Horror

Paramount and Blumhouse’s upcoming new installment in the Paranormal Activity franchise will be going straight to Paramount+, with Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day, Freaky) writing the script and William Eubank (Underwater) directing. It’s titled Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin, and we’ve learned today that it’s coming to Paramount+ on October 29! “From Paramount Players, the new film will bring fans an unexpected

Last week, we shared a list of Six of the Most Unique Movie Monsters that were created exclusively for the big screen. While these beasts were carefully chosen according to originality and the quality of the special effects used to bring them to life, there are just so many great creature-features out there that it’s

Fans of Serenity Forge and developer White Rabbit’s Death’s Gambit will be getting a revamped version of the game later this month for the PC and Nintendo Switch. Death’s Gambit: Afterlife will launch for the Switch via Nintendo eShop and PC via Steam on September 30 for $19.99. A PlayStation 4 version will follow later this year. The

Last week, we shared a list of Six of the Most Unique Movie Monsters that were created exclusively for the big screen. While these beasts were carefully chosen according to originality and the quality of the special effects used to bring them to life, there are just so many great creature-features out there that it’s

LEGO IDEAS is a pretty cool branch of the LEGO brand, allowing fans to pitch their own concepts directly to the company. The platform encourages you to upload images and details of your creations, which will be forwarded to the desks of the folks in charge IF you can get 10,000 upvotes on your idea. From there,

Nicolas Cage described Prisoners of the Ghostland as “the wildest movie I’ve ever made.” Considering the actor’s list of genre credits, that’s an instant eyebrow-raising statement, and the plot description seems to back up that claim. Cage plays Hero, a robber sprung from jail and tasked with retrieving Bernice (Sofia Boutella), the adoptive granddaughter of The Governor (Bill

There’s been a Left 4 Dead-shaped hole in gaming for too long, and while there have been some attempts to fill it (World War Z and Aliens: Fireteam Elite for example), nothing has really come close to capturing that spirit. So who better to take a shot than a developer that had a hand in

Perhaps my favorite thing about BEESWAX’ GAMES’ SPOOKWARE is how it takes the crumb of an idea (Wario Ware but spooky) and runs with it to the point that it becomes something else entirely. SPOOKWARE started life as a brief microgame collection on itch.io, grew into a whole segment in one of DreadXP’s  Dread X Collections,

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 public eye, resurrecting the likes of Frankenstein, Dracula and the Mummy in vivid

LEGO IDEAS is a pretty cool branch of the LEGO brand, allowing fans to pitch their own concepts directly to the company. The platform encourages you to upload images and details of your creations, which will be forwarded to the desks of the folks in charge IF you can get 10,000 upvotes on your idea. From there,

For those wanting THQ Nordic to finally give you Destroy All Humans! fans a remake of the sequel (ourselves included), your wish has been granted! Over on the official PlayStation Twitter account, Sony, THQ Nordic and developer Black Forest Games have announced the remake of Destroy All Humans! 2 entitled Destroy All Humans! 2 –

David Bruckner (The Night House), who helmed Netflix’s The Ritual as well as sections of Bloody Disgusting’s horror anthologies V/H/S and Southbound, is directing the relaunch of the Hellraiser franchise for Spyglass Media, set to be a Hulu feature film written by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski (SiREN, Super Dark Times, The Night House). Bruckner’s Hellraiser is filming as you read this, with Odessa A’zion starring in one

Guillermo del Toro‘s next movie is titled Nightmare Alley, and Searchlight Pictures will be releasing the hotly anticipated film only in theaters on December 17, 2021. Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, Mary Steenburgen, and David Strathairn star in Nightmare Alley. Vanity Fair provides us with several first look images from Nightmare

Filmmaker Mike Mendez (The Convent, Big Ass Spider!, Don’t Kill It) – who can currently be seen in James Wan’s Malignant! – is back with an upcoming horror movie titled The Devil’s Trap, and Deadline brings us the info this week. For starters, production is currently getting underway on the film, which features a cast including

Filmmaker Mike Mendez (The Convent, Big Ass Spider!, Don’t Kill It) – who can currently be seen in James Wan’s Malignant! – is back with an upcoming horror movie titled The Devil’s Trap, and Deadline brings us the info this week. For starters, production is currently getting underway on the film, which features a cast including

