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The cast for Eli Roth‘s video game adaptation Borderlands continues to grow, with THR reporting tonight that Florian Munteanu (Creed II) has come on board this week. Munteanu, who played Viktor Drago in Creed II, will be playing the Borderlands video game character known as Krieg. THR describes Krieg as “the musclebound, rhetorically challenged protector of Tiny Tina, the unstable 13-year-old explosive expert.” “Florian brings real humanity and multiple layers to a character who on the surface seems totally insane and brutally savage,” Roth told the site. “Krieg was by...

Before John Carpenter’s Halloween there was Bob Clark’s Black Christmas, an early slasher film that helped lay the foundation for the eventual arrival of horror movie icons like Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger. After two remakes, we’ve learned this week that Black Christmas is next getting a behind-the-scenes book, set for release next year. Written by Paul Downey and Dave Hastings, It’s Me, Billy: Black Christmas Revisited will be released by BearManor Media in 2022. You can check out the cover art below. The team previews this week, “the...

Casey Affleck, Sam Claflin, Michelle Monaghan, Veronica Ferres and India Eisley star in the thriller Every Breath You Take, which has been acquired by Vertical Entertainment. Deadline reports today that Vertical will release the film, directed by Vaughn Stein, in both North American theaters and at-home via Premium VOD on April 2nd, 2021. “Every Breath You Take centers on a psychiatrist (Affleck) whose career is thrown into jeopardy when his patient takes her own life. When he invites his patient’s surviving brother (Claflin) into his home to meet his wife (Monaghan) and...

Nearly twenty years after starring in Troll 2, filmmaker Michael Paul Stephenson made a documentary about it, Best Worst Movie, that chronicled its cult fandom and key players involved with the film’s creation. His follow-up documentary, The American Scream, put a compassionate and joyful spotlight on the Halloween home haunt, told through three households in a Massachusetts town. Stephenson’s latest, Attack of the Murder Hornets, takes on a timely subject and approaches it through a ‘50s style horror lens, infusing his sense of wonder and humor along the way. Mere months into the...

After finally seeing a release on the Nintendo Switch last October, Running With Scissors has released Postal Redux on the PlayStation 4. As with the Switch and Steam releases, the game includes all of the previously-released DLC, as well as the Redux-exclusive Rampage mode. It’s quite the ride for Postal Redux to the PlayStation 4, as it was originally intended to come out alongside the PC release (thanks, COGconnected). However, low sales of the PC version resulted in Running With Scissors getting second thoughts and canning the PS4 version. Fortunately,...

Published in 1984 and written by Stephen King and Peter Straub, fantasy epic The Talisman is one of the few notable King stories that to date has not yet been adapted for either the small screen or the big one. This despite Steven Spielberg owning the rights to the book since the ’80s, with various planned adaptations taking different forms over the years. Well it may finally be happening, as THR reports today that Spielberg has joined forces with “Stranger Things” creators Matt and Ross Duffer to adapt the novel for the small screen! The Duffer...

While we wait for the Sinister and Doctor Strange director’s new horror movie The Black Phone, we’ve learned today from Variety that Scott Derrickson has set up his next project. Derrickson will be executive producing “Grace” for Paramount Television Studios under his Crooked Highway banner. The project comes courtesy of writer Joseph Sousa. Variety details, “The story focuses on a man on death row for killing his wife who is set free when she resurfaces. But she may not really be who she says she is.” C. Robert Cargill and...

Bloody Disgusting has just scored a first look at CJ Entertainment’s horror-thriller remake Hide And Seek with news that Saban Films has taken North American, UK and Irish rights to the Joel David Moore (Hatchet, Youth in Oregon) directed redo of the 2013 hit (read our review). “Dracula’s” Jonathan Rhys Meyers leads cast alongside Jacinda Barrett (“Bloodline”), Joe Pantoliano (“The Sopranos”) and Mustafa Shakir (“Luke Cage”). “When a wealthy businessman follows a lead to find his missing brother, he dives headlong into a twisted underworld of squatters and vagrants that threatens to tear apart his family as he...

The old saying goes that a story is only as good as its villain. And for the Resident Evil series, there’s plenty of villains to go around. Obviously, much like the entries in the series, some villains are more memorable than others for one reason or another, but they’ve all contributed in some way to making the franchise what it is today. So, seeing as we’re hyped up on Resident Evil for its big 2-5, it’s only fair that we take a look at those principal antagonists that made our...

The action-horror manga Hellsing is headed to the big screen, Deadline has announced, with Amazon Studios developing an adaptation being penned by Derek Kolstad (John Wick)! The feature will bring Kouta Hirano‘s Japanese manga into the world of live-action. The manga was previously turned into anime series’ “Hellsing” and “Hellsing Ultimate.” “Ever since my brother introduced me to the Hellsing manga and anime some years ago, I’ve been obsessed with adapting it,” Kolstad said in a statement shared by Deadline today. “Hellsing reimagines Dracula as Alucard, a special agent bound...

Known to horror fans for her role in the creature feature Them!, we’ve learned the sad news today that actress and singer Joan Weldon has passed away at the age of 90 years old. Weldon’s family says she “passed away peacefully” at home in Florida on February 11. Joan Weldon, who began her career as a singer before moving into acting, made her feature debut in 1953’s The System, subsequently battling giant ants in the horror movie Them! just one year later. Weldon played Dr. Patricia Medford in the Gordon...

Brandon Suttles is a father of two young children. A husband. A horror fan. And for the past two years, Brandon has risen to the challenge of becoming something else. A warrior. Diagnosed with Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), a form of bone cancer, in 2019, Brandon has been brutally honest about his battles and struggles on his Twitter account @BrandonSuttles6, posting daily updates on his condition and, when feeling up to it, his thoughts on the latest horror movies he’s been watching. While in the hospital recently, Brandon watched a series...

There are thus far two seasons of the South Korean zombie series “Kingdom” streaming on Netflix, but before a third season we’re getting a spinoff episode this year. Described as a “special episode,” it’s titled “Kingdom: Ashin of the North,” and it tells the story of “Ashin,” the heiress to a northern Jurchen town who briefly appeared in the show’s season two finale. Jun Ji-Hyun and Park Byung-eun will star in this spinoff tale. The episode was directed by Kim Seong-hun. Get your first-look below with a couple teaser images....