Bloody Tennis makes its debut on Shudder on September 25.

Watch the full trailer below that sees students engaging in Raw-like initiation rituals that grow increasingly more deranged. There are far more leeches than expected at a sports academy.

The film follows “Sophie (Guldberg Kampp), an American tennis player who earns a spot at an elite academy hidden away in Southern Europe. Beneath the pristine courts and promise of athletic excellence lies an isolated, cult-like environment where ruthless competition and extreme discipline come at a dangerous cost. The film uses the contrast between tennis’s elegance and brutality to explore the darker side of achievement culture and what happens when the pressure to succeed pushes young athletes beyond their limits.“

The cast also includes Helena Zengel (The Legend of Ochi), Lucie Zhang (Paris, 13th District), Lily Taieb (The French Dispatch), Tracy Gotoas, Elina Löwensohn (Schindler’s List), and Zlatko Burić (Triangle of Sadness), with an original score from Jim Williams (Titane, Raw, Possessor).

Bloody Tennis marks the English-language debut of Greek-German filmmaker Nikias Chryssos (Der Bunker).

Adam Koehler, director, acquisitions and productions at IFC Entertainment Group, said, “Bloody Tennis serves up an unexpectedly wild ride that will keep viewers exhilarated from start to finish. Distinctive, elegant, and gleefully offbeat, it’s exactly the kind of bold, boundary-pushing horror we strive to champion at Shudder. We’re thrilled to give this unforgettable film a home on our platform.”

Bloody Tennis is also slated to premiere at Fantastic Fest ahead of its release on Shudder next month.

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Bloody Disgusting has been provided with exclusive images from the new restoration, teasing one of the genre’s most shocking and underseen films.

In the film, “Teen runaway Simone loves the Neue Deutsche Welle pop singer known only as “R” (Bodo Staiger)… loves him so much, in fact, that she could just about eat him alive. And when she finally meets her idol—only to be callously treated by him as a disposable sex object—well, Simone gets the chance to really become one with her beloved forever. ”

The Metrograph describes the film as, “A hard, cool-to-the-touch, and utterly riveting slow-burn psychological thriller that, newly restored for its first ever US theatrical release, speaks to our age of parasocial obsession, featuring a sinister synth-pop soundtrack by Staiger’s own band, Rheingold, and a last act that’s finger-lickin’ good.“

Der Fan, written and directed by Eckhart Schmidt, stars Désirée Nosbusch as Simone and Bodo Staiger as “R”, the object of Simone’s desire.

Staiger, as frontman for new wave group Rheingold, also provided the film’s score.

Fun City Editions has restored Der Fan in 4K from its original 35mm camera negative. The film is presented with its original stereo soundtrack for the first time since its initial German theatrical release in 1982.

Without giving anything away, it’s the shocking third act that sets Der Fan apart and earned its cult status. Much like Takashi Miike’s Audition, it’s an unassuming feature that hides its visceral horror side until a jaw-dropping finale.

The film is also not without controversy, due to Nosbusch’s age at the time of filming, further catapulting Der Fan into cult shocker territory.

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The footage provides a look an early-game park setup, highlighting gameplay from both the daytime and nighttime stages of the core gameplay loop. Highlighting many of the key features of the game, including stealth movement/attacks, park attractions, guest harvesting, resource gathering, park building, trap placement, combat, equipment, family management, and upgrade selection.

For those who missed the announcement earlier this year, My Cannibal Family casts you as having been left for dead after being stuffed into a drum of glowing goo, only to emerge a mutated monster with an insatiable new appetite. What better excuse than to build a twisted theme park to lure visitors to a gruesome death? Gather resources and construct attractions, then use traps and stealth to harvest guests within a deadly sandbox of their own.

Playing solo or with friends in online co-op multiplayer for up to four players – or via split-screen multiplayer for two players – My Cannibal Family provides a modular building system for players to construct the horror theme park of nightmares. The game will include six unlockable parks, over 20 attractions, and plenty of slasher favourites when it comes to weapons, tools and equipment.

Creative building tools allow for the development of a truly unique horror theme park filled with attractions, decorations and deadly traps. Watch the park grow from a simple wooden shack into a sprawling labyrinth of entertainment and gore.

Your hideous mutant faces terrify visitors, so attractions, signage and devious structures become key to leading guests into the shadows. Work behind the curtain, wait for the perfect moment, then strike! Eliminate guests using a range of tools, weapons and traps, then bag up the meat for later use. If spotted, victims may fight back or flee, so don’t let them escape. Stored bodies can feed a growing brood of mutants, while also unlocking new traps, tools and weapons… or even gestating new family members.

My Cannibal Family is coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and PC via Steam next year. Those attending Gamescom this year can hit up the Raw Fury booth from August 26th to August 30th at aisle B-21 in Hall 10.1 to check out the demo.

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Family releases in limited theaters and will be available to rent on most major streaming platforms on September 25, 2026.

In the film, “A 10-year-old girl begins to believe her parents are trying to kill her. Convinced a sinister spirit is to blame, she spirals into a haunting fantasy world that mirrors her deepest fears.”

Cameron Dawson Gray stars as the young girl, Johanna, opposite Ruth Wilson (Victorian Psycho) and Ben Chaplin (Mrs. Davis, Murder By Numbers) as her parents.

It’s a horror story from the child’s perspective as she struggles to navigate her own anxieties and fears over her father’s illness. Finkel drew from personal experience; he began writing this story at 14 after losing his father to cancer.

While that means Family centers on one of horror’s favorite themes, grief, Finkel demonstrates a keen eye for scarecrafting right out of the gate.

Family is scary!

That’s apparent in the trailer and new images below, which delivers plenty of nightmare fuel, especially concerning a terrifying Ruth Wilson.

Family unnerved audiences at its SXSW premiere in 2024. I wrote in my festival review, “What Finkel does remarkably well, though, is crafting visceral scares and bone-chilling imagery with an oppressive, claustrophobic atmosphere. The sound design is skin-crawling and creepy, ensuring every creak and moan the house makes puts you on edge, and that’s before the inhuman whispers and clicks signaling an otherworldly presence.

“Above all, Finkel mines the uncanny valley for maximum terror, tweaking and stretching familiar silhouettes and frames to viscerally disturbing effect.”

That’s certainly reflected in the trailer.

If you’re seeking a good scare this Halloween season, put Family on your watchlists now.

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Deathwoods begins streaming exclusively on Screambox on September 1.

Decades after a gruesome murder-suicide involving the Wallace family gave rise to disturbing local legends, the forest remains haunted by stories of a grotesque figure lurking deep within the trees. In the present day, Scott’s friends Kyle and Jessica plan a weekend camping trip to help him recover from a painful breakup by introducing him to Jessica’s friend Michelle.

What begins as an attempt to reconnect and escape everyday life soon spirals into terror as the group realizes the legend haunting the woods may be real. As paranoia, isolation, and violence escalate, the friends are forced into a desperate struggle to survive the horrors hidden within Deathwoods.

Jake Kopronica and Deryk Wehrley co-direct from a script Kopronica co-wrote with Deathwoods‘ creator Scott Conner.

Starring in the upcoming horror movie are Anthony Dain, KateLynn E. Newberry, MacKenzie Lee, Kellan Jackson, with Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp, Terrifier 2) and introducing Miles Dimitri Baker.

Check out the retro-style poster and trailer below, which brings ’80s slashers like Madman to mind.

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The four-month celebration takes horror fans from spooky season through the holidays, filling your watchlists with great horror in the process.

Shudder’s Season of Screams features highly anticipated premieres every Friday through the end of the year, including Parasomnia, a new installment in the popular V/H/S franchise, V/H/S/Mixtape, the found footage breakout hit Infirmary, body horror thriller Bloody Tennis, supernatural nightmare The Cycle, Milly Shapiro-led Hallowarrior, a new season of The Creep Tapes, the 2026 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards, and a new Halloween special, Joe Bob’s Halloween House Party.

These titles and more join Shudder’s extensive library

That also means an all-new Ghoul Log special, the annual twist on the traditional holiday yule log.

We’ve got an exclusive first look at the all-new Ghoul Log, too, created by the filmmakers behind Shudder’s buzzy new feature Hallowarrior. They didn’t just resurrect everyone’s favorite jack-o-lantern; they’re giving multiple pumpkins the spooky spotlight.

That’s right, Shudder’s Ghoul Log is now plural for the first time ever.

The new hour-long Curse of the Ghoul Logs sets the scene for horror fans beginning October 1.

Programming highlights below in chronological order (also available on AMC+):

Parasomnia (Shudder Original Film)  – September 4
Riley (Jasmine Mathews, The Tomorrow War, Sweetbitter) is a young woman tormented by night terrors and a past of unresolved tragedy. When her best friend is the latest to go missing, she begins to suspect a demonic figure lurking in her sleep has crossed over into the real world.

Mārama (Shudder Exclusive Film) – September 11
Rated 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, Mārama is centered on a young Māori woman who discovers her horrific colonial heritage after travelling to Victorian England in 1859. She soon becomes compelled to confront and destroy the titled Englishman who devastated her family.

The Creep Tapes Season 3 (Shudder Original Series)  – Two-Episode Season Premiere on September 15
From writers and executive producers Mark Duplass (Backrooms, The Morning Show) and Patrick Brice (Creep), season three continues to expose a collection of video tapes from the secret vault of the world’s deadliest and most socially uncomfortable serial killer (Duplass). Unfortunately, as the tape rolls, the killer’s questionable intentions surface with his increasingly odd behavior and the victims will learn they may have made a deadly mistake.   Guest stars including Kate Siegel (Carrie), Nic Hamilton (IT), Elliott Fullam (Terrifier 2, Terrifier 3) and Duplass’ daughter, Ora Duplass (Coven Academy), who will star in a throwback episode.

Goody Goody (Shudder Original Film) – September 18
Lulled into a necessary sense of comfort during a long home birth process, expecting parents and their midwife begin to realize something may be horribly wrong. A blizzard rages outside, trapping the family in their home as increasingly sinister complications arise. Colleen Foy, Samantha Robinson, and Zoe Renee star in writer-director Raymond Creamer‘s film.

Bloody Tennis (Shudder Original Film) – September 25
Centered in the world of elite sports to disturbing new extremes. After being admitted to an elite tennis academy hidden deep in Southern Europe, Sophie (Sandra Guldberg Kampp) must contend not only with the fierce brutality of her teammates, but with the school’s increasingly sinister undercurrents, where competitive sports are taken to their painful limits and only the hungriest survive.

Infirmary (Shudder Original Film) – October 2
A guard vanished on his first night at an old psych hospital in 2023. His bodycam footage shows unexplainable incidents that continue to baffle investigators. Starring Paul Syre, Mark Anthony Williams and Danielle Kennedy.

V/H/S/Mixtape (Shudder Original Film) – October 9
The ninth installment cranks the signature found-footage horror up to eleven with an electrifying new anthology where music and sound become the source of terror. United by a theme that explores the power of music, rhythm, and audio to haunt, possess and destroy, the film blends cosmic horror, psychological suspense, outrageous splatter and groundbreaking practical effects into one unforgettable mixtape of nightmares. Featuring all-new segments from legendary filmmaker Ernest Dickerson, hip-hop icon RZA, visionary director David Moreau and acclaimed filmmaker Renee Zhan, whose segment includes original puppets by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. V/H/S/MIXTAPE also features original music video interludes directed by acclaimed filmmaker and musician Flying Lotus, alongside a brand-new music video from debut filmmaker Tobias Forge, creating a genre-bending mixtape experience unlike anything the franchise has attempted before. Adding to the chaos, legendary shock-metal pioneers GWAR also make a featured appearance, further cementing the film’s celebration of horror, music and cult cinema.

Hallowarrior (Shudder Original Film) – October 16
Hallowarrior follows Pumpkin (Milly Shapiro, Hereditary), the last girl on earth and sole survivor of a humanity-ending plague, scavenging the wasteland for supplies on the eve of Halloween. Pumpkin’s lonely holiday ritual is interrupted by the arrival of a savage gang of raiders at her doorstep led by Thalia (Shannyn Sossamon, Wayward Pines). Outnumbered and armed with candy, wit and weapons, Pumpkin must ferociously fight back to survive the night.

The Cycle (Shudder Original Film) – October 23
When police discover a corpse beside a horrific crime scene, their only lead is the man’s estranged daughter (Deborah Ann Woll, Daredevil: Born Again, Escape Room, True Blood), who must unravel the disturbing secret her father thought he took to the grave. Also starring Jeffrey Donovan (Burn Notice).

