Details remain under wraps at this time, but the new Alien feature won’t be an Alien: Romulus sequel.

Ridley Scott is only currently attached to this new project as producer; no director is attached as of yet. Whether he will step in to direct remains to be seen, especially as this new Alien movie is said to be related to Scott’s previous films involving Michael Fassbender‘s David, the android that’s taken a liking to playing god. Scott has consistently and vocally declared his intention to close out the trilogy that began with Prometheus and Alien: Covenant for years.

The filmmaker even teased forward momentum on those plans earlier this year, revealing new story details about what David has been up to in the wake of Covenant. It’s worth noting that Fassbender is not attached at this stage.

Covenant ended with the horrifying revelation that David had covertly destroyed and replaced fellow synthetic Walter, also played by Fassbender, aboard the colony ship Covenant. David also revealed to Daniels (Katherine Waterston), as she entered hypersleep, that he smuggled facehuggers aboard.

The Ridley Scott-produced sci-fi series “Raised by Wolves” followed two androids tasked with raising human children on a mysterious virgin planet, a task made far more treacherous by the human colony’s religious differences. It makes Guzikowski uniquely suited to pen the new film.

Guzikowski is also behind the unsettling child kidnapping drama Prisoners and the upcoming Death Stranding animated feature.

Scott is also producing a sequel to Alien: Romulus. The status is unclear on that project.

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Linklater’s Elias delivers a suitably villainous monologue in the penultimate episode of the season, explaining the science behind Project Argonaut, whose aim is to replicate the survivability of cockroaches in babies.

The key word here is “replicate,” showrunner and creator Brad Caleb Kane (“IT: Welcome to Derry”) wants fans to note. Speaking with Bloody Disgusting, Kane debunks the recent fan theory that Jason Voorhees was spliced with cockroach DNA.

“What I wanted to get into was the idea of why he would be indestructible for any particular reason,” Kane explains. “There is a real science called biomimicry that felt appropriate here, which is about reaching into the natural world for processes that we can replicate for human benefit. That includes reaching into the insect world. There were, in fact, very specific and very real studies done on the effects of radiation on cockroaches in the late ’50s, to see how we could benefit from the knowledge. There are other studies that have been done on bugs, also specifically cockroaches, that speak to their durability, their ability to survive for 30, 40, 45 minutes in water without dying, their regenerative processes. This is real science. It’s not science fiction.“

He continues, “It’s speculative because we’re specifically saying this worked, but it’s not science fiction. That’s like going back from the point of view we have now and saying the Terminator is science fiction. It’s not. As we know, as we’re getting into. I wanted to take very specific and real, grounded corporate and pharmaceutical science and apply it to what we know as Jason’s regenerative and indestructible abilities. That’s really it. And people can take it as they want to. If they want to go, ‘Hey, cockroach boy,‘ feel free, but it is reductive.

The showrunner notes that it’s also a very small detail in an inaugural season ultimately about “a mother’s love for her son, the thing that she ostensibly lived for being wrenched away from her. It’s about reproductive autonomy and bodily autonomy.“

Project Argonaut is ultimately successful in making Jason unstoppable, but Kane officially puts to rest the rumors that the horror icon now shares DNA with an insect.

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Consider this a handy streaming guide to pad out your Halloween watchlists beyond the core staples, from recent Halloween hits to deeper cuts to forgotten classics. Whether you’re in the mood for serious scares or silly fun, these fifteen Halloween-set horror movies offer something for all tastes.

Here’s where you can stream them this weekend.

Cobweb – Fandango at Home, Moviesphere+

It doesn’t get more seasonal than the feature directorial debut of Samuel Bodin, creator of Netflix’s “Marianne.” Lizzy Caplan (“Castle Rock”) and Antony Starr (“The Boys”) star as parents who seemingly can’t be trusted when their young son Peter (Woody Norman) gets tormented by mysterious knocking on his bedroom walls. Bodin and screenwriter Chris Thomas Devlin’s R-rated horror fairy tale massively embraces its Halloween atmosphere. If you want full throttle scares, watch “Marianne.” For gateway thrills that go big on Halloween, get cozy with Cobweb.

Dark Harvest – Prime Video, Shudder, Tubi

Director David Slade (30 Days of Night) and screenwriter Michael Gilio (Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves) adapt Norman Partridge’s 2006 Bram Stoker Award-winning novel Dark Harvest, unleashing Halloween carnage that upstages the barebones story. Every Halloween, the legendary Sawtooth Jack rises from the cornfields, where he must fight through a gauntlet of murderous teen boys, all eager to snuff him out lest he make his way to the town’s church by midnight. It’s kill or be killed, with the town awarding a hefty prize to the boy who takes out Sawtooth Jack to ensure the town’s survival. Dark Harvest combines folk horror with the slasher, unleashing a surprisingly gory bloodbath set on Halloween.

Dark Night of the Scarecrow – Criterion Channel, Fandango at Home, Fawesome, Kanopy, Midnight Pulp, Tubi

Don’t let the simplicity of this made-for-TV movie fool you; Dark Night of the Scarecrow is compelling storytelling. Set in a small Southern town over the Halloween season, a mentally challenged man is wrongfully murdered for a crime he didn’t commit. When his murderers evade justice, a mysterious scarecrow systematically takes them out one by one. Halloween décor, scarecrows, farmland, and a fantastic performance by horror stalwart Larry Drake make for one perfect Halloween season movie.

Deadstream – Hoopla, Shudder

The feature directorial debut from husband-and-wife filmmaking couple Vanessa and Joseph Winter follows a disgraced internet personality who attempts to win back his followers by livestreaming one night alone in a haunted house. It’s perfect for Halloween; YouTuber Shawn (Joseph Winter) gets decked out in holiday gear as he introduces his latest stunt as a Halloween event. Let’s just say that karma comes for Shawn in the form of mischievous and malevolent spirits. The Winters’ channel Sam Raimi in their delightfully gonzo horror-comedy full of bodily fluids, gore, and ghostly creatures.

Ghostwatch – Shudder

The initial airing of this made-for-TV movie stirred up controversy for the BBC, as the special Halloween event had viewers convinced that what they’d witnessed was real. It plays like a live TV special with a camera crew on-site attempting to investigate the truth behind the most haunted house in the country, one that borrows heavily from the Enfield Poltergeist. Neither they nor the viewer were prepared for the scares that would ensue—even the subtle ones. Pay close attention to every frame; Pipes hides in plain sight. Subtle chills build to a cacophony of terror. Don’t skip this one, as it’s a streaming rarity.

HeBGB TV – Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Screambox, Tubi

Similar to the effortlessly charming WNUF Halloween Special, HeBGB TV takes an experimental approach to spooky season fun through the lens of retro television viewing. Here, a multidimensional cable box installs itself into a neighborhood and, slowly, the world. A pair of young siblings get whisked away on a journey through various channels of comedic horror mayhem, leading to no shortage of creativity as viewers encounter infomercials, sketches, news reports, music clips, and more for an infectiously nostalgic and charming DIY feature. The singing candy corn quartet is a scene-stealer.

I Am Not a Serial Killer – Kanopy, Shudder, Tubi

John Wayne Cleaver (Max Records) adheres to a strict therapy regimen and rules to ward off his sociopathic, homicidal impulses. His darker nature makes him deeply curious when a string of murders ensues in his small Midwestern town, leaving behind traces of black goo. This adaptation of Dan Wells’ novel offers a unique blend of supernatural mystery and a sweet yet strange coming-of-age tale. While it doesn’t embrace Halloween throughout its entirety, the holiday does factor into the film’s events in important ways. Christopher Lloyd also stars.

Idle Hands – Pluto TV

If you’re in the mood for something that doesn’t take itself seriously at all and goes full-throttle on the Halloween fun, this is it. Devon Sawa stars as Anton Tobias, a high school slacker whose hand becomes possessed and homicidal. That proves problematic when it comes to wooing the girl of his dreams, though his undead friends have his back. Idle Hands offers plenty of splatstick, irreverent charm set around Halloween. It includes one prominent third act set at the Halloween high school dance. It even includes several music-based cameos.

Lady in White – MGM+, Pluto TV, Prime Video, Tubi

Based on the legend of “The Lady in White,” in which a ghost searches for her daughter in Rochester, New York, the film begins on Halloween in 1962, where 9-year-old Frankie (Lukas Haas) gets locked in the schoolroom closet by bullies and witnesses the ghost of a young girl getting murdered. This event sets off a murder mystery full of spirits that are spooky and entertaining enough for kids, yet layered with complex social themes for grown-ups. Paralleling Frankie’s journey, it’s the type of film that will teach budding horror fans that perhaps ghosts aren’t so scary after all.

Late Night with the Devil – Kanopy, Shudder, Tubi

Talk show host Jack Delroy (David Dastmalchian) goes all in on a Halloween special that includes psychics, skeptics, and parapsychologists in a desperate bid to stave off cancellation. Coordinating all of the bold personalities and moving parts of live television becomes all the more unpredictably stressful when a demonic entity disrupts the event. Writers/Directors Colin Cairnes and Cameron Cairnes hit the ground running with a rapid-fire documentary-style setup introducing essential exposition and personal stakes for Jack a year before the ill-fated event. The gradual build from pastiche into full-blown nightmare comes fast like a freight train, making for a unique and fun Halloween romp through ’70s TV.

Livid – Moviesphere+

Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo’s follow-up to the brutal horror film Inside doesn’t pop up on streaming very often. Lucie is an at-home nurse, and the last stop on her roster is a remote mansion inhabited by bedridden recluse Mrs. Jessel. Mrs. Jessel is rumored to have a treasure hidden on the property, so Lucie and her friends sneak in on Halloween night to steal it. Instead, they find a night full of unexpected terror, and Maury and Bustillo deliver a fun entry into fantasy horror. Look for fun homages to Halloween III: Season of the Witch. It’s gorgeous and creepy and offers a unique take on a tried-and-true horror staple.

Murder Party – Fandango at Home, Hoopla, Prime Video

Before Slayground, filmmaker Jeremy Saulnier celebrated the thrills of Halloween with Murder Party. The horror comedy follows Christopher (Chris Sharp), a nice guy with no plans for Halloween, until he finds a mysterious party invitation on the way home. With a DIY costume assembled and a host gift baked, Christopher treks over to the costume party in a nondescript warehouse. There, he finds that the partygoers plan to murder him in the name of art, though everything that could go wrong does, to hilarious results. Hyper-violence and a glorious bloodbath make for one of the most fun final acts, with a satisfying conclusion to Christopher’s venture out on Halloween night. Look for Macon Blair as a lovesick werewolf.

Night of the Demons – Fawesome, Midnight Pulp, Pluto TV, Screambox, Tubi

In this Halloween horror cult classic, Angela Franklin (Amelia Kinkade) and her best bud Suzanne (Linnea Quigley) decide to throw their Halloween party at Hull House, an abandoned mortuary with a dark past. A party séance reawakens a dormant evil, leaving the partygoers trapped inside Hull House while demonic spirits pick them off. Night of the Demons offers a cool animated title sequence, great demon effects and design, a memorable villainess, and a wide embrace of horror iconography- right down to a bookended trick-or-treating tale. It’s a holiday cult classic that embraces Halloween at every turn.

Sleepy Hollow – Paramount+, Pluto TV

Fallen leaves, gnarled trees, and a constant roll of fog leave the small town of Sleepy Hollow steeped in the autumn air. That’s where police constable Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) winds up on an assignment to investigate a series of beheadings. The culprit, of course, is the legendary Headless Horseman. Based on Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” Tim Burton’s Gothic tale is intertwined with Halloween and the Fall season. Look for new twists and updates to the iconic story, with a witchy take on the iconic headless foe.

Terrifier 2 – Hoopla, Kanopy, Peacock, Pluto TV, Screambox, Tubi

Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton) might’ve moved on to terrorize Christmas with Terrifier 3 now in theaters, but the horror icon tends to be synonymous with Halloween. The Halloween slasher sequel Terrifier 2 introduced an epic new final girl in Sienna (Lauren LaVera), expanding the lore and set pieces in the process, with gore aplenty and grisly deaths to match. It’s a Halloween-set slasher of the goriest order.

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The unscripted competition series is set to debut on Prime Video on January 13, 2027, with the first four episodes. The final three episodes will air weekly through January 27.

