Horror

October 1, 2020 10:18 am By Nadia Vella Do you like scary movies? Scream 5 will start filming later this month. The fifth instalment in the slasher satire series is due to hit cinemas in 2022, with Ready or Not directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, from the filmmaking group Radio Silence, steering the ship.

The latest from writer/director Brandon Cronenberg (Antiviral) brings the gore. So much so that Neon’s releasing it as “uncut,” with all the blood-soaked violence left intact. More than just gory, Possessor is an arresting, cerebral sci-fi thriller featuring riveting performances by an impressive cast. It follows corporate assassin Tasya Vos (Andrea Riseborough), who controls other people’s bodies through brain-implant

The funeral is about to begin… Our friends over at Cavity Colors have announced that they’re launching a Phantasm collection this Halloween, paying tribute to Don Coscarelli’s horror classic with shirts and more. “For the first time ever, we’re celebrating Don Coscarelli’s iconic horror classic with officially licensed t-shirts, cozy zip-up hoodies, jogger sweatpants, and

It was back in March – that feels like a lifetime ago, doesn’t it? – that Netflix was forced to suspend production on the fourth season of “Stranger Things” due to the ongoing pandemic, and though we’re certainly not out of the woodwork yet, we’ve learned today via a Netflix tweet that production has officially

October 1, 2020 10:26 am By Nadia Vella Netflix users spent a staggering 1.6 billion minutes watching fantasy drama Lucifer in the space of just one week. The first part of season five landed August 21, and quickly proved wildly popular, catapulting the show to the Number one spot in Nielsen’s streaming top 10 rankings.

While the re-releases of Metal Gear Solid and Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance on PC wasn’t quite what fans had in mind when the initial rumour appeared, it’s still great that Konami worked out a deal to bring them back. Of course, the next question is: Where’s Silent Hill? Apparently, according to a rating entry

One of the most exciting projects premiering at the brand new Nightstream Film Festival this month (October 8-11) is Frank & Zed, a DIY passion project from Portland-based filmmaker and puppeteer Jesse Blanchard. The all-puppet horror movie was made over a period of seven years, “filled to the bloody brim with long-forgotten ancient secrets, a towering cursed

Universal Pictures has enlisted the help of Idris Elba to tame a wild Beast, with Deadline reporting that Elba will star in the survival thriller that pits man against hungry lion. Baltasar Kormákur (Everest, Adrift) will direct the film. Deadline notes, “Plot details are vague other then it being in the vein of The Shallows

We had been hearing rumblings about a “Nightbreed” television series for the last several years, and Clive Barker himself has revealed tonight in a chat with Coming Soon that Michael Dougherty (Trick ‘r Treat, Godzilla: King of the Monsters) is on board to direct! “It’s exciting, after 30 years, to go back to these characters

Ahead of six brand new episodes of “Unsolved Mysteries” coming to Netflix on October 19, we’ve learned today that hosts Patrick Hinds and Gillian Pensavalle and their true crime podcast True Crime Obsessed are taking on the renowned “Unsolved Mysteries” franchise with a new, weekly spinoff podcast beginning this October. The new 12-episode series, part of True Crime Obsessed, will launch

Before he directs the new Evil Dead movie Evil Dead Rise, Lee Cronin (The Hole in the Ground) has first directed an episode of the Sam Raimi-produced “50 States of Fright,” which just premiered its second season over on Quibi. Cronin’s episode, titled “13 Steps to Hell” and inspired by a Washington-based urban legend, premieres

Filmmaker Keith Thomas (The Vigil) is directing a new take on Stephen King‘s Firestarter for Universal Pictures, Blumhouse Productions and Weed Road Productions, and we’ve learned today that Zac Efron (Extremely Wicked) has signed on to star in the film. As previously announced, Thomas (The Vigil) will direct the film that is being adapted by

After opening only in theaters (and performing incredibly well considering), Solstice Studios will get Unhinged on home video this November. Russell Crowe goes near-slasher in the “brutal thriller”, targeting a woman (Caren Pistorius) after a confrontation with her at an intersection. Unhinged arrives on Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital) and DVD, from Lionsgate, as well

We’ve got all kinds of treats planned for this season and one will keep you entertained all October long. CREEPY, the ultra-popular horror narration podcast downloaded more than a million times each month, will launch its “31 Days of Horror” series beginning October 1, 2020. The series will air a new chilling tale each day

