Horror

Gabe Bartalos is a special effects artist and director who has been working in the field for over three decades. With dozens of features across his resume, working on tentpole franchises like Friday the 13th and Gremlins, Gabe has also stepped behind the camera a few times to direct surreal, nightmare-fueled pictures of his own.

In director David Bruckner‘s latest, The Night House, recently widowed Beth (Rebecca Hall) discovers disturbing secrets about her husband after beginning to experience paranormal events at their remote lakeside house. As Beth plays detective to uncover those secrets, she also finds clues for a supernatural mystery. Screenwriters Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski (Super Dark Times, Siren) shared with Bloody Disgusting their process in

phantom limb /ˈfan(t)əm’lim/ n. an often painful sensation of the presence of a limb that has been amputated. Welcome to Phantom Limbs, a recurring feature which will take a look at intended yet unproduced horror sequels and remakes – extensions to genre films we love, appendages to horror franchises that we adore – that were sadly

Waxwork Records has given Bloody Disgusting the exclusive first listen to the debut single from the new Candyman score. The track is titled “Rows and Towers” and scored by NYC-based electronic and avant-garde artist Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe. “‘Rows and Towers’ serves as one of many portals in the landscape of Candyman,” Robert Aiki Aubrey

Rueben Martell’s Don’t Say Its Name opens with a hit and run. Kharis (Sheena Kaine), a young Indigenous woman, is walking on a back road when she’s struck and killed. Her assailant isn’t seen, but her death has immediate ramifications that extend far beyond her grieving mother Mary Lynne (Carla Fox); it winds up affecting

phantom limb /ˈfan(t)əm’lim/ n. an often painful sensation of the presence of a limb that has been amputated. Welcome to Phantom Limbs, a recurring feature which will take a look at intended yet unproduced horror sequels and remakes – extensions to genre films we love, appendages to horror franchises that we adore – that were sadly

By now, you’ve probably seen James Gunn’s handiwork in The Suicide Squad (if you haven’t, check out Meg’s review). Some of you gamers might have seen it and thought one particular scene looked kind of familiar. Well, that’s because it was. In an interview with Collider, Gunn talked about his filmmaking process, and one of

We’ve found even more tapes and will be bringing them all to Shudder in V/H/S/94, the fourth installment of the Bloody Disgusting-produced horror anthology franchise from Studio71. It was announced today that V/H/S/94 will kick off horror fans’ month-long Halloween celebration when it premieres on Shudder this coming October 6, 2021! In V/H/S/94, after the discovery of a

One of the all-time great horror legends gets his own documentary with the upcoming Boris Karloff: The Man Behind The Monster, and it’s finally on the way this year. Deadline reports today that Shout! Studios and Abramorama have joined forces for the North American rights to the documentary, with a limited theatrical run on September 17. Shout!

1C Entertainment aren’t quite done with Lovecraft, it seems. On top of the announcement of Forgive Me Father, 1C Entertainment and developer Blini Games have announced action RPG Lovecraft’s Untold Stories 2 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam. And like Forgive Me Father, the follow-up to 2019’s Lovecraft’s Untold Stories will launch in Early

Henry Thomas continues his renaissance with a role in the Paramount Players’ follow-up adaptation of Stephen King’s bestseller Pet Sematary at Paramount Players, reports Deadline. The actor, who made a name for himself as the young boy Elliot in Steven Spielberg’s E.T., has recently starred in a plethora of genre projects from Netflix’s “The Haunting

As we told you last week, A24 and David Lowery‘s (A Ghost Story) The Green Knight (read Meagan’s 5-star review) is coming to the virtual A24 Screening Room for one-knight-only this Wednesday, August 18 at 9pm, but oddly enough, we’ve learned today that the film will also be coming to all traditional at-home streaming platforms… the very next day?

Structured like a play and filmed in inky black and white, actor Mark O’Brien’s feature directorial debut The Righteous is a dialogue-driven examination of grief, responsibility and penance. The film follows Frederic Mason (Henry Czerny), a former priest who left the brotherhood to marry Ethel (Mimi Kuzyk) and raise a little girl. Ethel is devout

Revenge-thrillers tend to lend well to horror, especially if they push the violence far enough into gory genre territory. The latest by Paul Andrew Williams (The Cottage, Cherry Tree Lane) reads like a classic, gritty crime thriller turned vengeance quest but plays like a horror movie in many ways. Bull stuns with its shocking violence, keeps you guessing throughout, then

The Adams Family are doing the kind of pioneering DIY work that most low-budget independent filmmakers can only dream of. The trio – composed of John Adams, Toby Poser and their daughter Zelda Adams – write and direct all of their films collaboratively. They also act as editor, cinematographer, DP, costume designer, music composer, and

