Grab your cones and your courage because Eli Roth is back in the kitchen, and this time he is serving horror by the scoop. The director behind Hostel, Cabin Fever, and Thanksgiving has officially wrapped production on his latest nightmare, Ice Cream Man, which promises to turn childhood nostalgia into pure brain freeze terror. The…
If there is one universal truth in horror, it is that Stephen King never stops. The man has written so many novels, novellas, and short stories that it sometimes feels like there are more King adaptations than actual days in a year. The next one to crawl out of the pages and onto the screen…
Move over, Pooh Bear — Betty Boop is getting her turn to draw blood. The beloved 1930s cartoon icon is next in line for a horror makeover, joining the rapidly growing list of childhood favorites who have gone feral since entering the public domain. Following in the paw prints of Winnie the Pooh: Blood and…
British filmmaker Adam Mason has never been afraid to make audiences uncomfortable. Whether he is turning found footage into a nightmare in Hangman or making a pandemic thriller at the height of an actual pandemic with Songbird, Mason has built his career on stories that crawl under your skin and stay there. Now, he is…
Nothing is more terrifying than puberty, except maybe whatever is going on in the trailer for The Plague. This new psychological thriller is ready to make audiences deeply uncomfortable in the best possible way when it opens in New York and Los Angeles on December 24, before spreading nationwide on January 2 through Independent Film…
Some killers do not need chainsaws or clown masks. Some just need fangs, an old house, and the confidence to pull off a blue skin tone. Today, we welcome Kurt Barlow, the nightmarish Nosferatu of Salem’s Lot, into the First Class tier of the Hall of Killers — the resting place of those who make…
November 9th, 1990. The world was in a strange place. The Cold War was over, video stores were thriving, and horror was desperately trying to keep its edge. Then, out of a box labeled “Good Guy,” came a familiar freckled face and a filthy mouth. Child’s Play 2 arrived to remind audiences that dolls are…
Before Lights Out haunted cinema screens, it was just a two minute homegrown experiment in fear, a tiny short film shot in a Swedish apartment that somehow scared its way around the world. No studio, no budget, and no reason to expect it would change a career. But that is exactly what it did for…
Everyone’s favorite pint sized psychopath is back, and this time she is taking her twisted talents to Europe. Production has officially begun on Orphan 3, with filming now underway in Budapest, Hungary. Isabelle Fuhrman, who has somehow managed to remain both ageless and terrifying since 2009, is once again stepping into the saddle shoes of…
Every so often, the Hall of Killers opens its polished doors to someone a little different. We have our monsters, our slashers, our claws and fangs — but sometimes the most dangerous weapon in horror is not a machete or a mask. Sometimes it is a pen. Which is why Peter Neal, the homicidal author…