Fallout Shelter invites “everyday participants to test their aptitude for the apocalypse in Vault-Tec’s state-of-the-art bomb-proof vault shelters. will go head to head in a series of high-octane drills, psychological dilemmas, and morally challenging behavior trials until one special dweller emerges to win the prize of a lifetime: $1,000,000.”

Set inside Vault-Tec’s bomb-proof vaults, a group of contestants will take part in a series of escalating challenges and must prove their ingenuity, teamwork, and resilience as they compete for safety, power, and a huge cash prize.

Studio Lambert, which is also behind Netflix’s “Squid Game: The Challenge”, produces with Kilter Films (“Fallout”), in association with Amazon MGM Studios and Bethesda Game Studios. Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, creators of the Fallout TV show, serve as executive producers alongside franchise boss Todd Howard.

The third season of Fallout went into production earlier this summer for a spring or summer 2027 debut. Fallout Shelter: The Experiment will keep us busy this January while we wait.

The series based on the video games tells “the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. Two hundred years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind—and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.“

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The all-new horror anthology comic, in partnership with American Mythology Comics, is available to order now.

In the new comic, The Fantom, Fright-Rags’ resident ghoul, guides readers through two original nightmares across 32 full-color pages. In “Pyromaniac,” a force of consuming hatred believes fire can cleanse the world — no matter what burns in his path. In “Maul Santa,” a dying shopping mall’s longtime Santa finally snaps on Christmas Eve.

The debut issue is written by James Kuhoric, S.A. Check, and G.O. Parsons and features artwork by E.V. Cantada and Emanuele Tommarelli. Additional covers by Roy Allan Martinez, Buz Hasson, Puis Calzada, and Gabriel Mangum will hit comic shops nationwide beginning October 28.

“Comics were a huge part of how I fell in love with horror, so telling our own stories, with the Fantom as our host, is a dream come true,” said Fright-Rags founder Ben Scrivens. “These are original tales we’ve been cooking up for a long time, and we can’t wait for fans to dig in.”

Tales from the Morgue #1 is on sale now at Fright-Rags.com, where you’ll find an exclusive limited edition featuring cover art by Justin Osbourn. The retro-inspired artwork is also available on shirts.

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Described as a Gothic psychological horror film, What Happens at Night is a dream-like story of a married American couple who travel to a small, snowy European town to adopt a baby. They check into a largely deserted hotel where they encounter an enigmatic cast of characters including a flamboyant chanteuse, a depraved businessman and a charismatic faith healer. Nothing is quite as it seems.

As the couple struggles to claim their baby, the less they seem to know about themselves and the life they’ve built together.

Martin Scorsese is directing from a script by Patrick Marber (Closer, Notes on a Scandal), based on Peter Cameron‘s 2020 horror mystery novel.

While DiCaprio and Lawrence will play the central couple, Charli xcx’s cameo role is currently under wraps. Patricia Clarkson (Shutter Island), Mads Mikkelsen (Dust Bunny, “Hannibal”), Jared Harris (“Chernobyl”), and Welker White (Goodfellas) also star.

Charli xcx is a huge, self-proclaimed horror fan who recently appeared in the Faces of Death reboot. She’s also producing and starring in an upcoming horror movie from Takashi Miike, and recently collaborated with body horror master David Cronenberg on a track from her new album.

Charli is currently wrapping up her tour for the record in the U.S., with the final show of the leg in Las Vegas on Friday before she heads to Europe in February.

What Happens at Night marks Scorsese and DiCaprio’s seventh feature collaboration, following Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Killers of the Flower Moon.

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Thomas Roy Skerritt was born in Detroit and attended Wayne State University and UCLA, and served for a period in the United States Air Force. Skerritt appeared in over 170 film and television productions since 1962, with his breakthrough role arriving in 1970 with Robert Altman’s M*A*S*H.

The actor’s first horror role wasn’t Alien, but the Satanic supernatural horror movie The Devil’s Rain, starring as Tom Preston, the elder son seeking to save his brother and mom from Satanists. That was followed by his role in Alien, where he received first billing as the level-headed captain. It was a career-defining role that nearly didn’t happen; Skerritt initially rejected the part but signed on once Ridley Scott was attached. Skerritt would later reprise Dallas in video game form, voicing the character in Alien: Isolation.

Post-Alien, Skerritt starred in the animal attack horror feature Savage Harvest, and appeared in David Cronenberg’s The Dead Zone as Castle Rock’s Sheriff George Bannerman. The seasoned actor also took on the role of protective dad as Bruce Gardner in the sequel Poltergeist III. Conversely, his role in Poison Ivy landed his character in hot water with Drew Barrymore’s femme fatale a few years later.

Skerritt returned to the realm of Stephen King in 2006 with Stephen King’s Desperation, Mick Garris‘s miniseries adaptation of the 1996 novel. The actor channeled King himself as famous author Johnny Marinville, whose troubled past leads to terror in the desert.

Beyond horror, the actor, with his signature mustache, won an Emmy in 1993 and was also nominated in 1994 for playing Jimmy Brock, a sheriff in David E. Kelley’s CBS dramedy “Picket Fences.” The series also earned the cast SAG Award nominations. Other TV appearances include a guest role on “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour” and “The Dead Zone.“

He is survived by his wife and five children.

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The trailer for Dead by Daylight‘s October offerings gave a quick sneak peek at Terrifier‘s Art the Clown, but the developers unveiled a new look on socials today. It seems as though his power/weapon of choice is a flamethrower, where Art will undoubtedly dole out maximum punishment.

“He’s burning to meet you,” the caption reads.

But the popular multiplayer game isn’t just unleashing the killer clown upon players; Dead by Daylight is bringing the Terrifier trilogy back to the big screen next weekend.  Presented by the video game Dead by Daylight, Terrifier screens in select theaters on October 29, Terrifier 2 screens on October 30, and Terrifier 3 screens on October 31.

Regal Cinemas even has a Terrifier in-game exclusive: Regal Crown Club members will also receive a free promotional code for Art the Clown’s sunglasses before they’re available on November 24.

That’s a whole lot of Art the Clown this month. Terrifier 4 is also on the way, which will be set around New Year’s Eve. At this time, the fourth film in the series doesn’t yet have an official release date.

It’s a packed month for Dead by Daylight, too, with the arrival of the Diablo Collection and the upcoming Stranger Things Collection keeping October and November busy.

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The “Halloween Hangover Tour,” a theatrical roadshow with the filmmaker in attendance, begins Thursday, November 12, 2026. Jump Scare opens in additional theaters in late November and arrives on digital platforms in early December before arriving on streaming in early 2027. 

The tour was “borne out of necessity,” says Chief Acquisitions Officer Billy Ray Brewton. “The October season became so saturated with titles that we decided – ‘Why not give horror fans a chance to enjoy the spirit of Halloween in November, wash away the abundance of blood and guts from October, and enjoy a horror picture that hits you on a very different wavelength…(don’t worry, there are still plenty of blood and guts).‘” 

In the film, an all-female metal band called “Jump Scare” retreats to a remote cabin to write their next album, only to be terrorized by the family of cannibals next door.

It’s described as “phantasmagoric homage to filmmakers like Don Coscarelli and Chuck Russell, part punk-rock ode to grindhouse slasher cinema, and a post-modern cannibal film that also happens to co-star everyone’s favorite working actor, Eric Roberts.“

Brewton adds: “We don’t come across too many films like Jump Scare, a film with big ambition, staggeringly hypnotic imagery, and the kind of horror lingo that is far too uncommon these days. You know when you’re watching filmmakers with a bright future, and it has been a thrill to help champion this film for future fans.”

Shannon Dang, Erin Ruth Walker, Madison Abbott, Natasha Estrada, and Chelsea Talmadge also star in Jump Scare. The rockin’ horror movie is directed by Donnie Hobbie and produced by Brendan Thomas. Says filmmaker Donnie Hobbie: “It’s the simple things in life. Chainsaws, Music, and buckets of blood.” 

The Jump Scare Halloween Hangover Tour offers a preview screening Sunday, October 25 at Brain Dead Studios in Los Angeles as part of Antenna’s Twisted Signals Festival before launching in November. Roadshow stops include: Chicago, New York City, Boston, St. Louis, Kansas City, and a stop at Kevin Smith’s Smodcastle Cinemas in Atlantic Highlands, NJ, on November 27.

More dates will be added, and you can follow the tour at Antenna Releasing.

Check out the trailer below.

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The eponymous monster from director George Pavlou’s 1988 creature feature flashes on screen at the 1:10 minute mark, in an energetic montage of action. That it’s the only image borrowed from another film ensures it stands out. What does it mean?

Rawhead Rex, written by Clive Barker based on his Books of Blood Vol. 3 short story, sees a pagan deity embark on a violent rampage when unwittingly awakened. The story’s 8-foot-tall, slender phallus version of the deity gets reinterpreted on screen as a sort of punk-rock bulked-out animalistic beast who rampages and murders his way through the rural area in ’80s rubber monster suit fashion. The exact type of heavy metal monster that feels suited to Slayground‘s death metal tone.

Also curious is that Rawhead Rex appears after scare-actor “Metal Mike” Graves (Cory Michael Smith) awakens with a jolt in what appears to be some strange ritual that sees Imogen Poots‘s character commanding of his writhing body: “Help us bring the light to the truth!” 

Whether Rawhead Rex is simply a unique visual representation hinting toward the lead character’s transformative arc or something supernatural at play remains to be seen, but our curiosity is piqued.

In Slayground, “Scare-actor “Metal Mike” Graves wakes up in a haunted attraction surrounded by the dead bodies of his co-workers with no memory of how they got there. As a state-wide manhunt closes in, he races to uncover the truth – even if the trail leads straight back to him.”

Described as a Halloween-set fugitive thriller, the newly titled Slayground stars Cory Michael Smith, Chase Sui Wonders, Sophie Wilde, James Badge Dale, Stanley Simons, Stephen Root, Chris Sullivan, Young Mazino, Imogen Poots, Matty Matheson, and Macon Blair.

Slayground features music by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

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This past weekend, Warner Bros. Clockwork opened Ken Russell’s The Devils in 350 locations across North America to an impressive $1.725M, a $4,925 per-screen average. It performed so well that the Warner Bros. label’s inaugural release will continue to play across multiplex and arthouse venues.

The special release is the definitive cut of The Devils, and no other director’s cut formally exists. This cut was originally reconstructed in 2004 under the supervision of Ken Russell and the film’s editor Michael Bradsell, with the collaboration of Mark Kermode and Paul Joyce. The 4K restoration was completed using the original camera negative at WB Water Tower Color, with audio restoration completed using original composite 35mm mag film at WB Sound.

Warner Bros. Clockwork’s release marks the first time Russell’s defining masterpiece will officially be made accessible to the public.

ased on Aldous Huxley’s 1952 non-fiction novel The Devils of Loudun and its 1961 stage play adaptation, Ken Russell’s The Devils is set in 17th-century Loudun, France.

Oliver Reed stars as Grandeur in the film, complete with the sex appeal that has all the ladies swooning, including the hunchbacked Sister Jeanne (Vanessa Redgrave). Jeanne is exceptionally lustful for Grandeur, which pushes over into wrathful jealousy when she learns of his relationship with the young and stunning Madeleine (Gemma Jones). Cue the demonic seduction accusations, and hysteria and chaos ensue. 

Joe Lipsett wrote in his 5-skull review, “This new restored 4K is the defining version of the film; this is how it was meant to be seen – both technically and with its previously censored scenes restored. The result is one of cinema’s most controversial works, resplendently preserved in all of its outrageous button-pushing glory.“

An international theatrical release will follow; BFI will release the film in the UK/Ireland beginning October 30. Theatrical runs will also extend to Poland (October 23), France (October 28), Australia/New Zealand (October 29), Germany/Austria (October 29), Greece (November 12), the Netherlands (November 12), and other territories to be announced.

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Sabine Grace, Logan Kim (Ghostbusters: Afterlife), Marin Ireland (The Boogeyman, The Dark and the Wicked) and Intae Kim (Severance) have all boarded Pagans in starring roles.

Pagans follows a man, Gus, who becomes the sole caretaker of his two children after the tragic loss of his wife. While his son is typical, his daughter, Alice, is anything but. What starts as a strained father-daughter relationship soon evolves into something far more sinister.

