Cheryl Eddy

Penny Dreadful Will Get Downright Apocalyptic This Season

Showtime’s Penny Dreadful returns May 1, and in recent months the gleefully grim series—which stars Eva Green and Josh Hartnett—has dropped a tantalizing handful of freaky/spooky/Satanic teasers. The full trailer for season three is here, and it’s all of the above … times a zillion. The end of days, you say? [Comic Book Movie]

Chalk another one up for Satan: Fox’s Lucifer has been renewed for a second season. Loosely based on Neil Gaiman characters, the show has managed to find great success during its freshman year with a blend of police procedural, supernatural drama, and slyly hilarious pop culture commentary. Hail!

Time Traveling Bong Is the Science Fiction Stoner Comedy We’ve Been Waiting For

Duuuuuude. I know we’re all fired up about the Rogue One trailer today, but take a moment to watch the trailer for Time Traveling Bong, too—Comedy Central’s new pot-fueled science fiction special from Broad City’s Paul Downs and Ilana Glazer. It airs on 4/20 (obviously), and it looks hilariously insane. Here’s the official synopsis, via…

The Guest Director’s Manga Adaptation, Death Note, Will Now Be a Netflix Production

Director Adam Wingard has been one to watch for years, with works like cult horror You’re Next and thriller The Guest, which boldly cast Downton Abbey heartthrob Dan Stevens way against type as a psychopath. His next film may reach an even bigger audience, now that it’s likely headed to Netflix instead of theaters. Death…

Tom Waits Joins Cast of Hulu’s Mysterious Hero Origin Story, Citizen

Back in January, we were puzzling over the description of Hulu’s new show, Citizen, which was touted as a “hero origin story” set in a “‘supernaturalized’ Los Angeles.” Now, we have a little bit more to go on, thanks to some very interesting casting news: musician Tom Waits. Though Waits is best-known for his long…

Here’s the First Image from Guillermo del Toro’s Netflix Series, Trollhunters

The new show that will unite Guillermo del Toro, Netflix, and DreamWorks Animation dropped its first image today. When the show was announced in January, Trollhunters was described as taking place in “a new, fantastical world wrapped around two best friends who make a startling discovery beneath their hometown.” Based on the above image (and…

The Death of Alan Rickman May Have Halted the Galaxy Quest TV Show

We were already mourning the death of beloved actor Alan Rickman before we heard this news, which just makes us miss him even more: the Galaxy Quest sequel that was in the works at Amazon may have been scrapped, now that one of the most important cast members is gone. This news came during an…

Shadowhunters Managed to Include Everything That Was Subversive About the Books

Shadowhunters is a cheesy fantasy show airing on a network that nobody’s heard of (the former ABC Family, now confusingly called Freeform). But maybe because this show slid so far under the radar, it was able to capture a ton of the subversiveness of the books by Cassandra Clare, including both same-sex relationships and female…

A Man Embraces His Grim Fate With Daredevil Flair in This Chilling Short

Glenn Paton’s H Positive has an intriguing premise—a fabulously wealthy man, diagnosed with a fatal illness, decides to face death on his own terms—with an insanely dark payoff. Hint: it involves a very special, very carefully designed roller coaster (it’s not “The Devastator,” but it comes damn close). Buckle up! [Vimeo Staff Picks]

John Carpenter’s New Music Video Contains One Perfectly Self-Referential Moment

Master of horror John Carpenter is, of course, also a master musician, having created the iconic, influential scores for classics like Halloween, They Live, and Assault on Precinct 13. His new album, Lost Themes II, is out April 15 (NPR is currently streaming the whole thing). He just dropped a woozy video to promote his…

This Genius Twitter Feed Is Turning Classic Kids’ Books Into Nightmares

Our new favorite Twitter feed adds hilariously dark titles to the gosh-darn earnest cover art of vintage YA novels. Behold Paperback Paradise, which according to its bio is “The world’s #1 used book store,” before coaxing all ye who enter to “Come visit us at the edge of eternity.” Gladly, the feed is full of…

This Is the Most Twisted Moment in 1986 Slasher Classic April Fool’s Day

April Fool’s Day was one of the first slasher movies I ever saw, circa the VHS era, and it remains one of my favorites in the genre. Aside from its clever, Agatha-Christie-meets-Jason-Voorhees premise, its unusually good cast (led by Amy Steel, a Final Girl twice over after Friday the 13th Part 2), and its amazing…

The Witch Re-Ups Its Satanic Cred By Re-Expanding to 666 Theaters

If you missed The Witch on its first rollout, Robert Eggers’ horror sensation will be re-upping its theater bookings this weekend to a carefully-chosen number: 666. But really, this new push is aimed at luring repeat business. Just look at the new trailer below, which dances dangerously close to the fiery realm of spoilers. This…

Big Bang Theory Star to Make a Movie Called Man-Witch

Ugghhhhhh. Jim Parsons, a dominating force in the worst sitcom about nerd culture ever, has signed on to star and produce Man-Witch, a comedy about an adult male with magical powers who is not a warlock, a mage, a conjurer, or a sorcerer, but is instead a Man-Witch. Per the Hollywood Reporter: The story tells…

It’s Rush Hour in the Galaxy and the Sky Traffic Is Insane

Does this image depict another planet’s largest metropolis, where intergalactic commuters buzz in every morning from their homes on nearby planets or suburban moons? Or is this the Earth of the future, where the skies have become more convenient for travel than the car-choked highways of the past? See more of artist Peter Konig’s work…

LA’s Creepy Murder House Is Now Up For Sale After Laying Vacant for 50 Years

The house at 2475 Glendower Place in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles has it all: four bedrooms, ample parking, and a hell of a history. In 1959, its owner killed his wife and critically injured his teenage daughter before committing suicide. The house has been unoccupied ever since—but that may soon change. The…

The Shadowhunters Wedding Ended With the Big Moment We’ve Been Dying to See

Alec was about to get hitched to Lydia. As powerful Shadowhunters, they’d rule the Institute, restore the Lightwood name, spend their lives in a loveless union, etc. But Alec’s feelings could not be denied, and with the season finale coming next week, Shadowhunters finally delivered with “Malec.” Instead of this: He went for this: And…

Why the Producer of The Walking Dead Is Making Her Most Political Show Yet

Gale Anne Hurd became famous for producing movies like The Terminator, Aliens, and Armageddon. But these days, she’s better known as the producer of The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead. Now, she’s producing Hunters for Syfy, and she told us why it’s her most political show yet. Hunters is adapted from Whitley Strieber’s…

Here Are the Most Ridiculous Things That Happened on This Week’s Damien

Nearly everything that happens on Damien is utterly ridiculous. But we’ve narrowed it down to the three most WTF-did-that-just-happen moments. Par for the course when you’re dealing with the Antichrist, the type of guy who can inspire spontaneous self-castration among those in his midst. Yeah. That totally went down, in the police station, no less,…

Doug Liman will still direct Channing Tatum in Gambit—but the script needed some rewrites, so instead of beginning production this quarter, the X-Men adaptation won’t start filming until the end of this year. With some unexpected room open in his schedule, Liman’s next project will likely be sniper thriller The Wall, for Amazon Studios.