took to social media to promote his latest film The Activated Man. But he also says this is unlike any movie he has ever done, adding he believes it’s the best acting performance of his career. “It’s very close to my

If there’s one thing that horror teaches over and over again, it’s not to mess with the dead. The characters in indie gem Lizzie Lazarus, acquired by Bloody Disgusting, are poised to learn that the hard way. Channeling Stephen King’s Pet Sematary, writer/director Aviv Rubinstien’s twisted psychological horror film builds to a shocker of a finale

Big news today for Dread Central. Variety has officially reported that our very own Editor-in-Chief, Mary Beth McAndrews, will make her directorial debut with Bystanders, set for release on VOD on January 21 via Epic Pictures’ DREAD imprint. Fearlessly leading Dread Central since 2021, McAndrews brings her signature passion and sharp perspective to the screen

The year is almost over and thus the theatrical horror cycle. We have got one left and that’s Nosferatu opening on Christmas Day. But don’t be sad, January is filled with horror releases and we can’t wait to see them, well, most of them. Movie Insider is a great resource for seeing what is on

While many had expected that all four members of the “Core Four” would not be back for the upcoming Scream 7, Variety reports tonight that Mason Gooding has now signed on. Mason Gooding will reportedly reprise the role of Chad Meeks-Martin in Scream 7, the nephew of original Scream character Randy Meeks (played by Jamie

What do Robocop, Police Academy, Rambo, and The Toxic Avenger have in common? If you answered that these were all rated R movie franchises turned into children’s cartoons, then you’re absolutely correct. It was a strange phenomenon, but the 80s (and into the early 90s, when The Toxic Crusaders was released) were a weird time

Get ready for more brains. Steve Wolsh’s reboot of the classic 1985 film Return of the Living Dead has just unearthed its first teaser. The film will be released theatrically in December, 2025. Filmmaker’s promise, “a bloody stunning new chapter, made with no CGI and all practical effects.” The original is considered a cult classic

After the disappointment for horror fans at The Game Awards this year, horror fans got their redemption in short order with The Horror Game Awards 2024. And unlike TGAs, Silent Hill 2 wasn’t shut out. On the contrary, Bloober Team’s remake of Konami’s classic took home Game of the Year honours, along with three other