A haunted attraction is supposed to be frightening right up until the moment you remember that everybody inside is being paid to scare you. The blood is fake, the screaming maniac around the next corner is probably thinking about his lunch break, and the corpse hanging from the ceiling will be back in a storage…
Long before Peter Jackson became the filmmaker responsible for The Lord of the Rings trilogy, he had an opportunity to enter an altogether different fantasy world. Instead of Hobbits, Orcs and Middle-earth, Jackson could have found himself directing Freddy Krueger and exploring the nightmares of Springwood. Around the turn of the 1990s, Jackson and fellow…
Zach Cregger has successfully brought Resident Evil roaring back to cinemas, with his new film delivering the biggest opening weekend in the history of the long-running horror franchise. Resident Evil opened with an estimated $60 million from 3,684 cinemas across the United States and Canada, comfortably setting a new opening-weekend record for the series. The…
Zack Snyder has revealed the first significant details about how he intends to approach his new version of John Carpenter’s Escape from New York, and one of the biggest questions has now been answered. Rather than dragging Carpenter’s dystopian future into the present day, Snyder plans to keep the story in 1997, preserving the future…
Forget balancing cakes, books and fishbowls. This cat has apparently brought a hatchet. Stalk & Slash has been given a first look at upcoming horror short The Cat and the Hatchet, a twisted horror parody inspired by the basic set-up of Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat. The production has released three official images…
Twenty years after New Zealand discovered that genetically modified livestock and irresponsible science make an exceptionally messy combination, the killer flock is back. Umbrella Entertainment has released the first official trailer for Black Sheeps, the long-awaited sequel to Jonathan King’s 2006 horror comedy Black Sheep, and original star Nathan Meister is returning as Henry Oldfield….
As survival-thriller premises go, Whalefall isn’t exactly easing us gently into proceedings. Austin Abrams plays a young scuba diver who enters the ocean looking for his dead father’s remains, encounters a giant squid being attacked by a sperm whale and ends up swallowed by the whale himself. His oxygen supply gives him approximately one hour…
There are easier ways to deal with boredom than purchasing a mysterious puzzle box and opening a gateway to an extradimensional realm of sadomasochistic torture. Take up golf. Buy an air fryer. Start collecting stamps. Frank Cotton, unfortunately, is not a man interested in sensible hobbies. The human monster at the centre of Clive Barker’s…
Hollywood’s growing interest in filmmakers who built their audiences online is showing no signs of slowing down. After the extraordinary 2026 success of Curry Barker’s Obsession and Kane Parsons’ Backrooms, another creator is making the jump to feature filmmaking. Spencer Lackey will write and direct Lust, a new horror movie bringing together Neon, Blumhouse Atomic…
Godzilla is heading back to cinemas this November, and Toho has unleashed a new official trailer for Godzilla Minus Zero, the highly anticipated follow-up to Takashi Yamazaki’s Godzilla Minus One. Yamazaki returns as director, screenwriter and VFX supervisor, while Ryunosuke Kamiki and Minami Hamabe are back as Koichi Shikishima and Noriko Oishi. Rather than jumping…