After Joker proved that a DC villain could headline a film without Batman standing on a rooftop nearby looking moody, DC has naturally gone back to Gotham’s rogues gallery for another standalone villain story. This time it is Clayface, the actor turned supervillain who has been lurking around Batman’s world for decades in comics, animation…
WARNING: This review contains major spoilers for all eight episodes of Crystal Lake. If you haven’t watched the series yet, turn back now. Unlike Camp Crystal Lake Counsellors, we’ll still be here when you return. It has been a very long time since Friday the 13th fans had anything substantial to sink a machete into….
Pennywise is heading back to Derry, but when Bill Skarsgård returns beneath the make-up for the second season of IT: Welcome to Derry, audiences apparently shouldn’t expect quite the same Dancing Clown they’ve encountered before. Returning showrunner Brad Caleb Kane, who is also behind Crystal Lake, has revealed to Deadline that Season 2 will feature…
After years of fans asking whether Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz and the gang could possibly be persuaded to raid another ancient tomb, Universal Pictures is finally taking audiences back to the world of Rick and Evelyn O’Connell. The next instalment now has an official title, The Mummy: Book of the Dead, ahead of its planned…
The Walking Dead star Chandler Riggs has traded walkers for the Baker family in BIOHAZARD, an unofficial Resident Evil fan film that brings one of the most memorable sections of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard into live action. Running for around 19 minutes, BIOHAZARD is very much a fan production rather than an official Capcom project,…
James Mangold’s Swamp Thing hasn’t disappeared beneath the murky waters of development hell just yet. More than three years after the filmmaker was announced as the man bringing DC’s resident plant monster back to cinemas, DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran has confirmed that the project remains active and that a screenplay is currently being written….
The Hall of Killers has welcomed some complicated individuals through its doors. We’ve had supernatural monsters, masked lunatics, psychopaths and creatures capable of reducing a human being to something requiring several bin bags and a very understanding carpet cleaner. But every respectable institution occasionally needs an old-fashioned outdoorsman, which brings us to “Big” Ed Cooper,…
There are certain combinations of filmmaker and material that seem so obvious that discovering they nearly happened can be painful. George A. Romero and Resident Evil. Vincent Ward and Alien 3. Somewhere on that list belongs John Carpenter and Creature from the Black Lagoon, a project that progressed far beyond Carpenter simply saying he would…
More than a decade after The Woman in Black became one of modern Hammer’s greatest successes, the studio is deepening its relationship with the writer who created it. John Gore Studios has acquired rights to the complete works of Dame Susan Hill, opening the door for her extensive catalogue of ghost stories, novels and other…
The water isn’t safe in River, the new survival slasher that brings together two of modern horror’s most battle-tested leading ladies. Jane Levy and Jessica Rothe head into the wilderness for writer-director Joshua Giuliano’s feature debut, and the newly released trailer suggests their supposedly peaceful family trip is going to end with considerably more than…