Horror

Originally released on Blu-ray back in 2015, the 1982 horror movie Trick or Treats is being repressed to Blu-ray for this year’s Halloween season, via Code Red and Kino Lorber. The Blu-ray will be re-released on October 5, 2021. Special Features include: Audio Commentary with Actors Jackie Giroux, Peter Jason, Chris Graver and Cameraman R.

My personal favorite horror movie of 2021 so far is Prano Bailey-Bond‘s Censor (now available on VOD), a haunting feature debut that takes you on a nightmarish descent through the lens of the “Video Nasty” panic of the 1980s. Censor is coming to DVD from Magnolia Pictures on September 14, and today we’ve learned that a

The Bloody Disgusting family is now 20 years strong and one of our very first festival scene writers was Mike Pereira, who attended the Toronto International Film Festival before any other online-only entertainment outlet. Today we have the very first teaser for Pereira’s indie feature The Chamber of Terror, which hits the festival scene soon. “The

A highly skilled assassin punching and slicing their way through an endless horde of opponents out of revenge reads like several contemporary action-thrillers, especially in the wake of John Wick’s popularity. Kate marks the latest, borrowing from a few prominent action-thrillers to create an easily digestible blend of violence, action, and humor by way of a silly plot that

Staten Island’s most entertaining undead are back with more horror hilarity and supernatural slapstick. The past year has pushed the world out of their comfort zones in unexpected ways and triggered a level of unparalleled introspection. The public has been sequestered and forced to confront themselves at their rawest and most vulnerable states, which has

John Carpenter‘s graphic novel series is back this Halloween season with Tales For a HalloweeNight Vol. 7, featuring more twisted tales masterfully crafted for your terror. The latest issue from Storm King Comics will be on shelves September 22, 2021! John Carpenter himself wrote one of the stories featured in the new volume, which is titled “Aliens

Paul Solet made his debut on the horror scene with the impressive Grace back in 2009, following that film with Dark Summer and Bullet Head. Up next from Solet is a crime thriller titled Clean, and we’ve got a first look today along with some distribution news. Adrien Brody stars in Clean, which has been

While we wait for his new horror movie Nope, coming July 2022, Jordan Peele has just inked a brand new television deal with Universal Studio Group, Deadline reports today. Peele and Win Rosenfeld’s Monkeypaw Productions has entered a “new multi-year television overall deal” with Universal, coming off a previous TV pact with Amazon. Deadline notes,

With summer coming to an end and the Halloween season about to begin, Spirit Halloween stores have begun popping up around the country, and fans of Killer Klowns from Outer Space will be delighted to discover that the store has an entire section dedicated to the movie this year. It includes a 5-foot tall “Shorty”

Called a “nihilistic morality thriller” by Meagan Navarro out of the Sundance Film Festival World Premiere, Coming Home in the Dark is now making its way home ahead of Halloween. Dark Sky will bring the film to select theaters and VOD on October 1. In Coming Home in the Dark… “A family’s idyllic outing at an isolated coastline

Scream Factory kicked off the week by fully detailing their upcoming 4K Ultra HD releases of the first five films in the Halloween franchise, which are all set for release on October 5. Of particular note, Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers will include footage from the film that was previously lost, with the

Crystal Lake. Arawak. Stonewater. Summer camps are places to avoid in horror movies. And Camp Stillwater from the TV series Dead of Summer is no different from its cinematic parallels. The camp’s employees are too preoccupied with themselves to ever suspect trouble is afoot, and by the time they are aware of the goings-on at

With a serious lack of promotion up to this point, it’s been easy to forget that a new take The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is on the way, with the Fede Alvarez-produced Texas Chainsaw Massacre set to be a sequel to Tobe Hooper’s original classic. We’ve been promised “Old Man Leatherface” and the return of Sally Hardesty, two teases that

On the way from Arrow Video in November is Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge, headed to Limited Edition Blu-ray here in the United States as well as the UK and Canada. The 2-disc Blu-ray will be released on November 23 in the US. Limited Edition contents include: Three versions of the feature: Original Theatrical

We’re officially less than a month away from the release of Leigh Thorne and Ruben Abreu‘s fan film Silent Hill: Road of Guilt. Leigh has got the clock ticking with a brand-new trailer for the short, which will be premiering on Dax79’s YouTube channel on the 20th anniversary of Silent Hill 2‘s release (September 24,

