Horror

After giving fans a treat last month with the concept art for their upcoming horror adventure title Bramble: The Mountain King, developer Dimfrost Studio has released a new trailer showcasing the title’s gameplay. The trailer shows off some of the gameplay mechanics, including the game’s combat, stealth, as well as the environmental puzzles you’ll encounter.

Scene Screams is a recurring column that spotlights the scenes in horror that make us scream, whether through fear, laughter, or tears. It examines the most memorable, and often scariest, scenes in horror and what it is about them that makes them get under our skin.  Comedy and horror make excellent bedfellows because of their similarities.

Developer Broken Bird Games first announced their psychological horror title Luto back in May. The developer has now announced that the game will launch for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and PC via Steam in 2022. There’s also a new trailer for you to ogle. We now have a bit more info on the game, courtesy

A Bloody Disgusting favorite, Timo Tjahjanto (The Night Comes for Us, May the Devil Take You, V/H/S/94) has been hired to direct a remake of the South Korean zombie epic Train to Busan for New Line Cinema, we had learned earlier this year. The film, however, will not be titled Train to Busan. Instead, Deadline notes, it’s

A Bloody Disgusting favorite, Timo Tjahjanto (The Night Comes for Us, May the Devil Take You, V/H/S/94) has been hired to direct a remake of the South Korean zombie epic Train to Busan for New Line Cinema, we had learned earlier this year. The film, however, will not be titled Train to Busan. Instead, Deadline notes, it’s

What’s a holiday without “The Last Drive-in” on Shudder? Just ahead of the holidays, horror host Joe Bob Briggs announced his return with an all new holiday special this December. Last December, Joe Bob Briggs spread holiday cheer on Shudder with “The Last Drive-In” special, “Joe Bob Saves Christmas.” In addition to hosting duties and

Author Lars Nilsen, a longtime Alamo Drafthouse film programmer, and now Austin Film Society lead film programmer, has written a definitive guide to exploitation cinema. Mondo’s Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive, edited by Kier-La Janisse (Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror) featuring

Author Lars Nilsen, a longtime Alamo Drafthouse film programmer, and now Austin Film Society lead film programmer, has written a definitive guide to exploitation cinema. Mondo’s Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive, edited by Kier-La Janisse (Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror) featuring

Courteney Cox is starring in the horror-comedy series “Shining Vale” for Starz, and today we’ve learned that the project will be premiering early next year. On March 6, to be exact. Deadline notes, “The genre-bending horror comedy series will debut Sunday, March 6 at 10 PM across all Starz platforms in the U.S. and Canada, and will

Horrors Elsewhere is a recurring column that spotlights a variety of movies from all around the globe, particularly those not from the United States. Fears may not be universal, but one thing is for sure — a scream is understood, always and everywhere. A black cloud hangs over the family at the center of the

Spontaneous Comburst. We’re only a few weeks into November, but we’re not letting the post-Halloween doldrums get us down. After celebrating our 150th (!!!) episode last week with The Lost Boys, we’re dedicating this week to a whole different anniversary: Buffy the Vampire Slayer‘s amazing musical episode, “Once More, With Feeling,” which turned 20 last week.

NECA has already released a couple figures of “The Creep” from Shudder’s “Creepshow” anthology series, but coming soon they’re giving the same treatment to the original Creep! This figure is based on Stephen King and George A. Romero’s 1982 anthology film Creepshow, which of course served as the basis for Shudder’s spinoff television series. The

Techland has devoted multiple episodes of its “Dying 2 Know” series to Olivier Derivière’s score for the upcoming Dying Light 2, and now you can finally pre-order the score for yourself. The score will hit shelves in vinyl and CD on February 11, 2022, one week after Dying Light 2’s launch. Dying Light 2 Stay

Is Tim Burton and director Henry Selick’s classic The Nightmare Before Christmas a Halloween movie or a Christmas movie? It’s a question that inevitably gets asked on social media every year, and the reason there’s even a debate at all is because, well, it’s of course both! The beauty of the stop-motion animated classic is

Get ready to fight the forces of heaven, hell and everything in between with Atlus’ return to the Shin Megami Tensei series in Shin Megami Tensei V. The game is out now on the Nintendo Switch, and Atlus has kicked things off with the launch trailer to get fans psyched. And check out our review,

