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
Milo Manheim (Zombies) is the latest addition to the cast of Thanksgiving, Eli Roth’s feature-length adaptation of his faux slasher trailer from the movie Grindhouse. Manheim joins the previously announced Addison Rae (He’s All That), Patrick Dempsey (Scream 3), Jalen Thomas Brooks (Walker), and Nell Verlaque (Big Shot). Roth is directing the film and producing …Read More
The cast of Hellboy: The Crooked Man is starting to build out, with Millennium Media finding its new Hellboy in the form of Jack Kesy (The Strain)! “Jack Kesy is a dynamic actor who has the ability to morph into his roles,” says Jonathan Yunger, co-President of Millennium Media. “His talent and stature are perfect …Read More
Described as a “bold and expanded reimagining of the 2014 horror cult classic, Last Shift,” Malum has released an official trailer that’s jam-packed with nightmarish imagery! In the film: “On a search to uncover the mysterious circumstances surrounding her father’s death, a newly appointed police officer, Jessica Loren, is assigned to the last shift in …Read More
Blumhouse, James Wan’s Atomic Monster, and Canadian gaming studio Behaviour Interactive have teamed up to bring the horror video game Dead by Daylight to the big screen! Variety reports that a movie is coming, with the search for a writer and director already getting underway. “We couldn’t be more thrilled to work with Jason Blum …Read More
