Horror

This week’s top news story here in the horror world was the reveal of several first-look images from the James Wan-produced Mortal Kombat feature film, which is coming to theaters and HBO Max on April 16, 2021. The trailer, we’ve been promised, is coming very soon, and to hold you over today we’ve now been provided

Warner Bros. is making the massive move to bring all of their 2021 theatrical releases to both theaters and HBO Max on the very same days, and a short preview video for that 2021 slate has been unleashed today. It provides us with snippets of first look footage from Godzilla vs. Kong, Mortal Kombat, The

Oscar Isaac is headed back into the world of Marvel with the upcoming Disney+ series “Moon Knight,” which is being developed by Jeremy Slater (“The Exorcist”). And THR brings us an exciting update tonight, the site reporting that Ethan Hawke has also signed on. THR reports, “Hawke will play the series’ lead villain.” No word yet on

Warner Bros. Pictures is kicking off the year strong, not only teasing their R-rated ultra-violent Mortal Kombat, but also making a monstrous date shift for the hotly anticipated Godzilla vs. Kong. The two epic titans will do battle on March 26, 2021, two months earlier than the originally scheduled May date. As with Mortal Kombat,

A new movie adaptation of the popular tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons is finally happening, with Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, co-directors of the comedy Game Night and writers of Spider-Man: Homecoming, on board to direct. But that’s not the only D&D project in the works, as THR reports that a series is also being developed. Like the

New Bat-Villains! New Bat-Allies! Announced this morning, “A thrilling overseas adventure for the Dark Knight begins with the launch of DC’s Batman: The Dark Knight on April 13!” Batman: The Dark Knight will take a seasoned Batman—a lifetime of broken bones but not a broken spirit—out of Wayne Manor and on a harrowing, action-packed European quest in a new

Some sad news tonight, as we’ve learned that veteran actor Peter Mark Richman has passed away at the age of 93. Variety reports that he passed in Woodland Hills, California today. Horror fans will recognize Peter Mark Richman for his role as Charles McCulloch in 1989’s Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, the

Forty years later, the one thing people remember most about David Cronenberg‘s Scanners is its iconic head exploding head scene. It’s understandable; it’s a gory, shocking moment in an otherwise more subdued, cerebral thriller with a fairly complicated plot. That explosive onscreen kill serves as an unforgettable introduction to the film’s villain, Darryl Revok (Michael Ironside).

So, you’re excited for Tarsier Studios’ Little Nightmares II, but you haven’t played the original? Never fear, as Bandai Namco is giving you a brief opportunity to grab the first game for free, as well as try out the demo for Little Nightmares II for PS4 and Xbox One. Right now, if you head to

Ever wanted to mash up Super Monkey Ball with the original Wolfenstein 3D? Creator Nickireda did, and the result is Return to Castle Monkey Ball. Combining all the chaotic physics-based “golf” of Super Monkey Ball with Wolfenstein 3D‘s Nazis, the game now sees you moving through eight procedurally-generated Nazi fortresses. Instead of mowing down Nazis with

Like the live-action films, Netflix’s animated series “Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous” is home to thrilling sequences that aren’t afraid to get a little scary, and we’re looking forward to a whole lot more of that particular brand of family-friendly terror with the upcoming second season. The new season premieres later this month, and the first

After launching on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam back in July of last year, publisher tinyBuild and developer Cradle Games have announced that their action RPG Hellpoint will launch digitally on the Nintendo Switch on February 25. The title will also receive a physical release on February 26, alongside the PlayStation 4 version.

Tango Gameworks appears to have Ghostwire: Tokyo readying for a Halloween release. At least, if the quiet announcement during Sony’s CES 2021 presentation has any validity to it. The upcoming title from Bethesda was shown with several other PlayStation 5 games at the end of a hype trailer at around 10:39 of the video below,

“The Walking Dead” will end with an expanded two-year eleventh season that will span 24 episodes. But first up, six extra episodes technically part of Season 10 are on the way. Those additional episodes will premiere on Sunday, February 28. New guest stars featured in these episodes include Robert Patrick (Terminator 2: Judgment Day) as “Mays” and Hilarie Burton

James Wan (Saw, Insidious, The Conjuring, Aquaman) is on board to produce a small screen version of I Know What You Did Last Summer that Amazon Studios recently ordered to series, and today we have the full cast for the series that kicks off with Craig Macneill‘s (The Boy, “Channel Zero: Candle Cove,” Lizzie, “Castle Rock,” “Chilling Adventures of

