The Popcorn Frights Film Festival is currently underway, both in-person and virtually, unleashing a variety of premieres and events. Now at the halfway point, the programming still has plenty of horror to come. Here’s a round-up of some of Popcorn Frights’ feature offerings so far, from musical horror comedies to experimental mindbenders. Big Easy Queens Rivalries, betrayal,
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Over the past decade, deadly wildfires have become increasingly common because of both human-caused climate change and disruptive land management practices. Southern California, where the three of us live and work, has been hit especially hard. Southern California also experienced a wave of wildfires 13,000 years ago. These fires permanently transformed the region’s vegetation and
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1984 Publishing will release Sleepaway Camp: Making the Movie and Reigniting the Campfire by Jeff Hayes, a 40th anniversary look at the ‘83 cult classic Sleepaway Camp, Bloody Disgusting has learned this afternoon. A 4-song soundtrack EP will accompany the book’s release on vinyl (in three colorways) and CD. Longtime official Sleepaway Camp webmaster, writer,
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Wendy Stuart will be hosting TriVersity Talk! this Wednesday at 7 PM ET with featured guest Justice LaBrave. TriVersity Talk! is a weekly web series with featured guests discussing their lives, activism and pressing issues in the LGBTQ Community. With TriVersity Talk!, the goal is to laugh and learn. TriVersity Talk! Is part of TriVersity’s
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News Nick Cave Is Going on a U.S. Book Tour The musician will speak with audiences about his memoir, Faith, Hope and Carnage, in the fall By Matthew Strauss August 18, 2023 Facebook Twitter Nick Cave, June 2023 (HELLE ARENSBAK/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images) Facebook Twitter Nick Cave has announced a U.S. book tour in
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Last week, we asked you to share gaming moments that broke your heart using #PSshare #PSblog. Here are this week’s heartbreaking highlights:  talenteddoge shares an emotionally scarred Sindri from God of War Ragnarök. JoeCapri shares Terence and Dion sharing an emotional moment in Final Fantasy XVI. TakaSanGames shares Ellie overcome with emotion while Joel is
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“My family’s always been in meat.” Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre introduces a sadistic clan living in a rural pocket of Texas left behind by industrialization. As The Hitchhiker (Edwin Neal) explains to Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns) and her friends, his family’s business has always been in slaughter. However, technological advances left their practices obsolete,
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WASHINGTON — Russia’s first lunar mission in nearly half a century suffered an “emergency situation” during an attempted maneuver Aug. 19, putting plans for a landing into question. In a brief statement posted to its channel on the social media service Telegram, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said that the Luna-25 spacecraft was commanded to
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By Howard Bloom Thomas S. Dee, an education professor at Stanford University, has just released the results of a study he carried out in partnership with the Associated Press.  The study’s topic is student absenteeism in 40 states, and the results are disturbing.   The Dee study concludes that 6.5 million students are chronic absentees.  They are absent
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Editor’s note: Dade Hayes and Jonathan Bing are co-authors of Open Wide: How Hollywood Box-Office Became a National Obsession. Hayes is Deadline’s Business Editor and Bing is Chief Communications Officer at Vice Media Group. The more things change, the more the Hollywood studios stay the same. At least that’s one of the surprising lessons of
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Like many people that near their eighteenth birthday, the Xbox 360 will soon lose support from its parent company. Today, an announcement on Xbox Wire revealed that the Xbox 360 store will be shutting down on July 29, 2024. This means you will no longer be able to purchase games or DLC on the console, and
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Re-releases reliably dot the theatrical calendar and this week have a standout. Oldboy, the 2004 Cannes prize-winner, re-released by Neon on its 20th anniversary restored and remastered, grossed $235k on Wednesday and $150k Thursday — for a total cume $385k on 250 screens heading into the weekend. San Francisco, NYC and LA, led by Alamo
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Prepare for a very busy Halloween season ahead. Sunny Oak Films and Iconic Events Releasing (Terrifier 2) have announced the theatrical release date for found footage film Malibu Horror Story. Following an expansive film festival run around the globe, the found footage horror film will hit theaters on October 20, 2023, with a limited release
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