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For those who enjoyed Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance‘s dismemberment and full-on cybernetic swordplay, developer Soleil and publisher 110 Industries have a little something for you. Announced during the Tokyo Game Show is Wanted: Dead, an over-the-shoulder action game for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and PC that will have you ripping off cyborg heads while dishing out justice. Developed by former Team Ninja members (the trailer touts them having worked on Ninja Gaiden, Dead or Alive and uh, Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball), Wanted: Dead puts you in a...

The Halloween season is well underway, which likely means that you’ve already shored up your October horror watchlists and decked the halls with Halloween décor. Now, all that’s left to do is enjoy the cooler weather and curl up with a spooky story or five. Not much of a reader? Need a rec for your young, budding horror fan? Or maybe you’re in the mood for non-fiction or bite-sized horror shorts. This fall reading guide has something for just about all literary tastes and reader types. All bring the horror...

With Ghostbusters: Afterlife busting into theatres very soon (for reals, this time), it would seem that we’re also in for another Ghostbusters video game. At least, that’s according to singer/songwriter/record producer Raphael Saadiq, of all people. Snagged by PCGamesN, while on the Questlove Supreme podcast, Saadiq dropped news about an hour into the episode that his studio Illfonic is currently working on the game. No other information was given on the project, nor has there been an official announcement. Given Illfonic’s resume, with having worked on Friday The 13th: The...

While we won’t be seeing Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong until next year, that’s not stopping publisher Nacon and developer Big Bad Wolf Studio from releasing a new trailer for the game that reveals a new character from the game. In this case, we’re introduced to Emem, a former Jazz diva. One of the three playable characters in Swanwong alongside Leysha and Galeb, Emem is a century-old member of the Toreador clan who was transformed into a vampire by Hilda, the love of her life. Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong...

“Chucky broke his soul into pieces, but the last piece didn’t go into a doll,” Alex Vincent‘s Andy Barclay explains in the latest trailer for USA & SYFY’s “Chucky” series from creator Don Mancini, which loads up on new footage, familiar faces, and even one very gory kill. Ahead of the series premiere on October 12, check out the brand new trailer below, which features the return of Andy, Kyle, Tiffany, and yes, even Nica Pierce as well. And this time, her body is inhabited by the evil spirit of...

Sinister and Doctor Strange duo Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill return to horror with their brand new Blumhouse horror movie The Black Phone, an adaptation of Joe Hill‘s short story. But we’ll have to wait just a smidge longer before we’ll be able to answer their call. The Black Phone was set to release in theaters on January 28, 2022, but it’s now shifted into a wide release on Friday, February 4, 2022. The Black Phone‘s plot reads, “Finney Shaw, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof...

The 40th anniversary celebration of Elvira continues with a brand new action figure from NECA, shown off tonight on the first night of NECA’s month-long “Monster Madness” event. NECA writes, “The devilishly delightful Cassandra Peterson has played the part of Elvira for 40 years with grace, humor and more than a little camp. NECA is proud to present this fiendishly fantastic figure.” The upcoming figure will include two heads, regular and winking, as well as a handful of accessories including a dagger, goblet, and skull candle. Wearing a cloth outfit,...

James Wan is producing a new take on Stephen King‘s vampire story Salem’s Lot for Warner Bros. and New Line, with Gary Dauberman (It, The Nun, Annabelle Comes Home) attached to write the script and also direct the film. THR brings us some new casting news tonight, with Jordan Preston Carter, Nicholas Crovetti and Cade Woodward all signing on. THR reports, “Carter (DMZ) will play Mark Petrie, a 12-year old boy who becomes a key member of the group fighting the evil. Crovetti (Big Little Lies) is Danny Glick, who becomes the town’s first vampire and helps...

Diablo II Resurrected offers up almost exactly the same game of 21 years ago to a fault. An unapologetic, brutal action RPG that feels incredibly jarring when compared to its modern successors. It’s intimidating, frustrating, and oddly refreshing at times. Resurrected brings a significant visual overhaul (with the option to switch back to the original look) and smooths over some of the dated aspects on the technical side of things, but where it matters, this is still very much Diablo II, for the people who were into that the first...

Diablo II Resurrected offers up almost exactly the same game of 21 years ago to a fault. An unapologetic, brutal action RPG that feels incredibly jarring when compared to its modern successors. It’s intimidating, frustrating, and oddly refreshing at times. Resurrected brings a significant visual overhaul (with the option to switch back to the original look) and smooths over some of the dated aspects on the technical side of things, but where it matters, this is still very much Diablo II, for the people who were into that the first...

Bloober Team are apparently back at it with another Layers of Fear entry. The team sent IGN a cryptic video (which you can see below) teasing a brand-new entry in the series powered by Epic Games’ shiny new Unreal Engine 5. In addition to the video, Bloober Team CEO Piotr Babiebo had this to say: “Layers of Fear was a breakthrough project for us. It paved the path for Bloober Team and began our rapid growth, allowing us to explore more stories we’ve wanted to tell. I’m really glad we’re...

Lionsgate is doing something very cool with the Blair Witch brand this October, partnering with fiction creator platform Dorian to help *you* get directly involved with the franchise! The press release explains, “Dorian, the first ever no-code platform that allows independent writers to easily transform their stories into playable immersive games, has partnered with global content leader Lionsgate to empower fiction creators to expand the stories behind some of Hollywood’s most popular franchises. Through this unique partnership, Dorian and Lionsgate will launch official events tied to well-known Hollywood IP, calling...

Amy Holden Jones’ 1982 film The Slumber Party Massacre was a bit of a rarity in the ’80s slasher boom: it was written by a feminist writer (Rita Mae Brown) and told from a female perspective (Jones’). While they were beholden to certain non-feminist genre tropes (half-naked pillow fights and fully naked breasts, just to name a few) the film was able to subvert the male gaze in multiple ways. Under Roger Corman’s New World Pictures, the film passed the Bechdel Test before the Bechdel Test was even invented. If there ever...

In the wake of their folk horror box set All The Haunts Be Ours, Severin Films has today announced a brand new upcoming box set, Nasty Habits: The Nunsploitation Collection. The press release explains, “Throughout the ‘70s, Italian filmmakers aimed a canon of blasphemy at the church to launch what remains the most controversial genre of all: Nunsploitation. This November 30th (just three days before the US release of Paul Verhoeven’s sinful Sapphic epic BENEDETTA) Severin Films proudly presents a superfluity of depravity with four of the finest examples of...