Horror

The Darren Bousman-directed Spiral: From the Book of Saw had been set to open in theaters on May 21, but today we’ve learned that it’ll now be releasing sooner than expected. Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures have moved up the release date of the highly anticipated Spiral: From the Book of Saw, starring Chris Rock and Samuel L. Jackson,

The “Bat Horror” sub-genre gets a new entry with ITN Distribution’s Bats: The Awakening this year, a new creature feature directed by Scott Jeffrey and Rebecca Matthews. In the film, written by Jeffrey… “An alien virus that once wiped civilizations out in ancient times through out time has returned overnight by a mysterious thunderstorm infecting all the bats in the area causing them grow into grotesque giant carnivore man-eater monster bats and it’s up to humankind to fight for their lives to survive or history will once again repeat it’s self as it has thousands of years ago.” Megan Purvis, Georgia Conlan, Amanda-Jade Tyler, Ricardo Freitas, Kate Sandison, Venetia Cook, Marek Lichtenberg, Nicole Nabi, Mat Sibal and Ellis Tustin star. Check out the trailer

Daylight Savings Time still got you down? Tripwire has what you need in the form of the new Dystopian Devastation update for Killing Floor 2! The free content update is now live for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store. Continuing Tripwire’s annual free seasonal content updates, Dystopian Devastation introduces a new community

Some huge news from Entertainment Weekly tonight, with the site reporting that Fiona Dourif will be reprising the role of Nica Pierce in USA/Syfy’s “Chucky” series from Don Mancini! Fiona Dourif, the daughter of Child’s Play icon Brad Dourif (yes, he’s also back for the series), first played Nica Pierce in Curse of Chucky, reprising

Series of Frights is a recurring column that mainly focuses on horror in television. Specifically, it takes a closer look at five episodes or stories — each one adhering to an overall theme — from different anthology series or the occasional movie made for TV. With anthologies becoming popular again, especially on television, now is the perfect time to see

Bethesda is sticking to Fallout 76 for another year, unveiling the 2021 content roadmap for the online RPG. The new roadmap includes new content and additions to the game, as well as several new expansions. The Spring content update will add the long-awaited S.P.E.C.I.A.L. loadouts to the game, which is something that fans have wanted

Horror stalwart Barbara Crampton‘s appearance in You’re Next marked the start of a prolific genre renaissance that includes producing as well as acting. All of that experience culminates in a monster-as-metaphor feature that attempts to retool the vampire mythos to allow its leading lady to sink her fangs into a meaty lead role. She’s acting opposite indie horror darling Larry

Launched this year, Keanu Reeves co-wrote and co-created a comic series titled BRZRKR, notable for featuring a badass hero who looks a whole lot like, well, Keanu Reeves himself! The hope was that BRZRKR would eventually be adapted for the screen, and that’s precisely what is now happening. Variety reports this week that Reeves will

Co-director Leigh Thorne dropped us a line to announce that filming for his upcoming fan short Silent Hill: Road of Guilt is “in the can” after seven months. The team’s next goal? To get the film ready for Silent Hill 2‘s 20th anniversary in September. Leigh and company hope to have the film cut by

Since 1993’s Cronos, filmmaker Guillermo del Toro quickly became synonymous with horror hailing from Mexico. More recent releases like Issa Lopez‘s Tigers Are Not Afraid, Emilio Portes‘s Belzebuth, and even Gigi Saul Guerrero‘s Culture Shock indicate an emerging new class of talented genre contemporaries. While that’s exciting for horror’s future, there’s already a vast, rich history of Mexican

Atlus and Sega have announced that the upcoming Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne HD Remaster will finally arrive in the West on May 25. Pre-orders are now available, including a new Digital Deluxe Edition that allows players to get early access to the game. Available on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC via Steam,

Godzilla fever is sweeping the nation on the road to Godzilla vs. Kong‘s release, and today we’ve got a sneak peek at an upcoming King of the Monsters collectible from Mondo. Being put up for pre-order next week, Mondo’s officially licensed “Godzilla 89” Premium Scale Statue measures a towering 18″ tall, with pre-orders kicking off

It would seem that we’ve been going about the Resident Evil film reboot all wrong. At least, in terms of the film’s title. According to director Johannes Roberts, and reported on by IGN during an interview at SXSW’s online event, the official title for the upcoming Resident Evil movie is Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon

Another day, another new trailer for Adam Wingard‘s Godzilla vs. Kong. This one comes courtesy of IGN, and it features some bits of new footage including an underwater battle, a trip to the Hollow Earth, and a whole lot of destruction. At the very end of the trailer, a monstrous new threat is introduced, one

Scott Derrickson (Dr. Strange, Sinister) is headed back to the horror genre to direct The Black Phone for Blumhouse and Universal, and the film was already a Sinister reunion with Ethan Hawke recently joining the cast. On top of that, THR reports tonight, Hawke’s Sinister co-star James Ransone (It: Chapter Two) has also signed on to reunite with Derrickson.

