It was only a matter of time before someone gave Minnie Mouse a knife and a grudge. After all, since the earliest version of Mickey Mouse entered the public domain on January 1st, 2024, horror filmmakers have been having a field day turning beloved cartoon characters into maniacs. The moment Steamboat Willie fell into the…
The Hall of Killers has gained a new nocturnal member, and he has come in for a landing with a thirst for blood and aviation fuel. Richard Dees, the grizzled tabloid reporter from The Night Flier, may have spent most of his screen time chasing monsters, but it is the monster himself who is getting…
It has been over forty years since the infamous “Video Nasties” list caused outrage in the UK, turning grubby VHS tapes into forbidden treasures for horror fans. Back in the early eighties, while Mary Whitehouse and her band of pearl-clutching moral crusaders were fainting over gore effects and fake blood, video shops across Britain were…
For the eleventh weekend this year, horror is king at the box office. Black Phone 2, the sinister sequel to Scott Derrickson’s supernatural smash, has officially answered the call, and audiences are picking up in droves. The sequel scared up an impressive twenty six and a half million dollars in its domestic debut and a…
It has been a couple of years since Michael Myers last lurched his way across cinema screens, and horror fans are all asking the same question. What next for everyone’s favorite emotionless babysitter killer? The bogeyman is silent again, no doubt hiding out somewhere polishing his knives and waiting for his next reboot. Few horror…
Move over sharks, the whale has entered the water. The vengeful star of Orca from 1977 has officially swum his way into the Hall of Killers, finding a home in the third class tier. It is an honor reserved for cult favorites, underappreciated oddities, and the kind of killers that might not headline a billion…
Lock your doors, dim the lights, and turn up the synth because John Carpenter is back. The horror maestro behind Halloween, The Thing, and They Live is returning to the small screen with John Carpenter Presents, a new supernatural anthology series from Elevation Pictures. Created and showrun by Michael Amo (The Listener, Pure) and Will…
Dust off your VCR and rewind your sense of nostalgia, because Dario Argento’s giallo masterpiece Tenebrae has just returned to VHS. Yes, you read that right. VHS. The format once buried beneath mountains of scratched DVDs and Blu-rays is now crawling its way out of the crypt, ready to reclaim its place on collectors’ shelves….
John Doe has finally made it. The quiet man with the notebooks, the obsession with morality, and a taste for the grotesquely poetic has joined the Premier Class of the Hall of Killers. Some villains murder for fun, others for chaos, but John Doe did it for art. He took the concept of sin and…
Ethan Hawke is not ready to hang up the mask just yet and is interested in making Black Phone 3. With Black Phone 2 now haunting cinemas and already dialing in an impressive 2.6 million dollars from Thursday night previews, talk of a third chapter in Scott Derrickson’s chilling saga is heating up fast. And…