Horror

Ennio Morricone, Movie Composing Legend, Has Passed Away

Ennio Morricone, one of the most beloved movie composers of the 20th century, has died. The legendary Italian artist, who was 91, passed after suffering complications from a recent fall. Morricone’s filmography numbers well into the hundreds, a body of work over seven decades that, much like his most famous soundtracks, speaks for itself. But…

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Mike Flanagan’s Version of Stephen King’s Revival Is Going to Be Bleak

Mike Flanagan’s version of Doctor Sleep was a fairly hopeful film. It had closure, the overcoming of trauma, the tying up of loose ends. Revival, Flanagan’s next tackling of a Stephen King property, looks like it’s going to have none of that. Misery it is! (Not Misery, though.) Revival, in case you’re not an expert…

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The Latest Into the Dark Episode Is About an Amnesiac Who Might Be the President

Happy Fourth of July? Into the Dark, Blumhouse’s anthology of holiday-based horror shorts, is back on Hulu for its second season with another round of twelve festive (?) episodes, the latest of which is about America’s Independence Day, a day celebrated by fireworks, cookouts (when there’s not a pandemic happening), and, apparently, creepy Manchurian Candidate…

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Jaws Screenwriter Carl Gottlieb Reflects on the Suddenly Relevant Legacy of the Mayor From Jaws

I feel like I’ve thought more about the mayor from Jaws more in the past three months than I have in the entire rest of my life, multiplied several times over. Out of all the major pop culture figures people have referenced as they’ve struggled to deal with the ongoing global pandemic caused by the…

Movies Julie Muncy

In the First Trailer for The Rental, Terrors Both High-Tech and Creepy-Human Ruin a Seaside Getaway

Two couples travel to a gorgeous, totally isolated beach home. That sounds like the makings of a peaceful escape… or the set-up for a horror movie. There’s a timely twist in The Rental, the debut feature from actor turned director Dave Franco (who co-wrote with indie all-star Joe Swanberg), when one of the guests spots a…

Trailers Cheryl Eddy

This Candyman Shadow Puppet Short Film Is a Horrific Mirror You Can’t Look Away From

Much as the Candyman film franchise focuses on the stories of people foolish enough to summon a murderous ghoul into their midst by chanting his name, the films have always been, at their cores, gruesome reflections on the American legacy of anti-Black racism that led to the lynchings of thousands over the centuries. Though the…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

Jaws at 45: The Scenes, the Sounds, the Shark

Going in the water hasn’t been comfortable for 45 years. That’s how long it’s been since director Steven Spielberg first released his filmJaws and subsequently changed everything. The summer blockbuster season was born. A new wunderkind director emerged. A little-known composer instantly became a legend. And audiences everywhere have been afraid to go back in…

Movies Germain Lussier

Max Brooks’ Bigfoot Tale Devolution Is Headed for the Big Screen

Author Max Brooks has a new book out called Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre, and it arrives with some exciting news: much like Brooks’ previous best-seller, zombie-apocalypse story World War Z, Devolution will be getting the feature-film treatment. As the Hollywood Reporter reveals, as far back as 2012 Brooks was actually…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Stephen King Yearned to Write an ‘Existential’ Horror Novel About Friday the 13th‘s Jason

Watching a hockey mask-wearing killer murder dozens of campers in the Friday the 13thfranchise may not scream: “We need his point of view!” But it turns out horror icon Stephen King’s “best novel idea” he never penned was the story of, you guessed it, the indescribably immortal Jason Voorhees. In a series of tweets (as…

Books & Comics Beth Elderkin

All Hail Guillermo, the Unlikely Hero of What We Do in the Shadows

FX’s What We Do in the Shadows just wrapped up its excellent second season, which saw the vampire roomies tangle with ghosts, trolls, witches, zombies, and vengeful fellow bloodsuckers. But the show’s most prominent human character, familiar Guillermo (Harvey Guillén), had easily the grandest arc of all. We’re going to discuss the whole season including…

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Relic‘s New Trailer Makes the Challenges of Elder Care Extra Spooky

Taking care of your elderly relatives is a real challenge. But at least when your mom needs care, she probably isn’t going to be haunted. Relic, an Australia-American horror movie directed by Natalie Erika James, a director who’s made her name so far in the world of short film, is a horror film about a…

Trailers Julie Muncy

The Ghosts of War Trailer Sends WWII Soldiers Into an Especially Horrific Haunted House

Real-life horror and supernatural horror come together in the new film Ghosts of War. It’s about a group of soldiers who get stuck in a mansion that’s haunted by the victims of horrific Nazi violence. Written and directed by Eric Bress (The Butterfly Effect), the film stars Brenton Thwaites (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men…

Trailers Germain Lussier

Will The Changeling Remake Traumatize Me as Much as the Original?

