Horror

Filmmaker Steve Merlo hopes to recapture the gritty feel of Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre with upcoming fan film The Sawyer Massacre, a feature length project. Merlo explains, “The Sawyer Massacre is a feature length fan film and unofficial prequel to the iconic horror film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. We have already raised

A brand new wave of cartoon-inspired “Toony Terrors” toys is on the way from NECA, and the company previews the series today while noting it might be their “best assortment yet.” In addition to Captain Blake from John Carpenter’s The Fog, previewed earlier this week, the Series 6 wave includes Elvira, Herbert West and My

Much like Dawn of the Dead, George A. Romero‘s 1977 horror movie Martin, centered on a man who believes he’s a vampire, is currently being restored by the UK’s Second Sight Films, who had originally announced a Blu-ray release for the near future. But the company has announced today that not only is Martin coming

Jason Reitman‘s Ghostbusters: Afterlife, a sequel to the original classic(s), is currently set for theatrical release on November 11, 2021, and as we recently learned thanks to an adorable clip, the movie will feature mischievous mini versions of the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man that are being referred to as “Mini-Pufts.” As it turns out, Bill Murray loves them

Tackling a new adaptation of a beloved video game franchise still going strong since 1992 sounds like a Herculean task. With a little over twenty games across platforms, nearly one hundred characters, decades of mythology, and a cherished 1995 feature adaptation, the intersection to appease both longtime fans and brand new gets blurred quickly. Mortal

Coming to select theaters on May 14 and Netflix on May 21, Zack Snyder‘s new zombie movie Army of the Dead promises to be bonkers, with the trailer teasing that there’s even a Zombie Tiger in the mix. And that’s not even as wild as Snyder is getting with this one, as he also teases

Announced last month, Emma Roberts is executive producing a young adult vampire series for Netflix that’s titled “First Kill,” and today brings word that a director has been found. Deadline reports that Jet Wilkinson (The Chi, How to Get Away with Murder) will direct the first two episodes. The series is written by Felicia D.

A big time deal was inked by Netflix and Sony Pictures Entertainment earlier this month, which will give Netflix exclusive streaming rights to Sony titles *after* theatrical and home entertainment releases. This pact begins next year, which kicks off with Sony’s release of the Jared Leto-starring Marvel vampire movie Morbius, currently dated for January 21, 2022. The partnership

When exactly will “The Witcher” be back on Netflix for its second season? We don’t yet have a date at this time, but Netflix promises today that it’s definitely coming *this year*. Geralt and the gang will return in Quarter 4, 2021, we’ve been told. Netflix’s Ted Sarandos said, “What happened in the first part

James Wan has passed the baton to Michael Chaves (The Curse of La Llorona) for The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, coming to theaters and HBO Max on June 4, 2021. Much like the previous two The Conjuring movies, we’ve learned tonight that The Conjuring 3 has received an “R” rating from the MPA. The WB/New Line

A few years back, “Zombie Skittles” hit store shelves for Halloween, with candies tasting like “rotten zombie” randomly mixed into each bag. In other words, you didn’t know if you were about to taste the rainbow or, well, human flesh… until it was too late. A similar gimmick is being put to use this coming

At the end of the day, Bryan Fuller‘s three-season series “Hannibal” was a love story between Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) and Will Graham (Hugh Dancy), the series finale culminating in what seemed like an inevitable fate for both characters. Hannibal and Will consummate their relationship by killing the Red Dragon, and then plunging off a

For years, the bug-eyed, giant animatronic characters of Five Nights at Freddy’s (also known by the acronym, FNAF) have been terrorizing children and adults alike. Since debuting in 2014, the series’ unique first-person perspective survival-horror experience has spawned a myriad of sequels and spin-offs, significantly influencing the horror genre in both gaming, and even in

With Honeydew now on all VOD platforms, the next Bloody Disgusting x Dark Star Pictures collaboration is going full-blown weird and is guaranteed to deliver gross-out mayhem when Dementia Part II arrives in theaters on May 21, 2021, and on VOD, Digital HD and DVD on June 1st. Taken from the pages of Sam Raimi,

While the pandemic is far from over, many are vaccinated and the world is doing its best to keep moving. Theaters took a heavy blow over the past year, leaving many to call the model a dinosaur and prematurely pronouncing the theatrical experience “dead”. Even though the past year has shined a light on some

So, remember last year how someone leaked footage of a standalone multiplayer mode for The Last of Us Part II, not to mention that we were all expecting some sort of DLC for Naughty Dog’s hit sequel? Well apparently, that’s not going to happen for the time being. According to Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier, Naughty

Those Fallout 4 modders are at it again. Well actually, they may be closet Fallout 4 fans, but are really Resident Evil Village fans at heart. Whatever the case, modder Vtaw has managed to appease both fans by creating a mod that brings everyone’s towering vampire, Village‘s Lady Dimitrescu, into Fallout 4 for the PC.

