Shudder has acquired the South African sci-fi horror Fried Barry, from music video director Ryan Kruger, and will release it on their platform this coming May 6th, Bloody Disgusting learned this morning. “Fried Barry follows the story of a drug-addled degenerate (Gary Green) who, after yet another bender, gets abducted by aliens. Barry takes a […]
Gotham-based distributor Dekanalog has secured U.S. rights to Dachra, which won the coveted ‘scariest film’ award at Overlook Film Festival, reports Deadline. Tunisian director Abdelhamid Bouchnak’s horror pic is based on a true story and follows a group of students who become trapped in an isolated village while trying to solve a 25-year-old murder case. “Set […]
Another day, another new trailer for Adam Wingard‘s Godzilla vs. Kong. This one comes courtesy of IGN, and it features some bits of new footage including an underwater battle, a trip to the Hollow Earth, and a whole lot of destruction. At the very end of the trailer, a monstrous new threat is introduced, one […]
Scott Derrickson (Dr. Strange, Sinister) is headed back to the horror genre to direct The Black Phone for Blumhouse and Universal, and the film was already a Sinister reunion with Ethan Hawke recently joining the cast. On top of that, THR reports tonight, Hawke’s Sinister co-star James Ransone (It: Chapter Two) has also signed on to reunite with Derrickson. […]
We’re finally getting our mid-level horror movies back and the first comes from none other than producer Sam Raimi and his Ghost House Pictures. In The Unholy (formerly titled Shrine), from Sony Screen Gems, it appears that the demon is none other than the Virgin Mary – or is it just pretending to be so in order to […]
“If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.” That quote by The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood is what opens Nick Gillespie‘s Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break. You’d be forgiven for thinking that you were in for something dark and serious, at least until Philip Oakley and Giorgio Moroder’s “Together in Electric […]
In 2003, Charlize Theron won an Oscar for playing Aileen Wuornos, one of America’s most notorious female serial killers, in Monster. Now, “Cobra Kai’s” Peyton List will star in the prequel, American Boogeywoman, which will be based on the early life of Wuornos, reports Deadline. “Based on Wuornos’ early life in 1976, the film follows […]
I hate giving any press to someone the likes of Ronald DeFeo Jr., who was “convicted of killing his father, mother, two brothers and two sisters inside their Amityville home in 1974,” but the murders had a major impact on the horror genre. Ronald DeFeo Jr., whose murders inspired The Amityville Horror book and movie […]
“I want to make art… and I want to make trouble.” Set for release this coming May, Disney’s live-action film Cruella is something of a punk rock origin story for the classic 101 Dalmatians villain Cruella de Vil, with Academy Award winner Emma Stone in the title role. A brand new trailer was unleashed during the Grammys last night, branding […]
Soman Chainani’s debut novel The School for Good and Evil, which was published in 2013 and launched a franchise, is getting a movie over at Netflix, with Paul Feig (Ghostbusters, Last Christmas) on board to direct the film. David Magee (Life of Pi, Mary Poppins Returns) and Laura Solon (Office Christmas Party, Let It Snow) are adapting. Charlize Theron will play Lady Lesso and Kerry Washington will […]