The conventional slasher formula is simple; a killer, usually masked, embarks on a murder spree, picking their targets off one by one in a variety of ways until a final confrontation with a survivor who’ll outlast them. Bitch Ass adheres to the tried-and-true slasher setup, transporting it instead to an urban setting with untraditional characters. Its […]
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Bernard Rose‘s horror classic Candyman is getting a 4K Ultra HD upgrade, we’ve learned today, with Arrow Video announcing a limited edition release for the United Kingdom. The good news? 4K Ultra HD discs are inherently Region Free, which means you’ll be able to watch Candyman on 4K UHD here in the United States thanks […]
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On the way from writer/director Michael Mongillo (Being Michael Madsen) is horror movie The Changed starring Tony Todd, and the trailer has arrived this afternoon. The Changed comes to select theaters and On Demand March 4, 2022. In the Invasion of the Body Snatchers-inspired film, “Something has taken possession of the hearts and minds of the populace. Kim (Clare […]
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A small southwestern town becomes a feeding ground for a demon in the brand new Tubi Original horror movie Hellblazers, which just debuted over on Tubi today, January 21! Check out the official trailer below and find it on Tubi now. In the film, “A satanic cult focused on unleashing hell on earth, conjures up […]
For the franchise completists, Candyman: Day of the Dead has been added to Lionsgate’s Vestron Video Collector’s Series, bringing it to Blu-ray for the first time. The third installment in the franchise, Day of the Dead went direct-to-video back in 1999 and is now available on Blu-ray and Digital HD. The release features an incredible […]
Bloody Disgusting has a new look at Night Night, directed and produced by Niki Koss and featuring appearances by Final Destination & Candyman‘s Tony Todd and Eric Roberts. In the film, after waking up from a horrific car accident, April must find a way to work through her trauma and a will to survive a […]
Horror contemplates in great detail how young people handle inordinate situations and all of life’s unexpected challenges. While the genre forces characters of every age to face their fears, it is especially interested in how youths might fare in life-or-death scenarios. The column Young Blood is dedicated to horror stories for and about teenagers, as […]
Insomniac stole the PlayStation Showcase with not one but two games announced. Wolverine finally gets another solo game after 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and Marvel’s Spider-Man gets the sequel we’ve all been asking for, with Venom joining the fun! Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, which will have Peter Parker and Miles Morales teaming up, will launch in […]
Welcome to Revenge of the Remakes, where columnist Matt Donato takes us on a journey through the world of horror remakes. We all complain about Hollywood’s lack of originality whenever studios announce new remakes, reboots, and reimaginings, but the reality? Far more positive examples of refurbished classics and updated legacies exist than you’re willing to remember […]
Scene Screams is a recurring column that spotlights the scenes in horror that make us scream, whether through fear, laughter, or tears. It examines the most memorable, and often scariest, scenes in horror and what it is about them that makes them get under our skin. It takes about forty minutes into Bernard Rose‘s Candyman before the […]
Crystal Lake. Arawak. Stonewater. Summer camps are places to avoid in horror movies. And Camp Stillwater from the TV series Dead of Summer is no different from its cinematic parallels. The camp’s employees are too preoccupied with themselves to ever suspect trouble is afoot, and by the time they are aware of the goings-on at […]
Chunky Peanut Butter Poo. Another month come and gone and it’s been a wild one on the pod! We covered our first 40s film with the very queer Rope, chuckled our way through 80s slasher parody Student Bodies and then dug into the AIDS allegory at the heart of The Fly. Now it’s time to put August to […]
The landscape of the city, with its many moving parts, appears to be not all that dissimilar from a beehive— from a certain point of view. There’s a purposeful busyness that pervades such a place, presenting the illusion that the individuals there are all part of the hive, working toward something meaningful. Of course, it’s […]
From the moment that the very first humans settled in the very first city, they were already sharing scary stories. What we now know as urban legends are simply the natural progression of a primal urge to make sense of society’s fears, a fact that Clive Barker was aware of when he wrote The Forbidden, […]
Of all the sweets to be found on Scream Factory’s Collector’s Edition Blu-ray release of Bernard Rose’s Candyman, one of the most interesting features is the audio commentary by authors Stephen Jones and Kim Newman. One of four bonus tracks on the disc, the duo’s talk is a lively discussion boasting interesting perspectives on the […]