Joe Bob’s Halloween House Party (Shudder Original Special) – LIVE on October 23; On Demand on October 25
Slap the finishing touches on your costume a week early, because you’re cordially invited to Joe Bob’s Halloween House Party!  RSVP for a Samhain soiree to remember with Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl as they host a seasonal double-feature chock-full of tricks, treats, and violent dismemberment.

FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards (Shudder Original Special) – October 25 LIVE at 9pm ET
Annual awards ceremony honoring the best in on horror films of the year. Hosted by Devon Sawa (Final Destination, Chucky).

Big Baby (Shudder Exclusive Film) – October 30
Nightmares of a maniac killer in a baby mask inspire a horror writer’s new script. As his life begins to spiral out of control, he discovers Big Baby’s murderous rampage may be more than just fiction. Directed by Spider One (Shudder films Little Bites, Allegoria) and executive produced by iconic singer and actress Cher.

Hunting Matthew Nichols (Shudder Exclusive Film) – October 31
Two decades after her brother mysteriously disappeared on Vancouver Island, a documentary filmmaker sets out to solve his missing person’s case. When disturbing circumstances evidence is revealed, she comes to believe he might still be alive. Starring Miranda MacDougall and Markian Tarasiuk.

The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula Season 7 (Shudder Original Series) – Fall 2026
Hosted by modern-day horror icons and drag superstars Dracmorda and Swanthula Boulet, season seven of the hit reality competion series The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula will bring together extreme drag artists from around the world to compete in jaw-dropping challenges including costume design and creation, makeup and special effects, live performance and craftsmanship.

Season of Screams Highlights include: 

• LIVE Watch Parties Every Friday at 9pm ET on Shudder TV spotlighting new premieres and curated double features, including:
  • Friday, September 4: “Can You Survive Your Sleep?” Watch Party – Parasomnia and Somnium
  • Friday, September 11: “Indigenous Horror” Watch Party – Mārama and La Llorona
  • Friday, September 18: “Chamber Piece Terrors” Watch Party – Goody Goody and Glorious
  • Friday, September 25: “Whatever It Takes To Succeed” Watch Party – Bloody Tennis and The Ugly Stepsister
  • Friday, October 2: “Found Footage Frights” Watch Party – Infirmary and Host
  • Friday, October 9: “V/H/S/Marathon” Watch Party – V/H/S/Mixtape, V/H/S/Halloween, V/H/S/Beyond, V/H/S/85, V/H/S/99 and V/H/S/94
  • Friday, October 16: “Surviving Halloween” Watch Party” – Hallowarrior and Night of the Demons
  • Friday, October 23: “Joe Bob’s Halloween House Party” Watch Party (Titles TBA)
  • Sunday, October 25: “2026 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards” Watch Party; followed by “Full Moon Fever” Watch Party at 10:30pm in celebration of the Hunter’s Moon – The Cycle, Dog Soldiers and Werewolves Within
  • Friday, October 30: “Maniacs in Masks” Watch Party – Big Baby and Night of the Reaper
  • Saturday, October 31: “Trick or Treat” Watch Party– Halloween (1978), Late Night with the Devil and Deadstream
  • Sunday, November 1: “DÍa de los Muertos” Watch Party” – Huesera: The Bone Woman and La Llorona

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Our exclusive clip highlights what makes these zombies different from his previous works.

Colony bites into theaters on August 28, 2026.

The South Korean horror movie follows Professor Se-jeong as she is thrust into a terrifying hellscape when a mutating virus is unleashed during a biotech conference, forcing authorities to seal the facility to contain the outbreak. Se-jeong and a group of survivors must fight to stay alive as the infected undergo horrific transformations and threaten to spread the virus.

The clip below sees humans trapped within department stores, surrounded by the infected. Survival quickly becomes more precarious as the virus mutates, triggering a more dangerous evolution.

Colony marks Gianna Jun’s (Blood: The Last Vampire, “My Sassy Girl”) first feature film since 2015’s Assassination. She stars alongside Koo Kyo-hwan (Peninsula, Escape from Mogadishu). 

Ji Chang-wook (“Healer”) and Shin Hyun-been (“Hospital Playlist”) also star.

The viral outbreak horror movie is rated ‘R’ for “bloody violent content and some language.”

“I made Colony with the hope that, amid this horror, the audience might finish the film with the question, ‘What is it that makes humans human?’ lingering in a corner of their mind,” Yeon Sang-ho said in his director’s statement.

Check out the clip below and get ready for a gorier, goo-covered zombie horde.

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Tickets are on sale now for the Kansas City premiere of Don’t Move at the Midland Theater on September 8 and the Los Angeles premiere at the TCL Chinese Theater on September 9, ahead of Don’t Move‘s theatrical release on September 11.

The upcoming creature feature adapts the 2020 novel of the same name from co-authors Murray and Darren Wearmouth. 

In Don’t Move, a church group’s annual retreat turns deadly when they wander into the wrong part of the Ozark wilderness, and something starts picking them off one by one.

Suspicion falls on Ricky, the troublemaker of the group. But the real threat is far worse. Deep in the forest, wrapped in a labyrinth of webs, the group is pursued by a terrifying prehistoric arachnid that hunts by vibration. When every step could be their last, they only have one choice: Don’t Move.

It’s up to Megan to hold what’s left of the group together and get them out alive.

Lyndsy Fonseca (Kick-Ass), Russell “Russ” Vitale, and Tom Cavanagh (The Flash) star alongside Hunter King (Life in Pieces), Rob Riggle (The Hangover), and Joseph Lee Anderson (Young Rock). Expect plenty of cameos including T-Pain, Matt Biedel, and “Impractical Jokers” members James Murray and Brian Quinn.

Maclain Nelson (Vamp U) directed from the script he co-wrote with Murray and Wearmouth. 

The creature feature is the first under Murray’s new banner, Impractical Studios, designed to bring his authored works and love of horror to mainstream audiences. Don’t Move is produced by Murray, David M. Wulf (The Card Counter, Call Jane), and Ethan Berman.

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Victorian Psycho is now set to release in theaters on lucky Friday, November 13, moving from its initial September 25 date.

It’s a much more fitting slot for this psychological thriller, in which meals, dining, and holidays play a prominent role.

Maika Monroe stars as eccentric governess Winifred Notty, who arrives at a remote gothic manor where strange happenings stir suspicion that she’s not what she seems.

Thomasin McKenzie (Last Night in Soho), Jason Isaacs (Honey Bunch), Ruth Wilson, Amy De Bruhn, and “Hamnet” breakout Jacobi Jupe also star.

Zachary Wigon (Sanctuary) directed the film from a script by author Virginia Feito (Mrs. March), based on her novel of the same name. Victorian Psycho is produced by Dan Kagan (Longlegs) and Sebastien Raybaud (Greenland: Migration).

Wigon previously said of his lead, “Maika’s intense screen presence has resonated with me over and over again throughout her history of complex performances. I’m absolutely thrilled for her to bring her unique style of psychological portraiture to the fascinatingly bizarre Winifred Notty.”

Monroe turns in another unforgettable performance, this time as an unhinged psychopath unleashed upon a stuffy society. I wrote in my review for Bloody Disgusting, “Carnage becomes pretty dang delightful in Maika Monroe’s capable hands. Victorian Psycho operates on familiar slay grounds, but it’s an absolute blast thanks to its zany style and deranged sense of fun.”

Victorian Psycho is rated ‘R’ for “strong bloody violence and brief sexual material.”

Get ready to feast on Winifred Notty’s trail of destruction this November; catch up on the trailer here.

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The upcoming horror movie written and directed by James Ross II makes its debut on Shudder on September 4.

Parasomnia follows “Riley, a young woman tormented by night terrors and a past of unresolved tragedy. When her best friend is the latest to go missing, she begins to suspect the demonic figure lurking in her sleep has crossed over into the real world.”

Jasmine Mathews, RJ Brown, Sally Stewart, Stephen Barrington, Danny Brown, and Simon Longnight star.

If the film’s tagline, “Don’t Fall Asleep,” wasn’t already an indicator, Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street inspired the James Ross II for his feature debut. Shudder acquired the film ahead of its premiere earlier this year at the Overlook Film Festival.

The filmmaker said in a statement, “Parasomnia contains the DNA of many genre pieces influential to my development as a filmmaker. One thing I’ve wanted to explore involved drawing attention to some of life’s more mundane and involuntary aspects and making them scary, like sleeping.  When Wes Craven made A Nightmare on Elm Street, he brought forth an untapped goldmine of fear that resonates decades later due to the foundation of its scares being built on universal human experience – nightmares.  I’d like to bring a fresh perspective on the frightening aspects of sleep and take the audience on an immersive experience that will stay in their mind long after the credits roll.”

Don’t expect a retread, though, but the introduction to a new voice in horror as Parasomnia explores the terror of surrendering control to sleep.

The trailer below certainly packs in the nightmare fuel.

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The 25th anniversary screening is FREE with Mass Mini Con admission and features a Q&A with writer/director Brad Anderson and writer/actor Stephen Gevedon, presented by Mass Mini Con and Contra Celluloid.

Mass Mini Con, a 2-day event celebrating the best in pop culture art, collectibles and physical media, commences September 12-13 this year at the Yawkey Theater, located at 1 Guest Street, Boston, MA.

That’s not terribly far from where Session 9 was filmed.

Anderson said in a statement, “I’m thrilled to be screening Session 9 in my old stomping ground, Boston. My career as a filmmaker started there back in the ’90s, where I worked concessions at the Brattle Theater, was an editing assistant at WGBH, and eventually made my first film, Next Stop Wonderland, a romantic comedy. Session 9 was a u-turn for me to a ‘darker‘ place. My old college friend Steve Gevedon and I, frustrated by mainstream horror,  wanted to tell a story that was genuinely chilling and unsettling.“

“We think Session 9 still resonates today because the place we filmed it was REAL – Danvers State Mental Hospital, North of Boston,” he continues. “The sinister stories that inspired the film came from actual ones we heard about Danvers. The crew and cast (of which Steve was one)  were genuinely spooked by the place, and we think that may have left its mark too. Danvers Mental Hospital was torn down years ago, but some spirits just won’t let you go. Session 9, a story of ghosts and possession, and a dark testament to a world forgotten by time, still lives up to its tagline: ‘Fear is a Place‘.” 

That tagline is front and center of a stunning new limited edition 19×24 screen printed poster by artist Daniel Danger that will be available at the event as well, further making this a “can’t miss” event for fans.

The 2001 gem follows a hazardous materials crew hired to clear out an abandoned mental asylum with a dark history. The job seems simple, but as they begin their work, strange discoveries and buried secrets begin to surface. The asylum’s walls whisper with the echoes of the past, and the crew members start to unravel—one by one.

As tensions rise and paranoia takes hold, the question remains: Is the horror inside the asylum a product of their own minds, or is something far more sinister at play?

Get a peek at the limited edition print for Session 9 below and follow @MassMiniCon on Instagram for additional information and updates.

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You’ll be able to purchase the film Digitally in 4K and also on 4K UHD Blu-ray disc.

Featuring an all-star cast led by Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt and directed by Academy Award winner Neil Jordan (The Crying Game), the newly remastered film will also include new bonus content featuring filmmakers reflecting on the making of the film over 30 years later.

Based on the blockbuster novel of the same name by Anne Rice, the film features an all-star ensemble cast, including Academy Award nominees Antonio Banderas, Stephen Rea, and Kirstin Dunst along with Christian Slater. The film was nominated for Best Original Score and Best Art Direction at the 67th Academy Awards.

Bloody Disgusting is exclusively revealing the brand new physical media artwork down below, along with a sneak peek at a brand new featurette titled “Eternal Night and Deadly Light.”

In the featurette you’ll be able to watch in full on September 22, director Neil Jordan and editor Mick Audsley reveal the approach to the cinematography of Interview with the Vampire with a focus on the gothic romanticism achieved by director of photography Philippe Rousselot.

Bonus Features for the Digital and Physical release include DELETED SCENES that we have NEVER SEEN BEFORE. The full package of Special Features also includes…

· Eternal Night and Deadly Light (New)

Director Neil Jordan and film editor Mick Audsley reveal the approach to the cinematography of Interview with the Vampire with a focus on the gothic romanticism achieved by director of photography Philippe Rousselot.

· Interview with the Vampire: Creating the World (New)

Step inside the darkly beautiful world of Interview with the Vampire with director Neil Jordan and production designer Dante Ferretti as they unveil the art of the detailed sets, the augmented locations and the exquisite costumes of the film.

· Deleted Scenes (New)

· Commentary with director Neil Jordan (Commentary)

· Introduction by Anne Rice, Neil Jordan, and Antonio Banderas

· In the Shadow of the Vampire

· Lestat, Louis and the Vampire Phenomenon

In late 20th-century San Francisco, a 200-year-old vampire tells his story–of desire, love, yearning, grief, terror, ecstasy–to a young reporter, weaving a blood-soaked history of horror.

