Category: Horror
Richard Brake has built a career out of being the most alarming person in the room, from Rob Zombie’s 31 to Barbarian. He is one of five actors joining Alexandre Aja’s Crawl sequel, which has been shooting since late August. The Hollywood Reporter reported the additions Friday. Sarah Niles, Ray …
This week opened with Keanu Reeves in talks for a James Wan serial killer movie and closed with the genre losing the captain of the Nostromo. In between, Martin Scorsese’s gothic horror film picked up a pop star, A24 finally showed us what Jeremy Saulnier has been hiding inside a …
Experience All 8 Landmark Films from the Original Universal Pictures Legacy in Stunning 4K Resolution on September 29, 2026 Universal Pictures Home Entertainment has officially announced the definitive home media release for horror enthusiasts and cinema purists alike: Frankenstein: Complete Legacy Collection. For the very first time, all eight iconic …
Independent horror maestro Joe Davison has officially unleashed the chaotic first trailer for his highly anticipated horror-comedy feature, Demon Queen Pinball Machine. Shot entirely on location in Tampa, the film blends retro arcade nostalgia, physical comedy, and supernatural terror into a high-octane creature feature. The official trailer drops today as …
Fans Urged to Voice Their Diagnoses and Drop Opinions in the YouTube Comments Sections After Entering the Audio Asylum Dr. Norman Knott has your prescription this Halloween. HELLATHERAPIST: A Scream-Along Musical, a pitch-black Grand Guignol comedy and an unflinching exploration of psychological trauma. This is far more than a standard …
BBC Studios, CinemaLive and Fathom Entertainment have added encore screenings of the Doctor Who event in the UK, Ireland, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The additional screenings will take place on Saturday 28 November. Cineworld will also host an evening 4DX screening on Monday 23 November and Saturday 28 …
Indie horror fans are in for a wild ride tonight as the long-running horror podcast Without Your Head welcomes Troma Entertainment icon Will Keenan for a massive live broadcast celebration. The special event kicks off tonight, Thursday, October 22, at 9:00 PM ET. Keenan, a definitive face of late-90s underground …
A traveling pharmaceutical salesman stops for a stranger on a dark highway and spends the rest of the film being hunted for murders he did not commit. The Night Driver now has a North American home: Cineverse has bought the rights, weeks after the film’s world premiere opened Screamfest. Cineverse …
BUFFALO BILL’S HOUSE PRE-HALLOWEEN WEEKEND FINAL GUIDED HOUSE TOURS OF THE YEAR OCTOBER 23rd-25th Tour the Famous Filming Location of “The Silence of the Lambs” Overnight Stays also Available Perryopolis, PA — (October 19, 2026) – Fans of Buffalo Bill’s House,the real filming location where the cinematic climax of the …
ICE CREAM MAN Available On 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD TODAY! Synopsis: From director Eli Roth, a mysterious ice cream man rolls into an idyllic town serving kids sweet treats that trigger a strange and deadly madness. Soon, the kids embark on an increasingly unhinged kill spree, sending the town …
Janel Spiegel 10/22/2026 Books, News ABOUT THE BOOK: Deep in the swamp lies a danger worse than death in this queer Southern Gothic horror story for fans ofShe is a Haunting, from the author of The Darkness Greeted Her! Wracked with guilt over her best friend’s death, Madison flees to …
TUNE-IN: Three Creators Premiering Horror Content Exclusively on Tubi This Week | Carter Kench, Rock Squad, and Monse Today, Oct. 21, Tubi premieres the sixth episode of “Carter Kench’s Halloween: Whimsy Wonderland” from Carter Kench (6.73M subscribers on YouTube, 1.7M followers on Instagram and 10.8M followers on TikTok). In this …
You are quickly earning a reputation as a major new “scream queen” in the industry. What drew you to the horror genre, and how does “surfing” these dark, suspenseful worlds compare to your roots in Italian TV and radio hosting? A: Aaaaaaah -I’m just starting this exciting interview with a …
Halloween is almost here and the streaming services have clearly noticed. Every movie on this list arrives on Friday, October 23. That makes this weekend very easy to plan. We’ve got a new Shudder Original and a queer zombie comedy. There’s also a homemade nightmare from the woods, a Cronenberg …
Every haunted attraction runs on one agreement. The people lunging out of the dark are pretending and the bodies sprawled across the floor will get up and go home at closing. Slayground, the new film from writer and director Jeremy Saulnier, starts by breaking that agreement in the ugliest way …
Clive Barker says he has a stack of Hellraiser stories sitting in note form, and that a video game is what made him want to get them moving. “I have many ideas that I’d like to see realized in the Hellraiser universe,” he told Dread Central, and he called Clive …
I have spent a lot of my life in dark rooms full of strangers. Festival coverage comes with the job, and over the years I’ve collected enough lanyards to build a very sad wind chime. Some festivals dazzled me with their programming. Others opened doors I never could have opened …
Fears to Fathom is six short horror games about ordinary people in situations that stop being ordinary. Scarlet Stallone has optioned all six of them for film and television. Her company, SRYN Productions, is developing the franchise with its creator, Mukul Negi, who publishes the games as Rayll. Deadline reported …
Every October the genre gets a little sentimental about the dead, but this week felt like an exhumation with a press schedule. Hulu ordered a new X-Files. Universal titled a Mummy sequel after the book that wakes Imhotep. Hammer’s parent company acquired the rights to everything Susan Hill has written, …
Michael Myers is leaving town. Tower Farm, the first new map for Halloween: The Game, moves the hunt out to a farming community on the outskirts of Haddonfield, and it lands October 27 free to everyone who owns the game. Tower Farm sits at a crossroads of county roads, with …
Danielle Deadwyler and Himesh Patel are the agents working the unexplained now. Hulu has ordered Ryan Coogler’s reboot of The X-Files to series, eight months after the streamer picked up the pilot. The show follows two highly decorated but very different FBI agents who form an unlikely bond after they …
Sealed packages, antique wooden boxes, or puzzles waiting to be solved have always been a running theme in horror. Before anything is revealed, the idea of not knowing what’s inside is enough to cause tension. Unopened Boxes Build Tension Unopened boxes create a gap in knowledge, which allows filmmakers to …
Photo by Neven Krcmarek on Unsplash Horror has had the kind of year most genres only get once a decade. A legacy slasher sequel broke a 30-year box office record in February. A video game adaptation finally earned the reviews the franchise always wanted in September. And a DC body-horror …
Some premises sell themselves. An all-woman heavy metal band gets stranded in a town packed with cannibals, vampires, a warlock and a werewolf. I didn’t need a synopsis. I needed snacks. That’s what makes Devour so frustrating. Director Scott B. Hansen and screenwriter Desirée Hansen hand themselves a gloriously ridiculous …
A sixteen-year-old named Jenny takes a babysitting job in a town where a prowler is going after girls her age, because she needs the money for a writing program. That is The Babysitter, the novel R.L. Stine published in 1989, and Tubi is turning it into a movie for 2027. …
Johnny turned up at New York Comic Con on Saturday, in the mask, to announce his own release date. In a Violent Nature: Part 2 opens in theaters on February 12, 2027, the Friday of Valentine’s weekend, from IFC Films and Shudder. The sequel picks up immediately after the 2024 …
BLU-RAY ALERT: MY ONLY FRIEND’S A CORPSE by Matt Boiselle Okay…I have to admit, the title alone had me interested. MY ONLY FRIEND’S A CORPSE is one of those movies where you read the synopsis and immediately think, “Well, I have absolutely no idea where this is going.” And that’s …
BLU-RAY ALERT: GRADUATION DAY (1981) by Matt Boiselle It’s time to go back to high school…and trust me, this is one graduation ceremony you probably don’t want an invitation to. If you’re a fan of early ’80s slasher movies, there’s a good chance you’ve at least heard of Graduation Day. …
BLU-RAY ANNOUNCEMENT: RED FLAG DOWN (1992) by Matt Boiselle Every once in a while, a movie comes along that makes you say, “How the hell have I never heard of this before?”Red Flag Down is one of those movies. Originally released in 1992 as a shot-on-video regional action/comedy, this thing …
BLACK MANDALA is proud to present RISE OF THE RATS, a horror-punk feature directed by Stephen Roach (The Crucifix: Blood of the Exorcist, Cookster: The Darkest Days). Drawing inspiration from iconic 1980s genre films such as The Lost Boys, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Gremlins, RISE OF THE RATS …