While Yeun will star as Gus, Logan Kim will play Nate. Kim previously played the teenage version of Hershel Rhee, the son of The Walking Dead‘s Glenn (Yeun) and Maggie’s (Lauren Cohan), in The Walking Dead: Dead City.

Sabine Grace will make her television debut as the family’s black sheep, Alice. Ireland will play single mom Janelle, attempting to connect with her strong-willed 14-year-old daughter, Jade. Gus’s younger brother will be played by Intae Kim.

The supernatural drama was previously described as “equal parts emotional, horrifying and humorous; Pagans is a show that unearths all our darkest thoughts about family.” It received a straight-to-series order late last year, after an intense bidding war back in September.

Pagans is created by showrunner Joshua Zetumer. Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods), Sarah Esberg, Jonathan van Tulleken, and Erica Kay executive produce. 

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Clayface doesn’t waste time getting straight to the gruesome stuff, either. Rising talent Matt Hagen (Tom Rhys Harries) is already at the top of his game when we meet him, earning Oscar nominations while zipping around the country in a private jet. So much so that he feels untouchable, which leads to his meteoric downfall when he sleeps with Mia Torres (Joana Ribeiro), the manipulative girlfriend of mob boss Markos Szabo (David Dencik).

With Hagen’s life in complete ruin, he turns to Dr. Caitlyn Corr (Naomi Ackie) for her experimental nano-technology work that not only miraculously repairs his disfigurement, but also comes with a whole host of bizarre bodily effects that further erode his sense of identity and morality.

Watkins frontloads Clayface with grisly, graphic imagery of Hagen’s brutalized face and subsequent attempts at cosmetic correction, ensuring audiences are immediately on board with the injustice of Hagen’s plight. It’s here where the excellent prosthetic work and horror shine, as Harries navigates the freaky side effects of his character’s new medical predicament that seems deeply attuned to his emotional state. Watkins coils the tension unbearably taut as Hagen’s emotional distress and resentment lead to bizarre freakouts, including a standout sequence that dangles extreme ocular trauma on a very bumpy flight.

Hossein Amini‘s script, an update of Mike Flanagan‘s original script and story, eventually leaves behind Clayface’s gruesome explorations of Hagen’s identity and how intrinsically it’s tied to his face as an actor in favor of more standard fare. It’s here where the gory prosthetic work gives way to an excess of VFX, not all of it effective, as Hagen learns to embrace his new body and give in to revenge. It’s a transition that comes too abruptly. A horrific horror character study instead leads to shallow, flashy mob violence building to a campy climax set in Gotham’s Vesuvius nightclub. The tonal shift is a bit jarring.

The central relationship between Matt Hagen and Dr. Corr, who’s grappling with both the ethics of treating Hagen and her attraction to him while being engaged to one of Gotham’s few non-corrupt detectives (Max Minghella), is meant as the throughline between the film’s two clashing halves. It’s underserved, though, unhelped by the lack of spark between Harries and Ackie. On their own, though, both deliver charismatic performances that instill rooting interest, despite Hagen’s path of destruction and Corr’s culpability in it.

Closing moments bring the horror full circle, a reminder of Clayface‘s body horror strengths that sends off DC’s villain origin story with stark imagery that lingers. Watkins gives precedence to the horror that keeps audiences invested in Matt Hagen’s bid for goopy, gory revenge. Clayface sacrifices its early nuance and themes for a more predictable villain origin story, but it’s one that honors the DC character and keeps its DC connections and easter eggs subtle, preferring instead to dwell in the grimy Gotham underbelly. 

There are no post-credit scenes to be found here connecting to the broader DC universe, just a gross-out crowd-pleaser that stands alone on its own merits. 

Clayface brings horror to the DC Universe in theaters on October 23.

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On October 30, Alamo Drafthouse invites audiences nationwide to revisit the ferocious siege thriller with special 10th anniversary screenings at select locations across the country.

We can exclusively report that the ticketed event will feature an exclusive anniversary interview with Saulnier, cast members Alia Shawkat and Macon Blair, and SFX artist Mike Fontaine, playing before the film, plus a limited-edition popcorn bucket celebrating Saulnier’s upcoming thriller Slayground, and a themed food and beverage menu built for the occasion.

To emphasize: this screening event includes a free Halloween-themed Slayground popcorn bucket ahead of its release this January! Get a peek below.

Tickets for the Green Room 10th Anniversary event are available at select Alamo Drafthouse locations nationwide. Visit drafthouse.com for participating theaters, showtimes, and tickets.

The riveting 2016 thriller follows a touring punk band whose gig at a remote Pacific Northwest club takes a horrifying turn after they witness a murder. Trapped backstage and surrounded by skinheads determined to eliminate their witnesses, the band must fight for survival in a brutal siege that makes every exit look like a terrible idea. It stars Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Joe Cole, Macon Blair, and Patrick Stewart in one of his most chilling roles.

The October 30 event will include a special A24 giveaway, and guests can order from an exclusive menu inspired by the film and the Pacific Northwest setting. The menu lineup includes:

COWCATCHER LOADED MAC
Cavatappi pasta tossed in housemade Tillamook cheddar cheese sauce with seasoned ground beef, bacon, roasted peppers, onions, and mushrooms, finished with sriracha sour cream and sliced green onions.

AIN’T RIGHT PIZZA
A punk pizza with the sauce on top, featuring an herb-garlic oil base, pepperoni, Italian sausage, and Alamo’s signature cheese blend, topped with San Marzano tomato sauce and Parmesan, then finished with a drizzle of ranch dressing.

METAL MARG
Campo Bravo Tequila Plata, Midori melon, pineapple, lime, and agave, served with a Tajín rim and cucumber.

“Jeremy Saulnier is one of the most exciting filmmakers working today, with a knack for turning ordinary situations into white-knuckle occasions,” says Jake Isgar, Film Programmer at Alamo Drafthouse. “His movies are visceral, relentless, and packed with the kind of tension that hits even harder on the big screen. We’re thrilled to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Green Room with a special screening, an exclusive giveaway, and a menu of punk-inspired bites and cocktails. Just remember to unclench your jaw before the credits roll.” 

The Green Room anniversary screenings are part of a larger celebration of Saulnier’s genre filmmaking, leading into the release of his long-awaited next film, Slayground, on January 29, 2027.

Alamo Drafthouse will continue the celebration in early 2027 with a retrospective dedicated to Saulnier’s work, including Blue Ruin, Murder Party, and a reprise of Green Room on the big screen.

Tickets for the retrospective will be available in December. 

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The teaser introduces Hojo, a businessman whose obsession with the unknown leads him to solve strange mysteries. Deadline reports that the six-part series will debut in January 2027.

Based on a short horror story collection from Ichi Sawamura, Night Tales Club will follow Hojo as he introduces each different mysterious story. “He is convinced that ghost stories, monsters, and other supernatural anomalies are ‘bugs‘ in an underlying conspiracy, so he begins inviting people to share their experiences and evidence at his Night Tales Club in exchange for 20 million yen.“

Takayuki Yamada has been cast as the series’ narrator, Hojo.

Even more impressive are the directors attached to this project: Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Chime, Pulse), Takashi Shimizu (Ju-On), Shinzo Katayama (Gannibal), Yukiko Sode (Aristocrats), Yuichiro Sakashita (I Can’t Cry With Your Face) and Yosuke Nakamura (Higuma!!), with Kenji Nakajima (The Naked Director) directing the wraparound Hojo sequences.

Yusuke Wakabayashi and Teruhisa Yamamoto produced and adapted for the screen by the original writer, Ichi Sawamura, who told Deadline: “As the original author of these stories, I feel an enormous sense of surprise and joy that they will soon be available on screen to scare audiences around the world.”

Watch the brief teaser below that introduces Hojo and the series title treatment. We’ll have to wait for a full trailer to get a glimpse at the stories helmed by J-horror giants like Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Takashi Shimizu.

Look for the horror anthology series early next year.

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Homesick centers on Dr. Abby Morrison (Suvari), “a compassionate physician whose carefully built life conceals a secret she has never shared with her husband. With their daughter away at college, Abby and husband Gordy (Arquette) are settling into life as empty nesters when the arrival of a mysterious young woman (Shouse) shatters their sense of safety.

“As an unsettling encounter spirals into a nightmare, the couple must fight to protect each other in a home they can no longer trust.“

Todd Slavkin (“Coven Academy“, “Shadowhunters“) is directing from a script written with longtime writing and producing partner Darren Swimmer. 

Arquette is currently on tour with Scream for its 30th anniversary and stars in The Night Driver, which made its premiere recently at Screamfest. Suvari has also been keeping busy in the horror sphere. The actress currently appears in season 13 of “American Horror Story” and recently wrapped production on the psychological horror Kill Me Now.

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Reeves would star alongside Ma Dong-seok (Train to Busan), also known as Don Lee, who starred in the original Korean film from director Lee Won-tae and will reprise his role in the remake. There’s no word at this time on who Reeves would play in this remake.

In the original movie, “a police officer and a crime boss reluctantly team up to track down a serial killer. With each having their own motives, double-crosses and cat-and-mouse games ensue, along with a heaping helping of police versus criminals and gang versus gang action.”

The South Korean thriller was loosely inspired by real-life South Korean serial killer cases from the mid-2000s, and starred Don Lee as the titular gangster in this serial killer thriller equation. It debuted in the “Midnight Screenings” section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, and screened at the 2019 Fantasia International Film Festival.

Eric Pearson (Thunderbolts*, Fantastic Four: First Steps) wrote the latest script, based on previous drafts by Shay Hatten (Resident Evil) and Brian Helgeland (A Knight’s Tale, L.A. Confidential).

Wan is also producing via his Blumhouse-Atomic Monster banner. Blumhouse-Atomic Monster’s Michael Clear and Jason Blum will also produce. Don Lee, Sylvester Stallone, D. Matt Geller, Chris S. Lee, Jang Won-seok, and Lorenzo di Bonaventura are also on board to produce.

This will mark the first film directed by James Wan since the Aquaman sequel back in 2023.

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Director/Co-Writer Luca Bercovici and Levy previously reclaimed the domestic rights to their 1984 cult classic film, with plans to develop a new trilogy for a new generation of fans.

In 2024, producer/writer Theo Lemasters shared that two of the scripts for this planned trilogy are already complete, with the third one halfway complete. “We are shopping it now and hoping to film in late Summer/Early Fall,” writer/producer Lemasters said at the time of publication.

According to Brain Mutant, who uncovered public federal court filings (Case No. 2:25-cv-11481), Lemasters filed a lawsuit against Levy in the Central District of California in 2025, stalling all reboot plans. 

That seems to have changed as of this month, with the lawsuit reaching a settlement that will allow Ghoulies to move forward: “On October 5, the defense counsel filed the official Notice of Settlement. The following day, October 6, District Judge Fernando M. Olguin issued the Order Dismissing Action.“

The team is ready to get the project back on track immediately once the legal hurdle is officially cleared.

Levy told the outlet, “We have an incredible reboot script. Cannot get financing until the legal issue is settled. Once the legal issue is settled, we will begin production on Ghoulies 2027.”

That he refers to the reboot as Ghoulies 2027 suggests they may be targeting a 2027 release as well, though it’s too early to determine just yet.

There are big plans in place for Ghoulies, too, as the creative team previously teased expanding the Ghoulies universe beyond the silver screen with a book series, figures, apparel, and collectibles for every devotee of the delightfully demonic Ghoulies.

The 1985 horror-comedy from producer Charles Band’s (Puppet Master, Subspecies) Empire Pictures is directed by Luca Bercovici (Rockula) from a script he co-wrote with producer Jefery Levy.

It follows a young man, Jonathan Graves (Peter Liapis), and his girlfriend inheriting an ancestral home, where his Satanic father happens to be buried, and becoming possessed by power and the ability to summon tiny demons. Hargitay played the role of Donna, a friend to the couple who doesn’t fare well against the tiny creatures.

Star Mariska Hargitay recently explained to the Emmy audience that she got her start in Ghoulies, “where a monster pops out of a toilet.”

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Day two kicked off with author talks and a book fair that featured book signings with all 2026 guest authors:  Nat Cassidy, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes, CJ Leede, and Jeremy Robert Johnson.

The biggest event of day two belongs to the Pig Roast, the fest’s annual barbecue that serves up roasted hog and all the trimmings at the Oak. It’s not only yet another opportunity to socialize with the guests, staff, and attendees while nomming on a tasty meal, but the event also came with a few surprises. That entailed a zombie flash mob on Saturday, but also an annual rite of passage among the fest’s staff and guests: the downing of flaming hot pig eyeball shots.

