There are independent films made with small budgets, and then there are films made with practically nothing at all. Noblestone belongs firmly in the latter category. The 94 minute British independent feature was written, directed, produced, photographed, edited and scored by Albert Goya, who completed the film at just 19 years old after working on…
One of John Carpenter’s greatest films is providing the blueprint for an intriguing new supernatural action fantasy, with Paramount Primal picking up Tower Defense, an original project from Snow White and the Huntsman writer Evan Daugherty. Details are deliberately being kept under lock and key for now, but the description alone is enough to get…
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…
There are certain names in horror that come with expectations, and Eli Roth is unquestionably one of them. Whatever you think of his films individually, the director behind Cabin Fever, Hostel, Hostel: Part II and, more recently, Thanksgiving has rarely been afraid of blood, guts or pushing practical gore considerably further than most mainstream filmmakers…
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…