Originally released on the road to Halloween way back in August 1929, Disney’s 5-minute animated short The Skeleton Dance has just been given new life here in 2020! Directed by Walt Disney and animated by Ub Iwerks, the “Silly Symphony” short has been remastered in 4K by YouTube’s Adam Maciaszek, who employed an interesting technique.
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November is here, which means Halloween has come and gone far too quickly as usual. This week, we’re chasing the post-Halloween blues away with a whole lot of red- as in blood red. We’ve visited atypical takes on one of horror’s most enduring movie monsters before, but this week we’re taking a more traditional approach
With all of the games coming out using the World of Darkness license, Sharkmob’s upcoming game is probably something not many people expected. The studio, which was founded in 2017 by former Massive Entertainment and IO Interactive developers, is currently developing a multiplayer battle royal game using the Vampire: The Masquerade license. No title has
Superflat Games, creator of the survival horror game Lone Survivor, has announced an enhanced version of the game entitled Super Long Survivor. The title will hit PC and the Nintendo Switch in 2021, and include a brand-new scenario. Rewritten from scratch in a modern engine, Super Lone Survivor (which is different than the enhanced Director’s
How’s this for a post-Halloween treat? A Doom modder known by Batandy has given P.T. fans a treat after the expected but still disappointing news regarding P.T. and the PS5: a remake of P.T. using GZDoom! It’s crazy how Doom‘s engine is still able to crank out these crazy games after over 25 years. And
One of my favorite parts of Halloween (besides the trick or treating, the costumes, and how every channel runs horror movies back-to-back) is The Simpsons’ annual “Treehouse of Horror” episodes. Easily the most popular episode of the year, each one contains three story segments, and sometimes a wrap-around segment. Though they are sometimes wholly original
DreadXP, the video game-focused offshoot of Dread Central, has been doing great things in terms of championing and publishing indie horror games this past year. Not only has it released three Dread X Collections, packed with game jam horror experiences from talented up and coming developers, it’s put on a Halloween showcase for indie horror
AMC’s FearFest is once again coming to an end, but not before the most important few days of the entire year. It’s Halloween Weekend, and FearFest is slashing with Michael Myers! Here’s what the schedule looks like for tonight through November 1st. Friday, October 30th 5pm EST: Halloween 6 7pm EST: Halloween (1978) 9pm EST:
Kicking off Halloween proper, NECA has made the announcement this morning that “Ultimate Edition” action figures based on Puppet Master‘s iconic puppets are coming soon! “Ultimate 2 packs coming soon,” NECA tweeted, along with preview photos. The figures depict Blade, Pinhead, Torch and Tunneler. Check ’em out below and expect more info soon! A box
Announced back in April, HBO is developing a “Hellraiser” television series, which has an incredible creative team attached including David Gordon Green (Halloween Kills) directing the pilot and “several more initial episodes,” and Michael Dougherty (Trick ‘r Treat, Krampus, Godzilla: King of the Monsters) writing alongside Mark Verheiden (“Battlestar Galactica”). And Deadline reports tonight that Clive
Formerly titled Wally’s Wonderland, Nicolas Cage will be battling animatronic terrors in the upcoming horror film Willy’s Wonderland, and the first teaser trailer has arrived today. Entertainment Weekly, who shared the teaser, notes that the film will release in 2021! The trailer is only 15 seconds long, but it teases a whole lot of bloody madness to
Unsane and The Girl in the Spider’s Web actress Claire Foy has been set to star in psychological horror movie Dust, and the project has been picked up by Searchlight Pictures. THR reports, “The story is set against the backdrop of increasingly horrific dust storms in 1930s Oklahoma and tells of a young mother, to be played by Foy, haunted
Kids just want to grow up, but they’re not always ready for grown up movies. So it’s important to put some serious thought into how you introduce kids to the horror genre. There are lots of horror classics out there that are perfectly appropriate for children and have been acting as a gateway between kids
Elisha Cuthbert, who starred in the 2005 remake of House of Wax, is returning to the genre in The Cellar, which Epic Pictures will launch at the upcoming AFM, reports Deadline. The Ireland-set horror movie tells the story of Keira Woods (Cuthbert), whose daughter mysteriously vanishes in the cellar of their new house in the country.
