Anyone up for a little barbecue? This year, Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights will feature the Jason Universe Barbecue serving up camp comfort food on the lower lot. The Jason Universal Mask S’more is my most coveted item of the night, a good old fashioned s’more encased within a blood splattered Jason mask. Other menu items […]
Let me pitch you a movie: there’s a high-schooler, see. He’s wimpy and unpopular. A wallflower. Jocks bully him, and the popular girl won’t look at him twice. He can’t catch a break… until he’s given supernatural gifts and abilities inspired by a member of the animal kingdom. Gifted with incredible powers, he starts to […]
It was such a pleasure working with Anthology Film Archives to bring some of the lesser-seen witch films in my book, That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film, to the big screen! The book explores the relationship between feminist movements in America and the witch horror films that responded to them, drawing […]
Building an empire in Hollywood is no easy thing but that’s precisely what Oren Koules did when he launched Twisted Pictures, the company that was behind the Saw franchise for more than 20 years. But that’s all changing as Koules and his business partner Mark Burg recently sold the rights to the Saw franchise to […]
New York Times bestselling author Daniel Kraus (Whalefall, Creepshow, The Living Dead) is diving into one of the most iconic movies of all time with Partially Devoured, a new book billed as the ultimate deep-dive into George A. Romero’s seminal 1968 zombie horror Night of the Living Dead – and we’re excited to reveal the cover […]
Along with HIM and Scary Movie 6, Marlon Wayans has added another horror project to his repertoire with an upcoming U.S. adaptation of South Korean celebrity game show Midnight Horror Story. In Midnight Horror Story, celebrity guests are tasked with delivering “chilling yet comedic stories, brought to life through immersive, cinematic reenactments”, to a hidden audience of spirits (a […]
Ahead of its International Premiere at London’s FrightFest later this week, we’ve got a teaser debut for Self-Help, the latest from She Came From the Woods and Founders Day director Erik Bloomquist. Directed by Bloomquist from a script he wrote with Carson Bloomquist, Self-Help stars Jake Weber (Medium), Landry Bender (Fuller House), Madison Lintz (Bosch), and Amy […]
The folks at Monstrous Books have something up their sleeves for kaiju lovers out there. Monstrous Magazine, a black-and-white magazine-format comic book anthology, is getting ready to go big with its next venture, Monstrous: The Kaiju Issue. The oversized issue will celebrate the legendary monsters from Japan, just in time for the ongoing global celebration […]
Film fans may not think of South Florida when they hear genre film festival, but Popcorn Frights has been hustling to change that perception for the past 11 years—and it’s working. The festival, cofounded by Igor Shteyrenberg and Marc Ferman, is housed between two single screen independent cinemas about 30 minutes apart in Broward County, […]
Since news of an upcoming Scary Movie reboot dropped earlier this year, the one key question has been if series stars Regina Hall and Anna Faris will return for another round of lovingly poking fun at our favorite horror movies. Thankfully, the answer to that question is officially a resounding yes. Per Deadline, who reported […]