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The 12 Best Genre Films Released in the First Half of 2020

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We’re halfway through what’s been the strangest year in recent memory. What was once a promising slate of upcoming 2020 horror releases instead became an empty void thanks to pandemic-induced theatrical closures. In an alternate universe, we would’ve seen A Quiet Place Part II, Saint Maud, Antlers, Antebellum, Spiral, and Candyman and had our sights set on the enticing genre […]

The Genre-Lite Titles Playing at SXSW 2020! [Images]

[Review] ‘The Last of Us Part II’ Offers an Uneven and Overlong Journey Filled With Bloodshed and Horror

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Everything about Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part II has been a mess in one way or another. The game has faced controversy after controversy since its initial reveal, from its depictions of graphic violence with no content warnings, to fear over the game’s potential for failure when it came to representing queer characters. […]

Free Indie Survival Horror Game ‘The 3rd Night’ Drips Old-School Dread

[Cannes Review] Thriller ‘The Oak Room’ Crafts Slow-Burn Mystery Rich in Storytelling

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There’s something about blizzards and wintry conditions that lend so well to genre film. It’s incredibly isolating, for one, but hazardous, icy weather tends to provide a moody Gothic backdrop to whatever thrills and chills are in store. The Oak Room takes a raging Canadian snowstorm and builds an entire mystery around it, scaling back the […]

‘Escape Room’ Director Adam Robitel Will Helm a Supernatural Thriller for Sony, Produced by Sam Raimi

[Cannes Review] ‘Lake of Death’ Infuses Retro Cabin in the Woods Horror with Norwegian Folklore

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One of the most notorious locales in horror is the cabin in the woods. The remote location makes for fertile ground to all sorts of evil while effectively isolating unwitting victims from safety. It’s so synonymous that the second you see a cabin attached to a genre film, the horror mind can’t help but speculate […]

The Cabin In The Woods Horror Movie Review

Tackling Fishmen and Cultists in Roguelike ‘Eldritch’ [What We Play in the Shadows]

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Cosmic horror is one of the oldest and sturdiest sub-genres there is. Unfathomable monsters, uncaring universes, and descents into insanity make for captivating tales, and the tropes of the genre allow for so many variations on a theme that the core concepts remain fresh decade after decade. Video games are better equipped than perhaps any […]

The Deceptively Cute ‘Eversion’ Contains a Dark Side [What We Play in the Shadows]

Universal Pictures Conjuring Up a Deadly ‘Twister’ With New Take on 1990s Classic

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The 1996 action-adventure blockbuster Twister is next up on the remake chopping block, with Variety reporting tonight that Universal Pictures is developing a new take on the classic. Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick) is currently in talks to direct the feature film, Variety notes, “and the studio is currently meeting with writers to pen the […]

Universal Set to Do the ‘Monster Mash’ With Original Musical Film

[Video] Latest ‘Immortal Realms: Vampire Wars’ Featurette Explores the Blend of Two Genres

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Kalypso Media and Palindrome have released a new featurette for Immortal Realms: Vampire Wars, which is currently in Xbox Game Preview via the Microsoft Store, and on Steam via the Kalypso Store. The latest featurette delves into the game’s blend of turn-based vampiric combat and empire management. This second dev diary details some of the […]

‘Bloodlines 2’ Devs Explain Adaptations of The Ruleset in Latest Dev Diary

Kevin Bacon on Psychological Horror, the “Tremors” Pilot and That Whole Freddy Krueger Idea [Interview]

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Horror never seems very far away from Kevin Bacon… in a good way. The actor has over four decades of experience in film and television – co-starring in classic films like Animal House, Footloose, Apollo 13 and A Few Good Men – but he keeps coming back to scary movies. One of his earliest performances […]

This is Far from Perfection: Kevin Bacon’s “Tremors” TV Series Has Been Axed

‘Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2’ Announced For Multiple Systems

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In a move out of left field, Inti Creates has announced a follow-up to the prequel to Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night in Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon. Curse of The Moon 2 will be headed to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and Steam. The original Curse of The Moon was a throwback to […]

8-bit ‘Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night’ Prequel, ‘Curse of the Moon’, Hits Later this Month