Horror

Before John Carpenter’s Halloween there was Bob Clark’s Black Christmas, an early slasher film that helped lay the foundation for the eventual arrival of horror movie icons like Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger. After two remakes, we’ve learned this week that Black Christmas is next getting a behind-the-scenes book, set for release next

Casey Affleck, Sam Claflin, Michelle Monaghan, Veronica Ferres and India Eisley star in the thriller Every Breath You Take, which has been acquired by Vertical Entertainment. Deadline reports today that Vertical will release the film, directed by Vaughn Stein, in both North American theaters and at-home via Premium VOD on April 2nd, 2021. “Every Breath You Take

The latest update to Kinetic Games’ surprise hit Phasmophobia is here, and proves that ghosts can be trained. As detailed on the title’s Steam page, the update includes the usual bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements. However, the big news is the changes to the ghost AI. Not only can ghosts now turn and follow players

Ahead of the film’s premiere at SXSW, we’ve learned today via Deadline that Jaco Bouwer‘s South African horror movie Gaia has already been acquired for release by Decal. Decal, which Deadline notes is “the newly formed home entertainment distributor from Neon and Bleecker Street,” is planning to release Gaia in theaters this summer. “The plot

After finally seeing a release on the Nintendo Switch last October, Running With Scissors has released Postal Redux on the PlayStation 4. As with the Switch and Steam releases, the game includes all of the previously-released DLC, as well as the Redux-exclusive Rampage mode. It’s quite the ride for Postal Redux to the PlayStation 4,

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

Published in 1984 and written by Stephen King and Peter Straub, fantasy epic The Talisman is one of the few notable King stories that to date has not yet been adapted for either the small screen or the big one. This despite Steven Spielberg owning the rights to the book since the ’80s, with various planned adaptations taking different forms over

While we wait for the Sinister and Doctor Strange director’s new horror movie The Black Phone, we’ve learned today from Variety that Scott Derrickson has set up his next project. Derrickson will be executive producing “Grace” for Paramount Television Studios under his Crooked Highway banner. The project comes courtesy of writer Joseph Sousa. Variety details,

The old saying goes that a story is only as good as its villain. And for the Resident Evil series, there’s plenty of villains to go around. Obviously, much like the entries in the series, some villains are more memorable than others for one reason or another, but they’ve all contributed in some way to

Bloody Disgusting has just scored a first look at CJ Entertainment’s horror-thriller remake Hide And Seek with news that Saban Films has taken North American, UK and Irish rights to the Joel David Moore (Hatchet, Youth in Oregon) directed redo of the 2013 hit (read our review). “Dracula’s” Jonathan Rhys Meyers leads cast alongside Jacinda Barrett (“Bloodline”), Joe Pantoliano (“The Sopranos”) and Mustafa

Nearly twenty years after starring in Troll 2, filmmaker Michael Paul Stephenson made a documentary about it, Best Worst Movie, that chronicled its cult fandom and key players involved with the film’s creation. His follow-up documentary, The American Scream, put a compassionate and joyful spotlight on the Halloween home haunt, told through three households in a Massachusetts town.

In case you’ve been living unaware, the Resident Evil franchise celebrates its 25th anniversary this month, and so leave it to the fans to go the extra mile. In this case, the folks at Biohazard Declassified are back with another update to the Resident Evil 2 mod, Resident Evil: During The Storm, which just so

The action-horror manga Hellsing is headed to the big screen, Deadline has announced, with Amazon Studios developing an adaptation being penned by Derek Kolstad (John Wick)! The feature will bring Kouta Hirano‘s Japanese manga into the world of live-action. The manga was previously turned into anime series’ “Hellsing” and “Hellsing Ultimate.” “Ever since my brother

The loss of innocence is a recurring motif in horror and cinema at large. A more niche subset of that motif explores the frightening transition from childhood into adulthood through a child’s perspective. Like Pan’s Labyrinth or The Reflecting Skin, these movies feature young protagonists grappling with a grown-up world’s harsh realities through fantasy, leading to disastrous results. The

