Horror

Falling for the trickery of April Fools’ Day often leads to hurt feelings or anger at being duped. In horror, though, it can be downright deadly. Unless, perhaps, it’s a rare exception like the 1986 slasher April Fool’s Day, where the audience is the intended prank target. With April Fools’ Day commencing this Friday, this week’s

Any time a dev mentions Silent Hill as one of the inspirations for their game, we’re interested. Developer MystiveDev hopes to capitalize on that inspiration with their upcoming psychological Survival Horror game, Mirror Forge, which is set for release on September 29 on PC through Steam, and even has a demo available for download. The

Developers Saber Interactive have provided us with a new look at the upcoming Evil Dead: The Game this week, giving us our first taste at the game’s single-player missions. Evil Dead: The Game is coming on May 13, 2022, and this latest gameplay footage spotlights how good the game will look with NVIDIA DLSS enhancements. This latest

QCODE‘s hit horror podcast series, The Burned Photo, will return for a second season, it was announced this week. Based on the suspense-filled and popular Reddit thread, The Burned Photo, tells the story of Felicia and Kira, two women, whose lives become intertwined when they discover they are being terrorized by the same generational curse

Filmmaker and horror icon Larry Fessenden has developed an extensive career creating and supporting independent horror. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is celebrating with a retrospective of Fessenden and Glass Eye Pix, the New York independent production shingle headed by the genre auteur. Running March 30 through April 19, the retrospective will run 26 feature films and

Netflix’s supernatural horror series “Archive 81” debuted in January, where it quickly broke into the streaming service’s Top 10 and became a buzzed-about title. However, despite that attention, Netflix has opted not to move forward with a second season. Executive produced by James Wan, Deadline speculates that the numbers of viewers “did not meet the threshold

Welcome to the Hammer Factory. This month we dissect Lust for a Vampire (1971). While Hammer Studios has been in business since 1934, it was between 1955 and 1979 that it towered as one of the premier sources of edgy, gothic horror. On top of ushering the famous monsters of Universal’s horror heyday back into the

Welcome to the Hammer Factory. This month we dissect Lust for a Vampire (1971). While Hammer Studios has been in business since 1934, it was between 1955 and 1979 that it towered as one of the premier sources of edgy, gothic horror. On top of ushering the famous monsters of Universal’s horror heyday back into the

We’re living in a golden age for video game adaptations of horror franchises, with recent Friday the 13th, Predator and Alien games paving the way for upcoming games based on The Evil Dead and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. It would seem that all franchises are up for grabs on the video game front at

We pick up a proton pack and throw out a trap to catch a glimpse of IllFonic’s ‘Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed’ in our preview of the new multiplayer experience. In hindsight, it’s actually quite surprising we hadn’t seen an asymmetrical multiplayer Ghostbusters game before now. The format feels right for the license. IllFonic has spent the

Announced last year, Scare Package is getting a sequel with Scare Package II: Rad Chad’s Revenge, and Fangoria has announced the new cast and director lineup today. The upcoming horror anthology sequel will feature returning Scare Package actors Jeremy King, Zoe Graham, and Byron Brown, with newcomers to the franchise including Kelli Maroney (Night of

Okay, we’re all still waiting on Bloodlines 2. But there are other Vampire: The Masquerade titles in development that are very much on their way, such as Big Bad Wolf Studio’s Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong, which has just had a new gameplay trailer released. The gameplay trailer gives a brief overview of the abilities and

Okay, we’re all still waiting on Bloodlines 2. But there are other Vampire: The Masquerade titles in development that are very much on their way, such as Big Bad Wolf Studio’s Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong, which has just had a new gameplay trailer released. The gameplay trailer gives a brief overview of the abilities and

23 years ago, Kevin Williamson wrote and directed Teaching Mrs. Tingle, a film that saw a good student (Katie Holmes) hold a vindictive teacher (Helen Mirren) hostage in her own home after she is caught cheating. It was a dark comedy, but due to its proximity to the Columbine High School massacre it was a watered-down

This installment of Phantom Limbs finds us cutting into the intended third and fourth seasons MTV’s Scream: The TV Series. While the first two seasons of the film series-inspired television slasher followed one particular group of characters whose stories were left unresolved when MTV rebooted the series with the unrelated Scream: Resurrection, the initial plan

