Scream Factory decided to unload this 4th of July with a trio of upcoming 4K UHD announcements, including the reveal of Fede Álvarez‘s 2013 remake of Evil Dead! John Carpenter’s The Fog will be getting a new 4K UHD release on September 13. And much like they’ve done with past Carpenter releases, Scream Factory are […]
About a year after The Blair Witch Project took the box office by storm in 1999, Random House started publishing a series of tie-in novels in conjunction with Artisan Entertainment. The first film’s production designer and the director of two related features, Ben Rock, was also consulted about geography and lore. And to help reinforce the […]
It’s that time again; we’re halfway through another year. Already. The first half of 2022 was much lighter on theatrical releases than the heavily stacked back half. Even still, it held no shortage of fantastic horror releases. The genre has proven time and time again that it thrives in every format, and offerings have become […]
The wrath of rats on film essentially began with 1959’s The Killer Shrews, but more unambiguous depictions first cropped up in the ‘70s. This included Bert I. Gordon’s 1976 adaptation of H. G. Wells’ 1904 book, The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth. Food of the Gods was financially successful by […]
In addition to Adam Wingard’s Godzilla vs. Kong sequel, which was just dated for 2024 release, the “MonsterVerse” is also spawning a live action television series for Apple TV+, which will feature Godzilla and various other Titans. Today brings the very first casting news. The Wrap reports that Anna Sawai (“Pachinko,” “F9”), Ren Watabe (“461 […]
The 1980s was a pivotal time for horror fiction, especially for young adults. As Grady Hendrix wrote in Paperbacks From Hell, this was the decade where “horror hit its stride with a hungry teenage audience.” Dell Publishing’s own part in the prevailing trend included Twilight: Where Darkness Begins, a collection of self-contained books that helped […]
Bloody Disgusting has hit the road with Dark Star Pictures on our latest collaboration, the Spanish horror movie The Passenger (La pasajera), which is now available On Demand and DVD on June 28, 2022! In the film, a group of strangers sharing a ride has their trip interrupted when the driver hits a woman hiking in the dark […]
Venom was an unprecedented move for video-game adaptations when Dimension Films acquired rights to an unproduced game in 2003. Developers Flint Dille and John Zuur Platten said their concept for Backwater was “ready-made to become a horror film as well as a game,” and players were positioned to be “the prey of a modern-day boogieman” […]
“The Handmaid’s Tale” and Cam actress Madeline Brewer has set up her next project, with Deadline reporting today that Brewer will star in a social horror movie titled Pruning. Brewer will star alongside Peyton Kennedy, Anjali Bhimani, Jeremy Radin, Akilah Hughes and Ben Gleib in Pruning, which is filming now with Lola Blanc in the […]
The Langoliers, a 1995 TV miniseries based on Stephen King’s 1988 novella, usually ranks somewhere among the most forgotten or worst of King adaptations. At best, television’s limitations and the ‘90s CGI date the miniseries, especially once the eponymous creatures start chomping up the scenery. Filmmaker Aristotelis Maragkos laboriously re-edits the miniseries using paper collage techniques and […]