Horror

The upcoming “Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai” puts an animated spin on the popular horror-comedy franchise this year, with the series coming soon to HBO Max. The half-hour animated series from WB Animation and Amblin TV is set 1920s Shanghai and tells the story of how 10-year-old Sam Wing met the young Mogwai called Gizmo.

Meta Jason We’re past the halfway point of May and Trace and I have already watched a number of unusual films and had great conversations! Last week we tackled the most contemporary film we’ve ever discussed on the pod with non-binary filmmaker Jane Schoebrun’s We’re All Going To The World’s Fair (2021) and the week

While he’s not quite for a dollar, RoboCop is the latest pop culture icon to make the jump to Fortnite. The skin is available as part of the Season 2 content for Chapter 3, which according to dataminers, is just the start of multiple crossovers. Robo is available now from the Fortnite Item Shop as

FX has announced today that “What We Do in the Shadows” is coming back on the air for Season 4 this summer, with the brand new season set to premiere on July 12, 2022! Stay tuned for a trailer and more information soon. “Fans can’t seem to get enough of What We Do in the Shadows and

Coming to AMC+, “Moonhaven” from creator/showrunner Peter Ocko (Lodge 49, Black Sails, Elementary) is being described as a suspense thriller, and it now has a premiere date. The series is set in a utopian colony on the moon that may hold the keys to preserving life on Earth, which has become increasingly perilous, and features an acclaimed ensemble cast

Coming to AMC+, “Moonhaven” from creator/showrunner Peter Ocko (Lodge 49, Black Sails, Elementary) is being described as a suspense thriller, and it now has a premiere date. The series is set in a utopian colony on the moon that may hold the keys to preserving life on Earth, which has become increasingly perilous, and features an acclaimed ensemble cast

The saga of a new Silent Hill game continues. Per Video Games Chronicle, longtime noted leaker AestheticGamer (who had previously posted under the name Dusk Golem) has revealed a handful of images supposedly from an in-development Silent Hill title, saying that their source is new, but they had been given “more than enough proof to

Last year, Blumhouse announced the feature directorial debut by John Logan (“Penny Dreadful”), starring Kevin Bacon and set to debut on Peacock. The streaming service has officially set the premiere date for They/Them, and released a first look at the conversion camp slasher. They/Them, pronounced “They-slash-Them,”  is “a slasher horror film set at an LGBTQIA+

A quick Easter egg in this year’s Scream revealed that Scream 4 character Kirby Reed (Hayden Panettiere) survived her encounter with Ghostface, leaving fans wondering if we’d see the fan favorite character again in a sequel.  It’s official: Kirby will be back for Scream 6!  THR reports that Panettiere has signed on for the sequel, making her the first legacy character

Writer/Director Eskil Vogt’s The Innocents delivers one of the more complex and disturbing depictions of childhood in recent memory (read my review). A seemingly ordinary summer vacation at the playground becomes anything but when a group of children discovers emerging supernatural abilities. Their innocent play and exploration quickly take a dark turn. Vogt, who co-wrote Thelma, is no

Principal photography is slated to start in early summer on Scream 6, and we’ve learned today that Scream 2022 stars Melissa Barrera (“Sam,”) Jasmin Savoy Brown (“Mindy,”) Mason Gooding (“Chad,”) and Jenna Ortega (“Tara”) are confirmed to return in the next installment of Spyglass Media and Paramount Pictures’ Scream film franchise! In the brand new

It was back in 1998 that rock legend Dee Snider wrote and starred in the horror movie Strangeland, which has become something of a cult hit here in the horror world. Snider played villain Captain Howdy in the John Pieplow-directed horror movie, a sadist specializing in body modification rituals who lures his teenage victims through

Techland continues to be awesome to original Dying Light fans (they should after over 20 million in units sold) with the latest updates to the game. Once again sticking to their mandate of continuing to provide postlaunch content for the game, not only does patch 1.49 deliver a wealth of new content for the original

Techland continues to be awesome to original Dying Light fans (they should after over 20 million in units sold) with the latest updates to the game. Once again sticking to their mandate of continuing to provide postlaunch content for the game, not only does patch 1.49 deliver a wealth of new content for the original

Actor Michael Keaton is set to go behind the camera for just the second time in his career for the noir thriller Knox Goes Away. Deadline reports that not only will Keaton direct the thriller, written by Gregory Poirier, but he’s set to star as well. The film “follows a contract killer who, after being diagnosed with a fast-moving form