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The Lionsgate horror movie releases in theaters on October 2 and follows a medical mission that turns into a fight for survival against the colossal ancient snake, Boiúna.

Deep in the Amazon jungle, it’s Boiúna who decides who lives or dies.

The Titanoboa-inspired horror movie dangles a promising premise in a sparse subgenre, but it’s a project that Nelson admits he initially passed on until he developed the idea for Beware Boiúna with frequent collaborator Alan B. McElroy (Wrong Turn), who penned the script after fleshing out the story with Tony Giglio.

“We definitely have a giant snake in this movie, but I don’t want it to be a giant snake movie. I want it to be a great movie with a giant snake in it. That was where we started building from,” Nelson told Bloody FM’s Boo Crew podcast.

That started with the characters.

Kiana Madeira, Jessica Rothe, and Logan Marshall-Green Battle for Survival 

A medical mission goes catastrophically awry deep in the Amazon, prompting a harrowing standoff that awakens an ancient predator. It was important to the filmmaker that audiences get invested in the characters’ plight before unleashing Boiúna. That’s not to say the film is without intensity or action, but more that Nelson wanted to maximize fear.

He explains, “If I’m going to do a creature feature, it’s got to be grounded in something that we care about. Whether it’s the characters, the location, the strife in that part of the world, these things play a huge role in then, we’ll just say it, announcing or presenting you with this brand new, and it’s not even new, it’s an ancient legend, legendary creature, but this kind of new iconic snake. But it needs that. It needs that sort of presentation, that opening, to give what this is. Now you’re going to see these people put in front of this enormous, incredible, incredible monster.”

Going toe-to-toe with Boiúna are a trio of horror stalwarts in the Fear Street trilogy’s Kiana Madeira, Happy Death Day‘s Jessica Rothe, and Upgrade and Prometheus star Logan Marshall-Green. According to Nelson, his leads bring committed ferocity to this sweaty, grimy creature feature.

“Boy, we’ll start with Kiana,” Nelson says. “She was one of the first ones that I talked with. Just seeing her rugged strength. She had this vulnerability, but she’s so good at playing characters also that just don’t give any fucks.”

He also extends praise for Rothe’s performance, too. “Jessica brought a real keen eye, taking Alli to places that I think even later renditions of the script that were pretty close, she massaged those moments with her in the script to really give us a well-rounded version of who Alli is. That, of course, is very important for her and for what her character goes through. You need to be. I mean, honestly, she’s the audience’s eyes and ears.”

Opposite Maderia and Rothe is Marshall-Green as the not-so-nice guy Brennan who runs afoul of the missionaries before nature unleashes hell: “Then you have Logan, of course, who is just, dude, what he brings is the intensity level.”

Boiúna is Rooted in Titanoboa Lore and Research

The true star for horror fans, of course, is the giant predator slithering through the jungle and leaving a trail of death and destruction in its wake. The eponymous creature, Boiúna, was born of research and Titanoboa mythology that Nelson, McElroy, and Giglio built upon for their killer snake. “God, 90% of the Amazon hasn’t even been discovered yet. So there’s so much mystery involved. Within all that mystery, our stories, legends, lore. Not only is there this stuff about spirits in the jungle, strange dolphin men and all this crazy stuff, but there are so many interesting stories about snakes.”

“What we did with Beware Boiúna is we did our research on all these different lores, and we came up with this idea of what another story could be about this lore. So it’s rooted. It’s based on all these stories that are out there. That was super exciting to read and learn about. That’s how we then blended the two to make our own mythology of something that’s real, that scientifically was found. So could it exist today? Almost like a cryptid. Like Bigfoot, it’s something that could exist in that 90% that we haven’t seen. But also rooted in the people who have the stories out there that live in the jungle or near it.”

The mythic predator Boiúna is female, and in her film, she’s the one who decides who lives and who dies. That makes encountering her all the more unpredictable, though likely to end in brutal evisceration.

Again, it all goes back to characters for Nelson: “The scariest things happen when you are with the characters. Not when you are showing big, broad things, not when you are with a monster. When you are right with the character, perched on their shoulders, seeing what they see right up in their face, looking at their eyes, peering through the trees and just seeing that movement that they are seeing at the same time, that’s when shit gets real.”

As for the snake itself, Nelson took design cues from nature itself, wanting to play it straight to avoid one annoying trope: “Even in ginormous blockbuster movies with huge budgets, snakes just always look wrong. There’s just something; we either see too much of them or they’re too anthropomorphized where their eyes are kind of set forward, and they kind of are given human features and the way that they act, and they look angry.”

The Cast and Crew of Beware Boiúna Trekked Deep into the Dangerous Jungle to Film

While Boiúna itself is mostly a VFX creature, Nelson employed plenty of practical tricks, like pulling a giant piece of HVAC through the jungle to emulate weighted movement or using giant printouts of the snake’s head for eye line. There’s also no shortage of practical carnage, either, including a rather gnarly vision of a botfly extraction from flesh.

Moreover, Nelson’s latest was shot in the actual jungle; the actors’ constant sheen of sweat isn’t makeup here.

He explains, “You have to get on a plane, and it’s a two-hour plane ride from Bogotá to Leticia, or you’ve got to get on a boat. That’s, I don’t know, a couple days, a few days, something like that. Getting there and transporting everybody and all the gear and everything down there was a huge logistical thing, but we made it happen. I have to give so much credit to our production team that put that together. The way their minds work, I’m glad that I just got to sit there and nod while they figured that out.”

“Granted, we’re not venturing right in the middle of the Amazon with hundreds of miles around us,” he continues. “We are going to these protected places, these reserves that you go deep in, and you’re going to find stuff. I think I was more scared going in being an outsider and not knowing what that meant. I have a newfound respect for the jungle. Holy buckets. I’m not as scared of it, I think, as I was maybe going in the first time. I think it was because you realize that you’re surrounded by life.

“It’s not that everything’s there to kill you. It’s that so much there could kill you.”

So much so that the production’s MVP was an animal wrangler who scouted for the ever-present danger, “a snake expert who was always 10 steps ahead of us, who was always searching, finding anything venomous, anything poisonous. He found anything that could have been potentially dangerous. He would take those things to his truck, and he would drive them far away, place them back in the jungle, and come back and continue doing his. He kept us alive.”

Discover who Boiúna deems worthy of survival when Beware Boiúna arrives in October. For even more about the film, listen to the full Boo Crew episode below.

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The dark fable makes its debut on Shudder on July 31.

Seidi Haarla (Compartment No. 6) and Rupert Grint (Knock at the Cabin, “Servant”) star as new parents in Nightborn, and this exclusive clip highlights mom’s harrowing transition into motherhood.

In Nightborn, “With dreams of starting a perfect family, Saga and her British husband Jon move to the isolated house where she spent much of her childhood, deep in the Finnish forest. But as soon as their baby is born, despite the reassurance of all around her, Saga knows there’s something terribly wrong with her son. As their marriage starts to crack, Jon struggles to support his wife, but only Saga suspects the terrible truth about her newborn.”

Pamela Tola, Pirkko Saisio, Rebecca Lacey and John Thomson also star.

Bergholm teased of her maternal horror movie, “In Nordic countries, there’s a long-standing mythology of trolls living in the forests. In ancient times, people truly believed that trolls inhabited the woods and had a kind of control over nature. And in Nightborn, the forest reflects Saga’s emotions and the animalistic, primitive physical side of humankind.”

“Hanna Bergholm’s audacious sophomore follow up to Hatching delivers tension and shocking moments surrounding parenthood and self discovery — with a touch of humor,” said Emily Gotto, senior vice president of acquisitions and production at Shudder. “We are thrilled to share Nightborn with audiences.”

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We’re exclusively unveiling the new trailer and key art for the real-time nightmare below, ahead of the film’s release in select theaters and VOD on August 21.

Adam O’Brien (Mom) directs from a script by John Petrizzi and Brad Hodson.

When nurse Julia finds herself trapped inside the home of her dementia patient, she begins to suspect things are not what they seem; something demonic is seeping through the cracks of this old home. Trapped and with nowhere to turn, Julia soon finds herself in battle to rid the house of this evil before it is too late.

Dawn Ford, Emmanuelle Lussier Martinez, Bill Rowat, and Mark Antony Krupa star.

“This film depicts the most harrowing 90 minutes of our protagonist’s life, and I felt that the most visceral way to really feel this was to do a single-shot film,” O’Brien previously teased. “We are with her every step and misstep she takes – through the unraveling of the mystery to the horror of her discovery. It’s a fun, twisty roller-coaster ride that puts a new spin on exorcisms.”

Bury the Devil is the first installment in a planned trilogy. The prequel, Bury the Devil: Origin, is already in development with O’Brien returning to the helm.

O’Brien produces along with Philip Kalin-Hajdu (The Sacrifice Game) and Benoit Beaulieu (Turbo Kid). 

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Evil Dead Burn debuts digitally at home in the U.S. and Canada on August 4!

And then on September 22, Evil Dead Burn will be available to own on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD from online and physical retailers. Evil Dead Burn will also continue to be available in high definition and standard definition from participating digital retailers.

Evil Dead Burn Digital, 4K & Blu-ray releases contain the following Special Features:

• Evil Dead: Blazing the Trail

Director Sébastien Vanicek and his crew explore how Evil Dead Burn honors the franchise’s ever evolving legacy while introducing a daring new vision.

• The Hot Shot: Evil Dead Burn’s One-Shot Sequence

Dive into Evil Dead Burn’s most gripping scene as cast and crew detail the intense focus and synergy required to create the complex one-shot sequence.

• This One’s Gonna Burn

Explore the fire-fueled chaos of Evil Dead Burn by witnessing how the stunts and effects teams brought the film’s physical horror to life.

Watch an exclusive sneak peek at “This One’s Gonna Burn” down below.

After the loss of her husband, a woman seeks solace with her in-laws in their secluded family home. As one by one they are transformed into Deadites—turning the gathering into a family reunion from hell—she comes to discover that the vows she took in life live on… even in death.

Souheila Yacoub, Tandi Wright, Hunter Doohan, Luciane Buchanan, Erroll Shand and Maude Davey star in Evil Dead Burn. The film is directed by Sébastien Vaniček and written by Sébastien Vaniček & Florent Bernard. It’s produced by Rob Tapert and Sam Raimi. Executive producers are Bruce Campbell, Romel Adam, Sarah Spurway, Jose Cañas and Lee Cronin.

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A World War II Fairy Tale, which covers the infamous production of and reception to The Keep, will receive a limited theatrical release in October, followed by a TVOD release on Apple/Amazon. The Keep will also screen as a double feature for some showings.

For Uncovering Wolfen, Antenna eyes a limited theatrical release for 2027. Both films are currently available for booking via Antenna prior to their theatrical and digital releases.

Both documentaries are directed by Stewart Buck, who co-helms with Stéphane Piter on A World War II Fairy Tale.

“We at Antenna are obsessed with film history,” said Chief Acquisitions Officer Billy Ray Brewton. “Stewart has done such a remarkable job of really diving into the deepest recesses of how these films were made and, in doing so, has created the definitive histories of both projects.”

“We’re delighted to be partnering with Antenna Releasing!” said director Buck. “It’s refreshing to see a filmmaker-friendly approach to distribution with people who know what it’s like to be in the trenches with independent projects that struggle to find a home in the crowded marketplace.”

Check out our exclusive trailer and poster reveal of both documentaries below.

Released in 1983, Michael Mann’s The Keep was a notorious box office bomb, critically lambasted and all but forgotten for years, save for the fascination with Tangerine Dream’s iconic score. In recent years, the film has enjoyed a bit of a resurgence and is widely considered a cult classic, though director Michael Mann and many cast members refuse to acknowledge it.

Wolfen, on the other hand, was critical success but was overshadowed heavily by its flashier 1981 siblings An American Werewolf in London and The Howling. It’s also a trailblazer for socio-political horror, and the doc will explore that via the craftspeople who made it.

Look for them both in theaters soon. Stay tuned for more as it arrives.

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Home Bodies makes its World Premiere July 23, at 9:30 PM at Cinéma du Musée in Montreal, with the filmmakers and cast in attendance. 

An eerie new poster created by Justin Erickson of Phantom City Creative heralds the film’s premiere.

In the film, “Red and Blue, twins raised in total isolation by an automated house, live according to the rules set by Papa, a disembodied voice behind a locked door who provides food, shelter, entertainment, and order. Their carefully controlled world is disrupted by the arrival of Pal, an enigmatic humanoid stranger whose presence begins to fracture the only life the twins have ever known.” 

