Horror

Paranorman trailer shows how to make both adults and kids laugh, without resorting to gimmicks

Is there anything worse than a “kiddie” movie that desperately tries to make adults laugh too, by throwing in dated pop-culture references and in-jokes? Thank goodness the claymation movie Paranorman looks like it’s relying on actual, you know, humor. Take a look at the more comedy-centric international trailer for Paranorman (about a boy who sees…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

Jennifer Lawrence is wearing weird makeup and time is going backwards in her new horror movie trailer

What do you think is going on in this trailer for Jennifer Lawrence’s new horror movie The House at the End of the Street? (Which, everybody keeps carefully reminding us, was filmed before she did Hunger Games.) Lawrence and her mom (Elizabeth Shue) move in near a house where a double murder happened, and there’s…

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First clip from Cabin in the Woods proves it’s this generation’s Scream

Here it is — the first ever clip from Cabin in the Woods is already channeling the self-aware-but-don’t-really-care antics of Wes Craven’s Scream. Watch as the gaggle of liquored up teens play Truth or Dare and casually associate strange happenings to “the wind.” Hot damn, we love this movie. Get More: Movie Trailers, Movies Blog…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Eerily realistic monster sculptures wish you sweet and screaming dreams

You wouldn’t want to encounter Thomas Kuebler’s silicone sculptures in a dark museum hallway. His monsters and madmen, with their stretched skin and rotting teeth, look just a breath away from lurching to horrific life. A former toy and animatronics designer, Kuebler has turned to his personal passion: creating creeptacular characters, each with its own…

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Meet a villain who makes Batman run away, in this preview of DC Comics’ I, Vampire

In author Joshua Hale Fialkov’s rad horror comic I, Vampire, bloodsuckers both good and bad regularly run afoul of the DC Universe’s superheroes. For example, the series’ heroic vampire Andrew Bennett recently had a run-in with Batman, and the upcoming story arc — “Rise of the Vampires” — guest-stars the magic users of Justice League…

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A gorgeous retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, using silhouettes and plenty of horror

This is Red, a phenomenally atmospheric take on Little Red Riding Hood from directors Jorge Jaramillo and Carlo Guillot and composer Manuel Borda. In this five-minute animation — which seeks to “explore more thoroughly the drama, horror and realism of the story” — we learn how the fairy tale’s protagonist earned her namesake. Hats off…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

The Very Sad Story of How the Cutest Rabbit In the World Was Killed

This is Til. He was three weeks old and the cutest rabbit in the world. See, Til had no ears because of some genetic defect, and that made him even cuter than a normal rabbit. Not anymore because… Til’s dead, baby. Til’s dead. Til was born at the Limbach-Oderfrohna Zoo in Eastern Germany. When the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Oren Peli’s Next Movie: Kids Trapped in Chernobyl… and it’s Not Found Footage!

The “found footage” horror genre shows no signs of slacking off — but one of its originators just took baby steps in a different direction. Oren Peli is producing (not directing) a new horror film called Chernobyl Diaries, in which a group of “extreme tourists” get trapped in the former nuclear accident site… and something…

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders

Has the housing crisis finally infected horror movies and television?

Over the past several months, we’ve seen the release of two high profile haunted house movies (Dream House, Woman in Black), and two indies (The Innkeepers, Silent House). Meanwhile, last season’s most talked-about new TV series, American Horror Story, was focused on an extremely haunted house in Los Angeles. Could it be that our anxieties…

Movies Annalee Newitz

How I drew a vampire for Guillermo del Toro

For an upcoming issue of Dark Horse Comics’ adaptation of Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s vampire novel series The Strain, artist E.M. Gist was tasked with illustrating the cover. https://gizmodo.com/pooping-vampires-and-giant-robots-a-chat-with-guillerm-5863325 This issue is a flashback to the early life of Professor Abraham Setrakian, a Jewish Romanian vampire hunter who escaped Treblinka after encountering the…

Books & Comics E.M. Gist

Yes, Cabin In the Woods is that f—king good

Do you miss the biting dialog and clever characters that filled the Whedonverse of Buffy, Firefly and Angel? Then Cabin In the Woods, which premiered at South by Southwest this past weekend, is the movie for you. Simply put, the whole movie feels like a very special Buffy episode. And in a genre that’s currently…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Homeless Men Turned into Human Routers

