Cheryl Eddy, Author at Gizmodo

Five Horror Directors, Including Gremlins‘ Joe Dante, Are Collaborating on a New Anthology Film

Five genre directors—Joe Dante (Gremlins, Innerspace), Mick Garris (The Stand), Alejandro Brugués (Juan of the Dead), and Ryuhei Kitamura (Versus, The Midnight Meat Train)—are joining forces for a new horror anthology film set at a haunted theater, appropriately titled Nightmare Cinema. Mickey Rourke stars in the film’s Twilight Zone-esque frame story, as a mysterious character…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Darren Aronofsky’s mother! Is Incredibly Fascinating and Unbelievably Frustrating

Darren Aronofsky’s mother! is grueling and gruesome. It’s a deliberately pretentious art-house movie, cast with some of the biggest stars on the planet. It’s horrifying on many levels—and yet there’s something deeply admirable about it. Whatever the opposite of “crowd-pleaser” is, this movie is it. mother! begins with imagery that echoes throughout the film: a…

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A Blizzard-Bound Man Spirals Into Paranoia in This Tense Animated Short

Winston is named for the narrator of Aram Sarkisian’s short, a desperate man dashing off a fevered letter that reads like a crazed diary entry. “I’m not losing my grasp again,” he insists, as he weaves an increasingly paranoid tale about his neighbor—a man he loathes and is obsessed with in equal measures. The stark…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

It’s Looking Very Good for Syfy’s Adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s Scifi Horror Tale Nightflyers

We’ve known since May that Syfy was circling an adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s 1980 scifi horror novella Nightflyers—and now comes word that the project is moving forward at a rapid pace. Multiple sources are reporting that a straight-to-series order is very close to being announced. Both Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter shared the news that…

Television Cheryl Eddy

John Carpenter Hits the Streets for His New Music Video Tribute to Stephen King’s Christine

As horror and scifi fans well know, John Carpenter isn’t just the director of genre classics like Halloween and Escape from New York—he’s also a killer musician who has created some of the most memorable movie scores ever. With that in mind, he’s shot a brand-new video for his theme to 1983’s Christine. This isn’t…

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Horror Short Slash in the Box Offers a Reminder to Fear All Scary Toys

In Nick Everhart’s horror short Slash in the Box, a cheerfully naive man brings home a rusty old jack-in-the-box, which is his first mistake. It’s also his last mistake. This little creeper might not be as phobia-inducing as Pennywise, but it definitely has some serious nightmare potential. [Crypt TV]

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Here’s How the It Sequel Can Be Even Better Than the First Film

Now that Andy Muschietti’s It is a huge hit, his adaptation of the second half of Stephen King’s horror novel is more highly-anticipated than ever. A few minor quibbles aside, the first film is fantastic. But It: Chapter Two, as it’s unofficially titled, deals with the characters as grown-ups. That makes it a trickier prospect.…

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A Pilot Remembers Why She Dreamed of Space Travel in This Lovely Animated Short

In Cécile Carre’s short Burn Out, an intergalactic repairwoman makes an emergency landing on a planet that appears deserted—except for an oddly familiar little girl, who helps her remember why she wanted to blast into the stars in the first place. The meaning is obvious, but the execution is rather beautiful . [Everything Animated]

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The 22 Most Shocking Moments of Twin Peaks: The Return

Twin Peaks: The Return may have concluded its run, but that doesn’t mean we’ve been able to get it out of our heads. The entire series was really one surprise after another, but there were some obvious standout moments, which included the introductions of new (and old) characters, sudden shocks, and weird reveals. 22) Meeting…

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A Video Game Character Takes Determination to New Levels in This Animated Short

Usually, when a video game presents a seemingly impossible challenge, it’s the player who gets cranky. In Anthony Falleroni’s short Jumpy, it’s the hot-pink rabbit onscreen who becomes outraged—and more determined than ever to succeed. The animation here is very simple, and the concept is, too—but you’ll seldom see a film capture the white-hot feeling…

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First Love Awakens a Young Woman’s Supernatural Powers in the Eerie Thelma Trailer

In Thelma, a sheltered, small-town girl discovers a whole new world when she arrives in Oslo for college. Some things about it are awesome, like her budding relationship with fellow student Anja—but some are awful, like the sudden emergence of her uncontrollable supernatural powers. (And yeah, they’re probably connected.) As this new trailer shows, Thelma’s…

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Twins Hide a Terrible Secret in the Gloriously Goth Trailer for The Lodgers

The atmospheric trailer for Irish horror film The Lodgers recalls films like The Others and Crimson Peak, with siblings living alone in a dusty mansion that is most definitely haunted, both by the secrets of the past and supernatural forces. Whether or not the twins are good or evil—or who, exactly, the title refers to—are…