That’s exactly what it sounds like, and the Telluride Horror Show’s Instagram stories were filled with clips of daring participants reacting to the adventurous libation.

As one of this year’s guest hosts, my hosting duties included introducing and moderating the Q&A for the highly entertaining documentary Rubberhead: The Life & Monsters of Steve Johnson and American Dollhouse, an unsettling proto-slasher set in Austin, Texas. I also got to unleash New Zealand body horror comedy Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant upon a crowd for its second screening at the fest.

Sunday, Day 3, began with introducing many of the filmmakers featured in the “Vault of Humor” short block at the historic Sheridan Opera House to a packed house. This particular block of short films delivered a variety of horror-comedy that kept the audience enraptured and in stitches, kicking off with the 30th anniversary 4K restoration of Michael Dougherty’s “Season’s Greetings“. It was one of many curated short block screening events that continued to fill seats all weekend long; Telluride Horror Show attendees love horror shorts and often prioritize these screenings (shorts filmmakers take note!).

Other screening highlights, hosted and otherwise, included Breeder, Recluse, Black Sheeps, The Glorious Dead, closing night film Victorian Psycho, and more. 

Just like that, though, a whirlwind weekend of horror, picturesque autumnal views, and friendship drew to a close, culminating in one final party at the Last Dollar Saloon to celebrate. I’ve said it before, but this festival is magical. Founder Ted Wilson, programmers Erik Cooper and Brady Richards, and Director of Communications Anna Wilson and an entire crew of staff and volunteers pull together an incredible event, one that’s warm and welcoming as if you’re one of their close horror neighbors.

It’s the type of event where you can make friends with fellow horror fans by simply walking down the street, in between screenings and events. It’s also, by nature of its setting and time of year, the only fest that fully encapsulates a nostalgic Halloween atmosphere. 

I’ll be back next year to get my Halloween/Telluride Horror Show fix. Keep an eye on when badges go on sale for 2027 if you’d like to, too.

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Future Me is based on the viral Reddit short story by Daria Vasileva, originally published in the “NoSleep” subreddit, the online community dedicated to user-generated horror fiction. The story follows “a man who receives a deeply unsettling email from his past self via the ‘FutureMe’ website, a message that draws him down a terrifying and increasingly surreal rabbit hole.”

The film will be written and directed by husband and wife filmmaking duo Joseph and Vanessa Winter, whose critically acclaimed debut feature Deadstream premiered at SXSW before being acquired by Shudder. Their follow-up was the fan-favorite segment “To Hell and Back” in found footage horror anthology film V/H/S/99.

Their latest project is Amityville, a radical new imagining of the Amityville Horror franchise with Adam Hendricks & Greg Gilreath of Divide/Conquer and Raphael Margules & J.D. Lifshitz.

Future Me will be produced by Majd Nassif (MERCY, Locked) for Longevity Pictures, alongside Steven Schneider (The Long Walk, Strange Darling, Late Night with the Devil) and Roy Lee (Weapons, Barbarian, It) for Spooky Pictures. Image Nation Studios’ Ben Ross (Watcher, Late Night with the Devil) and Longevity Pictures’ Aysel Lyatifova (MERCY, Six Till Midnight) will executive produce.

Majd Nassif, President of Longevity Pictures, said “Spooky Pictures and Image Nation Studios have built an incredible track record for championing high-concept, creator-driven horror storytelling, so expanding our partnership felt like a natural next step, particularly at a time when there is a proven market appetite and openness for fresh concepts and emerging creative voices. After the success of Backrooms, the potential of internet lore as fertile ground for adaptation has become undeniable – so we’re excited to be bringing Future Me to life with a team which shares our passion for original and punchy genre projects. It’s a story that has already captured the imagination of audiences online, and Joseph and Vanessa are the ideal pair to take it to the big screen.”

“Longevity Pictures brings exactly the kind of creative flair and commercial instinct that we champion so we’re thrilled to be building a slate together that combines killer storytelling with strong commercial appeal. Horror filmmaking is firing on all cylinders right now, with both audiences and critics embracing fresh concepts and emerging creative voices, making this the ideal time to bring more genre films to audiences worldwide. Future Me is exactly the kind of project we’re looking to get behind – a chilling premise with a passionate existing fanbase, and with Joseph and Vanessa Winter on board, it has all the makings of a standout horror film,” added Spooky Pictures’ Steven Schneider and Image Nation Studios’ Ben Ross.

Stay tuned for more on Future Me and the upcoming slate in the partnership between Longevity, Spooky Pictures, and Image Nation as it arrives.

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Day one of the festival began with a Telluride Horror Show staple: the ice cream social. It’s the type of event that’s exactly what it sounds like: a chill social gathering of ice cream sundaes among fellow horror aficionados (and fellow guest hosts/friends from Fangoria) to forge those early bonds heading into the packed weekend. It’s also the type of wholesome event that’ll ensure Telluride is never beating its wholesome, postcard-like quality.  

As one of this year’s guest hosts, I began my hosting duties at the Michael D. Palm Theatre, Telluride’s performing arts center that made a miraculous recovery after a devastating flash flood in July, with a screening of Joko Anwar’s extremely funny and gory horror-comedy Ghost in the Cell among a wonderfully receptive audience.

Other screening highlights for day one include New Zealand body horror comedy Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant, found footage Erie, proto-slasher American Dollhouse, well-curated shorts blocks, and more.

Telluride Horror Show is a fest that gives equal weight to literary horror, too, bringing in prominent horror authors for book talks, readings, and signings. After my Ghost in the Cell screening, I beelined to Elk Park for Creepy Campfire Tales to sit by the campfire as guest authors Nat Cassidy, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes, and CJ Leede, hosted by author Jeremy Robert Johnson, regaled the crowd with readings of spooky stories and novel excerpts.

As someone who lives in a city, there’s something extra special about cozying up to fellow horror nerds in a stunning box canyon setting under millions of stars that are usually blocked out by city smog where I live.

That sums up this festival’s vibe so far: cozy and welcoming in a way that feels almost displaced from time. And Telluride Horror Show is only warming up; there are still so many more exciting events and screenings ahead. Stay tuned.

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Kane told Deadline that Bill Skarsgård plays “a different kind of Pennywise, Pennywise the way you’ve never seen that character before.“

The brief comments shouldn’t be too surprising considering that it’s set in 1935, during the Great Depression, and tracks the Bradley Gang Massacre from Stephen King‘s IT novel. A gang of outlaws rolls into Derry, and it leads to a bloodbath under Pennywise’s influence.

“It’s a Warner Bros. gangster movie. It’s bank robbers and Hoovervilles and street urchins riding the rails religious fundamentalism,” Kane says of the bigger second season.

The showrunner also gives an update on season two’s status: “We’re writing the scripts. We’re about halfway through the writing of the scripts. We have a production schedule, we’re greenlit for a Season 2, and Andy Muschietti’s out there casting.”

IT wakes up and feeds every 27 years, so the series is tracking those cycles throughout time. The show’s first season took place in 1962, while the first IT (2017) movie was set in 1989 and Muschietti’s IT: Chapter Two (2019) jumped forward 27 years to 2016. Each cycle begins and ends with a horrific act, while Pennywise feasts on children throughout.

Producer and series developer Andy Muschietti previously revealed that Season 3 would be the explosion of the Kitchener Iron Works, which is a big explosion during an Easter egg hunt where a hundred kids lost their lives. This particularly grim catastrophe was briefly seen in photograph form in IT (2017).

Muschietti previously hid his three-season plan in plain sight with IT: Welome to Derry season one’s opening credits, which features Pennywise’s infamous exploits including the Black Spot Massacre, the Bradley Gang Massacre, and the Kitchener Iron Works explosion.

See if you can spot them below (and get the theme song stuck in your head):

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The darkly comedic genre-bender receives a limited theatrical engagement on October 30, ahead of Bloody Disgusting parent company Cineverse’s digital release on November 3, 2026, simultaneously on TVOD and Screambox.

A physical release on DVD and Blu-ray will follow later in November.

Tom McLaren (“Expelled”) stars as Ralph, a likable family man whose fanatical obsession with Christmas pushes his wife towards divorce, leaving his life in shambles. Determined to win her back, Ralph devises a crazy plan involving kidnapping the former child star of his favorite Christmas movie.

When his ill-conceived scheme spirals wildly out of control, Ralph’s pursuit of his perfect Christmas takes increasingly dark and unexpected turns.

Ralph’s Perfekt Christmas stars Charlie Schlatter (Diagnosis Murder), Jill Schoelen (The Stepfather), Casey Burke (The Middle), Landon Gimenez (Resurrection), and marks the return to the big screen of Lynda Day George (Mission: Impossible, “Roots”).

The supporting cast includes special guest appearances by Hollywood veterans Susan Blakely (The Towering Inferno), Marta Kristen (“Lost in Space”), Nicholle Tom (“The Nanny”), Trevor Lissauer (“Sabrina the Teenage Witch”), Bill Mumy (“Lost in Space”) and Angela Cartwright (“Lost in Space”, The Sound of Music).

Jeremy Padow and Tom McLaren wrote the screenplay, based upon an original story by Padow. Matthew Bellamy and Tom & Mary McLaren direct.

Schoelen previously teased the holiday genre-bender last year, telling Bloody Disgusting, “Everything spirals to a point where it really has a quite wonderful horror twist to it, as it moves on down along the line.” 

The film not only inspired the actress to create her own Christmas album, and one of her original holiday tunes is in the film. 

“Ralph’s Perfekt Christmas is exactly the kind of smart, distinctive, genre-bending film that resonates with Cineverse and Screambox audiences,” said Dan Fisher, vice president of acquisitions at Cineverse. “The film combines an original story with unexpected twists, turns, and a surprise ending coupled with a standout performance by Tom McLaren as Ralph that makes this film a ‘must watch’ for the holidays.”

“We’re excited to partner with the incredible Cineverse team to deliver Ralph’s Perfekt Christmas to a broad audience,” said producer Mary McLaren. “We set out to target everyone who considers Die Hard a ‘Christmas Movie’ and Cineverse is an ideal distribution partner for reaching that audience seeking alternate holiday content.” Co-producer Tom McLaren added.

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While the full guest lineup hasn’t been announced just yet, the trailer below features Barbara Crampton, Joe Lynch, and Joe Swanberg being served themed libations ahead of the series’ premiere on October 30. New episodes will release every Friday.

The Last Podcast on the Left lends their voices to the colorful supporting cast of puppets. Co-host Ed Larson is starring as Ted’s co-host, Mortimer Dustworth, a re-animated head in a jar that has a love-hate relationship with Ted. Henry Zebrowski, Marcus Parks, and long-time Last Podcast collaborator Holden McNeely (host of the Nerd of Mouth Podcast on the Last Podcast Network) will make special guest star cameos throughout the season as other characters and puppets.

In Your Dearest Darkest Friend, Raimi welcomes celebrity guests into his haunted manor for an evening of confabulation, cocktails, and the presence of an uncanny creature or two. Joined by his puppet companions, Raimi takes viewers on a delightfully dreadful journey into the minds of some of the biggest names in horror—with a twisted sensibility only Ted Raimi can deliver.

“Yes, it’s weird. Truthfully, it’s a very odd concept for a talk show. We didn’t care: We all agreed it would appeal to the crowd we all knew would dig it – horror fans,” Ted Raimi said. 

A genre staple, Ted Raimi’s credits include Evil Dead II, Candyman, The Grudge, The Midnight Meat Train, Darkman, Wishmaster, Shocker, Intruder, Blood Rage, The Quarry, “Twin Peaks,” “Ash vs. Evil Dead,” “Creepshow,” and “Masters of Horror.”

Your Dearest Darkest Friend is produced by Tony Wash, Charlie Queen, Lauren Leshansky, and Ted Raimi. 

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From follows a group of strangers trapped in a mysterious small town they can’t escape, no matter how hard they try. That’d be troubling enough, but this town is also home to humalike creatures that come out by night to rip them apart.

The series is created and executive produced by John Griffin (Crater), directed and executive produced by Jack Bender (Lost, Game of Thrones, Mr. Mercedes), and executive produced by Showrunner Jeff Pinkner (Fringe, Alias, Lost).

