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Another one of those “didn’t see this coming” items. Developer poncle’s hit roguelike Vampire Survivors is the latest video game to get a television adaptation. Los Angeles-based Story Kitchen is teaming up with poncle founder Luca Galante to adapt Vampire Survivors into a “premium, animated television series.” Per Deadline, the project is now in search of a writer, and is being shopped around to animated TV networks. “The most important thing in Vampire Survivors is the story, so it’s a dream come true to see what started as a little...

Writer/Director Jalmari Helander delivered a delightfully wicked twist to Santa Claus in 2010’s genre-bender Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale. Helander’s latest, Sisu, sees the filmmaker reteaming with some familiar Rare Exports faces for another crowd-pleasing genre-bender, this time an R-rated journey through Lapland near the end of World War II. The period action adventure goes hard on hyper-violence and has a sense of humor to match. Jorma Tommila (Rare Exports) stars as Aatami, a former soldier turned solitary miner living out in the wilderness with his loyal dog and horse. When Aatami uncovers an impressive...

William Sleator’s eerie dystopian 1974 YA sci-fi novel House of Stairs is getting an adaptation. Before I Wake and Doctor Sleep actor Jacob Tremblay will star, Variety reports. Wi Ding Ho (Terrorizers) will direct. Taking place in the near future, the dystopian genre film “follows five 16-year-old orphans who wake up to find themselves in a strange building with no walls, no ceiling, and no floor: nothing but endless flights of stairs leading in every direction, seemingly infinite. To find an exit, the five teenagers must learn to deal with...

With a long and successful career spanning genres, Mia Farrow may not be considered a horror icon, but she’s certainly deserving of the title in terms of quality over quantity. The two genre efforts in which she starred are exemplary horror movies of their respective eras; while Rosemary’s Baby has been widely lauded since its release in 1968 (Roman Polanski’s personal life controversies notwithstanding), The Haunting of Julia – known internationally as Full Circle – is a hidden gem ripe for rediscovery. Based on Peter Straub’s 1975 novel Julia, the...

David Gordon Green‘s The Exorcist relaunch is set to be a legacy follow-up to the original classic, and the official title was announced at CinemaCon tonight – The Exorcist: Believer. Gordon Green is directing the brand new sequel to The Exorcist for Universal, Blumhouse and Morgan Creek that will pave the way for a new trilogy. The first film in the trilogy will be released theatrically on October 13, 2023, with Leslie Odom Jr. starring alongside Ellen Burstyn, who will be reprising her role as Chris MacNeil from the original 1973 movie. The first plot details we...

The House of No Return was originally published in October 1994 (Special Edition Spine #1). The series adaptation aired on Saturday, September 13, 1997 (runtime: 22 minutes). Collecting is rooted deep in my marrow and for that I blame Goosebumps. Their numbered spines and matching artwork demand to be catalogued in order and to completion, and from the moment I nabbed a Goosebumps book of my very own, I was determined to finish the set. Of course, as is the case with any collection, the series progressed and evolved. Goosebumps splintered...

The horror movie to go see in theaters right now is Evil Dead Rise, but a brand new horror movie is being unleashed in theaters this week to give the franchise a little genre competition. And it’s one of SEVEN new horror movies releasing this week… Here’s all the new horror releasing April 25 – April 30, 2023! For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar. After scaring up $168 million worldwide, Scream VI just arrived for purchase on Digital TODAY, and Bloody Disgusting has also learned this week that Scream...

Before the days of in-depth single-player campaigns and cinematic storytelling, nearly every videogame shared the same basic premise: survive as long as you can. From Pong to Missile Command, most early gaming experiences weren’t about concluding story-arcs or even defeating a final boss, they simply tasked players with trying their best at a certain task until they met with an inevitable defeat – our natural instinct to persevere and earn high score bragging rights is what made that journey satisfying. That’s why I find it curious that survival games as...

Ten years ago, the characters in Fede Alvarez’s Evil Dead were cleverly given first names that allowed the first letters of each of their names to spell out DEMON – David, Eric, Mia, Olivia, Natalie – and Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise has similarly hidden some Easter Eggs within the characters’ names. Every character in the new movie is named after a past Evil Dead star! Here’s the full main character roster, and the stars their names pay tribute to… Actor/Character: Lily Sullivan – Beth Named After: Embeth Davidtz, Army...

With roots in real-life murders, “The Hook” urban legend goes hand-in-hand — or should I say hand-in-hook? — with the slasher genre. After being referenced in ’80s slashers He Knows You’re Alone and Final Exam, it went on to at least partially inspire five slashers from the ’90s: Candyman, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Urban Legend, Campfire Tales, and Lovers Lane. Unfortunately, the latter is the least effective of the bunch. To be fair, Lovers Lane was made independently for $500,000 — a fraction of the budget of...

The Japanese remake of Vincenzo Natali‘s sci-fi cult classic Cube, directed by Yasuhiko Shimizu (“Pension: Love Is Pink”), is now streaming on the Bloody Disgusting-powered SCREAMBOX. The brutal sci-fi horror classic by Vincenzo Natali was so successful that it spawned Cube²: Hypercube (2002) and Cube Zero (2004). Natali (Splice, In the Tall Grass, NBC’s “Hannibal”) stayed on as a creative advisor for the Japanese remake, with Kôji Tokuo writing the adapted screenplay. Bloody Disgusting spoke with Natali for the remake’s release on SCREAMBOX. The filmmaker revealed how he influenced the remake, including its director Yasuhiko Shimizu, and teased the trap he designed...

If you fancy horror anthology video games like the Dread X Collection, Boomfire Games and publisher Jandusoft have a treat for you later this week with The Creepy Syndrome. Arriving on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, the Xbox One and the Xbox Series on April 27th (the Steam version is currently listed as “Coming Soon”), the anthology offers up a mix of different art styles to go along with its tales of psychological horror. In a mysterious and strange consultation with the psychiatrist, he analyses you by making...

Released on back in 2021 to Steam, ESDigital Games and Ludus Future’s hack’n’slash action RPG Demon Skin finally arrives on consoles this summer. The title will make its way into PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Xbox One and the Nintendo Switch on May 5th for $9.99. It will also debut on the Epic Games Store. To celebrate the console release, the game will have a 20% discount during the first week on all platform (though the PlayStation version will be limited to PlayStation Plus members). In addition, the console...

The Japanese remake of Vincenzo Natali‘s sci-fi cult classic Cube, directed by Yasuhiko Shimizu (“Pension: Love Is Pink”), is now streaming on the Bloody Disgusting-powered SCREAMBOX. The brutal sci-fi horror classic by Vincenzo Natali was so successful that it spawned Cube²: Hypercube (2002) and Cube Zero (2004). Natali (Splice, In the Tall Grass, NBC’s “Hannibal”) stayed on as a creative advisor for the Japanese remake, with Kôji Tokuo writing the adapted screenplay. Bloody Disgusting spoke with Natali for the remake’s release on SCREAMBOX. The filmmaker revealed how he influenced the remake, including its director Yasuhiko Shimizu, and teased the trap he designed...