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Jason Blum has made it clear many times over the years that he’d love to bring the Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th franchises into the Blumhouse family alongside Halloween and The Exorcist, which is certainly always a possibility in the future. The Friday rights are still tangled up in a legal mess, of course, but what’s the latest on the Elm Street franchise? Speaking with Screen Rant while promoting The Black Phone last week, Jason Blum indicated that if Blumhouse is able to get into bed with...

Sinister Succubus. After three weeks of films with objectionable content (real-life kangaroo murder in Wake in Fright, an injured actress and problematic killer in Incident in a Ghostland and “consensual rape” in Perdita Durango), we did what might be our hardest pivot yet with last week’s episode on the 2002 live-action adaptation Scooby-Doo. Now it’s time to get a bit more serious with writer/director James Bond III‘s Troma classic Def By Temptation! In the film, quiet divinity student Joel (James Bond III) starts to question his faith. So he leaves his hometown in...

The first DLC update for Evil Dead: The Game is on the way this summer, with the Army of Darkness-based “Castle Kandar” map being added to the game in the coming months. The Army of Darkness map will be FREE to all players, and Tim Willits from Saber Interactive teased recently that “additional content” is also being added within the same update. Check out the very first in-game sneak peek at the Castle Kandar map (images above and below), which should pair well with playable characters that are already in the game...

Fresh off The Northman, Nicole Kidman has set up her next project, on board to star in and produce a thriller titled Holland, Michigan from the director of Hulu’s Fresh, Mimi Cave. Deadline first reported the news this afternoon, additionally noting that the film is said to have a “Hitchcockian bent.” 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...

After World Premiering at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, South African supernatural horror movie Good Madam (Mlungu Wam) is coming to Shudder this summer. The Shudder Original will premiere on Thursday, July 14. Watch the Good Madam trailer below. In Good Madam, “Tsidi, a single mother, is forced to move in with her estranged mother Mavis, a live-in domestic worker caring obsessively for her catatonic white ‘Madam’. As Tsidi tries to heal her family however, a sinister spectre begins to stir.” “A genre film entrenched in the ordinary everyday horrors in our society, Good Madam...

The first DLC update for Evil Dead: The Game is on the way this summer, with the Army of Darkness-based “Castle Kandar” map being added to the game in the coming months. The Army of Darkness map will be FREE to all players, and Tim Willits from Saber Interactive teased recently that “additional content” is also being added within the same update. Check out the very first in-game sneak peek at the Castle Kandar map (images above and below), which should pair well with playable characters that are already in the game...

Freddy Krueger was everywhere in the late 80s. It only made sense that he’d get his own show. But unlike Friday the 13th: The Series, Freddy’s Nightmares would put its headlining star front-and-center. Introducing every episode and frequently participating in the plots, Freddy hosted a show that would explore the lives (and deaths) of the citizens of Springwood. Much sleazier than its namesake film series and produced on a miniscule budget, every episode of Freddy’s Nightmares offered something interesting. Especially given that each episode was made up of TWO stories;...

A cult favorite, Jeff Lieberman‘s Halloween horror movie Satan’s Little Helper is getting an uncut Blu-ray release from Synapse Films, the home video label has announced today. The film comes to Blu-ray completely uncut for the first time on October 25, 2022! Special Features will include: Audio Commentary from Director Jeff Lieberman Vintage Behind-the-Scenes Featurette The Devil in the Details: Making SATAN’S LITTLE HELPER Mr. Satan’s Neighborhood: A Tour of the Filming Locations with Director Jeff Lieberman Promotional Trailer “Nine-year-old Douglas Whooly (Alexander Brickel, PALINDROMES) is obsessed with the handheld...

Melissa Barrera (“Sam”), Jasmin Savoy Brown (“Mindy”), Mason Gooding (“Chad”), and Jenna Ortega (“Tara”) are all confirmed to return in the next installment of Spyglass Media and Paramount Pictures’ Scream film franchise, alongside Dermot Mulroney and Hayden Panettiere as Scream 4 character Kirby. Tonight, Deadline reports four new additions to the sequel. Jack Champion (Avatar: The Way of Water), Liana Liberato (The Beach House), Devyn Nekoda (“Ghostwriter”), and Josh Segarra (“Arrow) have joined the cast. In the brand new movie, “The Scream saga continues with the four survivors of the Ghostface killings as they leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.” Bloody Disgusting recently confirmed that the sequel will take place in New York City....

In this edition of The Silver Lining, we’ll be covering Daniel Espinosa’s recent comic book adaptation Morbius, which is now available on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and Digital. From Adventures into the Unknown to Tales from the Crypt, comic books used to be a popular source of horror stories until the Comics Code Authority began cracking down on adult-oriented material back in the mid 1950s. The organization even specified a general ban on “all scenes of horror” and imagery involving “walking dead”, fearing that these scary stories were having a...

A year after devastating wildfires forced the team to evacuate the Olympic Peninsula, right as they unearthed curious new evidence, acclaimed primatologist Dr. Mireya Mayor and Bigfoot experts Bryce Johnson, Ronny LeBlanc, and Russell Acord returned to Washington State for Season 3 of “Expedition Bigfoot”. Airing Sundays on Travel Channel, in addition to streaming on discovery+, the latest season of the docuseries spans 16 one-hour episodes that also include the pre- and post-season specials that recap all the evidence collected. The epic season, however, comes to an end this Sunday,...

The Canadian-born writer, director, and actor, David Cronenberg helped usher in the body horror subgenre as a major innovator. He’s long revulsed audiences with his visceral psychological and bodily transformation horror brand. Cronenberg’s untraditional, personal filmmaking translating on screen as some of horror’s most uncomfortable, surreal journeys sets him apart. While he long ago departed from horror, he’s set to return in a significant way with Crimes of the Future. NEON releases Cronenberg’s return to body horror in theaters on June 3. In the film, “As the human species adapts to a...

Released in 2018, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom set the final film in the Jurassic World trilogy up for success, coming to a close with all the surviving dinosaurs from Jurassic World – plus their DNA – making their way off Isla Nublar and being unleashed onto the mainland. Sure, Steven Spielberg’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park brought a T-rex to San Diego back in 1997, but Fallen Kingdom promised the first movie under the franchise umbrella that would full-on deliver on a dream premise for the fans, forcing dinosaurs and...

In this edition of The Silver Lining, we’ll be covering Peter Webber’s 2007 entry in the Hannibal franchise, Hannibal Rising. No character exemplifies our fascination with charismatic madmen like Thomas Harris’ most infamous creation, Dr. Hannibal Lecter. While the overall quality of the media he’s been featured in may vary, I’d argue that every single incarnation of this charming cannibal has been captivating for one reason or another. From Brian Cox’s cold-blooded grifter in Michael Mann’s Manhunter to Mads Mikkelsen’s nearly Luciferian performance in Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal, this iconic character...