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There’s something inherently unsettling about teeth, and the addition of someone prodding at them with sharp instruments is especially invasive. On the other side of that coin, the negative association with dentistry can impact the professionals. Cult filmmaker Brian Yuzna (Return of the Living Dead III, Society) tapped into these fundamental fears with his 1996 direct-to-video film, The Dentist, and its 1998 sequel, The Dentist 2. In fact, Yuzna knew he could sell the movie based on the title alone, so he solicited writers to pitch him on the concept....

Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse, The Northman) is directing a remake of the horror classic Nosferatu, and Deadline reports that Willem Dafoe is in talks to join the cast. Dafoe was of course recently directed by Eggers in The Lighthouse, and it’s worth noting that Dafoe actually played Max Schreck/Count Orlok in the 2000 film Shadow of the Vampire. Dafoe’s role in the Eggers remake, however, is unknown at this time. Bill Skarsgard and Lily-Rose Depp recently came on board the ship as well, with Robert Eggers planning to make Nosferatu as his next movie...

Out of all the popular Universal monsters, werewolves may have appeared the most often in ‘90s children’s literature. There was something about these hirsute creatures of the night that appealed to young readers back then. Through adult eyes, werewolves are a duality of man and beast, day and night, and good and evil. For kids, though, they’re simply scary monsters who might eat them. Couple that plain fear with morbid fascination, and werewolves are a perfect adversary for young people, as seen in this beastly edition of Buried in a...

Actor Lance Kerwin, best known to horror fans for playing Mark Petrie in Tobe Hooper’s Salem’s Lot (1979), has passed away at just 62 years old, Variety reports this afternoon. “An autopsy to determine the cause of death is being conducted, according to his daughter Savanah,” Variety reports. Lance Kerwin was born on November 6, 1960 in Newport Beach, California, and he began his career as a prolific child actor in the early-mid 1970s. It was just a few years after his on-screen debut in the TV series “Emergency!” that...

After Capcom’s Devil May Cry hit the scene with its stylish action and cool-as-hell protagonist, fans were hungry for more from Dante and company. To say that the sequel didn’t exactly live up to expectations was an understatement. Gone were Trish and Dante’s iconic one-liners and attitude, and in their place we had Lucia and a Dante that was more concerned with coin flips than cracking smart. In the years since the release of Devil May Cry 2, Capcom, much like the fans, has acted as if the first sequel...

Fans of Battle Royale are going to lose their heads over Signal 100, the latest splatterfest from Japan that’s now spilling blood all over SCREAMBOX! Directed by Lisa Takeba (The Pinkie), we also are excited to share the trailer for Signal 100, which harkens back to the days of horror boundary-pushing features like Battle Royale and Black Rat. In the SCREAMBOX Exclusive… “A group of high school students are forced into an assignment where they are hypnotized and will commit suicide on an unknown command in Signal 100. The film,...

This entire month has been loaded with fresh new nightmares, and we’re not slowing down in the final full week of January 2023. We’re getting EIGHT MORE new releases this week alone! Here’s all the new horror releasing January 24-January 27, 2023… For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar. First up, Universal and Blumhouse’s theatrical horror hit M3GAN is now available at home, the fan favorite film surprise-released for PVOD rental and/or purchase this morning. M3GAN is a marvel of artificial intelligence, a life-like doll programmed to...

Tommy Wirkola‘s action-thriller Violent Night is now available on Digital and Peacock, and The Wrap reports today that Violent Night 2 is officially coming down the chimney! “We’re talking about it and we’re just making deals and getting everything in order,” Wirkola tells the outlet. “We have time to really crack the script and figure out the story.” Wirkola notes that Pat Casey and Josh Miller will be back to write Violent Night 2. He tells The Wrap, “And we have some ideas, me and Pat and Josh and the producers,...

Do you believe in life after death? Do you believe spirits can communicate with the living? Welcome back to DEAD Time. I hope you left a light on for me. In a previous installment of DEAD Time, I shared my experiences at the haunted St. Albans Sanitorium in Radford, Virginia. During my time at St. Albans, I gave paranormal tours, worked at the haunted attraction every Halloween, and conducted paranormal investigations in my free time. During these investigations, I made numerous recordings using a simple digital recorder. I would sit...

Squelching sounds radiate over a dark screen as we fade in on a humanoid creature chowing down on a victim’s throat. After pulling away and exposing an inhumanly long tongue, the creature begins to gag, vomiting up a small black bird. So begins Kenneth Dagatan‘s In My Mother’s Skin, a horror fairy tale that will undoubtedly draw comparisons to Guillermo del Toro’s 2006 masterpiece Pan’s Labyrinth, but has a much more sinister side in store for audiences who are willing to sit through its more deliberately paced plot machinations. Set in...

Revealed this past Summer Game Fest in June, Fallen Leaf and Black Drakkar Games have found a publisher in Dear Villagers for their upcoming third-person sci-fi thriller Fort Solis. Not only that, Fort Solis will be hitting Steam this Summer. Featuring the talents of Troy Baker (The Last of Us, Death Stranding) and Julia Brown (The Last Kingdom, World on Fire), Fort Solis has you assume the role of engineer Jack Leary, as he spends the longest night of his life on an isolated mining base on Mars. After responding...

The horror genre has always been an excellent vehicle for metaphors for grief and trauma. After all, what better genre is there to take our emotional monsters and make them literal? We’ve seen a rise in these types of films over the past decade, with particular standouts being films like The Babadook (review), Hereditary (review) and Relic (review). Daina Reid‘s Run Rabbit Run is the latest addition to this sub-genre but, despite a committed lead performance from Sarah Snook (HBO’s Succession), it succumbs to predictable genre tropes and offers a severe lack of narrative...

The nominees for the 34th Annual GLAAD Media Awards were announced this week, with the annual awards honoring media for “fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of LGBTQ people and issues.” Of note here in the world of horror, Don Mancini‘s “Chucky” series, the second season of SYFY and USA’s hit series, has been nominated this year. “Chucky,” which aired on SYFY and USA last year – a third season is on the way this year! – has been nominated for “Outstanding Drama Series” at this year’s GLAAD Media Awards! Additionally, Nope, Scream...

The last time Jason Voorhees slashed onto the screen, Barack Obama had just taken office as president, Michael Jackson was still alive, and Scream was only a trilogy. While we await the “Crystal Lake” prequel series from Peacock, I was fortunate enough to experience the first six Friday the 13th movies back-to-back on the big screen at the Coolidge Corner Theatre’s Friday the 13th Murder-thon in Brookline, MA on January 13. The event was similar to last year’s A Nightmare on Elm Street all-night marathon. This time, however, only half...