Horror News

Shudder’s Creepshow franchise will soon be returning with a brand new fourth season, and we’ve learned today that a companion book is also on the way later this year. AMC Networks today announced the launch of AMC Networks Publishing, a book publishing arm that will work with established and up-and-coming talent in developing, producing and selling fan-focused specialty books, comics, original graphic novels and more. AMC Networks Publishing will debut several new projects this year, including two comic series —  Nights of Lono by Metallica’s lead guitarist and horror aficionado Kirk Hammett and his...

Today marks Day Two of the week-long Toy Fair 2022 celebration from Trick or Treat Studios, and today’s virtual reveals unleash brand new Leatherface figures for Chainsaw fans. The 1/6 scale Leatherface line brings the horror icon to your toy shelf with three different figures, as seen in Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake from 2003, and 1990’s Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III! Each figure comes with alternate hands and movie-accurate chainsaw accessories. “Each of these figures was built on a brand new,...

As you may recall, Jamie Lee Curtis will be directing a horror movie for Blumhouse titled Mother Nature, and she has also co-written the graphic novel adaptation for Titan Comics! The press release explains tonight, “Titan Comics is thrilled to be publishing Mother Nature (Fall 2022) the terrifying debut eco-horror graphic novel by Hollywood legend Jamie Lee Curtis. Co-written with film-maker Russell Goldman and illustrated by artist Karl Stevens, the book has been adapted from the script for the upcoming Comet Pictures and Blumhouse horror movie Mother Nature, directed by Jamie Lee Curtis.” In the eco-horror...

Trick or Treat Studios has launched their own virtual Toy Fair 2022 celebration this afternoon, with brand new toys, masks, and other collectibles being shown off throughout the week. First up, three Day One reveals are all about the Halloween franchise! Trick or Treat Studios has announced 1/6 scale figures of Michael Myers based on Halloween H20 and Halloween Resurrection, along with Doctor Loomis from the original classic. The two Michael Myers figures will come complete with knife accessories and fabric coveralls. As for Loomis, he’ll include his revolver as...

Founded by Saturn and Rondo Award-winning writer/producer Mark Alan Miller (Nightbreed: The Director’s Cut, BOOM! Studios’ Hellraiser comics), Encyclopocalypse Publications is set to publish the award-winning novels Our Lady of the Inferno and Headcheese, along with Mick Garris’ These Evil Things We Do, the sci-fi horror epic The Megarothke, and Michael J. Seidlinger’s My Pet Serial Killer, Bloody Disgusting has learned. Set against the backdrop of 1980s Times Square, Preston Fassel’s Our Lady of the Inferno tells the intersecting stories of two deadly women: Ginny Kurva, a brilliant but troubled...

Bokeh Game Studio has released more details regarding their upcoming game Slitterhead in the form of a two-part Q&A session. The first part, moderated by Bokeh’s business development manager and producer William Yohei Hart, features Bokeh Game Studio CEO and creator Keiichiro Toyama, CTO and game director Junya Okura, and COO and producer Kazunobu Sato. In the video, the trio talk about the inspiration behind Slitterhead, which as Toyama had mentioned before, was inspired by Hong Kong. Toyama elaborated further, saying that the game is also inspired by one of...

With LKA’s Martha is Dead now available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and PC (read Harrison’s take on the game here), you’re probably wondering just what Sony had LKA cut in order for the game to be published on the PlayStation. There’s been speculation ever since the news came out as to what’s missing, and IGN managed to speak to publisher Wired Interactive to find out just what was cut and why. For one, the video circulating of a player having to cut off a face was indeed one of...

As of last week, the 1980s anthology series “Freddy’s Nightmares” is now streaming on the Bloody Disgusting-powered Screambox streaming service, with all 44 episodes available now! Screambox is currently the ONLY place you can officially watch the Robert Englund-hosted “Freddy’s Nightmares,” which to date has still never been released on DVD or Blu-ray. Based on one of horror’s most storied franchises, “Freddy’s Nightmares” is an anthology series starring the original Freddy Krueger, Robert Englund. Airing from 1988 to 1990, each episode tells a different story of a dark rooted and grim nature that...

Sony’s Marvel vampire movie Morbius is finally on the way in the coming months, the dark anti-hero tale set to bring Jared Leto into the same world that Venom calls home. Daniel Espinosa‘s (Life) Morbius takes a bite out of theaters on April 1, 2022. You can watch a new featurette below, which briefly digs into the lore of Michael Morbius. Sony’s latest Spider-Man spinoff centers on Michael Morbius, a scientist who, in trying to find a cure for a rare blood disease, accidentally transforms himself into a living vampire. Though disgusted by his own...

Of all the iconic killers in horror, few are as terrifying as Leatherface. First seen in Tobe Hooper’s horror masterpiece, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, he is the former slaughterhouse worker who continues his trade butchering humans to feed his psychotic family. Leatherface earns his moniker with his trademark mask made of human skin, one of countless repurposed body parts from his many victims. The actual makeup of these faces changes throughout the blood-soaked franchise, but each mask comes from a unique person and has been chosen for a specific...

As you may recall, The Sexton Single Malt became an official partner of AMC’s “The Walking Dead” last year, and this year we’re getting a “Walking Dead”-branded whiskey! In collaboration with AMC Networks and “The Walking Dead,” The Sexton® Single Malt has unveiled an exclusive, co-branded bottle to commemorate the final season of the show. “Featuring a decaying silver label and a walker’s head in the place of the brand’s trademark skeleton logo, the packaging melds the post-apocalyptic show with the bottle’s most distinctive qualities. Quotes from cast members Daryl, Herschel, Rick...

While it was once prevalent in ancient cultures as both a religious ceremony and legitimate survival tactic, cannibalism has since become a long-running staple of the horror genre. Sure, there are the occasional real-world tragedies like the crimes of José Luis Calva or the infamous Donner Party incident, but there is certainly no shortage of horror flicks depicting ravenous antagonists with a hunger for human flesh. And with the recent return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise, which arguably features the most recognizable cannibal family in all of popular culture,...

Officially titled Meg 2: The Trench, Jason Statham will be back as Jonas Taylor in director Ben Wheatley‘s (Kill List, Sightseers, A Field in England, High-Rise, Rebecca, In the Earth) upcoming sequel to the 2018 action-horror movie The Meg, and more casting news has arrived. THR reports that Sienna Guillory (Resident Evil: Afterlife), Skyler Samuels (“Scream Queens”) and Sergio Peris-Mencheta (Rambo: Last Blood) have joined the Warner Bros. sequel. Interesting to note, both Guillory and Peris-Mencheta were in Resident Evil: Afterlife, Guillory playing video game character Jill Valentine and Peris-Mencheta playing Angel. THR details, “Peris-Mencheta is playing one...

One of the very best meta horror movie deconstructions you’ll find, 2011’s The Cabin in the Woods is coming back to life here in 2022 with a brand new 4K Ultra HD release. Writer-director Drew Goddard’s twisty The Cabin in the Woods arrives April 19 on 4K Ultra HD™ + Blu-ray™ + Digital Best Buy Exclusive SteelBook® from Lionsgate! 4K and Blu-ray Special Features include: Audio Commentary with Writer-Director Drew Goddard & Writer-Producer Joss Whedon We Are Not Who We Are: Making The Cabin in the Woods Primal Terror: Visual Effects...