Horror News

Whether he’s writing, directing, creating, or waxing poetic as a fan, Mick Garris is truly “one of us” in the best possible way, and he’s also an undeniable Master of Horror. Fittingly, that’s the title of a biography covering Garris’s life and career that’s on the way! ATB Publishing just announced today that Master of Horror: The Official Biography of Mick Garris will release on August 13, written by Abbie Bernstein with foreword by John Landis. The team previews, “If you’re a horror fan, you may know Mick Garris as...

TrustNordisk, who has been behind some really cool films from Lake of Death to Frost and Breaking Surface, just released a striking piece of art from director and screenwriter Christian Tafdrup’s upcoming psychological horror, Speak No Evil. In the film, which sounds like it flips the home invasion subgenre on its head… “On a vacation in Toscana, a Danish family instantly becomes friends with a Dutch family. Months later, the Danish couple receives an unexpected invitation to visit the Dutch in their wooden house and decide to go for the weekend. However, it doesn’t take long...

Crytek dropped a little preview late last week for Hunt: Showdown players itching for new content. The team are currently working away on a new map called DeSalle, which if you currently own the game, you can try it out today on the test server before it goes live later this summer. DeSalle features sixteen different areas, including two towns, a watermill, shipyard, a mine and more. There are plenty of places for you and your team to stake out your hunt from opposing players. Of course, you still have...

Modus Games has announced that their upcoming psychological horror game In Sound Mind has been pushed back from its original August 3rd release date. In order to “give players the most memorable experience possible”, the game will now release on September 28 for PC, PlayStation 5, and the Xbox Series, with the Nintendo Switch version following at a later date. It’s not all bad, as Modus also revealed a brand-new music video in collaboration with cartoon animator Mashed and musical group “The Living Tombstone”. The music video is set to...

‘Wellington Paranormal’ is the horror comedy that genre fans have been waiting for and it’s far more than a silly ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ spin-off. Television has become a haven for cutting edge horror content and there are greater risks being taken with programs that gleefully deconstruct the genre or combine it together with other extremes, as if it’s some Frankenstein’s monster. Horror comedies grow progressively savvy and have never had more material to pull from or more freedom to experiment. What We Do in the Shadows is...

‘Wellington Paranormal’ is the horror comedy that genre fans have been waiting for and it’s far more than a silly ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ spin-off. Television has become a haven for cutting edge horror content and there are greater risks being taken with programs that gleefully deconstruct the genre or combine it together with other extremes, as if it’s some Frankenstein’s monster. Horror comedies grow progressively savvy and have never had more material to pull from or more freedom to experiment. What We Do in the Shadows is...

As the world becomes increasingly desensitized to extreme media, it’s easy to imagine unsimulated death as the disturbing final frontier of both horror and pornography. While there has never been a confirmed case of murder-on-tape being intentionally distributed for commercial purposes, the idea of snuff films has captured the imagination of writers and filmmakers for decades now. Several scary movies have attempted to explore this terrifying concept, with varying degrees of success, but the most notable of these might just be Joel Schumacher‘s controversial 8MM, a flawed but memorable thriller...

You likely already own it on VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray, but we’re happy to report that you’re going to have to buy John Carpenter‘s The Thing one more time, this time on 4K Ultra HD! The 1982 masterpiece will be released on 4K Ultra HD disc September 7, 2021. Special Features include… DISC 1: The Thing (1982) – Theatrical • Includes 4K UHD, Blu-ray and a digital copy of The Thing (1982) (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)• Features High Dynamic Range (HDR10) for Brighter, Deeper, More Lifelike Color• John...

Author Grady Hendrix‘s slasher book The Final Girl Support Group is set for release on July 13, and today we’ve learned some exciting news about the tale’s audiobook version. Revealed by Hendrix this afternoon, Friday the 13th‘s original final girl Adrienne King will be narrating the audiobook version of The Final Girl Support Group. How perfect is that?! Hendrix tweets, “I could NOT be more excited! Adrienne King, the first final girl in the first Friday the 13th movie, is the narrator of the Final Girl Support Group audiobook. Adrienne...

You know the drill! Shout! Studios, who was behind the remake of David Cronenberg’s Rabid, has also produced a reimagining of Roger Corman’s 1982 cult classic Slumber Party Massacre. Bloody Disgusting previously shared the above first-ever image from the new take that was directed by Danishka Esterhazy, the filmmaker behind the wild and crazy Banana Splits Movie. We now got our hands on the official sales art that’s being used by Raven Banner Entertainment out of the ongoing virtual Cannes market. In the new take, “A slumber party turns into a...

The Scream franchise will return to theaters on January 14, 2022, and we know Scream fans the world over are hungry for any and all updates on the project. This latest one comes courtesy of directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (Ready or Not, V/H/S, Southbound), letting us know on their socials that the next entry is 100% finished! “Scream (2022) is complete. So excited for you all to see it!” they both write. Dylan Minnette (Goosebumps), Mason Gooding (Let It Snow), Kyle Gallner (Ghosts of War), Jasmin Savoy Brown (“Love”) and Mikey Madison (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) recently joined an ensemble that also includes Neve Campbell as...

A very exciting piece of news comes out of the virtual Cannes market, with ScreenDaily reporting that Roxanne Benjamin is set to direct the brand new survival thriller Fall Into Darkness from a screenplay by David Bruckner and Nick Tecosky. The film is described as “a Lord of the Flies tale about American backpackers stranded with locals in a vast cave system in the Dominican Republic.” Nell Tiger Free (pictured above in “Servant”), Thomas Doherty, and Lorenza Izzo (The Green Inferno, Knock Knock, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) will star...

A new deal has been inked between Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and NBCUniversal’s streaming service Peacock, The Hollywood Reporter explains this afternoon. The basic gist? Starting in 2022, Universal’s theatrical releases will be heading to the Peacock streaming service “no later than four months” after they arrive on the big screen. THR further explains, “However, Universal is going further in deciding to carve up the 18th month pay-one window so as to license its content across a variety of platforms. For the first and last four months, movies will play exclusively...

As you may have seen on your various social media feeds the last several days, an unofficial sequel to George A. Romero’s horror classic Night of the Living Dead is on the way with Night of the Living Dead II, which was originally teased by our friends at Rue Morgue. The site explains that Marcus Slabine (The Dark Offerings) is behind this “sequel,” which notably features Terrifier star David Howard Thornton as one of the film’s shambling undead. Additionally, we’ve learned via a short teaser clip this week, Night of...