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina‘s Kiernan Shipka will star in Treat, studio Cadence13’s first feature-length podcast, Variety reports today. Described by the company as an audio movie, Treat is set to release October 25, 2021, worldwide on all major podcast platforms just in time for Halloween. Treat tells “of a seemingly perfect American town whose residents make

Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema have been the gold standard for horror over the past few decades, but Universal Pictures has slowly become their rival. Universal Pictures not only stole Blumhouse away from Paramount Pictures, but they’ve become home to Jordan Peele‘s productions, including the brand new Candyman, directed by Nia DaCosta. The box

phantom limb /ˈfan(t)əm’lim/ n. an often painful sensation of the presence of a limb that has been amputated. Welcome to Phantom Limbs, a recurring feature which will take a look at intended yet unproduced horror sequels and remakes – extensions to genre films we love, appendages to horror franchises that we adore – that were sadly

Variety reports Friday evening that “actor, disability-inclusion advocate and double hand amputee” John W. Lawson (“American Horror Story”) has been cast as “Stanny” in Paramount Players’ untitled Pet Sematary prequel. “I have myoelectric hands… or what people commonly call ‘cyborg,’” Lawson jokes to the site. “But most of the time, it’s just my hooks.” Variety

Earlier in the week, we mentioned Prime Matter and developer Massive Work Studio’s upcoming cosmic horror action-RPG Dolmen would be debuting its gameplay during Gamescom. Lo and behold, that’s exactly what they did during the Future Games Show. The trailer shows off the game’s third-person shooting and melee combat that can be swapped out on the

Variety reports Friday evening that “actor, disability-inclusion advocate and double hand amputee” John W. Lawson (“American Horror Story”) has been cast as “Stanny” in Paramount Players’ untitled Pet Sematary prequel. “I have myoelectric hands… or what people commonly call ‘cyborg,’” Lawson jokes to the site. “But most of the time, it’s just my hooks.” Variety

We learned a while back that James Wan was 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. Today brings the first casting news. THR reports that Lewis Pullman (The Strangers: Prey at Night) has signed on

Content Warning: this editorial contains explicit details about suicide. This article also includes spoilers for The Night House. I walked out of the theater last weekend after seeing The Night House absolutely gutted. Very few horror films have ever managed to pulverize me in such a totally debilitating way that I literally couldn’t catch my

The Chilling Adventure of Sabrina‘s Kiernan Shipka will star in Treat, studio Cadence13’s first feature-length podcast, Variety reports today. Described by the company as an audio movie, Treat is set to release October 25, 2021, worldwide on all major podcast platforms just in time for Halloween. Treat tells “of a seemingly perfect American town whose residents

Content Warning: this editorial contains explicit details about suicide. This article also includes spoilers for The Night House. I walked out of the theater last weekend after seeing The Night House absolutely gutted. Very few horror films have ever managed to pulverize me in such a totally debilitating way that I literally couldn’t catch my

Kojima once again delivers some cool Death Stranding news, while once again also teasing players at the same time. Kojima Productions have released a nine-minute preview trailer for Death Stranding Director’s Cut introducing its bevvy of new features. The footage in question shows off plenty of goodies, including a new backpack attachment in the Evolved Stabilisers that

In Bride of Frankenstein, Dr. Pretorius, played by the inimitable Ernest Thesiger, raises his glass and proposes a toast to Colin Clive’s Henry Frankenstein—“to a new world of Gods and Monsters.” I invite you to join me in exploring this world, focusing on horror films from the dawn of the Universal Monster movies in 1931 to the

From the moment that the very first humans settled in the very first city, they were already sharing scary stories. What we now know as urban legends are simply the natural progression of a primal urge to make sense of society’s fears, a fact that Clive Barker was aware of when he wrote The Forbidden,

While plenty of indie developers have captured the essence of survival horror as it was on the original PlayStation, far fewer have managed to do so with the PlayStation 2 era of the sub-genre. This was arguably the peak of it at the time. Those few precious years, before the impact of Resident Evil 4

While plenty of indie developers have captured the essence of survival horror as it was on the original PlayStation, far fewer have managed to do so with the PlayStation 2 era of the sub-genre. This was arguably the peak of it at the time. Those few precious years, before the impact of Resident Evil 4