IFC Midnight has dated their occult horror film The Wretched for release in limited theaters and on VOD platforms May 1, 2020, Bloody learned. Written & directed by Brett and Drew Pierce (Deadheads), Meagan reviewed The Wretched for us at Fantasia, writing: “The Pierce brothers have delivered a new dark fairy tale that the midnight crowds […]
With a title like Shirley and Elisabeth Moss featured as acclaimed horror author Shirley Jackson, the default expectation is that this film would be a period biopic. The reality is anything but; based on the novel of the same name by Susan Scarf Merrell and adapted by Sarah Gubbins, Shirley instead relays a captivating fictional […]
Following in the cursed footsteps of Sony’s The Grudge, Universal Pictures’ The Turning is the second horror film this month to receive an incredibly rare “F” CinemaScore grade. The difference between the two is that, while The Grudge was terrible from top to bottom, The Turning was actually a decent movie until the third act. […]
Henry James is a literary great who’d developed a reputation for penning atmospheric and emotionally gripping ghost stories. Though he’d written many, his most famous by far is his 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw. James preferred style was unconventional, supernatural hauntings that were extensions of reality. The haunting at Bly Manor was steeped in […]
This Saturday, January 25th, young filmmaker Brandon Cronenberg (Antiviral) makes his return to the festival scene with his sci-fi indie, Possessor, which will hold its World Premiere at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Brandon, son of legendary Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg, is forging his own path in the horror world. With […]
Announced by Deadline tonight, Tigers Are Not Afraid director Issa López has set up her next project: Book of Souls for Searchlight, an adaptation of a Matthew Baker short story. In addition to directing, Lopez is also writing the script. “The film is set in a world in which some babies are born without souls. A […]
They’re gonna need a bigger board. Wild Eye Releasing, the distributor of last year’s Velocipastor, is back at it again this year with the new film Ouija Shark, a low, low, low budget horror film swimming our way soon. In Scott Patrick’s Ouija Shark, “A group of teenage girls summon an ancient man-eating shark after […]
Butcher Block is a weekly series celebrating horror’s most extreme films and the minds behind them. Dedicated to graphic gore and splatter, each week will explore the dark, the disturbed, and the depraved in horror, and the blood and guts involved. For the films that use special effects of gore as an art form, and the fans […]
In addition to the upcoming James Wan-produced live-action film in 2021, we’ve learned via THR today that a Mortal Kombat animated movie is on the way early this year! Warner Bros. Animation’s Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge, the site reports, will arrive sometime in “the first half of 2020.” The voice cast includes: Joel McHale […]
Low budget creature feature Ghoulies is many things to many people: a crass and brazen rip-off of Gremlins, a second-tier franchise from prolific schlock producer/director Charles Band, and a mid-80s guilty pleasure that brings to mind popular children’s toy Boglins. Revisiting the film for its 35th anniversary, Ghoulies is all of this and so much […]