Warner Bros. reacquired the rights to William Golding’s classic novel Lord of the Flies a couple years back, and we learned last year that Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name, Suspiria) is on board to direct a brand new adaptation. This week, THR reports that Patrick Ness (Chaos Walking, A Monster Calls) will be scripting Guadagnino’s adaptation. […]
Sam Raimi‘s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness was originally set for release in May 2021 before being bumped to November 2021, and now it’s already been bumped again. Raimi’s return to the world of Marvel will now release on March 25, 2022. Benedict Cumberbatch will return as Doctor Strange in the sequel, with Benedict Wong, Chiwetel […]
Most recently set for release on December 30, 2020, we’ve learned tonight that Sony’s Columbia Pictures will now be releasing Adam Robitel‘s Escape Room 2 on January 1, 2021. Escape Room stars Logan Miller and Taylor Russell will be returning for the sequel. Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan), Holland Roden (“Channel Zero: Butcher’s Block”), Indya Moore (“Pose”), Thomas Cocquerel (“The 100”) and Carlito Olivero (“East Los High”) also star. The franchise […]
Paramount and Entertainment One are teaming up to tell another round of Scary Stories. Last year’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark made over $100 million worldwide, and we’ve learned tonight that director André Øvredal will be behind the camera for a sequel. THR reports that Dan Hageman and Kevin Hageman are also returning […]
The American Genre Film Archive, or AGFA, is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of genre films and their legacy. Essentially, they collect and distribute films that might’ve otherwise disappeared forever. Centipede Horror, for example, never received a home release in the U.S. and could only be found through rare bootlegs. AGFA found the […]
Reeling from the deaths of Walt Disney in 1966 and Roy Disney in 1971, Walt Disney Productions struggled to find its audience. Much of their commercial releases in the ‘70s and early ‘80s flopped, causing the company to experiment, seeking out a young adult audience with darker offerings. The period is known as their Dark […]
Horror anthologies have been a mainstay of the genre pretty much since the advent of cinema. A collection of bite-sized stories strung together by a framing device, or wraparound, anthology horror tends to offer a variety of scares for every taste. What’s more, they provide a grab bag of unpredictability; it’s hard to guess what […]
In 2012, Scott Derrickson’s Sinister chilled audiences with gruesome 8mm snuff films of family annihilation. It’s a recent and excellent entry in the canon of “Cursed Tape” films, a subgenre of horror that was popularized by Hideo Nakata’s Ringu and Gore Verbinski’s 2002 American remake The Ring. While I’m nowhere near the first person to […]
Actor Robert Bronzi has recently made a name for himself due to his uncanny resemblance to the late Charles Bronson, and up next he’s starring in a slasher movie titled Cry Havoc. The film is directed by Rene Perez, and it’s a sequel to his Playing With Dolls: Havoc. “An ambitious reporter (Emily Sweet) is […]
To this day, one of my all-time favorite movie-going experiences was seeing Grindhouse on the big screen with my entire family back in 2007, a double-bill of Quentin Tarantino‘s Death Proof and Robert Rodriguez‘s Planet Terror that featured faux trailers that were sandwiched in-between and directed by the likes of Eli Roth, Rob Zombie and […]