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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise roars back to life with a brand new movie on Netflix this week, but that’s not the only new horror movie on the horizon this week. In addition to Leatherface’s return as well as the return of AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” several new horror movies are releasing this week. As always, we’ve got the rundown. Here’s all the new horror releasing February 15-20, 2022! First up, Here Before is now available on VOD outlets today, a mind-bending nightmare from director Stacey Gregg that stars Andrea...

A subset of killer doll horror movies features psychological horror movies where the doll remains an inanimate object throughout; any homicidal urges or personality are merely a projection by a fractured mind. Anthony Hopkins’ Corky in Magic serves as one of the most prominent examples, and love presented a warped love triangle that catalyzed self-destruction. It paved the way for 1988’s Pin then 2003’s Love Object. These two psychological horror movies used life-sized plastic dolls as a conduit for unhinged characters to channel repressed feelings, desires for connection and love, and awakening sexuality. All of...

What’s a Bogan? Joe and I have been on a roll with our “Underrated or Underseen?” theme for the first quarter of the year! As we move through the 2010s, we’ve discussed Rob Zombie’s polarizing 2013 film The Lords of Salem, then we had a few laughs with a discussion of Gerard Johnstone’s 2014 film Housebound. We got chilly with Oz Perkin’s The Blackcoat’s Daughter for 2015 and now we’re discussing Nicholas Verso‘s 2016 tearjerker Boys in the Trees! In the film, alienated teens Corey (Toby Wallace) and Jonah (Gulliver McGrath) begrudgingly find...

AP just put a damper on Super Bowl Sunday with the devastating news that beloved filmmaker Ivan Reitman has passed away at the age of 75. Reitman passed away peacefully in his sleep Saturday night at his home in Montecito, Calif., his family told The Associated Press. Reitman is best known among the horror crowd as the director of the iconic 1984 supernatural comedy Ghostbusters and its sequel, Ghostbusters II. While he didn’t direct last year’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife, he did return to produce and passed the baton on to his...

Censorship is nothing new for horror fans, including video games. Unfortunately, it’s reared its head again with LKA’s upcoming Martha Is Dead, as Sony has requested that the game be censored for its release on the PlayStation. Martha Is Dead‘s publisher, Wired Productions, took to Twitter to explain that as per Sony’s request, LKA has had to “modify the experience on the PS5 and PS4 versions ”. The resulting changes have unfortunately rendered “some elements” of the game no longer playable. Neither Wired Productions or LKA have specified what content...

If you’re in the mood for a wacky creature feature you probably need to look no further than the upcoming Crabs, which has unleashed an absolutely bonkers trailer this week. Crabs is being described as “Zombeavers meets Godzilla,” which should give you a decent idea what to expect from this one. And yes, it features six-foot man-eating CRAB MONSTERS. In the film from director Pierce Berolzheimer, “Mutated by nuclear runoff a horde of murderous horseshoe crabs descend on a sleepy California town causing Prom Night terror. As the deadly crustaceans claw...

If you’re in the mood for a wacky creature feature you probably need to look no further than the upcoming Crabs, which has unleashed an absolutely bonkers trailer this week. Crabs is being described as “Zombeavers meets Godzilla,” which should give you a decent idea what to expect from this one. And yes, it features six-foot man-eating CRAB MONSTERS. In the film from director Pierce Berolzheimer, “Mutated by nuclear runoff a horde of murderous horseshoe crabs descend on a sleepy California town causing Prom Night terror. As the deadly crustaceans claw...

AMC’s “Tales of the Walking Dead” spinoff anthology series continues casting up, and today Variety reports that Daniella Pineda (“Cowboy Bebop”) has come on board. The show’s six-episode first season is expected to premiere this summer. The show’s cast also includes Terry Crews, Parker Posey, Jillian Bell, Anthony Edwards and Poppy Liu. Confirmed directors for the “Tales of the Walking Dead” spinoff include Haifaa al-Mansour (Good Lord Bird), Deborah Kampmeier (Star Trek: Picard), Tara Nicole Weyr (The Wilds), and Michael Satrazemis (The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead). “Each one hour episode is set within the world of “The Walking Dead” and will feature...

Now more than ever, “the world needs heroes,” and DC is reminding us of that fact with a preview video for their slate of 2022 movies, which features some fresh new footage. Coming this year from DC, The Batman, Black Adam, The Flash, and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom get the spotlight in the video, which you can watch down below. Most notable here is the Black Adam footage, giving us some fresh looks at Dwayne Johnson as the title character along with our first look at Pierce Brosnan‘s Doctor...

In March, Shudder will spotlight the bold, visionary horror emerging from France in the twenty-first century, including essential titles from the boundary-pushing wave of films dubbed “New French Extremity.” That includes Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury‘s Livid, previously unavailable on streaming in the U.S. Livid follows Lucy (Chloé Coulloud), a young woman training to become an at-home nurse and still reeling from her mother’s death. She’s grown estranged from her father, who’s taken to working nights and moving on in his personal life. When accompanying Mrs. Wilson (Catherine Jacob) on patient rounds,...

A brand new Halloween Ends set photo has been shared by Jamie Lee Curtis today, who warns that “all bets are off” this coming October. But in the meantime, she wants you to enjoy a nice little photo of Haddonfield’s “Final Girl Support Group,” made up Curtis’s Laurie Strode, Andi Matichak‘s Allyson Strode, and Kyle Richards‘s Lindsey Wallace. The three are wearing “Final Girl” t-shirts in this latest Halloween Ends set photo, with Curtis also sharing a photo of Grady Hendrix’s slasher book, The Final Girl Support Group. A fitting...

The classic story The Most Dangerous Game has been turned into countless different movies over the years, most recently Blumhouse’s The Hunt, and it sounds like Lionsgate’s Escape the Field is cut from a similar cloth. Announced by Deadline this afternoon, Escape the Field has been picked up by Lionsgate for a planned “multi-platform release” this coming May. Here’s the plot synopsis for director Emerson Moore‘s feature… “The psychological thriller finds six strangers who suddenly awake in a remote, endless cornfield, stripped of their possessions and left with seemingly random...

1931 is the foundational year for the horror film. It is the year in which all the strands and experiments of the silent era crystalized into the genre we now know. Even the term “horror movie” was not in wide use before 1931. Four films in particular have had a lasting impact on the genre that is still felt to this day. Dracula and Frankenstein are the two most often mentioned in conversations of that year’s horror films, but also important are Fritz Lang’s M for essentially inventing the serial...

Camille Griffin’s directorial debut, Silent Night, which made the festival rounds last fall, is making its way to DVD and Blu-ray on March 8, 2022, via RLJE Films. What makes this home video release worth getting is that it boasts not only deleted and extended scenes but more than one alternate ending! Keira Knightley stars in the “darkly comedic drama,” which Meagan reviewed out of the Toronto International Film Festival’s World Premiere, writing that “Silent Night hides grim tragedy within awkward Christmas comedy.” “Silent Night follows a group of old friends who – in true British fashion and...