Horror

One of my favorite parts of Halloween (besides the trick or treating, the costumes, and how every channel runs horror movies back-to-back) is The Simpsons’ annual “Treehouse of Horror” episodes. Easily the most popular episode of the year, each one contains three story segments, and sometimes a wrap-around segment. Though they are sometimes wholly original

DreadXP, the video game-focused offshoot of Dread Central, has been doing great things in terms of championing and publishing indie horror games this past year. Not only has it released three Dread X Collections, packed with game jam horror experiences from talented up and coming developers, it’s put on a Halloween showcase for indie horror

AMC’s FearFest is once again coming to an end, but not before the most important few days of the entire year. It’s Halloween Weekend, and FearFest is slashing with Michael Myers! Here’s what the schedule looks like for tonight through November 1st. Friday, October 30th 5pm EST: Halloween 6 7pm EST: Halloween (1978) 9pm EST:

Kicking off Halloween proper, NECA has made the announcement this morning that “Ultimate Edition” action figures based on Puppet Master‘s iconic puppets are coming soon! “Ultimate 2 packs coming soon,” NECA tweeted, along with preview photos. The figures depict Blade, Pinhead, Torch and Tunneler. Check ’em out below and expect more info soon! A box

Announced back in April, HBO is developing a “Hellraiser” television series, which has an incredible creative team attached including David Gordon Green (Halloween Kills) directing the pilot and “several more initial episodes,” and Michael Dougherty (Trick ‘r Treat, Krampus, Godzilla: King of the Monsters) writing alongside Mark Verheiden (“Battlestar Galactica”). And Deadline reports tonight that Clive

A brand new line of collectibles from Waxwork Records recently launched with their “Spinatures” collection, figures of horror icons that are built to spin on your record player. On the road to Halloween, the trick or treating Silver Shamrock kids from Halloween III have just been added to the collection, along with Michael Myers from Halloween

Unsane and The Girl in the Spider’s Web actress Claire Foy has been set to star in psychological horror movie Dust, and the project has been picked up by Searchlight Pictures. THR reports, “The story is set against the backdrop of increasingly horrific dust storms in 1930s Oklahoma and tells of a young mother, to be played by Foy, haunted

Kids just want to grow up, but they’re not always ready for grown up movies. So it’s important to put some serious thought into how you introduce kids to the horror genre. There are lots of horror classics out there that are perfectly appropriate for children and have been acting as a gateway between kids

The only way out is together. Filmed and set during the ongoing pandemic, the Michael Bay-produced Songbird has received its first official trailer today, with the film taking place four years into lockdown… In the terrifying thriller, the COVID-23 virus has mutated and the world is in its fourth year of lockdown. Infected Americans are ripped from

Let’s just admit it: There aren’t enough Halloween specials. There’s a reason we revisit It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and Garfield’s Halloween Adventure every year, and that’s because the pickings are pretty slim. There are tons of Halloween episodes of TV shows, and plenty of movies out there, but Halloween just doesn’t have as

Stephen Cognetti’s found footage film Hell House LLC has built up quite a fan following in the five years since its release, that original film spawning two sequels in more recent years. And now on the road to Halloween 2020, the uncut “Director’s Cut” will be unleashed. We’ve learned tonight that Hell House LLC: The

To celebrate the release of Scare Package on Blu-ray, Bloody has a hilarious faux commercial for Rad Chad’s Horror Emporium, Chad’s homemade campaign to keep his VHS Rental Store afloat in today’s world. “Growing up a child of the ’80s, the video store was our church,” says director Aaron B. Koontz. “For Rad Chad Buckley,

Announced tonight, Legendary is hosting a Trick ‘r Treat watch party on October 30, Halloween Eve, and writer/director Michael Dougherty is taking part in a live-tweet hang out! Legendary teases, “Start your copy of Trick ‘r Treat at 7pm PT on October 30th and Join Director @Mike_Dougherty as he tweets along from the @Legendary Twitter

The Legend of Zelda has become one of the most captivating fantasy experiences in all of video game history. At the core of its story has always been a young boy fighting against evil, traversing an immense land brimming with excitement. But in the year 2000, something very different took place in the franchise. Two

Ahead of the American Film Market, Variety has the first look at a brand new aquatic thriller, Jetski, which is the latest to strand a group of college kids in the middle of the sea surrounded by famished sharks. Directed by James Nunn (Tower Block, Eliminators), “The film follows a group of spring-breakers enjoying a

Announced back in September, Netflix is getting set to unleash an animated series titled “Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness,” and we’ve got a couple brand new images for ya tonight. “Infinite Darkness” features iconic characters Claire Redfield and Leon S. Kennedy, set in the canon of Capcom’s classic survival horror franchise and arriving sometime in 2021.

