Much like Friday the 13th, the Predator franchise has been mired in its own legal battle of late, with Disney having acquired the franchise as part of their 20th Century Fox acquisition but the writers of the original movie suing in an effort to recapture the rights. As we reported in April 2021, Jim and […]
Month: January 2022
Pete Davidson Checks Into ‘The Home’, From the Creator of ‘The Purge’
After dabbling in comedy for a minute with This Is the Night, The Purge creator and director James DeMonaco is returning to the genre with The Home, a brand new horror thriller from Miramax that will star “SNL” alum Pete Davidson, Deadline reports. “Davidson will play Max, a troubled man who starts working at a retirement […]
‘Ghost Rider’ at 50: Revisiting the Nicolas Cage Movie and Exploring the Character’s Future in the MCU
While the MCU might want to sell you the idea that Sam Rami’s upcoming Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is their big jump into horror – keep in mind that we’ve already been gifted with a couple awesome horror gems in the form of Marvel movies. While 1998’s Blade is one of my […]
‘Speak No Evil’ Trailer Screams for Help Ahead of Sundance Premiere [Video]
TrustNordisk, who has been behind some really cool films from Lake of Death to Frost and Breaking Surface, just released a festival trailer for director and screenwriter Christian Tafdrup’s upcoming psychological horror, Speak No Evil, which is set to World Premiere at next week’s Sundance Film Festival. In the film, which turns a vacation into a nightmare… “On a vacation in […]
[Trailer] Fan Project ‘Castlevania: Seal of the Eclipse’ Takes Inspiration From ‘Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon’ and ‘Dracula’s Curse’
We’ve gotten a bunch of Resident Evil, Silent Hill and Dino Crisis tribute games/remakes from fans. But what about Castlevania, you say? Well, since you asked, a group of fans have decided to do just that with Castlevania: Seal of the Eclipse, a free fan game that’s a tribute to the classic 8-bit titles. Per […]
HBO’s “Search Party” Season 5 Devolves Into a Full-Blown Apocalyptic Nightmare! [Images]
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 […]
[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 […]