Horror

Watching In the Mouth of Madness Too Many Times Might Actually Drive You Insane

In 1994, John Carpenter was several years removed from his last bona fide triumph—1988’s They Live—but he still hadn’t given up. (He’d sorta do that the next year, with Village of the Damned). His mindfuck extravaganza In the Mouth of Madness borrows heavily from H.P. Lovecraft and Stephen King, but it’s also its own bizarre…

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Two Nightmare on Elm Street Stars Will Reunite for a New Indie Horror Movie

Two horror icons are set to star in Midnight Man, the latest from Travis Zariwny, who helmed the recent Cabin Fever remake: Robert Englund, aka Freddy Krueger, and Lin Shaye, who’s probably best-known to genre fans via the Insidious films—though she cameos as a high school teacher in Nightmare on Elm Street. Aside from the…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

The CW’s Monster Drama Transylvania Has the Potential For Cheesy Goodness

We already knew that the CW was cooking up an 1880-set show called Transylvania, about “a headstrong young woman” (sigh) who travels from New York to Transylvania in search of her missing father, with the added bonus of encounters with “the most famous monsters and villains in history.” We now know who’ll be playing said…

Television Cheryl Eddy

AMC Is Bringing The Terror To TV Screens As An Anthology Show

AMC has greenlit Dan Simmons’ novel The Terror as a 10-episode anthology series, with plans to release the series in 2017. According to Deadline, the series is a joint project from Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions, Alexandra Milchan’s Emjag Productions, Entertainment 360 and AMC Studios, and will be written by David Kajganich. The story is…

Television Andrew Liptak

John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness Contains One of the Most Disturbing Depictions of Evil Ever

Prince of Darkness is one of John Carpenter’s weirdest films. Released in 1987 (between two cult favorites: 1986’s Big Trouble in Little China and 1988’s They Live), it’s overly high-concept and riddled with gaping plot holes. But damn, if it doesn’t depict evil in one of the most repulsive and scary ways ever. A priest…

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The Walking Dead‘s Glen Mazzara Explains Why He’s Bringing the Antichrist to TV

Glen Mazzara is best known for working on seasons two and three of The Walking Dead, but his latest project is all his own: He’s the creator, executive producer, and showrunner of Damien, a new drama that imagines the Antichrist character from The Omen as a young adult grappling with his true identity. We’ve seen…

Television Cheryl Eddy

John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars Is a Criminally Underrated B-Movie

John Carpenter has films that are considered classics: Halloween, The Thing, They Live, Big Trouble in Little China. But the films he made after his heyday don’t get nearly enough love. One big example: Ghosts of Mars, which takes The Thing and mushes it into Assault on Precinct 13, except with way more graphic mutilations.…

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Here Are The Nominees For The 2016 Bram Stoker Awards

The Horror Writers Association has released their nominees for this year’s Bram Sroker Awards, highlighting the best of horror fiction for 2015. Here are the nominees: Superior Achievement in a Novel Clive Barker – The Scarlet Gospels (St. Martin’s Press) Michaelbrent Collings – The Deep (self-published) JG Faherty – The Cure (Samhain Publishing) Patrick Freivald…

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Killer Robots Go on a Mysterious Rampage in the First Trailer for Kill Command

You know, sometimes you just can’t beat a good, creepy “robot goes bonkers and kills a bunch of freaked-out humans” movie. Kill Command definitely has that going for it, as well as having some really awesome-looking robot war machines. A new scifi horror movie written and directed by Steven Gomez, Kill Command follows a cyborg…

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The Witch Is Scary as Hell—Because It Feels So Damn Real

If you’ve heard anything about The Witch, it’s probably people saying that writer-director Robert Eggers’ feature debut is “the scariest movie of the year.” And The Witch is indeed full of horrors. But the scariest things in this movie don’t actually originate in the supernatural. https://gizmodo.com/the-director-of-2016s-most-acclaimed-horror-film-spent-1758395449 Eggers did meticulous research to depict the difficult lives…

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The 8 Scariest Witches in Movie History

The Witch opens Friday, and it’s already getting a well-deserved reputation as one of the scariest horror films in recent memory. But witches have terrorized the big screen since the very beginning of cinema. Here are the nine movie witches who’ve haunted us the most. 1. Helena Markos In Italian horror pioneer Dario Argento’s 1977…

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John Carpenter Will Release Another Album, And WILL Play Live Shows in the US [Updated]

With good news, comes the bad, John Carpenter fans. The acclaimed genre director and composer will be releasing Lost Themes II on April 15, a follow-up to last year’s soundtrack-esque Lost Themes. And he’ll be touring—but to Spain, Iceland, and England only. [See update below!] https://gizmodo.com/watch-the-premiere-of-john-carpenters-dystopian-noir-mu-1698139991 According to Sacred Bones Records, the new album will…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

