Horror News

Julius Avery, the director of 2018’s Overlord, is heading back into the horror genre with The Pope’s Exorcist, with Russell Crowe starring as real life exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth. The film is now in production. Check out your first look above and expect more soon. From Sony’s Screen Gems, The Pope’s Exorcist is based on real-life exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth, “the legendary Italian priest who performed over 100,000 exorcisms for the Vatican.” Alex Essoe (Doctor Sleep) and Daniel Zovatto (It Follows) will also star. Evan Spiliotopoulos wrote the current draft with revisions by Chuck MacLean, based on Michael Petroni-revised original drafts...

If you think you have what it takes to survive Saw, then we have great news for you: tickets are now available for Saw: The Experience. In partnership with Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures, experiential production company The Path Entertainment Group is offering SAW: The Experience, a brand-new, immersive, multi-room escape experience heading to a secret location in London this fall. Tickets for the experience are now available at www.sawtheexperience.com. SAW: The Experience “will be an adrenaline-fuelled, theatrical experience bringing to life new twisted games in the world of the iconic horror film franchise. Combining the thrill of escape...

In 2020, Warner Bros. bumped the brand new animated film Scoob! from theatrical release and released it digitally instead. Now their Christmas-themed follow up, Scoob!: Holiday Haunt, seems destined for a similar path. THR reports that a change in leadership at the studio has led to a few surprising shakeups in their HBO Max release slate, which includes the shelving of the $40 million animated film Scoob!: Holiday Haunt, along with DC’s Batgirl. The HBO Max-exclusive holiday film would’ve followed the young version of the Mystery Incorporated gang. The plot synopsis: “To...

After an almost three-year hiatus from live performances due to the ongoing pandemic, Bloody Disgusting has learned that Scripts Gone Wild returns to El Cid on Sunset on August 24th at 7pm with a reading of the Stephen King horror classic, Creepshow (1982)! Once referred to as “LA’s best kept secret”, Scripts Gone Wild had been performing virtual reads throughout the pandemic before taking time to regroup and finalize its 501(c)3 non-profit status. CREEPSHOW is the first in a new series of quarterly performances at El Cid, each one benefiting...

Esther is back in brand new Orphan prequel movie Orphan: First Kill, and you’ll be able to see it in select theaters, buy it on Digital, and stream it on Paramount+ on August 19! Reunite with Esther by checking out a new official poster below. Isabelle Fuhrman is reprising the role of Esther thanks to clever production trickery, and William Brent Bell (The Boy, Separation) stepped into the director’s chair for First Kill. “Esther’s terrifying saga continues in this thrilling prequel to the original and shocking horror hit, Orphan. After orchestrating a brilliant escape from an Estonian psychiatric...

Esther is back in brand new Orphan prequel movie Orphan: First Kill, and you’ll be able to see it in select theaters, buy it on Digital, and stream it on Paramount+ on August 19! Reunite with Esther by checking out a new official poster below. Isabelle Fuhrman is reprising the role of Esther thanks to clever production trickery, and William Brent Bell (The Boy, Separation) stepped into the director’s chair for First Kill. “Esther’s terrifying saga continues in this thrilling prequel to the original and shocking horror hit, Orphan. After orchestrating a brilliant escape from an Estonian psychiatric...

Dario Argento’s latest film Dark Glasses finds the Master of Horror back on (somewhat) solid ground. While Dark Glasses has several classic Giallo elements, in reality, the Italian director has unexpectedly delivered a throwback to the “disabled woman in peril” subgenre that was popular back in the 80s and 90s. Dark Glasses begins in traditional Argento fashion. After our protagonist Diana (Ilenia Pastorelli) drives around Rome before temporarily blinding herself by looking at an eclipse, the action cuts to a female sex worker finishing up with a client, leaving his hotel,...

Bad news for those waiting for the follow-up to 2018’s Tomb Raider film. Not only has MGM lost the film rights, but star Alicia Vikander, who played Lara Croft in the 2018 film, is no longer attached to the project. Per a report by The Wrap, MGM had until May of this year to get a Tomb Raider sequel off the ground, and that obviously never happened. As a result, the film rights have now reverted back to video game series developer Crystal Dynamics, with the rights reportedly now in...

Dario Argento’s latest film Dark Glasses finds the Master of Horror back on (somewhat) solid ground. While Dark Glasses has several classic Giallo elements, in reality, the Italian director has unexpectedly delivered a throwback to the “disabled woman in peril” subgenre that was popular back in the 80s and 90s. Dark Glasses begins in traditional Argento fashion. After our protagonist Diana (Ilenia Pastorelli) drives around Rome before temporarily blinding herself by looking at an eclipse, the action cuts to a female sex worker finishing up with a client, leaving his hotel,...

In the final moments of I Blame Society, Gillian Wallace Horvat goes absolutely apeshift on a couple of film bros. “I am a strong female lead,” she grunts as she wields a blade across the throat of Producer #2. Blood spurts and covers the walls. The screen is coated in thick red plasma, leaving the film title seeping through. That solitary line punctures the graphic violence with sardonic humor, circling back to an earlier conversation when the same film bros eviscerated Gillian’s latest script for not having a compelling enough...

For the first time, the beloved original motion picture soundtrack to 1988’s horror-comedy classic Killers Klowns from Outer Space is now available on vinyl from Waxwork Records! The original score to Killer Klowns From Outer Space is kicked off by the classic 80’s horror movie theme track, Killer Klowns (From Outer Space) by California punk band, The Dickies. The ‘nightmare merry-go-round’ continues with a smattering of menacing electronic brass sections, electric guitar, bombastic drum machine beats, & harpsichord combined with sci-fi synth elements to capture the ultra-specific origins of the antagonists. John Massari‘s score to...

It’s been a very long wait for season two of the critically acclaimed HBO series “Los Espookys,” but that wait is finally almost over. A brand new trailer released today gives us a look at the upcoming horror hijinks along with a release date. Created by Fred Armisen, Ana Fabrega and Julio Torres (HBO comedy special “My Favorite Shapes”), season two of the bilingual, six-episode HBO Original comedy series “Los Espookys” premieres on September 16 on HBO and HBO Max. The series follows “a group of friends who turn their shared...

I love the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, wildly inconsistent as it may be, but I was too young to see any of the originals in theaters. I finally got to experience them the way they were meant to be seen when the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, MA hosted Don’t Fall Asleep: A Nightmare on Elm Street Marathon, an aptly named event featuring all seven films back-to-back from midnight to noon. Sure, I’ve watched them all countless times, and I’m too old for an all-nighter, but the allure of...

There’s no discussing film history without bringing up Stop-Motion Animation. After all, isn’t simulating movement through a succession of incrementally different images a primitive form of stop-motion in and of itself? That’s why this laborious form of animation has existed since the early days of cinema, serving as a creative tool for pioneer filmmakers and eventually growing into its own animated niche. Despite its reputation as a vehicle for raisin-based advertising and nostalgic holiday specials, hardcore fans know that stop-motion isn’t always as cheerful as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer or...