Hot on the heels of director Joe Begos’ most personal and accomplished feature yet, Bliss, VFW offers up a John Carpenter Assault on Precinct 13 inspired siege thriller that serves as a complement in many ways. More importantly, it’s an absolute blast. For his bloody and violent midnighter that demands to be seen on the […]
It’s all in the family with the forthcoming Halloween Kills, which is bringing back several big names from John Carpenter’s seminal 1978 slasher. The latest addition to the cast is Nancy Stephens, who portrayed Nurse Marion Chambers in the original film, reports HalloweenMovies. Interestingly, as the site notes, she also appeared in the 1981 follow-ups Halloween […]
Principal photography kicked off a little over a month ago here in Chicago on the next Candyman, the Jordan Peele-produced sequel to the Clive Barker adaptation that’s directed by Nia DaCosta (Little Woods). While Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Us, Aquaman) leads the cast, horror fans have been on pins and needles waiting for an announcement in regards to […]
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a literary classic now over 200 years old. The story of a mad scientist creating a monster stitched together from various body parts has contributed to one of horror’s most enduring monsters. With it, two centuries of plays, movies, and television adaptations. Some adhering close to the material and some making […]
Andy Muschietti’s IT: Chapter Two features extensive flashbacks to the ’80s, when the members of the Losers Club were kids, and that required a wealth of material that wasn’t actually filmed for the first movie. Since the kids had done so much growing and changing in the years since IT was filmed, Muschietti and the […]
A while back A24 had acquired the horror spec script Bodies, Bodies, Bodies by Kristen Roupenian (“Cat Person”), and THR reports today that Chloe Okuno has boarded the project. Okuno will both re-write and direct the horror-thriller for A24. “Sources have said that the script shows heightened sensitivity to character development and social dynamics in a […]
Paramount has been developing a film adaptation of the retro toy line Micronauts, and THR reports that How to Train Your Dragon filmmaker Dean DeBlois will write and direct. The Micronauts line was put out by Mego from 1976 to 1980, based on and licensed from the Microman toyline from Japanese company Takara. Comics from […]
During the height of Satanic Panic in the ‘80s, heavy metal became enemy number one by evangelicals. It was widespread fear and belief that the music genre was to blame for luring wayward teens to Satan’s door. It’s with this in mind that We Summon the Darkness crafts a throwback midnight movie full of well-rendered […]
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 […]
The documentary Scream, Queen! My Nightmare On Elm Street will be premiering at Fantastic Fest this weekend, telling the story of Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge star Mark Patton. The doc invites fans “not only to delight in the batshit uniqueness of NOES2, but also asks them to reckon with what it means […]