Julia Jones (pictured in the Disney+ series ‘”The Mandalorian”), Alano Miller (Sylvie’s Love), Johnny Sequoyah (Believe) and Jack Alcott (The Good Lord Bird) have joined Michael C. Hall and Clancy Brown in Showtime’s 10-episode limited “Dexter” revival series, reports Deadline. The descriptions of the new characters provide a clue about the setting of the follow-up

“We just call him… The Slumbering One.” Barbara Crampton is no stranger to Lovecraftian horrors, having starred in Re-Animator, From Beyond and Castle Freak, and her next movie takes her back into that particular realm. Crampton stars in the upcoming horror movie Sacrifice from Epic Pictures, which is headed to VOD on February 9th. It’ll

Back in November, Lever Games had posted a new trailer for their upcoming Left 4 Dead-esque No More Room in Hell 2. The developers have now added a Steam page for the sequel, which will be headed to Steam Early Access upon release. No release date has been announced for the game, though Lever Games

If you were curious about the Eli Roth-directed adaptation of Borderlands, the film is expected to begin shooting in Hungary very soon. Per The Hollywood Reporter, according to Adam Goodman, the head of Hungarian production services company MidAtlantic Films, the adaptation of the popular Gearbox series is one of several productions currently starting up in

It’s probably not the best way to start your new year off with news that a senior writer is leaving your project that’s expected for release later this year. Yet that’s what’s happened with Techland, as Dying Light 2‘s lead writer Pawel Selinger has parted ways with the developer after 22 years. Selinger made the

The ball is in your court, Blumhouse. There may be no actual connections between the two but there’s no denying that Christopher Landon‘s horror-comedy slasher movies Happy Death Day and Freaky both seem to exist within the very same universe. They have incredibly similar sensibilities, at the very least, which has led many fans to

Earlier this week “Ash vs. Evil Dead” star Dana DeLorenzo officially confirmed that she’ll be providing the voice of Kelly Maxwell in Evil Dead: The Game, and now her co-star Ray Santiago has announced that he’ll also be reprising his “Ash vs. Evil Dead” role for the game! Santiago played Pablo Simon Bolivar in the

We mentioned it last month (questionable teaser images aside), but Bethesda is about to let the Doomslayer rip and tear into Mediatonic and Devolver Digital’s Fall Guys. The official announcement has costumes based on DOOM arriving on January 12th for the popular Battle Royale game. Not only will players be able to suit up as the

Warner Bros. made the announcement late last year that they’re bringing their entire current 2021 theatrical slate to both theaters and the WarnerMedia streaming service HBO Max at the very same time, and that includes huge films like Godzilla vs. Kong, Dune, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, James Wan’s Malignant, Mortal Kombat and more. That all sounds great, yeah? Well,

Oscar Isaac is headed back into the world of Marvel with the upcoming Disney+ series “Moon Knight,” which is being developed by Jeremy Slater (“The Exorcist”). Mohamed Diab (Clash) is on board as director and showrunner, and The Hollywood Reporter brings us the exciting word this week that Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (Resolution, Spring, V/H/S:

Julius Avery‘s (Overlord) next movie as director is Samaritan for MGM, which has Sylvester Stallone in the titular leading role. Total Film (via Games Radar) gives us our first look today. “Based on an original idea, the thriller centers on a young boy who is out to discover if a mythic superhero, who vanished 20 years earlier

Welcome back to Nightmare Alley, the spooky sidestreet podcast in the Nightmare on Film Street feed! This week, Jon & Kim are joined by Mickey Reece to discuss his shag carpet covered, psychedelic vampire dinner party Climate of the Hunter. Reece is an incredibly prolific indie filmmaker based out of Oklahoma city responsible for some

Perhaps the most contentious point of discussion regarding Little Hope, the latest installment of The Dark Pictures Anthology, is the trope that each of its endings falls under: “It Was All A Dream.” In this case, it may be more accurate to say, “It was all a product of psychosis” befalling the emotionally traumatized main

We’ve covered Giant Sparrow’s What Remains of Edith Finch several times before (and it helps that we really liked it, too), so it only makes sense to mention it again, and to say that the game will be making its way to Xbox Game Pass for PC later this month. Per Xbox Wire, the award-winning

A brand new trailer for the visionary fantasy film The Wanting Mare has arrived via IGN this week, loaded with rave review quotes that promise a film unlike any you’ve seen before. Here’s the lengthy plot synopsis… “In the world of Anmaere, north of the city of Whithren, wild horses run through the moorlands and