The fourth season debuted earlier this year and is available to stream now on MGM+. In Season 4, “the closer the residents of town get to the answers they seek, the more terrifying their search becomes. Who is the Man in Yellow, and what does he want? Will Jade and Tabitha’s revelation be the key to finally going home? How much longer can Boyd hold the town together, even as his body and mind are falling apart? And what role will the town’s most recent arrival play in the events to come? Season Four will open doors that some in town will end up wishing had remained closed.”

Harold Perrineau stars with Catalina Sandino Moreno, Eion Bailey, Hannah Cheramy, Simon Webster, Ricky He, Chloe Van Landschoot, Corteon Moore, Pegah Ghafoori, David Alpay, Elizabeth Saunders, Avery Konrad, Scott McCord, Nathan D. Simmons, Kaelen Ohm, Angela Moore, A.J. Simmons, Julia Doyle, Robert Joy, and Samantha Brown.

Time and reality jumps also compound From’s monster problem, compounding its many mysteries. Here’s a helpful guide to keep track as you begin your watch through (or rewatch).

The fifth season will be the series‘ last. 

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Idris Elba (Thor: Ragnarok, Beast) stars alongside Caitlin FitzGerald (“We Were Liars”) and Hero Fiennes Tiffin (“Young Sherlock”) as the stranded astronauts, but Elba also co-directs with Martin Owen (The Loneliest Boy in the World).

The official synopsis reads: “When three astronauts survive a catastrophic fall from space, they become trapped in the crushing depths of the ocean with oxygen rapidly running out. Facing a race against time where every breath could be their last, they must make impossible choices about who will risk everything to reach the surface and who may be left behind.”

Elizabeth Morris, Matthew Mitchell, and Vicki Sargent wrote the screenplay.

Elba teased claustrophobic, suspenseful thrills ahead to Collider: “I’m very excited to show people that I can hold my breath for four minutes. Joking aside (I can hold my breath for that long), but you know, this film was very practical. We did a lot of the things in this film. We did build the spacecraft, we submerged it in water, we shot a lot of it underwater. There’s a real practicality to this film that adds to the claustrophobia and the thriller aspect of it. So I’m really excited for people to literally go on that journey with us, from space to the ocean, and be entertained, be thrilled, and be claustrophobic.”

That claustrophobia is reflected in at least one of the first look images below. Look for the lean 85-minute survival thriller to arrive this December.

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Previously known as Arachnid, the horror film will be released in theaters nationwide on October 16 via Roadside Attractions and Saban Films. 

In Crawlers, “a catastrophic infestation of venomous and deadly spiders sends an apartment building into lockdown. Trapped inside by a police-mandated quarantine, building manager Serena (Lutz) and her residents battle to survive as the creatures multiply by the second. Armed with her intimate knowledge of the complex, Serena may be the only one who can keep them alive—if she can confront her deepest fear.” 

Crawlers is rated R for “violent content/bloody images, language and brief sexual material.” The clip below, which shows a spider bursting from a corpse’s eye, certainly underscores the film’s rating.

Angel Gómez Hernández (Don’t Listen) directs from a script by Jayson Rothwell (Polar, Silent Night).

Crawlers marks the first feature from Badlands, the new collaboration between Basil Iwanyk & Erica Lee’s Thunder Road (John Wick, Sicario) and longtime studio executive Scott Strauss (Resident Evil, Underworld). Strauss, Iwanyk, and Lee produce alongside Peter Welter Soler (Terminator Dark Fate), Jayson Rothwell, Alexandra Milchan (“The Terror”), and Josh Weinstock. Executive producers include Andrew Schwartzberg, Jon Shiffman, and Diarmaid McGrath.

“Crawlers is a uniquely visceral horror experience that gets under your skin in the best way possible. It’s a true, unapologetic genre film that delivers the kind of squirm-in-your-seat, racing-heart moments that horror fans live for,” said Saban co-presidents Shanan Becker and Jonathan Saba. “It masterfully blends edge-of-your-seat thrills with the high-octane fun we’ve come to expect from the producers of John Wick.”

“It is said we are never more than three feet from a spider,” added Strauss. “Now they’re coming to a theater near you! The filmmaking team is over the moon to partner with Roadside and Saban on the theatrical release of Crawlers.”

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The announcement brings the first teaser, giving a bloody first look at the feature directorial debut of Marta Giec, who co-wrote the screenplay with Dominika Kłoczewiak.

ÒPI, rooted in the ancient beliefs and dark folklore of Poland’s Kashubian region, follows “eighteen-year-old Trina as she struggles to escape a suffocating relationship with her mother and a household steeped in tension, buried secrets and generational trauma. When her aunt Helena and paralyzed grandmother Regina arrive, the fragile boundaries between everyday life, ancestral superstition and Trina’s increasingly disturbing nightmares begin to collapse.“

The film stars Wiktoria Kruszczyńska as Trina, alongside Gabriela Muskała, Magdalena Boczarska and Iwona Bielska, with Pitry also appearing.

“ÒPI is the kind of horror that gets under your skin and stays there,” said Michael Paszt, Managing Partner of Raven Banner. “It taps into something ancient and deeply unsettling, drawing on Polish Kashubian folklore to create a world where family trauma, superstition and genuine terror collide. We’re always hunting for bold genre films with a distinct cultural identity, a filmmaker’s vision and the ability to leave a lasting impression.“ÒPI delivers on all three fronts, and we’re stoked to introduce it to audiences.“

Brooklyn Horror Fest writes of ÒPI, “Powerfully oppressive in its dread and dark as hell in its look at familial dysfunction, writer-director Marta Giec’s feature debut is can’t-miss material for fans of bleak and creepy horror, the kinds of films that engulf you while watching and linger on mentally long after the credits roll.“

ÒPI was produced by Adam Korpak and Karol Żbikowski of Platige Films, with Wojciech Stuchlik serving as executive producer. The project received co-financing from the Polish Film Institute.

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Yet director Brian Duffield(No One Will Save You), who co-adapts the novel with Kraus, does just that, translating the white-knuckle intensity of an implausible scenario to screen with all of its emotional resonance intact.

Resident Evil star Austin Abrams finds himself in another insane survival scenario as Jay Gardiner, a college student struggling to cope with the suicide of his ocean-obsessed father, Mitt (Josh Brolin). The coastal community loved Mitt, as did Jay’s mom (Elisabeth Shue) and sisters (Emily Rudd and Jane Levy), but Jay’s relationship with Mitt as his only son was far more contentious. So much so that they weren’t on speaking terms when Mitt fell ill, leaving Jay with a lot of guilt and baggage in the wake of his death. To process it, Jay embarks on a solo scuba dive in the futile hopes of recovering even part of Mitt’s remains from the sea.

Instead, Jay gets swept into a battle between a giant squid and a sperm whale, and the whale swallows them both. 

That one sentence sets up an entire feature’s worth of nail-biting tension and harrowing survival thrills, as this wild predicament brings a series of gripping challenges that include depleting oxygen, traumatic pressure changes, and pesky things like digestive mucus and stomach acid. Duffield ensures every bit of it is felt, too, with claustrophobic practical sets that see Abram’s character frequently maneuvering to avoid getting completely “chewed” and digested.

The sound design is sharp and incredible, further immersing audiences in the visceral nature of this particularly wild survival thriller. Bioluminescence serves as clever lighting, but the natural darkness of being trapped inside a whale at deeper depths means that one dimly lit theatre bulb or TV setting could easily tip large stretches of this movie into unseeable territory. It’s a minor observation, considering just how cinematic Duffield makes this unique story. The film’s climax instills as much awe as emotional catharsis, for its stunning marine vision of community and letting go.

That’s also helped by flashback scenes that flesh out the father-son relationship fueling this exercise in unrelenting suspense. Brolin makes these fleeting moments count, ensuring a profound depth of love lurks beneath the surface of Mitt’s tough-love exterior. Mitt tearfully confesses to an infant Jay in one scene that he will screw him up, but it’s only out of love and a paternal desire to prepare him for survival. It’s the emotional crux of Jay’s entire journey, the ultimate test of a harsh father’s unrelenting lessons. 

But Whalefall rests almost entirely on the shoulders of Abrams, and the rising talent has already proven adept at navigating the physical challenges of a propulsive, escalating survival scenario without sacrificing character. Here, the emotional stakes are even higher, and the physical challenges just as daunting. Jay’s interiority is brought to the surface, giving Abrams more opportunity to showcase his range. Instead of leaning into the absurdity of the premise with humor, Abrams mines it for all its daunting terror and emotional devastation.

Whalefall unlocks new fears, even if the likelihood of being swallowed by a whale is astronomically small. Even smaller are the odds of survival. That Jay, raised to dive by a nautical father, knows this acutely only contributes to the unwavering edge-of-your-seat tension. It’s not a horror movie, but Duffield and Kraus’s cinematic, deeply affecting adaptation unnerves all the same. 

Whalefall releases in theaters on October 16.

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The Bratz x The Craft collection transforms Sarah (Robin Tunney), Rochelle (Rachel True), Bonnie (Neve Campbell), and Nancy (Fairuza Balk) into collector dolls.  Sarah, Rochelle, and Bonnie will be released together in a $120 three-pack, while fan-favorite villainess Nancy gets a separate $70 special-edition doll with two outfits.

The witches sport their classic St. Benedict’s Academy uniform in the new collection, complete with accessories like their elemental animals when calling the corners.

All four come with movie-inspired accessories and VHS-style packaging harkening back to the 1996 film and will be available to purchase on October 15 at 8:00 am PT on Bratz.com. Fans who purchase directly through Bratz.com will also receive an exclusive poster with their purchase.

Andrew Fleming‘s 1996 film followed new-to-LA transfer Sarah as she is betrayed by football hottie Chris (Skeet Ulrich) and befriended by a coven of witches. Together the girls invoke the power of Manon to cure their teenage woes, but as their powers grow, so too does the danger. They discovered the Craft, and they’re going to use it.

The cult film turns 30 this year, and its celebrating accordingly with a witchy new collaboration this Halloween season. Check out images below, including a pic of Nancy in full witchy glory unveiled by Collider.

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The images also coincide with a new MTV promo teaser below that sees Alanis Morissette dedicate a performance to the ill-fated team. Yellowjackets Season 4 premieres November 20 on the Paramount+ Premium Plan.

Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Samantha Hanratty, Sophie Thatcher, Courtney Eaton, Liv Hewson, and Nia Sondaya star alongside Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Christina Ricci, Simone Kessell, Warren Kole, Hilary Swank, Sarah Desjardins, and Elijah Wood.

Devon Sawa, Molly Ringwald, and June Squibb are joining the cast in Season 4.

Yellowjackets is the saga of a team of high school soccer players who become the survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness. The series chronicles their descent from a complicated team to savage clans, while also tracking the lives they’ve attempted to piece back together nearly 25 years later.

Co-Showrunners Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson created the series, which is produced by Lionsgate Television. 

The third season broke records for the streamer, with the premiere becoming the most streamed episode in the show’s history. The Season 3 finale later broke the record, generating 3 million global viewers in seven days across linear and streaming.

In the closing moments of season three, Natalie (Sophie Thatcher) is finally able to make contact with the civilized world via satellite phone, teeing up the final season. 

Get a peek at what’s ahead; the final reckoning arrives next month.

BREAKING NEWS
After 19 months, the Wiskayok High Yellowjackets have been FOUND and rescued. Stay tuned for more updates on their return home to New Jersey. https://t.co/R8XqrjAkIn

— Yellowjackets (@yellowjackets96) October 13, 2026

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That’s apparent straightaway, with a pilot episode that not only recreates the tragedy that sets the entire franchise in motion but also features a throwback title card and opening credits that pay tribute to the films, accompanied by Harry Manfredini‘s theme. But it’s also here where the first noticeable shift from canon arrives; Crystal Lake introduces a sweet but sickly Jason Voorhees (Callum Vinson) and his mom in 1972, the night before his drowning accident. It’s a shift from the late ’50s, one that imbues the series with a rich palette but serves as a more important backdrop for the overarching mystery that centers around Pam and Jason and begins in earnest when Jason’s body is never found.