We could always use more Lovecraft in our games, and we’ll definitely be getting more in the sequel to PsychoDev’s 2017 point-and-click adventure title Chronicle of Innsmouth with Mountains of Madness. The sequel is expected for release later this month, which is set 10 years before the original game, and is based on the Lovecraft’s

Brandon Suttles is a father of two young children. A husband. A horror fan. And for the past two years, Brandon has risen to the challenge of becoming something else. A warrior. Diagnosed with Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), a form of bone cancer, in 2019, Brandon has been brutally honest about his battles and struggles on

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

Raven Banner Entertainment shared with Bloody an absolutely bonkers red band trailer to The Sadness, which is literally soaked in blood and guts. You have got to see this! “In The Sadness, a young couple find themselves at the heart of an inexplicable wave of chaos and violence, as random citizens become driven to pursue

If you’re a fan of “Sherlock” and “Dracula”, Hartswood Films, the British company behind both, is next waking up in the middle of “The Devil’s Hour”, which Amazon has already greenlit, reports Deadline. “From the mind of rising British writer Tom Moran, “The Devil’s Hour” is a UK original that tells the story of a

Following up his 2013 feature filmmaking debut Jug Face, writer/director Chad Crawford Kinkle has returned to the horror genre with his sophomore film Dementer. From the press release, Dementer “follows Katie, a young woman who flees a backwoods cult and takes a job at a care center for special needs adults in her determination to

The latest bizarre photo-manipulating tool to take the internet by storm is called “Deep Nostalgia,” and it uses A.I. technology to quite literally animate still photographs. The app was actually created by MyHeritage, an online genealogy platform, allowing people to imagine what their deceased ancestors may have looked like when they were alive and in

“The Walking Dead” will be ending with an expanded two-year eleventh season that will span 24 episodes, bringing the long-running AMC series to an end sometime in 2022. Season 11 kicks off this Summer, and Deadline is reporting tonight on some casting news for the new season. Michael James Shaw (“Constantine,” “Limitless”) has signed on.

The new CBS series “Clarice” is set in 1993, a year after the events of The Silence of the Lambs. The series is a deep dive into the untold personal story of Clarice Starling (Rebecca Breeds), as she returns to the field to pursue serial murderers and sexual predators while navigating the high stakes political world

Formative Fears is a column that explores how horror scared us from an early age, or how the genre contextualizes youthful phobias and trauma. From memories of things that went bump in the night, to adolescent anxieties made real through the use of monsters and mayhem, this series expresses what it felt like to be a

We mentioned the Fallout 4 mod Whispering Hills a while back. You know, the mod by Mangaclub that essentially gives us Silent Hill in Fallout 4. Well, DSOGaming reports that Mangaclub has finally released the first episode. Along with the infamous fog, the mod includes the Midwitch Elementary School from the first Silent Hill game,

Despite the troubles that Techland continues to have with Dying Light 2‘s development, they’re at least remaining committed to providing the original game more content. In fact, right now they’re celebrating the title’s 6th anniversary with new DLC that adds a new event and more items to the game. The event, called Zombie Hunt, has

Ben Ripley, the writer of 2011’s Source Code, is back with a new science fiction movie titled Parallel, and THR reports tonight that Netflix has just picked up his spec script. Parallel is “described as a sci-fi heist story that takes place across parallel universes.” The Hollywood Reporter details, “It involves a man and woman

No Toy Fair, no problem. NECA has been slowly rolling out reveal after reveal of action figures we can expect later in 2021. While the majority have been fresh additions to their tubular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collections, we did learn of a brand new black and white Universal Monsters series that was introduced with

What better way to celebrate your birthday than at Willy’s Wonderland! This is a horror movie where you’ll see Nicolas Cage spend the night locked in for a dusk til dawn blood soaked showdown with some creepy animatronics possessed by sinister spirits! Appearing on episode 200 of Bloody Disgusting’s Boo Crew Podcast is Director Kevin

Who do you believe? Freeform‘s upcoming thriller series “Cruel Summer” was produced by Jessica Biel, with the interesting approach that it takes place across three distinct summers throughout the ’90s. The series “takes place over three summers in the ’90s when a beautiful and popular teen goes missing, and a seemingly unrelated girl transforms from