While most channels don’t begin airing their Halloween movies until October, Shudder isn’t bound by those rules. After all, it’s pretty much Halloween *every day* on Shudder. On that note, Shudder has just announced their massive “61 Days of Halloween” programming block, which BEGINS TODAY and runs straight Halloween, October 31st! Of particular note, Bloody […]
Scene Screams is a recurring column that spotlights the scenes in horror that make us scream, whether through fear, laughter, or tears. It examines the most memorable, and often scariest, scenes in horror and what it is about them that makes them get under our skin. It takes about forty minutes into Bernard Rose‘s Candyman before the […]
With a serious lack of promotion up to this point, it’s been easy to forget that a new take The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is on the way, with the Fede Alvarez-produced Texas Chainsaw Massacre set to be a sequel to Tobe Hooper’s original classic. We’ve been promised “Old Man Leatherface” and the return of Sally Hardesty, two teases that […]
I was fortunate enough to attend the world premiere of punk legend Glenn Danzig’s first feature film Verotika back in 2019 during Chicago’s Cinepocalypse Film Festival. At that time, no one knew what a movie written and directed by the Misfits frontman would look like, so hopes were high that Danzig’s voice would be as […]
Variety reports Friday evening that “actor, disability-inclusion advocate and double hand amputee” John W. Lawson (“American Horror Story”) has been cast as “Stanny” in Paramount Players’ untitled Pet Sematary prequel. “I have myoelectric hands… or what people commonly call ‘cyborg,’” Lawson jokes to the site. “But most of the time, it’s just my hooks.” Variety […]
From Greek mythology’s Lycaon to modern-day Michigan Dogman sightings, werewolves and their regional variants have prowled our imagination since time immemorial. While most cultures had their own particular rules and conventions regarding these creatures (the full-moon shtick is actually a relatively recent addition to the lore), the monster that we now know as the werewolf […]
The movie is releasing in theaters this weekend and if you dig the score to Nia DaCosta’s new sequel Candyman, you won’t have to wait very long to get your hands on it. Waxwork Records has announced today that they’ll be putting the film’s official soundtrack by Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe up for pre-order tomorrow, […]
Of all the sweets to be found on Scream Factory’s Collector’s Edition Blu-ray release of Bernard Rose’s Candyman, one of the most interesting features is the audio commentary by authors Stephen Jones and Kim Newman. One of four bonus tracks on the disc, the duo’s talk is a lively discussion boasting interesting perspectives on the […]
The werewolf resurgence continues this year with another new one from Lionsgate, this one titled The Amityville Moon and set to be unleashed just prior to Halloween. Lionsgate brings the film to On Demand, Digital and Blu-ray & DVD October 5, 2021. “In this pulse-pounding sci-fi thriller, female adventurer Parker joins a crew of male […]
With his new horror movie Demonic now available through VOD platforms, it was inevitable that Neill Blomkamp‘s latest trip around the interview circuit would yield some fresh insights into a movie he never actually ended up making, that being his sequel to James Cameron’s Aliens that would’ve brought back Sigourney Weaver as franchise heroine Ellen […]