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Making the festival rounds (Sitges, Fantasia, Popcorn Frights) is Seth A. Smith‘s (The Crescent) sci-fi thriller, Tin Can, which stars V/H/S/94‘s Anna Hopkins as a front-lines parasitologist who is imprisoned in a life-suspension chamber as the world faces a deadly plague. Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive clip from the film in which we see Hopkins struggling in her “tin can”, while another captive compares it to being born again. It’s not comforting. Here’s a longer synopsis, courtesy of Fantasia: “A fungal infection by the name of Coral is ravaging wintry...

Universal Pictures just released a great 20-minute chat about “The Impact of Black Horror” in promotion of Nia DaCosta‘s Candyman, featuring insights from star Colman Domingo as well as trauma psychotherapist Dr. Wendy Ashley, BEAM founder Yolo Akili Robinson, Confess Project founder Lorenzo Lewis, and horror author and professor Tananarive Due. In addition to their insights, the video also features new clips from Candyman, including the first clip to actually make reference to Tony Todd‘s original Candyman, Daniel Robitaille. Domingo’s character explains, “Candyman ain’t a he. Candyman’s the whole damn...

The next Bloody Disgusting x Dark Star Pictures collaboration unleashes a gory neo-Giallo set at cinephiles’ most coveted space; the movie theater. In a delightfully macabre meta-twist, The Last Matinee (Al Morir La Matinee) slices its way to Digital HD and VOD platforms on August 24th (linktr.ee). In The Last Matinee, the audience attending the last showing of a horror film in a small downtown cinema is terrorized by a murderer who begins to pick them off, one by one. The only person to notice that something strange is going on is the projectionist’s daughter. Written and...

As was expected, Bethesda kicked off QuakeCon with the announcement that Quake has gotten the remaster treatment. Available as a free upgrade for those who own it on PC or consoles, the remaster is available for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store for $9.99. PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series versions are “coming soon” and will be available as a free upgrade to users who purchase the PlayStation 4 or Xbox One versions. So, what’s in the remaster? Besides the new 4K and widescreen resolution support, Quake now features...

In director David Bruckner‘s latest, The Night House, recently widowed Beth (Rebecca Hall) discovers disturbing secrets about her husband after beginning to experience paranormal events at their remote lakeside house. As Beth plays detective to uncover those secrets, she also finds clues for a supernatural mystery. Screenwriters Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski (Super Dark Times, Siren) shared with Bloody Disgusting their process in building Beth’s journey and the unique mythology behind the presence haunting her. The screenwriting partners revealed their influences, including a surprising horror movie inspiration for the main story. “Magic doesn’t always equate with something evil,...

Waxwork Records has given Bloody Disgusting the exclusive first listen to the debut single from the new Candyman score. The track is titled “Rows and Towers” and scored by NYC-based electronic and avant-garde artist Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe. “‘Rows and Towers’ serves as one of many portals in the landscape of Candyman,” Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe tells Bloody Disgusting. “The choir of voices is representative of the multiplicity of voices, not only deeply cemented in the folklore of Candyman, but of the characters navigating the space in real time. “The...

Set in 1843 in an isolated farmhouse in the Puritan-founded town of Southold, New York, the upcoming horror film The Last Thing Mary Saw concerns the titular character (Insidious: Chapter 3’s Stefanie Scott) and her illicit affair with housemaid Eleanor (Orphan’s Isabelle Fuhrman). The discovery of their relationship brings condemnation and torturous punishment from Mary’s tyrannically religious family, which presages a series of supernatural events that culminate in a shocking final act. Witchcraft, bloodshed and betrayal all feature in the tale, though it’s ultimately the love story at its heart...

By now, you’ve probably seen James Gunn’s handiwork in The Suicide Squad (if you haven’t, check out Meg’s review). Some of you gamers might have seen it and thought one particular scene looked kind of familiar. Well, that’s because it was. In an interview with Collider, Gunn talked about his filmmaking process, and one of the questions that came up was in regards to Harley’s hallway fight. If you’ve played 2012’s Lollipop Chainsaw for the PS3 or 360, you’re now remembering where you’ve seen that before. “In , which I...

At long last, Disney is welcoming guests back to the Haunted Mansion, a fresh take on one of the company’s signature rides. It was revealed back in July that comedian Tiffany Haddish (Night School, Bad Trip) and Oscar nominee LaKeith Stanfield (Get Out, Death Note, Knives Out, Uncut Gems) will star in the film, according to THR, with Justin Simien, who previously helmed Dear White People and Bad Hair, making his big-budget studio debut. While story details are basically invisible, it will follow a family that moves into the titular mansion. But what about the 999 happy haunts that...

1C Entertainment aren’t quite done with Lovecraft, it seems. On top of the announcement of Forgive Me Father, 1C Entertainment and developer Blini Games have announced action RPG Lovecraft’s Untold Stories 2 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam. And like Forgive Me Father, the follow-up to 2019’s Lovecraft’s Untold Stories will launch in Early Access on October 28. Picking up where Lovecraft’s Untold Stories left off, the action RPG with rogue-like elements sees the characters from the first game battling against the Unknown with a couple of new faces. The...

Horror musicals are such a strange concept that, even as a huge fan, I still find it hard to believe that they exist in the first place. From Little Shop of Horrors to Repo! The Genetic Opera, audiences are surprisingly okay with singing along to tongue-in-cheek violence and creepy characters. Of course, not all horror musicals are created equal, and Troma Entertainment has provided us with some of the weirdest ones out there. That’s why I’d like to take this opportunity to talk about my personal favorite Troma movie, Poultrygeist:...

Structured like a play and filmed in inky black and white, actor Mark O’Brien’s feature directorial debut The Righteous is a dialogue-driven examination of grief, responsibility and penance. The film follows Frederic Mason (Henry Czerny), a former priest who left the brotherhood to marry Ethel (Mimi Kuzyk) and raise a little girl. Ethel is devout and stoic and their late-in-life marriage feels simultaneously rock solid and susceptible to imminent collapse at the same time. The Righteous opens in the aftermath of a tragedy: the couple’s young daughter has died, although...

Structured like a play and filmed in inky black and white, actor Mark O’Brien’s feature directorial debut The Righteous is a dialogue-driven examination of grief, responsibility and penance. The film follows Frederic Mason (Henry Czerny), a former priest who left the brotherhood to marry Ethel (Mimi Kuzyk) and raise a little girl. Ethel is devout and stoic and their late-in-life marriage feels simultaneously rock solid and susceptible to imminent collapse at the same time. The Righteous opens in the aftermath of a tragedy: the couple’s young daughter has died, although...

Behaviour Interactive have been teasing the next chapter for Dead by Daylight for the past week, including the addition of a new killer. Who is it, you ask? Well, if the teaser trailer is anything to go by, we could soon be in store for the arrival of a certain Cenobite. Things started to get interesting when Behaviour posted an audio file to their Discord, which when viewed through a spectrogram, reveals the word ‘HELL’. The devs have also been posting letters to their Twitter account, which when combined, spell...