I initially gave up on HBO’s “Search Party” after the first season because it abandoned its original premise – Alia Shawkat‘s Dora becomes obsessed with tracking down a missing college acquaintance, roping her boyfriend Drew (John Reynolds) and best friends Elliott (John Early) and Portia (Meredith Hagner) into a messy private investigation. Thankfully, I returned […]
Day: January 12, 2022
[Review] ‘The Legend of La Llorona’ Hides Emotional Ghost Story Inside Cheesy Presentation
Directed by Patricia Harris Seeley, written by Cameron Larson (story) and Jose Prendes (screenplay), The Legend of La Llorona follows a family vacationing to Mexico in an effort to escape the grief that has fallen over them. The mom, Carly (Autumn Reeser) is somber and distraught, while her husband Andrew (Antonio Cupo) strives to make […]
“The Girl Before” – Gugu Mbatha-Raw and David Oyelowo Star in Psychodrama Thriller for HBO Max [Trailer]
Gugu Mbatha-Raw is on a terrifying quest to find out what happened to “The Girl Before” in this brand new HBO Max series, a psychodrama thriller that’s arriving in February. Watch the trailer below and look for it on February 10, only on HBO Max. “Jane (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) gets the chance to move into a […]
GSC Game World Delays ‘S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2’ to December
Turns out that the rumour posted yesterday was true. Only instead of Fall 2022, GSC Game World has announced that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 has had its release date bumped from its April 28th release date to December 8th, 2022. The release date change was posted to the official S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Twitter account. The reasoning behind the delay is […]
“Stranger Things” – Demogorgon and Eleven BrickHeadz Two Pack on the Way from LEGO!
A couple years back, LEGO released a “Stranger Things” set that has been hanging out in my living room ever since, depicting the Byers house and the main characters from the Netflix series. The coolest thing about the set is that it could be displayed upright or turned Upside Down, with the Byers house replicated […]
‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’ Bites Back into Select Theaters This Weekend
Now available on 4K and Blu-ray, Sony’s Venom: Let There Be Carnage is now making a return to theaters, likely to capitalize on the smash hit success of Spider-Man: No Way Home. Let There Be Carnage is back in select theaters January 14, we’ve learned today! Meagan Navarro writes in her review for Bloody Disgusting that Venom: […]
“Eye Candy” – Revisiting R.L. Stine’s 2004 Novel and the Short-Lived MTV Series It Spawned
Although R. L. Stine is best known for scaring younger audiences, namely with series like Fear Street and Goosebumps, the prolific children’s author has dabbled in adult stories from time to time. Sprinkled throughout his extensive oeuvre are the occasional grown-up tales of terror; four to be exact. In Stine’s third novel aimed at older […]
[Trailer] Otherworldy Horror Awaits in ‘It Sleeps Below the Haar’ This Fall
Last February, we touched on Arboreta Games’ PS1-styled throwback cosmic horror title The Black Iris (which you can still download from their itch.io page). The developer is back again this Fall with the release of It Sleeps Below the Haar, which can be wishlisted now on Steam. Described as a short horror exploration game, It Sleeps […]
The Original Ghostface Mask Designs That Would’ve Completely Changed the ‘Scream’ Franchise [Images]
One of the most iconic movie masks of all time almost never made it on screen. The mask that Scream forever immortalized as Ghostface was originally a mass-produced mask that bore the name “Peanut-Eyed Ghost.” Inspired by Edvard Munch’s painting “The Scream,” the mask was released by Fun World in the early ’90s, and the […]
Sebastian Stan-Starring Sundance Horror Movie ‘Fresh’ Will Be Released Straight to Hulu in March
Ahead of the film’s Sundance 2022 premiere, Indiewire reports that Searchlight has scooped up the horror movie Fresh, with plans to release the film exclusively through Hulu. Fresh comes to Hulu on March 4, 2022. From director Mimi Cave, Fresh is first playing as part of the Sundance Film Festival’s Midnight section, premiering on January […]
[Video] Check Out This Fan Remake of ‘Silent Hill’ Running in Unreal Engine 5
As is often the case, it’s the fans who come to the rescue when a game franchise needs them the most. Much like what we saw earlier this week with a fan-made update to Dino Crisis‘ Regina, a group of fans have decided to take on the task of remaking Konami’s classic Silent Hill using […]
‘We’re All Going to the World’s Fair’ – Unnerving Trailer Explores a Creepypasta Style Online Horror Game [Video]
The narrative feature debut of writer-director Jane Schoenbrun, Sundance Film Festival title We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is headed our way in April, and the unnerving official trailer has been released by distributor Utopia today. “The coming-of-age horror-drama follows teenager Casey who becomes immersed in an online role-playing horror game, wherein she begins to […]
“Shining Vale” – Before ‘Scream’, Preview Starz’s Horror-Comedy Series Starring Courteney Cox! [Video]
“Welcome to Shining Vale”… Courteney Cox is starring in the horror-comedy series “Shining Vale” for Starz, and today we’ve been provided with an official sneak peek ahead of the premiere on March 6. Check out your first-look below! The half-hour series from Jeff Astrof and Sharon Horgan also stars Mira Sorvino, Greg Kinnear, Merrin Dungey, Judith Light, Gus Birney and Dylan Gage. “Shining Vale” […]
IFC Midnight’s ‘Hatching’ Cracks Open Modern Monster Fairytale [Trailer]
The cracks in a picture perfect family begin to show, then grow in Hanna Bergholm’s Hatching, until it hatches into something grotesque and dangerous. The brand new trailer debuting ahead of the film’s Sundance virtual premiere next week gives a glimpse at what that might be. Check it out below, via Vulture. In Hatching, “12-year-old […]
Stabathon: Revisiting the Fictional 7-Movie ‘Stab’ Franchise Within ‘Scream’
The Scream franchise is built around a meta-awareness of horror, effectively weaving in social commentary on the genre while racking up a body count. The first sequel, Scream 2, took that to a new level with the introduction of Stab, the beginning of a long-running franchise within a franchise. Stab became irrevocably intertwined with Scream ever since, serving as plot devices, wry […]