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Techland has devoted multiple episodes of its “Dying 2 Know” series to Olivier Derivière’s score for the upcoming Dying Light 2, and now you can finally pre-order the score for yourself. The score will hit shelves in vinyl and CD on February 11, 2022, one week after Dying Light 2’s launch. Dying Light 2 Stay Human’s score will be released on two vinyl records that “reflect the features of the game, story, and world”. According to Derivière, the first disc’s music has you “follow the story of the main character and...

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...

Ahead of the January 11, 2022 release on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD (plus a Best Buy Steelbook!), David Gordon Green’s Halloween Kills will be released Digitally on December 13, 2021, with an “Extended Cut” of the movie being previewed by Amazon. In all likelihood, this new extended version of the sequel to Halloween 2018 will be available digitally and physically. But what can we expect from the “Extended Cut”? We have no official details at this time, but David Gordon Green did recently tease that an extended version of...

The noise that 200 Stab Wounds have been making is far from subtle. The Cleveland, Ohio death metal outfit are relatively new to the scene – having formed in 2020 – but have been rattling the underground. Their impressive EP Piles of Festering Decomposition bursts with ferocious sounding riffs and pummeling presentation. Compared to other horror-loving death metal acts, 200 Stab Wounds sets itself apart in creating compositions with technical range. Not to the level that one could associate them as a tech death band, but in each of the...

“The plane crashed… a bunch of our friends died… and then the rest of us starved and scavenged.” So began the official teaser for Showtime’s “Yellowjackets,” a survival drama that features a pilot episode directed by Karyn Kusama (Jennifer’s Body, The Invitation). The series was created by Ashley Lyle & Bart Nickerson (“Narcos”), described as being “equal parts survival epic, psychological horror story and coming-of-age drama.” “Yellowjackets is the saga of a team of wildly talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness. The...

In my defense, I thought it might be helpful, a kind of catharsis. First of all, I must say that my wife is the purest soul I’ve ever met, unendingly compassionate and completely selfless. Honestly, I have no idea how she puts up with me, but I am grateful for it every day. She’s never been a big fan of horror but was intrigued by the cover and synopsis of a Blu-ray I picked up—Ari Aster’s Midsommar. I warned her that it has some pretty intense stuff in it, but...

If you’ve seen The Hateful Eight, you’ve probably gathered that Quentin Tarantino is a big fan of John Carpenter‘s The Thing, even going so far as to utilize unused cues from Ennio Morricone’s soundtrack for The Thing in his own snowy suspense tale. As it turns out, Reservoir Dogs was also inspired by The Thing, which made a huge impact on Tarantino. Speaking with Stephen Colbert on “The Late Show” earlier this week, Tarantino explained what it is about Carpenter’s horror classic that makes it so effectively terrifying. “I love...

Filmmakers employ a variety of tactics to frighten audiences. The jump scare is the most obvious, thanks to its jarring abruptness and accompanying loud music sting. Its complete opposite is the understated, subtle background scare. This type of scare can easily go unnoticed, making it even more potent for those who spot it.  The background scare features imagery, usually a figure, lurking in the background without any telltale music cues or camerawork to announce their presence. Often the camera pans wide, scans the scene, or focuses on a character at...

The Prop Store is holding a three-day entertainment memorabilia auction this week, and the results from the auction’s first day have been sent over to Bloody Disgusting this afternoon. Prop Store’s unique Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction is being held across three days, Tuesday 9th – Thursday 11th November 2021, at their UK headquarters in Hertfordshire. The press release explains, “Hundreds of bidders from around the world took part in Prop Store’s live auction via phone and online, which achieved outstanding results over nine hours of exciting and intensive bidding. Over 400 rare and iconic lots were sold during day...

After creating various masks for former WWE superstar Bray “The Fiend” Wyatt, we’ve learned today that makeup effects artist Jason Baker is now making a movie with Wyatt. Baker, who owns Callosum Studios and frequently creates magic for the world of professional wrestling with partner Tom Savini, will be directing Wyatt in the upcoming movie. Jason Baker tells UK website Metro, “ a phenomenal collaborator, he’s become a really good friend, and we’re actually – you’re the first person that we’re publicly telling about. We’re starting a film at the...

Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin isn’t a complete movie. With the smoke cleared—literally—and the cops on the scene at this little farm in the middle of Amish country, a character we recognize emerges from the devastation, kills the officers using demon power, steals their car, and heads toward civilization to wreak demonic havoc. One of the few paranormal acts in the flick isn’t to incite fear or make us look over our shoulders but to set up the franchise for more sequels. In its last few moments, Paranormal Activity: Next...

The Sex Scene Can Stay. After heading back to Haddonfield to discuss David Gordon Green’s 2018 sequel Halloween, we discussed everyone’s favorite vampire-killing Marvel superhero Blade before spending Halloween shacking up with the colorful characters in Clue. Now we’re kicking off November with our 150th episode and a discussion of a seminal queer vampire text in Joel Schumacher‘s The Lost Boys! In the film, teenage brothers Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim) move with their mother (Dianne Wiest) to a small town in northern California. While the younger Sam meets a pair...

This week’s episode of “Chucky” is a big one, as Tuesday night’s “Little Little Lies” on USA and SYFY will bring Tiffany Valentine (Jennifer Tilly) and Nica Pierce (Fiona Dourif) into the mix. Yes, the world of the movies is soon set to collide with the new storyline of the television series, with Andy Barclay and Kyle from Child’s Play 2 also coming along for the ride. While we wait, Jennifer Tilly has taken to social media today to share a new shot of “Nurse Tiffany” from the series, while also...

Haunted houses tend to adhere to a familiar formula. Characters get terrorized by paranormal activity within their home or current dwelling, and fleeing rarely is as easy as it sounds. The haunting is usually caused by an unspeakable tragedy that occurred years ago or an inciting event that disturbs the dead, prompting them to unleash pent-up rage. It’s a solid foundation that leaves plenty of room for reinvention and reinterpretation, stretching the limits of a haunted house. It’s often a simple location change; The Shining and 1408 terrorized a hotel, and Death Spa unleashed supernatural mayhem...