After an exciting Friday the 13th-heavy premiere that introduces all the callbacks and familiar sights of the film, including locals Crazy Ralph (Nick Cordileone) and Camp Crystal Lake owners the Christys, Crystal Lake settles into methodical mystery building surrounding the Voorhees’ hidden past. Kane writes with careful surgical precision, recreating iconic moments (like a certain death in the boathouse) to blend with the original while adding new details and revelations that shift our read on them.

It’s as if Kane’s biggest question for Crystal Lake wasn’t what drove Pam to murderous madness, but how someone of her size and demeanor could physically pull off such a body count. Refreshingly, Linda Cardellini’s Pam is relatively well adjusted despite what she’s been through, and her tender bond with her son is instantly endearing. There are flashes of madness, of course, as Pam is driven to graphic violence on more than one occasion, but Crystal Lake tends to find sympathetic justification for her actions, like a rather visceral first-episode battle in self-defense that culminates in a burst of blood spray. It’s a series that takes care in its escalation, ensuring we never lose rooting interest in a protagonist prone to murder.

Cardellini latches onto Pam’s fierce maternal instincts, and Pam’s warm affections for her son provide the series’ biggest heartbreaks and motives. Pam’s budding relationship with Crystal Lake sheriff Levon Brooks (William Catlett) further instills rooting interest as one of her few sources of support. They’re kindred spirits of sorts, though Brooks is more of a beacon of hope. 

While Crystal Lake does build to a proper camp bloodbath late in the eight-episode run, Kane injects enough death and violence to keep gore-hounds satiated until it arrives. The deaths are suitably gnarly, and most effective when employing practical effects over VFX, but they do have a tendency to get repetitive. The first instance of mouth trauma makes you wince, but the effect wears off by the fourth instance. Still, the series earns its marks for brutality.

Episode eight wraps so tidily that the series could stop here and satisfy, answering all of its major questions by season’s end. Well, depending on whether you’re on board with its grounded explanation behind an undead killer stalking the woods of Crystal Lake. There’s a remarkable level of detail and reverence for Friday the 13th here, one apparent by every careful tie to the original film and even more thoughtful treatment of original characters. Crystal Lake even carefully bridges Crazy Ralph from PTSD-suffering survivalist to townie doomsayer.

But that careful consideration means a more sluggish early half than expected, and a series deeply concerned with addressing questions that aren’t exactly being raised in the first place. Especially not in a franchise that’s resurrected its iconic killer by lightning strike or body-hopping possession; it’s standard practice to roll with the wacky sequel punches when it comes to ’80s slasher franchises, after all. Crystal Lake cares a great deal for continuity, making for a cohesive, compelling vision. It’s a success in its character-forward vision, all the same.

Kane extends endless empathy for the Voorhees clan, peeling the curtain back wide on two of horror’s most memorable slasher villains. While it might be a bit too wide for some, having Camp Crystal Lake and all the Friday the 13th iconography back on screen, even the small screen, is a deeply welcome sight.

All episodes of Crystal Lake premiere Thursday, October 15, only on Peacock.

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King posted a video of himself on X as he tuned into Carrie with his dog, Molly, but also gave Constant Readers another incentive to watch: “It was directed by Mike Flanagan, and he is the best adapter of my work. And if you like this and enough people watch it, he might be doing something else that’s really special. But I can’t talk about it. Shhhh. Molly be quiet. Okay?”

Referring to Flanagan as the best adapter of his work is high praise, considering just how prolific the author and adaptations of his work tend to be. To date, Flanagan has adapted Gerald’s Game, Doctor Sleep, and The Life of Chuck into feature films.

Naturally, King kept mum on what that special project might be. But it’s worth noting that the eight-episode inaugural season shares a connection to The Dark Tower; Carrie could be laying the foundation for Flanagan’s larger vision even beyond the three-season run he hopes to achieve with his latest series.

The series even features a deep cut Easter egg in the very first scenes of the first episode, which is set at a construction site revealed to be LaMerk Industries. LaMerk is a metalworks company that’s allied with The Crimson King in The Dark Tower series.

Carrie stars Samantha Sloyan and Summer H. Howell have already weighed in on their hopes for joining Flanagan’s Dark Tower.

Considering that Carrie is currently dominating Prime Video’s streaming charts, we may find out what that special project that King is teasing is sooner rather than later. Fingers crossed.

Shhh! Don’t talk about this! https://t.co/MUxoksZBev

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) October 9, 2026

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Cregger is teaming with Duffield to write the Siren Head script, with Duffield likely to direct, and the duo have been collaborating despite their busy schedules. Polygon spoke with Duffield at NYCC, where he provided an update on the film’s status.

“I owe Zach Cregger a phone call because I’ve been so busy with press, and then he was on the Resident Evil press tour. It’s something that we’ve got to get into,” Duffield tells Polygon. “I’m really excited. It was something that he brought to me a couple of months ago, and it’s been really fun to get to know Trevor Henderson, the creator of Siren Head, in that time. It’s been really fun asking him questions like, ‘Can Siren Head do this?‘ ‘Can it not do this?‘ and getting answers, and feeding him the ideas that Zach and I are coming up with and seeing him get really excited.“

Duffield continued, “I think the idea that Zach Cregger came up with is not what people are expecting, but I think it’s really exciting. It’s something that Trevor, so far, has seemed really excited about. I can’t wait to dive in after I take a long, long nap after [Whalefall].“

It’s a minor update but one that reveals Siren Head’s creator is heavily involved, and that it won’t be the most obvious approach to bringing the creature to life on screen.

What is Siren Head? It’s creature designer Trevor Henderson’s hostile, 40-foot cryptid, a rotting skeletal figure with two sirens as a head. Henderson’s 2018 art took off on the internet, growing into a full-blown sensation, racking up 3 billion TikTok views, one billion YouTube views, and millions of Roblox plays.

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British theater producer John Gore acquired Hammer Films and Studios in 2023 and has big plans aiming to “celebrate and preserve the unmatched legacy of Hammer and to usher in a new era of storytelling.”

Gore recently teased some of those plans, but the new acquisition expands Hammer’s future potential even further. Hill’s most famous novel is The Woman in Black, but now Hammer could adapt any or all of her horror works. John Gore Studios said it was looking to adapt Hill’s literary works across not just film and TV but theatre opportunities as well, where existing rights arrangements allow.

Other Hill ghost stories and novels now ripe for adaptation include The Man in the Picture, Dolly, The Small Hand, The Mist in the Mirror, and Printer’s Devil Court.

“Susan Hill is one of Britain’s most distinctive literary voices, and it is a privilege to become a custodian of such an extraordinary body of work,” said Gore, founder and executive chairman of John Gore Studios. “Our ambition is to approach these stories with the same care, craftsmanship and respect for character, suspense and atmosphere that Susan has brought to them throughout her career. As we explore new ways of bringing her work to audiences across film, television and beyond, Susan’s voice and vision will remain at the heart of everything we do. Above all, we hope that each new interpretation will encourage audiences to discover, or return to, the remarkable writing that inspired it.”

Hill will be actively involved and part of the ongoing management relationship around the portfolio and development strategy, as well as being an executive producer on new projects.

“For any author, it’s heartening to see their stories continue to find new life,” said Hill. “John Gore Studios brings together a genuine respect for heritage with an understanding of how classic stories can reach new audiences, and Hammer has a long and distinguished place in the history of British gothic storytelling, so I’m very pleased that these worlds can come together for the next chapter.”

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Daryl (Norman Reedus) and Carol (Melissa McBride) have been through it all, but they’ll embark on one final journey in Spain when the final season begins in February 2027.

In the final season, while crossing the ravaged badlands of Spain, “Daryl and Carol grasp onto hope – and each other – as uncertainty about their future grows. Smits plays “Captain Alejandro Perkins,” a former U.S. Navy officer and medical doctor who found a unique way to thrive during the apocalypse. ” 

Emmy® and Golden Globe® Award-winner Jimmy Smits (NYPD Blue, The West Wing) joins the final season.

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon also stars Romain Levi, Eduardo Noriega, Óscar Jaenada, Candela Saitta and Hugo Arbués and is executive produced by showrunner David Zabel, Scott M. Gimple, Reedus, McBride, Greg Nicotero, Brian Bockrath, Angela Kang, Jason Richman, Dan Percival and Steve Squillante. 

AMC also revealed at NYCC that all seasons of the flagship series will begin streaming on AMC+ on January 7, 2027. The Walking Dead  joins AMC+’s “The Walking Dead Universe” Collection, including all six spin-off series, totaling 371 episodes, as well as exclusive specials, bonus episodes, behind-the-scenes content, Comic-Con panels and more. That collection also includes Fear the Walking Dead, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, The Walking Dead: Dead City, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, The Walking Dead: World Beyond, and the episodic anthology Tales of The Walking Dead.

“The Walking Dead continues to be one of the most popular television franchises in the world, and we’re thrilled to add the groundbreaking, original series to our flagship streaming service,” said Courtney Thomasma, EVP Linear and Streaming Products for AMC Global Media. “In the new year, both dedicated fans and new audiences will be able to immersive themselves in this cultural phenomenon from the very beginning and be the first to experience the new stories from the TWD Universe, including the upcoming final season of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon – exclusively streaming on AMC+.”

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Rambaldi will receive the 2,860th star on October 15 at 11:30 am PT on 1611 Vine Street; the pioneering artist will receive his posthumous star in the category of Motion Pictures. 

Born in Vigarano Mainarda, Italy, in 1925, Rambaldi’s early work in animation eventually led him to special effects, where he would collaborate with prominent Italian filmmakers including Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Marco Ferreri, Mario Bava, Dario Argento, and Lucio Fulci.

His breakout success internationally came with 1976’s King Kong, where his life-size animatronic of the eponymous character earned him an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. While Rambaldi also won a Best Visual Effects Oscar for Aliens, the maestro may be best known as the creature creator of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

Other credits include Silver Bullet, Deep Red, The Hand, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, A Lizard In A Woman’s Skin, David Lynch’s Dune, and more.

Rambaldi’s granddaughter, Cristina Rambaldi, Vice President of Fondazione Culturale Carlo Rambaldi, will speak at the ceremony, along with Antonio Saccone, President of Cincitta, and Matt Winston, President of the Rambaldi Foundation. 

“This star is an enormous honor, not only for my grandfather, but for every artist who has ever spent a night in a workshop, surrounded by clay, latex, paint, and machinery, bringing a creature to life. Carlo believed deeply in that kind of filmmaking. David Lynch once said of him, ‘I have a theory about Carlo Rambaldi: he always builds himself.‘ He felt the Navigator in Dune looked a little bit like Carlo, while E.T. looked exactly like him. I love that observation because it captures something essential about Carlo’s artistry: he put so much of himself into the creatures he built that, in some way, they became extensions of his own humanity.

“Through mechanics, movement, and expression, he gave even the most fantastical beings a personality that audiences could recognize and connect with. That, to me, is the enduring magic of practical effects: they give the fantastical a physical presence, something tangible that exists right there in front of the camera. Even in an increasingly digital world, there is something irreplaceable about that. And so I like to think this star belongs to the entire practical effects community, and especially to the next generation of artists who will carry this craft forward,” said Cristina Rambaldi in a statement.

In conjunction with the star ceremony and the exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute, the National Committee for the Celebrations of the Centenary of Carlo Rambaldi, with the support of the Carlo Rambaldi Foundation, has established two scholarships dedicated to young Italian talents interested in further developing their training in the field of cinematic special effects.

The two winners will have the opportunity to enhance their skills through one year of online training at the Stan Winston School of Character Arts, a leading international institution for the study of special effects and character creation.

In addition, the program includes an immersive experience in Los Angeles from October 11 to 17, 2026, featuring meetings, professional visits, and tours of Hollywood FX studios, giving scholarship recipients the chance to explore different areas, including visual techniques, makeup FX, animatronics, and digital technologies.

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The announcement comes on the heels of the film’s world premiere at Fantastic Fest, where the return of the franchise’s relentless killer surprised audiences as a secret screening.

Part 2 picks up immediately after the events of the first film, expanding Johnny’s lore as he finds a new crop of victims. This time, Johnny’s violent rampage leads him to a summer camp just as a young, outcast camper is forced to spend the night with his counselor sister and her friends at their annual end-of-season party.

Nate Wilson co-directs with returning director Chris Nash, who also penned the script. The film is produced by Peter Kuplowsky, Shannon Hanmer, and Nash.

