News https://bloody-disgusting.com/tag/hulu/ Horror movie news, reviews, interviews, videos, podcasts and more Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:59:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.7 https://i0.wp.com/bloody-disgusting.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-bd_circlelogo.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 News https://bloody-disgusting.com/tag/hulu/ 32 32 38024669 All The Horror Heading To Hulu, Netflix, Tubi & Other Streaming Services In September 2026 https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3965967/all-the-horror-heading-to-hulu-netflix-tubi-other-streaming-services-in-september-2026/ https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3965967/all-the-horror-heading-to-hulu-netflix-tubi-other-streaming-services-in-september-2026/#respond Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:51:17 +0000 https://bloody-disgusting.com/?p=3965967 The pumpkin spice is flowing and Halloween is fast approaching as September arrives. That means that HBO Max, Hulu, Netflix, Peacock, Paramount+, Screambox, Shudder, and Tubi have announced their September 2026 library additions with an increase in horror programming. You can get lost in the Backrooms of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire on HBO Max later […]

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The pumpkin spice is flowing and Halloween is fast approaching as September arrives. That means that HBO Max, Hulu, Netflix, Peacock, Paramount+, Screambox, Shudder, and Tubi have announced their September 2026 library additions with an increase in horror programming.

You can get lost in the Backrooms of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire on HBO Max later this month. Paramount+ offers both the theatrical and extended cut of Scary Movie. Netflix celebrates the upcoming release of Resident Evil with a collection of animated feature films based on Capcom’s hit video game series. Peacock embraces the Universal classic monsters and collects nearly every Purge film for a survive-the-night marathon.

Get into the seasonal spirit and expect an even bigger slate next month.

Here’s what’s coming to streaming in September.


HBO Max

Backrooms

September 1
A Clockwork Orange
Beetlejuice
Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare
Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare: Unrated Director’s Cut
Carrie (1976)
Final Destination (2000)
Final Destination 2 (2003)
Gremlins (1984)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Interview with the Vampire
MaXXXine
Men (2022)
Misery
Pearl: The X-Traordinary Origin Story
Talk To Me (2023)
The Craft
The Final Destination (2009)
War of the Worlds (2005)
Zombieland (2009)
Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)

September 23
The Meg

September 25
Backrooms


Hulu

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Heretic

September 1
Coraline
Jennifer’s Body
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Ma
ParaNorman
Sinister
Starship Troopers 3: Marauder
Starship Troopers: Invasion
Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars

September 7
Poor Things

September 8
Heretic

September 11
Rich Flu


Kanopy

1408
1408

September 1
1408
The Ruins

September 18
Crawl
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
September 25
Pet Sematary (2019)

Netflix

Smile 2 Parker Finn interview
Smile 2

September 1
Alien
Aliens
Gothika
Jaws
Jaws 2
Jaws 3
Jaws: The Revenge
Ready or Not
Resident Evil: Afterlife
Resident Evil: Extinction
Resident Evil: Retribution
The Rite
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Unfriended

September 2
Resident Evil: Damnation
Resident Evil: Death Island
Resident Evil: Vendetta

September 3
Smile 2

September 9
Prom Night

September 24
House at the End of the Street
Oculus


Paramount+

Scary Movie

September 1
Afflicted
Area 51
Asylum
Below
Case 39
Dracula III: Legacy
Event Horizon
Rumpelstiltskin
Russell Mulcahy’s Tale of the Mummy
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
Seven
Shutter Island
Spell
Spontaneous
Stephen King’s Graveyard Shift
Stephen King’s Silver Bullet
Stephen King’s Thinner
Sweetness*
Tales From the Darkside: The Movie
The Crow
The Crow: City of Angels
The Crow: Wicked Prayer
The Dead Zone
The Devil Inside
The Gift

September 3
Scary Movie (2026)
Scary Movie (2026) – Extended Cut

*Title is available to Paramount+ Premium subscribers.