Celebrating her 40th anniversary this year, Elvira has announced a brand new upcoming comic book as part of her partnership with Dynamite Comics, titled The Death of Elvira! Chatting with Bloody Disgusting’s Boo Crew Podcast this week, Cassandra “Elvira” Peterson teased the upcoming comic, which should be a must-read for all Elvira fans. “I’ve got

When he was sixteen years old, Tod Browning ran away with the circus. Technically speaking it was a travelling show called the Manhattan Fair & Carnival Company which he joined after becoming enthralled with one of its dancers. He held several jobs in various carnivals, circuses, and sideshows including barker, escape artist, clown, and stable

C.J. Cooke’s The Lighthouse Witches, released by Penguin Random House last year, is next becoming a TV series from Studiocanal and The Picture Company, Deadline reports. Deadline reports this afternoon, “The two companies closed the rights to the book and are currently packaging the series.” Here’s the full plot synopsis for The Lighthouse Witches… “The

January is so often seen as a dumping ground for films that studios have little faith in, either for any awards consideration or box office success. If a film isn’t Oscar bait or likely to be a summer blockbuster, January is where they’re dropped. To be fair, there is at least some truth in this.

AMC’s spinoff “Fear the Walking Dead” is coming back this spring with Season 7 Part 2, and we’ve learned today that the brand new episodes will premiere on April 17, 2022. The first two episodes will be available to stream that same night only on AMC+ with subsequent episodes streaming one week early beginning Sunday,

Games will be played at the ongoing SXSW Film Festival and this time, Jigsaw won’t be behind them. Bill Posley sets up the board games with Bitch Ass, a brand new slasher being introduced to audiences at tonight’s World Premiere. Bitch Ass takes place in the late 90s where the title character, played by Tunde

No matter the production, whether it’s a small indie horror movie or a summer blockbuster, actor Nicolas Cage always turns in a memorable performance. He’s a Hollywood performer and icon like no other, which means only Cage could take on a role like the lead in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. The meta-action comedy sees Cage playing

March 14, 2022 3:45 pm By Nadia Vella Hello, welcome to 2022, where nothing and no one is off-limits when it comes to reboots, reunions, and sequels no one asked for. However, Beetlejuice might be the one exception for people who are hesitant to the idea of their beloved ’80s and ’90s movies and TV

First revealed last October, developer Soleil and publisher 110 Industries’ upcoming slice-and-dice action game Wanted: Dead has unveiled a new trailer at the SXSW Gaming Awards that doubles down on the bloody dismemberment and gunplay. All set to Bella and the Switchblades’ “The Wild One”, the trailer captures the fun 80s action movie feel with

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the directing duo known collectively as “The Daniels,” haven’t directed a feature film together since 2016’s Swiss Army Man (review), with Kwan branching off to work on television shows like FX’s Legion and Scheinert directing a feature film on his own in 2019’s The Death of Dick Long (review). Six years

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the directing duo known collectively as “The Daniels,” haven’t directed a feature film together since 2016’s Swiss Army Man (review), with Kwan branching off to work on television shows like FX’s Legion and Scheinert directing a feature film on his own in 2019’s The Death of Dick Long (review). Six years

Playing at SXSW this month, the Australian horror movie Sissy, written and directed by Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes, has been acquired by Shudder, Variety reports today. Variety notes in their report this afternoon, “Shudder will be the exclusive streamer for the film in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland.” “Directors Hannah Barlow and

The latest actor to sign on for the Sam Raimi-produced action thriller Boy Kills World is Michelle Dockery (“Downton Abbey”), Deadline is reporting this afternoon. Deadline notes, “Michelle Dockery will play the sister of the film’s Van der Koy family. Melanie is a satirical powerhouse and sociopath who tries to project a powerful cohesive family

With SXSW 2022 on the horizon, let’s talk horror premieres… This week brings the 29th edition of the SXSW Film Festival, taking place in Austin, TX, from March 11-20, with a jam-packed lineup that’s brimming with genre offerings. In addition, this year, the acclaimed program will offer both in-person and online screenings. SXSW 2022 features

Aliens are headed to the arctic in the upcoming sci-fi invasion film Slash/Back, and the first clip today gives us our first introduction to the teen heroes doing battle with aliens. In Slash/Back, “Maika and her ragtag friends discover an alien invasion in their tiny arctic hamlet, and it’s up to them to fight back. Utilizing