Lucas Nguyen, Olivia Scriven (Blood Quantum), Laurie Babin (Red Rooms), Fionn Laird (“The Institute”), Donald MacLean Jr. (The Craft: Legacy), and Evan Marsh (Shazam) also star.

“With this sequel, fans can expect an exponential increase of the ol’ ultraviolence with a distinct hook, but one that still collides with storied slasher traditions,” Kuplowsky said previously, and he’s not exaggerating. In a Violent Nature: Part 2 not only doubles the body count, but gets even more outrageous with the deaths.

I wrote in my Fantastic Fest review, “Nash and Wilson not only top the yoga-pretzel kill of the first with a gruesomely protracted stand-out sequence but also deliver a solid handful of crowd-pleasing kills that’ll leave gorehounds howling.“

But it also takes a much more straightforward approach, shifting the story from Johnny’s perspective to its new young protagonist: “As a showcase of stunning practical effects and slasher carnage, In a Violent Nature 2 tops its predecessor with ease. That’ll be more than enough for those looking for a fun time, but this sequel doesn’t have much to offer beyond its inventive gore.“

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The new teaser, unveiled this afternoon at New York Comic Con, reveals that the new season will arrive on December 30.

Adapted from Anne Rice‘s Lives of the Mayfair Witches novel trilogy, the third season  will dive deeper into the mythology of witchcraft, introduce new “spellbound” families, and feature some of the historical happenings of Salem, MA, the infamous town of witch trials and folklore.

Returning stars Alexandra Daddario, Harry Hamlin, Tongayi Chirisa, and Alyssa Jirrels will be joined by  Michiel Huisman (“The Haunting of Hill House”), Betsy Brandt (“Breaking Bad”), James Frain (“True Blood”) and Eliza Scanlen (“Sharp Objects”) .

Thomas Schnauz (“Breaking Bad,” “Better Call Saul”) has joined as co-showrunner alongside Esta Spalding, who co-created the series with Michelle Ashford.

Mayfair Witches premiered in 2023 as the second series in AMC’s Anne Rice Immortal Universe following Interview with the Vampire.  The Anne Rice Immortal Universe also includes the now-canceled Talamasca: The Secret Order.

Ancient magic and rituals meet the modern age in the teaser below.

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All episodes of “Crystal Lake” premiere Thursday, October 15, only on Peacock.

A camp counselor greets campers with warnings to follow the rules to stay alive, with none the wiser that the true threat may be lurking among them in Pamela Voorhees (Linda Cardellini).

She’s been unable to shake her grief after her young, sickly son Jason tragically drowned in the town lake almost a year before. When two strangers arrive at Pam’s door digging into her past, a disturbing chain of events is set into motion, leaving the townspeople of Crystal Lake wondering: just who is Pam Voorhees?

Callum Vinson (“Chucky”) is playing young Jason in “Crystal Lake,” which will tell the origin story of the masked slasher who has stalked the grounds of Crystal Lake for decades.

Based on Friday the 13th and the opening scene of Crystal Lake, we know where Jason gets his killer instincts from already. But showrunner Brad Caleb Kane (“IT: Welcome to Derry”) promises his prequel series will carve up an impressive body count, too.

“I went into the season knowing that we are going to spend a couple of episodes on Pam[ela Voorhees’] blossoming, her journey, her psychology. But I also know what the Friday the 13th fans are here for because I’m here for it, too — that’s really creative kills and a whole lot of them. So if you’re wondering if we’re ever going to go full fathom Friday the 13th, we go there and we drop a lot of bodies in really creative ways. It’s a lot more brutal. I think it’s even more brutal in many ways from some of the movies,” Kane told THR.

The show’s cast also includes William Catlett (Abigail), Cameron Scoggins (“Nashville”), Devin Kessler (“Godfather of Harlem”), Gwendolyn Sundstrom, Nick Cordileone (“Warrior”), Joy Suprano (“Fleishman Is in Trouble”), Danielle Kotch (Sinister), Christopher Denham (“Shining Girls”), Nancy Nagrant (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”), and Phoenix Parnevik.

Follow the rules, stay alive. Crystal Lake premieres on @Peacock October 15. https://t.co/99kfDiQQNP

— A24 (@A24) October 9, 2026

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“It’s on the back burner at the moment,” director Danny Boyle told Deadline at the London Film Festival of 28 Years Later 3‘s current status. Boyle reiterated that he “hopes” the third installment will be made if they secure funds. 

Writer Alex Garland‘s busy schedule is also another reason for the pause. “Alex has been off doing his own film, which is a big project,” Boyle said. That project? A24’s Elden Ring, which is slated for a March 2028 release. As for Boyle, he’s settled on Antarctica as his next project, pushing 28 Years Later further down the pipeline.

The filmmaker’s previous comments were hopeful, though, promising that we’ll see a lot more Cillian Murphy when it eventually arrives. “28 Years 3, or whatever it ends up being called, will get made because people keep asking about it. Quite when I’m not sure, but there’s a script – a very good script by Alex Garland,” Boyle shared previously. The filmmaker then joked about Murphy having a full-frontal nude scene in the original, noting, “[It will have] a lot of Cillian Murphy in it. Whether he’ll take his kit off anymore, that I don’t know. He’s got the Oscar now.”

That’s certainly the expectation set up by The Bone Temple‘s closing moments, which saw Alfie Williams’ Spike running from the Infected straight toward the home of Cillian Murphy’s Jim, 28 Days Later‘s protagonist.

Sony was developing the third installment — with Garland penning the script, Danny Boyle attached to direct, and Murphy in talks to star — but there have been no updates in the wake of The Bone Temple’s release.

By the sounds of Boyle’s latest comments, it may be a while yet before any new developments on this trilogy arrive.

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Nathan Elston‘s script, adapting Josh Malerman‘s Incidents Around the House, skips past explaining how Other Mommy arrived to an already forged bond between the maternal doppelgänger and a young child protagonist coping with a new school and parents who can barely mask their dysfunction. Daddo (Jay Duplass), Bela’s stay-at-home fun dad, and the career-focused Mommy occasionally steal glances that signal domestic woes bubbling beneath the surface, but they’re quickly tamped down for the sake of preserving the facade that everything’s ok.

The entity desperately wants into Bela’s heart, though, and has no qualms about interrupting, then wrecking the family’s lives to get it from practically the very start.

Savage zips from set piece to set piece, like a film edited and cut to death, linking empty jump scare sequences and uncanny valley-based disturbances with flashy camerawork that signals a stronger vision that never comes to pass. Other Mommy contorts not just her body, but reality and spaciality. Anniversary parties and playground ball pits that end in calamitous bendings of physics give the outward appearance of a haunted house movie trying something new, but it steadfastly adheres to formulaic mundanity. Half-hearted attempts to subvert familiar clichés and tropes, like the magical guide or the classic seance, amount to nothing more than quick punchlines before the family races off to the next scare sequence.

Other Mommy plays with visual perspective in its demonic machinations, but forgets to address storytelling perspective. It leads to baffling narrative choices, like having the 7-year-old Bela witness a gory evisceration mere feet from her, only to shake it off as if it was temporary indigestion in the next scene at a playplace (cue the next surreal scare attempt). Or the even more confounding climax, which picks the exact wrong moment for unearned heartfelt confessions too oddly placed to land with anything other than jarring bewilderment.

It all feels like the wrong approach to its child protagonist. Much like Other Mommy’s attempts to woo Bela through whimsically designed nightmares and distortions of childlike wonder, Savage mistakes the camera’s focus on Bela for interiority and perspective. We’re as passive as she is in her own clumsily stitched together story, as much in the dark outside of a few scattershot clues signaling a messy emotion based explanation. Don’t expect any supernatural worldbuilding or explanation here beyond its loose metaphors; Other Mommy has zero interest in logic, either.

Chastain gives it her all, playing Mommy and Other Mommy with heightened melodramatic flair, but it almost feels out of place in a film where everyone else is content to drift through paper-thin characters trapped in an outrageous scenario. Not even the film’s characters find the events as scary as they should be. Even when the insanity spills out into public view, it’s all met with a concerned, then confused, shrug.

It instills apathy in the viewer, too. Other Mommy is so flat and devoid of tension that by film’s end, you’re more likely to laugh or groan at the absurd lengths this family will go to avoid therapy than root for their triumph over an ultimately forgettable demonic entity. Even the briskly paced 94-minute runtime feels too cumbersome for such an inert and empty scarefest.

Other Mommy releases in theaters on October 8.

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The sequel to 2020’s Becky and 2023’s The Wrath of Becky will release in theaters on November 4, 2026.

In the film, “Now a CIA field agent, Becky (Lulu Wilson) goes undercover in Poland to infiltrate a family running an inn at The Wolf’s Lair, one of Hitler’s WWII bunkers. When she learns the father, Wilhelm Reuss (Neil Patrick Harris), plans to spark the Fourth Reich, Becky must stop him.“

Jenn Wexler (The Sacrifice Game, The Ranger) directs from a script she co-wrote with Matt Angel (The Wrath of Becky), from a story by Angel and Suzanne Coote (The Wrath of Becky).

Becky’s main foe this time? Neil Patrick Harris (“How I Met Your Mother”) as General Wilhelm Reuss.

Brandon Flynn (“13 Reasons Why”), James Urbaniak (Oppenheimer), Catherine Walker (House of Gucci), and Kate Siegel (“The Haunting of Hill House”) round out the cast.

Joe Lipsett wrote in his Fantasia review that, “overall, it’s impossible not to cheer on Becky as she fucks Nazis up at every opportunity.” While that means a return to the series signature violence and a whole lot of bloodshed, it also means a more action-based sequel with lower stakes: “Three films in, there’s no fear that Becky could actually die, but the film isn’t afraid to put its characters through the wringer – Becky sports a broken nose for most of the film’s last act – and there are, naturally, some extremely cathartic Nazi casualties.”

From Post Film and BoulderLight Pictures, producers include Russ Posternak & Chadd Harbold of Post Film, Larry Greenberg of Quiver Distribution, Paul Kennedy & Aideen Hand of Village Films, Jordan Yale Levine, and Jordan Beckerman.

Quiver’s Berry Meyerowitz and Jeff Sackman are executive producers, along with Wilson, Harris, Louis Winters, Nick Morris, Joe & Mike Huguenot, Kevin & Brian Debold, Nicholas Emanuel, Aaron Dalla Villa, and Carl Moellenberg.

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The reimagining, written and directed by Charlie Polinger (The Plague), was announced in 2025 and began filming in February 2026, but A24 has kept mum on plot or release details so far. Madison reveals we can look forward to the new Poe-inspired film sometime in 2027, thanks to a new chat with ScreenRant for The Social Reckoning. 

“I think next year, definitely. I’m so excited for people to see that. Again, it’s something completely different than I’ve ever done before in terms of this medieval time period, and the tone is beyond anything I have ever read before. I don’t even know if I quite understand it yet, but it’s at times very slapstick and very dramatic and interesting and weird. I play two characters, and it was fun. It was really fun and crazy,” Madison told ScreenRant.

Madison plays twin sisters in a story that sees a mad prince take in the noble class into his castle while a plague devastates the peasantry. The long-lost twin, hidden among the lower class, enters the castle and into a decadent world of orgies, opium, power schemes, revenge, and decapitations. Her comments confirm that it will, indeed, be a medieval period piece.

Léa Seydoux (Dune: Part Two, Crimes of the Future) also stars as a scheming lady-in-waiting who is conniving her way to the top.

As for the tone the actress refers to, The Masque of the Red Death won’t be as somber and serious as Poe’s story. “It’s definitely more in a dark comedy world,” Polinger previously told Bloody Disgusting. “It has a much more maximalist tone but explores some similar things [as The Plague] on a very basic level, like group dynamics within a claustrophobic space.”

The original Poe short story follows a prince who attempts to avoid a dangerous plague, known as the Red Death, by hiding in his abbey. Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death was originally published in 1842, and the tale was notably brought to the big screen as part of the Corman-Poe Cycle back in 1964. Roger Corman directed the adaptation for American International Pictures, with Vincent Price starring.

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After its North American Premiere at Brooklyn Horror Film Festival on October 21, Split Rock will debut on Shudder on December 25.

Clark Backo (Yaga, The Changeling, Venom: The Last Dance) and Drew Ray Tanner (Netflix’s Riverdale, Boot Camp) lead the cast that also includes Olivia Luccardi (It Follows, The Deuce) and Graham Verchere (The Fall of the House of Usher, Summer of ‘84).

