Horror

“Why true crime?” is a question you may have asked others or perhaps yourself, depending on where you fall within the true crime industrial complex that has permeated popular culture. Even classifying true crime as “popular culture” feels irresponsible, but that’s exactly what it is: the massive popularity of the Serial podcast and Netflix serial

If you thought Elvira looked good before, wait until you see her in UHD! Elvira: Mistress of the Dark will bust out on 4K Ultra HD on November 12 via Arrow Video. The 1988 horror-comedy has been newly restored in 4K with Dolby Vision and uncompressed stereo 2.0 audio. The limited edition first pressing comes

Attached to select showings of Alien: Romulus on the big screen was a short teaser trailer for “Alien: Earth,” and the teaser has been officially released online by FX this week. Sydney Chandler stars in FX’s “Alien: Earth,” which is coming exclusively to Hulu in 2025. Watch the teaser trailer below and read on for the

“Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do.” In 1980, outlaw horror author Jack Ketchum published one of the most gruesome and disturbing horror novels of all time. Off Season follows a group of friends vacationing at a picturesque cottage in Maine targeted by a clan of feral cannibals living deep in the woods. Offspring picks up

Kill Krites. After kicking off August with discussions of Paul Morrissey’s Udo Kier-starring vehicle Blood for Dracula (listen) and Julia Ducournau’s confronting Raw follow-up Titane (listen), we’re dialing things back a bit with a comfort watch of Stephen Herek‘s 1986 cult classic (and franchise originator) Critters! Critters sees an fuzzy alien race known as the Krites flee a prison

Physical media fans are getting another wish taken care of, courtesy of Mob Entertainment and Maximum Entertainment, which have announced a collection of the first three chapters of the Poppy Playtime series for the PlayStation 5. The Poppy Playtime Triple Pack is currently available for pre-order now, and will be officially releasing on October 31.

Developer Fun Dog Studios has announced a September 24 Early Access release date for their upcoming tactical survival horror shooter The Forever Winter on Steam. The announcement comes in the form of a new trailer, which details what fans can expect during the game’s stay in Early Access. Priced at $29.99 on launch with a

This week has already seen the theatrical re-release of Shaun of the Dead and the Digital debut of Mike Flanagan’s Hush, and that’s only the beginning of this week’s horror releases. Here’s all the new horror that released Friday, August 30, 2024! For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar. M. Night Shyamalan’s sixteenth

The director of horror-comedies WolfCop and Another WolfCop, as well as this year’s pro wrestling horror movie Dark Match, Lowell Dean is back this Halloween with Die Alone. Quiver Distribution will release Die Alone in theaters and VOD at home October 18, 2024. Watch the official trailer for Die Alone below. In the film, “Lost in a world reclaimed by nature and overrun by

Hollywood comes home when MaXXXine arrives on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital on October 8 from Lionsgate in association with A24. Writer-director Ti West brings his trilogy — which began with X and continued with Pearl — to a close with Mia Goth once again in the lead. Special features include: The Belly of

The most wonderful time of the year is at hand: Halloween season has arrived. The signs are everywhere, from the cooling weather to pumpkin spice-flavored treats and beyond. But the biggest telltale sign of Halloween is arguably the overwhelming slate of horror releases packed into September and October to ensure maximum fright for the holiest

While horror remakes are inevitable, its rare that international filmmakers are hired to helm American remakes of their originals. Even fewer filmmakers get to make not one, but TWO movies about sentient killer elevators (Killovators? Murdervators?). Lucky for us, Dick Maas laughs in the face of convention. His feature debut, The Lift, is a zany

Currently there is only one movie where Kylie Minogue is murdered by a masked madman, and then former Brat Packer Molly Ringwald swoops in to save the day. Of course that movie is none other than the horror obscurity Cut (2000). This hidden gem from Down Under popped up during the first slasher revival, which

Published in 2020, author Adam Cesare gave rise to a new slasher villain in the horror novel Clown in a Cornfield, and a horror movie adaptation is on the way. Eli Craig (Tucker & Dale vs. Evil) will direct the movie adaptation of the young adult slasher novel, which comes courtesy of Protagonist Pictures Limited and Sony Pictures.

Spanish filmmaker F. Javier Gutiérrez (Before the Fall, Rings) is back with new movie The Wait (La Espera), described as a sinister folk horror tragedy that takes place in the dark, magic and forgotten Andalusian countryside, a place marked by ancestral traditions. Film Movement is bringing The Wait to VOD & Digital platforms on October 4. Exclusively watch the

The 60-minute found footage horror short Milk & Serial is making huge waves here in the horror community, already approaching half a million views since being uploaded just two weeks ago by the channel That’s a Bad Idea, an up-and-coming comedy duo made up of film-school-pals-turned-collaborators Curry Barker and Cooper Tomlinson. The short film was made for just

The hotly anticipated full official trailer for Damien Leone’s Terrifier 3 is being unleashed tomorrow (August 28), and Empire Online shares a brand new image today while you wait. Christmas comes early in Damien Leone’s slasher sequel Terrifier 3 from Bloody Disgusting and Cineverse, which brings Art the Clown exclusively back to theaters on October 11. Bookmark the trailer link

If the commercial and critical success of horror films from Jordan Peele, Zach Cregger, and David Gordon Green in recent years illustrates anything, it’s that folks in the comedy biz can often serve up major doses of effective white-knuckle chills. With the buzz following the recently released trailer for “Saturday Night Live” alum Kyle Mooney’s