Horror

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

The director of Kill List, Sightseers, A Field in England, High-Rise, and Netflix’s Rebecca, Ben Wheatley has been hired by Warner Bros to direct the shark attack sequel The Meg 2! Now that’s an (unexpectedly) inspired choice! The scoop comes courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter tonight, and the site also reports that The Meg star Jason Statham

Halloween unfortunately will be a bit lacking this year for many, but luckily, the Epic Games Store is treating everyone next week with two big free games. As part of their continuing “free game(s) every week” incentive, players can grab Bloober Team’s Blair Witch and Sony’s Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered absolutely free! This is

The monsters are crashing the drive-in! Drive-In-Sanity Films and Janus Films will be releasing three of Toho Japan’s classic monster mash movies beginning at drive-in theaters this weekend, Daily Dead reports. Destroy All Monsters, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla and Godzilla vs Megalon will first be unleashed at The Hi-Way Drive-In in Coxsackie, New York on October 23, 24 &

Originally known as Zombieland: Double Tapper, Tilting Point and Metagame Studios’ Zombieland: AFK Survival is celebrating its one-year anniversary by doing not one but two Halloween events. Right now, players can test their survival skills by masking up as one of four new heroes before hitting the road to kill and collect zombies. Zombieland: AFK

While we wait for Universal to bring the Bride of Frankenstein back to life, Variety reports tonight that Scarlett Johansson is on board to star in and produce a sci-fi movie titled Bride for Apple TV+ and A24, which sounds like it’s cut from a very similar cloth. Here’s the plot rundown…. “Bride is the

In the wake of 2010’s Skyline, director Liam O’Donnell took over for the wildly entertaining Beyond Skyline in 2017, and he’s back this year with trilogy-ender Skyline 3 (aka SKYLIN3S). The third installment was written and directed by O’Donnell, and io9 brings us the word this week that it’s headed to select theaters and VOD on

Hot on the heels of the Darkest Dungeon board game Kickstarter campaign kicking off, comes news that the game’s long-awaited sequel, Darkest Dungeon II, will see an Early Access launch on the Epic Games Store in 2021. Now before people get up in arms over exclusivity, Red Hook Games producer John Lindvay took to the

Reebok is celebrating Halloween this year by calling up the Ghostbusters, the company set to release two different pairs of themed sneakers on Halloween day, October 31st. First up are the “Ghost Smashers,” selling for $150. “Show ghosts who is boss. These men’s Ghost Smashers shoes have a fearless design inspired by the Ghostbusters movie

Just in time for Halloween, we’ve learned that Radar Licensing has announced initial license partners for its Hammer House of Horror merchandise program featuring Hammer Films’ Dracula, Frankenstein’s Creature, The Mummy, and other memorable monsters.  Hammer House of Horror merchandise will begin hitting stores this month, with the full launch set for 2021. The official

After decades of being an annual Halloween staple on television, it’s been announced that the Peanuts special “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” has found a new home exclusively over on the streaming service Apple TV+. What does that mean? Well, it means the special won’t be airing on traditional television this month, for the

With their 3D action platformer Pumpkin Jack launching later this week, publisher Headup Games and developer Nicolas Meyssonnier have released the launch trailer. The title will launch on October 23 for Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam, GOG, and the Epic Games Store. The PlayStation 4 version will launch “a few weeks later”.

With AFM just a few weeks out, Millennium Media has shared with Collider some really cool images from S.K. Dale‘s recently completed thriller Till Death, which leaves Megan Fox, who starred in the criminally underrated Jennifer’s Body, chained to her dead husband and covered in blood. “Till Death tells the story of Emma (Fox), who is left handcuffed to

Remothered: Broken Porcelain lives up to the broken part of its name a bit too well. I threw myself back into the Felton house of Remothered: Tormented Fathers in preparation for the release of its sequel, Broken Porcelain. Tormented Fathers, released about two years ago now, has its share of flaws, but overall, offers a

It’s Halloween; everyone’s entitled to one good scare. With this week’s streaming picks, expect many potent chills. Ghosts and hauntings tend to frighten more effectively than any other subgenre of horror because there’s no set rules or tangible way to fight them. The inherent unpredictability of incorporeal entities lurking in your home keeps you on

Maxim suuuuuuucks. After kicking off October proper with a discussion of the meta horror comedy The Final Girls last week, we’re classing things up with a look at Alfred Hitchcock‘s original adaptation of Daphne du Maurier‘s classic novel Rebecca and its villainous lesbian housekeeper Mrs. Danvers (just in time for Ben Wheatley’s new Netflix adaptation).