Update: It seems House of 1000 Corpses is already on Hulu. Even better! Hulu is bringing a whole bunch of horror to the table for the Halloween season, with their October offerings including original anthology series “Monsterland” and the original movies Books of Blood (based on Clive Barker’s stories) and Bad Hair. It’s all part […]
phantom limb /ˈfan(t)əm’lim/ n. an often painful sensation of the presence of a limb that has been amputated. Welcome to Phantom Limbs, a recurring feature which will take a look at intended yet unproduced horror sequels and remakes – extensions to genre films we love, appendages to horror franchises that we adore – that were sadly […]
Reader beware… I was out of breath, having hurried to the library as fast as I could so as to have enough time to get to class before it started. Grade school teachers were sometimes less than understanding when it came to tardiness, so I had to make it quick. The librarian spotted me and […]
The Toronto International Film Festival delivered a trio of pretty cool new horror films that will be coming our way in 2021. The first big acquisition comes out of the Midnight Madness program and has the honor of allegedly being the “first ever drive-in theater acquisition.” Vertical Entertainment and Redbox Entertainment have just closed a deal […]
A teenage girl and a mass murdering adult male psychopath swap bodies in Happy Death Day director Christopher Landon‘s new high-concept slasher Freaky for Blumhouse and Universal, releasing in theaters on November 13. Landon has been promising for a while now that the film would be rated R, and indeed it’s just been given that […]
Netflix’s “Marianne” may be no more but creator Samuel Bodin will return to the genre with Lionsgate’s horror movie Cobweb, and we’ve got some great casting news today. Lizzy Caplan (“Castle Rock”) and Antony Starr (“The Boys”) have been set to star! The cast will also include Cleopatra Coleman and Woody Norman. “The film centers […]
Rape and revenge films, by nature, offer one of the most uncomfortable and extreme subgenres of horror. They tend to follow a distinct formula that plays out in three acts; a female character is subjected to brutal degradation and sexual violence then left for dead; she survives and rehabilitates; then she exacts a harrowing vengeance […]
An upcoming horror comic titled Stray Dogs is getting an animated feature courtesy of Paramount Animation and It writer Gary Dauberman, THR is reporting tonight. Mark Perez (Game Night) will write the script, with Dauberman producing. THR notes that the mysterious Stray Dogs, being published by Image Comics next year, is being described as “Silence […]
From its very first scene, director I-Fan Wang’s debut feature crackles with slapstick energy. The Taiwanese zombie comedy opens on a parliamentary session in complete chaos: men and women attack and bite each other, blood spraying everywhere as bystanders panic in the stands above. Among them is Hsiung (Megan Lai), who recounts a quick bit […]
A terrible year continues to punish as Universal Pictures is no longer releasing Nia DaCosta‘s spiritual Candyman sequel on October 16, 2020, as expected at this point. The film will now release sometime in 2021, with no new date selected at this time. The film, you may recall, was *originally* supposed to hit theaters this […]