Get ready to be slowly terrified by a creepy ghost child saying “My medal”—at least that’s what happened to me the last time I watched the 1980 horror film The Changeling. Like so many others, it’s now getting a remake, with Hanna director Anders Engström coming on board to lead the project. As reported by…

Movies Beth Elderkin

Social Distancing Gets Extra Horrific With This Homemade Alien Remake

Alien is one of the most influential sci-fi films of our time, and we’ve seen several attempts to recreate its genius—from countless copycat sci-fi horrors to a clever high school play in New Jersey. Now, a group of socially distant creators have joined together to bring Alien to the living room. The YouTube channel Cardboard…

Movies Beth Elderkin

A Key Piece of The Last of Us TV Adaptation Has Been Revealed

The new game is out next Friday and the TV show has a pilot director. It’s a big few weeks for post-apocalyptic tale The Last of Us. Speaking to DiscussingFilm, director Johan Renck revealed he’ll be helming the pilot to the video game adaptation as well as executive producing along with game creator Neil Druckman…

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Karyn Kusama Says Her Dracula Adaptation Will Capture Some of the Mystery of the Original Novel

Despite being the originator of the most popular vampire story of the past 100 or so years, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is incredibly restrained with its vampire nastiness. Dracula, in the novel, is a specter, a mystery, an intriguing incitement to delve deeper into dark horrors that unfold slowly. Karyn Kusama, who is taking on a…

Movies Julie Muncy

Ryan Gosling May Be Our Next Wolfman

Soon, we may find out if Ryan Gosling has nards…because he’s in talks to star in a modern spin on The Wolfman. (Who, famously, does have nards, in case you didn’t know.) According to Variety, which broke the news, the monster movie originated from an original pitch by Gosling and has a script by Orange…

Movies Germain Lussier

Billy Porter Sees Little Shop of Horrors As a ‘Faustian Story’ He’s Ready to Be a Part Of

As more of the shape of Greg Berlanti’s upcomingLittle Shop of Horrors comes into focus, American Horror Story’s Billy Porter would like everyone to know that he’s more than ready to portray Audrey II, the carnivorous plant at the center of the messed-up musical’s story. In a recent interview with Collider, Porter explained how—even though…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

A Woman Hides From Something Evil in Ultra-Compact Terror Tale Beast of Prey

Beast of Prey, a new horror short from filmmaker Danny Donahue, runs just around three and a half minutes, and it’ll hook you in immediately. Amid a snowstorm, a woman barricades herself in a bathroom and frantically tries to figure out what she should do about the thing on the other side of the door.…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

What We Do in the Shadows to Keep Lurking for Another Season

Who knew vampires could be so hilarious? As shared by FX in a recent press release, What We Do in the Shadows, the comedy TV series based on the Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement film, has been renewed for a third season. The funny, dynamic show about vampire roommates living in New York City, shot…

io9 Julie Muncy

Ennio Morricone, Movie Composing Legend, Has Passed Away

Mike Flanagan’s Version of Stephen King’s Revival Is Going to Be Bleak

The Latest Into the Dark Episode Is About an Amnesiac Who Might Be the President

Jaws Screenwriter Carl Gottlieb Reflects on the Suddenly Relevant Legacy of the Mayor From Jaws

In the First Trailer for The Rental, Terrors Both High-Tech and Creepy-Human Ruin a Seaside Getaway

This Candyman Shadow Puppet Short Film Is a Horrific Mirror You Can’t Look Away From

Jaws at 45: The Scenes, the Sounds, the Shark

Max Brooks’ Bigfoot Tale Devolution Is Headed for the Big Screen

Stephen King Yearned to Write an ‘Existential’ Horror Novel About Friday the 13th‘s Jason

All Hail Guillermo, the Unlikely Hero of What We Do in the Shadows

Relic‘s New Trailer Makes the Challenges of Elder Care Extra Spooky

The Ghosts of War Trailer Sends WWII Soldiers Into an Especially Horrific Haunted House

Will The Changeling Remake Traumatize Me as Much as the Original?

Social Distancing Gets Extra Horrific With This Homemade Alien Remake

A Key Piece of The Last of Us TV Adaptation Has Been Revealed

Karyn Kusama Says Her Dracula Adaptation Will Capture Some of the Mystery of the Original Novel

Ryan Gosling May Be Our Next Wolfman

Billy Porter Sees Little Shop of Horrors As a ‘Faustian Story’ He’s Ready to Be a Part Of

A Woman Hides From Something Evil in Ultra-Compact Terror Tale Beast of Prey

What We Do in the Shadows to Keep Lurking for Another Season

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