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After unveiling their follow-up to Salt and Sanctuary in Salt and Sacrifice, developer Ska Studios has released a 10-minute gameplay video for the sequel. The footage shows a Marked Inquisitor on the hunt for a Pyromancer, as well as dishing out punishment on some skeletons wandering Ashbourne Village and more. The story for Salt and Sacrifice goes like this: in Alterstone Kingdom, criminals face two choices for their punishment: death or service. Those who choose the latter live life in penance as Marked Inquisitors.  After choosing your crime, look, and...

Grab your salt block, it’s another one of those. According to GamesBeat journalist Jeff Grubb, Electronic Arts is planning a revival of an “established IP” with their EA Motive studio that will be shown next month at EA’s Play Live showcase on July 22nd. Grubb further stirred the pot last Tuesday with a cryptic, “we’re going to see it… if we’re not dead first”. Odd comment aside, Grubb seemed to be insinuating that EA could be reviving Dead Space. If this is indeed the case, obviously for some fans, this...

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 always be universal, but one thing is for sure — a scream is understood, always and everywhere. Distinct elements found throughout Xavier Dolan’s filmography include strained parent-child relationships, queer desire, and discrimination. While his fourth feature Tom at the Farm seems like a complete detour from his previous dramas, his first genre film still manages to cover all three said themes with gravity and style. The...

Just recently, Bloody Disgusting exclusively premiered the trailer for The Changed, writer/director Michael Mongillo’s upcoming horror/thriller which is said to provide a new spin on the classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers setup. Beginning with an explosion which ushers in “a historical and metaphysical change that only a handful of people haven’t yet undergone”, The Changed concerns “a group of ordinary people who band together in a suburban home to battle imposters who have replaced their families, friends, and neighbors.” One of those neighbors is Bill, a seemingly well-meaning imposter,...

Originally reported by the website The Illuminerdi this week, Bloody Disgusting has been able to confirm that Odessa A’zion has landed the leading role in the next Hellraiser movie! David Bruckner (The Night House), who helmed Netflix’s The Ritual as well as sections of Bloody Disgusting’s horror anthologies V/H/S and Southbound, is directing the relaunch of the Hellraiser franchise for Spyglass Media, and the movie has been acquired by Hulu. The script was written by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski (SiREN, Super Dark Times, The Night House). Odessa A’zion was recently seen in Netflix’s series...

Sony Pictures Animation’s Hotel Transylvania sequel has transformed its release date from this July to a perfect Halloweentime October 1, 2021 date. Hotel Transylvania: Transformania delivers an original spin on horror that I’m not quite sure we’ve seen before. In the fourth installment in the animated Hotel Transylvania franchise… “Van Helsing’s mysterious invention, the ‘Monsterfication Ray,” goes haywire, transforming Drac and his monster pals all into humans, and Johnny into a monster! “In their new mismatched bodies, Drac, stripped of his powers, and an exuberant Johnny, loving life as a monster, must team...

Rosemary’s Baby effectively tackled the horrors of pregnancy and established its tropes so well that it’s difficult to avoid drawing comparisons in subsequent horror movies centered around the subject. The premise and initial establishing sequences suggest that False Positive would offer another modernized retelling of sorts, right down to the isolating mistrust. Yet co-writers John Lee and Ilana Glazer take a hard left turn into something else so provocative, abstract, and ambitious that it’s destined to become a conversation starter. Lucy (Ilana Glazer) adores her husband, Adrian (Justin Theroux), and their life together....

“Worldwide sales arthouse genre outfit Yellow Veil Pictures announces the launch of a new North American distribution arm. The company will continue to focus on boundary-pushing genre cinema and will inaugurate the new venture with Frida Kempff’s Sundance hit Knocking with a planned theatrical and digital release this fall,” we’ve learned via press release. “Knocking marks the feature debut for Kempff who, in 2010, saw her short Bathing Mickey take home the Prix du Jury at Cannes. The film stars Cecilia Milocco (Involuntary) as Molly, who after suffering a traumatic...

“Werewolves have guns… Get revenge?” This comical line marked the only words that the aspiring writer and werewolf fan could come up with in Josh Ruben’s feature debut, Scare Me. It seems kismet that Ruben’s follow-up, Werewolves Within, works as a spiritual progression of his debut, putting a werewolf at the center of a murder mystery that rocks a snowy little town during a raging winter storm. It’s a murder mystery whodunit based on the Ubisoft game, with guns, commentary, and many laughs. Forest ranger Finn Wheeler (Sam Richardson) embraces his...

Fans of John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place and A Quiet Place Part II will be able to watch *both* movies on the big screen next week, Paramount Pictures has announced this afternoon. “On Wednesday, June 23,, 2021, Paramount will be offering fans of A QUIET PLACE a one-night-only double feature, offering two movies for the price of one regular standard movie ticket. This Double Feature is a chance to relive the original film in select theatres and experience the latest installment, the critically-acclaimed box office hit A QUIET PLACE PART II, in conjunction with...

Sean King O’Grady‘s feature directorial debut works like Pandora’s box of horror. Tension already exists for the dysfunctional foursome trapped together within a cramped space, but endless complications douse that tension with gasoline. Hope dangles like a tiny beacon amidst the relentless wave of obstacles. We Need to Do Something asks its audience to use their imagination for much of the horrors that barrage its characters, as its story is told solely within the confines of a single room. The result is an unpredictable, mean little thriller steeped in ambiguous storytelling. Based on...

2018’s Halloween was undoubtedly a major success. While not everyone loved it, by any stretch, it was pretty well received, did very well at the box office, and more than anything, proudly exclaimed that the franchise was back after a nine-year absence. However, there was one element of the movie that both the people who loved it and the people who hated it seemed to be united in their distaste for, and that’s the whole arc surrounding Dr. Ranbir Sartain. It is impossible to bring up this movie without hearing...

That sneaky New Blood Interactive not only showcased some of its awesome games in a sizzle reel at the PC Gaming Show, it slipped a few unannounced ones in for good measure. In between footage of the likes of DUSK, Gloomwood, and Airdorf’s The Unholy Trinity, there were brief glimpses of five as yet unknown titles such as a creepy visual novel, a Carmageddon-style game, and an old-school cRPG. PC Gamer spoke with New Blood CEO Dave Oshry, who confirmed that there were indeed five very real new projects in...

Back in 2015, you may recall, a creep who called himself “The Watcher” forced a family to move out of their house in the wake of increasingly disturbing behavior towards them, and it didn’t take long for big names in Hollywood to compete for the film rights to the unsettling story. Netflix had acquired the rights back in 2018, with a feature film planned at the time. Those plans, however, have changed. Deadline reports that the story of “The Watcher” will now be told through a limited series, created by Ryan Murphy...