Actor Lance Kerwin, best known to horror fans for playing Mark Petrie in Tobe Hooper’s Salem’s Lot (1979), has passed away at just 62 years old, Variety reports this afternoon. “An autopsy to determine the cause of death is being conducted, according to his daughter Savanah,” Variety reports. Lance Kerwin was born on November 6, […]
Fans of Battle Royale are going to lose their heads over Signal 100, the latest splatterfest from Japan that’s now spilling blood all over SCREAMBOX! Directed by Lisa Takeba (The Pinkie), we also are excited to share the trailer for Signal 100, which harkens back to the days of horror boundary-pushing features like Battle Royale […]
Tommy Wirkola‘s action-thriller Violent Night is now available on Digital and Peacock, and The Wrap reports today that Violent Night 2 is officially coming down the chimney! “We’re talking about it and we’re just making deals and getting everything in order,” Wirkola tells the outlet. “We have time to really crack the script and figure out […]
Werewolves in horror often depict the afflicted as desperate to repress or separate themselves from their carnivorous Other self. My Animal instead correlates that Otherness with relatable emotions tied to feeling out of place within society. That angle gives a new spin on a classic monster tale, with its horror rooted more firmly in reality. Heather (Bobbi […]
The horror genre has always been an excellent vehicle for metaphors for grief and trauma. After all, what better genre is there to take our emotional monsters and make them literal? We’ve seen a rise in these types of films over the past decade, with particular standouts being films like The Babadook (review), Hereditary (review) and Relic (review). […]
The last time Jason Voorhees slashed onto the screen, Barack Obama had just taken office as president, Michael Jackson was still alive, and Scream was only a trilogy. While we await the “Crystal Lake” prequel series from Peacock, I was fortunate enough to experience the first six Friday the 13th movies back-to-back on the big […]
In 2012, Kier-La Janisse published House of Psychotic Women and forever changed the landscape of film analysis. Subtitled An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis, the book is an exhaustive look at films from all genres, each featuring one or more female characters with some degree of mental instability. House of Psychotic Women is split into […]
Officially announced and titled this afternoon, M3GAN sequel M3GAN 2.0 is on the way from Blumhouse and Atomic Monster, in the works and coming to theaters on January 17, 2025! Allison Williams and Violet McGraw are back for the sequel, with Akela Cooper (Malignant, M3GAN) once again writing the script and James Wan on board to […]
As we told you last week, horror-comedy Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls, based on writer, director, and star Andrew Bowser’s viral internet character, will be premiering at the Sundance Film Festival this month, and Screen Rant brings us a clip today. In this first look clip, which features horror icon Jeffrey Combs, “Onyx […]
Nearly 80 years after its premier, Gaslight has never felt more relevant. Adapted from Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play Gas Light, George Cukor’s 1944 film follows a young newlywed named Paula (Ingrid Bergman) as she’s slowly driven to the brink of insanity by her nefarious husband Gregory (Charles Boyer). The film’s title has since been verbified […]