Horror

There’s something about blizzards and wintry conditions that lend so well to genre film. It’s incredibly isolating, for one, but hazardous, icy weather tends to provide a moody Gothic backdrop to whatever thrills and chills are in store. The Oak Room takes a raging Canadian snowstorm and builds an entire mystery around it, scaling back the

Kanye West and Kid Cudi joined forces back in 2018 as collaborative duo Kids See Ghosts, and their same titled debut EP has paved the way for an animated series that’s on the way. Directed by Takashi Murakami, “Kids See Ghosts” sees West voicing Kanye Bear and Cudi voicing Kid Fox, and the series looks

Cosmic horror is one of the oldest and sturdiest sub-genres there is. Unfathomable monsters, uncaring universes, and descents into insanity make for captivating tales, and the tropes of the genre allow for so many variations on a theme that the core concepts remain fresh decade after decade. Video games are better equipped than perhaps any

Wes Craven once famously said that horror films don’t create fear, they release it. And he’s right. We sit in a theater with people we don’t know and go through a proverbial haunted house for about two hours. We scream, we laugh, we sometimes cry. In fact, some of us scream, toss popcorn into the

The 1996 action-adventure blockbuster Twister is next up on the remake chopping block, with Variety reporting tonight that Universal Pictures is developing a new take on the classic. Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick) is currently in talks to direct the feature film, Variety notes, “and the studio is currently meeting with writers to pen the

Dustin, you may recall, attended Camp Know Where prior to the events of the third season of “Stranger Things,” and a new comic book miniseries will take us there this Halloween! Dark Horse Comics is launching the 4-issue Stranger Things: Science Camp on September 30, from creative team Jody Houser, Edgar Salazar, Keith Champagne, and Marissa Louise. Here’s the

In a move out of left field, Inti Creates has announced a follow-up to the prequel to Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night in Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon. Curse of The Moon 2 will be headed to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and Steam. The original Curse of The Moon was a throwback to

We had learned a few months back that a sequel to last year’s The VelociPastor – a horror movie about, yes, a priest who turns into a dinosaur – was in the works, and writer/director Brendan Steere has now revealed in a chat with THR that the follow-up is more of a “spiritual sequel” than

Yellow Veil Pictures announced today they have acquired world sales rights on Jordan Graham’s Sator and English-speaking territories for The Bloodhound from director Patrick Picard, and will introduce the projects to buyers this week at Marche Du Film Online as part of their slate. Patrick Picard’s feature directorial debut The Bloodhound is a modern-set horror/thriller

What happens when the scariest parts of Disney stories sneak into and become a part of contemporary kids’ real lives? The dreams that you fear will come true… Disney Publishing is bringing a little terror into the magical world of Disney with the upcoming middle grade horror book series Disney Chills, which is set to debut

We can always use another retro-inspired shooter, and that’s exactly what indie developers Savage Studios are doing with its visceral over-the-top shooter, S.C.A.R., or Simulating Carnage And Rockets. Launching on Steam on July 16th with its first episode, the “nostalgic nod to the epic shooters of yesteryear” harkens back to the days of Quake III

Indie developer Junkfish’s nautical horror game Monstrum was a hit for many fans, and now Junkfish is hoping that lightning will strike twice with the newly-announced sequel, Monstrum 2. Slated for launch in the last quarter of 2020, Monstrum 2 is now available for Closed Beta testing, as well as pre-purchase at the game’s official

Larian Studios debuted over an hour of new gameplay of their upcoming Baldur’s Gate III at D&D Live 2020 yesterday afternoon. The gameplay shows off the improvements and additions made to the game based on community feedback since its previous showing at PAX East 2020 in March. While some changes shown are minor (such as

When rebooting its iconic fighting game franchise back in 2011, NetherRealm Studios laid down many new precedents in the pointedly titled Mortal Kombat. New X-Ray moves gave us gorier insights into already brutal maneuvers. A greater focus on the story offered clarity to a series timeline that had increasingly spun out of control. But one

Almost a full year after making waves at the box office, Alexandre Aja’s Crawl is now available to stream on Hulu and Prime Video. It’s just in time for Father’s Day. Considering the plot centers around a father and daughter trying to survive both a Category 5 hurricane and territorial alligators that have trapped them in a

Gearing up for release this coming Halloween season is My Dead Ones, a Brazilian horror-mystery from director Diego Freitas, which will be released by TMA Releasing. Behind the looks of a shy film student, David (Nicolas Prattes) hides an obscure past that is about to be revealed. “David, a shy film student, loves filming people around

Shaun of the Dead and Baby Driver‘s Edgar Wright is getting back behind the camera for The Chain, a bonkers sounding kidnapping thriller for Universal Pictures, reports Deadline. Clearly inspired by the 1970 short story “Button, Button” by Richard Matheson, which was adapted into an episode of “The Twilight Zone” and the feature film The

One of the most buzzed-about horror films out of Sundance this year was the feature debut by filmmaker Natalie Erika James, Relic. In it, daughter Sam (Bella Heathcote), mother Kay (Emily Mortimer), and grandmother Edna (Robyn Nevin) become haunted by a manifestation of dementia that threatens to consume the home. It’s an audacious debut that’s as