It has been quite a while since anyone dared re-craft the Alfred Hitchcock catalogue, but Paramount Pictures seem ready to take a massive gamble as they re-imagine his 1958 classic Vertigo. Robert Downey Jr. is the front-runner for the lead role of John “Scottie” Ferguson, as his husband and wife driven production company Team Downey …Read More

Many wondered if it would ever happen… and now it seems there’s no going back. Just weeks after announcing its acquisition by Spyglass Media Group and a distribution deal with Tri-Star Pictures, Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving is before the cameras and has added a few names to the cast. Starring alongside Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, and …Read More

It seems there is just no stopping Ghostface… Expectations were high as Scream VI prepared to release March 10th. After spending a pretty penny on marketing, Paramount Pictures hoped for a solid $30 million opening. Of course, the film went on to slash all expectation opening to $44.6 million, setting a franchise opening record. Well, …Read More

Following three remarkable successes, Jordan Peele is set to take the director’s chair once more and unleash his fourth outing on Christmas Day 2024. Details are sparse at the moment, with the project not even having a title and having just entered pre-production. However, the marking of Universal’s calendar with “Untitled Jordan Peele Movie” has …Read More

It has been over five years since we last ventured into “the further,” but James Wan’s Insidious universe is set to haunt our dreams once more with Insidious: Fear the Dark. News comes this past week that the trailer for the franchise’s fifth outing is set to drop in mid-April after a long absence from …Read More

Ghostbusters: Afterlife seemingly did the impossible and crafted a worthy and popular sequel to a property that has been hit and miss as a series. Following the failure of 2016’s Ghostbusters reboot, it seemed unlikely the series would regain favour with the public. 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife not only brought back our core cast in their …Read More

The Academy Awards are the most prestigious awards in all of film. Every year since 1929, the biggest stars in the world gather to win the much sought-after Oscar. The genre and style of films that have caught the attention of the academy have changed over time. However, it is fair to say, that Horror …Read More

A24 has become a formidable force in cinema with the last few years being incredibly lucrative for the studio. Just this past month the company swept the Oscars with their offerings The Whale and Everything, Everywhere, All at Once taking home every major category. Their horror offerings have been equally as prolific, with movies like …Read More

It’s been a long time coming… years, in fact, but Blumhouse’s film adaption of Five Nights at Freddy’s is well and truly a-go, with some brand-new cast members added this past week. Actress Kat Conner Sterling will mark her first sizable role as she takes on the part of Max in the highly anticipated flick. …Read More

Dracula is alive and well… But for how much longer? This past week Universal dropped an action-packed trailer for their hotly anticipated Dracula updating, Renfield. Promising plenty of blood and supernatural fisticuffs, the clip gives us a much closer look at Nicolas Cage’s performance as the legendary vampire. Previous promo material had kept Cage to …Read More

Preliminary reports suggest actress Linda Blair will be reprising her iconic role as Regan MacNeil in David Gordon Green’s legacy sequel. If true, this will mark Blair’s first involvement with the franchise since 1977s controversial sequel Exorcist II: The Heretic. However, it’s important to note that the extent of Blair’s involvement in the project is …Read More

Just like her Scream co-star Jenna Ortega, it seems franchise lead Melissa Barrera is set on carving a path as a scream queen. News broke just prior to Scream VI’s opening weekend last week that Barrera will next take the lead in the horror-romance-comedy Your Monster. Written and directed by first-time feature maker Caroline Lindy, …Read More

It’s been a long time coming, but Gun Interactive’s Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Game finally has a release date, and it couldn’t be any more fitting. In a loving tribute to the first words spoken on screen in Tobe Hooper’s classic slasher, the game will release on August 18th 2023. That marks exactly fifty …Read More

Since the beginning of his career, Guillermo del Toro has expressed a strong desire to craft his own adaption of Mary Shelley’s seminal classic Frankenstein. Now it appears his dream project is coming to pass with sources claiming the filmmaker has brokered a deal with Netflix and has some rather high-profile names attached. Moon Knight …Read More

You can now experience the chaotic highs of Cocaine Bear from the comfort of your own home! In a rather unexpected move last week, Universal announced the Elizabeth Banks directed horror-comedy would be coming to all good video-on-demand platforms to rent whilst still in theatres. Expectations were not particularly high for the film, but it …Read More

Much to the surprise of everyone, 2022’s Smile became a runaway hit at the box-office, taking in an eye-watering $217 million worldwide. Given that the film was originally meant to be released solely to Paramount+, such returns are stellar. Smile would go on to become the first standalone horror film since 2016 to hold the …Read More

