Horror News

What better way to celebrate your birthday than at Willy’s Wonderland! This is a horror movie where you’ll see Nicolas Cage spend the night locked in for a dusk til dawn blood soaked showdown with some creepy animatronics possessed by sinister spirits! Appearing on episode 200 of Bloody Disgusting’s Boo Crew Podcast is Director Kevin Lewis – the mastermind of this delightfully fun and entertaining flick. Written by G.O. Parsons, this super fun thriller is one that will have you reminiscing of your childhood experiences at Chuck E. Cheese or...

“We’ve got to stand up to monsters.” After two movies, the monsters vs. robots franchise Pacific Rim is getting its own animated series over at Netflix, the battle between the Kaiju and the Jaegers continuing next week. It’s titled “Pacific Rim: The Black,” and the streaming service has released the final trailer today, which damn sure suggests that Pacific Rim is one franchise that was absolutely made for this format. After all, the concept of humans piloting giant robots to fight giant monsters sounds like something you’d find in an animated series to...

Lovecraftian horror continues to have a resurgence on screens both big and small with Netflix and producer Spike Lee‘s upcoming movie Gordon Hemingway & the Realm of Cthulhu, which was just announced earlier this week. Stefon Bristol (See You Yesterday) is on board to direct the feature, which may star the leading man from HBO’s “Lovecraft Country”! Variety reports that Jonathan Majors, fresh off playing Atticus Freeman in Misha Green’s HBO series, is currently in talks to star in Gordon Hemingway & the Realm of Cthulhu. If he signs on, Majors...

It’s a flawless victory for Warner Bros./New Line Cinema’s Mortal Kombat marketing campaign. The studio took a big swing by premiering a red band trailer for their new Mortal Kombat adaptation and hit a grand slam. The trailer has clocked 116M views in its first week, becoming the biggest red band trailer of all-time, besting the 4-day mark of Logan and Deadpool 2 and continuing to do so, wrote Deadline Thursday evening. Adds the site: “The trailer for the Simon McQuoid-directed feature trended in 52 total markets on YouTube and...

Simon Barrett is a central part of the Bloody Disgusting family, having collaborated with Adam Wingard on our A Horrible Way to Die, not to mention both V/H/S and V/H/S/2, the latter of which he directed the film’s wraparound for. Barrett also penned The Guest, You’re Next, Blair Witch, and the 2004 horror film Dead Birds, and he’s directing our upcoming V/H/S/94. But first up, Barrett makes his directorial debut with Seance this year, a brand new horror movie that’s just been acquired by RLJE Films and Shudder for release this May. First, Seance comes to...

Released in 1987, Adrian Lyne’s Fatal Attraction is the latest movie to get its own television series, with Paramount announcing today that a series is in the works for Paramount+. THR reports tonight, “Fatal Attraction is described as a deep-dive reimagining of the psychosexual thriller that starred Glenn Close and Michael Douglas.” “The new take will be told through the lens of modern attitudes when it comes to strong women, personality disorders, victim shaming and coercive control,” the site adds. In the 1987 movie… “A married man’s one-night stand comes back...

Fresh off her arrival in the John Wick franchise, Halle Berry is next going to encounter alien life forms in a sci-fi movie titled Mothership for Netflix, Collider is reporting today. Collider’s Jeff Sneider reports that the science fiction feature film is written by Matt Charman (Bridge of Spies), who will also be directing for Netflix. “Berry will play a fearless woman whose husband mysteriously vanishes, but when she discovers a strange extraterrestrial object beneath her home, she and her children set out to find him and uncover the truth...

NECA is working on a brand new line of Universal Monsters action figures based on the original classics, with Frankenstein’s monster and The Mummy thus far previewed. Tonight brings a tease of the third figure, The Wolf Man! NECA tweeted out a sneak-peek preview of the upcoming figure tonight, showing off some of the accessories that will come with him. They include Larry’s cane and a bear trap. The figure will be based on the 1941 film, wherein Larry Talbot was played by Lon Chaney Jr. Here’s your first look…...

One of the most talked about new movies of the year, director Emerald Fennell‘s Promising Young Woman has already been well-represented on this year’s awards scene, currently nominated for four Golden Globes with a potential trip to the Oscars in its future. On the road to the Oscars, we’ve learned today that the film is headed to Blu-ray next month. Universal will release Promising Young Woman on Digital March 2, DVD/Blu-ray on March 16. Special Features include: Audio commentary by writer-director Emerald Fennell A Promising Vision – Writer/director Emerald Fennell...

Back in 1998, you may have heard, the late George A. Romero directed the pilot episode for a proposed series titled “Iron City Asskickers,” set in the world of professional wrestling. Now more than 20 years since the project wrapped production, Cryptic Pictures has announced today that Romero’s “Iron City Asskickers” pilot is being released… on DVD and VHS. On April 23, 2021, Cryptic Pictures Distribution, in association with Image 987, will be bringing “Iron City Asskickers” to both formats. The short film was thought to be lost until recently....

From Alfred Hitchcock’s infamous cameos to Stephen King literally writing himself into the Dark Tower series, it’s not uncommon for creators to insert themselves into their art. Of course, there’s a difference between simply appearing in your work and becoming the main attraction, and that’s why José Mojica Marins stands out as one of the most daring genre filmmakers of all time. Spawning a multi-media franchise from a tiny b-picture filmed in the heart of 1960s Brazil, Mojica’s subversive storytelling earned him worldwide notoriety during a time when most horror...

It’s grimly fitting that a game about being cursed with vampirism has itself been so terribly cursed in its development. After delays and apparent discontent plagued the long-awaited RPG sequel Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, it’s now been struck with a huge setback in the form of a change of development team, which means it will no longer be releasing this year as planned. In a statement on the game’s official Discord channel, it was announced that developer Hardsuit Labs has been removed from the project to take it...

Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul) is an (unlikely) ass-kicking vigilante in Nobody, the new action-thriller from director Ilya Naishuller (Hardcore Henry). Nobody had originally been scheduled to release in theaters on April 2, but that date has slightly shifted this week. Nobody will now release in theaters a tad bit earlier, on March 26. Universal Pictures is likely looking to give the film some distance from Godzilla vs. Kong, releasing on March 31. Emmy winner Bob Odenkirk stars as Hutch Mansell, an underestimated and overlooked dad and husband, taking life’s indignities on the chin...

Censor was one of the best discoveries out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival and introduced a brand new voice in horror, Prano Bailey-Bond. Meagan Navarro was a huge fan, writing in her review that the film “creates a mind-bending nightmare set in the video nasty era.” You won’t have to wait long to catch Censor as Magnolia Pictures has already acquired the horror film and is targeting a June 11, 2021, release, writes Variety. “The movie centers on film censor Enid (Raised by Wolves’ Niamh Algar), who discovers an eerie...