The shot-on-16mm horror movie follows “geologists Lauren (Backo) and Ben (Tanner) as they investigate a strange anomaly discovered deep within the remote badlands. After unearthing an ancient force hidden in the hills, the couple and their team must face a series of ever-intensifying horrors.“

“I am very excited and thankful to be teaming up with Shudder again for the release of Split Rock, my bloodier, and far more ambitious second film,” said director Ryan Glover. “Shudder is home to the most passionate genre audience in the world, and I can’t wait for them to unearth the horrors and tragedies of Split Rock later this year.”

“With Split Rock, Ryan Glover has delivered a meticulously crafted world of psychological tension and haunting performances from its intimate cast.  We can’t wait to share this unsettling tale with Shudder audiences,” said Emily Gotto, Shudder’s SVP of Acquisitions & Productions.

Brian Robertson of Low End (Cursed Films, V/H/S/Beyond, Darkest Miriam), Jefferson Moneo of Prowler Pictures (Flapjax, Welcome to Kittytown) and Krista Dzialoszynski of Observer Effect (The Strings) are producers. Executive producers are Ryan Glover, Kate Melville, Fabiola Caraza, Patrick Hackett, and Daniel Futa, with Joey Montenarello serving as casting director.

Look for a trailer to arrive soon, ahead of this supernatural horror film’s Christmas release.

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Creator Jesse McKeown injects modern anxieties in to a limited series that harkens back to the simpler aquatic creature features of yesteryear, especially Jaws and 1996’s The Beast. It gives ample time to fall hard for the small Newfoundland town that’s already facing extinction before the arrival of a mysterious oceanic beast.

Set in a remote fishing town, Snooks Arm, the series takes place during “Come Home Year,” a Newfoundland tradition that welcomes those who moved away to reconnect with their family and friends for larger-scale reunions and festivities. It’s a perfect backdrop to allow lead protagonist Calvin Penney (Josh Hartnett) to reconnect with his children but with the bonus of a larger pool of potential fodder for the aquatic monster lurking in the very waters that provide the town’s livelihood.

But Calvin is a bit preoccupied struggling to make ends meet; not only is the relocation initiative that resulted in his father’s death in 1986 still an ongoing issue due to dwindling resources, but his ice-fishing business hardships are compounded by the arrival of a massive iceberg filled with contaminants in the harbor. He brings it to local scientist Fonda Howander (Mackenzie Davis) for answers, putting them both on the front lines of a battle against an ancient creature from below, one that’s been there before.

In Jaws-like fashion, Below bides its time, revealing its ultimate threat, building mystery as characters find initial traces of foul play that slowly escalate to the discovery of mutilated bodies, or pieces of them at least. Reported disappearances give way to severed limbs, pieces of blooded scalp, and partially digested moose that stumps the locals. This steady build allows for ample time to get acclimated to Snooks Arm’s many endearing quirks and traditions, while establishing the friction-filled dynamics of the Penney clan. 

Calvin’s close sister Ruth (Willow Kean) acts as the group’s true adult, while his daughter Mary (Ruby Stokes) brings her boyfriend home for the first time to meet dad. Prized son Jay (Rohan Campbell, Silent Night, Deadly Night) uses his gregarious personality to hide his vices and debts, while the son who remained behind with dad, Wade (Charlie Heaton, Stranger Things), struggles to measure up to his dad’s eyes. While the family drama itself is paper thin, it works; there’s a lived-in quality to the Penney family and their bickering that feels authentic and relatable.

It’s also what adds hefty emotional stakes when the slow build of early tension-building, dread, and scares gives way to take-charge action as characters attempt to go on the offense. Snooks Arm is so effectively cut off from the rest of the world that it creates a claustrophobic atmosphere, trapping the residents in place without many options. McKeon keeps viewers on their toes with piecemeal revelations about the beast, and unexpected byproducts of its presence; like the way the contaminated ice disrupts a small town accustomed to plucking ice from the water for everyday use.

This is where McKeown and crew inject the most variety with the horror, yielding a few surprises along the way. It’s also here where Below diverts from its parallel path with The Beast, turning its thoughts instead toward prevalent worries over the ocean’s increasing (and increasingly worrisome) warming waters. It builds to a suitable and climactic conclusion, though one that’s all but abandoned its horror waters by the final episodes.

The brief 6-episode format means lean efficiency that keeps you hooked, but it also means certain peripheral story elements and plot developments are more perfunctory than satisfying.

It’s a minor complaint as it ultimately amounts to simply wanting to spend more time with this hardy bunch. In truth, the creature feature elements are rather straightforward and familiar, though affecting and effective all the same. It’s the richly complex town and its characters that paint a sobering picture of rural communities devastated by the powerful and rich that anchors an entertaining aquatic horror series, one as full of vibrant personality as resilience. It’s also gorgeously shot by cinematographer William Baldy, making it even clearer why this picturesque Newfoundland town is worth wading into the treacherous sea to fight for.

Even better is that McKeon never gets too dour with its eco-messaging; Below isn’t afraid to poke fun at itself either or get playful with its editing and humor. There is a final hook that leaves the door ajar enough for continuation, but as it stands, this cozy, self-contained series is close to perfect as is, an entertaining, compelling, and genre-bending new entry in the realm of aquatic horror thrillers.

Below premieres globally on Netflix today, October 8.

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The six-episode series opens a new corner in the Talk to Me universe, which also includes the bleak Bring Her Back, bringing the hand and its deadly rituals to entirely new characters, a new setting, and an immersive format. I Let You In is currently in post-production after wrapping filming in Spain earlier this year.

It follows “a group of young travelers chasing the ultimate party in Ibiza as they become hooked on the thrill of conjuring spirits —a supernatural high deadlier than any drug.“

Aubri Ibrag (The Buccaneers), Charlotte Maggi (Rebel Moon), Sofia Hublitz (Ozark), Julio Peña (Berlin), Raff Law (Masters of the Air) and Charlie Hiscock (Ted Lasso) star as the doomed travelers who toy with the wrong party game.

All six episodes are directed by Craig William Macneill (Them, The Terror) and written by Trent Atherton (The Wheel) based on a pitch from Brandl and Atherton. 

The immersive 3D I Let You In series was commissioned by Meta and produced by XRTV and created for Meta Quest headsets and the newly unveiled Meta VR Glasses. Talk to Me creators Danny & Michael Philippou executive produce for Blue Bear alongside showrunner Darren Brandl and Jack Davis for XRTV, Samantha Jennings and Kristina Ceyton for Causeway Films (Talk to Me, The Babadook), and Andreas Michael Wentz and Juan Antonio Cano Trujillo for Sur Film. Jeff Rich is producing for Meta.

Brandl said, “Talk to Me is the perfect immersive IP because it’s about young adults who seek the Hand to experience the euphoria of possession but end up tormented by breaking through to the spirit world. It made possession fun, and the scares unforgettable. Maybe we’re crazy, but we’re betting you’re going to want to feel possessed too, and with Meta’s new technology, we think for the first time you’ll believe it!”

Released in 2022, Talk to Me follows a group of friends who discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, and became a smash hit in theaters following its breakout reception at Sundance. The Philippou brothers are currently developing a direct sequel.

Check out the first official poster from the upcoming series.

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The genre-bending holiday film releases in theaters on October 30, 2026.

Everything seems standard for a feel-good holiday movie in the trailer below, but there’s something off with the neighbors. Soon enough, violence enters the equation, then death, followed by a holiday-themed leather daddy. 

Ron Livingston (The Conjuring, Office Space) leads as a man over Christmas who finds himself teaming with Santa (Rob Riggle) to survive it.

Expect a wild ride ahead as Willy’s Wonderland and Pig Hill director Kevin Lewis helms from a script by Zack Imbrogno (Slayers, Fear, Inc.).

Christmas at the Kringles follows “the Seversons, a family starting fresh in a quiet suburban neighborhood, whose next-door neighbors, the Kringles, celebrate Christmas year-round. What begins as charming quickly turns unsettling, as Mark and Julie grow concerned about their son’s growing attachment to the family.

“After a heated confrontation, Mark heads next door to bring his family home, only to uncover the Kringles’ true intentions: to hypnotize and indoctrinate them. What follows is a life-or-death rescue mission, as Mark teams up with a rogue, badass Santa in a high-stakes, action-packed fight to save his family.”

Rachel Bilson, Arden Myrin, Beverly D’Angelo (Violent Night), and David Wain, with Thomas Lennon and Donald Faison also star.

Willy’s Wonderland and Pig Hill director Kevin Lewis helms from a script by Zack Imbrogno (Slayers, Fear, Inc.).

Lewis previews, “I have been looking to do another zany and bonkers genre film in the vein of ‘Willy’s Wonderland‘ and I found it in Zack Imbrogno’s unique and original screenplay. I feel so fortunate to be surrounded by such a talented cast and crew to bring this crazy train of a movie to life.”

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“We are making a true horror film,” producer James Gunn says in the featurette below.

Clayface is Rated ‘R’ for “strong bloody violence, gore, language, some nudity and brief drug use.” The upcoming film brings horror to the DC Universe in theaters on October 23.

It unravels one man’s horrifying descent from rising Hollywood star to revenge-filled monster in a story that explores the loss of one’s identity and humanity, corrosive love, and the dark underbelly of scientific ambition.

Here’s the new official synopsis: “Matt Hagen’s meteoric rise from Gotham street kid to Hollywood leading man is tragically cut short when a local crime boss’s actions leave him horribly disfigured. Abandoned by his team and with nothing left, Matt seeks out a cutting edge treatment that miraculously returns him to his former self… but also unexpectedly affects his grip on reality, spiraling him down a destructive path of all-consuming revenge.”

Tom Rhys Harries stars in the title role of the fan favorite Batman villain.

 Naomi Ackie, David Dencik, Max Minghella and Eddie Marsan, as well as Nancy Carroll and Joshua James, also star.

James Watkins (The Woman in Black, Speak No Evil) directs from a script by Mike Flanagan (“Carrie”, The Exorcist: Martyrs) and Hossein Amini (Drive).

Look for cast and crew to weigh in on the horror elements, along with a new theatrical poster, and AMC Theatres’ Clayface consession collectibles below.

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The psychological horror movie is written by Peter Birro, Variety reports, and charts a nightmarish descent that sees “a screenwriter in a creative crisis visits Ingmar Bergman’s estate on Fårö, seeking inspiration for a film about the legendary director’s life. Twenty years ago, he spent some time on Fårö as Bergman’s guest, and he’s convinced that going back to the island, remembering their many personal and sometimes disturbing conversations, will help him write the screenplay.

“He soon discovers that there is a demonic presence on the island that seems determined to prevent him from finishing the screenplay.“

Ardalan Esmaili (The Charmer) stars as the troubled screenwriter, David, who struggles with both his and Bergman’s demons, and Claes Ljungmark (Borg McEnroe) will portray Bergman.

Production is underway on the Swedish island of Fårö, in and around Bergman’s estate; the production team has been granted access by the Bergman Estate on Fårö Foundation.

Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, for the uninitiated, is considered one of the all-time greats. He’s also considered a godfather of horror, and an early pioneer of psychological horror and folk horror due to his emphasis on existential dread and the terror of an unraveling self/indentity. His highly influential films like Hour of the Wolf and The Virgin Spring have left an indelible mark on not just the genre, but emerging horror masters like Wes Craven, who drew from The Virgin Spring for his debut, The Last House on the Left.

The surreal style of and folkloric elements Hour of the Wolf, the closest in Bergman’s ouvre to straight horror, also shaped modern horror. David Cronenberg cited the film as an influence on his body horror classic, The Fly. Hour of the Wold is also considered part of the “Fårö trilogy” alongside Shame and The Passion of Anna. It’s certainly Bergman’s most disturbing.

Skarsgård said, “There is no way to approach Bergman, but from deep within the gigantic cinematic shadow the titan casts. Just like the main character David tries to break free from his demonic magnetism, so too the movie itself will attempt to break free in a playful way, by using his own artistic tools.”

Birro said, “When I was a young screenwriter, I got to meet Ingmar Bergman on his desolate island of Fårö. He told me about his demons and showed me where he kept them: locked away in the freezer. For 30 years, I’ve been longing to open that freezer door and let the demons out. Now the time has come.”

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