Horror

Naughty Dog’s acclaimed The Last of Us Part II scored the big one at tonight’s Game Awards 2020, earning Game of The Year honours over the likes of Ghost of Tsushima, Hades, DOOM: Eternal and others. TLOU2 also earned wins for Game Direction, Narrative, Audio Design, Performance (Laura Bailey as Abby), Innovation in Accessibility, and

Disco Elysium surprised many last year, and at The Game Awards, ZA/UM has announced that the game will be receiving a next-gen upgrade in 2021. Disco Elysium – The Final Cut will launch for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, PC and Stadia in March 2021, followed by Xbox Series and Switch in summer 2021. Existing owners

Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul) as an ass-kicking vigilante? That’s what you’re getting in Nobody, the new action-thriller from director Ilya Naishuller (Hardcore Henry). Nobody will release in theaters on February 26, 2021, and we’ve got the official RED BAND trailer today courtesy of IGN. It’s bloody, casting Odenkirk in a whole new light. IGN

Image/Skybound Entertainment have announced this week the upcoming launch of ULTRAMEGA, a brand new comic series that’s headed our way with one hell of a premise. In the world of ULTRAMEGA, a cosmic plague has spread and transformed everyday people into violent, monstrous kaiju. Only the Ultramega—three individuals imbued with incredible powers—hold the line against

James Wan is on board to produce a small screen version of I Know What You Did Last Summer that Amazon recently ordered to series, and today a director has been hired. Variety reports that Craig Macneill (The Boy, “Channel Zero: Candle Cove,” Lizzie, “Castle Rock,” “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” “NOS4A2”) will direct the show’s

Vengeance is on the horizon. In the wake of 2010’s Skyline, Liam O’Donnell took over for the wildly entertaining Beyond Skyline in 2017, and he’s back this year with trilogy-ender Skyline 3 (aka SKYLIN3S). The third installment was written and directed by O’Donnell, and it’s headed to select theaters and VOD on December 18, 2020. While you wait, find the official poster

The collective trio known as Radio Silence, Tyler Gillett, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Chad Villella (V/H/S, Southbound, Ready or Not, Scream) have already set up their next horror project, with Deadline reporting today that they’re on board to tackle Reunion for MGM. Radio Silence will direct and produce the “high school horror movie.” Guy Busick, who co-wrote

Thought you were done with Rebellion’s Zombie Army 4? Guess again, as Rebellion has released a new campaign mission for the WWII shooter as part of its Season Two content. The Alpine Blitz mission brings with it a zombie-infested train ride up into the Alps that also just happens to have a zeppelin hovering above

Holiday horror mayhem returns to Tripwire’s Killing Floor 2 with this year’s annual Christmas-themed update, titled “Christmas Crackdown” and available to play right now! The annual holiday event that puts the slay in sleigh ride is here, bringing back Christmas Horror-themed Zeds, menus, cosmetics, and seasonal objectives. Killing Floor 2: Christmas Crackdown is also putting

He sees you when you’re sleeping; he knows when you’re awake. He knows if you’ve been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake! You don’t have to be a horror fan to get creeped out by J. Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie’s mega Christmas hit “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town.” It’s meant

The story that began with The Collector and continued with The Collection finally becomes a trilogy with upcoming sequel The Collected, which will bring back the titular villain as well as the only man who’s been able to stop his reign of terror, Arkin O’Brien. Josh Stewart reprises the role in the new film, which had been in production before shutting

Because we all know about that rumour, so let’s have another for this year’s Game Awards, shall we? Keep in mind that this one is coming from Reddit, and with the only proof of it even being considered “legit” is a compressed screenshot. So, grab your salt. According to the r/GamingLeaksAndRumours subreddit, the dead-but-no-longer-dead Telltale

Need something to tide you over until Cyberpunk 2077 gets released later this week? CD Projekt RED have decided to make their very first game, coincidentally the first entry in The Witcher series, absolutely free on GOG.com. Yeah, they’ve had many times before where they’ve given it away for free. And yes, the game is

It seems that the wait for Hardsuit Labs’ Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 will continue further into the new year than what was originally expected. That’s according to publisher Paradox Interactive’s CEO, Ebba Ljungerud, who spoke last month to Swedish publication Placera, saying that she did not believe Bloodlines 2 will release until the

