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 […]
No matter how you feel about the sequels, reboots and spin-offs, there’s no denying that the first Ghostbusters captured lightning in a bottle in a way that not even the original team could replicate. Sometimes, the right people pop up at the right place and the right time, and the universe gifts us with an […]
The lead character of Nia DaCosta‘s Candyman is Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), a painter who, like Helen Lyle in the original classic, is drawn into the legend of Candyman. A new featurette from Universal today spotlights some of the artists who contributed their work to the film, including Arnold Kemp, Cameron Spratley, and Sherwin […]
Emily Hagins (Pathogen, My Sucky Teen Romance, Scare Package) has been making horror movies since she was just 12 years old, and next year she’s back with a brand new one. Deadline reports that Hagins has wrapped production on a horror-comedy titled Sorry About the Demon, which is going to be headed to Shudder sometime […]
The voice, the gestures, and those eyes. Few actors in the history of cinema are so instantly recognizable as Bela Lugosi or have had such an effect on the collective imagination. Though best known for his inescapable portrayal of Dracula on stage and screen, Lugosi’s career is long and varied. From the heights of fame […]
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? […]
Revenge-thrillers tend to lend well to horror, especially if they push the violence far enough into gory genre territory. The latest by Paul Andrew Williams (The Cottage, Cherry Tree Lane) reads like a classic, gritty crime thriller turned vengeance quest but plays like a horror movie in many ways. Bull stuns with its shocking violence, keeps you guessing throughout, then […]
The Adams Family are doing the kind of pioneering DIY work that most low-budget independent filmmakers can only dream of. The trio – composed of John Adams, Toby Poser and their daughter Zelda Adams – write and direct all of their films collaboratively. They also act as editor, cinematographer, DP, costume designer, music composer, and […]
Is it a sequel? Is it a remake? Is it a reboot? Those were the questions thrown around after it was announced that director James Gunn was slated to write and direct The Suicide Squad. Sporting returning cast members Margot Robbie, Viola Davis, Joel Kinnaman, and Jai Courtney in their respective roles, Gunn’s bizarrely heartfelt […]