Well I’ll be damned. After nearly sinking to a bloated budget, New Line Cinema’s The Meg has just surpassed $500M worldwide at the box office, which means it’s likely out of the red and into the black for the financiers/distributors. This is huge news for a film that was released into an ocean of drama […]
You’d think a movie with the word “demon” in the title would lean a bit more into horror, but while the scares are almost non-existent, but Chen Kaige never lets go of the fantasy and dark elements of Baku Yumemakura’s bestselling novel The Legend of the Demon Cat. The result is an entertaining and heartfelt […]
[Press Release] Beyond Fest has announced its complete slate of 2018 programming featuring 46 features and 24 West Coast premieres of cinematic excess. Beyond Fest returns to Hollywood’s famed Egyptian Theatre for 14 days of cinematic splendor spanning Wednesday, September 26th – Tuesday, October 9th to generate funds for the nonprofit 501c3 American Cinematheque. With […]
[Press Release] Fantastic Fest promises an explosive grand finale with the a Texas Premiere of Drew Goddard’s outrageously entertaining mystery-thriller BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE. Seven strangers, each with a secret to bury, meet at Lake Tahoe’s El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past. Over the course of one fateful night, everyone […]
I never realized how similar Home Alone was to Predator until I saw this hysterical new “Honest Trailer” for John McTiernan‘s epic 1987 masterpiece. I’m actually a big fan of the Honest Trailer series because it’s such good-natured ribbing that comes from a good place and doesn’t project an ounce of mean-spiritedness. The riff on Predator does […]
After taking over screens this summer, horror-comedy Blood Fest unleashes its terror and laughs on a bonus-packed Blu-ray+DVD combo pack October 2, 2018. Blood Fest follows fans who flock to a festival celebrating the most iconic horror movies, only to discover that the charismatic showman (Egerton) behind the event has a diabolical agenda. As festival attendees start dying […]
Well Go USA just paid a ridiculous $2 million for the “English-speaking rights” to Freaks, the debut film from Zach Lipovsky and Adam B Stein, said Deadline. The two wrote and directed as well as produced the dark sci-fi thriller, which had its World Premiere in the Discovery section at this year’s ongoing Toronto International Film Festival. Bloody Disgusting’s Rafael Motamayer […]
Halloween season is officially underway, thanks to New Line Cinema and James Wan‘s Atomic Monster. Good reviews or not, the Corin Hardy-directed The Nun just smashed the box office earning an estimated $53.5M here in the States and another $77.5M internationally. That’s $131M in its opening weekend, which makes it the biggest box office opening of […]
If you loved watching a Predator beat the shit out of a Xenomorph, you’re going to enjoy this extended footage from The Predator in which a Predator gets annihilated by the genetically modified Ultimate Predator. The Shane Black-directed film just premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to mostly mixed reviews. Our own Joe Lipsett […]
Pure Flix, the faith-based production company responsible for God’s Not Dead, has acquired Welcome to Mercy from the producers of Scream and The Others, reports THR. Welcome to Mercy portrays an American single mother returning to Latvia to be with her dying father, only to be afflicted with visions and wounds similar to a Holy […]