The Black Phone and Sinister duo Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill will produce the horror film Bitter Bitter via their Crooked Highway, Deadline reports. The feature is based on writer-director Charlie Schwan‘s short Harvester, which premiered at this year’s SXSW and took home the Jury Award for Best Texas Short. The 13-minute short follows a […]
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Black Phone 2 is a scarier and more successful sequel, but its reinvention of the Grabber into a supernatural entity helps him become a modern Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees. Blumhouse has made not just waves, but full-on tsunamis, when it comes to their impact on the horror genre. Over the past 15 years, Blumhouse […]
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WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for The Black Phone and Black Phone 2. If Gen X has a boogeyman, it’s arguably the Man in the Windowless Van. Alongside memories of blissfully roaming unsupervised suburbs are warnings to avoid anyone in this particular vehicle lest you wind up on the side of a milk carton. […]
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Magnolia Pictures’ genre arm Magnet Releasing is creeping into December with faux-documentary horror movie Man Finds Tape, Rue Morgue reports today. Man Find Tape releases in select theaters and VOD platforms on December 5, 2025. Kelsey Pribilski, William Magnuson, John Gholson, Brian Villalobos, and Nell Kessler star. The official logline reads, “After receiving a cryptic […]
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Returning director Scott Derrickson (Sinister, V/H/S/85) and co-writer C. Robert Cargill didn’t plan to make sequel Black Phone 2 unless a great idea came along that excited them. That’s when author Joe Hill called. “He just said, ‘A phone rings, Finney answers, and it’s The Grabber calling from hell,’” Cargill tells Bloody Disgusting. That was the spark that […]
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Inspired by far-right US politicians waging war on bodily autonomy, phantasmagoric indie horror film House of Ashes will be released on VOD on October 30. Still reeling from a miscarriage, Mia grieves her husband Adam, found dead at the veterinary clinic they owned. She’s been acquitted of Adam’s death, but is under public scrutiny and […]
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The duo behind Sinister, Doctor Strange and The Black Phone, Scott Derrickson and his frequent partner C. Robert Cargill have set up shop at Screen Gems, Deadline reports tonight. The idea behind the pact? To bring new genre films to movie theaters. Specifically, in Deadline’s words, they’ve “signed a first look deal with Sony Pictures […]
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We’re still a ways away from Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill‘s The Black Phone, but that hasn’t stopped Final Flame Productions from cranking out another of their Grand Theft Auto V machinima videos, this time inspired by The Black Phone‘s recent trailer. Once again, the team works within the “limitations” of GTA V, so you do […]
Sinister and Doctor Strange duo Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill are back with their brand new Blumhouse horror movie The Black Phone, an adaptation of Joe Hill‘s short story that premiered to rave reviews at Fantastic Fest over the weekend. Meagan wrote in her review for Bloody Disgusting, “Derrickson and Cargill revive the same […]
Teased late last month, Timo Tjahjanto is teaming with Sinister and Doctor Strange filmmakers Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill on his next movie, and this week brings a bit of an update. For starters, the mysterious project now has a title: The Handover. Additionally, we’ve learned, it’s “a Christmas story”! “Filmmaking is an act […]
Timo Tjahjanto is soon to be a legend. It’s a little frustrating that this Indonesian-based filmmaker has yet to break in Hollywood, but it’s comforting to know that he’s set to get behind the camera for the remake of Train to Busan for James Wan’s Atomic Monster and New Line Cinema. He also revealed on […]