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Originally slated for a December 31st launch, developer OverBorder Studio and Team17 have announced that their upcoming action RPG Thymesia has been delayed into 2022. It’s not all bad news, however, as the developer announced via a new trailer that the game will be coming to the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles, in addition to its original Steam release. According to OverBorder, the reasoning for the delay was to release Thymesia “in the best possible state”, and in order to do that, the team needed more time in order...

I admit: I was only a casual Buffy the Vampire Slayer viewer. During the show’s run (1997-2003), I tuned it on occasion, finding great delight in Sarah Michelle Gellar’s wonderfully empowering turn as the titular vampire hunter, but it was never an obsession among my core group of friends. I have, of course, come around to the show since, and its fantastical storytelling holds a special place in my ghoulish, cold heart. More than any other episode, it’s the much-lauded “Once More, with Feeling,” a musical extravaganza bursting with heart-pounding...

Fresh off of A24’s Lamb and Netflix’s The Trip, actress Noomi Rapace has set up her next genre role in You Won’t Be Alone. Per Deadline, Focus Features’ supernatural horror thriller has been set for theatrical release on January 28, 2022. The film is: “Set in an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, the film follows a young girl who is kidnapped and then transformed into a witch by an ancient spirit. Curious about life as a human, the young witch accidentally kills a peasant in the nearby village...

Marvel is bringing Blade back to the big screen in the next phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali taking over the role. THR reports today that actor Delroy Lindo (Da 5 Bloods, “Anansi Boys”) is now in final talks to join the reboot. While it remains unclear what role Lindo will be playing, THR notes the actor will be the first to come onboard since Ali’s casting. Lindo can currently be seen in Netflix’s western The Harder They Fall. Stacy Osei-Kuffour (“Watchmen”) was recently brought on board to write...

Remember when Ecto Cooler made its triumphant return to store shelves for Ghostbusters back in 2016? Well the beloved pop culture beverage is also coming back to life as a tie-in with Jason Reitman’s brand new movie Ghostbusters: Afterlife… in a much more limited capacity. The official Hi-C account just tweeted a fun retro-style commercial for Ecto Cooler tonight, teasing that Ecto Cooler has “escaped from the vault for an exclusive commemorative drop.” What exactly does that mean? The tweet also teases, “While this won’t be available for purchase, show...

After giving fans a treat last month with the concept art for their upcoming horror adventure title Bramble: The Mountain King, developer Dimfrost Studio has released a new trailer showcasing the title’s gameplay. The trailer shows off some of the gameplay mechanics, including the game’s combat, stealth, as well as the environmental puzzles you’ll encounter. In a press release, Dimfrost Studio CEO Fredrik Sellden stated that the team’s goal for Bramble was to “create a living and strange world filled with mysterious and mythical creatures” that seek to either help...

Scene Screams is a recurring column that spotlights the scenes in horror that make us scream, whether through fear, laughter, or tears. It examines the most memorable, and often scariest, scenes in horror and what it is about them that makes them get under our skin.  Comedy and horror make excellent bedfellows because of their similarities. Both aim to elicit an extreme, specific response from audiences, and both go about it through a build-up and release. Horror movies create tension then release it through scares, but the build-up and release of...

A Bloody Disgusting favorite, Timo Tjahjanto (The Night Comes for Us, May the Devil Take You, V/H/S/94) has been hired to direct a remake of the South Korean zombie epic Train to Busan for New Line Cinema, we had learned earlier this year. The film, however, will not be titled Train to Busan. Instead, Deadline notes, it’s currently titled Last Train to New York. According to the site, that “could be” the title, so that may end up changing. Stay tuned for more as we learn it. The new movie is being...

The mission has gone to Hell. A gory monster movie titled Death Valley is on the way to Shudder for the holiday season, we’ve learned tonight, and it looks especially suited to fans of Resident Evil. Featuring a practical creature, this one looks to be ripped from the same cloth as the upcoming reboot Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, and you’ll see what I mean when you watch the trailer! Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, announced today that it will release the...

Author Lars Nilsen, a longtime Alamo Drafthouse film programmer, and now Austin Film Society lead film programmer, has written a definitive guide to exploitation cinema. Mondo’s Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive, edited by Kier-La Janisse (Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror) featuring numerous genre contributors, hits shelves on November 16, 2021. Warped & Faded is over 400 colorful pages dedicated to cinema’s weirdest, from personal accounts, essays, newspaper clippings, and photos. Part oral history of the Alamo...

George A. Romero took on American consumerism with his masterpiece Dawn of the Dead and now filmmaker Casey Tebo looks to put a modern spin on it with Black Friday, which kicks off the holiday season by spreading some Christmas fear. Bloody Disgusting scored an exclusive clip, which highlights horror favorites Bruce Campbell (The Evil Dead films) and Devon Sawa (Final Destination, Syfy’s “Chucky”) stuck in a toy store with a horde of “demonic” shoppers. “On Thanksgiving night, a group of disgruntled toy store employees begrudgingly arrive for work to open the store at midnight for the busiest shopping...

Spontaneous Comburst. We’re only a few weeks into November, but we’re not letting the post-Halloween doldrums get us down. After celebrating our 150th (!!!) episode last week with The Lost Boys, we’re dedicating this week to a whole different anniversary: Buffy the Vampire Slayer‘s amazing musical episode, “Once More, With Feeling,” which turned 20 last week. The season six episode takes place shortly after Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is revived from the grave by her best friend Willow (Alyson Hannigan), who mistakenly believed Buffy was in hell (she was, in fact,...

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. A black cloud hangs over the family at the center of the 2007 movie, Voices. The children live in blissful ignorance while the adults anxiously await the day their legacy finally comes to light. What they had hoped would skip a generation is now underway to destroy...

Is Tim Burton and director Henry Selick’s classic The Nightmare Before Christmas a Halloween movie or a Christmas movie? It’s a question that inevitably gets asked on social media every year, and the reason there’s even a debate at all is because, well, it’s of course both! The beauty of the stop-motion animated classic is that it’s both a Halloween movie *and* a Christmas movie, making it the perfect movie to watch in the final three months of every year. Now that we’re between Halloween and Christmas, IGLOO has released...