Carvel announced today, “You’ll be spellbound by the Hocus Pocus Shake, conjured up just for Freeform’s 31 Nights of Halloween and available only at Carvel for a limited time.” “Try it at your local shoppe or summon one straight to your door using your favorite delivery app (no black flame candle needed).” The Hocus Pocus

Younger versions of the beloved characters from the Madagascar franchise take center stage in Hulu‘s new series “Madagascar: A Little Wild,” which is getting its own Halloween special. Madagascar: A Little Wild – A Fang-tastic Halloween premieres October 21! Hulu debuted the trailer this afternoon. Check it out below. And yes, Hulu is also bringing

Let’s cut straight to the chase: The Boy Behind the Door is a genuinely dark thriller. Harrowingly dark. More than just putting its child protagonists in constant peril, it broaches pedophiliac subject matter that might be too upsetting and off-putting for some. Consider this a trigger warning. First-time feature filmmakers David Charbonier and Justin Powell plunge straight

Blumhouse, Red Wagon, Sony and director Zoe Lister-Jones have conjured up a fresh new take on ’90s classic The Craft, and it looks like it’s coming *home* this October. The Craft will reportedly be released straight to VOD on October 27. A surprise treat for the Halloween season, as we had assumed the film would

Systemic Reaction have dropped another gameplay video for their upcoming dino shooter Second Extinction, showing from start to finish a “research and rescue” mission. On top of that, the devs have revealed their plans for Early Access, which kicks off on October 13th. The roadmap (which you can see below) isn’t exactly forthcoming as to

Within the last five or so years, director/producer Jill Gevargizian has been hard at work, releasing an impressive number of short films. Of them all, it was her 2016 short “The Stylist,” that garnered the most acclaim and attention by horror-loving hearts on the festival circuit, though. In just fifteen minutes, the short relayed the

Filming is now underway on the first of two new thrillers that M. Night Shyamalan is directing for Universal, and the filmmaker has revealed today that the movie is titled Old. “Feels like a miracle that I am standing here shooting the first shot of my new film. It’s called Old,” Shyamalan tweeted today, along

When Ginger Snaps came out in 2000, it was unlike any other werewolf horror flick. Director John Fawcett and screenwriter Karen Walton turned the masculine subgenre on its head, focusing on an unexpected plot: a teenage girl’s period. In the film, Ginger, a 16-year-old outcast, is bitten by a lycanthrope right when she gets her

Filming just kicked off this week in Wilmington, North Carolina on the Radio Silence-directed Scream for Paramount and Spyglass Media Group, and unfortunately three members of the crew have already tested positive for COVID-19. But as Deadline notes, the production isn’t being shut down. Rather, after a weekend break, filming will resume this coming Monday.

DC’s Black Adam gets his own solo movie next year with box office juggernaut Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in the title role of a film being directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan, The Shallows), and we’ve learned tonight via Deadline that The Invisible Man actor Aldis Hodge is now in talks to co-star as the DC Comics superhero Hawkman. The character debuted

True to the schedule (because why would they deviate?), Capcom dropped some new footage for Resident Evil Village during their panel at TGS 2020. Before things started, Capcom announced that they are looking to port Village to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. “While Resident Evil Village is being developed specifically for next-generation consoles and

“The Boys” has proven to be a massively success series for Amazon, currently in its second season, and we’ve learned today that a spinoff series is now in the works at Amazon! Variety reports that Amazon is fast-tracking a series “set at America’s only college exclusively for young adult superheroes (or “supes”) that is run

Celebrated at many film festivals over the years was Jill Gevargizian‘s exceptional indie horror The Stylist, which featured the wonderful Najarra Townsend (Contracted) as a hairstylist-turned-slasher. After a highly successful festival run, Gevargizian turned to Kickstarter to help finance a feature-length version of her hair care horror story that would not only bring Townsend back as the stylist, Claire, but feature

Dataminers have been busy with Mortal Kombat 11 once again, fueling speculation that we could be seeing more DLC in the future. Best of all, from the leaks, it appears that some of that content might involve the 1995 movie! While the video posted to YouTube is now gone, a Reddit user managed to snag

Switch users won’t have to feel left out with developers One More Level, 3D Realms, and Slipgate Ironworks’ cyberpunk first-person slasher Ghostrunner. The devs have announced that in addition to the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC release of the game on October 27, the Nintendo Switch will also be getting a version on the

Up next from Trollhunter, The Autopsy of Jane Doe and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark director André Øvredal is Lionsgate’s Mortal, which has received a new trailer this week. Death Note‘s Nat Wolff stars in the film as a young man discovering he has God-like powers based on ancient Norwegian mythology. The full