Sad news from the horror world today, as Mark Jones, the writer and director who gave us one of the genre’s most unlikely and long-lasting mascots, has passed away at the age of 72. Jones reportedly died following a brief stay at West Hills Hospital in Los Angeles. While his name may not always sit…
When Thanksgiving carved its way into cinemas in late 2023, it didn’t just slash box office expectations — it practically guaranteed a sequel. In fact, Thanksgiving 2 was officially announced a mere two weeks after the first film opened, with TriStar eager to strike while the gravy was hot. The original plan was simple: get…
John Carpenter turns 78 today, and somehow that feels both completely believable and utterly impossible. Believable because the man has been shaping horror, science fiction, and action cinema since the late 1970s. Impossible because his work still feels so sharp, so current, and so influential that imagining genre cinema without him feels borderline unthinkable. Quite…
Glen Powell is showing no signs of easing off the accelerator. Following a string of high-profile projects that have quietly transformed him into one of Hollywood’s most dependable leading men, Powell is now lining up a cerebral genre turn. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actor is in talks to star in and produce Tesseract,…
There are killers who stalk alleyways with knives, killers who haunt dreams, and killers who refuse to die no matter how many times you shoot them. And then there’s Dino Velvet, a man who doesn’t even bother getting his hands dirty because he’s far too busy counting money and calling murder “content.” With that, Dino…
In 1999, The Blair Witch Project did something no horror film had ever truly done before. It convinced an entire generation that three film students went into the woods and never came back. People argued in pubs about whether it was real. The internet was still young enough to be lied to. Found footage was…
Maggie Gyllenhaal is handing the lightning bolt to someone who has rarely been allowed to hold it. The Bride, long treated as a tragic footnote in the Frankenstein mythos, finally takes center stage in The Bride!, Gyllenhaal’s bold reworking of the classic story, now unveiled in a striking new trailer. Arriving in theaters and IMAX…
Prime Video has officially found its God of War. Ryan Hurst, best known for Sons of Anarchy and The Walking Dead, has been cast as Kratos in the long-developing live-action adaptation of Sony Santa Monica’s blockbuster PlayStation franchise. It is a major piece of casting for one of gaming’s most iconic antiheroes, and one that…
Long before Demogorgons, synth scores, and terrified kids pedalling through suburbia at night, the Duffer Brothers were already deep into horror. Not friendly nostalgia horror, either. The kind that unfolds in police stations, smells faintly of stale coffee, and quietly suggests you should not trust the person standing behind you. That horror took shape in…
Paramount has dropped a brand new promo for Scream 7, and it is doing exactly what its title promises: looking backward before driving the knife straight into the future. Dubbed the “Legacy” promo, the short spot stitches together moments from across the franchise to remind audiences that every prank call, every mask reveal, and every…