Leonardo DiCaprio is trading red carpets for red capes. His production company Appian Way is developing a Universal Pictures biopic about Bela Lugosi, the Hungarian-born legend who gave Count Dracula his immortal bite. And while DiCaprio’s own fangs remain safely in storage for now, the project already has plenty of star power behind the camera….
Before Insidious or The Conjuring were busy scaring families out of their suburban homes, House was doing the exact same thing – only with way more rubber monsters, sitcom-level sound effects, and the occasional disembodied hand flipping the bird. Starting with the 1986 original (brought to us by Sean S. Cunningham of Friday the 13th…
The campfire is being rekindled, the lake is looking ominous again and mothers everywhere are clutching their pearls. The upcoming Friday the 13th prequel series Crystal Lake is officially coming to the UK and Ireland through Sky and its streaming service Now, finally answering the age-old question: “What if your mum really, really hated your…
Christine, the gleaming red Plymouth Fury that made petrol stations nervous and mechanics rich, has officially driven into the second class of the Hall of Killers. She joins the ranks of horror’s most diabolical icons, earning her place beside other beloved maniacs such as Julia Cotton and the Dog Soldiers pack. It is a well…
Sam Raimi, the man who made the word “groovy” synonymous with chainsaws, is back behind the camera for his first feature as director since Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. His new horror thriller Send Help is set to crash into cinemas on January 30, 2026, and fans are about to get their first…
It was perhaps inevitable. After Barbie conquered the world, Mattel looked across its toy shelf and thought, “Which one of these plastic relics can we turn into a cinematic universe next?” While most of us expected Uno: The Movie to finally happen (and yes, that is real), Mattel has gone in an altogether stranger direction….
The Hall of Killers has welcomed all manner of maniacs over the years, from demon children to dream invaders, but few have managed to make audiences feel both terrified and deeply uncomfortable quite like Donny Kohler, the star of the notorious 1979 shocker Don’t Go in the House. Now, decades after he first brought his…
Has it really been ten years since It Follows shuffled its way into cinemas and directly into our collective nightmares? It seems impossible that a decade has passed since David Robert Mitchell unleashed one of the strangest, most hypnotic and anxiety-inducing horror films of the 2010s. It was the little indie movie that could, a…
Some killers creep out of the shadows in silence. Others announce their arrival with a knife, a grin and enough hairspray to survive the apocalypse. Brenda Bates falls firmly into the latter category. The gleefully deranged villain from Urban Legend has officially been inducted into the Hall of Killers third class, and honestly, it is…
Every so often a short horror film comes along that feels like it has crawled straight out of the fever dreams of 1970s cinema, and In The Dark We Bleed is one of them. Written and directed by Mike Clarke, produced by Paul Gerrard, and shot for little more than a thousand pounds, it is…