SXSW, the annual vanity carnival of schmoozing, marketing superficiality, and BBQ, has something new to offer Austin’s visitors: unalloyed human degradation. A New York ad firm has converted homeless people into 4G hotspots. While the firm behind the stunt, BBH, was quick to defend the horrendous exploitation, FWD reports: “The worry is that these people…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Silent House proves that “one-trick pony” horror movies need to be put down

Why does it always happen this way? What starts out as an genuinely interesting approach to a horror film climaxes with the thud-heard-round-the-world. Here’s the thing, when you already have one excellent gimmick (cobbling an 88-minute movie together out of 10 shots, so it feels like it’s happening in real time) you don’t need any…

Movies Meredith Woerner

How to make frighteningly realistic masks of human faces

YouTube is rife with cosplay creations that straddle the line between sort of impressive and unmitigated nightmare fuel. YouTube crafter zjchgf specializes in building masks of gleefully sinister women frozen silent mid-grin. There’s a video tutorial above. With a few friends with money to burn, you too can reenact the music video for Aphex Twin’s…

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Low Budget Movie Trends That Need a Nice Long Rest

Low-budget science fiction and fantasy movies rule. While mega-blockbusters crank out the same familiar stories, including a parade of sequels and remakes, a low-budget film can take crazy risks and tell an original story. But sometimes, low-budget movies can get just as obsessed with chasing fads and copying each other as the biggest Jerry Bruckheimer…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

New Cabin in the Woods trailer starts to unravel the secrets of Joss Whedon’s horror movie

The latest trailer for the little horror flick that could, The Cabin In The Woods is slowly starting to leak out a few clues about this movie, co-written and directed by Cloverfield’s Drew Goddard. But trust us, what you see here isn’t even the tip of the awesome iceberg. We’re not going to spoil it…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

Michael Bay’s Ouija movie is back from the dead, with a 95% budget cut!

We thought all of Universal’s board game-inspired flicks were dead and buried (with the obvious exception of Battleship). But with shaved production values comes a renewed hope for one flick — the Ouija board movie! With a brand new budget of two nickels and a couple dusty Starbursts, the Hasbro-backed board game is ready to…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Zachary Quinto and more familiar faces return to American Horror Story

The big mystery surrounding the second season of the wacky supernatural murder drama American Horror Story is which of the living and dead characters will be back. Creator Ryan Murphy has announced that Zachary Qunito will return for the second season — but not as the ghostly homeowner Chad Warwick. Spoilers! As we mentioned in…

Television Lauren Davis

In the Piranha 3DD trailer, the fish are invading vaginas now

Piranha 3DD, they’re replaced the lifeguards with strippers! No, seriously! The sequel to the ridiculously schlocky murderous fish fest Piranha is delivering twice the insanity as its first film. Watch a fish swim up a lady’s downstairs bits, only to bite off the penis of her lover, later on. Let the waterpark blood bath begin!…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

And now, for reasons inexplicable, breasts cosplaying as Freddy Krueger and Pinhead (NSFW)

I have no idea why this is happening, but the proprietors of the bosomy (and NSFW) cosplaying blog Tit Thinks It’s People have decided to transform their tracts of land into horror characters. The results eschew sexiness altogether, which is kind of the point, as you shouldn’t be having handsome dreams about Pinhead in the…

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Paranorman trailer shows how to make both adults and kids laugh, without resorting to gimmicks

Jennifer Lawrence is wearing weird makeup and time is going backwards in her new horror movie trailer

First clip from Cabin in the Woods proves it’s this generation’s Scream

Eerily realistic monster sculptures wish you sweet and screaming dreams

Meet a villain who makes Batman run away, in this preview of DC Comics’ I, Vampire

A gorgeous retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, using silhouettes and plenty of horror

The Very Sad Story of How the Cutest Rabbit In the World Was Killed

Oren Peli’s Next Movie: Kids Trapped in Chernobyl… and it’s Not Found Footage!

Has the housing crisis finally infected horror movies and television?

How I drew a vampire for Guillermo del Toro

Yes, Cabin In the Woods is that f—king good

Homeless Men Turned into Human Routers

Silent House proves that “one-trick pony” horror movies need to be put down

How to make frighteningly realistic masks of human faces

Low Budget Movie Trends That Need a Nice Long Rest

New Cabin in the Woods trailer starts to unravel the secrets of Joss Whedon’s horror movie

Michael Bay’s Ouija movie is back from the dead, with a 95% budget cut!

Zachary Quinto and more familiar faces return to American Horror Story

In the Piranha 3DD trailer, the fish are invading vaginas now

And now, for reasons inexplicable, breasts cosplaying as Freddy Krueger and Pinhead (NSFW)

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