Adam Robitel‘s sequel Escape Room: Tournament of Champions is coming home for Halloween, and as we learned last week, a new alternate version of the movie will be included. With both Theatrical and Extended cuts, Tournament of Champions will be released digitally on September 21st, and it’s then coming to Blu-ray on October 5th. As director Adam Robitel explains

Metroid fans will finally see the return of Samus next month when developer MercurySteam’s Metroid Dread arrives on the Switch. To keep the hype going, Nintendo has released a new overview trailer, which according to Nintendo, “provides a nice overview of the game—and the series in general—while also offering some exhilarating footage of the game

There’s an infectious energy in the early parts of Edgar Wright’s new film, Last Night in Soho. The film opens with a dance number as aspiring fashion designer Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie) lip-synchs to one of her many records in her grandmother (Rita Tushingham)’s country house and this effusive excitement permeates the screen. Eloise is an

There’s an infectious energy in the early parts of Edgar Wright’s new film, Last Night in Soho. The film opens with a dance number as aspiring fashion designer Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie) lip-synchs to one of her many records in her grandmother (Rita Tushingham)’s country house and this effusive excitement permeates the screen. Eloise is an

Nintendo Switch fans will finally get their opportunity to play Sabre Interactive’s World War Z. Publisher Focus Entertainment made the announcement that the game will arrive on Nintendo’s eShop on November 2nd. The port, however, is only for the base Game of The Year Edition of WWZ, and will not be the upcoming enhanced World

Inexorable. Adj: meaning impossible to stop or prevent.  That’s not quite an accurate depiction of what occurs in Fabrice Du Welz’s latest film. Sure, once events are put into motion, they’re difficult to stop, but the Belgian filmmaker, known for his share of provocative films, is treading lightly with Inexorable, an erotic thriller that’s sadly

Save for sunlight or perhaps a stake to the heart, vampires live forever. Instead of just one lifetime, they can experience many. That means that a regular staple in vampire fiction depicts the erosion of time, where pleasure and discovery eventually wane and boredom sets in. Kicking Blood adds to the existential conversation, featuring a world-wearied bloodsucker

Existing somewhere at the crossroads of Jack Ketchum’s “The Box” and Rose Glass’s Saint Maud lies A Banquet. A strange affliction wreaks havoc on the lives of a family still on the mend from tragedy. Ruth Paxton’s feature debut favors a slow simmering atmosphere in a psychodrama that sees a family in psychological deterioration. One that can test the

Adam Robitel‘s Escape Room franchise delivered more PG-13 thrills, deadly traps, and cleverly designed rooms in Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, which Sony released in theaters on July 16. On the road to Halloween, the new sequel is now coming home. We’ve learned that Tournament of Champions will be released digitally on September 21, and Gizmodo

A new trip from M. Night Shyamalan, Universal’s thriller Old was released in theaters back in July, speeding up the horrors of aging and scaring up just under $90 million worldwide. In time for Halloween, Old is now headed home. The film will be released on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD on October 19,

From the bonkers opening scene, James Wan establishes his return to horror will easily become his most polarizing yet. Channeling the spectacle of late ’90s Dark Castle, the opening sequence sets up an outlandish plot that feels lifted from the ’90s both in tone and bloodletting, signaling a wild ride ahead where you’re on its

Visually impaired actor Skyler Davenport stars as a blind house sitter in the upcoming See for Me from director Randall Okita, which has now been acquired by IFC Midnight. Deadline reports that IFC Midnight will release the film in 2022. Here’s the plot synopsis provided to Deadline… “Davenport plays blind former skier Sophie who accepts

Announced this afternoon, Scott Derrickson‘s (Sinister, Doctor Strange) new horror movie The Black Phone will World Premiere at Fantastic Fest, running from September 23rd – 30th. The Black Phone will release in theaters on January 28, 2022, and today’s press release for the Fantastic Fest lineup provides us with the first image from the Universal/Blumhouse movie. It

James Wan is producing a new take on Stephen King‘s vampire story Salem’s Lot for New Line, with Gary Dauberman (It, The Nun, Annabelle Comes Home) attached to write the script and also direct the film. While the film’s pretty much cast up, William Sadler took to Twitter to reveal he’s also joined the fresh take on King’s material. Just started filming

The very first public screening of David Gordon Green’s Halloween Kills took place today at the Venice Film Festival, and reactions/reviews have begun to make their way online. We’ve been promised a full-blown, high-body-count slasher movie from Halloween Kills, and indeed it sounds like the sequel unleashes Michael Myers at his angriest to date. Many