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A brand new wave of cartoon-inspired “Toony Terrors” toys is on the way from NECA, and the company previews the series today while noting it might be their “best assortment yet.” In addition to Captain Blake from John Carpenter’s The Fog, previewed earlier this week, the Series 6 wave includes Elvira, Herbert West and My Bloody Valentine‘s Miner! The Miner is of course wielding his pick-axe, while Re-Animator‘s Herbert West includes a syringe and Dr. Hill’s severed head in a tray. Captain Blake includes his sword. Preview “Toony Terrors” Series...

Tackling a new adaptation of a beloved video game franchise still going strong since 1992 sounds like a Herculean task. With a little over twenty games across platforms, nearly one hundred characters, decades of mythology, and a cherished 1995 feature adaptation, the intersection to appease both longtime fans and brand new gets blurred quickly. Mortal Kombat ambitiously attempts to do it all, a conventional monomyth packed to the gills with fan service flair and thrilling fight scenes. While densely packed and less serious than it takes itself, Mortal Kombat succeeds in soaring...

Ahead of the film’s release in theaters and on HBO Max tomorrow (look for our review *tonight*!), a gory new clip from Mortal Kombat has been shared by The Game Awards tonight. Unlike the 1995 movie, this year’s Mortal Kombat is very much rated “R,” and jam-packed with brutal Fatalities. Warner Bros. invites you to check out one of them tonight, the culmination of a fight scene between Jax Briggs (Mehcad Brooks) and Reiko (Nathan Jones). Briggs wins, of course, using his freshly-installed metal arms to literally pop Reiko’s head like...

A big time deal was inked by Netflix and Sony Pictures Entertainment earlier this month, which will give Netflix exclusive streaming rights to Sony titles *after* theatrical and home entertainment releases. This pact begins next year, which kicks off with Sony’s release of the Jared Leto-starring Marvel vampire movie Morbius, currently dated for January 21, 2022. The partnership will “provide Netflix with an 18-month exclusive window for Sony films,” and now we have more insight into what happens to Sony’s films after that window closes. Deadline reports tonight that “Disney and Sony have reached...

Announced last month, Emma Roberts is executive producing a young adult vampire series for Netflix that’s titled “First Kill,” and today brings word that a director has been found. Deadline reports that Jet Wilkinson (The Chi, How to Get Away with Murder) will direct the first two episodes. The series is written by Felicia D. Henderson and Victoria “V.E.” Schwab. In the series, “When it’s time for teenage vampire Juliette (Sarah Catherine Hook) to make her first kill so she can take her place among a powerful vampire family, she...

James Wan has passed the baton to Michael Chaves (The Curse of La Llorona) for The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, coming to theaters and HBO Max on June 4, 2021. Much like the previous two The Conjuring movies, we’ve learned tonight that The Conjuring 3 has received an “R” rating from the MPA. The WB/New Line film is rated “R” for…. “Terror, Violence, and some disturbing images.” “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...

A few years back, “Zombie Skittles” hit store shelves for Halloween, with candies tasting like “rotten zombie” randomly mixed into each bag. In other words, you didn’t know if you were about to taste the rainbow or, well, human flesh… until it was too late. A similar gimmick is being put to use this coming Halloween season with “Skittles Shriekers,” we’ve learned. Once again, the spooky-themed bags of candy will be filled with both normal-tasting Skittles and unpleasant variants that are randomly inserted, in this case *super sour* Skittles. The...

With Honeydew now on all VOD platforms, the next Bloody Disgusting x Dark Star Pictures collaboration is going full-blown weird and is guaranteed to deliver gross-out mayhem when Dementia Part II arrives in theaters on May 21, 2021, and on VOD, Digital HD and DVD on June 1st. Taken from the pages of Sam Raimi, and delivering absurd gross-out humor and nonstop mayhem, the making of Dementia Part II came out of a dare from Chicago’s Cinepocalype Film Festival and the movie’s producers JD Lifshitz and Raphael Margules. The two must produce a...

For years, the bug-eyed, giant animatronic characters of Five Nights at Freddy’s (also known by the acronym, FNAF) have been terrorizing children and adults alike. Since debuting in 2014, the series’ unique first-person perspective survival-horror experience has spawned a myriad of sequels and spin-offs, significantly influencing the horror genre in both gaming, and even in film: Blumhouse officially announced a Five Nights at Freddy’s movie to be released in the near future. With an expansive and somewhat loose lore, a significant appeal of the series has been the opportunity for...

So, remember last year how someone leaked footage of a standalone multiplayer mode for The Last of Us Part II, not to mention that we were all expecting some sort of DLC for Naughty Dog’s hit sequel? Well apparently, that’s not going to happen for the time being. According to Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier, Naughty Dog currently has “no plans” to pursue any additional DLC content for the game. Speaking on the MinnMax Show, Schreier states that when it came to the topic of DLC, he believes that “at one...

Those Fallout 4 modders are at it again. Well actually, they may be closet Fallout 4 fans, but are really Resident Evil Village fans at heart. Whatever the case, modder Vtaw has managed to appease both fans by creating a mod that brings everyone’s towering vampire, Village‘s Lady Dimitrescu, into Fallout 4 for the PC. Well, more accurately, the mod brings an outfit based on Lady Dimitrescu, with the main file of this mod coming with pre-made meshes that look as close as possible to Lady Dimitrescu. You’ll be able...

After a brutal legal battle, Fear Factory is finally set to release their first album in five years, Aggression Continuum, which will arrive June 18th via Nuclear Blast just in time for the band’s 30th anniversary. Aggression Continuum is also the final to feature Burton C. Bell, who announced his exit last September. The band is currently on the hunt for a new singer. Focusing on the positive, the band shared “Disruptor”, the first single off Aggression Continuum, which is accompanied by the following action-packed and ultra-violent dystopian music video directed...

The movie isn’t actually releasing until November 11 but it looks like Summer 2021 is going to be the Summer of Ghostbusters anyway, with all kinds of toys and tie-in products on the way. Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife, a sequel to the original classics, is even getting its own cereal from General Mills, and it has already started popping up on shelves this month! The art features the iconic Ghostbusters logo on a black box, along with a trio of Mini-Pufts playing around. As for the cereal itself, it’s red,...

We’ve learned the sad news tonight that Felix Silla, an actor and stuntman best known for playing Cousin Itt on “The Addams Family,” has passed away today at the age of 84. Silla died Friday after a battle with pancreatic cancer, THR reports. Felix Silla played Cousin Itt in multiple episodes of the original “Addams Family” live-action series between 1965 and 1966, subsequently appearing in several popular shows including “H.R. Pufnstuf,” “Bewitched,” “Night Gallery,” “Lidsville,” “Battlestar Galactica,” “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century,” “The Dukes of Hazzard,” and “Star Trek:...