DC’s Black Adam gets his own solo movie next year with box office juggernaut Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in the title role of a film being directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan, The Shallows), and we’ve learned tonight via Deadline that The Invisible Man actor Aldis Hodge is now in talks to co-star as the DC Comics superhero Hawkman. The character debuted […]
Celebrated at many film festivals over the years was Jill Gevargizian‘s exceptional indie horror The Stylist, which featured the wonderful Najarra Townsend (Contracted) as a hairstylist-turned-slasher. After a highly successful festival run, Gevargizian turned to Kickstarter to help finance a feature-length version of her hair care horror story that would not only bring Townsend back as the stylist, Claire, but feature […]
Up next from Trollhunter, The Autopsy of Jane Doe and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark director André Øvredal is Lionsgate’s Mortal, which has received a new trailer this week. Death Note‘s Nat Wolff stars in the film as a young man discovering he has God-like powers based on ancient Norwegian mythology. The full […]
On the road to this year’s all-virtual festival in October, the Salem, Massachusetts-based Salem Horror Fest has announced a star studded lineup of celebrity guests this week. Legendary directors Joe Dante and John Waters will be part of this year’s socially distanced festivities, along with reunions and retrospectives of films such as Gremlins 2: The […]
Update: It seems House of 1000 Corpses is already on Hulu. Even better! Hulu is bringing a whole bunch of horror to the table for the Halloween season, with their October offerings including original anthology series “Monsterland” and the original movies Books of Blood (based on Clive Barker’s stories) and Bad Hair. It’s all part […]
Jordan Peele’s Get Out has proven itself to be an influential horror movie in a bit of a different way than influential horror movies of the past. While classics like Night of the Living Dead and John Carpenter’s Halloween spawned countless imitators, the films that have come in the wake of Get Out – and […]
phantom limb /ˈfan(t)əm’lim/ n. an often painful sensation of the presence of a limb that has been amputated. Welcome to Phantom Limbs, a recurring feature which will take a look at intended yet unproduced horror sequels and remakes – extensions to genre films we love, appendages to horror franchises that we adore – that were sadly […]
Reader beware… I was out of breath, having hurried to the library as fast as I could so as to have enough time to get to class before it started. Grade school teachers were sometimes less than understanding when it came to tardiness, so I had to make it quick. The librarian spotted me and […]
The Toronto International Film Festival delivered a trio of pretty cool new horror films that will be coming our way in 2021. The first big acquisition comes out of the Midnight Madness program and has the honor of allegedly being the “first ever drive-in theater acquisition.” Vertical Entertainment and Redbox Entertainment have just closed a deal […]
A teenage girl and a mass murdering adult male psychopath swap bodies in Happy Death Day director Christopher Landon‘s new high-concept slasher Freaky for Blumhouse and Universal, releasing in theaters on November 13. Landon has been promising for a while now that the film would be rated R, and indeed it’s just been given that […]