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…
Colleen Hoover’s Verity is heading to the big screen this October, and the newly released official trailer offers our clearest look yet at what could be one of the darker mainstream thrillers of 2026. Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett lead Amazon MGM Studios’ adaptation of Hoover’s bestselling novel, with Verity arriving in cinemas…
There are killers who stalk campsites, killers who invade dreams and killers who spend an extraordinary amount of time standing silently behind hedges. Then there is Clarence Boddicker, a man who looks like he should be asking why the quarterly sales figures are down before casually blowing somebody’s kneecaps off. The RoboCop crime boss has…
The horror world has lost one of its most distinctive and genuinely beloved cult heroes. Reggie Bannister, the actor and musician forever associated with his role as Reggie in Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm series, has died at the age of 80. Bannister died on Sunday, August 9, with his longtime friend and collaborator Don Coscarelli announcing…
Alexandre Aja is heading back into alligator-infested waters. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the filmmaker behind High Tension, The Hills Have Eyes and Crawl is returning to direct Crawl 2, with Mason Gooding (Heart Eyes, Scream) and Emily Rudd (Fear Street, One Piece) leading an all-new cast. Rather than continuing the story of the original…
The Leprechaun is preparing to return once again. Deadline reports that Lionsgate has officially begun development on a brand-new Leprechaun movie, marking the first new big-screen outing for the long-running horror franchise since 2018. While story details remain tightly under wraps, the studio has brought in genre veterans Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan to write…
Could one of horror’s most enduring cult franchises finally be heading back to the big screen with the backing of one of the genre’s biggest studios? A new report suggests that Blumhouse may be developing a reboot of Puppet Master, with plans potentially including both a feature film and a television series. While nothing has…
The Jurassic franchise isn’t going anywhere, but it will apparently be moving forward without the filmmaker who helped relaunch it for a new generation. According to Deadline, Gareth Edwards has exited the next Jurassic World film due to creative differences, with Universal now searching for a new director to helm the upcoming sequel. The report…