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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Yellow Veil Pictures announced today they have acquired world sales rights on Jordan Graham’s Sator and English-speaking territories for The Bloodhound from director Patrick Picard, and will introduce the projects to buyers this week at Marche Du Film Online as part of their slate. Patrick Picard’s feature directorial debut The Bloodhound is a modern-set horror/thriller […]
To the surprise of no one, Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part II has become Sony’s fastest-selling release this generation (at least in the UK). While exact figures are still to be determined (as digital sales aren’t factored), the followup to the 2013 hit landed at number one on the UK charts, and beat […]
Gearing up for release this coming Halloween season is My Dead Ones, a Brazilian horror-mystery from director Diego Freitas, which will be released by TMA Releasing. Behind the looks of a shy film student, David (Nicolas Prattes) hides an obscure past that is about to be revealed. “David, a shy film student, loves filming people around […]
We can always use another retro-inspired shooter, and that’s exactly what indie developers Savage Studios are doing with its visceral over-the-top shooter, S.C.A.R., or Simulating Carnage And Rockets. Launching on Steam on July 16th with its first episode, the “nostalgic nod to the epic shooters of yesteryear” harkens back to the days of Quake III […]