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
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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).
Grimrukh, the mind behind the popular Dark Souls mod Daughters of Ash, is at it again with another mod. This time, they’ve pulled together a team of other modders to make something ambitious: a whole new game built on top of Dark Souls called Dark Souls: Nightfall. From what Grimrukh has revealed on their website,
October 18, 2020 3:23 pm By Nadia Vella The Mountain Kings was recently nominated at the Independent Horror Movie Awards and The Hardcore Horror Fest, including official selection, Best Actress, Best Kill and Best Nudity. Murder. Mayhem. Movie-making. Three friends take a dark journey into murder, mayhem and movie-making in this raw and unflinching experimental
The annual Halloween special of “The Simpsons” was supposed to air on FOX tonight, October 18, but we’ve learned at the last minute that “Treehouse of Horror XXXI” has been delayed. Due to Game 7 of the NLCS, the episode will now air on November 1st. Yes, the night *after* Halloween. Damn you, sports! This
Fans of GTFO will have another Rundown to look forward to later this week. 10 Chambers Collective have announced that Rundown 004: Contact will release on Thursday, October 22nd, meaning that those who are enjoying Rundown 003: The Vessel will have to finish up their objectives soon before the map is wiped. While details are
The immense success of Amnesia: The Dark Descent created big expectations for Frictional Games’ follow-up. Rather than continuing the Amnesia series themselves, they handed it off to the Chinese Room for A Machine for Pigs while they worked on Soma, an original sci-fi horror title. While Dark Descent became known for its terrifying intensity, Soma
The iconic cereal monsters Count Chocula, Boo Berry and Franken Berry are currently back on store shelves for the Halloween season, and General Mills has just launched a “Monster of a Sweepstakes” contest in order to find a home for three one-of-a-kind busts. The busts are the work of award-winning special effects artist Karlee Morse,
Presenting itself as a “lost scene” from David Gordon Green’s Halloween (2018), the 13-minute short Happy Halloween: A Halloween Kills Fan Film has been unleashed, coming along as a special fan-made treat on the very weekend Halloween Kills was originally supposed to be released in theaters. And to its credit, it’s a highly satisfying way
Just in time for Halloween, cat treat brand Temptations has released a new animated short titled Scaredy Cat: The Movie. It stars an adorable orange and white cat as it playfully follows a ball of string that rolls down the hallway and throughout the rest of the house. Some spooky things are happening in this
Welcome back to Nightmare Alley, fiends; The spooky little sidestreet in the Nightmare on Film Street podcast feed. This week, Kim & Jon are joined by writer/director Ryan Spindell to discuss his super HalloweenTastic horror-anthology The Mortuary Collection, now available to stream on Shudder! If you aren’t afraid of tentacle monsters, creepy old morticians, or
Dark Star Pictures has been on fire lately having nabbed some incredible films such as Koko-Di Koko-Da, Empathy, Inc., Jumbo, and even King Cohen. Next up is a wild and crazy animated horror film, Attack of the Demons, written, directed and animated by Eric Power (Path of Blood). Attack of the Demons, which Meagan wrote “wears its horror influences on its sleeve and then
While Ultranite’s Dryad is still a ways off, the title recently appeared on Steam after initially being on Game Jolt. And with it, new details on the point-and-click game. Aside from the story involving you investigating the campgrounds where four camp counselors were brutally slain, the Steam page reveals that Dryad will also feature a
Can 2020 get any scarier? “The Simpsons” are back for another round of animated terror in “Treehouse of Horror XXXI” this Sunday night, the long-running show’s annual celebration of Halloween. This year’s special parodies Toy Story, offers a frightening look at the 2020 election, and spoofs Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse by unleashing several Homers from other dimensions. “Treehouse
Screen Media announced today that Chad Faust’s feature directorial debut thriller Girl 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 the girl searches for answers, she
It was announced earlier today that Shudder has acquired North American rights to the vampire comedy Boys from County Hell, and we’re serving up their poster for the film tonight. Take a bite down below! Shudder will premiere the film in the US and Canada in 2021. “The film follows Eugene Moffat, who spends his
SEPTEMBER 1999 developer 98DEMAKE is back again with another project, this time teasing fans with a trailer for 02:32. If the name wasn’t cryptic enough, the trailer asks even more questions than it answers (while still looking cool). Certainly, there’s not a heck of a lot to go on, but the slow overhead crawl down
Having just screened as part of the ongoing Beyond Fest in Los Angeles is Canadian filmmaker Steven Kostanski‘s (Manborg, Leprechaun Returns, The Void) PG: Psycho Goreman, a blood-soaked horror-comedy that was recently acquired by RLJE Films for release on January 22, 2021. Check out this brand new piece of art that fully delivers on the promise of “gore”
Friday the 13th fans have been dying to see Jason slash his way through the snow for many years, and the team behind fan film Never Hike Alone has finally made that a reality. Womp Stomp Films and director Vincente DiSanti are back with Never Hike in the Snow tonight, a brand new Friday fan film that’s set 3 months prior to
October 13, 2020 2:12 pm By Nadia Vella The psychological impact that the lockdown has taken on us is something to be concerned about. Our lives changed a lot, for the better or in many cases for the worst. In this moment, you might be eager to watch some sports you never paid attention before,
The Telluride Horror Show‘s “Shelter-in-Place” Edition kicks off this week, running from October 15-18. From the press release, “The festival welcomes actor Ted Raimi, who will host “Deathly Spirits”, a virtual cocktail hour offering viewers an opportunity to mix Ted’s drink recipes and engage with the genre favorite after the screening of his new short
Way back in 2013, indie dev Ragtag Studio had shown off a little game at E3 that year called Ray’s The Dead. Ragtag Studio is the same group of folks behind the cult favourite Stubbs The Zombie, by the way. Well, flash forward to 2020, and the devs have announced that the game is finally