Be sure to follow @BDisgusting on Twitter for daily horror news and more! As promised, Ryan Murphy has officially announced the Season 10 theme for FX’s “American Horror Story” tonight, and it’s “American Horror Story: Double Feature“! That’s right, we’re getting TWO stories in ONE season this year. “One by the sea… and one by

Funko has already released a handful of vinyl toys based on the Mortal Kombat video games, and the company has announced this week that MK movie toys are now on the way. The lineup includes three different versions of Scorpion (one a Chase Variant, another a Walmart Exclusive), and two different versions of Sub-Zero (one

The early ‘80s marked a handful of notable ultra-violent, hand-rotoscoped animation features aimed toward adults. Gerald Potterton’s Heavy Metal, based on the magazine, and Ralph Bakshi’s Fire and Ice– a collaboration with artist Frank Frazetta- are chief among the notable standouts of the era. The Spine of Night is a love letter to the classic animation style and draws

Fresh off last year’s Relic, my personal pick for the best horror movie of 2020, director Natalie Erika James will continue playing around in the genre space, THR reports tonight. The film is titled Apartment 7A, and Natalie Erika James will be co-writing and directing for Paramount and Platinum Dunes. John Krasinski (A Quiet Place)

Horror and science fiction have always been a part of the television canvas, and constant attempts have been made over the years to produce classic entertainment. Some have fallen by the wayside, while others became mainstream phenomena. With “TV Terrors,” we take a look back at the many genre efforts from the 80’s, 90’s, and

Last spring, Sony’s Columbia Pictures delayed their highly anticipated Venom: Let There Be Carnage from its planned October 2, 2020 date all the way to June 25, 2021. Now, with that date quickly approaching, the studio has shifted plans by pushing the Venom sequel to September 17, 2021, adding the Spider-Man spinoff to a growing

In addition to spinoff anthology series “American Horror Stories,” the pandemic-delayed 10th season of “American Horror Story” is headed to FX later this year, and creator Ryan Murphy has taken to Twitter tonight to share a short little beach-themed teaser trailer and announce that the official title/theme announcement will be made this coming Friday, March

This article contains spoilers. As other toys and even the official trailer had suggested, it looks like MechaGodzilla is indeed confirmed for Adam Wingard’s Godzilla vs. Kong, with Funko today showing off their full line of upcoming toys based on the movie. Most of the toys we had already seen, but today brings us our

Film writer and programmer Kier-La Janisse has dedicated much of her life to exploring horror’s history and culture from a critical and scholarly perspective. Janisse authored House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films, published and edited numerous horror non-fiction anthology works, founded the on-going Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, and

Follow the tapes. World Premiering tonight at SXSW is The Signal director Jacob Gentry‘s thriller Broadcast Signal Intrusion, billed as “an unsettling journey into our collective technological nightmares, confronting our deepest, darkest fears of both man and machine.” “While logging tapes of decades-old TV broadcasts, video archivist James discovers a surreal and disturbing clip that

Announced by the streaming service today, A24‘s thriller False Positive is headed to Hulu this summer, with the film set to premiere on Friday, June 25th, exclusively on Hulu. With the news come the first images of “Broad City’s” Ilana Glazer alongside costars Justin Theroux and Pierce Brosnan. In the film… “After months of trying and

Follow The Tapes. One of the new horror movies premiering at SXSW this month is Jacob Gentry‘s Broadcast Signal Intrusion, billed as “an unsettling journey into our collective technological nightmares, confronting our deepest, darkest fears of both man and machine.” The film will be World Premiering at SXSW 2021 on Tuesday, March 16 at 9pm

Clover Bite has released a new gameplay video for their upcoming “soulslike Metroidvania” in GRIME. Unlike the previous gameplay video, this new video narrated by GRIME director Yarden Weissbrot focuses on the “Unformed Desert” area, as well as giving a brief overview of the weapons system. GRIME is an action-adventure RPG where you have been

Eat Your Mangoes. We’re veering away from back-to-back weeks of offensive/controversial films following our discussion of Scary Movie 2 and Freeway and back into comfortable franchise territory. That’s right, just in time for…umm Friday the 12th…Trace and I dipped a toe into Camp Crystal Pond and the “FriGay” installment of the Friday the 13th series, Part

“People ask me, where are all the great exploitation movies today? The low-budget horror films? They’re on the Lifetime Network!” Shudder’s horror host Joe Bob Briggs once said, and he’s not entirely wrong about that. Mind you, Lifetime’s movies are virtually never “great,” but they’re damn sure churning out low-budget exploitation thrillers on a regular