2018’s September 1999 is an unexpected gem of video game horror. Lasting a total of five and a half minutes, players can only move about two rooms as the environment around them changes. Taking on the visual aesthetics of a found footage game, September 1999 forces players into the role of a silent observer; by […]
After a nearly twenty year hiatus, The Night Flier director Mark Pavia returned to horror back in 2016 with Fender Bender, and he’s headed back to the genre with an adaptation of the novel Clare at 16, the first of a proposed six-book series from bestselling author Don Roff. Pavia will write and direct the horror flick, and Deadline reports that “Riverdale” […]
A long-awaited remake of a survival horror classic shuffles into view, was it worth the wait? See what we think in our Resident Evil 2 review. Resident Evil is widely considered the granddaddy of the survival horror genre but it wasn’t until Capcom released a sequel in 1998 that it went from breakout hit to worldwide phenomenon. With […]
A meteor crashes to Earth, emits strange colors in the perimeter around the crash, and begins altering the flora and fauna in bizarre ways that defy Earthbound science. In H.P. Lovecraft’s popular short story “The Colour Out of Space”, the strange alien meteorite affects a farm near the coast with “colour,” indescribable globules of color […]
Ideas go through many iterations. That can simply be the first draft of a book, a demo phase of a song, a test screening for a film, or a vertical slice of a video game. It can also extend to offshoots, spinoffs, and entirely new creations. Experimentation brings freshness and means some tantalizing ideas can […]
This past weekend’s January slot continues to be a goldmine for studios with Universal Pictures opening M. Night Shyamalan‘s Glass (read our review) in theaters everywhere. Even with torrid reviews, the film found an audience (its CinemaScore was actually higher than that of Unbreakable!) and matched its predecessor’s weekend opening with an estimated $40.59 million. It […]
Remember that Dark Souls Trilogy bundle that was announced at last year’s Gamescom? Remember how it was exclusive to North American and Asian gamers? Well, lucky for you Europeans, it’s now your turn to get in on a bundle of your own! Just be prepared to pay. Bandai Namco have announced pre-orders for the limited […]
Most (many, at least) horror fans seem to be in agreement that Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria is one of the finest remakes of a horror classic to date, turning Dario Argento‘s colorful original into a whole different experience entirely. Rather than copy Argento’s style, Guadagnino made Suspiria his own, removing not just the bright colors but […]
Retro-inspired pixel horror title Faith has a sequel on the way in Faith: Chapter II, and it’s got a new trailer ahead of a release next month. The main influences for Airdorf’s satanic series are clear to see (a bit of The Exorcist, a lot of the ZX Spectrum/Atari era of gaming), and it’s looking […]
A big budget action horror film starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Sutherland sounds like a safe bet for the box office. So much so that a line of action figures was developed, and the original comic the movie was based on received an updated release with the movie’s artwork in promotion. But then the […]