It’s a premise that calls another Canadian creeper to mind and has us intrigued: Pin.

Emma Ho, Ian Ho, and Ess Hödlmoser star.

Home Bodies is directed and produced by Casey Walker, who returns to Fantasia more than a decade after his horror-comedy A Little Bit Zombie screened at the festival in 2012. He’s since gone on to produce a number of defining Canadian genre films like In a Violent Nature, The Void, and Pyewacket.

“I started my career in Montreal and Fantasia has been part of my life ever since,” said Walker. “I couldn’t be more thrilled to return to where it all started and share Home Bodies on such a special anniversary of the festival.“

Karen Harnisch (Infinity Pool, Sleeping Giant) also produces. Executive producers are Todd Brown (The Raid, Mandy) and Chad Archibald (undertone).

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The feature debut of writer/editor/director Brock Bodell, who previously edited the Fantasia title Ultrasound, makes its debut on Shudder on August 14.

In Hellcat, “Lena wakes up in a moving camper trailer with a horrifying wound. She’s warned by the driver that they have one hour to get to a doctor, or she’ll succumb to an unimaginably awful fate. As the pain sets in and reality begins to fray, who should really be afraid?”

Dakota Gorman (Natural Disasters) leads the cast that also includes Todd Terry (“Breaking Bad”), Liz Atwater (The Other People), Jordan Mullins (The Bikeriders), and James Austin Johnson (“Saturday Night Live”) in a voice role. Bodell also produces alongside Andrew Duensing and Nate Eggert.

Hellcat made its world premiere last summer at Fantasia. I wrote in my review, “Hellcat is a bit of a Trojan horror that defies easy classification, by design. Bodell’s sneaky debut feature is occasionally too sparse in its worldbuilding in its bid to preserve the mystery, but not enough to detract from the thrilling road thriller that transforms into a completely left-field type of horror we don’t get nearly enough of. The stripped-down tribute to a classic horror staple catches you off guard in more ways than one, marking Bodell as one to watch.”

In other words, there’s a lot more than meets the eye to Hellcat‘s simple infection setup, delivering plenty of surprises along its bumpy road of horrors.

Check out the trailer and poster below and add Hellcat to your watchlists asap.

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The Curse of the Where Wolf hits shelves on August 7 from Encyclopocalypse Publications.

That coincides with the launch of a theatrical screening event in Houston, Texas, featuring a trio of seminal werewolf flicks turning 45 this year: The Howling on August 7, Wolfen on August 14, and An American Werewolf in London on August 21.

Each screening features a “werewolf in film” presentation as well as a book signing from Where Wolf author and River Oaks Theatre artistic director Rob Saucedo.

In the new graphic novel, “Being a werewolf sucks. Reporter Larry Chaney wanted to be a hero. Instead, he became a werewolf. Now, caught between incredible new powers and a desire to eat everything (and everyone) in sight, Larry must find a cure for his curse. Or die trying.”

“With Where Wolf, I wanted to tell a whodunit set in a furry convention, so the story was pretty contained within a very specific setting and genre. With Curse of the Where Wolf, I wanted to celebrate everything I love about the possibility of comic books. Curse of the Where Wolf is a funny book, in every sense of the phrase, but it’s also an earnest look at a person’s struggle to become a better version of themselves, especially when the alternative is to become a literal monster,” Saucedo says of Curse.

The original graphic novel was previously serialized as the first webcomic hosted on Fangoria before being collected by Encyclopocalypse Publications in 2023 and has already been optioned for film, podcast, and television development ahead of launch by producers James Fino (“The Freak Brothers” for Tubi, “Rick and Morty” for Adult Swim) and Charles Horak (First Date for Magnolia Pictures).

Expect Larry to find himself in even weirder situations in the 362-page full color sequel; Saucedo has provided Bloody Disgusting with exclusive art pages from the upcoming graphic novel that showcase lupine humor.

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The new horror movie will be available virtually nationwide during the Popcorn Frights Film Festival, starting August 7, with festival passes and tickets available now.

Emile Hirsch (The Autopsy of Jane Doe) stars as Dusty, a man who has meticulously engineered his existence into something pristine and untouchable—meditation at dawn, disciplined yoga, punishing boxing routines, strict nutrition, obsessive hygiene. Every detail is calculated. Every impulse contained. Every fear locked out. Until it isn’t.

When Dusty’s carefully constructed system finally fractures, something impossible slips in—Woozy. A horrifying apparition that shouldn’t exist… and yet absolutely does. What begins as control collapses into spectacular chaos as Dusty is forced into a brutal confrontation with the delusions he thought he had mastered. WOOZY becomes a visceral battle between discipline and disorder, sanity and surrender, structure and the terrifying unknown that lives just beneath the surface.

The trailer below teases a psychological descent into a mind’s darkest corners. 

Jackie Cruz, Penelope Mitchell, and Jeff Adler also star.

“Everyone involved with Woozy and I are so stoked to be part of a top-tier festival like Popcorn Frights. We can’t wait to share this film with one of the best horror audiences in the world. Buckle up for a choose-your-own-adventure through trauma, horror, vomit, mimes, cats, demons, and, yeah… sometimes it’s okay to laugh at just how bonkers this journey gets. Emile Hirsch fans, you don’t want to miss this performance. He absolutely delivers. And remember… Some monsters don’t hide under the bed. They live in your head,” Bicicchi said.

For more, catch up with the fest’s first wave of programming here.

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And Erica Slaughter is back…

Something Is Killing the Children #50 launches October 7, 2026 from BOOM! Studios.

In Issue #50, “Witness the return of Erica Slaughter in this momentous milestone issue for the bestselling horror phenomenon!

“Jump back into present-day storyline of Erica Slaughter after the horrifying events of the Tribulation saga!

“Erica, completely distraught from her encounter with Cutter and the death of Gabi, is on the run from the Order. In her escape, she turns to a formative place for her: the Valmont Mountain Lodge.

“But beyond memories of her past, what and who will Erica find there now awaiting her?”

Something Is Killing the Children #50 features art by Werther Dell’Edera, colors by Miguel Muerto, and letters by AndWorld Design. Take a peek inside the pages below.

Blumhouse recently announced plans to adapt James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera’s horror comic book phenomenon Something is Killing the Children into both a feature film and an adult animated series. Now’s the time to jump into this one… 

Something is Killing the Children was first published by BOOM! Studios in 2019 and tells the story of Erica Slaughter, a monster hunter from a mysterious organization more concerned with keeping the secret of monsters from the world than saving their victims.

In this world, only children can see monsters.

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The Cycle will debut exclusively on Shudder on October 23, 2026.

The logline reads, “When the body of a man missing for thirty-six years is discovered at the scene of a horrific crime, it’s up to his estranged daughter to unravel his dark past.“

Also starring in The Cycle is Jeffrey Donovan (“Burn Notice“, Villains).

Jordan Downey wrote the screenplay with Kevin Stewart (The Head Hunter).

“We are so excited about The Cycle; Jordan has crafted such an original story that is gonna excite audiences. For us he has the ability to be the next great genre filmmaker and we can’t wait to make the movie,” said James Harris of production company Tea Shop (Obsession, 47 Meters Down). Peter Heller also produces.

Deborah Ann Woll rose to fame as the feisty vampire Jessica Hamby in HBO’s “True Blood” before becoming a fan favorite as Karen Page in Marvel’s “Daredevil” series. While horror fans recognize her from Escape Room and its sequel, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, the versatile actress has captured gamers’ attention as Laufey, Kratos’ wife in God of War: Ragnarök. She’ll receive her solo spinoff game in the upcoming God of War: Laufey. 

As for Jordan Downey, The Cycle will mark his long-awaited feature follow-up to the underseen gem, The Head Hunter, but the rising filmmaker also has sci-fi thriller Override on the way. 

Stay tuned for more.

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Inexplicably, they say yes.

Our exclusive clip below highlights both the comedic nature of this bizarre scenario as well as the pressures of shooting dino feature The Land That Time Forgot in a mere six days, with no real feature experience. 

A dino attack scene causes friction on set in this scene.

In the documentary, “A struggling filmmaker’s opportunity collides with chaos and compromise when Sharknado’s notorious studio, The Asylum, invites him to direct a ‘mockbuster.’ With six days, a micro budget, and mounting pressure, Mockbuster is a comedic, behind-the-scenes documentary exploring the balance between low-budget filmmaking and creative ambition.”

More than just an inside look at filmmaking via low-budget film studio The Asylum, it doubles as one man’s pursuit of his dreams to charming, humorous effect.

“Mockbuster is a documentary about my own journey, but it’s also a love letter to one of the last grindhouses still functioning in Hollywood. We get to meet the characters and creators of some of the most infamous (and most hated) B-movies of the last few decades. People who make movies purely for profit – no pretension, no artistry, just monsters, C-listers, and chaos. A film that both genre fans and cinephiles can enjoy. But Mockbuster isn’t just about filmmaking, it’s about losing sight of your dreams, and reclaiming them in your own twisted way,” Director Anthony Frith said in a statement.

From Executive Producer and famed documentarian David Farrier, Mockbuster opens in select theaters and on digital platforms beginning July 10.

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Black Box arrives on VOD today, July 7, 2026, via distributor Aura Entertainment.

In the horror movie, “A routine domestic flight turns into the flight from hell through a series of inexplicable‬ phenomena and raw terror. Surreal encounters blur the boundaries between reality and‬ nightmare. Passengers fight against all the odds in an attempt to survive while combating‬ bizarre technological malfunctions, accelerating supernatural events, and alien influences.‬”

The film is based on the short film The Vessel, and an original screenplay from horror writer Stephen Susco (The Grudge, The Grudge 2, Texas Chainsaw 3D, Hell Fest).

Steven Quale (Into the Storm, Final Destination 5) directs.

Tom Brittney, Holly Leena White, Betsy Blue English, Dane Whyte O’Hara, Kaja Chan, Asa Ali, Boadicea Ricketts, Ceallach Spellman, Georgina Leonidas, Molly Belle Wright, Hanneke Talbot, Danny Mack, and Weronika Rosati star in Black Box.

Hammerstone Studios’ Alex Lebovici (Barbarian, Boy Kills World) and Jon Oakes (Drive, The Guilty) will produce alongside Capstone’s Christian Mercuri and David Haring (Bill & Ted Face the Music), Warren Zide (The Final Destination, American Pie), and Susco. Ruzanna Kegeyan and Roman Viaris of Capstone, and Clark Baker (Vessel) will executive produce.

Watch the clip below that sees a creepy crawling invasion aboard Flight 298, signalling supernatural turbulence ahead.

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Junction Row will celebrate its World Premiere at Fantasia on July 28.

Watch a housing compound fall under siege from Lovecraftian creatures more dangerous than drug dealers in the trailer below.

Junction Row follows “Juno, a recovering addict who leaves a fringe housing compound for a better life, leaving her beloved Ruby behind. When she learns that Ruby has gone missing, Juno returns, only to find Junction Row has become a hotbed of criminal activity, but she encounters much more than menacing drug dealers on her mission to find Ruby.”

Isabelle stars as Juno, with Natalie Brown (FX’s The Strain) as Ruby.

The creature feature marks the feature debut by director Ashlea Wessel, who has directed festival-favorite shorts like 2018’s “Tick” and 2020’s “Weirdo”.

Wessel co-writes Junction Row with Clown in a Cornfield author Adam Cesare and Matt Serafini.

Katharine Isabelle is coming off a brief appearance in Kane Parsons’ Backrooms, and more recently appeared in holiday horror It’s a Wonderful Knife. The horror icon is arguably best known for her turn as the eponymous werewolf in Ginger Snaps and for her roles in American Mary and Freddy vs Jason.

Fantasia teases that Junction Row tells “a story where the fear of the unknown isn’t confined to what lies above, but what waits beneath.”

Stay tuned for more from Fantasia as the festival gets underway later this month.

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Unholy Night is set to make its World Premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival, where writer/director Michael Gabriele‘s horror short “Get Away” won the Gold Audience Award for Best International Short in 2023.

In Unholy Night, “Gino’s traditional family Christmas Eve turns into a bloody battle for survival when his long-dead grandma drops by and goes on a murderous rampage. Amid the chaos, Gino reunites with his ex and the dysfunctional duo must avoid his dead Italian relatives popping up all around the neighbourhood as they search for a way to get rid of these Yuletide revenants and survive his family Christmas.”

Marc Bendavid (“Dark Matter”), Shailene Garnett (“Shadowhunters”), Al Sapienza (“The Sopranos”), Ron Lea (“Orphan Black”), Toni Ellwand (“Hannibal”), Cristina Rosato (Mother!), Jacqueline Robbins (“A Series of Unfortunate Events”), and Joe Pingue (Antiviral) star.

