In the wake of the twisty, Helen Hunt-starring I See You, which is very much worth a watch, Adam Randall is next directing the film Night Teeth for Netflix, and casting is underway. Deadline reports that Jorge Lendeborg Jr. has been set to star alongside Debby Ryan (Insatiable) Lucy Fry (Bright) and Alfie Allen (Jo Jo Rabbit, Game of Thrones). “Lendeborg Jr.
Horror
As a young gorehound gamer, Raven Software’s Soldier of Fortune series made me feel like a kid in a candy store. Inspired by the magazine of the same name, the game had you working as a mercenary hunting down a terrorist group that had stolen nuclear warheads. The game was noteworthy for it GHOUL engine,
It seems like it’s been an eternity since Spawn was announced for Mortal Kombat 11. But now, after The Joker finally joined the roster in January, there’s just everyone’s favorite hellspawn left. And we’ll finally get to see just what he’s like next month. In conjunction with the announcement of this year’s Final Kombat on
Writer Joe Hill and illustrator Gabriel Rodriguez’s bestselling comic series Locke & Key hit the ground running from its opening pages and never let up over six volumes of terror. The Locke family was put through the wringer in terms of horror and heartbreak, and the stunning art imbued the horror fantasy storyline with wonder. It’s
Telling a story that’s been told before is a tricky thing. Telling a story that’s been told over and over again for centuries is even trickier. In Osgood Perkins’ new horrifying fairy tale Gretel and Hansel, the filmmaker – who is famous for his pronounced, arch aesthetics and compositions – had to pick and choose
We learned last year that The CW‘s already filmed pilot episode for a TV series based on “The Lost Boys” was being completely scrapped and re-tooled, with most roles being recast for an entirely different attempt at getting the project off the ground. And now Deadline brings us word today that the network’s second attempt at
Another big deal for the horror genre out of Sundance today, as Deadline reports that Hulu is in the process of acquiring worldwide rights to Dear White People director Justin Simien‘s Bad Hair (read Meagan’s review) for north of $8 million. Deadline adds, “The deal calls for a global theatrical release with a P&A spend.”
Osgood Perkins has been a horror director on our radar for years now, and after the 1-2-3 punch of The Blackcoat’s Daughter, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House and this weekend’s impressive Gretel and Hansel you can damn well bet we’re interested in whatever his next project is going to be.
Our world is no longer our own. Another new take on the classic H.G. Wells story “War of the Worlds” is headed to Epix, with Gabriel Byrne (Hereditary) and Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey) leading the cast. The series will premiere on Sunday, February 16, 2020 at 9pm, we’ve learned this week, and we’ve also been provided with the
Set to premiere at Berlin, Variety shares the first trailer for The Intruder (El Prófugo), described by its makers as a “psycho-sexual fantastic thriller.” The Intruder tells the story of a woman who suffers a trauma, meets the man of her dreams, only for her life to become a nightmare. The Intruder stars two of
Will The Crow ever take flight again? You can’t help but feel like this franchise is cursed, from the shocking on-set death of Brandon Lee to Dimension Films’ butchery of The Crow: City of Angels back in 1996. In fact, it’s been 15 years since the direct-to-DVD release of The Crow: Wicked Prayer, which put
“We’re all rational when the sun’s shining. It’s different when it goes dark.” Originally published in 1961, Agatha Christie‘s novel “The Pale Horse” is headed into 2020 with a series adaptation courtesy of Amazon, and the official trailer has arrived this week. “The Pale Horse” follows the story of Mark Easterbrook, whose name appears on
This morning I learned that Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, the French directors behind Inside, Livid, Among the Living, and Leatherface, have just started production on the aquatic horror The Deep House. In doing some research, I also discovered that the duo have already completed a demonic horror story about a demon named Kandisha. In the
In the wake of Bumblebee, Deadline reports tonight that Paramount is working on *two* new Transformers movies, one of which will reportedly bring Beast Wars to the big screen! The site reports that one of the films will be written by Joby Harold (Army of the Dead) and the other by James Vanderbilt (Murder Mystery),
Last week, composer Benjamin Wallfisch (Lights Out, It, It Chapter Two) got Mortal Kombat fans speculating when he tweeted out an image of the video game franchise’s iconic logo, pinning it to the top of his page with no caption attached to the image. It seemed Wallfisch was probably hinting that he was scoring the
With a title like Shirley and Elisabeth Moss featured as acclaimed horror author Shirley Jackson, the default expectation is that this film would be a period biopic. The reality is anything but; based on the novel of the same name by Susan Scarf Merrell and adapted by Sarah Gubbins, Shirley instead relays a captivating fictional
Previously announced at Gamescom 2019 for the Nintendo Switch, the Hotline Miami Collection (which contains Hotline Miami and Hotline Miami 2) now appears to possibly be headed to the Xbox One. Publisher Devolver Digital took to Twitter with the obvious question of whether fans would like to see the games on the Xbox One, with
La Llorona, or the Weeping Woman, is one of the most well-known figures in Latin American folklore. The details of her origins may differ, but the general conceit of her lore tells of a woman whose husband leaves her for another. In her grief, the woman drowns her two children in a river, and then