2020 was the year where just about everything was thrown into a state of disarray and one of the most prominent industries to be impacted was the entertainment industry. Movie premieres, festivals, concerts, and awards shows were either delayed or outright cancelled, setting the tone for a year in which nothing felt the same as
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If you’re wondering just when Sony will bring PS5 enhancements to God of War, you won’t have to wait long. Sony Santa Monica has announced that their hit return of Kratos is having its PS5 update released today! The PS5 update takes the PlayStation 4 Pro version’s graphical options and merges the two into a
Legendary and WB’s “MonsterVerse” began with the 2014 film Godzilla, directed by Gareth Edwards and introducing a new take on the classic movie monster. Ahead of Godzilla vs. Kong in March, we’ve learned today that Godzilla 2014 is now headed to 4K Ultra HD. Godzilla stomps his way onto 4K Ultra HD on March 23,
A true legend in the world of acting whose career spanned an incredible seven decades, we’ve learned the sad news this morning that Hal Holbrook has passed away at 95 years old. Throughout his career, Hal Holbrook earned ten Primetime Emmy awards nominations across three decades for his work in television, winning four of those
Vertical Entertainment has set a date for their pandemic horror movie Safer at Home this week, promising that isolation will be the real killer when the film heads home next month. Safer at Home comes to select theaters, VOD and Digital on February 26. In the film… “Two years into the pandemic, a group of
Midnight movie sendup Popcorn bears all the hallmarks of an ’80s horror movie. Fueled by nostalgia, the slasher features haunting vignettes, films within movies, a melodramatic killer, and a jovial tone amplified by its atypical filming location. Released on February 1, 1991, Popcorn brought the ’80s spirit into the ’90s and delivered one of the most entertaining slashers to
Fans of asymmetrical horror titles will have another one on the way, courtesy of Yggdrazil Group. Inspired by their previous title, Home Sweet Home, Home Sweet Home: Survive is a 4-versus-1 multiplayer game to be released on Steam later this year. In Survive, players will have to contend with an angry specter trying to hunt
Treyarch teased the upcoming Firebase Z map a few weeks back for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. Now they’ve unveiled a brand-new trailer for the map, which also contains a few details on what to expect. The trailer reveals that apart from zombie mayhem, the map will be set in Vietnam. Players’ attentions
Gamers were surprised earlier this month when Activision had decided to move Vicarious Visions, the creators of the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 and Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy remakes, into a subsidiary of Blizzard Entertainment. Apart from the speculation (and derision) that Vicarious Visions would be working on World of Warcraft expansions, there were thoughts
DC villain Victor Zsasz only made his first appearance in the DCEU just last year, played by Chris Messina in Cathy Yan’s Birds of Prey. And Zsasz, a sadistic assassin who carves slash marks into his body for each of his victims, is already headed back to the screen in this Sunday night’s episode of
Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, a seminal horror classic, notoriously made people afraid to go into the water. The blockbuster’s live shark sequences were filmed by legendary marine pioneer Valerie Taylor and her husband, Ron. Their role in the film led to regret once the blockbuster inspired a wave of shark slaughter. It sparked an enduring dedication by
Cinema has a long history with bad seeds or sociopathic children with a vicious streak. The archetype boasts no shortage of iconic children with corrupted innocence, and coming-of-angst only further compounds the potential for evil in youth. John and the Hole’s eponymous character seeks to join the ranks, but a relatively toothless fable undoes an unnerving
Be sure to follow @BDisgusting on Twitter for daily horror news and updates! It’s now been well over 10 years since the found footage film Cloverfield brought a giant monster into New York City, the 2008 film subsequently spawning a loosely connected universe of movies that has thus far included the excellent 10 Cloverfield Lane
We don’t have much to go on at this time but it looks like NECA has struck a deal to make Universal Monsters toys, as they’ve teased a Frankenstein’s monster figure tonight! The tease comes in the form of a sneak-peek image, which you’ll find below. No other information is available at this time, but
Who’s ever not in the mood for some good co-op horror action? That’s what developers Joe Fender and Luke Fanning, alongside British indie publisher Straight Back Games are counting on with Devour, which is now available on Steam Early Access, and has a launch trailer to boot. A prequel to the previously-released two-player co-op game