Gabriele, making his feature debut, drew inspiration for his bloody holiday horror movie from growing up in an Italian family. “Unholy Night was crafted to deliver not only a captivating horror experience but also to serve as a poignant exploration of cultural complexities and the universal quest for identity and respect,” the filmmaker said in his director’s statement.

Unholy Night was produced by Gabriele alongside Jenna MacMillan of Club Red Productions and Jason Levangie and Marc Tetreault of Shut Up & Colour Pictures (Kids vs Aliens). Executive producers are Tina Carbone, Jef Burnham, Mike Chapman, and Fatima Hayward.

The chaos of an Italian Christmas Eve gets dialed up to a zany, violent degree in the new teaser and images below. Stay tuned for more on Unholy Night and more when Fantasia kicks off later this month.

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Obsession also heads to 4K UHD combo pack, Blu-ray and DVD on July 14, 2026 via Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

To celebrate, we’re exclusively unveiling a new clip that spotlights the incredible performances by lead stars Michael Johnston (“Teen Wolf”) and Inde Navarette (“Superman & Lois”).

In Curry Barker’s theatrical debut Obsession, after breaking the mysterious One Wish Willow to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.

The cast and crew weigh in on the central performances in the film below, pointing out Bear’s unique journey from protagonist to villain. The breakout portrayal of Freaky Nikki, of course, takes center stage in the discussion.

Cooper Tomlinson (“That’s a Bad Idea,” Milk & Serial), Megan Lawless (The Death That Awaits), and Emmy Award-nominee Andy Richter (“Conan,” Elf) also star.

What else is included with Obsession‘s home release?

EXCLUSIVE BONUS FEATURES WHEN YOU PURCHASE AT PARTICIPATING RETAILERS:

• OBSESSION UNLEASHED – Take the obsession further by going behind the scenes with filmmaker Curry Barker and the cast, Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson and Megan Lawless, to see them create a wild horror story out of intense performances and shocking scares. Hear the cast reflect on their most memorable scenes, get a peek at Michael and Inde’s chemistry test that sparked the film’s emotional core, and see how their collaboration shaped the film’s most unsettling moments.
• FEATURE COMMENTARY WITH DIRECTOR/WRITER/EDITOR CURRY BARKER

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“The Fated Hour” will begin its festival run this summer, with Severin Films handling the film’s North American release.

The synopsis: “Austria, 1810. Three days before her wedding, Florentine visits the grave of her younger sister Seraphine — brilliant, otherworldly, and gone too soon. As the ceremony approaches, Florentine finds herself unable to share in her bridegroom Bruno’s joy. Over dinner, she recounts to him the strange and melancholy story of Seraphine’s life and death — and of the dark legacy she left behind. Soon it becomes clear that Florentine is not merely mourning her sister…“

Alina Schaller (Breaking the Ice), Fanny Altenburger (Counterpart), Cornelius Obonya, and Daniel Holzberg (The Zone of Interest) star. 

The short is a 19th-century period piece set in Austria based on Friedrich Laun’s short story “The Relationship with the Spirit World,” famously cited as a key influence on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

Shot on location in Austria, the film is produced by Hengl and Lola Basara of Vienna-based Capra Film with support from Stadt Wien Kultur (MA7) and the Lower Austrian Film Commission.

“The Fated Hour” was commissioned by Kier-La Janisse with Severin’s founders, David Gregory and Carl Daft, as Executive Producers.

“I’m very excited to have Peter Hengl’s Austrian ghost story joining our growing family of original gothic shorts,” said Janisse. “Especially with all the incredible heritage locations and rich period detail.“

Hengl added: “The oldest gothic dread is always the most modern: that fate cannot be outrun. I was fortunate to explore this timeless story alongside performers who understood completely that the past and the present are never truly separate—that some things bleed through. For the production, we used analog distortions like various lenses and mirrors not just to evoke a retro vibe, but also to represent the spirit world in the film.“

Check out the first images below, and be sure to watch Family Dinner on Screambox while we wait for “The Fated Hour”.

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Look for the infection horror movie in theaters on August 28, 2026.

The South Korean horror movie follows Professor Se-jeong as she is thrust into a terrifying hellscape when a mutating virus is unleashed during a biotech conference, forcing authorities to seal the facility to contain the outbreak. Se-jeong and a group of survivors must fight to stay alive as the infected undergo horrific transformations and threaten to spread the virus.

Colony marks Gianna Jun’s (Blood: The Last Vampire, “My Sassy Girl”) first feature film since 2015’s Assassination. She stars alongside Koo Kyo-hwan (Peninsula, Escape from Mogadishu). 

“With Colony, [Sang-ho] takes the intensity and scale even further, delivering a bold and terrifying new vision for fans,” teases Doris Pfardrescher, President and CEO of Well Go USA.

Ji Chang-wook (“Healer”) and Shin Hyun-been (“Hospital Playlist”) also star.

Colony is presented by Showbox and produced by Wowpoint and Smilegate. 

The viral outbreak horror movie is rated ‘R’ this week for “bloody violent content and some language.”

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Releasing just ahead of the franchise’s 10th anniversary, Stranger Things: The Official Story Behind the Legendary Series serves as the ultimate retrospective on the cultural phenomenon, chronicling its journey from an ambitious genre series to one of the defining television events of the past decade.

Sold exclusively at Target, this deluxe official volume features a foreword by creators Matt and Ross Duffer and offers an unprecedented look at the making of all five seasons.

Random House previews, “Go behind the curiosity door with the creators, cast, and crew in this definitive, deluxe guide. With never-before-seen content from the show’s inception and beyond to its thrilling conclusion, this is the director’s cut in book form, taking you on a visual ride through each heart-warming moment, spine-tingling adventure, and roll of the dice.”

Packed inside the pages of Stranger Things: The Official Story Behind the Legendary Series you’ll find commentary from the Duffer Brothers, exclusive cast interviews, creature concept art, in-world ephemera, maps and blueprints, costume photography, script snippets and more.

While you wait to grab your copy, exclusively check out a sneak peek at the book’s third chapter below, which fittingly dives deep into “Stranger Things 3.” The Season 3 chapter chronicles the making of the series’ blockbuster (and fan favorite) third season, including behind-the-scenes stories, creative insights, and exclusive imagery from the production.

Grab your copy from Target beginning June 30, 2026!

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Lady Death is currently in production outside Adelaide, South Australia, we’ve learned. The upcoming horror movie, it’s interesting to note, lives in the same heightened, epic and gore-splattered WWII universe as Kiah Roache-Turner’s recent shark attack movie Beast of War!

Masha Basman stars as ‘Lady Death’ with Robert Maaser as ‘Hans Bothman.’

In Lady Death, a crack team of British Commandos are forced into an unholy alliance, when lost in a primeval forest on the Eastern Front, with Soviet sniper, the legendary ‘Lady Death’ (newcomer Masha Basman), and two demented SS officers – and twins – played in gleeful dual roles by German actor Robert Maaser (Blood & Gold, Ballerina).

Together the unlikely team must navigate the perils of the forest, including its most ferocious residents: wolves, born of an ancient bloodline, horrifically outsized, led by a giant alpha and remorselessly hunting as a pack. Only with Lady Death – herself an apex predator, and inspired by the real-life heroine Lyudmila Pavlichenko, who notched some 309 Nazi kills during the war – do the team have any chance of surviving the forested hellscape.

Kiah Roache-Turner tells Bloody Disgusting, “There’s something wonderfully cinematic about throwing a legendary sniper, a squad of commandos, Nazi villains and giant wolves into the same story and seeing what survives. Lady Death is exactly the sort of movie I love making — ambitious, dangerous, funny in all the wrong places and completely unafraid to get blood all over the screen.”

The cast includes newcomer Masha Basman as ‘Lyudmila’/’Lady Death’, Xavier Molyneux (Amazon’s Bloodaxe, Take My Hand) as ‘Billy’, Bart Edwards (Netflix’s The Witcher) as ‘Monty’, Robert Maaser (Ballerina, Blood & Gold) in dual roles as Nazi twins ‘Hans Bothman’ and ‘Gunner Mengele’, Jake Ryan (Netflix’s War Machine) as ‘Smiddy’, CJ Bloomfield (Mortal Kombat franchise, Furiosa) as ‘Butch’, George Pullar (Evil Dead Burn, Posthumous) as ‘Bird’ and Sam Parsonson (Beast of War, Fear Below) as ‘Cunningham.’

The movie is being produced by Blake Northfield and Michelle Krumm for Bronte Studios (Beast of War, Wyrmwood franchise). The production team includes Head Of Production, Sandra Tahmasby Baxter (Beast of War, Take My Hand, Wyrmwood – Apocalypse), director of photography Jonathan Baker (Talk to Me), production designer Rachael Gates (Wolf Creek: Legacy), SFX coordinator John Sanderson  (Mortal Kombat, Wolf Creek: Legacy), stunt coordinator Danny Baldwin (Beast of War), hair, make-up and prosthetic designer Billie Weston (Apex, Elvis, Danger Close: Battle of Long Tan), costume designer Tracey Rose Sparke  (Primitive War, Beast of War). Roache-Turner also edits all his movies.

Executive Producers include Bronte Studios, Kiah Roache-Turner, The Post Lounge, Todd Brown, Bart Edwards, Calum Gray, Max Pirkis, Jeff Harrison, Ari Harrison (Umbrella Entertainment), Chandler Heinz Laun and Jaswinder Singh Ahluwalia (Obsidian Creek Capital) and Laura Stejskal (Winter Tree Productions).

Australian SFX outfit MEG Studios (Apex, Talk to Me, Furiosa) is bringing the wolfpack to terrifying life, together with Resin (Mortal Kombat, The Bluff, Elvis, Hotel Mumbai), who are handling the film’s VFX.

Financing for the movie comes through Obsidian Creek Capital, and Hinterland, with support from the South Australia Film Corporation.

Check out a few first look images below and expect more real soon.

The photos used in this article were taken by Ian Routledge.

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Check out the first images from Five Must Die below and read on for more.

A chilling new chapter in supernatural horror is preparing to consume audiences as director, and co-writer Ryan Kelly unleashes the occult thriller Five Must Die.

Five Must Die is said to be a high-concept supernatural thriller that fuses the tension of Ready or Not and the meta-horror energy of The Cabin in the Woods with the conspiracy edge of Men in Black and the supernatural flair of Ghostbusters.

Co-written by David Landau, the film stars Beth Broderick (“Sabrina the Teenage Witch”) alongside Jared P-Smith (“The Equalizer”) and an ensemble cast.

In Five Must Die, six strangers awaken trapped inside a sprawling mansion. None of them know each other, and none understand why they are there — until an agent from the Federal Bureau of Paranormal Containment informs them that a violent spirit has marked them as its targets.

As paranoia, fear, and supernatural attacks tear the group apart, the mansion becomes a crucible where hidden pasts are revealed, and moral choices turn deadly. The line between possession, free will, and vengeance begins to blur, and only those willing to confront their guilt may have a chance to survive.

“I’ve always loved films that are contained to a single location, and I’m a big fan of ensemble casts,” says Ryan Kelly. “This project brings those elements together and filters them through horror, comedy, and a bit of an Agatha Christie-style mystery. That combination — tight, character-driven, but still fun, unpredictable, and surprising — is exactly the kind of movie I love to watch.”

Kelly continues, “I wanted to create something in the spirit of the films I grew up with — high-concept stories with strong characters, big audience moments, and real emotion beneath the spectacle. That’s the feeling I’m chasing with Five Must Die, and if we can capture even a piece of it, I’ll be thrilled.”

Helping to bring his vision to life is veteran Broadway and film producer Michael Alden (Kissing Jessica Stein, Unzipped, The Zookeeper, Batboy: The Musical, Grey Gardens, The King’s Speech). Additionally, Academy Award Winner Cecelia Hall (The Hunt for Red October, Top Gun) serves as the film’s Creative Consultant.

Sarah Baskin (Gossip Girl: Next Gen), Vandit Bhatt (“New Amsterdam,” “Quantico”), Gabrielle DuBrul, Briana Femia, Chris Maher, Carmen Salta, Taylor Selé (“Godfather of Harlem,” “Survival of the Thickest”), and Andrew Ximenes also star.

Alden produces alongside Steve Barton (Terrifier 2, George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead, E! True Hollywood Story), Kelly Hall, Ryan Kelly, Michael Kuciak (Death Metal, From the Shadows, Killer Party), Christopher Massimine (“The Inventor,” Off Broadway’s “Fiddler on the Roof” in Yiddish), and Ryan Savini. Paul Filanowski, Nancy Nagel Gibbs, Ryan Koppelman, Jared P-Smith, Jane Petrov, Bev Ragovoy, Cheri Reeve, Kat Schon, Penny Stephenson, Barry Wolfe, Laurrelle Wolfe, and Andrew Ximenes executive-produce.

