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One of the many benefits of genre storytelling is the way horror evokes extreme empathy. Watching a character confront adversity in horror offers a uniquely communal experience that builds understanding that bridges all walks of life. Shapeless explores the all-consuming addictive behaviors of an eating disorder, using psychological body horror to convey the toll it can exact. While it favors drama over horror, this intimate character study delivers a haunting, straightforward downward spiral with no definitive answers. Kelly Murtagh co-wrote the script with Bryce Parsons-Twesten and stars as Ivy, an aspiring singer that spends...

One of the games revealed during Friday’s Summer Game Fest was Elseware Experience’s Broken Pieces, a psychological thriller that evokes some heavy Silent Hill vibes in its aesthetic. Given that you’re stuck in an seemingly abandoned French coastal village, solving puzzles and fighting off otherworldly monsters, you can see where a lot of people are drawing that conclusion. The story for Broken Pieces casts you as Elise, a woman in her thirties living with her fiancé in the village of Saint-Exil along the coast of France. Following an unexplained paranormal...

One of the many benefits of genre storytelling is the way horror evokes extreme empathy. Watching a character confront adversity in horror offers a uniquely communal experience that builds understanding that bridges all walks of life. Shapeless explores the all-consuming addictive behaviors of an eating disorder, using psychological body horror to convey the toll it can exact. While it favors drama over horror, this intimate character study delivers a haunting, straightforward downward spiral with no definitive answers. Kelly Murtagh co-wrote the script with Bryce Parsons-Twesten and stars as Ivy, an aspiring singer that spends...

Last year, developer rose-engine unveiled their pixel-based survival horror title Signalis, which seemed like a combo of survival horror and anime. The game’s back with a new trailer that kicked off the Tribeca Games Spotlight at E3, showing off more aesthetic goodies. It’s already been covered that the game takes inspiration from classic survival horror fare like Resident Evil and Silent Hill. But now rose-engine has added Alien: Isolation to the mix with some clunky-looking analogue display for the UI. Not to mention that the environment in the trailer harkens...

Saber Interactive’s action-strategy adaptation of World War Z is the latest title to get a current-gen upgrade, as well as a bevy of new content. Per IGN, World War Z: Aftermath will be hitting PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC later this year for $39.99 (existing WWZ owners can get it as a $19.99 upgrade), and will be coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series owners in 2022. Aftermath contains everything from the Game of The Year Edition of World War Z, as well as new characters, a new melee...

The director of both The Collector and The Collection, as well as the upcoming (but currently stalled) The Collected, Marcus Dunstan has set up his next project, Deadline reports. Dunstan will be directing the high school horror movie Unhuman for Blumhouse and EPIX, part of the collaboration that will see Blumhouse make eight original movies for EPIX. Written by Paul Soter, “Unhuman follows a group of high school students whose school bus crashes while on a field trip. Relationships are tested amongst the students once they realize they are being...

Home invasion thrillers are inherently terrifying for corrupting the private space designated most for comfort and safety. The terror compounds when the home dweller can’t fight back easily; their vulnerability exacerbates the suspense tenfold—vulnerabilities like blindness. See for Me isn’t the first home invasion thriller to center around a blind character trying to evade the dangerous men that’d broken inside. But it does use the familiar setup to thwart expectations. Sophie (Skyler Davenport) was once a highly successful and renowned skier, but blindness seems to have cut her career short. The dashed...

In every console generation, there is a chosen one. Well, there should be, but Sunnydale’s resident slayer of all things dead and deadly has had a disappointingly brief run in the world of video games. Just two home console titles and four handheld over the first decade of the 21st Century remain Buffy’s digital legacy some 12 years later. Given the almost brutally obvious match between a vampire-slaying teenager and her wisecracking entourage with the world of video games, it’s genuinely surprising we didn’t get more adaptations. Still, as the...

Coming this Fall to SYFY and USA is Don Mancini‘s “Chucky” series, and Mancini has taken to social media tonight to share a short new teaser for Chucky’s small screen debut. Brad Dourif is back as Chucky and Jennifer Tilly is back as Tiffany in “Chucky,” which will continue the storyline from the *original* movies. We don’t yet have any actual footage from the series, which only recently began filming, but this small taste should whet your appetite. Expect much more soon, including images, an official trailer, and all that...

This article contains spoilers. When James Wan passed the baton to director Michael Chaves for the third entry in the Conjuring series, Chaves shared that part of his preparation entailed studying not just the franchise itself but classic horror at large. He previously told Bloody Disgusting during a press event, “I think the Conjuring movies are love letters to the very best classic horror movies. Like The Changeling in the first movie. There are so many great references in that one.” That meant that Chaves also drew from classic horror when creating The Devil Made Me Do It, paying...

It’s a music kind of day here on Bloody Disgusting, with two of my personal favorite bands dropping singles on the same day. (I’m not quite sure that’s ever happened before so I’m off to buy a lottery ticket.) Digressing, if you’ve never heard of Kristina Esfandiari, she’s a super talent who refuses to be defined by a single band. Before coming into her own, she got her start with the popular shoegaze band Whirr and eventually branched off into several of her own projects; she’s dabbled in rap with...

Released a few weeks ago on Netflix, Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead is the kind of big-budget, no-holds-barred romp that we don’t see too often in the horror genre. One that has the luxury of indulging in massive, CG assisted set-pieces, copious lashings of gore, and all of its directors’ eccentric ideas, as well as a lengthy runtime in which to explore them.  To help bring Snyder’s uninhibited vision of the zombie apocalypse to the screen, he enrolled the talents of the Framestore visual effects company. In addition to...

Would my horror journalist accreditation be revoked if I didn’t update my ranking of Warner Brothers’ Conjuring Universe (“Conjurverse,” to me) with every new canonical release? Of course not (because that’s not a real thing), but why not dissect totem dolls, sisterly sinners, and more possessions than Ash Williams could shake his boomstick at. What started with James Wan’s The Conjuring currently spans eight horrific entries with the promise of more to come. Missteps aside, Warner Brothers is fighting the good fight for mainstream horror releases, and under Wan’s guidance (to varying...

Originally announced back in April, Jaume Collet-Serra’s House of Wax remake is getting a Collector’s Edition Blu-ray from Scream Factory, and the release has been fully detailed today. “On July 13, Scream Factory proudly presents the modern cult classic House of Wax (2005) in the ultimate Collector’s Edition Blu-ray release, featuring a new 2K scan of the interpositive. The release comes packed with bonus features including new interviews with actors Paris Hilton and Robert Ri’Chard, composer John Ottman and makeup effects artist Jason Baird.” “Thrills and chills ooze all over...