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A vampire movie is in the works over at Netflix titled Smile, Deadline has announced today, which is being compared to, of all things, Nicolas Winding Refn’s brilliant film Drive. Said to be “in the spirit” of Drive, William McGregor (“His Dark Materials”) will be directing Netflix’s Smile, which will be produced by Matt Reeves (The Batman). Here’s the plot synopsis for this one: “Smile follows teenager Millie, whose life is turned upside-down when she’s bitten by a vampire while traveling to LA with her school. “Wanting nothing more than to...

The Conjuring, directed by James Wan and written by Chad and Carey W. Hayes, was a runaway success. Made for a budget of $20 million, the film grossed over $319 million worldwide. It was a critical success as well as a financial one, earning multiple Fangoria Chainsaw Awards as well as an array of other prizes and nominations. So, it’s only natural that the creative team behind the first movie would try and one-up themselves with The Conjuring 2. Like the first Conjuring film, this sequel takes its inspiration from...

Aronofsky Autobiography? After a few weeks of back to back quiet, moody films for our “underrated or underseen” theme, including Oz Perkin’s The Blackcoat’s Daughter for 2015 and Nicholas Verso‘s 2016 tearjerker Boys in the Trees, Trace and I are ready to get bombastic! For 2017, we – along with guests Gabe and Kat from Ghouls Next Door – are checking out Darren Aronofsky‘s religious/eco horror/bad creator thriller mother! In the film, struggling poet Him (Javier Bardem) lives in a secluded home with mother (Jennifer Lawrence). One day man (Ed Harris) arrives to disrupt their...

In one of those “out there” news items, Call of Duty: Warzone may soon be getting a visit from the likes of Godzilla and King Kong. According to Xfire, Activision is potentially planning on having the King Kong and Godzilla arrive for events in Warzone later this year, in addition to “more spectacular global in-game events” planned. Xfire states that they were provided with images from a now-deleted Twitter account. Among the images were “King Kong swatting a WW2 plane out of the sky whilst soldiers aimed rifles at him...

We’re living in the golden age of action figures where we’re going to have to sell off our families to make space for all of these must-own chunks of plastic. NECA has been on a tear, as usual, but Mezco still finds a way to make some waves. Today’s big Toy Fair reveal is this infinitely cool “Scooby-Doo!” & Mystery Inc. “Deluxe Haunted Mansion” box set. The playset includes a huge Haunted Mansion, the Mystery Machine, plenty of accessories (a ham sandwich, maybe?), and a whopping nine action figures including...

Last month, Supermassive Games had apparently trademarked several new titles for the next round of entries in The Dark Pictures Anthology. Now it appears that they’ve trademarked another name with “The Quarry”. Only this time, it’s not related to the series. Per Video Games Chronicle after being initially spotted by @the_marmolade, Supermassive has trademarked The Quarry with the EUIPO, the European Union Intellectual Property Office. The trademark allows Supermassive to use the title “across games software, entertainment services and computer programming services”. Furthermore, according to VGC’s sources, The Quarry will...

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...