One of the most suspenseful scenes in director Johannes Roberts‘ Primate sees a deaf father arrive home, unaware of the vicious animal attack waging in the recesses of his house. The character, Adam, as Roberts initially wrote with collaborator Ernest Riera, wasn’t deaf at all. Nor was Adam a character who’s as warm and present […]
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There’s a stark contrast between good and evil in the sequel, 28 Years: The Bone Temple. At the opposite end of empathetic Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) and his poignant monument to death is psychopathic Jimmy Crystal (Jack O’Connell) and his Satanist clan, “The Jimmies.” The bad news for poor Spike (Alfie Williams) is that the […]
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It’s not the ravenous monster under the bed that steals Bryan Fuller’s Dust Bunny, but young lead Sophie Sloan as the adorably precocious 10-year-old Aurora. In Dust Bunny, releasing in theaters on December 12, Aurora enlists her mysterious neighbor (Mads Mikkelsen) to dispatch the creature that she asserts ate her parents. That her neighbor happens to […]
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Inspired by a real-life urban legend, Willy’s Wonderland director Kevin Lewis’ Pig Hill follows one woman’s descent into the brutal nightmare world of the pig people of Pig Hill. Following the disappearance of several local women, Carrie (Rainey Qualley) begins her own investigation into the mysterious disappearances. Carrie’s only ally is her brother Chris (Shiloh […]
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“The Man Who Refuses to Die” is back and more determined than ever in explosive sequel Sisu: Road to Revenge, from returning writer/director Jalmari Helander (Rare Exports, Big Game). In the over-the-top action sequel releasing in theaters on November 21, Aatami (Jorma Tommila) finds his quest to rebuild his home thwarted by the Red Army […]
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Getting several new Stephen King adaptations in a given year isn’t surprising to horror fans, but this year has an added dimension of intrigue for longtime Constant Readers. Two of the King films released in 2025 – The Long Walk and The Running Man – were originally released under a different name. Beginning in 1977, […]
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More than a decade in the making, eccentric actor Crispin Glover (Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, Back to the Future) is back with his third directorial effort, No! You’re Wrong. or: Spooky Action at a Distance. A generations-spanning surrealist tale with a meta bend, the film defies a succinct synopsis. Glover prefers to allow […]
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On the surface, Ed Gein and Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen) have very little in common. One lived with his domineering mother on the plains of snowy Wisconsin, while the other, a creation of director Tobe Hooper, keeps a house full of unruly men in the brutal heat of the Texas heartland. Gein was a shy and […]
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Even before anyone had seen a frame of Shelby Oaks, critic and YouTuber Chris Stuckmann‘s feature directorial debut, it became one of the most talked-about horror films in the last five years simply because of the sheer weight of support its concept garnered. Stuckmann’s efforts to crowdfund the film set Kickstarter records, early festival buzz […]
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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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World War II shark thriller Beast of War draws inspiration from the historical account that Quint tells in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws. That it releases in the same year that Spielberg’s seminal shark classic turns 50 feels like uncanny levels of planning ahead. “It’s just a beautiful, ironic coincidence, isn’t it?” Australian writer/director Kiah Roache-Turner (Sting, Wyrmwood: Apocalypse) […]
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Out this Friday on Paramount+ is Vicious, the latest visceral nightmare from filmmaker Bryan Bertino (The Dark and the Wicked, The Strangers) that stars Dakota Fanning as a woman experiencing the worst night of her life. Vicious centers almost entirely around Fanning’s character, Polly, who lives alone and reluctantly brings an older woman (Kathryn Hunter) out of […]
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The Boulet Brothers are back this Halloween season with the arrival of “The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Titans” Season Two on Shudder and AMC+, premiering today, and the All-Star competitors are out for blood. Fourteen of the fiercest drag artists from past seasons (most of them top three finalists and fan favorites) are back to prove […]
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Prepare to get far more acquainted with the Yautja than ever before, including a look at their planet and culture, in Prey director Dan Trachtenberg’s Predator: Badlands. Much has already been publicized about Badlands’ unconventional protagonist for a Predator movie, a young Yautja looking to prove himself by embarking on a perilous big game hunt, but […]
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Robert Englund has made it clear that he’s done playing Freddy Krueger, but as the man behind the horror icon for so many years, he shares valuable opinions about the future of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. “I think if they were gonna reboot it, they should probably start with [A Nightmare on Elm […]
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