Peacock

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The Last Voyage of the Demeter

September 1
Alien: Covenant
Bride of Frankenstein
Candyman
Creature From the Black Lagoon
Disturbia
Dracula
Drag Me to Hell
The First Purge
The Forever Purge*
Frankenstein
Get Out
Glass
Halloween
Halloween II
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Halloween Kills*
The Happening
Happy Death Day
The Invisible Man
It Follows
The Last Exorcism
The Mummy
Phantom of the Opera
Prometheus
Psycho
The Purge
The Purge: Election Year
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Shaun of the Dead
Signs
Sinister
Sinister 2
The Sixth Sense
The Skeleton Key
Split
Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight

September 10
The Last Voyage of Demeter*

September 11
Drop

September 26
Bagman*

September 29
Lisa Frankenstein*

* = is exclusive to Peacock


Pluto TV

Silent Hill

September 1
The Blackcoat’s Daughter
Bones And All
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
The Dead Zone
The Final Girls
From Dusk Till Dawn
From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman’s Daughter
The Gift (2000)
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Idle Hands
Jennifer’s Body
Joy Ride
Lamb
Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer
Pet Sematary (2019)
Relic
Rings
Silent Hill
Slice
Smile (2022)
Stephen King’s Graveyard Shift
Stephen King’s Silver Bullet
Stephen King’s Thinner
Tales From The Darkside: The Movie
Urban Legend
Urban Legends: Bloody Mary
Urban Legends: The Final Cut
Vampire In Brooklyn
The Witch


Prime Video

Nell Tiger Free in The First Omen
The First Omen

September 1
Army Of Darkness
Cape Fear (1962)
Cape Fear (1991)
Carrie (1976)
Carrie (2013)
Cat People (1982)
Death Becomes Her
Devil
Don’t Breathe
Dracula Untold
George A. Romero’s Land of the Dead
Halloween II
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Hannibal
It Came From Outer Space (1953)
Morbius
Prince of Darkness
Skeleton Key
The First Omen
The Mummy (2017)
The Purge
The Purge: Anarchy
The Purge: Election Year
The Silence of the Lambs
The Thing (1982)
The Visit
They Live
Trap
Van Helsing
Videodrome

September 15
Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train


Screambox

Deathwoods

September 1
Deathwoods

September 4
Castle of Blood
The Hands of Orlac
The Virgin of Nuremberg
Wake Up

September 11
Dracula, Prisoner Of Frankenstein
Escape From Women’s Prison
Fit To Kill
Hot Spur
Lux Aeterna

September 18
Evie
Fear
The Nanny’s Night
Spithood

September 22
Nightfall: A Paranormal Investigation

September 25
The Degenerate: The Life And Films Of Andy Milligan
The Occupant
Witches of Blackwood
You Shall Not Sleep Tonight

September 29
Generation Terror


Shudder

Parasomnia trailer exclusive
Parasomnia

September 1
Exorcismo
The Horseman
Irrefutable Truth About Demons
The Silent Scream

September 4
Parasomnia

September 7
Its Name Was Mormo
The Serpent’s Skin

September 11
Descendent
Mārama

September 14
Before the Fall
Dead by Dawn
Dinner to Die For
The House Was Not Hungry Then

September 18
Goody Goody

September 21
Blood Thirsty Butchers
The Corpse Collector
The Degenerate: The Life and Films of Andy Milligan
Hallucination Generation
The Man with Two Heads
The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here!