Much like DC and their FanDome event this past summer, Blumhouse has announced that they’re bringing the Halloween fun to you at home this week with their first annual BlumFest. And yes, there will be a Halloween Kills panel. Read on for details! Join the stars from the upcoming Blumhouse films Freaky and The Craft: Legacy; talent and

Her name is Sabrina Spellman, and she’ll never sign it away. The next season of Netflix’s “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” will be the show’s final season, we recently learned, and today it’s been announced that Part 4 arrives on December 31, 2020. “Sabrina Spellman is back one last time to raise your spirits and defeat

Board game fans (and Lovecraftian fans) will have something to look forward to next year, thanks to publisher Asmodee Digital and developer Luckyhammers. Arkham Horror: Mother’s Embrace, a digital game based on the Arkham Horror board game franchise, will launch in 2021 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam. The game

Some unfortunate news this weekend from Nightdive Studios, as the anticipated release of Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition has been pushed back. Originally due out later this year, Nightdive Studios CEO Stephen Kick made the announcement in an interview with Eurogamer that the game will no longer be released in 2020. The reasoning behind the delay

It’s always cool when you have talented fans strutting their stuff with their art. In this case, Bryan at STITCH-BIT has been busy during these long COVID months doing up some amazing cross-stitching of video game characters/scenes, including plenty of horror-related ones. While the majority of these 5-inch by 5-inch pieces are from the NES,

Ghosts have taken over Fortnite and Epic Games is sending in the Ghostbusters to trap ’em all. Part of this season’s ongoing “Fortnitemares” event, a handful of Ghostbusters bundles have just hit the game’s item shop! There appear to be two bundles of either male or female ‘busters that will cost you 2,000 V-Bucks each,

The great thing about October is that it seems like *everyone* embraces horror, if only for a month, delivering tricks and treats that you’d probably never expect them to otherwise. Take Drew Barrymore, for example, who just reprised the role of Casey Becker from Wes Craven’s Scream for a fun little video that imagines a

The director of Kill List, Sightseers, A Field in England, High-Rise, and Netflix’s Rebecca, Ben Wheatley has been hired by Warner Bros to direct the shark attack sequel The Meg 2! Now that’s an (unexpectedly) inspired choice! The scoop comes courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter tonight, and the site also reports that The Meg star Jason Statham

Halloween unfortunately will be a bit lacking this year for many, but luckily, the Epic Games Store is treating everyone next week with two big free games. As part of their continuing “free game(s) every week” incentive, players can grab Bloober Team’s Blair Witch and Sony’s Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered absolutely free! This is

Featured in the debut season of FX’s hit horror series, the Los Angeles “Murder House” from “American Horror Story” is opening to the public for the first time ever, with homeowners Dr. Ernst von Schwarz and his wife Angela Oakenfold hosting a three-day, 24-hour first-ever live stream event beginning Thursday, October 29 and ending Sunday, November

Originally known as Zombieland: Double Tapper, Tilting Point and Metagame Studios’ Zombieland: AFK Survival is celebrating its one-year anniversary by doing not one but two Halloween events. Right now, players can test their survival skills by masking up as one of four new heroes before hitting the road to kill and collect zombies. Zombieland: AFK

While we wait for Universal to bring the Bride of Frankenstein back to life, Variety reports tonight that Scarlett Johansson is on board to star in and produce a sci-fi movie titled Bride for Apple TV+ and A24, which sounds like it’s cut from a very similar cloth. Here’s the plot rundown…. “Bride is the

In the wake of 2010’s Skyline, director 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 io9 brings us the word this week that it’s headed to select theaters and VOD on