Every now and then, a creature comes along in horror cinema that is so effectively horrifying, so creatively designed, and so deeply committed to ruining childhoods that it becomes instantly iconic. Guillermo del Toro’s Pale Man from Pan’s Labyrinth is one such nightmare, a skeletal ghoul whose strict dietary preferences include fairies, disobedient children, and…
Scarlett Johansson has battled dinosaurs, aliens, supervillains, and Bill Murray in a bathrobe, and now she is preparing to square off with something even more dangerous than any Marvel villain: the Exorcist franchise in twenty twenty six. According to Deadline, Scarlett Johansson has signed on to star in Mike Flanagan’s upcoming reimagining of The Exorcist,…
Director Kevin Lewis is headed back into the blood spatter for the holidays, and honestly, it feels right. After giving the world Willy’s Wonderland, the gloriously deranged Nicolas Cage versus homicidal animatronics movie that instantly entered the cult canon, Lewis has sharpened his knives again for Pig Hill. Bloody Disgusting and Cineverse will release the…
Cinema just lost one of its strangest and brightest stars. Udo Kier, the man who could glide effortlessly from arthouse surrealism to Hollywood madness without ever losing that hypnotic Kier energy, has passed away at eighty one. The news was confirmed by his longtime partner Delbert McBride, closing the final chapter on a career that…
A moment of silence, please, for childhood innocence. It had a good run. But ever since early versions of Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh slipped into the public domain, filmmakers have been treating them the way a bored toddler treats a crayon drawing on the wall. Which is to say, absolutely no mercy. We…
The Hall of Killers has welcomed many memorable monsters over the years, but few have entered with quite the same grace as Lord Summerisle, the soft spoken mastermind from The Wicker Man who proved that a gentle smile can be just as lethal as a chainsaw. With his induction into the Premier Class, Summerisle joins…
The Return To Silent Hill trailer has released. Silent Hill fans, put down your radios and stop pretending that scraping noise in the hallway is “probably just the pipes.” The moment we have been waiting for since James Sunderland last trudged through the fog on the PlayStation 2 has finally arrived. The official trailer for…
Utqiaġvik, Alaska, the northernmost town in the United States and the unofficial capital of People Who Handle Cold Better Than the Rest of Us, has once again waved goodbye to the sun for its yearly two month vacation. The last sunrise has packed its bags, boarded a metaphorical plane and said “See you losers in…
Ah, Within The Woods. Sam Raimi once decided that if he could not charm investors with his dazzling personality and his impressive collection of Super 8 shorts that looked like they were filmed on a potato, he would simply terrify them instead. The result was Within The Woods, a microbudget blast of demonic mayhem made…
Josh Ruben clearly refuses to take a holiday. After opening the year with the slasher comedy Heart Eyes, he has already marched straight into his next project. Deadline revealed that Paramount has tapped Ruben to direct a film based on the Matt Query and Harrison Query novel Wilderness Reform, a story that asks the ancient…