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After announcing the game’s delay last month, developer Ebb Software has announced that their long-awaited first-person adventure game Scorn will arrive October 2022 for PC and the Xbox Series. In addition, the developers took to the game’s Kickstarter to elaborate in more detail about the game’s development. “We want to ensure that Scorn is the best game it can be,” reads the update. “This additional time will allow the team to make sure the vision for Scorn comes to life in all its spine-chilling, nightmarish glory. We know that this...

Tragic news this Sunday morning as we’ve learned that Anne Rice, the prolific horror writer behind the iconic “Interview With the Vampire” and the entire “The Vampire Chronicles” book series, passed away last night due to complications resulting from a stroke. She was 80. “Earlier tonight, Anne passed away due to complications resulting from a stroke,” Rice’s son, Christopher Rice, said in a statement on social media. “She left us almost nineteen years to the day my father, her husband Stan, died. The immensity of our family’s grief cannot be...

Fresh off the incredible “Midnight Mass,” Netflix will next be reteaming with Mike Flanagan for “The Fall of the House of Usher,” a new series based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. The limited series from Intrepid Pictures is “based on multiple works from Poe.” 8 episodes have been ordered. Flanagan and Michael Fimognari will each direct four episodes. The ensemble cast will include Dracula, Masters of the Universe and The Box‘s Frank Langella, as well as Carla Gugino (Gerald’s Game, “The Haunting of Hill House”), Mary McDonnell (Scream 4), Carl Lumbly (Doctor Sleep), and Mark Hamill, all names...

We all have those horror movies that scarred us for life. Whether your blood ran cold from the macabre family dinner in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre or you found yourself disturbed and nauseous while watching Regan’s head spin in The Exorcist, these terrible frights became the catalyst for a lifetime of loving horror. When I think back to my childhood, it’s films like Tourist Trap, Poltergeist, and even Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toymaker that left deep impressions. It’s like a frigid winter chill you simply can’t shake,...

We all have those horror movies that scarred us for life. Whether your blood ran cold from the macabre family dinner in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre or you found yourself disturbed and nauseous while watching Regan’s head spin in The Exorcist, these terrible frights became the catalyst for a lifetime of loving horror. When I think back to my childhood, it’s films like Tourist Trap, Poltergeist, and even Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toymaker that left deep impressions. It’s like a frigid winter chill you simply can’t shake,...

Horrors Elsewhere is a recurring column that spotlights a variety of movies from all around the globe, particularly those not from the United States. Fears may not be universal, but one thing is for sure — a scream is understood, always and everywhere. Nothing quite evokes a bodily chill like a good ol’ fashioned ghost story. And as far as the British are concerned, the best time to share them is at Christmas. This tradition can be traced to the Victorian ages when spectral scares came back into fashion after...

Announced last year at The Game Awards, publisher Focus Home Interactive and developer Asobo have dropped a new short but sweet trailer for A Plague Tale: Requiem. The game is slated to arrive in 2022 for PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and the Nintendo Switch. Requiem follows Amicia and her brother Hugo, as they do whatever it takes to survive a brutal, uncaring world....

Film festivals are still attempting a comeback and this new variant is complicating things once again. Still, events are moving forward and the Slamdance Film Festival is set to return this coming January with another load of independent films that run parallel to the massive Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah (virtual screenings take place Jan. 20-30). I’ve identified two films in the Slamdance program that could be of note. The first and most likely to sit within our genre is the German thriller Be Right Back, directed by...

Next year kicks off with notable horror movies including Scream (1/14), Morbius (1/28), and The Black Phone (2/4), but you might not want to overlook Warhunt from Saban Films, a World War II-set horror movie that gives rise to a pretty impressive trailer this afternoon. Mickey Rourke, Jackson Rathbone (Twilight), and Robert Knepper star in the supernatural horror movie, In Theaters, On Demand and Digital on January 21st, 2022. The trailer begins very much like Overlord, with a plane going down and a group of soldiers uncovering a supernatural evil. The...

While Hammer Studios has been in business since 1934, it was between 1955 and 1979 that it towered as one of the premier sources of edgy, gothic horror. On top of ushering the famous monsters of Universal’s horror heyday back into the public eye, resurrecting the likes of Frankenstein, Dracula and the Mummy in vivid color, the studio invited performers like Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Ingrid Pitt and so many more to step into the genre limelight. Spanning a library housing over 300 films, Hammer Studios is a key part...

In 2015, Michael’s Dougherty’s tale of yuletide terror, Krampus, was released in theaters with a family-friendly PG-13 rating. That was less a way to draw in a broader audience and more of a means of appeasing the MPAA. Scream Factory, working under Dougherty’s supervision, has now restored those excised bits to deliver the definitive “Naughty Cut.” But there’s nothing all that naughty about this edition. The reinserted scenes are barely noticeable, and the shiny new 4k disc packed with special features earns this release a spot on Santa’s nice list. The...

‘Tis the season to watch holiday-themed horror, and we’re here to make that even easier for you. We’re breaking down the best holiday horror selections across the many streaming apps available to us, and we’ll be running individual articles for each of the big services. To begin, Shudder‘s robust horror library means no shortage of great offerings, many of which are curated in their “Unhappy Holidays” collection. Here are some of the highlights, along with a few outside selections and looser interpretations of holiday horror! Better Watch Out This title...

“I’m gonna get you and I’m gonna get Eddie… no matter what!” When the “Chucky” series was first announced, creator Don Mancini had promised that the show would “explore Chucky’s character with a depth that is uniquely afforded by the television series format,” and he sure wasn’t kidding. In addition to putting Chucky on a whole new quest for dominance, “Chucky” also dove deep into the origin story of Charles Lee Ray. Of course, the original Child’s Play began with Brad Dourif‘s Charles Lee Ray, the serial killer known as...

Fans of “The Walking Dead” should expect more zombie mayhem as AMC will bring “Fear the Walking Dead” back for an eighth season, it was announced this morning. Kim Dickens, who played fan-favorite character Madison Clark in Seasons 1 through 4, is set to return to the series. It was also revealed that Dickens, pictured below, will make her first appearance in the second half of Season 7, returning Sunday, April 17 on AMC, and continue as a series regular in Season 8. All episodes of “Fear the Walking Dead”...