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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...

On November 6, 1983, Will Byers went missing in Hawkins, Indiana. The fourth season of Netflix‘s “Stranger Things” is finally on the way soon, and we were recently promised that “Stranger Things 4” is coming sometime in 2022. Perhaps we’ll learn more during “Stranger Things Day” tomorrow, a celebration from Netflix that has been detailed with an official schedule of events this afternoon. The fun begins at 7am PT with the final presentation at 4pm PT, with Netflix teasing “Explore Hawkins,” “Cue Title Tease,” “One Word: California,” and “Cast Transformations” events. Check...

The fourth season of Netflix‘s “Stranger Things” is finally on the way soon, and out of “Stranger Things Day” this morning we’ve been provided with another teaser trailer. We’ve been promised that “Stranger Things 4” is coming sometime in 2022, and this latest teaser takes us to one of the show’s brand new locations: sunny California! The 1-minute teaser finds Eleven in California, living a new life in a new school, as she prepares for “the best spring break ever.” Of course, Eleven’s plans of reuniting with Mike aren’t likely to go...

The fourth season of Netflix‘s “Stranger Things” is finally on the way soon, and out of “Stranger Things Day” this morning we’ve been provided with another teaser trailer. We’ve been promised that “Stranger Things 4” is coming Summer 2022, and this latest teaser takes us to one of the show’s brand new locations: sunny California! The 1-minute teaser finds Eleven in California, living a new life in a new school, as she prepares for “the best spring break ever.” Of course, Eleven’s plans of reuniting with Mike aren’t likely to go as...

With their Bag of Bones mailbag episodes, The Losers’ Club gathers at the Mellow Tiger, aka Zoom, to answer questions submitted from their fellow patrons. This month’s Bag was opened in late October, a spooky time when the pumpkins were still waiting to be carved. Joining Losers Michael Roffman, Jenn Adams, and Dan Pfleegor at the Castle Rock haunt was Anthony Breznican, senior Hollywood correspondent at Vanity Fair. Together, they joked about Stephen King costumes for Halloween and caught up on the past year’s festivities. But they also sorted through...

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...

At the time of writing this article I am 200 pages into writer Tim Waggoner‘s Halloween Kills, the official novelization of David Gordon Green’s sequel. As Waggoner recently explained in an interview with our own Jason Jenkins, “I was able to write it pretty much from the script,” which is usually how these sorts of things work. Waggoner was provided with the script for Halloween Kills and he wrote out the novelization based on the dialogue and descriptions found therein, building out from there to turn the script into a...

On the way from RLJE Films, the second season of Shudder‘s horror anthology series “Creepshow” is coming to DVD and Blu-ray, with the release date set for December 7, 2021. The five-episode season of showrunner Greg Nicotero‘s “Creepshow” will include bonus episodes A Creepshow Animated Special and A Creepshow Holiday Special. The second season stars Kevin Dillon (Entourage), Ted Raimi (“Buddy Thunderstruck”), Ali Larter (House On Haunted Hill), C. Thomas Howell (The Amazing Spider-Man), Iman Benson (“Alexa and Katie”), Josh McDermitt (“The Walking Dead”), Ashley Laurence (Hellraiser Franchise), Keith David (21 Bridges), Ryan Kwanten (“True Blood”), Breckin...