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The 13 Scariest Evil Movie Clowns (So Far)

Between American Horror Story: Cult (premiering tonight) and the new It (out Friday), there seems to be an epidemic of scary clowns going on in pop culture right now. Hell, there’s even a movie called Clowntergeist heading to VOD later this month. Truly, there’s no better time to rank the scariest, most evil movie clowns…

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The Twin Peaks Finale Was as Gloriously Enigmatic as It Needed to Be

When Twin Peaks aired its original finale in June 1991, its cliffhanger frustrated fans, who were left wondering “How’s Annie?” for decades. Last night, Twin Peaks: The Return delivered its own open-ended final chapter—but this time around, it felt completely true to what David Lynch has been plotting all along. Last week, viewers were treated…

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The Neverending Quest to Reboot The Crow Somehow Still Continues

After spending nearly 10 years in the TBD pile at Relativity Studios, the reboot of The Crow has been picked up by Sony Pictures. Does that mean we’ll ever see the damn thing get made? It certainly elevates the chances, at least a little bit. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the reboot, titled The Crow Reborn,…

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Drew Barrymore Will Produce a Female-Centric Horror Anthology Show for the CW

You might not instantly associate Drew Barrymore with horror, but the Hollywood veteran has a solid association with the genre, going all the way back to Firestarter and up through Santa Clarita Diet. (And let’s not forget Scream.) So it makes sense that she’d be helping guide a new, female-focused horror series to the airwaves.…

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All the Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Keep on Your Radar This Fall

Look, guys. This fall’s offering of books is huge. Huge. We’re not even going to suggest reading all of these, unless you yourself are some kind of alien or wizard capable of stopping time. However, we’ve gathered a stellar assortment for readers of all tastes to choose from, including a wide range of fantasy, science…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy

A Time Traveler Evades the Law Again and Again in Scifi Short Echo/Back

In Tristram Geary’s Echo/Back, a strange virus strikes that enables the infected to time travel, but only in very short bursts—mere seconds into the past or future. The results are mostly chaotic, both for the world at large and the film’s protagonist, a thief who uses his strange ability to outmaneuver police in an extended…

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Neil Gaiman’s ‘Cinematic and Strange’ Likely Stories Are Coming to Shudder

Later this week, genre-focused streaming network Shudder will be releasing all four chapters of Neil Gaiman’s Likely Stories, short-film adaptations of strange and twisted tales by the author of American Gods and Coraline. The miniseries originally aired on the UK’s Sky Arts last year, and it’s described by Shudder as follows: Adapted from Gaiman’s dark…

Television Cheryl Eddy

A Wry Teenager Tangles With the Supernatural in This Awesome Proof-of-Concept Short

Meet Baxter—a deadpan teenager who’s been accused of murdering his girlfriend, when really it seems she’s been spirited away into Cape Town’s supernatural underworld. Can the city’s drunkest mystical bounty hunter help him get her back? And where did that big-ass monster come from? Michael Matthews’ Apocalypse Now Now is based on Charlie Human’s bestseller…

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Cheryl Eddy

Five Horror Directors, Including Gremlins‘ Joe Dante, Are Collaborating on a New Anthology Film

Darren Aronofsky’s mother! Is Incredibly Fascinating and Unbelievably Frustrating

A Blizzard-Bound Man Spirals Into Paranoia in This Tense Animated Short

It’s Looking Very Good for Syfy’s Adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s Scifi Horror Tale Nightflyers

John Carpenter Hits the Streets for His New Music Video Tribute to Stephen King’s Christine

Horror Short Slash in the Box Offers a Reminder to Fear All Scary Toys

Here’s How the It Sequel Can Be Even Better Than the First Film

A Pilot Remembers Why She Dreamed of Space Travel in This Lovely Animated Short

The 22 Most Shocking Moments of Twin Peaks: The Return

A Video Game Character Takes Determination to New Levels in This Animated Short

First Love Awakens a Young Woman’s Supernatural Powers in the Eerie Thelma Trailer

Twins Hide a Terrible Secret in the Gloriously Goth Trailer for The Lodgers

The 13 Scariest Evil Movie Clowns (So Far)

The Twin Peaks Finale Was as Gloriously Enigmatic as It Needed to Be

The Neverending Quest to Reboot The Crow Somehow Still Continues

Drew Barrymore Will Produce a Female-Centric Horror Anthology Show for the CW

All the Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Keep on Your Radar This Fall

A Time Traveler Evades the Law Again and Again in Scifi Short Echo/Back

Neil Gaiman’s ‘Cinematic and Strange’ Likely Stories Are Coming to Shudder

A Wry Teenager Tangles With the Supernatural in This Awesome Proof-of-Concept Short

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Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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