While already confirmed, Bloody Disgusting can exclusively detail the release of John Carpenter’s Halloween on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray), stalking Haddonfield on September 25 from Lionsgate Starring Golden Globe winner Jamie Lee Curtis (Best Actress, True Lies, 1994), Donald Pleasance, Tony Moran, and P.J. Soles, this edition of the horror classic delivers four […]
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 the decade-plus since Grindhouse, there’s been a trend in independent genre film to pay homage to old-school exploitation movies. This is typically done in a winking, self-aware way, whether it’s digitally adding film scratches or dropping reels or deliberately crude gore effects or over-the-top ridiculous premises presented with ironic distance. The filmmakers need to […]
Hailing out of India, Vasan Bala is planning to kick Midnight Madness audience’s asses when The Man Who Feels No Pain World Premieres at this month’s Toronto International Film Festival. In this Bollywood-infused action film, a young man quite literally born with the ability to feel no pain strikes out on a quest to vanquish […]
Ask anyone that’s taken the plunge and they’ll tell you…Marriage is fucking terrifying. That’s exactly what’s at the core of writer/director Eli Thomas‘ Domestic Horror. What starts off as a silly, self-aware Scream parody slowly turns into a wry commentary on the marriage-industrial complex and how on some level it kills us all. Leaning more […]
Mere weeks before The Predator arrives in theaters, we’ll meet The Dawnseeker. Premiering September 4 (VOD) from Uncork’d Entertainment, Justin Price’s new sci-fi horror actioner pits five mercenaries against a bootleg Predator creature… “2245, the Earth’s sun has dwindled and no longer provides the energy needed to sustain human life. Five hired mercenaries travel to an uncharted […]
While Gaspar Noé has never tackled the horror genre straight on, almost all of his films dabble in it. From Irreversible to Enter the Void, Noé is behind some of the most punishing cinematic experiences I’ve ever had to endure. At least with his latest, Climax, it’s being shrouded by a wild dance party. Described as a hypnotic, hallucinatory, and ultimately hair-raising depiction […]
Much like all of our favorite horror icons, the genre is so hot that even when a studio does everything wrong, the films find a way to survive. This Friday saw the release of not one, but two major fuck-ups, both mishandled by their studio brass. Sony Screen Gems’ Slender Man (review), directed by Sylvain White, was […]
Slender Man was primed to become the next horror icon. Birthed out of a paranormal photo contest on the Something Awful forum, the Creepypasta character is one of the few that had the potential to penetrate through general audiences and enter into pop culture. The character already started to gain awareness following reports that violent acts were […]
Three years after debuting cult favorite Turbo Kid at Sundance Film Festival, filmmaking trio RKSS (Francois Simard, Anouk Whissell, and Yoann-Karl Whissell) returned with their latest feature, Summer of 84, which our own Fred Topel said it “hits the nostalgic sweet spot.” A coming of age thriller that follows a group of teenage friends that […]