The opening credits for The Perfect Couple are fun and cute. As Meghan Trainor’s “Criminals” plays, the cast of Netflix’s new limited series – from the police officers to the housekeeper to Nicole Kidman herself – perform a coordinated wedding dance on the beach. It’s the kind of clichéd bit one expects to see at […]
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Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, and Michael Keaton reunite with director Tim Burton to venture back into the whimsically macabre realm that made the 1988 classic Beetlejuice an enduring fan favorite. The long-gestating sequel, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, appropriately takes place 30-something years after the Ghost with the Most tried to con his way back to life with […]
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“Why true crime?” is a question you may have asked others or perhaps yourself, depending on where you fall within the true crime industrial complex that has permeated popular culture. Even classifying true crime as “popular culture” feels irresponsible, but that’s exactly what it is: the massive popularity of the Serial podcast and Netflix serial […]
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There are two types of people that are going to be attracted to The Casting of Frank Stone: Dead by Daylight fans, looking for a new game set in the universe of their favorite asymmetrical multiplayer game, or Supermassive fans, who want to see the latest cinematic game from the studio behind Until Dawn and […]
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In a time where CGI and other digital technology reign as the kings of cinema special effects, Full Moon Features has released a film with old school SFX and a production timeline nearly half a century-long, spanning from conceptualization to release, with The Primevals. And this timeline length is no exaggeration. The road to this […]
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‘Terminator Zero’ turns to a striking anime aesthetic that breathes fresh life into the flailing sci-fi franchise and helps it break exciting, new ground. Why are we still telling Terminator stories? What started as a fascinating and frightening horror/science fiction calling card for a scrappy James Cameron has increasingly faced diminishing returns. Terminator told the […]
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Horror is almost an afterthought in director Lee Daniels’ The Deliverance. The director behind domestic drama Precious and musical biopic United States vs. Billie Holiday draws inspiration from the true story of Latoya Ammons, focusing on the plight of a single mother struggling to survive when her new home harbors an evil that means them […]
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Director Alex Proyas‘ vision of James O’Barr’s comic book, The Crow, firmly rooted itself in the pop culture pantheon, a defining film of the ’90s for its dreamy gothic style and the tragic on-set passing of its star, Brandon Lee. Proyas‘ take on The Crow was so singular and successful that it launched a film […]
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Five years ago, the co-op board game Horrified set you up against Universal Monsters like Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, and the Invisible Man. It mixed clever co-op mechanics reminiscent of classic games like Pandemic with an iconic property to great results. Since then, they released Horrified: American Monsters and Horrified: Greek Monsters, standalone sequels to the […]
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Terror Tuesday: Extreme combines the experience of call-in radio shows with Thailand’s unique brand of modern horror. This new, eight-episode anthology series is inspired by the popular EFM radio program, Terror Tuesday, where listeners share their own frightening (and supposedly true) tales. Viewers will be lured in by the “based on real events” angle, but […]
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Last week, Hunt: Showdown, the horror-tinged extraction shooter, received its largest update since it was released from Early Access about five years ago. This new version, now titled Hunt: Showdown 1896, includes an engine upgrade, revamped UI, additional roaming target, and a whole new map, the first in three years. Hunt is one of the […]
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The latest edition of the Popcorn Frights Film Festival has drawn to a close, wrapping up retro screenings and world premieres with an all-night A Nightmare on Elm Street marathon. Our first roundup of Popcorn Frights 2024 capsule reviews included found footage fright Chateau, along with fest darlings and new discoveries. The found footage didn’t stop there, […]
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It’s summertime which means one thing in the cinemaverse: shark movie season! We have already been served fin-ematic releases like Under Paris from Netflix and Something in the Water over the past couple of months, but Mad Angel Films adds one more helping to our “shark”-cuterie plate with their horror-comedy Graveyard Shark. The Indiegogo-funded feature […]
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From the genre-defining classics A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream to such transgressive works as The Last House on the Left and The Hills Have Eyes to cult favorites like The People Under the Stairs and The Serpent and the Rainbow, Wes Craven’s reign of terror spanned not only decades but generations. But there’s […]
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Watching horror movies about camping seems as much a beloved pastime as actual camping. The concept of campers being terrorized by someone or something in the great outdoors has timeless appeal. And Consumed, directed by Mitchell Altieri and written by David Calbert, boasts all the expected characteristics: a foreboding forest setting, unnatural forces hiding within […]
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