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Nestled at 7,800 feet above sea level in Estes Park, Colorado, The Stanley Hotel sits in the snowy mountains with an air of regality. This is where BruceFest, the definitive Bruce Campbell film festival, returned for its second year from Dec 1st-3rd. This time around, it featured the exciting addition of fellow horror icon Ted Raimi as co-host of honor. Tickets were sold as three-day passes for access to events in various buildings on the hotel grounds for a blend of immersive ARG, screenings, trivia, tabletop games and prop exhibits....

Music is intrinsically and irrevocably intertwined with cinema; it is never more vital than in horror. What builds mood, tension, and fear better than sound design and an unsettling score? This Gift Guide is for the music lover. More specifically, it’s for the horror fan that collects vinyl soundtracks, from recent releases to recently unearthed rarities and beyond. Here’s what you need this year… The Black Phone OST “The score for the film was created by composer Mark Korven, the mastermind behind The Witch, The Lighthouse, and Into the Tall Grass. Korven is a Toronto-based...

Nestled at 7,800 feet above sea level in Estes Park, Colorado, The Stanley Hotel sits in the snowy mountains with an air of regality. This is where BruceFest, the definitive Bruce Campbell film festival, returned for its second year from Dec 1st-3rd. This time around, it featured the exciting addition of fellow horror icon Ted Raimi as co-host of honor. Tickets were sold as three-day passes for access to events in various buildings on the hotel grounds for a blend of immersive ARG, screenings, trivia, tabletop games and prop exhibits....

Keanu Reeves has company in Night City, as the new gameplay trailer for the upcoming Phantom Liberty expansion for Cyberpunk 2077 reveals that Idris Elba will be joining the game as Solomon Reed, an FIA Agent for the NUSA. Set in a new area of Night City, Phantom Liberty will feature a new plot with a new cast of characters. Details on the expansion are still vague at the moment, but the story appears to involve V participating in a deal with the New United States of America. Set to...

HBO created the first adult animated series in 1997, but Spicy City, a dark cyberpunk anthology from Ralph Bakshi, has become a lost relic. Animation is one of the most versatile mediums of storytelling and over the past decade it’s been able to shake the restricting baggage that animated content is purely for younger audiences. Animated series for adults are among some of the best dramas and comedies on television, especially those that lean into the limitlessness of the medium. Animated series like Primal, Castlevania, and Love, Death + Robots...

It’s been an incredibly robust and busy year for horror, which also extends to its physical media releases. The good news is that shopping for the holidays is more manageable than ever. The bad news is that the sheer selection available can be overwhelming, to say the least. To help, here’s a Bloody Disgusting Gift Guide for some of the year’s best horror releases, from brand new 4K upgrades to must-have collector’s editions and beyond. All are packed with extras and special features to make the discs worth adding to...

It’s that time of year again. Tripwire Interactive have once again unleashed holiday horror in Killing Floor 2 with Polar Distress, the new free content pack that’s available today. The update boasts a new featured community map, weekly mode and weapons, as well as quality-of-life improvements. Runing from December 7 to January 10, Polar Distress brings a wealth of new Killing Floor 2 content for the holiday season. Crash is the new community Survival map, and  lets players loose on an icy compound, full of Zeds around each corner, and...

In an early present from Bloody Disgusting, History of the Occult, one of the most successful Latin horror films of all time, is now streaming on SCREAMBOX! From writer/director Cristian Ponce, History of the Occult was notably the highest-rated horror movie of 2021 on Letterboxd‘s Year in Review roundup, as rated by Letterboxd users. “History of the Occult pulls viewers deep into a world of conspiracy and witchcraft. In the Lovecraftian horror film, “Producers of the nightly show ’60 minutes to Midnight’ have been dutifully planning a riveting final broadcast, but even they could not...

It’s the first full week of December, and we’re kicking off the final month of the year with a handful of brand new horror movies – including three Christmas-themed holiday horrors. It’s that time of the year, after all… Here’s all the new horror releasing December 6 – December 11, 2022! First up, Cinedigm and Bloody Disgusting present Argentinian horror movie History of the Occult on SCREAMBOX today, which was notably the highest-rated horror movie of 2021 on Letterboxd‘s Year in Review roundup, as rated by Letterboxd users. From writer/director Cristian Ponce (creator...

Los Angeles-based Bloody Disgusting readers, clear your schedule this Wednesday for the World Premiere of Universal Pictures’ hotly anticipated sci-fi horror M3GAN! Bloody Disgusting has a limited number of tickets to this special event screening that takes place this coming Wednesday, December 7th, in Los Angeles at 7:30 PM.  Getting a pair of tickets is super easy: all you have to do is click here or fill out the below form. You’ll be contacted with both confirmation and the screening location. This is a rare opportunity to see one of...

In this edition of The Silver Lining, we’ll be tackling Mick Garris and Stephen King’s unfairly maligned Sleepwalkers! For every successful Stephen King adaptation, there are usually a handful of lesser projects lurking in its shadow. From Dreamcatcher to Lawnmower Man, the King of Horror actually has quite a few box-office bombs under his belt, with some fans justifying this by claiming that adaptations miss out on crucial inner monologues and emotional subtext. However, there is one Stephen King project that suggests that there might be more to the middling...

So, with Striking Distance Studios’ The Callisto Protocol now out in the wild (read Thomas’ review here), one of the qualms about the game for some is its lack of post-game content. Namely, where’s the New Game+? Even Dead Space had that. Luckily, the developers have the answer, which includes six months of content starting in the new year. Kicking off on February 7, players will be getting a free update for The Callisto Protocol that includes post-game content in the form of Hardcore Mode and New Game+. Not only...

After revealing a whack of character posters earlier this week for their upcoming adaptation of The Last of Us, HBO has unleashed the big one with the official trailer. Set to a-ha’s “Take On Me” (seriously), the new trailer sports almost entirely new footage, as well as recreating some iconic scenes from the first game. Co-written and executive produced by Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin and Naughty Dog vice president Neil Druckmann, the series will cover the events of the first game, twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed due...

For two seasons, “Los Espookys” followed the horror-tinged comedic hijinks of friends aiming to turn their love of horror into a profitable business. Despite its critical acclaim, Deadline reports today that the recently aired second season will be the series last. Created by Fred Armisen, Ana Fabrega, and Julio Torres (HBO comedy special “My Favorite Shapes”), “Los Espookys” debuted in 2019, with season two premiering in September 2022. The series followed “a group of friends who turn their shared passion for horror into a peculiar business, providing horror to clients who need it, in a dreamy Latin American...