Macon Blair (I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore, Green Room) is directing a remake of Troma’s The Toxic Avenger for Legendary Entertainment, and we’ve learned that filming has now wrapped. Writer/Director Blair himself made the announcement this afternoon on Twitter. Find the tweet below. In the 1984 original, directed by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael

Is it a sequel? Is it a remake? Is it a reboot? Those were the questions thrown around after it was announced that director James Gunn was slated to write and direct The Suicide Squad. Sporting returning cast members Margot Robbie, Viola Davis, Joel Kinnaman, and Jai Courtney in their respective roles, Gunn’s bizarrely heartfelt

More than 20 years on from its original release, the bloody, brutal action-adventure game Blade of Darkness is making a return to PC with an updated version. Blade of Darkness‘ legacy can be seen in a wide variety of modern games, from Darksiders to Dark Souls, with its Dark Fantasy setting and challenging gameplay helping

A world where the night never ends… Just four years after The Crow, filmmaker Alex Proyas returned with neo-noir science fiction movie Dark City, ushering us into a nightmarish world no one seems to wake up from. All these years later, Proyas returns to that rich, visionary universe with the short film Mask of the

Halloween Horror Nights is back this year, and Universal Orlando has made a whole bunch of new announcements today, including new houses, scare zones and live entertainment. In addition to the previously announced “The Haunting of Hill House,” Beetlejuice, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre houses, as well as “The Bride of Frankenstein Lives” and “Halloween Horror

When Fallout 3 was announced, I was one of the many people who were hesitant about the change in perspective for the series. There was something about the look and feel of those old isometric games that captured the grimy, icky apocalypse they were going for that wasn’t quite as appealing when rendered in crisper

In addition to the recently released Escape Room 2, Orphan star Isabelle Fuhrman appears in the period horror movie The Last Thing Mary Saw, set in the year 1843. Set to World Premiere at the virtual edition of the Fantasia Film Festival, Fuhrman stars alongside Rory Culkin (Lords of Chaos), Stefanie Scott (Insidious: Chapter 3) and Judith Roberts (You Were Never Really Here). Ahead of the Fantasia

The content space is more crowded than ever, making it challenging to keep up with all of the genre titles available via streaming platforms, VOD, and theatrical releases. It can be overwhelming just to browse. To help prevent great indie horror from slipping through the cracks, we’ll spotlight our favorites every month. Netflix dominated July

While Hammer Studios has been in business since 1934, it was between 1955 and 1979 that it towered as one of the premier sources of edgy, gothic horror. On top of ushering the famous monsters of Universal’s horror heyday back into the public eye, resurrecting the likes of Frankenstein, Dracula and the Mummy in vivid

“We need to talk about Gordon,” as Phil (David Caruso) tells Mike (Stephen Gevedon) not long before all hell breaks loose in Session 9. But before we do, I should mention that this will not be a spoiler-free review but a deeper look into this unnerving cult film. I wouldn’t normally issue a spoiler alert

“I conceived Blood Conscious as a film that takes place the day after a slasher film,” writer-director Timothy Covell explains. “But instead of opening on the lone survivor of a campground massacre, we focus on the family who finds him, setting in motion a chain of paranoia that leads to even more bloodshed over the course of the ensuing

It would seem that one of new additions to the mythology in Nia DaCosta‘s upcoming Candyman is that the titular moniker doesn’t just describe a single character, but rather, as the trailers have been suggesting, “the whole damn hive.” In other words, there’s more than one “Candyman” at play here, including one character we’ve seen

The fictional town of Jerusalem’s Lot, Maine, gets mentioned frequently in author Stephen King‘s works. Most famously, it’s the setting for his vampire novel ‘Salem’s Lot and, to a lesser extent, a stand-alone prequel short story “Jerusalem’s Lot.” The latter channeled Bram Stoker’s The Lair of the White Worm, with an 1850’s tale of terror told in the

Do you need to insurance boobs? After queering up the castle in James Whale’s The Bride of Frankenstein, we got cosmic with Adam Egypt Mortimer’s outstanding imaginary friend tale Daniel Isn’t Real. Now we need something that’ll really get us hot, and the 1981 parody Student Bodies just might do the trick! In the film, an anonymous

A new Richard Bates Jr project is always a cause for celebration because it’s guaranteed to a) make you squirm or b) make you laugh (often despite yourself). With King Knight, the writer/director, known for his caustic comedies and macabre horrors, delivers a bemusing property that broadly satirizes the New Age self-improvement movement, albeit with