Horror

The big new release for the week is of course Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, but that’s just one of six brand new genre movies now available in theaters and/or at home this week. Brandy (I Still Know What You Did Last Summer) returns to horror in the new A24 horror movie The Front Room, which was just released

The long-awaited adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot from director Gary Dauberman (Annabelle Comes Home) is finally hitting Max this October, and Entertainment Weekly ran a preview piece today that includes the first clip from the new movie. The outlet explains, “In EW’s exclusive clip from Salem’s Lot, Ben [Lewis Pullman] and Susan [Makenzie Leigh] join Alfre Woodard as Dr.

David Gordon Green’s planned The Exorcist trilogy, which began with the poorly received The Exorcist: Believer, is no more, with Blumhouse pivoting down a bold new path instead. Mike Flanagan will be directing the next installment in the franchise for Blumhouse and Morgan Creek, and it’s already been dated for theatrical release on March 13,

We’ve discussed several times in these Lifetime reviews that the mystery is often the most superfluous element. The films are very rarely trying to surprise or fool the audience. In fact, the reveal is often right there in the title (see: She’s Obsessed With My Husband). Much like Stepmom from Hell, however, co-writers Geoffrey D.

AMC Networks has a hit property on its hands with the Anne Rice Immortal Universe, which thus far includes “Interview with the Vampire” and “Mayfair Witches.” Its third spinoff, currently titled “Anne Rice’s The Talamasca,” is on the way, and it’s found its lead in Nicholas Denton (Dangerous Liaisons, Glitch). The six-episode inaugural season will focus on

Up next from Netflix and Executive Producers The Duffer Brothers (“Stranger Things”) is the supernatural mystery series “The Boroughs.” Today, Netflix announced that Alfred Molina, Geena Davis, Alfre Woodard, Denis O’Hare, Clarke Peters, and Bill Pullman are set to star. Here’s the logline for the upcoming sci-fi series, which sounds like a mixture of “Stranger Things” and Cocoon.

If you thought Elvira looked good before, wait until you see her in UHD! Elvira: Mistress of the Dark will bust out on 4K Ultra HD on November 12 via Arrow Video. The 1988 horror-comedy has been newly restored in 4K with Dolby Vision and uncompressed stereo 2.0 audio. The limited edition first pressing comes

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master and A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child star Lisa Wilcox appears in an eerie new teaser for upcoming found footage film What Happened to Dorothy Bell? The coming-of-age horror film  from writer/director Danny Villanueva Jr. is set to make its premiere later this month

“Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do.” In 1980, outlaw horror author Jack Ketchum published one of the most gruesome and disturbing horror novels of all time. Off Season follows a group of friends vacationing at a picturesque cottage in Maine targeted by a clan of feral cannibals living deep in the woods. Offspring picks up

Kill Krites. After kicking off August with discussions of Paul Morrissey’s Udo Kier-starring vehicle Blood for Dracula (listen) and Julia Ducournau’s confronting Raw follow-up Titane (listen), we’re dialing things back a bit with a comfort watch of Stephen Herek‘s 1986 cult classic (and franchise originator) Critters! Critters sees an fuzzy alien race known as the Krites flee a prison

Physical media fans are getting another wish taken care of, courtesy of Mob Entertainment and Maximum Entertainment, which have announced a collection of the first three chapters of the Poppy Playtime series for the PlayStation 5. The Poppy Playtime Triple Pack is currently available for pre-order now, and will be officially releasing on October 31.

Developer Fun Dog Studios has announced a September 24 Early Access release date for their upcoming tactical survival horror shooter The Forever Winter on Steam. The announcement comes in the form of a new trailer, which details what fans can expect during the game’s stay in Early Access. Priced at $29.99 on launch with a

The director of horror-comedies WolfCop and Another WolfCop, as well as this year’s pro wrestling horror movie Dark Match, Lowell Dean is back this Halloween with Die Alone. Quiver Distribution will release Die Alone in theaters and VOD at home October 18, 2024. Watch the official trailer for Die Alone below. In the film, “Lost in a world reclaimed by nature and overrun by

Hollywood comes home when MaXXXine arrives on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital on October 8 from Lionsgate in association with A24. Writer-director Ti West brings his trilogy — which began with X and continued with Pearl — to a close with Mia Goth once again in the lead. Special features include: The Belly of

The most wonderful time of the year is at hand: Halloween season has arrived. The signs are everywhere, from the cooling weather to pumpkin spice-flavored treats and beyond. But the biggest telltale sign of Halloween is arguably the overwhelming slate of horror releases packed into September and October to ensure maximum fright for the holiest

