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 […]
Every corpse tells a story. Clancy Brown plays the creepy host in Ryan Spindell‘s upcoming horror anthology film The Mortuary Collection, set to world premiere at Fantastic Fest later this month. In the horror anthology, wherein each tale is set in a different decade: A young girl enters a secret room in a mortuary and […]
Genre cinema can come from the strangest of places. One of the biggest surprises of TIFF this year was finding genre gems outside the Midnight Madness program, like the movies of the Contemporary World Cinema. These are mostly movies that dabble in genre without going fully going into the extreme. One of the best examples […]
What would happen if Aaron Sorkin – he of The West Wing – wrote a period drama/paranoid alien conspiracy thriller? You would have The Vast of Night, a late 50s-set film about a pair of intrepid teen reporters who stumble upon an otherworldly presence in their small town on the night of a big basketball […]