Those wanting more from Free League Publishing for their Alien RPG tabletop game are in luck, as the latest module introduces the Colonial Marines into the universe. Set for a March 2021 release and priced at $39.99, the Colonial Marines Operations Manual provides all the tools you need to run a full open-world campaign as

Announced out of CCXP this afternoon, a brand new Swamp Thing comic book series is headed our way courtesy of DC Comics, brought to our attention by writer Ram V on Twitter. Ram tweets, “The word’s out! I’m writing a new Swamp Thing series @dccomics in 2021 with Mike Perkins on art, @SpicerColor on colours

Talkabout fllying under the radar. Netflix today has released the first episode of their adaptation of Red Candle Game’s Detention. The series, based on Red Candle Games’ 2017 horror adventure game, is the first first Mandarin series collaboration by Netflix, which teamed up with the Taiwanese broadcaster Public Television Service to bring it to life.

When Sonya Blade made her return as a playable fighter in Mortal Kombat 3, the character was played by newcomer Kerri Hoskins, who brought the franchise mainstay to new levels of popularity. She later reprised the role in Mortal Kombat 4 and even played Sonya live on stage in the traveling show Mortal Kombat: Live

While we continue waiting for The Batman, we’ve learned tonight via THR that director Matt Reeves is on board to produce a new horror movie titled Switchboard. (Not to be confused with 1986 horror movie Witchboard!) THR details, “Devon Graye’s spec is set in the late 1940s and centers on a young female switchboard operator

This may be the most twisted gift of the 2020 holiday season. A24 has been known to come up with some pretty wild merchandise over the years, and one of their latest offerings is a mini puzzle that pays tribute to the most gruesome and shocking moment from Ari Aster’s Hereditary. We’re of course talking

Devolver Digital is at it again with Fall Guys and another crossover. Fans had the opportunity to stomp around as Godzilla last month, and now it appears that they’ll be able to rip and tear as Doom Guy! Of course, they aren’t outright saying that it’s Doom Guy, but if you’re looking at the shape,

Ken Russell’s film version of Paddy Chayefsky’s only novel, Altered States, is one of the most visionary pieces of early 1980’s cinema. It is a bold exploration into consciousness, religious experience, evolution, and the very meaning of humanity itself. It was also plagued with a number of production woes centering around the strong personalities of

The Prop Store has another wild auction that ended with some lucky collectors scoring memorabilia that some of us would consider priceless. One of the coolest items was an authentic H.R. Giger-designed special effects mechanical Xenomorph head from the production of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror masterpiece Alien. The creature stalked the crew of the Nostromo,

Holiday horror is all about twisting the familiar traditions, iconography, themes, and décor of the holidays into nightmare fuel. It’s plain fun for the horror fan watching classic fixtures of Christmas – like Santa, snowmen, or Christmas trees – transform into homicidal maniacs, or for decked halls in snowy December to become ground zero for

Well this is an interesting one. David Cronenberg’s 2007 movie Eastern Promises, which starred Viggo Mortensen, is getting a follow-up film with the upcoming Small Dark Look. Mortensen, it would seem, is not returning to star, and the movie isn’t exactly a sequel either. Rather, THR notes, it’s set in the same world, with Jason

We got a sneak peek at the first wave of Funko and Crunchyroll’s Junji Ito Collection of upcoming POP! vinyl toys earlier this week, and today the lineup has been officially unveiled. As we already knew, the wave includes Souichi Tsujii, Tomie Kawakami, Fuchi and Slug Girl, and it turns out there’s also a Books-a-Million

Along with Joe Bob Briggs, the cast and crew of Tobe Hooper’s horror classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre are taking part in a virtual reunion event this weekend, we’ve learned. The press release explains, “Exurbia Films presents The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2020 Family Reunion Virtual Event, on Friday December 4th and Saturday December 5th.

The most recent release date we were provided with for the new Mortal Kombat movie from Warner Bros/New Line was January 15, 2021, but as you probably figured by now, that’s no longer the plan thanks to the ongoing pandemic upending the film industry. The movie currently has no release date, but WB is reportedly still planning

Jeffrey A. Brown‘s festival hit The Beach House is headed to VOD, Digital HD, DVD and Blu-ray on December 15, 2020, via RLJE Films and Shudder. Our own Daniel Kurland raved about Brown’s indie horror film in his 4-star review last year, writing that his directorial debut is “a powerful, emotional throwback to ‘50s sci-fi that presents a stunning