With Season 2 getting ready to film this summer, the first season of Showtime’s “Yellowjackets” is now coming to DVD, the upcoming release announced by Decider this week. The first season of Showtime’s hit series “Yellowjackets” arrives on DVD July 19 from Showtime, CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment. You’ll also be able to

Despite being met with mixed reviews upon its release in 1979, the massive box office success made it clear that audiences loved Ridley Scott’s Alien. Its first sequel wouldn’t come for another seven years, but the interim was filled with a variety of imitators hoping for a piece of the intergalactic pie. The Italians were

A Northern Irish folk horror movie, Shudder has picked up Mandrake for streaming release here in the United States, along with the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Deadline first reported the news this morning. “The film follows probation officer Cathy Madden who is given the task of rehabilitating notorious killer ‘Bloody’ Mary Laidlaw back

This is the story of The Bell Witch. The true story. In 2005, Sissy Spacek, famous for her brilliant, blood-soaked performance in DePalma’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie, returned to the world of horror cinema with An American Haunting. The film was written and directed by Courtney Solomon and boasted an all-star cast including Donald

So, remember New Jersey’s North Bergen High School doing their own adaptation of Ridley Scott’s Alien a few years back? Well, how about a high school doing a BioShock musical? Spotted by Eurogamer, the Powerhouse choir from John Burroughs High School in California performed their musical interpretation of 2K Games’ acclaimed shooter as part of

Takashi Shimizu (Ju-on, The Grudge) is back in top form with brand new horror movie Suicide Forest Village, now streaming exclusively on the BD-powered SCREAMBOX streaming service! Shimizu’s Suicide Forest Village is inspired by the real-life Aokigahara Forest (aka Suicide Forest) at the base of Mt. Fuji known for its frequent suicides and hauntings… “When

Bloody Disgusting’s Multiverse of Madness review is spoiler-free. Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) understands the fantastical more than most in the ever-expanding MCU. From his first cinematic introduction in 2016 to now, the arrogant guardian of the astral plane and alternate dimensions has always embraced the peculiarities that come with immense knowledge of universes. The familiar

Despite being met with mixed reviews upon its release in 1979, the massive box office success made it clear that audiences loved Ridley Scott’s Alien. Its first sequel wouldn’t come for another seven years, but the interim was filled with a variety of imitators hoping for a piece of the intergalactic pie. The Italians were

As promised, the Crimes of the Future full official trailer has been debuted by distributor NEON this afternoon, ahead of the film’s theatrical release in less than one month. David Cronenberg returns to his body-horror roots with new movie Crimes of the Future, coming to theaters from NEON in NY & LA on June 3 before expanding wide

Jenn Wexler, who directed punk rock slasher The Ranger, is back with new horror movie The Sacrifice Game, and Deadline reports today that Shudder has come on board the project. Filming begins this month on the horror movie, set in the early 1970s. The primary location is a girls’ boarding school, with the events taking

Jenn Wexler, who directed punk rock slasher The Ranger, is back with new horror movie The Sacrifice Game, and Deadline reports today that Shudder has come on board the project. Filming begins this month on the horror movie, set in the early 1970s. The primary location is a girls’ boarding school, with the events taking

For this entry of Phantom Limbs, we’ll be taking a peek at Drew Barrymore’s developed but eventually jettisoned Barbarella and the Second World, a feature film adaptation of the Jean-Claude Forest comic book previously brought to screens as Roger Vadim’s classic ‘60s Jane Fonda vehicle. Joining us for this talk is John August, the celebrated

In addition to “Interview With the Vampire,” AMC will also soon be serving up a small screen take on Anne Rice‘s “Mayfair Witches,” and more casting has been announced today. Deadline reports that Annabeth Gish (The Fall of the House of Usher; Midnight Mass) has joined the cast as Diedre, alongside the previously announced Alexandra

David Cronenberg‘s The Fly (1986) upholds a storied tradition of 80s remakes reinventing classic horrors through emblematic practical effects. John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) and Chuck Russell’s The Blob (1988) both embrace the spectacle of SFX advancement to build a better goopy mass or parasitic entity. Kurt Neumann‘s 1958 iteration of The Fly, co-starring Vincent

Welcome to the Hammer Factory. This month we dissect The Evil of Frankenstein (1964). 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