This Friday brings James Wan’s return to horror, Malignant, to theaters and HBO Max. The plot sees a woman paralyzed by horrific visions of murders and realizes they’re not just waking nightmares but reality. Wan teased that his latest offers his unique take on a Giallo and cited specific filmmakers and films as inspiration. So, this […]
Ever since the film’s release way back in 2007, Rob Zombie‘s polarizing Halloween remake has reigned supreme over the Labor Day Weekend box office, pulling in $30,591,759 domestically back in 2007. Zombie’s Halloween went on to make $58 million domestically and $80 million worldwide, making it a massive hit that helped kick-start the franchise back to life. […]
Originally released on Blu-ray back in 2015, the 1982 horror movie Trick or Treats is being repressed to Blu-ray for this year’s Halloween season, via Code Red and Kino Lorber. The Blu-ray will be re-released on October 5, 2021. Special Features include: Audio Commentary with Actors Jackie Giroux, Peter Jason, Chris Graver and Cameraman R. […]
When it comes to race and “uncomfortable conversations,” Nia DaCosta is out of fucks to give. Before most of us hit grade school, we’re taught to fear the boogeyman and other things that go bump in the night, but DaCosta violently disagrees. For her, the scariest things are the trauma, cultural appropriation, and lack of […]
James Wan is producing a new take on Stephen King‘s vampire story Salem’s Lot for New Line, with Gary Dauberman (It, The Nun, Annabelle Comes Home) attached to write the script and also direct the film. Today brings the latest casting news, with Deadline reporting that Oscar nominee Alfre Woodard (Annabelle, Clemency) is headed to Salem’s Lot. Woodard will play Dr. Cody […]
While most channels don’t begin airing their Halloween movies until October, Shudder isn’t bound by those rules. After all, it’s pretty much Halloween *every day* on Shudder. On that note, Shudder has just announced their massive “61 Days of Halloween” programming block, which BEGINS TODAY and runs straight Halloween, October 31st! Of particular note, Bloody […]
Scene Screams is a recurring column that spotlights the scenes in horror that make us scream, whether through fear, laughter, or tears. It examines the most memorable, and often scariest, scenes in horror and what it is about them that makes them get under our skin. It takes about forty minutes into Bernard Rose‘s Candyman before the […]
With a serious lack of promotion up to this point, it’s been easy to forget that a new take The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is on the way, with the Fede Alvarez-produced Texas Chainsaw Massacre set to be a sequel to Tobe Hooper’s original classic. We’ve been promised “Old Man Leatherface” and the return of Sally Hardesty, two teases that […]
I was fortunate enough to attend the world premiere of punk legend Glenn Danzig’s first feature film Verotika back in 2019 during Chicago’s Cinepocalypse Film Festival. At that time, no one knew what a movie written and directed by the Misfits frontman would look like, so hopes were high that Danzig’s voice would be as […]
Variety reports Friday evening that “actor, disability-inclusion advocate and double hand amputee” John W. Lawson (“American Horror Story”) has been cast as “Stanny” in Paramount Players’ untitled Pet Sematary prequel. “I have myoelectric hands… or what people commonly call ‘cyborg,’” Lawson jokes to the site. “But most of the time, it’s just my hooks.” Variety […]