Another 4K Ultra HD release is on the way from Blue Underground, the company responsible for bringing films like Maniac and Lucio Fulci’s Zombie to 4K. Next up, the company’s ninth 4K UHD release will be Two Evil Eyes, Blue Underground has announced today! Released in 1990, Two Evil Eyes was a collaboration between co-directors Dario Argento

Announced last week, Jed Shepherd, the writer of last year’s horror movie Host, is back with Ghosts, a brand new experience being billed as a real-time, live-action horror game. Ghosts is said to be a tribute to live-action video games from the 1990s, and the cast of Host including Haley Bishop, Jemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb, Radina Drandova, and Caroline

With the release just one week away, we’ve got a new clip from Warner Bros./New Line’s Mortal Kombat today, pitting two of the gaming franchise’s top icons against each other. Joe Taslim is Sub-Zero and Hiroyuki Sanada is Scorpion in Mortal Kombat, releasing in theaters and on HBO Max on August 23, and this new

After a brutal legal battle, Fear Factory is finally set to release their first album in five years, Aggression Continuum, which will arrive June 18th via Nuclear Blast just in time for the band’s 30th anniversary. Aggression Continuum is also the final to feature Burton C. Bell, who announced his exit last September. The band is

We’ve learned the sad news tonight that Felix Silla, an actor and stuntman best known for playing Cousin Itt on “The Addams Family,” has passed away today at the age of 84. Silla died Friday after a battle with pancreatic cancer, THR reports. Felix Silla played Cousin Itt in multiple episodes of the original “Addams

The movie isn’t actually releasing until November 11 but it looks like Summer 2021 is going to be the Summer of Ghostbusters anyway, with all kinds of toys and tie-in products on the way. Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife, a sequel to the original classics, is even getting its own cereal from General Mills, and it

Pedro Pascal (“The Mandalorian”) is Joel and Bella Ramsey (“Game of Thrones”) is Ellie in HBO‘s series adaptation of zombie game “The Last of Us,” and Deadline reports this week that Gabriel Luna (Terminator: Dark Fate) is the latest to join the cast. Luna will be playing Tommy, the brother of Pascal’s Joel, who was

Friday the 13th kicked open the door and several other major franchises have been in flux thanks to an opening that allows the film’s original screenwriters to exploit copyright law’s termination provision. The latest to enter the fray is that of the original Predator, with The Hollywood Reporter writing, “Jim and John Thomas, the brothers

We all knew Barbara Crampton was a badass Scream Queen but we never knew she could be this badass! Join your horror hosts Jon & Kim on this week’s episode of Nightmare on Film Street as they sit down to talk with Jakob’s Wife co-writer & director Travis Stevens (Girl On The Third Floor). We’re

Need a hit of Resident Evil Village news this morning? Game Informer has posted a new video for the upcoming title that focuses on Village‘s upgrade system. Part of that new upgrade system is the introduction of animal hunting. Aside from the werewolves and other monsters lurking about, you also have animals that you can

Vermintide 2 fans won’t have to wait very long for the next DLC, as Fatshark has dropped a few new hints on the upcoming free DLC in “Chaos Wastes” that lands April 20th on Steam. The new update will add a “rogue-lite inspired” game mode, which will no doubt please those players looking for more

I am fully aware that I am in the minority on this, but in my opinion Scream 4 is the best film of the series. There is certainly tough competition. Scream is one of the more consistent franchises in horror, largely due to the remarkable continuity of talent it has enjoyed both in front of

Buka Entertainment and developer LUDUS FUTURE’s hack ‘n slasher Demon Skin is now out on Steam, complete with launch trailer. The devs also announced in a press release that the game will be seeing releases for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch later in 2021. “Demon Skin plunges players into an epic struggle against ever-increasing