There’s been a recent trend in Korea of blending period dramas with horror, with zombie thriller Rampant and Netflix’s zombie series Kingdom taking advantage of the visuals of the Joseon era to make for a different horror experience. So too does the creature feature Monstrum. The film is introduced as “based on a true story,” […]
Recent releases like Monstrum and The Wretched continue to prove one thing: horror fans can’t get enough of monsters. Of all the branching sub-genres of horror, one of the cornerstones belongs to the creature feature. At its most ubiquitous of definitions, the creature feature is simply a horror movie in which a monster plays a prominent role; the […]
Not horror but how can we not mention this?! The first remake of 1932’s Howard Hawks-directed Scarface was brought to the screen by an incredible team including writer Oliver Stone and director Brian De Palma, and Universal’s new take on the iconic tale has similarly assembled one hell of a creative team. Deadline reports that […]
Florence Pugh, Shia LaBeouf and Chris Pine were recently set to star in New Line Cinema and director Olivia Wilde‘s (Booksmart) psychological thriller Don’t Worry Darling, and Deadline reports today that Dakota Johnson (Suspiria) has also joined the cast. Here’s the logline we were recently provided with: A psychological thriller about a 1950s housewife whose reality begins to […]
IFC Midnight has just acquired North American rights to the “retro Tinder nightmare” Rent-A-Pal, written and directed by Jon Stevenson. “Set in 1990, a lonely bachelor named David (Brian Landis Folkins) searches for an escape from the day-to-day drudgery of caring for his aging mother (Kathleen Brady). While seeking a partner through a video dating […]
What even is time anymore? The days and months feel as though they’ve bled into one homogenous mass lately, thanks to the strange timeline we find ourselves trapped within. So, this week’s streaming picks are dedicated to the twisted concept of time. Horror movies that prove, at best, that disrupting the flow of time adds […]
“Kill her, Mommy!” Horror’s relationship with motherhood is vast. There’s no shortage of films that explore the complex fears of being a mother. From terrifying mothers like Margaret White in Carrie to well-intentioned but flawed moms like Annie Graham in Hereditary, the maternal instinct is killer in the genre space. Friday the 13th‘s Pamela Voorhees is arguably the fiercest and […]
After directing Stephen King tales Gerald’s Game and Doctor Sleep, THR is reporting today that Mike Flanagan is now involved in a feature film adaptation of King’s Revival. Flanagan will write and produce for Warner Bros., “with an option to direct.” Trevor Macy (Doctor Sleep) will also produce. “The novel focused on the relationship between a […]
A24’s highly anticipated The Green Knight was set to rise on May 29th, but has finally lost the battle to the ongoing pandemic. There is no new date as of this writing. “From visionary filmmaker David Lowery comes a fresh and bold spin on a classic tale from the knights of the round table,” A24 explained of […]
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 […]