September 23
Above the Knee
Timecrimes
September 25
Bloody Tennis

Tubi

The Crazies

September 1
3 From Hell
All The Boys Love Mandy Lane
An American Haunting
And Soon The Darkness
The Blackcoat’s Daughter
Bone Tomahawk
Boogeyman
Boogeyman 2
Boogeyman 3
Case 39
Cooties
The Crazies
The Descent
The Descent: Part 2
Dracula 2000
Flight 7500
Fright Night (1985)
The Grudge 2 (2006)
Horns (2013)
The Inhabitant
Lake Placid
Lamb
Legion
The Messengers
Messengers 2: The Scarecrow
The Monster
My Bloody Valentine (2009)
Ouija
Ouija: Origin Of Evil
Perpetrator
The Prodigy (2019)
Rob Zombie’s Halloween
Rob Zombie’s Halloween II
The Ruins
See No Evil
Sleepy Hollow
Slice
Sorority Row
Texas Chainsaw 3D
They Live In The Grey
The Witch
What Lies Beneath
Wrong Turn (2021)
You’re Next

September 7
Presence

September 15
From Hell
Poltergeist

September 24
1408
The Eye (2008)
The Last Exorcism

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Creator and director Chris Carter’s intended vision finally makes it to the screen in The X-Files: I Want to Believe – Vrach Frankenshteyn, a brand new Director’s Cut version of the 2008 feature film that’s said to be both scarier and Rated R. The X-Files: I Want to Believe – Vrach Frankenshteyn begins streaming on Hulu & Disney+ on August 14, 2026.

Hulu previews this week, “The X-Files: I Want to Believe – Vrach Frankenshteyn reimagines creator and director Chris Carter’s original vision in this all-new director’s cut.”

The new cut was first teased in an interview with director Chris Carter on the Fail Better With David Duchovny podcast from last year, where he promised a much scarier movie.

“Now I have a chance to go back and make the scary movie that I always intended to make,” Carter explained. “It’s not just doing a Director’s Cut to do a Director’s Cut. It’s really kind of bringing to life something that for me was on the page and never got to the screen.“

“We set out to make a real-life Frankenstein movie, and due to a variety of factors, our Frankenstein never completely left the operating room,” Carter tells Entertainment Weekly in a new interview this week. “A chance to apply the electrodes again was a special thrill.”

Years after walking away from the FBI, Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dr. Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) are pulled back from the shadows when a federal agent vanishes without a trace. In a case you’d never see on TV, their only lead is a disgraced, defrocked priest claiming to have horrific psychic visions of the crime. Forced to confront the ghosts of their past, the partners must navigate a chilling winter landscape and an even darker human monstrosity. The truth of these crimes is out there somewhere… and it will take Mulder and Scully to find it.

It’s been nearly twenty years since the release of The X-Files: I Want to Believe, with the 2008 movie serving as the second and last feature film based on the series.

The idea was for The X-Files: I Want to Believe to essentially be a feature length monster-of-the-week tale, and it came along ten years after the original X-Files movie. Unfortunately, while 1998’s movie scared up $189 million at the global box office, I Want to Believe ended its run with just $69 million, and the franchise later returned to the small screen in its wake.

Almost 20 years later, will the film finally be redeemed? We’ll find out on August 14.

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This may be it, the calm before Halloween season kicks off in earnest next month. As such, HBO Max, Hulu, Netflix, Peacock, Paramount+, Pluto TV, Screambox, Shudder, and Tubi have announced their August 2026 library additions for another light month for horror streaming as summer begins to wane.

Here’s what’s arriving this month.

Netflix brings two new originals with The Last House and The Whisper Man this August, along with nearly all the Chucky films for your horror marathon needs. Shudder debuts the monstrous Hellcat, Buffet Infinity, and Ozploitation romp Penny Land is Dead to its packed catalog. Fans won’t want to miss the arrival of The X-Files: I Want to Believe Vrach Frankenshteyn on Hulu this month either.

Read on for all the horror arriving in August.


