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
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It’s a downer that we never did get Halloween Kills this Halloween. However, Final Flame Productions are back to the rescue with another of their Grand Theft Auto 5 Machinima videos, with this entry loosely based on the 2018 Halloween film. Sadly, we don’t have a Jamie Lee Curtis model in this one, but you
Just a week ago it was announced that Warner Bros. will give Wonder Woman 1984 a Christmas release on both premium VOD and in limited theaters, assuming they’re even open. In some monstrous news to kick off a long holiday weekend, THR says Netflix made a $200 million bid to bring Godzilla vs. Kong directly
Written by Dwayne Alexander Smith and published back in 2014, the novel Forty Acres is being turned into a feature film over at Netflix, we’ve learned via Deadline this week. Cheo Hodari Coker (“Luke Cage”) will be scripting the adaptation. “Forty Acres follows a civil rights attorney who must fight for survival when he’s invited to
It’s Black Friday week once again, and as ever, there’s plenty of horror gaming deals to be found. Many of them can be done without even having to leave the house or wait for the mail too, which is that bit more essential this year. New consoles are out, but you’d currently be lucky to
The new movie from Searching director Aneesh Chaganty, Lionsgate’s thriller Run debuted exclusively on Hulu last week, and its been a smash hit success for the streamer thus far. According to a Deadline report today, “The Sarah Paulson thriller Run has become Hulu’s most watched feature title ever during its opening weekend, and has ranked as the most talked about Hulu
Next year’s animated series “Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai” will mark the return of the beloved franchise after 30 years, but what about the return of the *film* franchise? We’ve been hearing rumblings about a live-action Gremlins 3 for many, many years now, with the original film’s scribe Chris Columbus revealing a while back that
“The Walking Dead” will end with an expanded two-year eleventh season that will span 24 episodes. But first up, six extra episodes technically part of Season 10 are on the way. Those additional episodes, we learned last week, will premiere Sunday, February 28. New guest stars featured in these episodes include Robert Patrick (Terminator 2: Judgment Day)
If you’ve been keeping track of Nightdive Studios, a few years back, the studio had filed a trademark for Powerslave aka Exhumed, a first-person shooter developed by Lobotomy Software back in the mid 90s that sadly got lost in the Duke Nukem 3D and Quake craze. Well, not only now has the original game been
Those excited for the upcoming arrival of the Brotherhood of Steel to Fallout 76 in the new Steel Dawn expansion are probably wondering just how that group of zealots made their way into the game in the first place. After all, the BoS are based in California, not West Virginia. So what gives? Lucky for
The plot details are being kept under wraps at the moment but THR reports this week that Paramount Players is behind an upcoming sci-fi movie titled One Night in Compton. Kenya Barris (“Black-ish”) is producing the “sci-fi action” movie, with Rohan Blair-Mangat (Quibi’s “Centerpiece With Maurice Harris”) on board to make his feature debut. Stanley
As we’ve reported a few times over the years, Blumhouse and Five Nights at Freddy’s creator Scott Cawthon have been developing a film adaptation of the games, with various updates coming along every so often. The most recent update came this past summer, with producer Jason Blum noting that the project was moving “rapidly forward”
Known for writing the 30 Days of Night comic series, horror creator Steve Niles is continuing his work in the genre by launching Monster Forge Productions, THR reports tonight. Niles has partnered with Shannon Eric Denton to launch the company, which has its sights set on “a spectrum of horror properties, ranging from light monster
It’s been a while since we’ve heard a peep about the future of the Deadpool film franchise, with the first sequel arriving in theaters well over two years ago, but that silence has been broken with a scoop from Deadline this afternoon. According to Deadline’s Justin Kroll, Marvel Studios has hired sisters Wendy Molyneux and
Horror movies put their characters through the wringer. Protagonists face their greatest fears and tend to come out alive but profoundly transformed by the trauma they endured. That’s not always the case, though. If there’s any genre that serves as a stark reminder of life’s fragility, it’s horror. The good guys don’t always win, let
AMC announced today that “The Walking Dead’s” extended 10th season of six new episodes will premiere Sunday, February 28 at 9pm ET/8c. New guest stars featured in these episodes include Robert Patrick (Terminator 2: Judgment Day) as “Mays” and Hilarie Burton Morgan as “Lucille,” along with new co-star Okea Eme-Akwari (“Cobra Kai”) as “Elijah,” among
It’s that time of year again. The Game Awards, which will air live on December 10 across more than 45 global video platforms, has announced its nominees across 30 categories. And to no one’s surprise (well, maybe), Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part II leads the way with eleven nominations, followed by Sucker Punch’s
CD Projekt RED devoted their latest Night City Wire broadcast to 10 minutes of Xbox gameplay footage for their highly-anticipated Cyberpunk 2077. Running on both an Xbox One X and Xbox Series X, the footage is meant to showcase the latter console’s backward compatibility feature (besides the obvious draw of showing off more of the