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…
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 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…
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…
One of John Carpenter’s greatest films is providing the blueprint for an intriguing new supernatural action fantasy, with Paramount Primal picking up Tower Defense, an original project from Snow White and the Huntsman writer Evan Daugherty. Details are deliberately being kept under lock and key for now, but the description alone is enough to get…
Forty years ago this week, on 15 August 1986, Manhunter opened in American cinemas. It arrived in 779 theatres, made a fairly underwhelming $2.2 million over its opening weekend and eventually crawled to just over $8.6 million at the domestic box office. Audiences had been given one of the greatest serial killer thrillers ever made…
The doors of the barn are opening one last time, and judging by the newly released trailer for The Barn Part III, nobody involved has suddenly developed an interest in subtlety. Writer and director Justin M. Seaman is returning to bring his independent Halloween horror trilogy to an end, with The Barn Part III receiving…
More than a quarter of a century after The Blair Witch Project helped transform found footage from an experimental filmmaking technique into one of horror’s most enduring subgenres, two of the people responsible for that phenomenon are returning to familiar territory. Eduardo Sánchez and Gregg Hale are producing the new found footage horror film The…