‘Roast Beast’ – A Twisted “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” Horror Story by John Squires & Kim Faul

“Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot. But the Grinch… he did not.” As stories are passed down from generation to generation, and even year to year, it becomes a bit like a game of telephone, the original tale diluted and transformed to the point of becoming a whole different beast entirely. You’ve […]

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Grab ‘I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream’ For Free on GOG For 48 Hours

Everyone loves free stuff, especially when said stuff is awesome. Case in point: for the next 48 hours, GOG has made the classic horror PC adventure title I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream available for free! As with almost every classic title on GOG, you not only get the base game, but you […]

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‘A Christmas Horror Story’ Effectively Summons the Spirits of the Season [Horrors Elsewhere]

Horrors Elsewhere is a recurring column that spotlights a variety of movies from all around the globe, particularly those not from the United States. Fears may not be universal, but one thing is for sure — a scream is understood, always and everywhere. Something wicked has come to Bailey Downs this winter. Contrasting the annual, […]

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[Video] Dark Wild West Fantasy Title ‘Weird West’ Release Date Pushed Back to March 31st

Devolver Digital and developer Wolfeye Studios have pushed the release date of their upcoming dark fantasy title Weird West again. Though this time, we have a definitive date. Originally scheduled for release in January 2022, Weird West now has a March 31 release date for PC via Steam, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. “Weird West […]

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Mezco’s Latest ‘Alien’ Action Figure Brings the Original Xenomorph Concept Suit to Life!

As you may recall, NECA had several years back turned H.R. Giger‘s original translucent Xenomorph concept for Alien into an action figure, and now Mezco is doing the very same. The original prototype suit for the “Big Chap” Alien was cast in a translucent flesh-tone but repeated difficulties with the material forced the change to […]

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The 10 Coolest, Creepiest, and Most Stunning Horror Movie Posters of 2021

Where movie trailers can capture an audience’s attention with a montage of scenes, a poster must do it with a single image. It needs to grab you immediately. When done well, a movie poster not only piques curiosity but there’s an excellent chance we’ll want it on our walls, too. Whether the image matches the […]

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‘Days with Ghosts’ – Alexandra Smith Stuffs Stockings With Her Spooky New Children’s Book [Interview]

It’s tough, letting go of Spooky Season. While every horror fan’s favorite holiday is nearly two months gone now, the feeling of this recent loss is still palpable, as it has been before and shall always continue to be from year to year. That yearning to hold onto Halloween can be intense, even through the […]

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HBO Max 2022 Preview Video Includes Tiny First Look at “Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai” [Video]

We still don’t yet have a premiere date but the Gremlins franchise is soon headed back into our lives courtesy of the HBO Max series “Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai,” a half-hour animated prequel series from WB Animation and Amblin TV that’s set in 1920s Shanghai and tells the story of how 10-year-old Sam Wing met the young Mogwai […]

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First Look at Sam Raimi’s ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ Brings Horror to the MCU! [Teaser]

The Multiverse is a concept about which we know frighteningly little. Production recently wrapped on Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which will technically be Sam Raimi’s first horror movie in more than 10 years and first Marvel superhero movie in nearly 15 years. And Marvel has unleashed the official teaser trailer today! Raimi’s return to […]

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It’s Still Alive: ‘Frankenstein’ at 90 [Gods and Monsters]

In Bride of Frankenstein, Dr. Pretorius, played by the inimitable Ernest Thesiger, raises his glass and proposes a toast to Colin Clive’s Henry Frankenstein—“to a new world of Gods and Monsters.” I invite you to join me in exploring this world, focusing on horror films from the dawn of the Universal Monster movies in 1931 to the […]

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[Video] Freeze Infected in Their Tracks With New Snow Ops Bundle DLC For ‘Dying Light’

Because everyone is doing it (or has already done it), Techland has dropped new holiday-themed DLC for Dying Light. The new Snow Ops Bundle DLC is now available on Steam, as well as the PlayStation Store and Microsoft Store, featuring a brand-new outfit and weapon. The Snow Ops Bundle introduces the Winter Warrior outfit and […]

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Upcoming Documentary ‘Yuletide Horror’ Will Unwrap Christmas Horror Folklore and Cinema [Poster]

There are few things I love more than Christmas Horror, which has become a full-on subgenre in the years since early holiday horror movies like Tales from the Crypt, Christmas Evil and Silent Night, Deadly Night first brought killer Santas to the screen. There are HUNDREDS of Christmas Horror movies out there, and a documentary […]

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It’s a Christmas Miracle! A24’s ‘Lamb’ Is Now on VOD Platforms!

A24‘s new movie Lamb is a Christmas-set Biblical horror story of a childless couple, María (Prometheus star Noomi Rapace) and Ingvar (Hilmir Snaer Gudnason), who are sheep farmers in Iceland. On Christmas Eve they find a newborn who is half human, half sheep. Meagan writes in her review for BD, “While Lamb may not fully satisfy on a narrative level, it […]

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