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Axes, machetes and chainsaws – oh my! certain objects will forever be associated with the horror genre despite having completely normal uses in real life. This makes sense, as years of genre cinema have conditioned us to expect bloody carnage whenever a kitchen knife shows up in a scary movie. However, some filmmakers like to think outside the box when coming up with creative kills, forgoing the traditional tools of the trade and providing horror fans with memorable and often unexpected murders. While there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a classic...

It’s been a long time since writer/director Henry Selick has graced audiences with a spooky, stop-motion animated feature. More precisely, it’s been almost thirty years since he helmed the beloved classic The Nightmare Before Christmas. It’s been thirteen years since his last effort, Coraline, a gateway horror movie for many. Selick finally makes his long-awaited return with Wendell & Wild, a collaboration with Jordan Peele that matches the revelry and family spirit of Nightmare but with an edgier and darker style. The story, co-written with Peele, opens with a tragic sequence that leaves our protagonist Kat Elliot (Lyric Ross)...

The rollarcoaster of Firaxis’ Marvel’s Midnight Suns continues. After another announced delay last month, Firaxis and publisher 2K Games have announced at the D23Expo that the game will arrive December 2 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, while the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch versions will arrive at a later date. The announcement was accompanied by a new gameplay trailer that “showcases the full breadth of what players can do in Marvel’s Midnight Suns.” As a new and customizable Marvel...

Writer/Director Jalmari Helander delivered a delightfully wicked twist to Santa Claus in 2010’s genre-bender Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale. Helander’s latest, Sisu, sees the filmmaker reteaming with some familiar Rare Exports faces for another crowd-pleasing genre-bender, this time an R-rated journey through Lapland near the end of World War II. The period action adventure goes hard on hyper-violence and has a sense of humor to match. Jorma Tommila (Rare Exports) stars as Aatami, a former soldier turned solitary miner living out in the wilderness with his loyal dog and horse. When Aatami uncovers an impressive...

Writer/Director Jalmari Helander delivered a delightfully wicked twist to Santa Claus in 2010’s genre-bender Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale. Helander’s latest, Sisu, sees the filmmaker reteaming with some familiar Rare Exports faces for another crowd-pleasing genre-bender, this time an R-rated journey through Lapland near the end of World War II. The period action adventure goes hard on hyper-violence and has a sense of humor to match. Jorma Tommila (Rare Exports) stars as Aatami, a former soldier turned solitary miner living out in the wilderness with his loyal dog and horse. When Aatami uncovers an impressive...

Writer/Director Jalmari Helander delivered a delightfully wicked twist to Santa Claus in 2010’s genre-bender Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale. Helander’s latest, Sisu, sees the filmmaker reteaming with some familiar Rare Exports faces for another crowd-pleasing genre-bender, this time an R-rated journey through Lapland near the end of World War II. The period action adventure goes hard on hyper-violence and has a sense of humor to match. Jorma Tommila (Rare Exports) stars as Aatami, a former soldier turned solitary miner living out in the wilderness with his loyal dog and horse. When Aatami uncovers an impressive...

I grew up in a predominantly Christian community in rural West Virginia. Not a day went by that I wasn’t told I was going to burn in hell for all of eternity. I devoured the preacher’s sermon on Sunday morning, attentively completed sailor’s logs for the Patch the Pirate Club, and spent my weeks obsessed with contemporary Christian bands like Mercy Me and Newsboys. I had been indoctrinated against my will and never knew it. I was so radicalized that I became addicted with end-times prophecy, cowering in fear that...

Brad Anderson (Session 9, The Machinist) is back with psychological horror movie Blood, and Deadline reports today that Vertical Entertainment has scooped up North American rights. Deadline notes in their report, “While the feature will be released to both theaters and digital platforms, a release date has not yet been disclosed.” Michelle Monaghan (“True Detective”) stars alongside Skeet Ulrich (Scream), Finlay Wojtak-Hissong, Rodrigo Beilfuss, Erik Athavale, June B. Wilde, and Skylar Morgan Jones. “The film follows Jess (Michelle Monaghan), a nurse and mother recently separated from her husband (Skeet Ulrich), who moves with her...

AMC’s “Interview with the Vampire” brings the classic Anne Rice novel to the small screen this coming Halloween season, the series set to premiere on AMC on October 2, 2022. The first two episodes will be available on AMC+ that same night. The series is said to be an “modern, unforgettable retelling of Anne Rice’s best-selling novel,” and you can sink your teeth into a brand new trailer from AMC down below. Rolin Jones (“Friday Night Lights”) is creating, showrunning, and writing the series. The series is an adaptation of Anne Rice’s iconic gothic horror novel,...

It’s wild that the demonic nun known as Valak has become such a horror icon, starring in her own movie back in 2018 with a sequel on the way, because the character almost didn’t even make it into The Conjuring 2. As James Wan has noted in the past, Valak was actually a final hour replacement for a totally different demon. A demon we have new footage of this week. Over on Instagram this afternoon, James Wan has shared some on-set video footage of the original demon for the very first time,...

The “guy in a gorilla suit” is synonymous with cheap genre film quickies. If you had a budget of pocket lint and pennies, you could knock out a low rent schlockfest where your monster was some variant of an ape in no time flat. Hell, John Landis did just that in the early 1970s with his film, Schlock. The ape as a monster/antagonist/friend/hero has one hell of a cinematic legacy. Nowadays the Sharksploitation flick is the subgenre that gets all the attention for how outrageously endless it is. But apes...

There’s no better way to kick off Halloween season than with Universal Orlando’s always epic Halloween Horror Nights, which opened this past Thursday jam-packed with several new houses and scare zones infested with bugs, cursed by witches, and hunted down by chupacabras. While I am a huge fan of local haunts, Halloween Horror Nights is the “blockbuster” event that every horror fan needs to experience at least once in their life. HHN is more than just haunted houses, it’s a full-blown immersive experience that starts the second you walk through...

The end of the Laurie Strode saga, Halloween Ends is coming to theaters AND Peacock on October 14, and USA Today has shared a new action shot from the movie this morning. David Gordon Green‘s films frequently reference the original Halloween in fun ways, and this latest shot is a clear callback to Laurie Strode stabbing Michael Myers with a knitting needle way back in 1978. Only this time around, Michael is the one wielding the knitting needle. Check out the new image above and expect more – a new trailer, perhaps?!...

After bumping the release of Gloomwood once already, developers Dillon Rogers & David Szymanski and publisher New Blood Interactive decided to do it again. Only this time, they’ve bumped the Early Access release to today! Yep, ahead of its announced September 6 launch, Gloomwood was released today on Steam as a Labour Day treat. In fact, you can snag the Victorian Survival Horror shooter for a cool 10% discount from now until September 12. Inspired by the classic stealth-action game Thief, Gloomwood sees you trapped in a Victorian city consumed...