Horror

Like most superhero fans, I rarely thought about the Ghost Rider movies over the years. I knew about them and had an affection for the character, but I accepted the general consensus that they were disappointing misfires, rightly overshadowed by the launch of the MCU and Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy.  But here’s the thing:

After decades of being an annual Halloween staple on television, it’s been announced that the Peanuts special “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” has found a new home exclusively over on the streaming service Apple TV+. What does that mean? Well, it means the special won’t be airing on traditional television this month, for the

With their 3D action platformer Pumpkin Jack launching later this week, publisher Headup Games and developer Nicolas Meyssonnier have released the launch trailer. The title will launch on October 23 for Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam, GOG, and the Epic Games Store. The PlayStation 4 version will launch “a few weeks later”.

Once you take Larry’s hand you’ll never be alone again. Believe it or not, we’re just getting started with the Halloween season. There’s a ton of goodies still being handed out, including Focus Features’ Come Play, which will introduce you to your new best friend, a monster name Larry, on October 30, 2020. Based on his

Remothered: Broken Porcelain lives up to the broken part of its name a bit too well. I threw myself back into the Felton house of Remothered: Tormented Fathers in preparation for the release of its sequel, Broken Porcelain. Tormented Fathers, released about two years ago now, has its share of flaws, but overall, offers a

It’s Halloween; everyone’s entitled to one good scare. With this week’s streaming picks, expect many potent chills. Ghosts and hauntings tend to frighten more effectively than any other subgenre of horror because there’s no set rules or tangible way to fight them. The inherent unpredictability of incorporeal entities lurking in your home keeps you on

New York’s scariest haunted house tour. Knight Light: A Horror Movie Podcast has visited an insane haunted house that many people never made it out of. We are lucky enough to tell the tale of Stephen Cognetti’s Hell House LLC for our Trick, Our Treat month! Hell House LLC is a found-footage film exploring what happened five years

Grimrukh, the mind behind the popular Dark Souls mod Daughters of Ash, is at it again with another mod. This time, they’ve pulled together a team of other modders to make something ambitious: a whole new game built on top of Dark Souls called Dark Souls: Nightfall. From what Grimrukh has revealed on their website,

The annual Halloween special of “The Simpsons” was supposed to air on FOX tonight, October 18, but we’ve learned at the last minute that “Treehouse of Horror XXXI” has been delayed. Due to Game 7 of the NLCS, the episode will now air on November 1st. Yes, the night *after* Halloween. Damn you, sports! This

Fans of GTFO will have another Rundown to look forward to later this week. 10 Chambers Collective have announced that Rundown 004: Contact will release on Thursday, October 22nd, meaning that those who are enjoying Rundown 003: The Vessel will have to finish up their objectives soon before the map is wiped. While details are

The immense success of Amnesia: The Dark Descent created big expectations for Frictional Games’ follow-up. Rather than continuing the Amnesia series themselves, they handed it off to the Chinese Room for A Machine for Pigs while they worked on Soma, an original sci-fi horror title. While Dark Descent became known for its terrifying intensity, Soma

The iconic cereal monsters Count Chocula, Boo Berry and Franken Berry are currently back on store shelves for the Halloween season, and General Mills has just launched a “Monster of a Sweepstakes” contest in order to find a home for three one-of-a-kind busts. The busts are the work of award-winning special effects artist Karlee Morse,

Presenting itself as a “lost scene” from David Gordon Green’s Halloween (2018), the 13-minute short Happy Halloween: A Halloween Kills Fan Film has been unleashed, coming along as a special fan-made treat on the very weekend Halloween Kills was originally supposed to be released in theaters. And to its credit, it’s a highly satisfying way

Just in time for Halloween, cat treat brand Temptations has released a new animated short titled Scaredy Cat: The Movie. It stars an adorable orange and white cat as it playfully follows a ball of string that rolls down the hallway and throughout the rest of the house. Some spooky things are happening in this

Welcome back to Nightmare Alley, fiends; The spooky little sidestreet in the Nightmare on Film Street podcast feed. This week, Kim & Jon are joined by writer/director Ryan Spindell to discuss his super HalloweenTastic horror-anthology The Mortuary Collection, now available to stream on Shudder! If you aren’t afraid of tentacle monsters, creepy old morticians, or

