The ‘70s consistently ranks among the very best decades for horror. The genuine horrors of the Vietnam war permeated pop culture, which, along with other socio-political anxieties, massively fueled the genre’s evolution. The decade introduced a generation of maverick filmmakers like Tobe Hooper, Wes Craven, and Brian de Palma, who embraced the era’s unrestrained and […]
This week’s top news story here in the horror world was the reveal of several first-look images from the James Wan-produced Mortal Kombat feature film, which is coming to theaters and HBO Max on April 16, 2021. The trailer, we’ve been promised, is coming very soon, and to hold you over today we’ve now been provided […]
Warner Bros. is making the massive move to bring all of their 2021 theatrical releases to both theaters and HBO Max on the very same days, and a short preview video for that 2021 slate has been unleashed today. It provides us with snippets of first look footage from Godzilla vs. Kong, Mortal Kombat, The […]
Warner Bros. Pictures is kicking off the year strong, not only teasing their R-rated ultra-violent Mortal Kombat, but also making a monstrous date shift for the hotly anticipated Godzilla vs. Kong. The two epic titans will do battle on March 26, 2021, two months earlier than the originally scheduled May date. As with Mortal Kombat, […]
Forty years later, the one thing people remember most about David Cronenberg‘s Scanners is its iconic head exploding head scene. It’s understandable; it’s a gory, shocking moment in an otherwise more subdued, cerebral thriller with a fairly complicated plot. That explosive onscreen kill serves as an unforgettable introduction to the film’s villain, Darryl Revok (Michael Ironside). […]
From the producers of Black Water: Abyss comes this year’s brand new shark attack movie Great White, a survival thriller starring Tucker and Dale vs. Evil actress Katrina Bowden. Michael Boughen (Tomorrow, When The War Began, Killer Elite, The Loved Ones) wrote the script, while commercial director Martin Wilson makes his feature directorial debut. Check out the first […]
Originally set for release in April 2020 before being bumped to July, A24‘s Rose Glass-directed Saint Maud had been off the release schedule for quite a while here in the United States, but Deadline reports today that the film is finally coming to US theaters later this month. Deadline reports, “Saint Maud will be hitting […]
Originally pushed back to March 2021 in the early days of the pandemic, we’ve learned tonight that Sony has once again set a new date for the Jared Leto-starring Morbius. Morbius will now be taking a bite out of the big screen on October 8, 2021. Sony’s latest Spider-Man spinoff centers on Michael Morbius, a […]
Julius Avery‘s (Overlord) next movie as director is Samaritan for MGM, which has Sylvester Stallone in the titular leading role. Total Film (via Games Radar) gives us our first look today. “Based on an original idea, the thriller centers on a young boy who is out to discover if a mythic superhero, who vanished 20 years earlier […]
The ball is in your court, Blumhouse. There may be no actual connections between the two but there’s no denying that Christopher Landon‘s horror-comedy slasher movies Happy Death Day and Freaky both seem to exist within the very same universe. They have incredibly similar sensibilities, at the very least, which has led many fans to […]