If you’ve ever wanted to live inside a haunted house attraction, IKEA is here to make your nightmare a reality. As part of its “IKEA Real Life Series,” which also teaches you how to recreate the famous living rooms from The Simpsons and Friends, the Swedish home goods store breaks down how you can live …Read More
Las Vegas is known the world over as ‘Sin City.’ It’s a place where people come to commit sordid and seedy acts, misbehave, indulge in questionable moral behaviour, and generally celebrate the darker side of themselves. Oh, and it also has some excellent stage shows. Given the persistent association between Las Vegas and the idea …Read More
Need a speedy scare? The CW has you covered. Following the success of its five-episode digital series in 2017, the network is bringing eight episodes of horror anthology Two Sentence Horror Stories to the small screen this summer. Inspired by the brilliant super short horror stories that have spread across the internet in recent years, …Read More
TrustNordisk has released several new images from Norwegian horror Lake of Death, and they tell a sinister tale. A high-concept horror-thriller, Lake of Death follows Lillian, whose twin brother dies mysteriously in the family’s cabin. One year later, Lillian returns to the cabin with her friends only for strange things to start happening. Trapped between …Read More
We’ve had horror films about dolls, board games, and video games—but no beloved childhood toy is safe from the feature film treatment. The next to be dug out of the attic, dusted off, and taken to the big screen? The iconic Magic 8 Ball. Blumhouse has teamed up with Mattel to turn the toy, first …Read More
Decades after the end of his career as tobacco advertising icon “CC Ryder”, Bryan Burns life is in ruins and his mind unravelling. After his mother dies of lung cancer, he is tormented by a goading cartoon cigarette on an anti-smoking billboard. His mind snaps and he transforms into the Ribspreader, a killer stalking the …Read More
It seems like just yesterday that the third season of Hannibal reached its shocking and bloody climax. We’re actually coming up on the four-year mark—but creator Bryan Fuller is still hopeful about a resurrection. In response to a fan asking if there’s any news on the long-awaited fourth season, Fuller responded on Twitter: “No one …Read More
As Orion’s Child’s Play reboot gears up for its theatrical release, we’ve got some exciting news out of Don Mancini’s (unrelated) Child’s Play TV series. Brad Dourif, the original voice of the killer Good Guy doll, has confirmed he’s “absolutely” on board for the show. The creator of Chucky, Mancini has been involved in every …Read More
More casting news fresh out of Shudder’s Creepshow TV series! David Arquette, best known for playing Deputy Dewey in the Scream franchise, will star in the episode “Times is Tough in Musky Holler.” Directed by John Harrison (who worked on Romero’s 1982 Creepshow and composed the score), the episode will see the former leaders of …Read More
More than three decades after donning the iconic hockey mask in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, C.J. Graham is returning to Crystal Lake in the upcoming feature length fan film, Friday the 13th: Vengeance. This time, though, he’s not playing Jason—he’s playing his father, Elias Voorhees. Directed by Jeremy Brown., Friday the 13th: …Read More
After Damian Leone’s short film Terrifier creeped out coulrophobics in the anthology horror film All Hallows’ Eve, its breakout villain Art the Clown got his own spinoff film in 2016. Also called Terrifier, the flick was such a hit that fans have been clamouring for a sequel ever since. And they’re in luck—the follow-up has …Read More
Ella Purnell (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children) has signed onto Zack Synder’s big-budget zombie movie Army of the Dead—and she’s not the only new addition to the cast. Ana de la Reguera (Cowboys & Aliens), Theo Rossi (Luke Cage, Cloverfield), and Huma Qureshi (Gangs of Wasseypur) will also star in the flick, which is …Read More
In addition to creating the iconic posters for films like Gremlins, Young Frankenstein, and E.T., the late John Alvin also designed the poster we all know and love for 1987’s The Lost Boys. But that poster wasn’t the only one Alvin created for the film. Bottleneck Gallery have partnered with the Alvin Estate and Justin …Read More
David F. Sandberg (Lights Out, Annabelle: Creation) got his start in horror, and he certainly offered a few fun nods to the genre in his comedic superhero movie Shazam! But on his Instagram this week, the director revealed that the film almost featured a Frankenstein cartoon, voiced by Sandberg himself. “For a deleted scene in …Read More
Ever since What We Do in the Shadows rose from its coffin in 2014, fans have been gnashing their teeth in anticipation for a sequel. The film’s writers, directors, and stars Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement teased that the follow-up would be called We’re Wolves and would follow the pack of werewolves (not swearwolves) led …Read More
