Netflix’s “Marianne” may be no more but creator Samuel Bodin will return to the genre with Lionsgate’s horror movie Cobweb, and we’ve got some great casting news today. Lizzy Caplan (“Castle Rock”) and Antony Starr (“The Boys”) have been set to star! The cast will also include Cleopatra Coleman and Woody Norman. “The film centers […]
Rape and revenge films, by nature, offer one of the most uncomfortable and extreme subgenres of horror. They tend to follow a distinct formula that plays out in three acts; a female character is subjected to brutal degradation and sexual violence then left for dead; she survives and rehabilitates; then she exacts a harrowing vengeance […]
An upcoming horror comic titled Stray Dogs is getting an animated feature courtesy of Paramount Animation and It writer Gary Dauberman, THR is reporting tonight. Mark Perez (Game Night) will write the script, with Dauberman producing. THR notes that the mysterious Stray Dogs, being published by Image Comics next year, is being described as “Silence […]
From its very first scene, director I-Fan Wang’s debut feature crackles with slapstick energy. The Taiwanese zombie comedy opens on a parliamentary session in complete chaos: men and women attack and bite each other, blood spraying everywhere as bystanders panic in the stands above. Among them is Hsiung (Megan Lai), who recounts a quick bit […]
A terrible year continues to punish as Universal Pictures is no longer releasing Nia DaCosta‘s spiritual Candyman sequel on October 16, 2020, as expected at this point. The film will now release sometime in 2021, with no new date selected at this time. The film, you may recall, was *originally* supposed to hit theaters this […]
Before the digital age and the internet, as we know it, dating services connected hopefuls through video dating in the early ‘90s. To say it was an awkward form of dating would be a vast understatement. For a fee, you could record a short pitch that summed up who you were and what you wanted […]
Arielle Cimino and Jeff Ryan‘s horror-comedy Mass Hysteria, which was entirely filmed in Salem, Massachusetts, screened at Salem Horror Fest last Halloween season, and now it’s coming home just in time for this year’s Halloween season. The Horror Collective is bringing Mass Hysteria to at-home VOD on October 1st, we’ve learned today. The Horror Collective comments in a press […]
With the inaugural season of Lovecraft Country well underway and Color Out of Space now available on Shudder, the Year of Lovecraft remains in full swing. H.P. Lovecraft‘s works tapped into the fear of the unknowable, of horrors vast and incomprehensible. His brand of cosmic horror made humans look so frail and obsolete by comparison. In a present […]
Compared to most subgenres in horror, folk horror isn’t as easy to classify. It’s agreed that The Wicker Man, The Witchfinder General, and The Blood on Satan’s Claw are the holy trinity of folk horror, but beyond that, it gets a little murky because there are no clear-cut rules. Folk horror does have a few defining traits, […]
The horror anthology movie is unpredictable by nature. These films are made or broken by their own designs; story quality, sequence, and consistency are key criteria. The few examples that excel in all these areas are the paragons of segmented horror. Although it’s true some of these movies fare better than others in the matter […]