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It’s been discussed for ages, but now Deadline is reporting that Channing Tatum has been officially attached to play Gambit in a solo spinoff film. RoboCop remake writer Josh Zetumer will be penning the script, based on a treatment by Marvel Comics writer Chris Claremont.

Emily Carroll, one of our favorite horror cartoonists, has a new spooky webcomic story up. Like many of her comics, “When the Darkness Presses” plays with the web format to incredibly creepy effect. Also be sure to check out Carroll’s book of horror comics, Through the Woods. https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-horror-story-from-the-absolutely-chilling-thr-1606732634

Thor Doesn’t Understand Halloween

When you grow up in Asgard, certain Earth customs might seem perplexing. And when Thor is in the US for Halloween for the first time, it’s a bit of a disaster. The always fun Texts from Superheroes has a Halloween edition up, featuring text conversations between Batman and Robin, the Joker and Lex Luthor, Iron…

Concept Art Writing Prompt: He Does Not Sleep

Time to get your horror ideas flowing! For Halloween week, we have a monstrous Concept Art Writing Prompt. Do you have an idea for a story inspired by this illustration? Write it up and share it here! He Does Not Sleep is by Michael MacRae (via r/ImaginaryHorrors), and MacRae has attached his own piece of…

Supergirl TV Show Will Introduce A Brand-New Character—Kara’s Sister

Casting has started for the upcoming Supergirl TV series, and the casting notices give us a little more insight into Kara and her life. For one thing, they reveal a character who doesn’t appear in the comics: Kara’s older foster sister. TVLine spotted the casting notices, which describe the two characters. Here is the basic…

A Short About A Mysterious Business Meeting, By The Director Of Oldboy

Park Chan-wook, director of The Vengeance Trilogy, Thirst, and Stoker, delivers an enigmatic short film filled with riddles. An inventor goes to meet an eccentric investor, one who insists on making the inventor follow a series of clues and bizarre requests before considering his new technology. If you think there’s a strange emphasis on menswear…

Okay, The 100, So That Was Creepy

We have members of the Ark spread out in this week’s episode of The 100, but things are moving forward on all fronts. While the adults try to establish some semblance of order on the surface, Clarke learns the dark secret lurking beneath Mount Weather. A Crucifixion at Camp Jaha Now that the adults have…

Schools Teach Moon-Landing Denialism In The First Interstellar Clip

The first clip from Interstellar shows us the future Earth that Christopher Nolan has created. It’s one in which the idea of space travel is so thoroughly discouraged that children are taught that we never went to the moon. So this is an interesting vision of the future. The federal curriculum teaches that the Apollo…

A Sexually Charged Turing Test Gets Creepy In Trailer For Ex Machina

28 Days Later and Sunshine writer Alex Garland is back with a new science fiction thriller, this one about the line between human and AI. In Ex Machina, a programmer is tasked with evaluating the consciousness of a female-bodied AI, and things quickly take a turn for the very weird. Here’s the official description for…

Amy Poehler Quizzes George R.R. Martin On Game Of Thrones Trivia

How well does George R.R. Martin know his own characters? On Late Night with Seth Meyers, Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers asked Martin to match lines from A Song of Ice and Fire with their appropriate characters—and the results are pretty damn adorable. The one-time Weekend Update cohosts had a bit of fun with Martin,…

Peter Pan Show Will Follow Lost Boys 15 Years After Leaving Neverland

What happened to Peter Pan’s band of Lost Boys after they left Neverland and grew up? In the show League of Pan, currently in development, they grew apart—at least until someone starts murdering them one-by-one. Deadline is reporting that Fox has a script commitment for League of Pan, which is being developed by 20th Century…

In This Short, A Security Robot Becomes The Ultimate Cyberterrorist

In the future, one company deals with the problem of data theft by inventing robotic couriers that will deliver their data packages no matter what gets in their way. But what happens when one of those packages contains a weaponized program? Hasraf ‘HaZ’ Dulull (who also directed Project Kronos) wrote and directed SYNC, an imagining…

The Psycho Shower Scene, Recreated Entirely In Jack O’Lanterns

Now this is a Psycho remake we never saw coming. Yuliya Tsukerman carved a bunch of pumpkins into shots from Alfred Hitchcock’s horror classic, and then turned them into a stop-motion movie. If you’re curious about how Tsukerman put this video together, she has stills of the individual pumpkins up at her website. [via The…

Tons Of Horror Webcomics To Terrify You This Halloween

You were’t planning on sleeping this week, were you? Good, because we’ve got a list of webcomics to chill and thrill you. From post-apocalyptic epics filled with monsters to anthologies packed with serial killers, alien invaders, and nightmares come to life, here is something for every sort of horror fan. Top image from False Positive.…

This Stan Lee Cameo Is A Pun You Can Wear

What do you get as a present for Stan Lee, the man who has a cameo in every Marvel movie? How about a sculpture of his face fashioned into a cameo jewel? Someone commissioned this Stan Lee cameo as a gift for Lee and you can buy one for yourself. The ladies of Geek Cameos…

Trick-Or-Treaters Are Way Scarier In The Post-Apocalypse

In this short horror film, amidst the ruins of a plague-wrecked society, a group of children go trick-or-treating, harvesting a few precious goods from their neighbors—some of whom are long past sanity. But beware, these are trick-or-treaters you don’t want to refuse. Marc Roussel directed the surreal horror short The Last Halloween, which he co-wrote…

Star Wars Rebels Unveils The Inquisitor’s SPINNING LIGHTSABER OF DOOM

This week, Star Wars Rebels gave us our first showdown with the fearsome Jedi hunter known as the Inquisitor. And this Dark Force user has a weapon that makes Darth Maul’s double-sided lightsaber look practically quaint. Well, one of the tactics that the fledgling Rebellion is using is pirate broadcasts—although the Empire knows how to…

Watch The First Scene Of Vampire Mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows

One of the most buzzed-about films at this year’s Sundance Film Festival is the mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows, following a group of vampire roommates, who are forced to learn about the modern world. This clip of the film’s first six minutes shows us what they’re working with. Flight of the Conchords’ Jemaine…

A Girl’s Teddy Bear Fights A Monster In This Trio Of Short Horror Films

Brent Sims’ Grave Shivers is an anthology of short horror films surrounding children at bedtime, with plenty of monsters and gore—and in one case, a little girl’s plus defender. Grave Shivers was funded through a successful Kickstarter campaign and it is great fun with its mix of practical effects and CG, although some of its…

Hilarious Comics About A Beagle Cop Who Can’t Help Acting Like A Dog

Cartoonist Jim Benton has been making a delightfully goofy series of comics called Beagle Cop! about a canine police officer who deals with missing balls, barking neighbors, and crime scenes all with relentless dog logic. You can follow Benton, who is also the creator of It’s Happy Bunny and Dear Dumb Diary, and read his…