Butcher Block is a weekly series celebrating horror’s most extreme films and the minds behind them. Dedicated to graphic gore and splatter, each week will explore the dark, the disturbed, and the depraved in horror, and the blood and guts involved. For the films that use special effects of gore as an art form, and the fans
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*Keep up with our ongoing end of the year coverage here* 2019 delivered a surplus of top-notch horror releases with all the bleak subject matter, memorable jolts and gory kills a genre fan could ask for. Yet some of the year’s scariest moments were located in completely unexpected places – like upbeat superhero romps, brightly
There is nothing better than some amazing horror memorabilia. Like an original theatrical run poster of a classic film, or an item that an iconic character used. There are some folks who will pay any cost for an item like that, and that was proven today when an item was sold at auction for $204,000!
*Keep up with our ongoing end of the year coverage here* If all the articles (the endless, unyielding articles…) about physical media’s imminent demise are true, why was this list nearly impossible to narrow down? It’s known that the grass is a little greener for horror fans when it comes to home video, and devotees
I love Christmas horror movies. The juxtaposition of lighthearted, wholesome family traditions with unbridled murder and mayhem can either be a powerful message about religion, consumerism and/or family values or, if that’s too tall an order, just a wacky series of ironic contradictions. At their best, Christmas horror movies bring out the subversive streak in
Before you know it, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina will be hitting our small screens and we will be following Kiernan Shipka’s Sabrina into the pits of Hell for season 3. It’s been reported that Caliban, the Prince of Hell who will be challenging Sabrina for control of the Throne of Hell will be played
After confirming that Norman Reedus was in fact your character in the P.T. demo, Lance McDonald has been able to further crack the demo and allow players to venture outside of the house for the first time. McDonald was able to break free of the endless loop in the house by once again manipulating the
After doing almost all there is to do with Brutal DOOM, which had its version 21 released earlier this year, modder Sargeant Mark IV has gone back and created a newish mod called “Meatgrinder”. The mod is “newish” because it’s “meant to bring the dismemberments and explosions of Brutal Doom to a slaughterfest-friendly setting, in
The days of the creature feature aren’t as often as they used to be in the days of the geniuses like Ray Harryhausen and films like Clash of the Titans and One Million Years B.C. but coming from 20th Century Fox is director William Eubank’s new film, Underwater. The film stars Kristen Stewart and revolves
I think it’s so cool that 40 years later filmmakers are still inspired by Ridley Scott’s Alien. On that note, William Eubank, who directed the awesome sci-fi film The Signal, is back next year with 20th Century Fox’s Underwater (watch the trailer), a deep sea creature feature starring Kristen Stewart. In the film, a crew of underwater researchers
Columbia Pictures has revealed one of the new “curses” from the R-rated The Grudge ahead of the film’s release in theaters on January 3, 2020. The Nicolas Pesce-directed film follows a detective (Andrea Riseborough) who investigates a serious of suspicious deaths all stemming from one house. Once she enters, the curse latches onto her and won’t let
With the next decade rapidly approaching, it’s probably best to let you know what’s going to Amazon Prime in the first month of 2020 for all the horror fans out there. It was recently announced that a 5 part docuseries about Ted Bundy would be hitting the streaming service on January 31st – here is
‘Tis the season to be scary, fa la la la la. For horror fans, this is the time of the year to watch as many holiday horror movies as possible, and with so many to choose from, it can be overwhelming to know where to start. Do you revisit all your favorites that you’ve already
Netflix‘s adaptation of Joe Hill‘s “Locke & Key” graphic novels is finally headed our way on February 7, 2020, which means we’ll probably be getting a trailer very, very soon. While we wait, the show’s official Twitter account has shared a tiny little teaser clip to whet your appetite tonight, with the caption: “Sometimes the secrets have to burn.”
The movie that never seemed to be getting a release date seems to be finally coming out next year. Before Disney bought Fox, thus absorbing the X-Men, The New Mutants was due to hit the big screen on April 13, 2018. Then the X-Men Horror film was pushed back 10 months to February 22, 2019,
Director William Eubank (The Signal) is back next year with 20th Century Fox’s Underwater (watch the trailer), a deep sea creature feature starring Kristen Stewart. A brand new TV spot has been unleashed by 20th Century Fox tonight, offering an intense new look at the film and its mysterious monster of the deep… In the film, a crew of underwater
Carter Smith, the director of 2008 horror film The Ruins, makes his return to the genre this month with the New Year’s-themed Midnight Kiss, part of Hulu’s “Into the Dark” anthology. In the film, “A group of longtime gay best friends and their resident fruit fly head to a beautiful desert home to celebrate New
When Penny Dreadful ended its run rather abruptly, fans were left clamoring for more. Well you’ll have to wait just a little bit longer as the sequel – spiritually speaking – is coming in 2020 and John Logan the creator, writer and executive producer of the original series will be back. Penny Dreadful: City of