Adam Salky (I Smile Back) is on board to direct a home invasion thriller titled Intrusion for Netflix, THR is reporting tonight. Chris Sparling (Buried) wrote the film’s script. Logan Marshall-Green (Upgrade) and Freida Pinto (“The Path”) will star. The film centers on “a husband and wife (Marshall-Green and Pinto) who move to a small […]
Endings are a tricky thing to get right in horror. After ramping up the tension, scares, and story all movie long, the grand finale should pay it all off in a satisfying way. That’s not an easy task. Just ask Stephen King. It’s become such a long-running joke that the prolific author struggles with endings […]
Universal Pictures has enlisted the help of Idris Elba to tame a wild Beast, with Deadline reporting that Elba will star in the survival thriller that pits man against hungry lion. Baltasar Kormákur (Everest, Adrift) will direct the film. Deadline notes, “Plot details are vague other then it being in the vein of The Shallows […]
Filmmaker Keith Thomas (The Vigil) is directing a new take on Stephen King‘s Firestarter for Universal Pictures, Blumhouse Productions and Weed Road Productions, and we’ve learned today that Zac Efron (Extremely Wicked) has signed on to star in the film. As previously announced, Thomas (The Vigil) will direct the film that is being adapted by […]
It’s officially Fall, and October begins this week. That means cramming even more horror into your regular viewing schedule in celebration of the year’s best holiday, Halloween. While we’ll get around to piling on your watchlists with Halloween specific picks, this week, we’re easing into it with films inspired by or set around autumn. Movies […]
Let’s cut straight to the chase: The Boy Behind the Door is a genuinely dark thriller. Harrowingly dark. More than just putting its child protagonists in constant peril, it broaches pedophiliac subject matter that might be too upsetting and off-putting for some. Consider this a trigger warning. First-time feature filmmakers David Charbonier and Justin Powell plunge straight […]
Within the last five or so years, director/producer Jill Gevargizian has been hard at work, releasing an impressive number of short films. Of them all, it was her 2016 short “The Stylist,” that garnered the most acclaim and attention by horror-loving hearts on the festival circuit, though. In just fifteen minutes, the short relayed the […]
DC’s Black Adam gets his own solo movie next year with box office juggernaut Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in the title role of a film being directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan, The Shallows), and we’ve learned tonight via Deadline that The Invisible Man actor Aldis Hodge is now in talks to co-star as the DC Comics superhero Hawkman. The character debuted […]
Up next from Trollhunter, The Autopsy of Jane Doe and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark director André Øvredal is Lionsgate’s Mortal, which has received a new trailer this week. Death Note‘s Nat Wolff stars in the film as a young man discovering he has God-like powers based on ancient Norwegian mythology. The full […]
On the road to this year’s all-virtual festival in October, the Salem, Massachusetts-based Salem Horror Fest has announced a star studded lineup of celebrity guests this week. Legendary directors Joe Dante and John Waters will be part of this year’s socially distanced festivities, along with reunions and retrospectives of films such as Gremlins 2: The […]