There are few names in modern horror literature with quite the same weight as Clive Barker, and now the man who gave us Books of Blood is returning to the form that first made him impossible to ignore. Barker has announced Library of the Dead, an ambitious three-volume collection of horror fiction being released through…
Feed me, Seymour! Preferably in 4K. Frank Oz’s gloriously strange Little Shop of Horrors celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, and Warner Bros. is marking the occasion by giving the 1986 musical comedy a new physical media release. The film will arrive in the UK on 19 October 2026, with fans able to choose between…
It was surely only a matter of time, but now we finally have confirmation: IT: Welcome to Derry is officially returning for a second season. HBO has renewed its hit Stephen King horror series following the success of Season 1, with the next chapter turning the clock back even further. Rather than continuing forward from…
The Deadites are heading home, and as usual they are not bringing a bottle of wine and politely leaving before midnight. STUDIOCANAL has announced the UK home entertainment release of Evil Dead Burn, with the latest entry in the long running Evil Dead franchise arriving on digital platforms on 24 August, followed by 4K Ultra…
Cinema has spent well over a century working with the horizontal frame, so there is something initially strange about watching a feature film turn itself on its side. Yet that is precisely where Argentine writer and director Sebaztian Baz finds the identity of Sombras Chinas. Shot in a native 9:16 vertical format and constructed around…
Some pieces of news are difficult to comprehend when they first appear, and this is one of them. Hayden Panettiere, the actress beloved by horror fans as Kirby Reed in Scream 4 and Scream VI and known to millions around the world as Claire Bennet in Heroes, has died at the devastatingly young age of…
There is a moment in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma when faded scream queen Billy Presley attempts to explain what made the fictional Camp Miasma films work in the first place. While young filmmaker Kris Williams is approaching the material through identity, representation, cultural interpretation and enough film theory to make you instinctively…
There is something deeply unsettling happening in 2026, and for once David Cronenberg has nothing to do with it. An extraordinary number of films that still somehow feel as though they belong to our relatively recent cinematic past are celebrating their 40th birthdays. Here at Stalk & Slash, we have already marked four decades of…
Low budget horror has always been one of the great training grounds for filmmakers. You don’t necessarily need expensive sets, enormous crews or recognisable stars to make something effective. A house, a few willing actors, some fake blood and a strong idea can sometimes be enough. Give Me Something Good, written and directed by Clay…
For more than four decades, John Carpenter has left us sitting in the freezing ruins of Outpost 31 with R.J. MacReady and Childs, wondering whether either man is actually still human. Now Carpenter has once again suggested that the story of The Thing might not be finished after all. Appearing at Fan Expo Chicago this…