Horror is best known for the chills it sends down your spine. The effects of horror in art can be best captured through horror movies and images where the characters are manipulated in a way to look odd and not what you are used to seeing. Since horror arouses negative emotions in the audience, a …Read More

The September 6th release date of It: Chapter Two is inching ever closer like a gloved hand out of a sewer grate, but there’s still no sign of the trailer. And producer Barbara Muschietti seems to know we’re getting hungry. She recently took to Instagram to promise that the trailer is indeed on it’s way. …Read More

Original franchise creator Don Mancini has made no attempt to hide his displeasure with the Child’s Play remake. He’s keeping the original franchise alive with a TV series for Syfy—and according to a recent tweet, a 2020 release date is in the works. Currently titled Chucky, the TV series will be produced by Channel Zero …Read More

The 1980s was arguably the golden age of horror movie novelisations. From Videodrome to Fright Night to Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, if it was a movie, it was probably a novel as well. So it seems fitting that The Ranger, Jenn Wexler’s punk throwback slasher movie, should be getting its own official …Read More

Jordan Peele and Simon Kinberg’s reboot of The Twilight Zone is only five episodes into its first season, but CBS All Access has already renewed it for a second. Based on the classic CBS series of the same name created and hosted by Rod Sterling, this modern delve into The Twilight Zone is hosted, produced, …Read More

Forever Knight, the somewhat cheesy but endlessly endearing mid-90s vampire series, first got a DVD release in the early 2000s, but it was spread out over three different sets that aren’t always the easiest to locate almost 20 years on. Fans of the show are in luck though, because the Complete Series will finally be …Read More

Move over Woody. There’s a new doll in town. Lars Klevberg’s remake of Child’s Play will hit theatres on June 21st, which just happens to be the same day that the beloved Toy Story franchise drops its fourth instalment. And Chucky’s marketing team decided to have a little fun with that fact, releasing a new …Read More

In what looks like a glorious combination of killer wildlife movies ranging from Bait, Burn Bright right through to Jaws, the first trailer for Crawl (Alex Aja’s latest outing) has now hit the net and looks set to take us all by storm, quite literally. Produced by Aja himself, in collaboration with Craig Flores (300) …Read More

The Stephen King news is coming thick and fast this week. Now we’re hearing that James Wan is producing a new adaptation of King’s chilling 1975 vampire novel Salem’s Lot for New Line. Salem’s Lot has already been adapted twice, most memorably by Tobe Hooper in 1979. The novel was also turned into a mini-series …Read More

Horror themed online slots have become one of the favorite among players of online slots. Mythical creatures, vampires and zombies existence would have made people run as far as possible. But since these do not exist, people cannot resist the temptation of getting as close to them as possible through the horror movies and games. …Read More

It won’t be long before we’re bombarded with trailers and teasers for IT: Chapter Two. In the meantime, director Andy Muschietti is here to whet our appetites with an official image of James McAvoy (Split) as Bill Denbrough. Muchietti posted the image on Instagram while wishing McAvoy a happy birthday. From McAvoy’s posture in the …Read More

Robert Eggers wowed audiences with his feature-length directorial debut, 2015’s The Witch. He’s teamed back up with production company A24 for his new fantasy horror film The Lighthouse, which follows an ageing lighthouse keeper named Old. Set in 1890, the film was shot on beautiful 35mm black and white stock, and the first image shows …Read More

Author William Gibson, who pioneered the cyberpunk sub-genre of science fiction literature, was one of several authors to pen a script for the third movie in the Alien franchise. But out of all the unmade scripts, Gibson’s Alien III has had the most enduring legacy, achieving cult status after it was leaked online. We recently …Read More

Fans of the Tremors franchise were mystified last year when Syfy abruptly pulled the plug on its planned Tremors TV series. The premise sounded fantastic: set 25 years after the Graboids first rampaged through Perfection, Valentine McKee (played once again by Kevin Bacon)—now a washed-up, delusional drunk pining after his glory days—becomes convinced that the …Read More

Orion has dropped the first full trailer for Lars Klevberg’s Child’s Play remake, and it doesn’t hold much back. While everybody’s best friend till the end is kept largely largely in the shadows, we do get a real sense of the havoc Chucky will wreak. In this modern-day retelling, the talking Good Guy doll of …Read More

In this week’s Stephen King news, Legendary Entertainment plans to bring an adaptation of his short story Rest Stop to the big screen. Attached to write and direct the feature is Alex Ross Perry, who recently helmed the punk-rock drama Her Smell, starring Elizabeth Moss. First published in Esquire in 2003 and later included in …Read More

Full Moon Features, the production company behind countless low-budget genre favourites, recently announced that it would be releasing ten original titles under its new Deadly Ten banner. The titles of those films have finally been released—along with the unique twist behind the initiative. “We’re making ten feature films,” explains Charles Band, Full Moon’s founder, in …Read More

Telltale’s The Walking Dead video game franchise might have ended, but Skybound Games isn’t ready to bury it just yet. The publisher has announced it will be releasing The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series, featuring enhanced versions of all four seasons of the game, plus the spinoff game The Walking Dead: Michonne. The bundle …Read More

The Stephen King renaissance of the past couple of years has been the gift that keeps on giving, showering horror fans with an endless stream of bloody adaptations. But not every project gets off the ground, and after a few months of hype, we never hear from some of them again. One such project was …Read More

Picking Pieces For Your Hellraiser Collection Clive Barker’s Hellraiser first hit our screens in 1987 and instantly we were sucked into the graphic world of the Cenobites and the mysterious puzzle box. When it came out on VHS, Hellraiser became the pride of every horror fan’s collection. Then followed 10 more movies after this and …Read More

Guess who’s back, back again? It might just be Radu, the long-fingered vampire from the Subspecies movies! Full Moon Features recently announced on its website that the Subspecies series is returning for a fifth entry, a full 21 years after Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm was released, adding it’s “about damn time we saw our old pal …Read More

A TV adaptation of the popular scripted fiction podcast The Horror of Dolores Roach is in the works over at Blumhouse. The production company has acquired the rights to the macabre tale, which is inspired by Sweeney Todd. Set in a gentrified New York City neighbourhood, The Horror of Dolores Roach follows the titular Roach …Read More

It seems like we have news of a new Stephen King adaptation for you every week! Sleeping Beauties, King’s 2017 collaboration with son Owen King, is the latest to get the adaptation treatment—AMC has made a pilot script commitment and is eyeing up an open-ended TV series. Sleeping Beauties is set in a small Appalachian …Read More

When it comes to horror, R.L. Stein is a household name. Many of us grew up equal parts terrified and fascinated by his iconic Goosebumps stories. Going back even further into your childhood trauma, you might also remember his Fear Street series, which launched in 1989. Now those books are coming to the big screen—and …Read More

Mary Shelley is undoubtedly one of the most influential figures in science fiction and horror literature. The fact that she wrote Frankenstein as part of a fun competition among friends is frankly incredible—made even more impressive by the fact that she was just 19 years old at the time. But was Frankenstein proof of her …Read More

Earlier this week, we learned that production on DC’s live-action Swamp Thing series unexpectedly shut down early, sending ripples of speculation across the internet. To calm those waters, Warner Bros. decided to paint the town green by dropping the first teaser trailer. In the trailer, we get our first real look at the titular monster …Read More

The first remake of Tobe Hooper’s 1982 horror classic Poltergeist barely raised a stir when it was released in 2015. Now a second remake is coming our way, courtesy of AGBO Films and the Russo Brothers. Joe and Anthony Russo (pictured right) also helmed the upcoming Avengers: Endgame, as well as a number of other …Read More