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A strong argument could be made for King Kong being the most influential movie ever made. Kong’s progeny includes Mighty Joe Young, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Godzilla, Ray Harryhausen films, Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Lord of the Rings, Avatar, many of the character-driven stop motion creations of the past ninety years, and dozens of authorized and unauthorized spin-offs, sequels, remakes, and rip-offs. The film inspired dozens, if not hundreds of directors, special effects artists, sound effects creators, composers, and film creators of all kinds, who have in turn...

The inaugural season of “Yellowjackets” ended with winter’s arrival for the wilderness survivors in 1996 and a slew of unsettling developments for the present. The wait between seasons may finally be over but don’t expect the same when it comes to answers. “Yellowjackets” Season 2 begins with a deeply satisfying premiere, “Friends, Romans, Countrymen,” that hurdles the 1996 storyline further toward catastrophe while deepening the tangled web for the adult survivors. The premiere skips ahead two months into winter for the teens trapped in the wild. Nat (Sophie Thatcher) and Travis...

A strong argument could be made for King Kong being the most influential movie ever made. Kong’s progeny includes Mighty Joe Young, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Godzilla, Ray Harryhausen films, Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Lord of the Rings, Avatar, many of the character-driven stop motion creations of the past ninety years, and dozens of authorized and unauthorized spin-offs, sequels, remakes, and rip-offs. The film inspired dozens, if not hundreds of directors, special effects artists, sound effects creators, composers, and film creators of all kinds, who have in turn...

The Ghost Next Door was originally published in August 1993 (Spine #10). The two-part series adaptation aired on Monday, September 28 & Tuesday, September 29, 1998 (runtime: 22 minutes and 22 minutes). From whispers in the hallways and stories told at recess, when word of it first reached me as a kid, I felt like Goosebumps was less of a book series and more of a campfire story. Through rumor, it spread across the classrooms like wildfire, igniting imaginations and driving throngs of grade schoolers to the one place thought...

David Gordon Green‘s The Exorcist is set to be a legacy follow-up to the original classic, and Above the Line reports this week that Linda Blair is involved in some capacity. Jeff Sneider reports, “Linda Blair will reprise her role as Regan MacNeil, Above the Line has exclusively learned. Sources say that Blair was only on set for a few days, so she’s not in the film all that much, but her return to the franchise should make fans’ heads spin with excitement.” It’s worth noting that a Blumhouse spokesperson only confirmed to...

David Gordon Green‘s The Exorcist is set to be a legacy follow-up to the original classic, and Above the Line reports this week that Linda Blair is involved in some capacity. Jeff Sneider reports, “Linda Blair will reprise her role as Regan MacNeil, Above the Line has exclusively learned. Sources say that Blair was only on set for a few days, so she’s not in the film all that much, but her return to the franchise should make fans’ heads spin with excitement.” It’s worth noting that a Blumhouse spokesperson only confirmed to...

Actor Elizabeth Lail is the latest to join the growing cast of Blumhouse’s Five Nights at Freddy’s, Deadline reports today. Production is currently underway in New Orleans, with Emma Tammi (The Wind) at the helm of the video game adaptation. Lail is no stranger to horror and is best known for her performance as Beck in season one of Netflix’s popular series “You,” as well as lead turns in the 2019 horror film Countdown and horror series “Dead of Summer.” She joins previously announced stars Josh Hutcherson (Tragedy Girls, Detention), Matthew Lillard (Thir13en Ghosts, Scream), Kat Conner Sterling (“The Gifted”), and Mary Stuart Masterson (Skin). While character details remain under...

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Rob Zombie‘s feature debut House of 1000 Corpses, and Lionsgate will be releasing a brand new Blu-ray next month. The 20th anniversary Blu-ray set will be released on April 11, 2023, and you’ll be able to get a special SteelBook version of the release exclusively through Best Buy. As we recently learned, the new release will also include a brand new Rob Zombie Director’s Commentary track that’ll be exclusive to Digital, and Zombie shares on Instagram that he’s recording the track today – 20 years after...

Writer/Director Lee Cronin’s (The Hole in the Ground) Evil Dead Rise relocates the terror from a cabin in the woods to a high rise Los Angeles apartment building, bringing a new style of Deadite mayhem to the franchise. Evil Dead Rise is coming exclusively to theaters on April 21, 2023, and it brought the house down during its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, TX last week. Bloody Disgusting spoke with Cronin after the premiere; the filmmaker confirmed the Bruce Campbell cameo he recently teased, while also discussing what it was like to...

SCREAMBOX is getting even crazier with Lukas Rinker‘s bonkers black comedy Holy Shit!, a SCREAMBOX Original that’s now streaming! Living up to its title, the single-location German splatterfest explores the horrors of being trapped inside a portable toilet. Scriptwriter and director Lukas Rinker has created an ultimate worst-case scenario that feels relatable yet unimaginable at the same time when Architect Frank awakens bloodily trapped inside a portable toilet standing on a construction site. “Architect Frank (Thomas Niehaus) regains consciousness in a locked portable toilet on a construction site where a...

Since the genre’s inception, collectable documents have been a staple element of survival horror, found in everything from Silent Hill to Outlast. For years, resourceful developers have been using them to establish their worlds, tease upcoming threats, aid players in solving puzzles, and to tell self-contained stories. Indeed, it is because these files are so versatile that we’ve dedicated a regular feature to them at Bloody Disgusting, in the form of this Dread Notes series. Here, we shine a spotlight on the most creative examples of in-game journals, audio logs,...

Forty-six years after publication, Stephen King’s Children of the Corn has become a B-horror institution. The short story, which first ran in a 1977 issue of Penthouse, follows a bickering couple who run afoul of a murderous cult of corn-worshiping children on a back road in Nebraska. A bleak example of horror in the daylight, the original text plays out like the bastard child of The Wicker Man and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. A 1984 film adaptation adds a sunnier tone while kicking off the story with a brutal massacre...

Bloober Team made waves when the original Layers of Fear came out in 2016. The psychological horror game was released right at the start of the Survival Horror renaissance and presented players with a deeply haunting tale about a painter driven to madness as he attempts to create his “masterpiece.” Wildly successful at the time, Bloober team went on to expand Layers of Fear into a successful series with multiple entries and eventually moved on to deliver more horror experiences with Blair Witch and The Medium. With the recent announcement...

Announced last month as the sequel to their “horrorpunk” RPG Morbid: The Seven Acolytes, Merge Games and developer Still Running have released a new “Spotlight” trailer for Morbid: The Lords of Ire. Featuring Simo Talasranta, Writer/Composer/Sound Designer at Still Running, the trailer takes fans through the inspirations that led the developers to switch from The Seven Acolytes’ pixel-based gameplay to a new 3D format for The Lords of Ire, and what players can expect from this new title. In addition to the gore, of course. The story sees the antagonists from...