In addition to hosting the popular Post Mortem podcast, Mick Garris is also a Master of Horror, an icon of a filmmaker behind tons of horror goodies from Critters 2 to Sleepwalkers, Quicksilver Highway, and the more recent anthology Nightmare Cinema. Before the Stephen King craze, Garris would also direct several series from “The Stand” […]
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‘Roommate Wanted’ Trailer Kills All the Horror Tropes [Exclusive]
Indican Pictures has given Bloody the exclusive trailer premiere for Roommate Wanted, a new horror-comedy that is set for various VOD platforms on January 18, 2022. In the film… “Two young college students, Maria (Angelique Sabrina White; The Windbearers) and Ricky (Ricky Cruz; Mixed Orders), are in desperate need of a roommate after the mysterious […]
Child-Eating Demon Returns for Dessert in Chilling Trailer for ‘Achoura’ [Exclusive]
Dark Star Pictures serves up the official trailer for Achoura, the latest genre film from Talal Selhami that’s being described as IT meets Babadook. Also called “Children’s Night”, Achoura is a religious celebration. In Morocco, children splash water on each other and gather around a bonfire. In the film, four friends reconnect when one of them, who disappeared 25 years ago, […]
‘Dead Asleep’ Trailer: Hulu’s True-Crime Documentary Sleepwalks to Murder [Exclusive]
Hulu is sleepwalking to murder with their brand new true-crime documentary Dead Sleep, said to be a ground-breaking new spin on the genre. The film, directed by Skye Borgman, follows the case of Randy Herman Jr., a Florida man convicted of a murder he says he committed while sleepwalking in 2017. The documentary film, produced […]
‘Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives’ – Cover Art and Synopsis for Adam Cesare’s Slasher Sequel! [Exclusive]
Bram Stoker Award-Winning author Adam Cesare released his original slasher novel Clown in a Cornfield last year, which Bloody Disgusting’s own Meagan Navarro called “a great retro slasher in the guise of Young Adult horror.” Meagan added, “Cesare applies an ’80s style slasher to a modern setting, complete with social relevancy, making the small town […]
Devon Sawa Teases Upcoming Horror Movie from the Makers of ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’
Devon Sawa has been having a hell of a run in the horror genre in recent years, appearing in The Fanatic, Hunter Hunter and Don Mancini’s ongoing “Chucky” series, as well as starring alongside Bruce Campbell in the horror-comedy Black Friday that’s out now on VOD. What’s next from Sawa on the horror front? Chatting […]
‘Warped & Faded’ Author Lars Nilsen Curates Top Five Exploitation Horror Movies for Bloody Disgusting [Exclusive]
Author Lars Nilsen, a longtime Alamo Drafthouse film programmer, and now Austin Film Society lead film programmer, has written a definitive guide to exploitation cinema. Mondo’s Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive, edited by Kier-La Janisse (Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror) featuring […]
Bruce Campbell Teases That He’s Currently Writing a Comic Book for a Major Company
Chatting with Bloody Disgusting’s The Boo Crew Podcast this week about everything from The Evil Dead to brand new horror-comedy Black Friday, horror icon Bruce Campbell let it slip that one of his next projects will take him into the world of comic books… as a writer! “I’m writing a comic book for a major […]
‘Black Friday’ Clip: Bruce Campbell Plans to Go Down With the Ship [Exclusive]
George A. Romero took on American consumerism with his masterpiece Dawn of the Dead and now filmmaker Casey Tebo looks to put a modern spin on it with Black Friday, which kicks off the holiday season by spreading some Christmas fear. Bloody Disgusting scored an exclusive clip, which highlights horror favorites Bruce Campbell (The Evil Dead films) and Devon Sawa (Final Destination, Syfy’s “Chucky”) […]
‘Pumpkinhead’: Paramount Players Conjuring a Remake of Stan Winston’s Classic [Exclusive]
Every horror fan knows Paramount Pictures, but Paramount Players is quietly building out quite the horror library. They were not only behind last year’s Spell, but also this October’s Paranormal Activity: The Next of Kin, and are also in production on several horror films from Orphan: First Kill to the Pet Sematary prequel, Something’s Wrong […]
Exclusive ‘A House on the Bayou’ Clip Hopes to Become as Famous as Charles Manson [Video]
Blumhouse recently joined forces with EPIX to develop and produce eight standalone horror/genre-thriller movies exclusively for the network, the next of which is A House on the Bayou, from writer/director Alex McAulay (Don’t Tell a Soul), set to premiere on digital November 19th, the same day as its EPIX premiere. In A House on the Bayou… “In an […]
“Historically, This Story Would Be Told With a Bunch of Boys” – Christina Ricci Previews Showtime’s “Yellowjackets” [Exclusive]
“The plane crashed… a bunch of our friends died… and then the rest of us starved and scavenged.” So began the official teaser for Showtime’s “Yellowjackets,” a survival drama that features a pilot episode directed by Karyn Kusama (Jennifer’s Body, The Invitation). The series was created by Ashley Lyle & Bart Nickerson (“Narcos”), described as being “equal parts survival epic, psychological […]
[Trailer] ‘Fright Night 2’ Director Takes Najarra Townsend Down ‘The Darkness of the Road’
Horror director Eduardo Rodriguez (Fright Night 2, El Gringo, Curandero) returns with The Darkness of the Road, a new genre offering that stars Contracted and Dementia: Part II‘s Najarra Townsend. Townsend stars as a single mother and her young daughter are driving on a desolate road in a moonless desert. After meeting a young female hitchhiker […]
Christina Ricci Reflects on ‘The Addams Family’ 30 Years After Playing Wednesday Addams [Exclusive Interview]
This year marks the 30th anniversary of 1991’s The Addams Family movie, which is being released on 4K Ultra HD this month with a brand new extended version of the film. Newly remastered and restored under the supervision of director Barry Sonnenfeld, The Addams Family will be presented in both the original theatrical version and a […]
How the Wild West Gets Vivid and Weird in ‘Chained to the Grave’ Horror-Western Graphic Novel [Exclusive]
IDW Publishing’s new miniseries Chained to the Grave united the western and horror subgenres through a vibrant, colorful style atypical of both genres. Initially released as five individual issues earlier this year, Chained to the Grave collects the story into one graphic novel set for release on December 28, 2021. Ahead of its release, IDW shared an […]