Horror

WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for The Running Man (2025). Could there be a better time for an adaptation of Stephen King’s The Running Man? Originally published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, this dystopian novella is not only set in 2025, but it also follows a world in which ultra-wealthy overlords control the masses
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After spending the last few weeks on J.A. Bayona’s ghost story The Orphanage (listen), Jack Nicholson’s commanding performance in George Miller’s The Witches of Eastwick (listen), and a timely discussion of James Whale’s Frankenstein (listen), we needed some mid-aughts comfort food. Enter Iain Softley’s 2005 film The Skeleton Key, a Southern Gothic tale about Caroline (Kate Hudson), an impressionable
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While you wait for Blumhouse’s Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 to arrive in theaters this December, fast food chain Popeyes has unleashed the limited time Freddy Fazbear Crunch Menu! Available nationwide starting today, Popeyes is bringing a little horror to their restaurants nationwide with its first-ever, one-of-a-kind Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 menu collaboration. The
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It’s not very difficult for movie monsters to outshine their human co-stars in genre films. After all, it takes good writing and believable performances to make a human character relatable. Even then, all you need is a cool design to make people project all sorts of complex feelings and motivations onto fictional creatures. That’s why
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Fresh off the film’s limited theatrical release, Eli Roth’s new company The Horror Section will bring the found footage film Dream Eater to at-home digital outlets next week. A terrifying found-footage chiller from the Canadian genre trio behind Blind Luck Pictures, Dream Eater will be released at home on November 18. Pre-order the film on digital now. Co-written
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Folk horror movie Thaw has landed a co-production deal believed to be the first between a Yakut and an American film company, Variety reports today. Saidam Baryl and Argentic Productions will co-produce the feature, written and directed by Yakutian filmmaker Stepan Burnashev. Thaw is set “in a remote Yakutian village, where an American filmmaker investigating thawing permafrost
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The second Stephen King adaptation under the Richard Bachman pen name to arrive this year presents a vastly different kind of dystopian hellscape, one where the country is in the grip of both an authoritarian state and vapid bombast. Director Edgar Wright, along with Scott Pilgrim vs the World screenwriter Michael Bacall, adheres more faithfully
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While Predator: Badlands tops the box office, we have officially learned tonight that FX has ordered up a second season of the Alien franchise television series, “Alien: Earth.” The inaugural season of creator Noah Hawley’s well-reviewed “Alien: Earth” ended on a pretty substantial cliffhanger earlier this year, and thankfully the story will continue. Variety reports tonight,
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It’s alive! It’s alive! It’s aliiiiiiiiiive! After wrapping up October with a look at the queer-leaning throuple in Killer Klowns From Outer Space (listen), the shifting genres of J.A. Bayona’s The Orphanage (listen), and the feminist(ish) antics of George Miller’s The Witches of Eastwick (listen), we’re kicking off November with a celebration of the Netflix
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After its digital release earlier this year, Microids and Forever Entertainment’s The House of the Dead 2: Remake has received a limited physical Infect’Edition on the Nintendo Switch. The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series will be receiving their respective physical editions in early 2026, with pre-orders now available. The limited Infect’Edition includes the following: The
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