I’d imagine a fair few people reading this are planning to dress up for Halloween this year, and I’m sure plenty want to be rewarded for parading their costume about, so a competition that does just that should be particularly enticing. Developer Retrotainment Games is giving away free Steam keys for its Kickstarter funded 8-bit […]
‘Tis the Night… The Night of the graves’ delight… Nicholas Verso’s 2016 Boys in the Trees (available on Netflix) is a beautiful film and a really unique addition to your Halloween viewing. It captures the essence of the season and uses it in an entirely new way to tell its story. Rather than a full-on […]
Yes, what you see above is a shot from the video game No Man’s Sky, an almost pitch perfect recreation of the iconic poster art for The Nightmare Before Christmas that’s the handiwork of Reddit’s “ReefGuy007.” The image has been up-voted over 8 thousand times since being shared on the game’s subreddit channel one day ago, […]
As part of his “Dollar Baby” arrangement, Stephen King allows film students and aspiring filmmakers to adapt his short stories in exchange for a single dollar, and BBC reports today that students at the UK’s Blaenau Gwent Film Academy have taken King up on the offer with an adaptation of his Stationary Bike, published in 2003. […]
Missed out on snagging the vinyl version of Castlevania: Rondo of Blood‘s soundtrack? Well, Mondo has a nice alternative for you in the form of Michiru Yamane’s soundtrack for Castlevania: Symphony of the Night! Available this Wednesday, October 24th, the double LP release features 41 tracks from the game (including seven bonus tracks from the […]
Last year, New Line Cinema’s It: Chapter One ignited a fire around Hollywood. It sent the signal that there’s a huge appetite for horror, which they would have already known if they looked bothered to look at the billion dollar Halloween industry that was booming all around them. Shit, just look at the Internet – […]
Sony announced late last year that they were in the process of bringing back MediEvil in a remastered edition, similar fashion to Spyro The Dragon. But despite the series turning 20 years old this year, we haven’t heard anything about the remastering. According to the latest PlayStation Blogcast, that will change within a couple of […]
Over the course of the Halloween series’ 40-year history, we have had two films that have attempted to address the events of Halloween night, 1978 as trauma. These films are interested in acknowledging the effect of the experience on Laurie Strode and in seeing how that trauma has impacted her in their respective modern days. […]
Indie horror games tend to include the most imaginative and bonkers examples of the genre around, and the Spooky Retro Bundle 2 on itch.io is a testament to that. The bundle features seven horror titles that borrow from the visual stylings of the original PlayStation, N64, and in one case, the Atari 2600. The variety on offer […]
Long before Happy Death Day there was Happy Birthday to Me, a Canadian slasher released in 1981. The film is probably more known for its VHS box art than anything else, so it seems right that the next Blu-ray release of the film will be housed in VHS-style packaging. Mill Creek Entertainment has announced this […]