The Muppets are headed into the Haunted Mansion in the upcoming Disney+ special Muppets Haunted Mansion, a spooky treat that’s headed our way on the road to Halloween. Today we’ve learned that the Halloween special will premiere on October 8! Deadline details, “The Muppets’ first-ever Halloween special, Muppets Haunted Mansion will feature the Muppets cast, celebrity cameos and new music and […]
R.L. Stine
R.L. Stine’s “Just Beyond” Brings Gateway Horror to Disney+ This Fall and We’ve Got the First Images!
Annabelle Comes Home and Ghostbusters: Afterlife actress Mckenna Grace will continue playing around in the horror genre with the upcoming “Just Beyond,” a Disney+ anthology series based on R.L. Stine‘s comic book series. Disney+ has given an eight-episode order to the series, which hails from writer/showrunner Seth Grahame-Smith (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) and 20th Century Fox Television. The series premieres this […]
From ‘Scream’ to ‘The Exorcist’, Netflix Gives a Closer Look at ‘Fear Street’ Trilogy’s Horror References [Video]
The opening kill of Fear Street Part 1: 1994 recreated the shocking demise of Drew Barrymore’s character in Scream, marking the first of many nods and homages to horror’s best for the trilogy. But how many references did you catch? Netflix released a nearly 10-minute long video to help, giving a closer look at the […]
‘Fear Street’ Co-Writer Phil Graziadei Talks Queer Representation with the Horror Queers! [Podcast]
Queer Street. It’s not often that a popular IP gets adapted with explicit queer content added in, but that’s exactly what happened with Netflix’s Fear Street trilogy, a groundbreaking event that puts two queer characters front-and-center in a major horror release. Now that all three films have been released, we’re releasing a spoiler-filled interview with the […]
‘Fear Street’ Shines a Light on Horror’s History With a Patriarchal Society
A woman fearful she’ll lose all she holds near and dear. A man with a knife or an ax or a couple of lacerating words as his weapon. That’s usually how most horror flicks start. The woman runs for dear life only to not run fast enough. The killer catches her; cue the opening title […]
The Future of “Fear Street”: Leigh Janiak Hopes to Make More Teen Horror for Netflix!
One of the more ambitious horror projects to come along in recent years, Netflix‘s three Fear Street movies were shot back-to-back by director Leigh Janiak, who played with different tones, styles, time periods, and subgenres throughout the trilogy. The story wrapped up in Fear Street Part 3: 1666, but there’s endless potential for the future […]
All Three ‘Fear Street’ Soundtracks Getting Vinyl Release With Cover Art Inspired by the Original Books!
With the entire trilogy now streaming on Netflix, Waxwork Records has announced today that the soundtracks for all three Fear Street movies are being released on vinyl. Coolest of all, the art for each film pays tribute to the classic illustrations found on the covers of R.L. Stine‘s original books, which Leigh Janiak‘s movies are […]
Finding Stephen King at the End of Fear Street [The Losers’ Club Podcast]
Curses. Mysteries. Murder. The streets of Shadyside are stained with blood and the teens are always in danger. This is the perilous world of R.L. Stine’s Fear Street, the ’90s young adult series that inspired an entire generation of readers to vanish into the stacks in search of the spooky. Naturally, many of them became […]
“Goosebumps”: R.L. Stine Brought Gateway Horror to the Small Screen in the ’90s [TV Terrors]
Horror and science fiction have always been a part of the television canvas, and constant attempts have been made over the years to produce classic entertainment. Some have fallen by the wayside, while others became mainstream phenomena. With “TV Terrors,” we take a look back at the many genre efforts from the 80’s, 90’s, and […]