The World Needs More Goofy, Gory B-Movie Monster Flicks Like Deep Rising

Stephen Sommers is best-known for directing the first two Mummy movies, but his breakout, Deep Rising, is well worthy of its own praise. Yes, it is a silly movie, and it bombed when it opened in 1998. But it’s a magical kind of silly that results when a killer B-movie premise meets an ensemble cast…

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We’re Bummed That This Killer Friday the 13th Reboot Won’t Be Happening

In Hollywood, a lot of great ideas never make it to the big screen. (See: Jodorowsky’s Dune, then shake fist at sky, screaming “Whyyy?”) Slasher movie fans will be especially disappointed to hear about a never-made new Friday the 13th film that—unlike most other horror reboots—actually sounds cool as hell. This particular Friday film was…

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The Director of 2016’s Most Acclaimed Horror Film Spent Four Years Visiting Museums

The Witch has been getting huge buzz since the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, where this unsettling horror film picked up a directing prize for Robert Eggers. We talked to Eggers, and he told us the insane amount of research that went into making a film that’s so scary, it crawls under your skin. Eggers, who…

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This Legendary Slasher Flick Finally Has a Blu-ray That Captures Its Outstanding Sleaze [NSFW]

Pieces might sound like a lot of other early 1980s slasher films, since it’s about a shadowy maniac who chops up pretty college girls. But anyone who’s seen it knows that Pieces is one of the most WTF entries in the genre—and now it’s getting a smashing new Blu-ray release, full of extras that highlight…

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Short Film The Woods Captivated Me From Beginning To End

This is a powerful, horrifying short film that utterly captured my attention over the eight or so minutes that it runs. It’s quiet, beautiful and haunting, all at once. I think what struck me the most is just how powerful silence is: there’s no dialogue at all, but it’s even more effective with just actress…

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The Witch Gets Two Enthusiastic Horns Up From the Satanic Temple

Genius marketing alert! Never one to shy from a headline-grabbing opportunity, the Satanic Temple (not to be confused with the Church of Satan) has teamed up with upcoming chiller The Witch to present screenings in four cities, as well as issuing a proclamation showering praise upon the film: Set in 17th century Puritan New England,…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

With Every New Trailer, The Witch Looks More and More Like 2016’s Scariest Film

“There’s an evil in the wood.” Uh, no kidding. We haven’t even seen The Witch yet and the horror film’s ever-scarier trailers are already giving us nightmares. Which is to say, we’re very excited to finally see what’s probably going to be the scariest movie of the year. The Witch comes out February 19.

Trailers Cheryl Eddy

Trailer for Cabin Fever Remake Offers Plenty of Gore But Disturbingly Few Pancakes

We knew it was coming. And now, it’s almost here: the remake, or reboot, or risky “man, I hope nobody remembers anything that happened 14 years ago” gamble that is the Cabin Fever remake. Let’s see … kids go to the woods to party, only to realize a disgusting and highly contagious plague awaits. Sounds…

Trailers Cheryl Eddy

Watching In the Mouth of Madness Too Many Times Might Actually Drive You Insane

Two Nightmare on Elm Street Stars Will Reunite for a New Indie Horror Movie

The CW’s Monster Drama Transylvania Has the Potential For Cheesy Goodness

AMC Is Bringing The Terror To TV Screens As An Anthology Show

John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness Contains One of the Most Disturbing Depictions of Evil Ever

The Walking Dead‘s Glen Mazzara Explains Why He’s Bringing the Antichrist to TV

John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars Is a Criminally Underrated B-Movie

Here Are The Nominees For The 2016 Bram Stoker Awards

Killer Robots Go on a Mysterious Rampage in the First Trailer for Kill Command

The Witch Is Scary as Hell—Because It Feels So Damn Real

The 8 Scariest Witches in Movie History

John Carpenter Will Release Another Album, And WILL Play Live Shows in the US [Updated]

The World Needs More Goofy, Gory B-Movie Monster Flicks Like Deep Rising

We’re Bummed That This Killer Friday the 13th Reboot Won’t Be Happening

The Director of 2016’s Most Acclaimed Horror Film Spent Four Years Visiting Museums

This Legendary Slasher Flick Finally Has a Blu-ray That Captures Its Outstanding Sleaze [NSFW]

Short Film The Woods Captivated Me From Beginning To End

The Witch Gets Two Enthusiastic Horns Up From the Satanic Temple

With Every New Trailer, The Witch Looks More and More Like 2016’s Scariest Film

Trailer for Cabin Fever Remake Offers Plenty of Gore But Disturbingly Few Pancakes

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