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When I was in high school, one of my first jobs was working at a big chain video store. While it was fun to be around movies and movie fans all day, it did have all the pitfalls of any public facing customer service job. Weird customers, understaffing, and repetitive work were all par for the course, but the worst part was the eerie feeling that would sometimes creep over you as you were closing. There’s something about the liminal time where the store is no longer open, but you’ve...

Two years after its initial launch, Cold Iron Studios and Focus Entertainment have announced that they’ll be bringing Aliens: Fireteam Elite to the Nintendo Switch. And seeing as Alien Day isn’t too far away, it makes sense that the Switch version comes out on April 26th. The Switch version of Fireteam Elite will be cloud based, similar to how Remedy handled the Switch version of Control. The Switch version will also be crossplay compatible with the previously-released PC and console versions. Pre-orders for the Switch version of Aliens: Fireteam Elite...

A new creature feature from New Zealand filmmaker Scott Walker (The Frozen Ground), The Tank is coming to select theaters on April 21 followed by a Digital release on April 25. Set in the 1970s, The Tank is a story about a young family who awakens a horde of creatures. Academy Award-winning special effects supervisor and creative director Richard Taylor and his team at Peter Jackson’s VFX studio Weta Workshop created the creature effects! Bloody Disgusting has been told that one of the themes throughout the film is the clash between masculine and feminine values. This led...

After more than three decades, Frank Henenlotter’s putrid parable for drug addiction hits harder than ever with tons of self-aware bite. “Splatstick” is an exaggerated horror subgenre that explores grotesque gore that’s so over the top that it begins to border on the point of comedy. Sam Raimi, Peter Jackson, and even more contemporary voices in horror like Sion Sono or Terrifier’s Damien Leone are names that are often associated with this bold, bloody genre. Frank Henenlotter is a pivotal name in splatstick low-budget indie horror whose work often goes...

Vanessa Hudgens is taking a trip to Salem, Massachusetts with Dead Hot, an unscripted feature film that’s coming exclusively to free service Tubi on Friday, April 14, 2023. The documentary film has been described as “The Craft meets The Simple Life.” Guided by a roster of well-respected local experts in witchcraft, Vanessa Hudgens and friend GG Magree’s quest for deeper understanding of the supernatural results in unexpected personal revelations, including a more profound discovery of self identity, newfound self love, empowerment and sisterhood.  Tubi previews, “Debuting at a time when witchcraft is undergoing a...

Max (formerly HBO Max) has provided us with a first-look teaser trailer for “The Penguin,” a spinoff of the hit movie The Batman that will star Colin Farrell as the DC villain. Watch the official in-production teaser for “Penguin” below. Cristin Milioti (Palm Springs) will be playing female lead Sofia Falcone, the daughter of Carmine Falcone. John Turturro played the role of Carmine Falcone in The Batman. In the series, “Sofia is fighting with The Penguin (Colin Farrell) for control of the city.” Craig Zobel (The Hunt) will be directing the first two episodes....

It won’t be much longer for Deep Silver and Dambuster Studios’ Dead Island 2. After giving us a taste of the opening cinematic a few weeks back, the first 11 minutes of gameplay for Dead Island 2 have been revealed in a new video, courtesy of IGN. This particular gameplay video centres on Ryan, one of the three Slayers you’ll be able to play as in Dead Island 2. After surviving a plane crash (and doing a little emergency surgery), the footage sees you navigating the wreckage, eventually meeting up...

In the wake of Scream and Scream VI, the filmmaking team known as Radio Silence (V/H/S, Southbound, Scream) has set up their next project, and it’ll keep them in the horror genre. Deadline reports that Radio Silence will next be directing an “Untitled Monster Thriller” for Universal, and it sounds like the mysterious film will be playing with classic characters. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett will direct with Chad Villella serving as producer alongside William Sherak, Paul Neinstein and James Vanderbilt at Project X Entertainment. The script was written by Stephen...

“Nightmare comedy” is the perfect phrase to describe Ari Aster’s Beau is Afraid, a darkly funny Kafkaesque odyssey that defies easy categorization. The writer and director of Hereditary and Midsommar is back with yet another emotionally complex saga, this one his most ambitious yet. The visionary combs his literary and cinematic influences, infusing them into a surreal, emotionally tumultuous journey that’ll prove divisive for its cryptic, unhurried storytelling. Beau Wassermann (Joaquin Phoenix) lives with constant unrelenting anxiety smack in the middle of a chaotic city. His ramshackle apartment with thin walls and unkind neighbors seems peaceful...

Announced this afternoon, “American Horror Story 12” is on the way later this year, and Kim Kardashian and Emma Roberts are set to headline the brand new twelfth season. “American Horror Story” Season 12 will premiere in Summer 2023. Watch the first teaser below, which cryptically notes that “Emma Roberts and Kim Kardashian are delicate.” For now, that’s the only clue we have in regards to the season’s theme. The teaser is also set to a creepy rendition of the Rock-a-bye Baby nursery rhyme, which could be another clue. A...

With Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened arriving later this week, Frogwares has released the game’s launch trailer, which as you might expect, contains plenty of Lovecraft vibes to get Cthulhu fans excited. Touted as a “full remake and substantial rewrite” of their 2006 title, Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened pits the titular Holmes and his faithful sidekick Dr. Watson against a nefarious cult that worships the eldritch god Cthulhu, and are attempting to bring about an ancient prophecy. What seems like a straightforward case of a missing person quickly spirals into a...

Video games may be filled with mutant enemies and extraterrestrial terrors, but there’s something to be said about games that rely on existing creatures to scare unwitting players. While real world animals might seem tame compared to the imagined beasts of fiction, an evening watching Animal Planet will likely convince you that there’s nothing scarier than a real predator that has decided to make you its next meal. And with so many ravenous creatures to choose from, we’ve decided to come up with a list celebrating six of the scariest...

The slasher and the actioner seem like two disparate types of movies, however, both often feature a high degree of suspense, lengthy chases, and a lot of death. A slasher villain will hunt down hapless victims, whereas an action hero may go after one enemy or a whole group of them. Grisly kills and an assortment of weapons are also to be expected. Now, there are some action movies that infuse more slasher elements than others. Classics like The Terminator and Predator are unmistakably modeled after slashers, but they’re not the only ones....

Writer/Director Peter Hengl’s feature debut, Family Dinner, mines the discomfort and cringe of awkward family dynamics at the dinner table to deliver memorable holiday horror. In this instance, the holiday is Easter, a rarity in the genre space.  Just in time for Easter, SCREAMBOX Exclusive Family Dinner will be served on April 7. The Austrian horror film follows an overweight teen to her aunt’s farm before the Easter holiday, hoping to lose weight, only to discover something deeply wrong. Ahead of the release, Bloody Disgusting spoke with Hengl about Family Dinner. The filmmaker discussed its origins,...