It’s now been over 10 years since John Carpenter directed his last movie, that being 2010’s The Ward, and Carpenter has mostly spent the past decade working on his music. He returned to the Halloween franchise to compose the score for Halloween 2018 and its upcoming sequel, and he’s released a handful of albums with
Another brand new novel is on the way from endlessly prolific master of horror Stephen King, with Entertainment Weekly revealing the cover for Billy Summers this afternoon. Scribner will be releasing Billy Summers on August 3, 2021. EW’s Clark Collis describes, “Billy Summers concerns a killer for hire and the best in the business. But
Scott Derrickson (Dr. Strange, Sinister) is headed back to the horror genre to direct The Black Phone for Blumhouse and Universal, and casting is now underway. THR reports today that Ethan Hawke, who of course starred in Derrickon’s Sinister, has signed on to star. The cast also includes the previously announced Jeremy Davies (“Hannibal”). Derrickson and frequent collaborator Robert Cargill (Bermuda, Doctor
It’s been quite the journey for Rose Glass‘s feature debut. After a highly successful and buzz-worthy festival run, her psychological, religious horror film was scheduled for U.S. release in April last year. Thanks to a pandemic, the release date shifted to July, then the film was pulled from the schedule entirely. Meanwhile, its October 2020 release
We’ve learned the sad news tonight that legendary actress and comedian Cloris Leachman passed away of natural causes at the age of 94 on Tuesday in Encinitas, California. Cloris Leachman won a “Best Actress in a Supporting Role” Oscar in 1972 for The Last Picture Show, and she also won multiple Emmy Awards throughout her
Writer Bragi Schut’s script The Last Voyage of the Demeter has been floating around for many years now, with several different directors attached at various points. The director currently on board the ship is André Øvredal (The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark), who was recently announced as director for the Amblin Partners
There was a time when James Wan‘s new horror movie Malignant was being released into theaters last August, but that was of course a very different time. Last we heard, Warner Bros/New Line will be bringing Wan’s latest horror movie to theaters and HBO Max sometime this year, and today we’ve been provided with a new release date
The wait for Godzilla vs. Kong here in the United States will be just a tiny bit longer, as we’ve learned today that WB is now bringing the film to theaters and HBO Max on March 31st. The previous release date was March 26, so no big deal here. Hang in there, folks! Here’s the
It’s been 15 years since we first met a new slasher icon in Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon. Directed by Scott Glosserman, the innovative film took a meta approach to the sub-genre, deconstructing the whole damn thing by taking us behind the scenes and showing what it’s like to be a slasher
The film has been bumped all over the release calendar ever since it was announced, and today Adam Robitel‘s Escape Room 2 once again has a brand new release date. Columbia Pictures will now release the film in theaters on January 7, 2022. Escape Room stars Logan Miller and Taylor Russell will be returning for the sequel. Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan), Holland Roden (“Channel
Fresh off HBO’s “Lovecraft Country,” we’ve learned tonight (via THR) that Misha Green has been set to write and direct the Tomb Raider feature film sequel for MGM. Green developed, wrote, directed and executive produced “Lovecraft Country” for HBO. She had previously written episodes of “Sons of Anarchy” and created “Underground.” Tomb Raider 2 will
One of the all-time great horror legends gets his own documentary with the upcoming Boris Karloff: The Man Behind The Monster, soon being released by Voltage Films Ltd. Variety reports this week that the documentary will be released in October 2021, “to coincide with the 90th anniversary of Universal’s Frankenstein in November 2021.” Directed by Thomas Hamilton, the
One of the big rumors in regards to Godzilla vs. Kong has centered on Mechagodzilla, with many fans speculating that the film will bring the Kaiju character into Legendary’s MonsterVerse. Mechagodzilla first appeared in1974’s Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, presented as a sort of mechanical anti-Godzilla who has frequently served as Godzilla’s adversary. You may have spotted
Along with announcing a price increase to the Xbox Live Gold service (then quickly reversing it), Microsoft has announced the next group of games to hit the Games With Gold service. Among them (and with perfect timing) are Capcom’s remake of Resident Evil for the Xbox One, another Capcom title for the Xbox 360 in
On Tuesday, January 26, Vice Press and Bottleneck Gallery will be launching a new series of limited edition Universal Monsters movie posters and art prints by British artist Greg Staples. Greg Staples is best known for his work on British comic 2000AD and artwork for Magic the Gathering, and he’s also been a lifelong fan