Horror

You’ll mostly find family-friendly holiday classics like Home Alone, Christmas Vacation and A Christmas Story on your television this week, but SYFY is going in a bit of a different direction. All Christmas day, SYFY will be airing holiday and winter-set horror movies including Santa Jaws and this year’s brand new movies Toys of Terror

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

George Miller is currently developing a Mad Max: Fury Road spinoff movie centered on Charlize Theron‘s Imperator Furiosa character, with The Witch and The New Mutants star Anya Taylor-Joy taking over the role. It’s a prequel simply titled Furiosa at this time, and tonight we’ve learned that Warner Bros. has already handed the film a release date. Furiosa is currently set for release

MEGA SPOILER WARNING. You can’t blame IFC for doing everything they can to hype one of their films, but it cannot be overstated just how much of a spoiler the following article and trailer both are. Not because it shows anything spoilery, but because it consciously sets you up for the shocking finale, one that

Announced back in September, Netflix and Zack Snyder‘s upcoming zombie film Army of the Dead is getting a prequel anime series with “Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas,” and an “international prequel” of the feature film variety is also on the way. The latter project has wrapped filming this week, we’ve learned courtesy of Snyder himself over on Twitter. Snyder

After the big reveal a few weeks ago, Housemarque has dropped another video of gameplay footage for their upcoming sci-fi shooter, Returnal. Part of their ongoing “Housecast” series, this latest video looks at how the game came to be Housemarque’s next project. Of course, the video (featuring Returnal‘s game director, Harry Krueger) also showcases plenty

We had recently learned that Morgan Creek was developing a reboot of The Exorcist and it looks like Blumhouse is on board the project as well, The Observer reports tonight. According to the site, David Gordon Green (Halloween) is in talks to direct! The Observer is referring to the project as a “sequel,” it’s interesting

Doug Crane, who worked in the animation department on several classic series, passed away from cancer on December 17, we’ve learned this week. He was 85. “Doug was a wonderful, kind, considerate person, a warm and comfortable friend and an amazing father and grandfather who will be missed more than can be put into words,”

Diablo Immortal is still kicking. In fact, the upcoming mobile game is on the cusp of going into a limited technical alpha. In a new update video, lead designer Wyatt Cheng explains that “A small number of players, primarily in Australia, will briefly have access to test the game, and help us look at our

If you want to hang out with Danielle Harris all year long you’ll want to pick up her brand new 2021 calendar, available exclusively through her website while supplies last. The Limited Edition calendar is expected to release on January 1st, 2021, and it can pre-ordered today for $100. The calendar comes hand-numbered and *signed*

In Bride of Frankenstein, Dr. Pretorius, played by the inimitable Ernest Thesiger, raises his glass and proposes a toast to Colin Clive’s Henry Frankenstein—“to a new world of Gods and Monsters.” I invite you to join me in exploring this world, focusing on American horror films from the dawn of the Universal Monster movies in 1931 to

One of the many infamous lost cuts of movies that may or may not be floating around out there is the Director’s Cut of Paul W.S. Anderson‘s Event Horizon, a longer and more gruesome version of the 1997 movie that reportedly so horrified both test audiences and Paramount that much of the footage was removed

Honestly, we don’t show enough fan artwork around here. It’s a shame, since it’s pretty easy to see how talented horror fans are when it comes to paying tribute to their favourite film/video game. Case in point: Mark Scicluna, a senior illustrator for Rockstar Games, has recently done up some awesome Tales From The Crypt-styled

With titles like Resident Evil, Dino Crisis, God Hand and The Evil Within under his belt, Capcom’s Shinji Mikami has pretty much cemented his reputation as a game director. And, in a new interview with Variety discussing his 30 years in the business, Mikami reveals that he’s willing to come back to the director’s chair

Netflix is adapting Todd Grimson’s horror novel “Brand New Cherry Flavor” in the form of a horror-thriller revenge series, with Rosa Salazar (Alita: Battle Angel) set to lead the cast. The series will also star Catherine Keener (Get Out), Eric Lange (Escape at Dannemora), Jeff Ward (“Agents of Shield”) and Manny Jacinto (“The Good Place”), and Deadline reports today that Hannah Levien (The Magicians, Siren), Leland Orser (I Am

It’s not official, but with the holidays fast approaching (and several leaks already making their way online), Epic is looking to do what they did last year and give away a free game each day over the next 15 days. And for horror fans, there are more than a few titles in the mix. As

Bride of Chucky‘s Katherine Heigl returns to horror in Castille Landon‘s indie Fear of Rain, which Lionsgate will release on Digital Demand, Blu-ray and DVD February 12, 2021. “The film follows a teenage girl living with schizophrenia who struggles with vivid and terrifying hallucinations as she begins to suspect her neighbor has kidnapped a child. “Her parents try desperately

Developers One More Level, 3D Realms, and Slipgate Ironworks have announced that their cyberpunk slasher Ghostrunner will not only be receiving a free “Hardcore Mode” update in the new year, but a paid cosmetic “Winter Pack” DLC. “Hardcore Mode” is available today for PC and will launch on December 17 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox