Horror

Everything about the premise of writer/director Rob Jabbaz’s feature debut reads like another formulaic zombie or outbreak horror that’s become overly familiar in the wake of our real-time pandemic. It quickly becomes apparent that The Sadness refuses to adhere to the average viral horror movie. Jabbaz keeps a death grip on the pulse of the

Making the festival rounds (Sitges, Fantasia, Popcorn Frights) is Seth A. Smith‘s (The Crescent) sci-fi thriller, Tin Can, which stars V/H/S/94‘s Anna Hopkins as a front-lines parasitologist who is imprisoned in a life-suspension chamber as the world faces a deadly plague. Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive clip from the film in which we see Hopkins

Universal Pictures just released a great 20-minute chat about “The Impact of Black Horror” in promotion of Nia DaCosta‘s Candyman, featuring insights from star Colman Domingo as well as trauma psychotherapist Dr. Wendy Ashley, BEAM founder Yolo Akili Robinson, Confess Project founder Lorenzo Lewis, and horror author and professor Tananarive Due. In addition to their

Universal Pictures just released a great 20-minute chat about “The Impact of Black Horror” in promotion of Nia DaCosta‘s Candyman, featuring insights from star Colman Domingo as well as trauma psychotherapist Dr. Wendy Ashley, BEAM founder Yolo Akili Robinson, Confess Project founder Lorenzo Lewis, and horror author and professor Tananarive Due. In addition to their

The next Bloody Disgusting x Dark Star Pictures collaboration unleashes a gory neo-Giallo set at cinephiles’ most coveted space; the movie theater. In a delightfully macabre meta-twist, The Last Matinee (Al Morir La Matinee) slices its way to Digital HD and VOD platforms on August 24th (linktr.ee). In The Last Matinee, the audience attending the last showing of a horror film in

Gabe Bartalos is a special effects artist and director who has been working in the field for over three decades. With dozens of features across his resume, working on tentpole franchises like Friday the 13th and Gremlins, Gabe has also stepped behind the camera a few times to direct surreal, nightmare-fueled pictures of his own.

In director David Bruckner‘s latest, The Night House, recently widowed Beth (Rebecca Hall) discovers disturbing secrets about her husband after beginning to experience paranormal events at their remote lakeside house. As Beth plays detective to uncover those secrets, she also finds clues for a supernatural mystery. Screenwriters Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski (Super Dark Times, Siren) shared with Bloody Disgusting their process in

phantom limb /ˈfan(t)əm’lim/ n. an often painful sensation of the presence of a limb that has been amputated. Welcome to Phantom Limbs, a recurring feature which will take a look at intended yet unproduced horror sequels and remakes – extensions to genre films we love, appendages to horror franchises that we adore – that were sadly

Waxwork Records has given Bloody Disgusting the exclusive first listen to the debut single from the new Candyman score. The track is titled “Rows and Towers” and scored by NYC-based electronic and avant-garde artist Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe. “‘Rows and Towers’ serves as one of many portals in the landscape of Candyman,” Robert Aiki Aubrey

Rueben Martell’s Don’t Say Its Name opens with a hit and run. Kharis (Sheena Kaine), a young Indigenous woman, is walking on a back road when she’s struck and killed. Her assailant isn’t seen, but her death has immediate ramifications that extend far beyond her grieving mother Mary Lynne (Carla Fox); it winds up affecting

phantom limb /ˈfan(t)əm’lim/ n. an often painful sensation of the presence of a limb that has been amputated. Welcome to Phantom Limbs, a recurring feature which will take a look at intended yet unproduced horror sequels and remakes – extensions to genre films we love, appendages to horror franchises that we adore – that were sadly

By now, you’ve probably seen James Gunn’s handiwork in The Suicide Squad (if you haven’t, check out Meg’s review). Some of you gamers might have seen it and thought one particular scene looked kind of familiar. Well, that’s because it was. In an interview with Collider, Gunn talked about his filmmaking process, and one of

We’ve found even more tapes and will be bringing them all to Shudder in V/H/S/94, the fourth installment of the Bloody Disgusting-produced horror anthology franchise from Studio71. It was announced today that V/H/S/94 will kick off horror fans’ month-long Halloween celebration when it premieres on Shudder this coming October 6, 2021! In V/H/S/94, after the discovery of a

One of the all-time great horror legends gets his own documentary with the upcoming Boris Karloff: The Man Behind The Monster, and it’s finally on the way this year. Deadline reports today that Shout! Studios and Abramorama have joined forces for the North American rights to the documentary, with a limited theatrical run on September 17. Shout!

1C Entertainment aren’t quite done with Lovecraft, it seems. On top of the announcement of Forgive Me Father, 1C Entertainment and developer Blini Games have announced action RPG Lovecraft’s Untold Stories 2 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam. And like Forgive Me Father, the follow-up to 2019’s Lovecraft’s Untold Stories will launch in Early

Henry Thomas continues his renaissance with a role in the Paramount Players’ follow-up adaptation of Stephen King’s bestseller Pet Sematary at Paramount Players, reports Deadline. The actor, who made a name for himself as the young boy Elliot in Steven Spielberg’s E.T., has recently starred in a plethora of genre projects from Netflix’s “The Haunting

As we told you last week, A24 and David Lowery‘s (A Ghost Story) The Green Knight (read Meagan’s 5-star review) is coming to the virtual A24 Screening Room for one-knight-only this Wednesday, August 18 at 9pm, but oddly enough, we’ve learned today that the film will also be coming to all traditional at-home streaming platforms… the very next day?

3D Realms and developer Jasozz Games have revealed CULTIC, a new horror FPS that pays homage to 90s shooters with plenty of plasma. The game will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam in 2022. Created by sole developer Jason Smith, CULTIC sees you dying. A lot.

Structured like a play and filmed in inky black and white, actor Mark O’Brien’s feature directorial debut The Righteous is a dialogue-driven examination of grief, responsibility and penance. The film follows Frederic Mason (Henry Czerny), a former priest who left the brotherhood to marry Ethel (Mimi Kuzyk) and raise a little girl. Ethel is devout

Structured like a play and filmed in inky black and white, actor Mark O’Brien’s feature directorial debut The Righteous is a dialogue-driven examination of grief, responsibility and penance. The film follows Frederic Mason (Henry Czerny), a former priest who left the brotherhood to marry Ethel (Mimi Kuzyk) and raise a little girl. Ethel is devout

Behaviour Interactive have been teasing the next chapter for Dead by Daylight for the past week, including the addition of a new killer. Who is it, you ask? Well, if the teaser trailer is anything to go by, we could soon be in store for the arrival of a certain Cenobite. Things started to get

Horrors Elsewhere is a recurring column that spotlights a variety of movies from all around the globe, particularly those not from the United States. Fears may not be universal, but one thing is for sure — a scream is understood, always and everywhere. Prime Cruz’s The Debutantes brings grim meaning to the phrase “You only

Macon Blair (I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore, Green Room) is directing a remake of Troma’s The Toxic Avenger for Legendary Entertainment, and we’ve learned that filming has now wrapped. Writer/Director Blair himself made the announcement this afternoon on Twitter. Find the tweet below. In the 1984 original, directed by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael

“I died… but I’m still gonna kill you.” Coming to SYFY and USA on October 12, Don Mancini‘s “Chucky” series has officially wrapped production, and today brings two new social media teasers for the series. First up we have a short teaser video wherein Chucky speaks – and yes, that’s Brad Dourif back as the voice of the

More than 20 years on from its original release, the bloody, brutal action-adventure game Blade of Darkness is making a return to PC with an updated version. Blade of Darkness‘ legacy can be seen in a wide variety of modern games, from Darksiders to Dark Souls, with its Dark Fantasy setting and challenging gameplay helping

A world where the night never ends… Just four years after The Crow, filmmaker Alex Proyas returned with neo-noir science fiction movie Dark City, ushering us into a nightmarish world no one seems to wake up from. All these years later, Proyas returns to that rich, visionary universe with the short film Mask of the

The popularity of Michael Dougherty’s Trick ‘r Treat seems to grow with each passing year, and that’s been reflected in recent years by how much merchandise you’ve been able to find at Spirit Halloween during the spooky season. Spirit Halloween has recently been chock full of costumes, masks, toys, decorations and more, and this year

When Fallout 3 was announced, I was one of the many people who were hesitant about the change in perspective for the series. There was something about the look and feel of those old isometric games that captured the grimy, icky apocalypse they were going for that wasn’t quite as appealing when rendered in crisper

In addition to the recently released Escape Room 2, Orphan star Isabelle Fuhrman appears in the period horror movie The Last Thing Mary Saw, set in the year 1843. Set to World Premiere at the virtual edition of the Fantasia Film Festival, Fuhrman stars alongside Rory Culkin (Lords of Chaos), Stefanie Scott (Insidious: Chapter 3) and Judith Roberts (You Were Never Really Here). Ahead of the Fantasia

David Bruckner (The Night House), who helmed Netflix’s The Ritual as well as sections of Bloody Disgusting’s horror anthologies V/H/S and Southbound, is directing the relaunch of the Hellraiser franchise for Spyglass Media, set to be a Hulu feature film written by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski (SiREN, Super Dark Times, The Night House). Odessa A’zion was recently cast in a lead role, but we know very