The Ritual filmmaker David Bruckner delivered no shortage of potent scares in last year’s The Night House, now available to stream on HBO Max. The film stars Rebecca Hall as Beth, a woman reeling from the unexpected death of her husband. Left alone in the lakeside house he built for her; Beth quickly becomes plagued by nightmares and visions […]
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The greatest and most universal experience is death. And we’re all afraid to die, in our own way. Whether it’s full-blown thanatophobia or just a faint, dull throb, we all carry this weight of existential dread around with us in our everyday lives. In David Lowery’s A Ghost Story, this fear hangs around each frame, […]
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Near Dark is back on Shudder… plus more horror gems to stream in April! April is already upon us, and the various streaming services are preparing accordingly with a ton of new additions to their platforms. That means a whole bunch of horror movies to check out from the comfort of home, from classics to […]
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The nominations for the second annual Critics Choice Super Awards have been announced this week, the rare ceremony that actually honors horror in multiple categories. The Critics Choice Super Awards were created “to honor the finest in genre fiction film, television and home media releases, including superhero, horror, science fiction, fantasy and animation releases,” and […]
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Here on Bloody Disgusting we’ve published several articles (find them all here) covering *our* favorite horror movies of last year, but it’s always interesting to take a look at year-in-review roundups from other places as well. Letterboxd, for example, kicks off each new year by spotlighting the previous year’s top hits, and their full 2021 Year […]
Horror fans love a good scare; a well-executed scare can linger long after the credits roll. These effective scenes of terror stick with you, lurking in your skull as you drift off to sleep. Luckily 2021 offered several memorable scenes of unrelenting dread and spine-tingling chills. Moments that stood out and sent shivers up and […]
Year two of an ongoing pandemic made for another fascinating year in horror. Last year’s delayed theatrical titles finally saw release in 2021, many of which experimented with day-and-date release strategies. Streaming services and VOD markets continued to bring an insane selection, and more film festivals joined the virtual space. All of which felt like […]
It’s the first full week of October, and nearly TWENTY brand new horror movies and shows are on the way. Perhaps we’re a little biased here, as it is after all a Bloody Disgusting project, but we’re absolutely thrilled to unleash the wild V/H/S/94 this week, for starters, which currently has a fresh 100% score […]
One of the spookiest horror movies of the year, The Night House, is making its way to home video, available on digital October 5 and on Blu-ray and DVD October 19. Ahead of its digital release, Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive look at a behind-the-scenes featurette that details director David Bruckner and lead actress Rebecca Hall‘s respect for Alfred […]
We loved David Bruckner‘s arthouse horror The Night House, which has shades of Hellraiser, an interesting parallel considering the filmmaker is currently behind the camera on the next Hellraiser as I write this. In fact, The Night House was directly inspired by the Clive Barker-created franchise that has Hulu resurrecting Pinhead and the other Cenobites […]
Content Warning: this editorial contains explicit details about suicide. This article also includes spoilers for The Night House. I walked out of the theater last weekend after seeing The Night House absolutely gutted. Very few horror films have ever managed to pulverize me in such a totally debilitating way that I literally couldn’t catch my […]
In director David Bruckner‘s latest, The Night House, recently widowed Beth (Rebecca Hall) discovers disturbing secrets about her husband after beginning to experience paranormal events at their remote lakeside house. As Beth plays detective to uncover those secrets, she also finds clues for a supernatural mystery. Screenwriters Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski (Super Dark Times, Siren) shared with Bloody Disgusting their process in […]
After siding with King Kong in this year’s Godzilla vs. Kong, actress Rebecca Hall now must contend with a spine-tingling haunting in David Brucker‘s The Night House. In the film, Hall plays Beth, a woman still reeling after the recent death of her husband. However, just four days later, Beth comes to believe that her husband might be reaching […]
August is looking pretty awesome for horror. Before we get Candyman, horror fans will enter The Night House, a supernatural horror for the arthouse crowd directed by David Bruckner (The Signal, The Ritual, V/H/S, Southbound), who is currently in production on the new Hellraiser for Spyglass and Hulu. Bloody Disgusting landed a clip from the film, out this weekend, in which […]
The finality of death is an inherently terrifying thought, especially if there’s absolutely nothing after. The idea that we cease to exist after our short time on Earth has been a perplexing thought for ages, which is why the pursuit of the question of an afterlife remains a constant. Writers Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski […]