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James Wan has passed the baton to Michael Chaves (The Curse of La Llorona) for The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, coming to theaters and HBO Max on June 4, 2021. Much like the previous two The Conjuring movies, we’ve learned tonight that The Conjuring 3 has received an “R” rating from the MPA. The WB/New Line film is rated “R” for…. “Terror, Violence, and some disturbing images.” “The Devil Made Me Do It reveals a chilling story of terror, murder and unknown evil that shocked even experienced real-life paranormal investigators Ed and...

A few years back, “Zombie Skittles” hit store shelves for Halloween, with candies tasting like “rotten zombie” randomly mixed into each bag. In other words, you didn’t know if you were about to taste the rainbow or, well, human flesh… until it was too late. A similar gimmick is being put to use this coming Halloween season with “Skittles Shriekers,” we’ve learned. Once again, the spooky-themed bags of candy will be filled with both normal-tasting Skittles and unpleasant variants that are randomly inserted, in this case *super sour* Skittles. The...

With Honeydew now on all VOD platforms, the next Bloody Disgusting x Dark Star Pictures collaboration is going full-blown weird and is guaranteed to deliver gross-out mayhem when Dementia Part II arrives in theaters on May 21, 2021, and on VOD, Digital HD and DVD on June 1st. Taken from the pages of Sam Raimi, and delivering absurd gross-out humor and nonstop mayhem, the making of Dementia Part II came out of a dare from Chicago’s Cinepocalype Film Festival and the movie’s producers JD Lifshitz and Raphael Margules. The two must produce a...

For years, the bug-eyed, giant animatronic characters of Five Nights at Freddy’s (also known by the acronym, FNAF) have been terrorizing children and adults alike. Since debuting in 2014, the series’ unique first-person perspective survival-horror experience has spawned a myriad of sequels and spin-offs, significantly influencing the horror genre in both gaming, and even in film: Blumhouse officially announced a Five Nights at Freddy’s movie to be released in the near future. With an expansive and somewhat loose lore, a significant appeal of the series has been the opportunity for...

So, remember last year how someone leaked footage of a standalone multiplayer mode for The Last of Us Part II, not to mention that we were all expecting some sort of DLC for Naughty Dog’s hit sequel? Well apparently, that’s not going to happen for the time being. According to Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier, Naughty Dog currently has “no plans” to pursue any additional DLC content for the game. Speaking on the MinnMax Show, Schreier states that when it came to the topic of DLC, he believes that “at one...

Those Fallout 4 modders are at it again. Well actually, they may be closet Fallout 4 fans, but are really Resident Evil Village fans at heart. Whatever the case, modder Vtaw has managed to appease both fans by creating a mod that brings everyone’s towering vampire, Village‘s Lady Dimitrescu, into Fallout 4 for the PC. Well, more accurately, the mod brings an outfit based on Lady Dimitrescu, with the main file of this mod coming with pre-made meshes that look as close as possible to Lady Dimitrescu. You’ll be able...

After a brutal legal battle, Fear Factory is finally set to release their first album in five years, Aggression Continuum, which will arrive June 18th via Nuclear Blast just in time for the band’s 30th anniversary. Aggression Continuum is also the final to feature Burton C. Bell, who announced his exit last September. The band is currently on the hunt for a new singer. Focusing on the positive, the band shared “Disruptor”, the first single off Aggression Continuum, which is accompanied by the following action-packed and ultra-violent dystopian music video directed...

The movie isn’t actually releasing until November 11 but it looks like Summer 2021 is going to be the Summer of Ghostbusters anyway, with all kinds of toys and tie-in products on the way. Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife, a sequel to the original classics, is even getting its own cereal from General Mills, and it has already started popping up on shelves this month! The art features the iconic Ghostbusters logo on a black box, along with a trio of Mini-Pufts playing around. As for the cereal itself, it’s red,...

We’ve learned the sad news tonight that Felix Silla, an actor and stuntman best known for playing Cousin Itt on “The Addams Family,” has passed away today at the age of 84. Silla died Friday after a battle with pancreatic cancer, THR reports. Felix Silla played Cousin Itt in multiple episodes of the original “Addams Family” live-action series between 1965 and 1966, subsequently appearing in several popular shows including “H.R. Pufnstuf,” “Bewitched,” “Night Gallery,” “Lidsville,” “Battlestar Galactica,” “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century,” “The Dukes of Hazzard,” and “Star Trek:...

With the release just one week away, we’ve got a new clip from Warner Bros./New Line’s Mortal Kombat today, pitting two of the gaming franchise’s top icons against each other. Joe Taslim is Sub-Zero and Hiroyuki Sanada is Scorpion in Mortal Kombat, releasing in theaters and on HBO Max on August 23, and this new clip gives us a better look at their battle in an icy arena that has been teased in various trailers for the film. Sub-Zero’s powers are on full display here, at one point creating an...

Friday the 13th kicked open the door and several other major franchises have been in flux thanks to an opening that allows the film’s original screenwriters to exploit copyright law’s termination provision. The latest to enter the fray is that of the original Predator, with The Hollywood Reporter writing, “Jim and John Thomas, the brothers who wrote the 1987 action film, have filed a lawsuit seeking confirmation of successfully recapturing rights to the franchise. In California federal court, the two say that Disney — which now owns 20th Century Fox...

Jaroslav Kalfař’s 2017 novel Spaceman of Bohemia is getting a feature film adaptation from Netflix, and The Wrap reports that Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman) has signed on. Adam Sandler is also starring in the film, set to be directed by Johan Renck (“Chernobyl”). The Wrap details, “The film stars Sandler as an astronaut sent to the edges of the galaxy to collect an ancient, mysterious dust. But as life on Earth begins to crumble, he turns to a creature from the beginning of time that is lurking aboard his ship...

Vermintide 2 fans won’t have to wait very long for the next DLC, as Fatshark has dropped a few new hints on the upcoming free DLC in “Chaos Wastes” that lands April 20th on Steam. The new update will add a “rogue-lite inspired” game mode, which will no doubt please those players looking for more challenge. The new mode will not only test your mettle in the challenge department, but also feature a rotating series of maps (15 unique areas in all), meaning that your strategies will constantly need to...

Some bonds are stronger than blood. Earlier this year, Arrow Films acquired the possession road movie Threshold for release in various territories, which was shot with two iPhones over the course of a 12-day road trip with a crew of three, and largely improvised by the lead actors. Fangoria brings us the word today that the film is coming to ARROW on May 3, and they’ve also debuted the official trailer. “The film tells the story of a pair of siblings embarking on a voyage of new discovery. After joining...