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Shudder will be delivering classic haunted house thrills and chills with Black Death director Christopher Smith‘s The Banishing next month, and their trailer has arrived tonight. The film is being billed as “the true story of the most haunted house in England.” “A young reverend and his wife and daughter move into a manor with a horrifying secret. When a vengeful spirit haunts the little girl and threatens to tear the family apart, the reverend and his wife are forced to confront their beliefs. They must turn to black magic...

Soman Chainani’s debut novel The School for Good and Evil, which was published in 2013 and launched a franchise, is getting a movie over at Netflix, with Paul Feig (Ghostbusters, Last Christmas) on board to direct the film. David Magee (Life of Pi, Mary Poppins Returns) and Laura Solon (Office Christmas Party, Let It Snow) are adapting. Charlize Theron will play Lady Lesso and Kerry Washington will play Professor Dovey in the film, and today we’ve learned that Laurence Fishburne and Michelle Yeoh have signed on. Netflix details, “Yeoh will play Professor Anemone and Fishburne will play The Schoolmaster.” The cast also...

Originally thought to be a movie, Netflix announced today the voice cast for their forthcoming Resident Evil original CG anime series, Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness, while also sharing a brand new piece of art and a lengthy synopsis. Bloody Disgusting learned tonight that Leon S. Kennedy will be voiced by Nick Apostolides, and Claire Redfield will be voiced by Stephanie Panisello, well known to fans as the voice actors from the reimagined Resident Evil 2 from 2019. This teaser art gives a glimpse of Leon and Claire in action, while...

The flesh is family… This weekend marks the very first release of the Bloody Disgusting x Dark Star Pictures collaboration, Honeydew, which calls back to classics like Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre with a modern A24-esque flair. Tickets are now on sale for this weekend’s theatrical release of Honeydew, which Nerdist called “a hallucinogenic nightmare of a movie.” The full theater listings can be found here, some of which are drive-in or virtual screenings. For those waiting for a VOD and Digital HD release, mark your calendars for April 13,...

After directing last year’s Delivered for the Hulu and Blumhouse TV feature film anthology series “Into the Dark,” Emma Tammi (The Wind) is back with this year’s season two finale. In the film, “When Esme (Megalyn Echikunwoke) and her ten-year-old son, Luna (Yonas Kibreab), move to a small desert town looking for a fresh start they attract all the wrong kinds of attention. As the locals begin to probe, Esme must battle to protect her son and a terrifying secret before the next full moon threatens their very existence.” Bloody Disgusting now has the...

Announced just last month, the next movie from Paul W.S. Anderson (Mortal Kombat, Event Horizon, Resident Evil, Monster Hunter) is titled In the Lost Lands, with Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista attached to star. FilmNation launched the project at the European Film Market, and Deadline reports that international rights to the movie have sold out. Deadline reports that FilmNation has booked “a string of multi-million dollar pre-sales for the fantasy-adventure movie,” with big deals closing “for the UK (Studiocanal), Germany/Switzerland (Constantin), France (Metropolitan Film Export), Australia/New Zealand (Roadshow Distribution),” and...

The King of the Monsters is soon making his way to Netflix with Toho’s anime series “Godzilla Singular Point,” which features character designs by Blue Exorcist’s Kazue Kato and a brand new Godzilla design from legendary Ghibli animator Eiji Yamamori. The latest official trailer has been unleashed tonight, showing various monsters (plus Jet Jaguar!) in action. “Singular Point” is coming to Netflix globally this year. In the series… “When danger comes up from the depths, only young geniuses Mei, Yun, and their team can face the threat.” Atsushi Takahashi is directing “Singular Point.” Anime studio Bones (My Hero Academia)...

The cast for Eli Roth‘s video game adaptation Borderlands continues to grow, with THR reporting tonight that Florian Munteanu (Creed II) has come on board this week. Munteanu, who played Viktor Drago in Creed II, will be playing the Borderlands video game character known as Krieg. THR describes Krieg as “the musclebound, rhetorically challenged protector of Tiny Tina, the unstable 13-year-old explosive expert.” “Florian brings real humanity and multiple layers to a character who on the surface seems totally insane and brutally savage,” Roth told the site. “Krieg was by...

Before John Carpenter’s Halloween there was Bob Clark’s Black Christmas, an early slasher film that helped lay the foundation for the eventual arrival of horror movie icons like Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger. After two remakes, we’ve learned this week that Black Christmas is next getting a behind-the-scenes book, set for release next year. Written by Paul Downey and Dave Hastings, It’s Me, Billy: Black Christmas Revisited will be released by BearManor Media in 2022. You can check out the cover art below. The team previews this week, “the...

Casey Affleck, Sam Claflin, Michelle Monaghan, Veronica Ferres and India Eisley star in the thriller Every Breath You Take, which has been acquired by Vertical Entertainment. Deadline reports today that Vertical will release the film, directed by Vaughn Stein, in both North American theaters and at-home via Premium VOD on April 2nd, 2021. “Every Breath You Take centers on a psychiatrist (Affleck) whose career is thrown into jeopardy when his patient takes her own life. When he invites his patient’s surviving brother (Claflin) into his home to meet his wife (Monaghan) and...

Nearly twenty years after starring in Troll 2, filmmaker Michael Paul Stephenson made a documentary about it, Best Worst Movie, that chronicled its cult fandom and key players involved with the film’s creation. His follow-up documentary, The American Scream, put a compassionate and joyful spotlight on the Halloween home haunt, told through three households in a Massachusetts town. Stephenson’s latest, Attack of the Murder Hornets, takes on a timely subject and approaches it through a ‘50s style horror lens, infusing his sense of wonder and humor along the way. Mere months into the...

After finally seeing a release on the Nintendo Switch last October, Running With Scissors has released Postal Redux on the PlayStation 4. As with the Switch and Steam releases, the game includes all of the previously-released DLC, as well as the Redux-exclusive Rampage mode. It’s quite the ride for Postal Redux to the PlayStation 4, as it was originally intended to come out alongside the PC release (thanks, COGconnected). However, low sales of the PC version resulted in Running With Scissors getting second thoughts and canning the PS4 version. Fortunately,...

Published in 1984 and written by Stephen King and Peter Straub, fantasy epic The Talisman is one of the few notable King stories that to date has not yet been adapted for either the small screen or the big one. This despite Steven Spielberg owning the rights to the book since the ’80s, with various planned adaptations taking different forms over the years. Well it may finally be happening, as THR reports today that Spielberg has joined forces with “Stranger Things” creators Matt and Ross Duffer to adapt the novel for the small screen! The Duffer...

While we wait for the Sinister and Doctor Strange director’s new horror movie The Black Phone, we’ve learned today from Variety that Scott Derrickson has set up his next project. Derrickson will be executive producing “Grace” for Paramount Television Studios under his Crooked Highway banner. The project comes courtesy of writer Joseph Sousa. Variety details, “The story focuses on a man on death row for killing his wife who is set free when she resurfaces. But she may not really be who she says she is.” C. Robert Cargill and...