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Los Vampires will make its World Premiere at the 30th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival, which runs July 16 through August 2.

Watch the stunning new trailer below, which sees art imitate life horrifically, in the vein of Shadow of the Vampire.

The film is set in 1930 Hollywood, and follows as “a Spanish actor is cast in the night shoot of a soon-to-be-legendary vampire film, forced to imitate the English-speaking star who performs the same role by day. The two actors regularly meet at the transitory hours of their shoots, and a rivalry stirs between them. All the while, a string of murders are occurring on and around the soundstage.”

Note that the actor and star in the film’s premise aren’t named; Los Vampires is a “fantastical fictionalized account” of the making of Melford’s classic horror film, one that was shot overnight on the same sets as Tod Browning’s Dracula. That means that names have respectfully been altered.

Los Vampires is written and directed by Craig Mitchell (Komodo), who has lined up an impressive cast.

Lost actor Henry Ian Cusick and Spectre actor Thomas Kretschmann lead as uncanny surrogates for Carlos Villarías and Bela Lugosi.

Daniela Couso (Serial Beauty), Jefferson Mays (Inherent Vice), Oscar Nuñez (“The Office”), and Jorge Diaz (Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones) round out the cast.

Fantasia describes the feature as “a meticulously designed, occult-tinged tribute to the dignity of performance… and a darkly imaginative, bittersweet love letter to old Hollywood – and the forgotten struggles that made it what it was.”

Stay tuned for more on Los Vampires, including premiere timing, as Fantasia gets underway next month.

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We recently told you that The Space Between had wrapped production inside an operational Midwestern mall, and now we’re exclusively debuting the teaser trailer today.

Damian Maffei (The Strangers: Prey At Night, Wrong Turn, Haunt) stars in The Space Between. Watch the teaser trailer below, and also find the official poster underneath.

Maffei plays Rick, an overnight security guard working inside a once-bustling shopping mall after closing. While quietly carrying the grief of losing his daughter, Rick clings to the structure of his nightly routine as a form of stability. Over the course of a single shift, that routine begins to fracture as something unseen retraces his every step.

Kate Kiddo (Black Eyed Susan, The Events Surrounding a Peeping Tom) co-stars in the liminal horror movie as Dispatch, Rick’s only point of contact during the night. She is a calm and steady voice guiding him through his rounds as the system he relies on begins to break down.

Production took place inside an operational Midwestern mall, utilizing real locations after hours to ground the film’s surveillance-driven psychological horror and liminal atmosphere. Built through a lean independent model, the production focused on performance, practical environments, and atmosphere.

Filmmakers were granted unlimited access to more than 96,000 square feet of retail, corridor, and back-of-house space for critical sequences, allowing the production to capture the scale, emptiness, and unsettling realism of a functioning mall after dark.

Writer/director Joshua Garity tells Bloody Disgusting, “The original image that helped define the internet’s idea of liminal horror was traced back to Wisconsin, and that matters because those are the kinds of spaces I grew up in. They were once the heartbeat of a community, but many of them have slowly eroded into something more unnerving. Half-empty malls that still echo with laughter, if you listen closely and strip away the fresh coats of paint. The Space Between comes from that same Midwestern familiarity. It’s not about recreating Backrooms, but about exploring why these spaces stay with you: the absence, the repetition, and the feeling that a place you know is somehow watching you back.”

The Space Between is targeting a Fall 2026 release. Stay tuned for updates.

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From director Laszlo Illes, Ever After is coming soon. Stay tuned for release info.

In Ever After, “When a group of girlfriends head to a remote forest lodge for a bachelorette party, the fun quickly turns into terror as they discover the forest is home to bloodthirsty lunatics who perceive themselves to be characters from classic fairy tales. As the lines between fantasy and reality blur, survival becomes the girls’ only goal.”

The characters featured in this one include twisted versions of the Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood, the Big Bad Wolf, The Witch, the Frog King, and even Rumpelstiltskin.

“As the celebration turns into terror, the women realize they’ve wandered into a ritual older than the forest itself. Trapped, hunted, and outnumbered, they must survive a night where innocence is mocked, fantasy becomes brutality, and fairy tales are enforced with blood.”

Mark Sheppard, Lydia Pearl Pentz, Rebecka Johnston, Riana Emma Balla, Miklós B. Székely, and Maria de Sá also star in the upcoming fairy tale horror movie Ever After.

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From Eisner-Nominated writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly, and rising horror artist Heather Vaughan, You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive is described as a “paranoia-laced, socially-conscious, horror mystery that will leave you questioning reality, and reveal that this crafted world is more of a nightmare than the idealistic dream they were expecting.”

Phoebe Joplin has never questioned the world her parents built: a secluded community where she and her friends were raised to be smarter, stronger, and better than anyone else. No distractions. No dangers. No secrets. Until the night of their graduation.

When one of them dies under impossible circumstances, Phee starts to pull at the edges of her perfect life—and what she finds is something far more terrifying than she ever imagined.

Because this place isn’t a sanctuary. It’s a cage. And no one who discovers the truth ever leaves it alive.

Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing (Batman – One Bad Day: Clayface, Star Trek: The Last Starship) co-write the upcoming IDW Dark horror comic, featuring art by Heather Vaughan.

Jackson Lanzing said in a statement to Bloody Disgusting, “You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive is in many ways a spiritual successor to our last creator-owned horror, The Principles of Necromancy – a dive into the promise and consequence of playing god with the blood of innocents. But the Hivemind book this reminds me of most is Clayface: One Bad Day. This is a deeply human story with intensely raw emotions – five best friends and their five mysterious parents, tearing one another apart for the promise of some impossible glory that’s waiting just beyond their darkest actions. We’re thrilled to be bringing this story to life with our long-time partner in crime, editor Heather Antos, at IDW Dark – and we’re particularly excited to give our Clayface fans a new, brutal and emotional horror made just for them.”

Adds Collin Kelly, “We’re deconstructing a feeling that seems universal these days; our elders have a death grip on their power, without any intention of giving it up to the generations that come next. YNLTPA is about growing up with the limitless potential of the future… and realizing how much it’s a lie we’ve been fed to keep us under the yoke of the past. Bringing this brutal experience to life is our artist and co-creator, Heather Vaughan, who brings an incredible amount of humanity to our cast. But it’s in our youthful leads that Heather’s art really shines – you are going to fall in love with these young people, even as they go through the worst experience of their lives. What we’ve all crafted together is going to be tragic, painful, but above all else, sincere – with a future so uncertain, there’s only one thing we can trust: you’ll never leave this place alive.”

“Some horror stories are about monsters in the dark. YNLTPA is about realizing the monsters raised you,” previews Senior Group Editor Heather Antos. “Working with Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly on this series has been a dream in the darkest possible way. They’ve built a story that’s layered, brutal, and deeply emotional, and every issue gives artist Heather Vaughan opportunities to push the art into places that feel both haunting and deeply personal. Some horror comics will keep you up at night…this is one that will stick with you for years to come.”

The first issue of You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive goes on sale October 14, 2026! Make sure to pre-order at your local comic shop by September to guarantee a copy.

Exclusively check out the various covers for Issue #1 down below.

IDW Publishing’s horror imprint IDW DARK features comics like A Quiet Place: Storm Warning, Smile: For the Camera, The Exorcism at 1600 Penn, Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees, The Twilight Zone, Event Horizon: Dark Descent & Event Horizon: Inferno, and more.

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Don’t Move adapts the 2020 novel of the same name from co-authors Murray and Darren Wearmouth, unleashing a prehistoric arachnid upon an unsuspecting church group’s annual retreat. It’s massive, and it hunts by vibration.

The creature feature is the first under Murray’s new banner, Impractical Studios, designed to bring his authored works and love of horror to mainstream audiences.

Murray has big plans for Impractical Studios; the multihyphenate talent teases an adaptation of his holiday slasher novel as he explains the origins of his new label. “The idea for that was I’ve written nine thriller novels with major publishing houses: three with Harper Collins, three with Penguin Random House, two with Blackstone, two with St. Martin’s Press. Big publishing houses. The idea being that I would create the IP, create the big ideas.

“I love horror so much, and I love writing thrillers. I have a degree in English and literature. So, the idea was that I would create the worlds I want to see on film and then eventually partner with people like McLean, who adapted Don’t Move into the screenplay. Don’t Move comes out this September, and then next year, we’re going to make You Better Watch Out, my serial killer thriller I wrote, and then so-and-so forth down the line.“

Murray Thinks the Movie is Better Than the Book

Don’t Move wasn’t the first novel Murray authored, but it was the first of his books that longtime friend Maclain Nelson read. That proved to be the true origin of this creature feature. “I actually felt like a bad friend because he’d written all these novels, and I’m like, ‘Buddy, I feel bad. I haven’t read any of your books,” Nelson tells Bloody Disgusting. “And I said, ‘What should I start with?‘ I was at his house one weekend, he looked through all the books he wrote, and he’s like, ‘Here, take Don’t Move.‘ He’s like, ‘I think that’s a quick read. I think you’ll like it.‘“

Nelson fell instantly for the novel: “So, I disappeared for four hours. He thought I left, and I just read it. I read it in one sitting. The story really caught me. I thought it was so fun. It really reminded me of one of my favorite movies, Tremors, in that it follows this group of people. Some sci-fi is happening. They don’t know what it is. They have to figure it out together. They have to come together as a community. I said, ‘Man, James, this is a movie. We got to make this.‘ He’s like, ‘Well, I do TV. What do we do?‘ And I said, ‘Let me take a stab at the script. If you like it, let’s move.‘ I sat down, really ingested the book, and a month later, we had a screenplay.“

Not only did Nelson adapt Murray and Wearmouth’s novel, but he also directed the feature, which Murray is the first to praise for surpassing his material.

“I hate to say it, but the movie’s better than the book, which never happens. It never happens.“

Murray credits Nelson’s direction especially. “Largely because of Maclain Nelson’s skills with actors and with heart and emotion; he added a whole layer to the movie that’s not in the book, which is that it’s got real heart. You care for these characters; you actually want these people to survive, and they often don’t, and it really is heartbreaking. So it’s got a lot of heart, a lot of depth, and it’s really funny. The book is not funny. The book is a slaughterhouse because Darren and I love killing people. But the movie has a lot more heart and comedy than the book did. So, I hate to say it. I love to say it, but the movie’s better than the book. And I can say it, I’m the author.“

Nelson emphasizes that while Don’t Move does have heart and humor, it’s horror through and through. “We obviously have a shift in the movie where it really gets real, but it’s supposed to be these people in this community coming together to be in the woods. So there should be some light moments. We’re not cracking jokes near the end when things are getting really serious, but to set everything up and to get to know people, you want to be there with them, and it just endears you to them as one by one,” Nelson explains.

Murray agrees. “I love horror even more than comedy,” he tells BD. “It’s so weird that I have been doing ‘Impractical Jokers’ for so, so long. But for me, what makes a horror movie great is when smart people make good decisions facing impossible odds, and sometimes it works out, and sometimes it doesn’t. When characters on screen are making the dumbest decisions possible, I check out as a viewer. I’m like, come on, man, no one is this stupid. So one of the hallmarks of all of my books, and then Don’t Move as well, is that these people are smart people and they’re making good choices and they still lose, but sometimes they win. That’s a good, compelling movie today.“

Smart Characters, Impossible Odds

Don’t Move, Murray and Nelson tease, comes out of the gate swinging. Murray praises Nelson’s changes to the book’s cold open, “It’s pure horror. Our lead character, Megan Forrester, who’s played by Lyndsy Fonseca, who is amazing and so charismatic and so warm and likable, goes through an unspeakable tragedy that unfolds rapid fire. It is fast-paced. It’s one of the rides at an amusement park, the swing ride just goes out of control and groans and creeks as people start spinning around in the chairs, they can’t get out.“

Fonseca leads an ensemble cast alongside Russell “Russ” Vitale. Tom Cavanagh (The Flash), Hunter King (Life in Pieces), Rob Riggle (The Hangover), and Joseph Lee Anderson (Young Rock) also star. Expect plenty of cameos including T-Pain, Matt Biedel, and “Impractical Jokers” member Brian Quinn.

