Horror

The following contains major spoilers for Season 2 of Yellowjackets.  With a thrilling sophomore season, Showtime’s Yeliowjackets has cemented its place among the year’s best television. Picking up two months after Jackie’s (Ella Purnell) devastating death, the show’s 90s timeline reunites us with the stranded soccer players now struggling to survive in the dead of

The following contains major spoilers for Season 2 of Yellowjackets.  With a thrilling sophomore season, Showtime’s Yeliowjackets has cemented its place among the year’s best television. Picking up two months after Jackie’s (Ella Purnell) devastating death, the show’s 90s timeline reunites us with the stranded soccer players now struggling to survive in the dead of

The cast continues to grow for big screen sequel Mortal Kombat 2, adding four new cast members to play popular characters from the video game series. Deadline reports today that Martyn Ford (“The Sandman”), Desmond Chiam (“The Falcon and the Winter Soldier”), Ana Thu Nguyen (Suka) and Damon Herriman (House of Wax, The Nightingale) have signed on to play Shao

Carnivals and amusement parks are a prime setting for horror stories. We’ve had a handful of prominent, frightening tales take advantage of the unique aesthetic and eerie unreality an amusement park can offer over the years. What makes a carnival such a fertile place to set your horror tale in? Maybe it’s the thin veneer

Shudder‘s infectious found footage horror-comedy Deadstream finally heads home to Blu-ray, including a WALMART Exclusive Steelbook, starting July 18, 2023. Even better news is that the release comes loaded with special features worthy of this funhouse horror-comedy debut. Take a peek at the limited Steelbook and special features below. Deadstream follows a disgraced internet personality who

There are nearly 500 anti-LGBTQ+ bills currently advancing through state legislatures. Many bills specifically target drag shows or other public performances–censoring or outright banning them. Of course, there are also plenty of Don’t Say Gay bills, bathroom bills, and other anti-trans bills circulating in this country. It’s a terrifying time to be queer. Such lawmaking

Tatiana Maslany, Laurie Metcalf, and Paul Sparks star in ‘Grey House,’ a scary, psychological play that turns Broadway into a haunted house of horrors. “I’ve seen this movie. We don’t make it…” Horror is a popular genre for many reasons, but at the end of the day there is just nothing like the genuine experience

After Harrison’s heads up a few weeks back, Behaviour Interactive’s latest DLC for Dead by Daylight is out today in “END TRANSMISSION”. The Chapter 28 DLC introduces sci-fi horror to the asymmetrical horror game, complete with a new Killer, new Survivor, and a new map. The new Map, Toba Landing, is composed of three areas.

Richard Franklin has been called “The Australian Hitchcock” and 1981’s Road Games is the movie that earned him that title. Unlike many of his contemporaries, however, Franklin did not particularly emulate Hitchcock’s visual style. Instead, he learned how to structure a story and effectively build a sense of dread from the Master of Suspense. He

Known to horror fans for playing John Finnegan in 1998 monster movie Deep Rising, actor Treat Williams has passed away this week at the age of 71 years old, BD has learned. The actor passed away as the result of a tragic motorcycle accident. The Williams Family said in a statement to Deadline, “It is

After revealing Dragon’s Dogma 2 a few weeks back, Capcom has given fans a bit more info on the sequel to the 2012 original. Dragon’s Dogma 2 director Hideaki Itsuno appeared during the Capcom Showcase to explain some of the improvements made with the sequel over the first game. As before in the previous game,

Tom Hardy will be back as Venom in Sony’s upcoming Venom 3, but when can you expect to see Eddie Brock and his symbiotic BFF back up on the big screen? According to a new report from Variety, Venom 3 is shooting for an October 2024 release! This checks out, as both Venom (2018) and Venom: Let

Vampire Survivors fans got a treat yesterday during the PC Gaming Show, with developer Poncle announcing that the game would be getting a free 1.5 patch. The update, which is expected to go live today, will include a new map, a new character variation, and a new item pickup. The 1.5 patch introduces the new

Bethesda unveiled a whopping 45 minutes of gameplay today for their highly-anticipated sci-fi RPG Starfield ahead of its September 6 release for the Xbox Series and PC via Steam. Described as “Skyrim in space,” by the game’s director, Todd Howard, the deep dive includes exploring the game’s cities and settlements, the skill trees, upgrades, and

Bethesda unveiled a whopping 45 minutes of gameplay today for their highly-anticipated sci-fi RPG Starfield ahead of its September 6 release for the Xbox Series and PC via Steam. Described as “Skyrim in space,” by the game’s director, Todd Howard, the deep dive includes exploring the game’s cities and settlements, the skill trees, upgrades, and