Let’s just admit it: There aren’t enough Halloween specials. There’s a reason we revisit It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and Garfield’s Halloween Adventure every year, and that’s because the pickings are pretty slim. There are tons of Halloween episodes of TV shows, and plenty of movies out there, but Halloween just doesn’t have as
Stephen Cognetti’s found footage film Hell House LLC has built up quite a fan following in the five years since its release, that original film spawning two sequels in more recent years. And now on the road to Halloween 2020, the uncut “Director’s Cut” will be unleashed. We’ve learned tonight that Hell House LLC: The
Screen Media grabs a hatchet and goes on the hunt in Chad Faust’s feature directorial debut thriller Girl, which will open in select theaters November 20 before arriving on VOD platforms November 24th. “In Girl, a young woman (Bella Thorne) returns to her small hometown to exact revenge on her abusive father, only to discover someone murdered him the day before. As
Announced tonight, Legendary is hosting a Trick ‘r Treat watch party on October 30, Halloween Eve, and writer/director Michael Dougherty is taking part in a live-tweet hang out! Legendary teases, “Start your copy of Trick ‘r Treat at 7pm PT on October 30th and Join Director @Mike_Dougherty as he tweets along from the @Legendary Twitter
October 27, 2020 3:13 pm By Nadia Vella Luke Mordue examines the historical impact of the stories that haunt our society; tales that have gripped towns and cities across the world for centuries as true events. Urban Legends. Broken into three sections; The Story, where the tale is retold. The History, where the true crimes
The Legend of Zelda has become one of the most captivating fantasy experiences in all of video game history. At the core of its story has always been a young boy fighting against evil, traversing an immense land brimming with excitement. But in the year 2000, something very different took place in the franchise. Two
With Boys in the Trees, director Nicholas Verso spun a coming-of-age tale steeped in dark fantasy and Halloween. The festival favorite captured the ‘90s, but more importantly, it showcased Verso’s sentimentality. That continues with Toys of Terror, a feature written by Stan Against Evil and The Simpsons’ Dana Gould. Gould’s sense of horror-laced humor combined with Verso’s distinct feel for nostalgia-induced sweetness makes
Announced back in September, Netflix is getting set to unleash an animated series titled “Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness,” and we’ve got a couple brand new images for ya tonight. “Infinite Darkness” features iconic characters Claire Redfield and Leon S. Kennedy, set in the canon of Capcom’s classic survival horror franchise and arriving sometime in 2021.
Much like DC and their FanDome event this past summer, Blumhouse has announced that they’re bringing the Halloween fun to you at home this week with their first annual BlumFest. And yes, there will be a Halloween Kills panel. Read on for details! Join the stars from the upcoming Blumhouse films Freaky and The Craft: Legacy; talent and
Freddy Krueger suffers the same fate as the infamous melting Nazi from Raiders of the Lost Ark in this fun time-lapse video from artist Steven Richter, who melted down crayons to create a bust of the Nightmare on Elm Street slasher and then blasted it with heat. Freddy’s demise here is strikingly similar to the
Board game fans (and Lovecraftian fans) will have something to look forward to next year, thanks to publisher Asmodee Digital and developer Luckyhammers. Arkham Horror: Mother’s Embrace, a digital game based on the Arkham Horror board game franchise, will launch in 2021 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam. The game
October 25, 2020 3:43 pm By Nadia Vella A woman whose family reported her missing in 2018 was found floating alive in the Caribbean Sea off a northern Colombian port town. [embedded content] A missing mother has been found floating alive off the coast of Colombia two years after she lost contact with her family
Some unfortunate news this weekend from Nightdive Studios, as the anticipated release of Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition has been pushed back. Originally due out later this year, Nightdive Studios CEO Stephen Kick made the announcement in an interview with Eurogamer that the game will no longer be released in 2020. The reasoning behind the delay
It’s always cool when you have talented fans strutting their stuff with their art. In this case, Bryan at STITCH-BIT has been busy during these long COVID months doing up some amazing cross-stitching of video game characters/scenes, including plenty of horror-related ones. While the majority of these 5-inch by 5-inch pieces are from the NES,
Ghosts have taken over Fortnite and Epic Games is sending in the Ghostbusters to trap ’em all. Part of this season’s ongoing “Fortnitemares” event, a handful of Ghostbusters bundles have just hit the game’s item shop! There appear to be two bundles of either male or female ‘busters that will cost you 2,000 V-Bucks each,
The great thing about October is that it seems like *everyone* embraces horror, if only for a month, delivering tricks and treats that you’d probably never expect them to otherwise. Take Drew Barrymore, for example, who just reprised the role of Casey Becker from Wes Craven’s Scream for a fun little video that imagines a