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Almost one year ago, NECA celebrated Kurt Russell‘s birthday with the reveal of an “Ultimate” action figure of the actor’s character from John Carpenter’s sci-fi horror masterpiece, The Thing. In the 1982 film, a shape-shifting alien looks for someplace warm to hide and assumes the appearance of its victims – including that of a kennel of Norwegian dogs, Alaskan Malamutes which become a blob of revolting, slimy, and straight-up horrifying flesh. As part of their ongoing Toy Fair reveals, NECA has just announced the addition of the monster mutt to...

Leatherface may be a Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise constant, but his look isn’t thanks to his penchant for donning other people’s faces. Factor in different actors portraying the horror icon, shifts in tone and style, and you’ve got a different character design with each new entry. Netflix’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre picks up nearly fifty years after the 1974 original film, with a much older and long-dormant Leatherface. His territorial, homicidal tendencies reawaken with an unstoppable fury when young influencers disrupt his sanctuary. Legendary turned to Illusion Industries Inc owner, special makeup effects artist,...

NECA is working on a new line of Universal Monsters action figures based on the original classics, with Frankenstein’s monster, The Wolfman, The Mummy, and Dracula confirmed. Not only are they each getting full-color and classic black & white versions, but also accessory sets! The first major reveal comes out of the virtual Toy Fair with AFi sharing first details and photos of The Mummy accessory set, which comes with an elaborately detailed sarcophagus, which measures over 9” inches tall and has a removable lid with movie-accurate deco and intricate printed pattern. The site also notes that...

The Alien franchise is headed to the small screen with a TV series in the works over at FX, and FX’s John Landgraf has teased some new details in a chat with Deadline today. For starters, Landgraf reiterates that Ellen Ripley will NOT be making an appearance in the series, which is set here on Earth decades before the events of the original Alien movie. “Alien takes place before Ripley. It’s the first story that takes place in the Alien franchise on Earth,” he explains to Deadline. “So, it takes place on our planet....

With this installment of Larval Ink, we’ll be hacking into 2013’s much maligned horror requel pioneer Texas Chainsaw 3D, peeling back its skin and rummaging around its viscera to reveal the film’s bloody beginnings as a much different script from husband and wife screenwriting team Adam Marcus and Debra Sullivan. Ms. Sullivan and Mr. Marcus join Bloody Disgusting here to detail their original screenplay and its development, the most egregious changes to their story which still rankle with fans to this day, and their ultimate thoughts on the finished film....

Life Is Strange and Disco Elysium fans will be getting their own TV adaptations, courtesy of Amazon. Per Deadline, Amazon Studios has teamed up with Dmitri M. Johnson’s dj2 Entertainment (which co-produced the Sonic the Hedgehog film adaption, along with the sequel) to bring several video game adaptations to the service, including Dontnod Entertainment’s Life Is Strange and ZA/UM’s Disco Elysium. “The dj2 team has long believed that video games would one day serve as incredible source material for stories told in television and film, and that it was only the lack of...

EPIX’s new mystery box horror series “From” is set to premiere on Sunday, February 20, and a spooky new clip from IGN today previews a nightmarish monster from the series. Meet one scary grandma down below… Meagan wrote in her “From” review for BD, “Only four episodes in, it’s already a gripping series that makes you eager to tune in to see what happens next.” The series unravels the mystery of a nightmarish town in middle America that traps all those who enter. As the unwilling residents fight to keep...

After playing in theaters ahead of Scream, the trailer for LD Entertainment’s The Cursed made its way online, promising to be “one of the best horror films of the year.” The gothic thriller, to be released exclusively in theaters on February 18, 2022, is said to be a “reimagining of the werewolf legend for a modern-day audience.” In The Cursed, written and directed by Sean Ellis… “In the late 1800s, a man arrives in a remote country village to investigate an attack by a wild animal but discovers a much deeper and sinister...

While a spinoff movie is currently in the works, it sounds like it’s going to be a while before A Quiet Place Part III, the third movie in the main storyline, arrives in theaters. THR reports today that A Quiet Place Part III will arrive in theaters sometime in 2025, this according to comments John Krasinski made during a Paramount presentation today. No word yet on whether or not Krasinski will be back to direct the continuing adventures of the Abbott family, trapped in a world filled with monsters ready...

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise roars back to life with a brand new movie on Netflix this week, but that’s not the only new horror movie on the horizon this week. In addition to Leatherface’s return as well as the return of AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” several new horror movies are releasing this week. As always, we’ve got the rundown. Here’s all the new horror releasing February 15-20, 2022! First up, Here Before is now available on VOD outlets today, a mind-bending nightmare from director Stacey Gregg that stars Andrea...

A subset of killer doll horror movies features psychological horror movies where the doll remains an inanimate object throughout; any homicidal urges or personality are merely a projection by a fractured mind. Anthony Hopkins’ Corky in Magic serves as one of the most prominent examples, and love presented a warped love triangle that catalyzed self-destruction. It paved the way for 1988’s Pin then 2003’s Love Object. These two psychological horror movies used life-sized plastic dolls as a conduit for unhinged characters to channel repressed feelings, desires for connection and love, and awakening sexuality. All of...

What’s a Bogan? Joe and I have been on a roll with our “Underrated or Underseen?” theme for the first quarter of the year! As we move through the 2010s, we’ve discussed Rob Zombie’s polarizing 2013 film The Lords of Salem, then we had a few laughs with a discussion of Gerard Johnstone’s 2014 film Housebound. We got chilly with Oz Perkin’s The Blackcoat’s Daughter for 2015 and now we’re discussing Nicholas Verso‘s 2016 tearjerker Boys in the Trees! In the film, alienated teens Corey (Toby Wallace) and Jonah (Gulliver McGrath) begrudgingly find...

AP just put a damper on Super Bowl Sunday with the devastating news that beloved filmmaker Ivan Reitman has passed away at the age of 75. Reitman passed away peacefully in his sleep Saturday night at his home in Montecito, Calif., his family told The Associated Press. Reitman is best known among the horror crowd as the director of the iconic 1984 supernatural comedy Ghostbusters and its sequel, Ghostbusters II. While he didn’t direct last year’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife, he did return to produce and passed the baton on to his...

Censorship is nothing new for horror fans, including video games. Unfortunately, it’s reared its head again with LKA’s upcoming Martha Is Dead, as Sony has requested that the game be censored for its release on the PlayStation. Martha Is Dead‘s publisher, Wired Productions, took to Twitter to explain that as per Sony’s request, LKA has had to “modify the experience on the PS5 and PS4 versions ”. The resulting changes have unfortunately rendered “some elements” of the game no longer playable. Neither Wired Productions or LKA have specified what content...