Tom Rhys Harries as Matt Hagen in DC Studios' body horror film Clayface

Clayface Review: DC Gives Its Shapeshifting Villain a Face Full of Trouble

After Joker proved that a DC villain could headline a film without Batman standing on a rooftop nearby looking moody, DC has naturally gone back to Gotham’s rogues gallery for another standalone villain story. This time it is Clayface, the actor turned supervillain who has been lurking around Batman’s world for decades in comics, animation…

Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees in Crystal Lake, the Friday the 13th prequel series

Crystal Lake: A Bloody Good Return for Friday the 13th, but Did Jason Really Need a Scientific Origin?

WARNING: This review contains major spoilers for all eight episodes of Crystal Lake. If you haven’t watched the series yet, turn back now. Unlike Camp Crystal Lake Counsellors, we’ll still be here when you return. It has been a very long time since Friday the 13th fans had anything substantial to sink a machete into….

Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise in IT: Welcome to Derry ahead of the 1935-set second season

IT: Welcome to Derry Season 2 Promises a Pennywise We’ve Never Seen Before

Pennywise is heading back to Derry, but when Bill Skarsgård returns beneath the make-up for the second season of IT: Welcome to Derry, audiences apparently shouldn’t expect quite the same Dancing Clown they’ve encountered before. Returning showrunner Brad Caleb Kane, who is also behind Crystal Lake, has revealed to Deadline that Season 2 will feature…

Brendan Fraser returns as Rick O’Connell in The Mummy: Book of the Dead alongside Rachel Weisz

The Mummy: Book of the Dead Is Official as Brendan Fraser Returns to the Franchise

After years of fans asking whether Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz and the gang could possibly be persuaded to raid another ancient tomb, Universal Pictures is finally taking audiences back to the world of Rick and Evelyn O’Connell. The next instalment now has an official title, The Mummy: Book of the Dead, ahead of its planned…

Chandler Riggs as Ethan Winters in the unofficial Resident Evil 7 fan film BIOHAZARD

Chandler Riggs Brings Resident Evil 7 to Life in Impressive Fan Film BIOHAZARD

The Walking Dead star Chandler Riggs has traded walkers for the Baker family in BIOHAZARD, an unofficial Resident Evil fan film that brings one of the most memorable sections of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard into live action. Running for around 19 minutes, BIOHAZARD is very much a fan production rather than an official Capcom project,…

James Mangold’s Swamp Thing movie remains in development at DC Studios as the screenplay continues to be written

James Mangold’s Swamp Thing Is Still Alive as DC Confirms the Script Is Being Written

James Mangold’s Swamp Thing hasn’t disappeared beneath the murky waters of development hell just yet. More than three years after the filmmaker was announced as the man bringing DC’s resident plant monster back to cinemas, DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran has confirmed that the project remains active and that a screenplay is currently being written….

Big Ed Cooper from The Mutilator inducted into the Hall of Killers Third Class Tier

Gone Fishing, Gone Murdering: “Big” Ed Cooper Enters the Hall of Killers

The Hall of Killers has welcomed some complicated individuals through its doors. We’ve had supernatural monsters, masked lunatics, psychopaths and creatures capable of reducing a human being to something requiring several bin bags and a very understanding carpet cleaner. But every respectable institution occasionally needs an old-fashioned outdoorsman, which brings us to “Big” Ed Cooper,…

John Carpenter’s unmade Creature from the Black Lagoon remake featuring the iconic Universal Monsters Gill-man

The Unmade: John Carpenter’s Creature from the Black Lagoon

There are certain combinations of filmmaker and material that seem so obvious that discovering they nearly happened can be painful. George A. Romero and Resident Evil. Vincent Ward and Alien 3. Somewhere on that list belongs John Carpenter and Creature from the Black Lagoon, a project that progressed far beyond Carpenter simply saying he would…

Hammer acquires the complete works of The Woman in Black author Dame Susan Hill for potential new film and television adaptations

Hammer Acquires Susan Hill’s Complete Works as The Woman in Black Author Finds a New Gothic Home

More than a decade after The Woman in Black became one of modern Hammer’s greatest successes, the studio is deepening its relationship with the writer who created it. John Gore Studios has acquired rights to the complete works of Dame Susan Hill, opening the door for her extensive catalogue of ghost stories, novels and other…

Jane Levy and Jessica Rothe in survival slasher River ahead of its January 2027 cinema release

River Trailer Strands Jane Levy and Jessica Rothe With a Faceless Killer

The water isn’t safe in River, the new survival slasher that brings together two of modern horror’s most battle-tested leading ladies. Jane Levy and Jessica Rothe head into the wilderness for writer-director Joshua Giuliano’s feature debut, and the newly released trailer suggests their supposedly peaceful family trip is going to end with considerably more than…