Horror News

The box office refuses to die, rising from the grave thanks to several horror movies. The genre is stronger than ever, pumping life into theaters and passing the baton from film to film as each claim the top spot at the box office. This weekend’s champ is Warner Bros. Pictures, who is absolutely killing it with their day-and-date releases in both theaters and on HBO Max. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (read our review), the studio’s eighth(!) film in The Conjuring Universe, took in an estimated $24M...

Hitchcock fans are in for a treat, as Microids and Pendulo Studios have announced a new adventure game based on Hitchcock’s classic 1958 thriller, Vertigo. Per Bleeding Cool, Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo will launch by the end of 2021 for the PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC. Rather than be a straight-up adaptation, Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo will instead be an original story that will take cues from the film and other Hitchcock works. The story concerns one Ed Miller, who came out unscathed...

And there’s nothing we love more than “very Sam Raimi.” When Scott Derrickson (Sinister, Doctor Strange) stepped away from the project due to creative differences, Sam Raimi stepped in to direct Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness for Marvel, a perfect fit given Raimi’s history with Marvel superhero movies and of course, horror movies. The sequel was originally advertised as, after all, a horror film. This will actually be Raimi’s second superhero-horror movie, as he of course directed the original superhero movie Darkman back in 1990. That film, which...

Now streaming on Disney+, director Craig Gillespie‘s Cruella reimagines the origin story of 101 Dalmatians villain Cruella de Vil, with Emma Stone playing the title character. Also playing in theaters, Cruella has managed to make $50 million at the worldwide box office thus far, and it seems it’s doing pretty well on Disney+ too as a sequel is on the way. According to The Hollywood Reporter this weekend, Disney is indeed already developing Cruella 2, with Gillespie likely returning to direct and Tony McNamara returning to write. “We are very...

As we learned last year, a third A Quiet Place movie is already in the works, with Jeff Nichols (Midnight Special) on board to direct a tale based on an idea by John Krasinski. Tonight, Paramount has dated that third installment for March 31, 2023! Deadline notes, “The pic is very early in development and simply being billed as the next installment, broadening the post-apocalyptic world introduced in the first two movies.” Nichols is writing and directing, and it seems this new movie may not be a sequel to the...

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. To the east of the Westfjords in Iceland lies the coastal town of Hólmavík. There, locals and tourists flock to the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft—a reminder of the region’s mystical past. The museum highlights arcane rituals used during hard and unusual times in the area; folks back...

The Japanese novel Room 203, penned by Kamon Nanami, has been turned into a feature film by director Ben Jagger (Corbin Nash), and Voltage Pictures has acquired worldwide rights. Voltage will introduce the film to buyers at the upcoming Marché du film, June 21-25, 2021. “Adapted from the novel published by Kobunsha and currently in post-production, the English-language J-Horror follows two female roommates who are tormented by the vengeful spirits dwelling in their gothic-style, rented apartment, which contains an ornate centerpiece.” The screenplay is by John Poliquin (Shudder’s Spiral), Jagger and...

Filming is now underway on Eli Roth‘s video game adaptation Borderlands, and today we’ve got some more shadowy first-look teasers for the various characters in the mix. The cast includes Jack Black as Claptrap, Cate Blanchett as Lilith, Kevin Hart as Roland, Jamie Lee Curtis as Dr. Patricia Tannis, Ariana Greenblatt as Tiny Tina, and Gina Gershon as Moxxi. Edgar Ramirez, Florian Munteanu, Janina Gavankar, Cheyenne Jackson, Charles Babalola, Benjamin Byron Davis, Steven Boyer, Ryann Redmond, and Haley Bennett also star. Meet the main characters below and expect more soon! Here’s the official plot synopsis for Lionsgate’s Borderlands movie… “In the movie Lilith (Blanchett), an infamous outlaw with a...

Hear me out: Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead is a lowkey thriller. Okay, okay, it’s probably more like a black comedy in line with Heathers or its spiritual sequel series, Dead to Me ─ so let me explain. Following its summer ‘91 theatrical run, and once it hit TV syndication and VHS rental, my father randomly grabbed a copy at our local mom and pop video store on a whim. He’d already been a big fan of Christina Applegate for her turn as resident bad girl Kelly Bundy on...

If you were poking around Kickstarter a few years ago, you might have come across Bleak Faith: Forsaken, an open-world survival horror action RPG from Mišo Vukčević. Vukčević has finally announced that the game will finally see a release later this year for PC on Steam, with versions for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One at a later date. While the dev team have admittedly not been updating the official site as much as they can (development and all), much of the info for Bleak Faith comes from the Kickstarter page:...

Licensed games used to get a lot of flack for their shoddy production value and rushed development cycles, but that doesn’t mean they were all bad. Sometimes, passionate developers and the clever use of beloved IPs can be enough to overcome limited budgets and impossible deadlines, resulting in quite a few hidden gems even in the gaming industry’s least-favorite releases. That’s why we’ve decided to compile this list ranking 10 of the best licensed horror games, as there’s a lot of fun to be had with some of these interactive...

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (read Meagan’s review) is coming to theaters and HBO Max on June 4, 2021, and the final trailer today previews the return of Ed and Lorraine. This time around, they’re heading into the 1980s for one hell of a wild true story… “The Devil Made Me Do It reveals a chilling story of terror, murder and unknown evil that shocked even experienced real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. One of the most sensational cases from their files, it starts with a fight for...

Predatory Pussy. May has been all over the place for Horror Queers. We began with super underrated DTV Mirror Mirror, stirred controversy with The Faculty (they’re all queer people – get over it), and revisited the legacy of Saw in time for Spiral‘s theatrical debut. Now we’re dipping our toe into modelling with Nicolas Winding Refn‘s The Neon Demon (2016). In the film, ingenue Jesse (Elle Fanning) arrives in Los Angeles and immediately causes a stir among the modelling community. Not only does she attract the attention of every creepy male, including...

Those of you who spent your college nights playing Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, the free-to-play team-based multiplayer spin-off from Return to Castle Wolfenstein, probably remember that the game was originally to include a single player campaign that unfortunately never saw the light of day. Lucky for us, Dark Matter Productions’ William Faure, author of the The Dark Army: Uprising mod for Return to Castle Wolfenstein, has announced that after years of waiting, his intentions to give Enemy Territory‘s single player campaign the love it deserves. Slated for release on November 19th...