After having its World Premiere at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival (read our review), Game of Death is finally headed home thanks to Cleopatra Entertainment, we’ve learned this week. Directed by Sebastien Landry and Laurence Morais-Lagace, the film will hit VOD on July 14. Here’s the plot rundown: “Kill or be killed is the golden rule […]
Despite their popularity, exorcism movies are extremely difficult to pull off. Not only are there religious issues that have to be carefully dealt with in order to avoid offending any particular faith, but the end product will also inevitably be compared to William Friedkin’s The Exorcist. Naturally, it’s hard to follow up on one of […]
Welcome to Revenge of the Remakes, where columnist Matt Donato takes us on a journey through the world of horror remakes. We all complain about Hollywood’s lack of originality whenever studios announce new remakes, reboots, and reimaginings, but the reality? Far more positive examples of refurbished classics and updated legacies exist than you’re willing to remember […]
The ‘90s often get a bad rap with horror fans. After the numerous successful slashers and creature effects films of the ’80s, the ‘90s offered a different variety of horror fare. Though there were plenty of hits, hidden gems, and misunderstood classics, the ‘90s usually don’t get the kind of love that other decades get when […]
A new female-fronted take on the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise is in the works, with THR reporting today that the film is set to re-team the writer and star of DC’s Birds of Prey. Margot Robbie is attached to star in a Pirates film penned by Christina Hodson. THR explains, “While plot details are […]
We’re halfway through what’s been the strangest year in recent memory. What was once a promising slate of upcoming 2020 horror releases instead became an empty void thanks to pandemic-induced theatrical closures. In an alternate universe, we would’ve seen A Quiet Place Part II, Saint Maud, Antlers, Antebellum, Spiral, and Candyman and had our sights set on the enticing genre […]
There’s something about blizzards and wintry conditions that lend so well to genre film. It’s incredibly isolating, for one, but hazardous, icy weather tends to provide a moody Gothic backdrop to whatever thrills and chills are in store. The Oak Room takes a raging Canadian snowstorm and builds an entire mystery around it, scaling back the […]
One of the most notorious locales in horror is the cabin in the woods. The remote location makes for fertile ground to all sorts of evil while effectively isolating unwitting victims from safety. It’s so synonymous that the second you see a cabin attached to a genre film, the horror mind can’t help but speculate […]
The 1996 action-adventure blockbuster Twister is next up on the remake chopping block, with Variety reporting tonight that Universal Pictures is developing a new take on the classic. Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick) is currently in talks to direct the feature film, Variety notes, “and the studio is currently meeting with writers to pen the […]
Horror never seems very far away from Kevin Bacon… in a good way. The actor has over four decades of experience in film and television – co-starring in classic films like Animal House, Footloose, Apollo 13 and A Few Good Men – but he keeps coming back to scary movies. One of his earliest performances […]