While horror remakes are inevitable, its rare that international filmmakers are hired to helm American remakes of their originals. Even fewer filmmakers get to make not one, but TWO movies about sentient killer elevators (Killovators? Murdervators?). Lucky for us, Dick Maas laughs in the face of convention. His feature debut, The Lift, is a zany

The next installment in the Jurassic World franchise has received an official title today, with Universal announcing that Jurassic World Rebirth will release in theaters July 2, 2025. Check out two first look images and the title announcement video below. Universal previews, “This action-packed new chapter sees an intrepid team racing to secure DNA samples from

Published in 2020, author Adam Cesare gave rise to a new slasher villain in the horror novel Clown in a Cornfield, and a horror movie adaptation is on the way. Eli Craig (Tucker & Dale vs. Evil) will direct the movie adaptation of the young adult slasher novel, which comes courtesy of Protagonist Pictures Limited and Sony Pictures.

Dive into a sci-fi nightmare with six chilling tapes that push the limits of fear. The V/H/S franchise returns to Shudder with brand new Shudder Original V/H/S/BEYOND this coming Halloween season, and the official teaser trailer has arrived. V/H/S/BEYOND will premiere on Shudder October 4, 2024. From Shudder and Studio71, the upcoming seventh installment of the series “will feature six new

The 60-minute found footage horror short Milk & Serial is making huge waves here in the horror community, already approaching half a million views since being uploaded just two weeks ago by the channel That’s a Bad Idea, an up-and-coming comedy duo made up of film-school-pals-turned-collaborators Curry Barker and Cooper Tomlinson. The short film was made for just

The bone-chilling Danish horror movie Speak No Evil is getting a remake here in the States courtesy of Blumhouse and Universal, arriving exclusively in theaters on September 13. While you wait, Bloody Disgusting has been exclusively provided with a brand new featurette today that explores the Danish horror original and its upcoming Blumhouse remake. Star James

If the commercial and critical success of horror films from Jordan Peele, Zach Cregger, and David Gordon Green in recent years illustrates anything, it’s that folks in the comedy biz can often serve up major doses of effective white-knuckle chills. With the buzz following the recently released trailer for “Saturday Night Live” alum Kyle Mooney’s

Metal Baby August has been a wild ride so far. Between art house discussions of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Santa Sangre (listen) and Paul Morrissey’s Blood for Dracula (listen), we squeezed in a look at screenlife sequel Unfriended: Dark Web (listen). Now we’re ready for more contemporary foreign content with Julia Ducournau‘s sophomore feature, Titane (2021). In the film, after

Sure, we’ve had games about zombies overrunning a city time and time again, but what about a Medieval village? Developer Ocean Drive Studio aims to add a bit of spice to the open world zombie survival genre with God Save Birmingham, which will launch in Early Access on PC via Steam. No word on the

“Things get messy when you make a deal with the devil.” Babysitters occupy a unique place in society. Somewhere between child and adult, they step into the family system for a brief moment in time to hold the line of parental responsibility. Of course people of all ages and identities can and do babysit, but

Constant Listeners, yes, we originally planned to drop our Bazaar of Bad Dreams coverage this week. However, given Stephen King’s renewed interest in Hearts in Suspension, we opted to unlock our coverage of the collection from The Stephen King Archives. For those not in the know, The Stephen King Archives is our Patreon exclusive imprint

Horror has an official first family and their last name is Adams. No not that one. You might be thinking of the Addams Family. They don’t make movies, they’re fictional characters and they’re nowhere near as cool as the Adams Family. John Adams and Toby Poser, and their daughters Zelda and Lulu, have been making

Horror has an official first family and their last name is Adams. No not that one. You might be thinking of the Addams Family. They don’t make movies, they’re fictional characters and they’re nowhere near as cool as the Adams Family. John Adams and Toby Poser, and their daughters Zelda and Lulu, have been making

The found footage horror classic The Blair Witch Project is returning to Blu-ray with a new release from UK company Second Sight, and it’s set to be a first-of-its-kind offering. The 2-Disc Limited Edition set includes a new Second Sight Films restoration from the Hi8 videotapes and 16mm film elements, supervised and approved by the

Terror Tuesday: Extreme combines the experience of call-in radio shows with Thailand’s unique brand of modern horror. This new, eight-episode anthology series is inspired by the popular EFM radio program, Terror Tuesday, where listeners share their own frightening (and supposedly true) tales. Viewers will be lured in by the “based on real events” angle, but