Epic Games’ Fortnite appears to be once again heading into the cross promotion realm, this time with Warner Bros. upcoming Birds of Prey film! Initially hinted at by the official Fortnite Twitter responding to a tweet by Warner Bros Pictures involving the main cast of the film, it was confirmed by the Fortnite: Battle Royale […]
Henry James is a literary great who’d developed a reputation for penning atmospheric and emotionally gripping ghost stories. Though he’d written many, his most famous by far is his 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw. James preferred style was unconventional, supernatural hauntings that were extensions of reality. The haunting at Bly Manor was steeped in […]
Sony has tried (and tried again) to get a film based on Uncharted out of development hell, and it seems that wasn’t the only property Sony was interested in making the transition. Apparently, they were also trying to get at least an animated short for another Naughty Dog property made in The Last of Us. […]
This Saturday, January 25th, young filmmaker Brandon Cronenberg (Antiviral) makes his return to the festival scene with his sci-fi indie, Possessor, which will hold its World Premiere at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Brandon, son of legendary Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg, is forging his own path in the horror world. With […]
Loving slo-mo shots of 80’s CRTs with wood-grain paneling. The click-clack of keyboard keys as you enter a text command. The whiny whir of a microfiche reader zooming in on black-and-white film. Stories Untold is a throwback to old-fashioned parser-based text adventures modernized to take advantage of the atmospheric tension that 3D art can provide. […]
Announced by Deadline tonight, Tigers Are Not Afraid director Issa López has set up her next project: Book of Souls for Searchlight, an adaptation of a Matthew Baker short story. In addition to directing, Lopez is also writing the script. “The film is set in a world in which some babies are born without souls. A […]
Waiting on Half-Life: Alyx? You’re not the only one. Valve has decided that for the time until the game launches, you can play the entire series for absolutely free on Steam. Valve made the announcement on Steam that Half-Life, along with its expansions Half-Life: Opposing Force and Half-Life: Blue Shift, Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode […]
They’re gonna need a bigger board. Wild Eye Releasing, the distributor of last year’s Velocipastor, is back at it again this year with the new film Ouija Shark, a low, low, low budget horror film swimming our way soon. In Scott Patrick’s Ouija Shark, “A group of teenage girls summon an ancient man-eating shark after […]
Skybound Games today announced that not only will Telltale’s The Walking Dead will be headed back to Steam, but also that all of the episodes will be debuting on the Nintendo Switch! The Walking Dead: Season Two and The Walking Dead: A New Frontier join the previously-released Season One and The Final Season on the […]
Butcher Block is a weekly series celebrating horror’s most extreme films and the minds behind them. Dedicated to graphic gore and splatter, each week will explore the dark, the disturbed, and the depraved in horror, and the blood and guts involved. For the films that use special effects of gore as an art form, and the fans […]