After taking the horror community by storm with his 2021 slasher X, fans rejoiced when Ti West announced a prequel had already been filmed and would release the following year. Following the critical acclaim garnered by 2022’s Pearl, fans were hungry for more and West delivered with the surprise announcement following Pearl that a third …Read More

Here at Scream Magazine we’re partial to Jaws, but this is the kind of news we hate to report. It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that we say Tom Joyner, first A.D. on Jaws passed away aged 79. Although passing on February 22 after a long battle with heart disease and cancer, …Read More

It has been 11 years since we last visited the town of Silent Hill, and rumours of a third film have refused to die since then. Announced as a possible project in 2020, Return to Silent Hill secured funding in February of this year and now it seems things are powering forward with the addition …Read More

We are just one month away from the latest instalment of the seminal zombie series Evil Dead. Now that we’re on the home straight it seems the perfect time to build a little hype around the film and director Lee Cronin certainly isn’t disappointing fans. Speaking this past week following the film’s premiere at the …Read More

Although audiences are currently screaming without Neve Campbell, it seems that she is never far from the minds of the franchise’s new creative team. Speaking last week, Radio Silence and Scream producer William Sherek voiced their thoughts on Campbell returning in future instalments. “We’d never give up on her,” director Matt Bettinelli-Olpin stated. “We love …Read More

Zombies are a huge part of contemporary horror media, and sometimes they can be impossible to get away from. In many ways, they’re the perfect enemies, allowing us to entertain our own thoughts of how we’d survive while also being able to engage in hypothetical situations where we have to make tough decisions. The problems …Read More

After previously doubting the possibility of a sequel to his 2009 hit Drag Me to Hell, it seems director Sam Raimi has had a change of heart. Speaking to Bloody Disgusting in 2019, the filmmaker revealed he was not in the headspace to enter that world again, having just landed the Marvel film Doctor Strange …Read More

Urban Legend, The Walking Dead, and The Exorcist actress Alicia Witt is set to add another string to her Scream Queen bow as she joins the cast of Osgood Perkins’ upcoming psychological thriller Longlegs. Deadline and Bloody Disgusting reported earlier this week that Witt had closed a deal and would join Maika Monroe and Nicolas …Read More

It seems the world just can’t get enough of Jenna Ortega! News has been abounding this past week that the actress is “in talks” to star in the long-awaited Beetlejuice 2, a sequel to Tim Burton’s 1989 classic. The Hollywood Reporter claims “multiple sources” are linking Ortega to the project but that a deal has …Read More

Blumhouse and Universal are hoping to make our head’s spin with the latest incarnation of William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist this fall. Deadline and ComingSoon.net are reporting that the project has wrapped production after a truncated and lengthy filming period. Having had impressive success reinventing the Halloween franchise for Blumhouse, director Green is taking a …Read More

There seems to be a great deal to be thankful for of late… Perhaps most exciting of all for Eli Roth fans, the recent announcement that he’s to finally turn his Grindhouse slasher trailer Thanksgiving into a feature length product. The faux trailer was produced as part of the Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino collaboration …Read More

90s slasher fans rejoiced in February of this year when it was announced that a Scream style legacy sequel was in the works for, I Know What You Did Last Summer. What really got people talking were whispers that original stars Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. were “approached” to return. Could this long …Read More

Are you ready to Scream some more…? With Ghostface currently dominating the box-office with the franchise record setting Scream VI, it seems both Spyglass Media and Paramount Pictures are eager to strike again whilst the iron is still hot. Screen Geek reported March 6, the day of Scream VI’s glitzy Brooklyn premiere, that a seventh …Read More

It feels like it’s been a long time coming, but after 47 years in the industry, Jamie Lee Curtis has achieved Hollywood’s ultimate accolade… The legendary Scream Queen is now an Academy Award Winner! Jamie’s Oscar vehicle Everything, Everywhere, All At Once literally swept the ceremony, winning Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, …Read More

The highly anticipated Scream VI hit theatres this past weekend in a flurry of promotion and promises of a “new and brutal” Ghostface. Expectations were high that the sixth entry in the iconic slasher franchise would make a killing at the Box-Office No doubt Scream fans the world over will rejoice in the news that …Read More

Casting is well underway on 20th Century Studios’ latest Alien movie, with Isabela Merced (Transformers: The Last Knight), David Jonsson (Industry), Archie Renaux (Shadow and Bone), Spike Fearn (The Batman), and Aileen Wu all signing on! Cailee Spaeny (The Craft: Legacy) is set to lead the cast of the film, which is being directed by …Read More

Director Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse) is directing a remake of the 1922 silent classic Nosferatu, and the cast is really starting to build out! The latest addition? Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass, Nocturnal Animals)! Other recent additions to the cast include Ralph Ineson (The Witch) and Simon McBurney (The Conjuring 2). They join Willem Dafoe …Read More