The film marks the first lead role for Russ, who immediately won over Murray and Nelson. “The first time I Zoomed with him and just his voice, the quality of his voice, the swagger, his look, I was like, ‘This is Ricky Vargas,'” Nelson says. “Ricky in the book, he’s joining the church camping trip. Imagine the type of people. I grew up very religious. I went on a ton of church camping trips, and never once did a guy like Ricky Vargas come on the church camping trip. So, it needed to be this perfect human, the perfect character that you don’t expect and shows up, but has this likability and ability to ingratiate himself with the very different crowd, but then also you don’t know what he’s doing. He’s got some shady motives. And man, we have a new movie star out there because he took it all on.“

Competing for star status on Don’t Move, of course, is the behemoth monster hunting human prey.

How Real Spiders Inspired Don’t Move’s Prehistoric Arachnid

Don’t expect to see the prehistoric monster in its full glory ahead of release, but Nelson’s approach to designing the arachnid might induce arachnophobia all the same. The director studied spiders up close for months, picking different features from a variety of species for maximum skin-crawling terror.

“For six months, this was my research for the spider, because we created our own way on how it moves and whatnot. I would be in my backyard, I would lie down on this cot, and I would just look straight down at the grass. I was shocked at how many spiders would just come across anytime you are outside. I’d watch the spiders, how they move, some that would do a little thing and then hop and do a little thing and then hop. I saw this one that had these crazy crab arms, the front four were way longer, and the back ones were shorter.

“I just started documenting and making characteristics of all these different spiders that I liked and that were creepy. We built with our CGI artists all the creepiest little intricacies of all these different spiders and created our own kind of super spider.”

“It’s like an alien,” Murray says of this movie’s monster. “It really is. It moves like an alien. It doesn’t think as we do. There’s no reasoning with it. And that’s what I love about Don’t Move, the book and the movie. The horror mimics my favorite horror movie all the time, The Descent, which I think is brilliant. It mimics that kind of horror in the same kind of ways. It works on three levels: It’s human versus the other, which is this creature that cannot be reasoned with, can’t be logicked with it whatsoever. You can’t talk your way around it, right? It’s completely alien.“

He continues, “Then it’s human versus each other because of the inner dynamics of the group. It’s a group setting. They have different motives. They have different pasts that conflict, and it’s the constant conflict between those personalities and then the human versus, in this case, herself. It’s Megan Forrester versus her own trauma that she went through at the beginning of the movie. She’s got to overcome her own past in order to succeed and win and survive at the end.“

That neither Nelson nor Murray is known for horror makes this feature all the more rewarding for the pair, who forged their own path in getting Don’t Move made after a lot of rejections. “Maclain Nelson, Jordan to my Peele,” Murray jokes, acknowledging that studios still haven’t seemed to fully recognize how well horror and comedy go hand-in-hand, particularly in the comedian-to-horror-filmmaker pipeline.

“Not a lot of people believed in this. It’s why we had to do it ourselves. It’s why we didn’t get a studio to back it. We had to go prove it ourselves. We didn’t get invited to the party. We had to create our own,” Nelson says.

Murray agrees, “That’s what indie horror movie making is all about: doing it. I’m really proud of that. That’s what I’m most excited about, that moment before the first time it premiered since September in that first theater, sitting there next to my buddy, my friend for life, and saying, ‘God dammit, man. We made it. We made a horror movie, and it’s good, and I think people will like it.’ And that should be celebrated, man. It’s so hard to do.“

Tickets are on sale now for the Kansas City premiere at the Midland Theater on September 8 and the Los Angeles premiere at the TCL Chinese Theater on September 9, ahead of Don’t Move‘s theatrical release on September 11.

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Francesca Eastwood (M.F.A., Clawfoot) stars in The Bay, which will notably feature an animatronic shark that’s been created by SFX and animatronics company Bischoff’s.

In writer/director Phil Volken’s The Bay, “When their tour boat sinks in a shark sanctuary, two best friends must fight for survival to escape the shark-infested waters.”

The film will be opening in theaters and on demand on July 17, 2026.

Watch the official trailer for The Bay down below.

Alexander Wraith, Dani Oliveros, and Ta’imua also star.

Phil Volken said in a statement, “I’ve made several films set on the open sea, and The Bay is the culmination of my experiences to date – with my crack team of regular collaborators, the movie is finely and expertly honed to maximize the combined fears of the ocean, the unknown, sharks and ultimately, just how cold-blooded nature can be – specifically human nature.”

“I’m delighted with the scale and performances we’ve delivered onscreen,” Volken continues. “The Bay’s going to completely immerse and terrify audiences worldwide!”

Phil Volken has indeed carved out a niche directing open sea-based movies over the years, including the thriller Extortion back in 2017 and the horror movie Dead Sea just last year.

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Not only is this original house dedicated to the best holiday of the year, but it’s also an official sequel!

In H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: A Halloween Fright-Tacular!: “Fan-favorite creature feature host, Larry Kurtzberg (better known as H.R. Bloodengutz), returns in this all-new haunted house. After his descension into violent madness where he tortured his crew when his show was canceled (as featured in HHN 21), H.R. Bloodengutz has escaped from prison to return to WKNB Television Station for a final Halloween Special of gruesome proportions.”

Halloween Horror Nights show director Ramón Paradoa gave Bloody Disgusting the exclusive details on what to expect.

The Lore Behind A Halloween Fright-Tacular!

For its 35th edition, Halloween Horror Nights is bringing back fan favorites like Jack the Clown and Dr. Oddfellow. That also includes the return of a certain creature feature host, who was first unleashed in 2011’s H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: Holidays of Horror before making a brief appearance in 2021’s Welcome to SCarey: Horror in the Heartland.

“This is a sequel to an HHN classic,” Paradoa explains. “And the return of a very beloved character for our fan base. We’ve played with the idea of creating more story within H.R. Bloodengutz’s lore for a while, and this year the stars aligned, and it finally felt like the right opportunity. It’s been 15 years since that first haunted house in 2011, so we liked the idea of 15 years later, Carey’s favorite creature feature host returns for another bout of fun.”

This new house picks up 15 years later from Holidays of Horror‘s conclusion, where H.R. Bloodengutz has been incarcerated in the Carey Penitentiary since. Now, “he has finally broken out of prison on Halloween Day. He has returned to the WKNB television studio to present a Halloween marathon of straight-to-TV Halloween films that were his favorites that he never got to showcase back when he was working 15 years prior.”

In other words, the HHN horror host is curating his own holiday horror marathon for you, the guest.

Paradoa also provides a handy recap of H.R. Bloodengutz’s first outing, just to illustrate what kind of maniac is being unleashed on HHN 35. “In the events of that first haunted house, he ended up taking his producer hostage when he found out that his show and himself were getting the ax. He didn’t take that news very well. He decided to hold his producer hostage, to host that marathon that we saw the first go around, and things ended horribly, and ultimately ended with his arrest. He’s coming back 15 years later to have a little bit of Halloween fun this time, focusing specifically on the holiday of Halloween.”

The Return of Horror Host H.R. Bloodengutz

Among the many reasons Halloween Horror Nights remains such a holiday fixture is the creative team’s dedication to detail. That’s quite a feat when you consider the intricate lore developed over 35 years.

One key detail to note with H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: A Halloween Fright-Tacular! is that not only is it tracking the horror host’s story progression, it’ll also feature the same actor portraying him.

Paradoa reminds that it’s been over a decade since Larry Kurtzburg snapped in his 2011 haunt; time and a prison stay have altered the horror host as we last saw him. “He has a new look to him that is leaning into his imprisonment. I’ll leave it at that,” the HHN show director teases.

“Since he’s escaping straight from prison and returning to the derelict studio, he tries to piece together his former look as much as he can, but there’s a fun little twist to how he looks this go around. And he’s older because we were able to work with the original actor who played Bloodengutz in 2011, to reprise his role,” Paradoa notes. “So, we’re getting an authentic, older version of the character in this new haunted house that is being played by the original actor, which again, our fans are going to love.”

What can fans expect with his appearance this time?

H.R. Bloodengutz will host one demented Halloween marathon. “What I’ll say about that without giving too much away is that there are seven movies that we’re presenting as scenes in the haunted house; seven movies that are a part of the marathon. Some of those movies are callbacks to HHN’s past.”

In true horror host fashion, “You’re going to get to see him in video format in between each of those movies, and he’s going to essentially usher you into the next movie.” H.R. Bloodengutz will also introduce the house itself and its backstory in queue line videos, too, like the original 2011 haunt, “where H.R. Bloodengutz told the story of each of the movies that he was presenting, and then his own story. We’re doing a queue line video for our guests, outside of this haunted house, where they’re going to get to see H.R. Bloodengutz in this new role, telling this new story, and preparing us for the Halloween Frightacular. Again, that is in collaboration with the original man himself, so we’re very excited for our fans to experience that.”

A True Halloween Extravanza

Unlike Holiday of Horrors, A Halloween Fright-Tacular! is dedicated solely to Halloween. With H.R. Bloodengutz’s demented marathon, that’s seven different ways to explore the holiday, something that Paradoa and the creative team really took to heart. The test, of course, was ensuring Halloween still feels fresh.

“Once we knew that the holiday of Halloween and the world of horror cinema was our playground, we knew that there was a lot to tap into,” Paradoa said. “There are so many different Halloween-based tropes that people know and love. We were really inspired by that, and we wanted to make sure that when you’re being transported into the worlds of these movies, although they have the throughline of Halloween, they’re all completely unique from each other. That they all have a very distinct feel, and they present environments and characters that again, are rooted in what you’d expect out of classic Halloween textures, but are different from each other.”

“To tease you on some of those kinds of things, for example, one of the movies that he’s presenting is a black and white zombie film in an old graveyard.”

This house will cover just about every aspect of the beloved holiday. “We have some classic Halloween textures there. Another one is a Halloween party that is taking place inside a tiki bar that is overtaken by monsters of the night. So, different things like that, where we have different aggressors and different environments, but they’re all tied into the world of Halloween and kind of what you’d expect out of that Halloween comfort food kind of feel when it comes to monsters, zombies, skeletons, ghosts, those kinds of things. So, each film, each scene is going to feel very unique, but all based in the world of Halloween, which is really fun.”

As a massive horror fan himself, nailing the spirit of Halloween was of utmost importance to Paradoa. “It is all centered around that holiday, and I think this house almost being representative of the holiday within our slate we were really, really excited about, so I wanted to make sure that it felt authentic and captured that magical feeling of Halloween in every way we could.”

H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: A Halloween Fright-Tacular! may be a sequel house, but one made thoroughly accessible to newcomers through its unique setup and Halloween atmospherics.

Paradoa sums it up well: “The great thing about this house, of course, is that it’s expanding upon a lore that we established 15 years ago, but it also pays tribute to a couple of different things. It pays tribute to the idea of a classic Halloween haunted house. We call these houses Halloween comfort food, and we’ve done them throughout the course of our history, and this house checks off that vibe.”

This year’s Halloween Horror Nights event begins on Friday, August 28 at Universal Orlando Resort and Thursday, September 3 at Universal Studios Hollywood. Tickets are on sale now.

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We have an exclusive excerpt from “Blood and Tinsel,” a Christmas horror story written by 30 Days of Night creator Steve Niles.

They say the best gifts aren’t under the tree. One Christmas morning, Andy’s parents found out their gifts were six feet under…

Edited by Bram Stoker Award winner James Aquilone (Kolchak: The Night Stalker), the 260-page book features a lucky 13 original stories inspired by “Creepshow.”

Other contributors include David Avallone (Elvira: Mistress of the Dark), Nancy A. Collins (Swamp Thing), Dennis Crosby (Weird Tales), Keith R.A. DeCandido (Star Trek), Gwendolyn Kiste (The Haunting of Velkwood), Jonathan Maberry (Rot & Ruin), Lisa Morton (Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween), Nick Roberts (The Exorcist’s House), Thomas E. Sniegoski (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Tim Waggoner (Terrifier 3), Simon Bestwick (The Faceless), and Aquilone.

Creepshow: 13 Tales of Terror features cover art by Russ Braun (The Boys), and each story is accompanied by full-page art by EV Cantada.

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Son of Sara will be available in the U.S. and Canada on Digital & VOD July 31.

Watch the official trailer from Saban Films below.

In Son of Sara, “A pregnant woman’s cravings turn sinister as her estranged boyfriend’s return coincides with a terrifying secret about the life growing inside her.”

The film stars Chloe Van Landschoot, Tymika Tafari, Garret Hnatiuk and Jane Moffat.

Canadian filmmaker Houston Bone directed Son of Sara.

Houston Bone said in a statement, “After gagging Toronto at Blood in the Snow this past winter, we are excited to be working with Saban to bring our grisly horror movie, and our new little monster, to audiences across the United States. This film has been a passion project for all of us since we shot it back in October 2023. Real blood, sweat, and tears went into bringing Son of Sara to the screen. We are humbled and thrilled by the response from film festival audiences so far. It is a dream come true to be sharing this film at this scale internationally.”

