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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,...

While we wait for Universal Pictures’ horror-comedy Renfield to sink its fangs into the big screen on April 14 – tickets are on sale now –  Bloody Disgusting has learned that Aptos Labs, Forward Studio, and Signal and Cipher are bringing blockchain to the movies with the launch of Free Renfield, an interactive web-based game that could nab you some killer prizes – including a vintage 1967 Dracula pinball machine! Free Renfield, developed in partnership with Universal, is free to play, accessible on mobile and desktop devices and runs from now until...

The very premise and violent nature of the Elizabeth Banks-directed horror-comedy Cocaine Bear screams “maximum.” But it’s about to get much more unbearably over-the-top with a new Cocaine Bear Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital “Maximum Rampage Edition” home release. The “Maximum Rampage Edition” comes loaded with behind-the-scenes extras, including an alternate ending, deleted scenes, and gag reel, and will be yours to own on Digital April 14, 2023, and Blu-ray™ and DVD April 18, 2023, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. The movie is inspired by true events that took place in Kentucky in 1985, and it was...

Jason Eisener Is Back! The filmmaker behind cult classics “Treevenge” and Hobo with a Shotgun, not to mention Vice TV’s hit “Dark Side of the Ring”, has turned his V/H/S/2 segment into the full-blown traditional feature Kids vs. Aliens, on DVD and Blu-ray on April 18, 2023. We have (3) copies of the Blu-ray for some lucky readers to enter and win. All you have to do is fill out the below form and we’ll choose three winners are random. No PO Boxes and U.S. entries only, please. Kids vs. Aliens, which delivers all of the charm,...

The following contains major spoilers for Last Shift (2014) and Malum (2023). Nothing divides the horror community like a remake. For decades fans have debated the merits of cinematic retellings of our most beloved horror films with strong arguments on either side of the equation. The trend exploded in the early 2000s with Platinum Dunes leading the charge to remake or reboot nearly every iconic title available. Recent years have seen the rise of legacy sequels; a curious hybrid that simultaneously continues the original story and (hopefully) takes the franchise...

Prepare to survive five nights this Halloween. Universal Pictures will release Blumhouse’s Five Nights at Freddy’s in theaters on Friday, October 27, 2023.  The film will also premiere day-and-date with theatrical on Peacock! The film follows “a troubled security guard as he begins working at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. While spending his first night on the job, he realizes the night shift at Freddy’s won’t be so easy to make it through.” Five Nights at Freddy’s is directed by Emma Tammi (The Wind, Blood Moon) and is written by Scott Cawthon, Emma Tammi and Seth Cuddeback....

In the wake of the Academy Awards, the MTV Movie & TV Awards 2023 are set to return this coming May, and Drew Barrymore has been announced as the host of the show. The awards ceremony will air live on Sunday, May 7 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. The full list of nominees has been announced this morning, and various horror films including Scream VI, Smile, Nope, and M3GAN are up for awards, alongside genre shows including “Stranger Things,” “Wednesday,” “The Last of Us” and “Yellowjackets.” In fact, horror projects are nominated in...

Dubbed a “gnarly crowd pleaser” that “forges bloody new ground for the franchise” in Meagan Navarro’s review here on Bloody Disgusting, I personally cannot wait to see Evil Dead Rise, which will be unleashed in just a few more weeks. While we wait, a fan-made trailer that went up onto YouTube this week reimagines the film’s trailer in the iconic LEGO style. From the YouTube channel LMS (short for Lego Stop Motion), the fun video is a faithful recreation of the bloody Red Band trailer for Evil Dead Rise. LEGO...

Coming soon from filmmaker Douglas Schulze (The Dark Below, Hellmaster, Mimesis), Thorns immediately caught our attention last year, and Fangoria now shares some fresh imagery. Schulze tells Fangoria, “The intention was to make a ‘monster’ movie as a kind of homage to the great horror cinema of the ’70s and ’80s. John Carpenter’s The Thing, Ridley Scott’s Alien, William Friedkin’s The Exorcist and, of course, Clive Barker’s Hellraiser were all inspiring.” On that note, horror icon Doug Bradley (Hellraiser) makes an appearance in Thorns, and these new images give us our first look at Bradley’s character, a “mysterious archbishop.” In Thorns, “An ex-priest...

A new feature! With Now Showing, your Halloweenies and special guests will gather each month for a roundtable review on something new and something old in horror. To kick it off, co-hosts Justin Gerber and Dan Caffrey are joined by Jenn Adams of The Losers’ Club. Together, they discuss M3GAN, Skinamarink, Cocaine Bear, Cruising, Spiral: From the Book of Saw, and Popcorn. Stream the episode below or subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, RadioPublic, Acast, Google Podcasts, and RSS. New to the Halloweenies? Catch up with the gang by revisiting...

Chris Redfield actor Charlie Kraslavsky is certainly putting his fame with Resident Evil fans to good use. While still collaborating with director Andrew Saullo for Saullo’s upcoming short The Keeper’s Diary, Kraslavsky has now been revealed to be teaming up with filmmaker Shaun Meyer on his film noir webseries CARRIER: A Raccoon City Story. Thanks once again to Biohazard Declassified, Kraslavsky will be starring as Raccoon City Mayor Michael Warren in the next episode of CARRIER, which is expected to drop later this month. Details are still to come regarding...

After the release of “Legacy of the Moonspell” back in December, developer poncle has announced another DLC for Vampire Survivors in “Tides of the Foscari”. The new fantasy-themed DLC will arrive on PC and consoles on April 13th for the low price of $1.99 USD. This of course comes on the heels of Vampire Survivors bringing home BAFTA Game Awards for Best Design and Best Game. The story for the DLC concerns Foscari Academy, a school where the elite of the world train their children for careers as powerful wizards,...