Developer Clover Bite has revealed a brand-new DLC for their Soulslike Metroidvania GRIME during the Guerilla Collective Showcase. Available now on consoles and PC, the “Tinge of Terror” free content update brings a highly-anticipated New Game + mode to GRIME, as well as adding new mechanics for every enemy and boss in the game. Tinge

After giving fans a tease back in March, developer World Makers revealed during the Future Games Show today a brand-new gameplay trailer for their upcoming asymmetric horror whodunnit, Deceit 2. As well, World Makers announced that it’s conducting an Open Beta for PC users to allow them to jump right in ahead of the game’s

We’re still waiting on developer Jukai Studio to give us a firm release date for their upcoming Survival Horror Soulslike Stray Souls. But in the meantime, the team has gifted us with a demo that you can play right now from the Steam page for Stray Souls, as well as a new announce trailer. The

There have been eight films in the Leprechaun franchise to date, with 2018’s Leprechaun Returns most recently heading back to the original movie’s timeline in the wake of reboot Leprechaun Origins four years prior. What’s next? As Bloody Disgusting told you last year, Lionsgate has been actively seeking pitches for the next Leprechaun movie. As an update to that scoop,

Now available on PC, and coming to consoles June 13, The Greyhill Incident takes place in a small town that resembles the cornfields and all around atmosphere of the town in M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs. In fact, there are many comparisons between the two in the most awesome and frightening of ways. You play as Ryan Baker and

Have you ever had a vacation so iconic that people are still talking about it over two centuries later? Mary Shelley sure did, with her infamous getaway alongside Percy Shelley, John Polidori, Claire Clairmont and their host Lord Byron resulting in some of the most influential genre fiction of all time. And while Byron’s Darkness

Peacock’s “Twisted Metal” television series is roaring to life this summer, and a brand new clip from the series was just shared during #SummerGameFest this afternoon. “Twisted Metal” premieres on July 27. Watch the clip below, which features iconic video game character Sweet Tooth and teases the overall tone of the upcoming series. Peacock’s high-octane action

The Forever Purge had been marketed as the franchise’s *final* movie, but creator James DeMonaco eventually walked back those statements with the suggestion that he may actually have one more Purge story in the tank. The plan, last we heard? To bring Frank Grillo back as Leo Barnes, his character from The Purge: Anarchy and The Purge: Election Year. “I think I’m going

Sons of The Forest players looking for a little more horror action combined with the former’s survival mechanics should keep an eye on HypeTrain Digital’s upcoming Survival Horror game Outbreak Island. In fact, the developer has just released the official gameplay trailer (courtesy of IGN), which shows off those survival mechanics, along with the game’s

For the first-ever franchise in A24 history, Ti West recently wrapped production on his third film in his X and Pearl universe trilogy, the sky-highly anticipated MaXXXine. With a stacked cast boasting the likes of Elizabeth Debicki, Halsey, Kevin Bacon, Lily Collins, Michelle Monaghan, Giancarlo Esposito, and Bobby Cannavale and, of course, the mega return

For the first-ever franchise in A24 history, Ti West recently wrapped production on his third film in his X and Pearl universe trilogy, the sky-highly anticipated MaXXXine. With a stacked cast boasting the likes of Elizabeth Debicki, Halsey, Kevin Bacon, Lily Collins, Michelle Monaghan, Giancarlo Esposito, and Bobby Cannavale and, of course, the mega return

Prolific genre filmmaker Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer) is back with Lumberjack the Monster, an adaptation of Kaibutsu no Kikori by Mayusuke Kurai. A brand new Japanese teaser trailer highlights the violence in store when a serial killer crosses paths with a psychopath. The trailer introduces a Patrick Bateman-like psycho and a masked killer that may prove even more bloodthirsty, teasing

The Tribeca Festival is nearly here, taking place June 7 to June 18, and it brings a packed slate of screenings and premieres. The festival’s 22nd edition offers a hybrid experience of virtual and in-person, with notable genre programming dedicated to repertory screenings that include Re-Animator to upcoming premieres.  In other words, Tribeca’s bringing the horror this year.

Maybe more than any other character in the pantheon of horror villain legends, Freddy Krueger was custom built to put the fear of god into us. Nothing about his presence was thrown together haphazardly. Instead, nearly every aspect of his design had a tremendous amount of thought put into it. From makeup effects great David

Back in the day, if someone had tried to convince me to read a pseudo-religious epic with a four-digit page-count and a Deus Ex Machina ending without mentioning that it was penned by Stephen King, I’m pretty sure that I would have done my best to avoid that person (and the book) like the superflu.