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Kino Cult is bringing a new 2K restoration to US theaters on August 7, after it makes its World Premiere at the prestigious Festival Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna (Festival of Rediscovered Cinema).

Arguably featuring more authentic on-screen deaths than the original Faces of Death, Hell’s Highway isn’t for the squeamish despite its kitschy tone.

We’re exclusively unveiling the trailer for this morbid curiosity that aims to scare drivers straight with grisly depictions of highway-induced death.

Hell’s Highway is an “exploration of the near mythical driver education films shown to American schoolchildren in the 1960s and ‘70s. Produced between 1959 and 1979 in Mansfield, Ohio, films such as Signal 30 (1959) encouraged safety by force-feeding high school kids color footage of careless driving’s dark consequences: blood-stained wreckage, injured bodies, fresh corpses.

“In the 1970s and ’80s, these traumatic films disappeared from the American classroom and assumed an almost mythical status. Eager to document this obscure chapter of cinema history, filmmaker and restorationist Bret Wood compiled these vanishing artifacts of grim Americana into a feature, and interviewed the filmmakers responsible for this misguided educational movement.”

Originally produced in 2002 in standard-definition video, this new edition of Hell’s Highway has been reconstructed through the remastering of the original 16mm interview footage, as new restorations of the original educational films which appear throughout the documentary.

David Edelstein of Filmmaker Magazine called this “A Lynchian view of the nightmarish underbelly of middle America,” as seen in the new poster below, accurately describing this wild shockumentary that casts an unflinching eye on road death.

Buckle up.

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Brainstorm Media will release the film on VOD on August 7, 2026.

In the upcoming slasher, “A nightmare involving a maniac killer in a baby mask serves as inspiration for horror screenwriter Adam Lewis’s new script. As more nightmares, visions, and real life terror begin to challenge Adam’s sanity, he finds himself in a desperate struggle to control his writing, his reality, and who will be Big Baby’s next victim.”

Watch the teaser below as Catherine Corcoran (Terrifier) falls prey to the Big Baby, but with a bloody meta twist.

Krsy Fox (Little Bites, Terrifier 3), Adam Marcinowski (Allegoria), Jordan Elsass (Little Fires Everywhere, Superman & Lois), Radek Lord (Ballers), Sierra McCormick (The Vast Of Night), Chaz Bono (American Horror Story), Kate Freund (Creepshow), Torio Van Grol, Cameron Cowperthwaite (Dahmer, Fallout), Kirby Bliss Blanton (The Green Inferno, Project X), and Nelson Leis (The Last Of Us, The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina) also star.

Written and directed by Spider One, Big Baby is executive produced by pop icon Cher, Chaz Bono, Tyler Connolly, Wendy Berry, and Terry Poor. 

Before making its VOD debut, Big Baby is embarking on an immersive tour with exclusive photo ops and Q&As:

• July 11 from 10-4 pm at Scarepros Levittown, PA – Signing with Spider One and Krsy Fox- Photo Op with Big Baby
• July 12 at 4 pm at Smodcastle – Special Screening Hosted by Kevin Smith, Followed by Q&A with Spider One and Krsy Fox
• July 23 at Culver Theater – Special Screening Hosted by Dead Meat’s James A Janisse
• July 27-August 10 at Slasherworld – Big Baby Exhibit and Photo ops at  Slasherworld
• August 15th at Horror Vibes Coffee – Horror Vibes Coffee in LA with Specialty Drink & Giveaways and Photo Ops

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The author of The Only Good Indians, My Heart is a Chainsaw, and dozens of other entries in the modern horror canon has built a reputation for two things: Chilling fiction and a jaw-droppingly prolific output, and today we can exclusively reveal the next story he’s unleashing on readers. 

On March 9, 2027, Jones and Saga Press will release Ears, a new haunted house horror novella about a down-on-his-luck man who finds an unlucky ally in the ghost of a child in footie pajamas, complete with bunny ears on top. 

Here’s the official synopsis:

“Mr. Morning Gun, the hapless narrator of this first person novella, is a disgraced history teacher who now is an unhoused person who is largely living within his electric car and the empty homes he looks after for local real estate agencies in a specific way: He flushes the empty houses toilets to keep, primarily, the wax seals on the toilets fresh, and the plumbing flowing. For this he gets a bit of money under table. One day, at “The Messner House” he gets caught by an aggressive realtor having a tryst, and the ghost of the previous owners’ missing child intervenes, killing the couple, and saving the former teacher and he finds himself embroiled into an ever-increasing layer of cover-ups as the girl in the lavender footie pajamas keeps killing folks to keep the house empty, except for him.”

What inspired a story like this? For Jones, it began with something very practical, which quickly morphed into a new expression of horror. 

“I was wondering if the chargers for electric cars are universal or not, but didn’t know how to phrase a search to figure that out, so I had to figure it out the only way I know how: with a story—with horror,” Jones told Bloody Disgusting. “With, as it turned out, a haunted house. So, now I know that they probably are universal. And that that leads to… to bad things.” 

Bloody Disgusting is pleased to exclusively reveal the haunting cover for Ears, designed by Luisa Dias.

Ears is the latest entry in Jones’ always-busy publishing schedule, which includes a new novel, Off the Reservation, arriving this fall from Saga. Beginning next spring, Saga will also reissue three of Jones’ earlier horror works for a new generation of readers, delivering new editions of Demon Theory, The Last Final Girl, and Growing Up Dead In Texas.

Those reissues don’t have firm release dates yet, but you can expect Ears to arrive on March 9, 2027. 

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Rose of Nevada opens in New York and Los Angeles theaters on June 19, 2026.

Watch the exclusive clip below, which sees the disoriented Mrs. Richards (Mary Woodvine) accost Nick Dyer (George MacKay), suggesting she knows him from her past, before he embarks on a trip to sea that will change everything.

In the film, “Three decades ago, the Rose of Nevada vanished at sea, along with its crew. Now, it has returned. In a remote fishing village, its reappearance is embraced as an auspicious sign, with the local citizens convinced the luck of their economically devastated community may turn, if only the ship sails again. Joining the crew is Nick (George MacKay), desperate to provide for his young family, and Liam (Callum Turner), a mysterious drifter eager to escape his past. After a successful voyage, they return to harbor, only to find that nothing is as they remember it.”

Edward Rowe, Francis Magee, Rosaline Eleazar, and Adrian Rawlins also star.

Written, directed, edited, and scored by Mark Jenkin, Rose and Nevada closes out the filmmaker’s Cornish trilogy that also includes shot-on-film folk horror nightmare Enys Men and 2019’s Bait. All three films in the experimental series are set along the Cornish coast and were shot on a 16mm Bolex camera.

It’s also worth noting that Woodvine, who appears in the below clip in effective age makeup, and Rowe also starred in the trilogy’s previous installments.

The film is described as a “hallucinatory time-travel mystery.” The press release notes, “Jenkin conducts a cinematic séance, conjuring a portal into another world that forces us to confront the past and our relationship to it.”

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The temperature rises and so does the body count, as the horror anthology series returns for another round of summer slashing in Hello Darkness #23, releasing July 22, 2026.

In “Sunday Pt. II,” Ryan North and Giada Belviso send a Bride of Christ over the deep end into madness.

Then, Rich Douek and Stevan Subic lead you down a bloody path to the old west, where a brash young gunfighter seeks a showdown with “The Man Who Outdrew Death.”

Sink into the cool, briny depths of Kelly Williams’s “Old Wounds” when a grizzled light housekeeper hears the call of the sea one final time.

And finally, serve up a preview platter of erotic thriller “Gastronomique,” as a royal spy, Lady Charlotte, embarks on a cat-and-mouse hunt for the deadly cannibal Tarrare, from Marguerite Bennett and Helena Masellis.

Beat the heat with an all-new pool of fresh nightmares and dive right into horror’s deep end!

Peek inside the bloody pages of Hello Darkness #23 below!

Horror fans rejoice in cadaverous delight, because Hello Darkness is a brand new ongoing anthology series featuring what BOOM! Studios is known for–the best in modern Horror, Fantasy, and Mystery, not to mention the darkest stories yet from a murderer’s row of world class creators. Everything from primal fears to modern political horrors will be explored, in the classic style of Creepy and Eerie and the contemporary chills of Black Mirror.

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Shane Dax Taylor (Murder Company) directs from a script by Chad Law (6 Bullets) and Josh Ridgway (The Flood).

The logline for Halloween Store reads: “a group of people find themselves trapped inside a costume store on Halloween night with a mysterious killer on the loose.“

Natalie Alyn Lind (“Dutton Ranch“, Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) and Simon Rex (Red Rocket) lead the cast that includes Anthony Michael Hall (Halloween Kills), Thomas Dekker (A Nightmare on Elm Street), Nicholas Hamilton (It), Lindy Booth (Dawn of the Dead), Sydney Park (“The Walking Dead”), Grace Van Dien (“Stranger Things”), Jorge Lendeborg Jr. (Bumblebee), Drew Ray Tanner (“Riverdale”), Kai Caster (“Spider Noir”) and Taipei Houston musicians Myles Ulrich and Layne Ulrich. 

Meet the cast in the trio of official posters below, all hand-drawn by the artist Kadie Video.

It also gives a tiny glimpse of the Halloween store itself, Shriek Shack.

In addition to starring, Lind also produces Halloween Store alongside Kenneth Burke and Andrey Romanyuk. “Saturday Night Live” mainstay Kenan Thompson and Steven Schneider (Insidious, Paranormal Activity) are among the executive producers on the project.

The posters indicate Shriek Shack might be one fun romp of a destination this Halloween season.

Stay tuned for additional news and release details for Halloween Store.

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The new feature from writer-director Avalon Fast (Honeycomb, The Serpent’s Skin) releases on June 26 in select US theaters, with a New York Theatrical Premiere at the IFC Center with Fast in attendance for the opening weekend.

In Camp, “Emily is the root cause of two devastating tragedies very early in her life, and she feels the weight of these accidents as though cursed. At her father’s suggestion, she takes a position at a summer camp for troubled youth to ease her guilt. When Emily arrives, she is welcomed by the other counselors, who accept her as she is and surround her with peace and forgiveness.

“Just as Emily begins to believe in a new kind of life, she starts to hear a voice whispering from deep in the woods — one that urges her to go home, and one that may be impossible to ignore.”

The film stars Zola Grimmer in her screen debut alongside Alice Wordsworth, Cherry Moore, Lea Rose Sebastianis (Castration Movie Part 1 & 2, In A Violent Nature), Ella Reece, Austyn Van de Kamp (This Too Shall Pass), Sophie Bawks-Smith (Honeycomb), Izza Jarvis, and Aiden Laudersmith.

Taylor Nodrick, Jacob Glickman, Jackie De Niverville, Martin Cadieux-Rouillard, and Maya Cadieux-Rouillard produce, with Paul Cadieux, Milan Chakraborty, Peter Kuplowsky, Michael Peterson, and Sanjay M Sharma serving as executive producers.

“Like its main character, Camp requires the viewer to give itself over to the experience. If you’re on its wavelength, it will suck you into a hypnagogic limbo that exists in the space between dream and reality; adolescence and adulthood; grief and acceptance,” our review writes.

Meet the coven in the images below.

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Watch our exclusive clip below, which introduces the skittering, skin-crawling aquatic menaces on the attack.

Samuel Goldwyn Films will release the Kraken in select theaters and on digital June 12.

Here’s the synopsis: “A marine biologist encounters several strange occurrences while researching a fjord, including the brutal deaths of two local teenagers. At the bottom of Norway’s deepest fjord rests a mythical monster as large as a mountain, with a myriad of arms ready to crush and devour anything they can grab.”

Pål Øie (The Tunnel) directs from a script by Vilde Eide, Kjersti Jelen Rasmussen, and Natasha Arthur.

Sara Khorami (Troll 2), Mikkel Bratt Silset, Øyvind Brandtzæg, Jenny Evensen, Ingvild Holthe Bygdnes, Jon Erik Myre, Hans Morten Hansen, Steinar Klouman Hallert, and Filip Bargee Ramberg star.

The behemoth beast from the deep is the latest kaiju-sized aquatic creature harboring a horde of bloodthirsty parasites, joining the likes of Cloverfield and Underwater. Naturally, the Kraken itself serves as the much bigger threat.

It’s also about time that the Kraken received its own feature; though Meg 2: The Trench featured a Kraken-like beast in its climax, the Kraken hasn’t been fully unleashed since Clash of the Titans.

Watch out for the Kraken in limited theaters and on VOD this Friday.

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