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I have always been a fan of that most improbable of all subgenres, the horror comedy. It has been around for a very long time, dating back to the silent era with The Cat and the Canary and the early talkies with James Whale’s genre twisting films like The Old Dark House and Bride of Frankenstein. In the late 40’s, comedy team Abbott and Costello met most of the classic monsters before Roger Corman twisted the nose of the subgenre with A Bucket of Blood and The Little Shop of...

Grab your knapsack and trustiest flashlight: Expedition Bigfoot returns for more adventures within the woods. Season 3 premieres on March 20th at 10 p.m. EST via both The Travel Channel and Discovery+ with new episodes to follow every Sunday. If you recall, the reality series premiered in 2019 and has since placed a scientific lens on the iconic modern myth by following elite investigators Bryce Johnson, Russel Acord, Ronny LeBlan, and renown primatologist Dr. Mireya Mayor. The new season finds the team making a triumphant return to Washington State’s Olympic...

Games will be played at the ongoing SXSW Film Festival and this time, Jigsaw won’t be behind them. Bill Posley sets up the board games with Bitch Ass, a brand new slasher being introduced to audiences at tonight’s World Premiere. Bitch Ass takes place in the late 90s where the title character, played by Tunde Laleye, gets revenge on those who bullied him when he was a child. “It all kind of started with the question: who’s the Black Jason? The Black Michael Myers? The Black Freddy Krueger?” recalls co-writer...

A livestreaming internet personality running afoul of vengeful spirits in real-time reads like a recognizable setup, especially in the found footage category. Deadstream isn’t interested in retreading familiar ground, though. Writers/Directors Vanessa Winter and Joseph Winter eschew expectations and instead deliver a delightfully raucous splatstick horror-comedy that’ll leave the midnight crowd cheering for more. In addition to co-writing, co-directing, co-editing, producing, and handling the music for Deadstream, Joseph Winter also stars as Shawn. Shawn is a disgraced influencer and online personality trying to recover his follower count and sponsorship after a stunt gone wrong. He attempts to...

Ikumi Nakamura, former Tango Gameworks’ creative director for the upcoming Ghostwire: Tokyo, has founded a new studio called UNSEEN. Referred to as “a borderless and mysterious game development studio”, Nakamura says that the new studio will develop games with a focus on mystery, horror, sci-fi, and the supernatural. In an interview with IGN, Nakamura stated that the studio will focus on an international staff, with the Tokyo studio serving as a central hub. Her vision for UNSEEN is to “transcend various medium beyond the realm of video games.” UNSEEN is...

The latest actor to sign on for the Sam Raimi-produced action thriller Boy Kills World is Michelle Dockery (“Downton Abbey”), Deadline is reporting this afternoon. Deadline notes, “Michelle Dockery will play the sister of the film’s Van der Koy family. Melanie is a satirical powerhouse and sociopath who tries to project a powerful cohesive family image to hide the desperation behind their decaying dynasty.” Famke Janssen (The Postcard Killings) and Sharlto Copley (District 9) joined the cast earlier this week, along with Brett Gelman (Stranger Things), Quinn Copeland (Peacock’s Punky Brewster), and twins Cameron and Nicholas Crovetti (Big...

With SXSW 2022 on the horizon, let’s talk horror premieres… This week brings the 29th edition of the SXSW Film Festival, taking place in Austin, TX, from March 11-20, with a jam-packed lineup that’s brimming with genre offerings. In addition, this year, the acclaimed program will offer both in-person and online screenings. SXSW 2022 features horror across all categories, ensuring a robust lineup of genre titles. Here are six genre premieres we absolutely can’t wait to see this year. Deadstream Directors/Screenwriters: Vanessa Winter, Joseph Winter, Producers: Vanessa Winter, Joseph Winter,...

Aliens are headed to the arctic in the upcoming sci-fi invasion film Slash/Back, and the first clip today gives us our first introduction to the teen heroes doing battle with aliens. In Slash/Back, “Maika and her ragtag friends discover an alien invasion in their tiny arctic hamlet, and it’s up to them to fight back. Utilizing makeshift weapons and their horror movie knowledge, the aliens soon realize that you don’t mess with the girls from Pang.” Meet the cast in the first official clip below! Slash/Back stars Melissa Hood, Nalajoss Ellsworth, and Chelsea Prusky....

The latest actor to join the cast of Sony’s Kraven the Hunter movie is Possessor star Christopher Abbott, who will be playing Marvel Character “The Foreigner” in the movie. Deadline broke the news, reporting: “Sources say Christopher Abbott would play the film’s main villain The Foreigner, one of Spider-Man’s bigger adversaries in the comics.” The site notes that this report is “unconfirmed” at this time. Wikipedia details the Marvel Comics character, “The Foreigner is a mercenary and assassin. Although he has no superhuman abilities, he has trained his body to...

Evil Dead: The Game is coming on May 13, 2022, and the developers over at Saber Interactive have just unleashed the brand new “Kandarian Demon gameplay trailer” today! Narrated by Bruce Campbell, who of course voices various different versions of iconic Deadite-slaying hero Ash Williams in the game, this particular trailer plays up the villainous side of the franchise the game will allow you to explore. The developers tease, “Command vicious Deadites, set diabolical traps, possess survivors and swallow some souls!” Watch the Evil Dead gameplay trailer below and pre-order...

“The place stank. A queer, mingled stench that only the ice-buried cabins of an Antarctic camp know, compounded of reeking human sweat, and the heavy, fish-oil stench of melted seal blubber.” -John W. Campbell (as Don A. Stuart) in “Who Goes There?” Imagery like this is just one reason why the story that ultimately became The Thing remains such a key text of science fiction and horror. We are immediately plunged into a fantastical story that we can believe in. We can see it, feel the bite of the cold,...

It looks like the next video game franchise to make the leap to the screen is God of War, with Deadline reporting that Amazon Prime Video is in talks for a live action TV series! Deadline’s report notes, “I hear the series adaptation comes from The Expanse creators/executive producers Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby and The Wheel of Time executive producer/showrunner Rafe Judkins as well as Sony Pictures Television and PlayStation Productions which collaborate on all TV series based on PlayStation games.” Created by David Jaffe, the God of War video game franchise...

The executive producer and star of documentary series “Hellier,” Greg Newkirk will be executive producing an upcoming cosmic horror feature titled The Buildout, BD has learned. From writer/director Zeshaan Younas (Prefigured) and producer Trevor Dillon (The Vicious), The Buildout is currently being fan-funded over on Indiegogo, where it has surpassed its original $60,000 goal. The project is now unlocking stretch goals as donations continue to pour in, which means this is one Indiegogo movie project that is definitely happening. Newkirk explains to BD, “The Buildout is a genre-bending cosmic horror...

Kaizen Game Works’ murder mystery game Paradise Killer will finally be making the jump to the PlayStation and Xbox later this month. Originally released for PC via Steam and the Nintendo Switch back in 2020, Paradise Killer will be headed to the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series on March 16, reports Gematsu. It’s not a simple port, either, as the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series versions of the game will include the customary new-gen enhancements. In addition, the game will feature new content that will also...