Do you see?! Streaming services have opened a rift in the space-time continuum and taken Event Horizon straight to hell in 4K UHD! In looking through the various Halloween sales I stumbled across Paul W.S. Anderson‘s terrifying 1997 sci-fi splatterfest immediately available for rental or purchase in ultra-high-definition! From what I was able to see, Event Horizon

While Ultranite’s Dryad is still a ways off, the title recently appeared on Steam after initially being on Game Jolt. And with it, new details on the point-and-click game. Aside from the story involving you investigating the campgrounds where four camp counselors were brutally slain, the Steam page reveals that Dryad will also feature a

Can 2020 get any scarier? “The Simpsons” are back for another round of animated terror in “Treehouse of Horror XXXI” this Sunday night, the long-running show’s annual celebration of Halloween. This year’s special parodies Toy Story, offers a frightening look at the 2020 election, and spoofs Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse by unleashing several Homers from other dimensions. “Treehouse

The melding of Lovecraft and cyberpunk in Stormling Studios’ Transient now has a release date set just in time for Halloween. The title will launch for PC via Steam on October 28, with the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions following in 2021. Set in a distant, post-apocalyptic future, Transient has what remains of mankind

It was announced earlier today that Shudder has acquired North American rights to the vampire comedy Boys from County Hell, and we’re serving up their poster for the film tonight. Take a bite down below! Shudder will premiere the film in the US and Canada in 2021. “The film follows Eugene Moffat, who spends his

SEPTEMBER 1999 developer 98DEMAKE is back again with another project, this time teasing fans with a trailer for 02:32. If the name wasn’t cryptic enough, the trailer asks even more questions than it answers (while still looking cool). Certainly, there’s not a heck of a lot to go on, but the slow overhead crawl down

It seems like more and more live service games get into the spirit of Spooky Season with Halloween-themed content cropping up everywhere, and the juggernaut that is Call of Duty isn’t shy about getting involved this year. While CoD does have its zombies, Activision’s long-running shooter franchise is bringing some horror-flavored operators to its multiplayer

Friday the 13th fans have been dying to see Jason slash his way through the snow for many years, and the team behind fan film Never Hike Alone has finally made that a reality. Womp Stomp Films and director Vincente DiSanti are back with Never Hike in the Snow tonight, a brand new Friday fan film that’s set 3 months prior to

The CW is developing “Slay”, a supernatural drama executive produced by Oscar and Emmy winner Regina King (“The Leftovers”, “Watchmen”), reports Deadline. “Slay” centers on Carson Jones, a bold, witty teenager with afro puffs, leather boots, seventies cool, and – thanks to her mother’s ancient African bloodline – supernatural gifts and the responsibility to use

Way back in 2013, indie dev Ragtag Studio had shown off a little game at E3 that year called Ray’s The Dead. Ragtag Studio is the same group of folks behind the cult favourite Stubbs The Zombie, by the way. Well, flash forward to 2020, and the devs have announced that the game is finally

Grief, Satanism and black magic is rife in Anything For Jackson, the Canadian horror film about a pair of grandparents who will quite literally do anything to bring back their deceased grandson. The premise is surprisingly fresh: grieving elderly couple Audrey (Sheila McCarthy) and Dr. Henry Walsh (Julian Richards) abduct pregnant Shannon Becker (Konstantina Mantelos)

Anyone familiar with my articles will know that I have two primary obsessions. First and foremost, I absolutely adore The Last of Us and wholeheartedly believe that its sequel is the crowning achievement of this console generation. Secondly, I am utterly fascinated by how videogames use readable documents to teach mechanics, influence puzzles, build atmosphere,

It’s been a year since Obsidian’s The Outer Worlds was released on the Epic Games Store, so you know what that means. Yep, Obsidian and publisher Private Division have announced that with the one-year exclusivity being up soon, they’ll be releasing The Outer Worlds on Steam on October 23. No word on when the “Peril

“This species of cartoon has been extinct since 1998.” The 1990s animated series “Animaniacs” comes back to life next month courtesy of Amblin Entertainment, Warner Bros. Animation and Hulu, and the streaming service dropped a pretty spectacular clip during the virtual New York Comic Con this weekend. The Steven Spielberg-produced reboot series heads to Jurassic

Those itching to get into Bulletstorm and Painkiller devs People Can Fly’s upcoming dark sci-fi shooter Outriders will have to wait until next year. Originally scheduled for release this December, publisher Square Enix has announced that the title will release next year on February 2, 2021. As a consolation, the game will have cross-play up