The noise that 200 Stab Wounds have been making is far from subtle. The Cleveland, Ohio death metal outfit are relatively new to the scene – having formed in 2020 – but have been rattling the underground. Their impressive EP Piles of Festering Decomposition bursts with ferocious sounding riffs and pummeling presentation. Compared to other

Is Tim Burton and director Henry Selick’s classic The Nightmare Before Christmas a Halloween movie or a Christmas movie? It’s a question that inevitably gets asked on social media every year, and the reason there’s even a debate at all is because, well, it’s of course both! The beauty of the stop-motion animated classic is

Ahead of the January 11, 2022 release on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD (plus a Best Buy Steelbook!), David Gordon Green’s Halloween Kills will be released Digitally on December 13, 2021, with an “Extended Cut” of the movie being previewed by Amazon. In all likelihood, this new extended version of the sequel to Halloween

“The plane crashed… a bunch of our friends died… and then the rest of us starved and scavenged.” So began the official teaser for Showtime’s “Yellowjackets,” a survival drama that features a pilot episode directed by Karyn Kusama (Jennifer’s Body, The Invitation). The series was created by Ashley Lyle & Bart Nickerson (“Narcos”), described as being “equal parts survival epic, psychological

The noise that 200 Stab Wounds have been making is far from subtle. The Cleveland, Ohio death metal outfit are relatively new to the scene – having formed in 2020 – but have been rattling the underground. Their impressive EP Piles of Festering Decomposition bursts with ferocious sounding riffs and pummeling presentation. Compared to other

The noise that 200 Stab Wounds have been making is far from subtle. The Cleveland, Ohio death metal outfit are relatively new to the scene – having formed in 2020 – but have been rattling the underground. Their impressive EP Piles of Festering Decomposition bursts with ferocious sounding riffs and pummeling presentation. Compared to other

The long-awaited sequel to a Halloween favorite, Hocus Pocus 2 is on the way for the Disney+ streaming service, filming right now and currently set to arrive sometime in Fall 2022. The film is being billed as “the spooky sequel to the 1993 Halloween classic,” with Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy all back as the beloved Sanderson Sisters. Check

If you’ve seen The Hateful Eight, you’ve probably gathered that Quentin Tarantino is a big fan of John Carpenter‘s The Thing, even going so far as to utilize unused cues from Ennio Morricone’s soundtrack for The Thing in his own snowy suspense tale. As it turns out, Reservoir Dogs was also inspired by The Thing,

In my defense, I thought it might be helpful, a kind of catharsis. First of all, I must say that my wife is the purest soul I’ve ever met, unendingly compassionate and completely selfless. Honestly, I have no idea how she puts up with me, but I am grateful for it every day. She’s never

Korn announced today their brand new album, Requiem, set for release February 4, 2022, through Loma Vista Recordings. With the announcement comes the band’s first single, “Start the Healing”, alongside a music video directed by Tim Saccenti (Flying Lotus, Run the Jewels, Depeche Mode) that is a live-action and animated visual feast about death and re-birth

Filmmakers employ a variety of tactics to frighten audiences. The jump scare is the most obvious, thanks to its jarring abruptness and accompanying loud music sting. Its complete opposite is the understated, subtle background scare. This type of scare can easily go unnoticed, making it even more potent for those who spot it.  The background

Scream was the first horror film I can remember there really being a buzz about in school. Granted, I was in the sixth grade when it was released, but it was the first time I’d heard someone in the hallways say “You have to see this” about a horror movie. It was probably an eighth

As expected, Behaviour Interactive pulled back the curtain on the “Portrait of a Murder” chapter for Dead By Daylight, revealing a new Killer, a new Survivor, and a new map. Currently available only on the Public Test Servers, the next chapter is expected to go live later this month. The new Killer this time around

After creating various masks for former WWE superstar Bray “The Fiend” Wyatt, we’ve learned today that makeup effects artist Jason Baker is now making a movie with Wyatt. Baker, who owns Callosum Studios and frequently creates magic for the world of professional wrestling with partner Tom Savini, will be directing Wyatt in the upcoming movie.

Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin isn’t a complete movie. With the smoke cleared—literally—and the cops on the scene at this little farm in the middle of Amish country, a character we recognize emerges from the devastation, kills the officers using demon power, steals their car, and heads toward civilization to wreak demonic havoc. One of