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Viking Wolf, billed as Norway’s first werewolf movie, delivers as promised. This recent Netflix acquisition doesn’t mislead its audience; there is definitely a wild lycan on the loose in a small Norwegian town. However, Stig Svendsen’s movie doesn’t have the typical origin found in these kinds of stories; the werewolf myth here has been adapted to better fit its Scandinavian environment. The end result is a unique, if not flawed new addition to the pack. Despite its cheesy title, Viking Wolf (originally Vikingulven) is a serious movie. It takes the...

Bloody Disgusting has learned the sad news this afternoon that actor and stuntman George P. Wilbur has passed away at 81 years old. A member of the Hollywood Stuntmen’s Hall of Fame, George P. Wilbur is most known to horror fans for playing Michael Myers in both Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers and Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers. Wilbur is one of only a small handful of actors to play Michael Myers more than once. He was also a stunt player on Halloween 5: The Revenge...

Viking Wolf, billed as Norway’s first werewolf movie, delivers as promised. This recent Netflix acquisition doesn’t mislead its audience; there is definitely a wild lycan on the loose in a small Norwegian town. However, Stig Svendsen’s movie doesn’t have the typical origin found in these kinds of stories; the werewolf myth here has been adapted to better fit its Scandinavian environment. The end result is a unique, if not flawed new addition to the pack. Despite its cheesy title, Viking Wolf (originally Vikingulven) is a serious movie. It takes the...

It’s a new year, which means a new slate of holiday specials from horror host Joe Bob Briggs and “The Last Drive-in” on Shudder. Up first is the brand new Valentine’s Day Special, “Joe Bob’s Vicious Vegas Valentine.” What pairs better with matrimony than monsters? Joe Bob Briggs, Darcy the Mail Girl, and “The Last Drive-in” crew aim to deliver the biggest special yet by leaving behind the trailer part and taking the wedding capital of the world by storm. In addition to a horror double feature centered around “nasty love stories,”...

After wrapping up on SYFY and USA late last year, Don Mancini’s “Chucky” Season 2 is now coming home to Blu-ray. Season 2 hits DVD and Blu-ray on March 28, 2023. The physical media release will include Deleted Scenes. The even better news? “Chucky” Season 3 is on the way later this year! In “Chucky” Season 2… “Chucky is hellbent on exacting revenge against teens Jake, Devon and Lexy, as well as his ex Tiffany, after they successfully thwarted his murderous plot in Season One. While Jake and Devon encounter...

Fresh off Old and “Werewolf by Night,” Gael García Bernal will star alongside Nicole Kidman in a thriller titled Holland, Michigan from the director of Hulu’s Fresh, Mimi Cave. THR first reported the news this afternoon. Cave’s Holland, Michigan comes from Amazon Studios. The site’s report details, “The feature, based on Andrew Sodroski’s (Manhunt) script, topped the 2013 Black List, and involves secrets that lurk beneath a Midwestern town with a Hitchcock bent. Kidman will star and produce with Per Saari under her Blossom Films.” Peter Dealbert is producing, with Kate Churchill executive producing. Mimi Cave’s horror-comedy Fresh was...

Holy hell this year’s SXSW Film Festival (March 10-18, 2023) really isn’t messing around. The previous announcement unveiled a stacked horror lineup that includes headiners Evil Dead Rise and opener Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. In addition, they revealed several prominent horror titles that will premiere as part of the Midnighters program, including the Sundance hit Talk to Me and the surprise sequel to Becky, The Wrath of Becky. It turns out, the programming team isn’t finished! SXSW announced another wave of film programming today, including an eighth Midnighter. “Midnighters don’t need to...

Prime Video unveiled the first teaser trailer for “The Power,” an electrifying new thriller series starting Toni Collette (Hereditary) and John Leguizamo (Violent Night, The Menu). “The Power” is described as an “emotionally driven global thriller” based on British author Naomi Alderman’s award-winning novel of the same name.  The new teaser trailer below warns of an impending revolution thanks to a unique superpower that leaves teen girls with the ability to electrocute on a whim. Collette’s character opens with a plea to take this new development seriously, begging the question of how lethal will this phenomenon...

Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey will be available in 1,500 theaters nationwide starting on Wednesday, February 15 and running through Monday, February 23, and the team at Jagged Edge Productions is already teasing more blood and more honey in a sequel. Friends will gather… to take revenge… in Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2, a follow-up movie that’s listed as “coming soon” on the official teaser poster that debuted this week. Rhys Frake-Waterfield directed Blood and Honey for Jagged Edge Productions. In this version of the classic story,...

After just one season that aired late last year, Showtime has already made the decision to cancel the horror series “Let the Right One In,” Deadline is reporting this afternoon. Tomorrow Studios, Deadline notes, will be shopping the series to other platforms. In other words, “Let the Right One In” could eventually come back to life on another platform. Deadline adds to the story, “Paramount Global just announced that Showtime will be integrated into Paramount+ across both streaming and linear later this year.” “Let the Right One In” is a victim of this...

Cinedigm and Bloody Disgusting will be releasing Robbie Banfitch‘s The Outwaters in theaters beginning February 9, and Banfitch has shared a fresh trailer on Twitter this week. This is a nightmarish – and quite bloody! – trailer for The Outwaters that hadn’t previously been released by Banfitch, and you can gaze into the pitch black abyss down below. And remember. We all die in the dark. Get your tickets now. The Outwaters takes viewers off the beaten path and into their own nightmares… “The film plays out over three memory cards found in a...

Peacock has opted not to move forward with creators Julie Plec and Kevin Williamson’s planned adaptation of the comic book series “Dead Day,” exactly one year to the day after the streaming service announced the project.  Variety reports that despite the streamer’s straight-to-series order last January, Peacock is no longer moving forward with the adaptation. The outlet revealed that “the studio is planning to shop ‘Dead Day’ to other outlets. Peacock had bought the series preemptively, so this will mark the first time it has been shown to other buyers.” Based on the bestselling AfterShock comic-book series created by Ryan Parrott,...

2020’s Heaven Dust scratched that itch for those looking for some 90s-era Survival Horror gameplay when it was released for Steam and the Nintendo Switch. And now, thanks to Super Rare Games, One Gruel Studio and developer Indienova, those Switch gamers with a penchant for physical copies of their games will be able to snag Heaven Dust and its sequel in the Heaven Dust Collection. Pre-orders for the Heaven Dust Collection will go live on February 2nd, with only 4000 copies being produced. Each copy of the game will include...

Matt Reeves set the tone for Miracles, a supernatural and spiritual procedural series that’s full of the director’s trademark touches. “What’s the point of faith if it’s never tested?”“I’m beginning to think that we’re on our own down here…” Matt Reeves has comfortably made a name for himself as not only one of horror and science fiction’s biggest filmmakers, but he’s gone on to become the guiding force behind the latest iteration of the cinematic Batman universe. Reeves’ directorial career has been allowed to thrive the most in film, but...