“I want to make art… and I want to make trouble.” Set for release this coming May, Disney’s live-action film Cruella is something of a punk rock origin story for the classic 101 Dalmatians villain Cruella de Vil, with Academy Award winner Emma Stone in the title role. A brand new trailer was unleashed during the Grammys last night, branding […]
Soman Chainani’s debut novel The School for Good and Evil, which was published in 2013 and launched a franchise, is getting a movie over at Netflix, with Paul Feig (Ghostbusters, Last Christmas) on board to direct the film. David Magee (Life of Pi, Mary Poppins Returns) and Laura Solon (Office Christmas Party, Let It Snow) are adapting. Charlize Theron will play Lady Lesso and Kerry Washington will […]
Shudder will be delivering classic haunted house thrills and chills with Black Death director Christopher Smith‘s The Banishing next month, and their trailer has arrived tonight. The film is being billed as “the true story of the most haunted house in England.” “A young reverend and his wife and daughter move into a manor with […]
I was not a fan of Netflix’s smash hit sci-fi horror Bird Box, in which a mother (played by Sandra Bullock) and her children seek sanctuary from unknown entities that force those who look at them to commit suicide. It was a monster hit, claimed the streamer, who reported more than 89 million streams over […]
Filmed and set during the ongoing pandemic, the Michael Bay-produced Songbird (read our review) has been given a home video release after going straight to Premium VOD last December. Billed as “the first film to shoot in Los Angeles entirely during the pandemic,” director Adam Mason‘s Songbird will infect Digital HD, DVD and Blu-ray on March 16, 2021. “In […]
The cast for Eli Roth‘s video game adaptation Borderlands continues to grow, with THR reporting tonight that Florian Munteanu (Creed II) has come on board this week. Munteanu, who played Viktor Drago in Creed II, will be playing the Borderlands video game character known as Krieg. THR describes Krieg as “the musclebound, rhetorically challenged protector […]
Bus shelters around the country are gearing up for the battle of the century, Godzilla vs. Kong, which is smashing its way to theaters and HBO Max on March 31. One is the King. The other is the King of the Monsters. Find the new “versus” art below. In Godzilla vs. Kong, from director Adam Wingard (V/H/S, […]
Keith Thomas’ directorial debut is available in theatres and on VOD in the states. The Vigil first aired at TIFF in 2019, where our own Joe Lipsett reviewed the film and praised it for its “sound design, lighting, and lead performance.” To celebrate The Vigil’s domestic release, Thomas joins Bloody Disgusting’s Nightmare on Film Street podcast […]
Nearly twenty years after starring in Troll 2, filmmaker Michael Paul Stephenson made a documentary about it, Best Worst Movie, that chronicled its cult fandom and key players involved with the film’s creation. His follow-up documentary, The American Scream, put a compassionate and joyful spotlight on the Halloween home haunt, told through three households in a Massachusetts town. […]
Bloody Disgusting has just scored a first look at CJ Entertainment’s horror-thriller remake Hide And Seek with news that Saban Films has taken North American, UK and Irish rights to the Joel David Moore (Hatchet, Youth in Oregon) directed redo of the 2013 hit (read our review). “Dracula’s” Jonathan Rhys Meyers leads cast alongside Jacinda Barrett (“Bloodline”), Joe Pantoliano (“The Sopranos”) and Mustafa […]