A Quiet Place 2 is in the works over at Paramount, and silence will fall sooner than expected. The film’s release date has been bumped up from May 15th to March 20th, 2020. John Krasinksi is returning to direct, with Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmons, and Noah Jupe reprising their roles. Cillian Murphy (28 Days Later) …Read More
Is it time for more Stephen King news? Always! André Øvredal (director of The Autopsy of Jane Doe and the upcoming Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark) has been tapped to direct New Line’s feature film adaptation of the King novella The Long Walk. Published in 1979 under King’s pseudonym Richard Backman, The Long …Read More
There was a period in horror history when killer snakes, crocs, and other scaly creatures ruled the box office. That golden era of creature features has been over for some time now. But between Alexandre Aja’s upcoming alligator movie Crawl and a recently announced giant snake movie, perhaps it isn’t safe to go back into …Read More
What if the zombie apocalypse broke out in Birmingham? That’s the setup for Zomboat, a new zombie comedy from ITV and Hulu, which will see two sisters and their unlikely travel companions trying to escape the city by way of the canal. As the gang flees for their lives, they quickly realise there’s no escaping …Read More
Corporate Animals, the new film from Creep and Creep 2 director Patrick Brice, premiered at Sundance earlier this year. And it’s coming to theatres and On Demand soon—Screen Media have announced they’re releasing the film on August 9th. A cannibalistic horror-comedy, Corporate Animals sees the delusional CEO of a struggling startup leading her staff into …Read More
Filming for Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man remake is set to start this summer, and we won’t have too long to wait to see (or rather, not see) what he cooks up. Universal has announced the film will be released on March 13th, 2020. Elisabeth Moss (Us) will star as Cecilia, who starts to put …Read More
It was music to our ears to hear that Jennifer Kent would be following up her impressive directorial debut The Babadook with another horror film. That film is The Nightingale—and the official trailer is finally here. The Nightingale is set in Tasmania in 1825, and sees Clare, a young Irish convict, losing her husband and …Read More
Nico van den Brink’s Dutch horror short The Burden is getting a feature film adaptation—and it’s in good hands. Horror maestros James and Wan and Sam Raimi will be producing the picture under their respective banners, Atomic Monster and Ghost House Pictures. The Burden follows a young woman who visits her boyfriend’s family home only …Read More
After Bruce Campbell teased last year that an Evil Dead video game was in the works—with Campbell returning to voice Ash, of course—we’ve been polishing our chainsaws waiting for more news on the project. And while there was some speculation that Campbell was referring simply to Ash’s addition to the game Dead by Daylight, Campbell …Read More
Hot off their remake of David Cronenberg’s Rabin, which will hit the festival circuit soon, filmmaking twins Jen and Sylvia Soska have signed a first-look deal with Martin Katz’s Prospero Pictures—the production company behind many recent Cronenberg films. The deal grants Prospero Pictures the exclusive first right to develop and produce film and TV properties …Read More
Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn (The Neon Demon) has been attached to a potential Witchfinder General remake for a few years now, but there’s finally some forward motion on the project. John Hillcoat (The Road) has been tapped to direct the film, with Refn producing. A classic piece of 1960s horror and one of Vincent …Read More
We’re fast coming up on the July 12th release date for Alexandre Aja’s new film Crawl, and the newest poster is dripping in horror. The film starts Kaya Scodelario (Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile) as Haley, a woman trapped inside a flooded house following a massive hurricane. But as the new poster shows, she’s …Read More
The Wrong Turn franchise took, well, a wrong turn three or four movies back, but you never know what a new instalment will bring. And we’ll soon find out—another film is already being developed by Contantin film, which also brought us the Resident Evil franchise, and Charlotte Vega (The Lodger) is set to star. This …Read More
If you’re not down with the latest urban legends making parents scared of what their kids get up to online, let us introduce you to the “Momo Challenge.” Revolving around a creepy image of a grinning woman with bulging eyes and chicken legs, aka Momo, the Challenge was said to have led to several violent …Read More
David M. Rosenthal’s remake of Jacob’s Ladder was originally slated for a February 2019 release. That obviously didn’t happen. But now Vertical Entertainment has acquired the movie—and we should finally get our hands on it this summer. Jacob’s Ladder will premiere on the U.S. network DISH in July before getting a theatrical release in August. …Read More