HBO Max

The Strangers: Prey at Night

August 1
Barbarian
It Comes At Night
Orphan
Tusk

August 7
The Strangers: Chapter 2

August 17
Thanksgiving (2023)

August 21
Mother Mary

August 30
Knock Knock
The Cabin in the Woods
The Strangers: Chapter 1
The Strangers: Prey at Night


Hulu

The X-Files: I Want to Believe

August 1
The Blackening
The Bye Bye Man
Halloweentown
Halloweentown 2: Kalabar’s Revenge
Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park III
Life
Untitled Home Invasion Romance

August 3
Ex Machina
MaXXXine
Pearl
X

August 4
Imaginary

August 14
The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
The X-Files: I Want to Believe Vrach Frankenshteyn – Director’s Cut (2026)


Kanopy

Red Eye Cillian Murphy
Red Eye

August 7
The People’s Joker
Red Eye 

August 14
Dementia 13: The Director’s Cut (1963)
Species 

August 21
A Different Man


Netflix

The Last House

August 1
Anaconda
Bride of Chucky
Child’s Play 2
Child’s Play 3
Cult of Chucky
Curse of Chucky
Seed of Chucky

August 3
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2

August 7
The Last House

August 13
Immaculate

August 15
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Shallows

August 24
M3GAN

August 28
The Whisper Man


Paramount+

From Dusk Till Dawn
From Dusk Till Dawn

August 1
10 Cloverfield Lane
Body Cam
Cloverfield
Crawl
Crawlspace
Disturbia
From Dusk Till Dawn
From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman’s Daughter
Organ Trail
Overlord
Vampire in Brooklyn

August 23
The Cured


Peacock

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Insidious: Chapter 2

August 1
Escape Room
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions
The Faculty
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Gremlins
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Insidious*
Insidious: Chapter 2*
Insidious: Chapter 3*
Knock Knock
Old*
One Hour Photo
Predator
The Predator

August 27
The Woman in the Yard*

* = is exclusive to Peacock


Pluto TV

Horror Queers The Loved Ones
The Loved Ones

August 1
Angel Heart
Approaching The Unknown
The Astronaut’s Wife
The Blob (1988)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Cursed
Deepstar Six
District 9
Event Horizon
Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell
Fright Night (1985)
Green Room
Hellboy (2004)
Hellraiser: Deader
Hellraiser: Hellseeker
Hellraiser: Hellworld
The Loved Ones
Mars Attacks!
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Mimic
Mimic 2
Mimic 3: Sentinel
My Bloody Valentine (1981)
Paranormal Activity
Paranormal Activity 2
Paranormal Activity 3
Paranormal Activity 4
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
Phantoms
Red Eye
Spell
The Time Machine (2002)
Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000
Wes Craven Presents Dracula II: Ascension
Wes Craven Presents Dracula III: Legacy
The Woman In Black (2012)


Prime Video

Is God Is

August 1
Primate

August 19
Is God Is


Screambox

A Bay of Blood double impalement
A Bay of Blood

August 4
Ragebait

August 7
A Bay Of Blood
Caligula The Untold Story
Cries Of Pleasure
Dark Places
Death Brings Roses
Dracula And Son
Mummy Resurrection
Murderlust
Running Time
Scream Of The Demon Lover
The Candy Snatchers

August 11
A Balcony in Limoges

August 14
Butchers Book Three: Bonesaw
Evilenko
Voices From Beyond

August 18
Yellow Eyes

August 21
Behave
Bunker
Butchers Book Two: Raghorn
Hammer And Beyond: The Jimmy Sangster Legacy
Playhouse
Spandexorcist
The Mutant (English Dub)

August 28
Alfred Hitchcock: More Than Just a Profile
Burning Moon
Byleth: The Demon Of Incest
Closed Circuit
Death Ride
Nightmare Man
There’s Nothing Out There


Shudder

Hellcat Review
Hellcat

August 1
And Soon the Darkness (1970)
Baxter (1989)
Bruiser (2000)
The Frighteners
George A. Romero’s Resident Evil
Salt Along the Tongue
Tales From the Crypt: Bordello of Blood
Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight
The Book of Sijjin and Illiyyin
The Living and the Dead
They Came Back (2004)
What Happened to Dorothy Bell?

August 3
13 Exorcisms
Dark Nuns
Devils Stay
Exorcismo
The Devil’s Exorcist
The Priest

August 7
The Yeti

August 10
Creation of the Damned
Morbus
Poppers
Rostros
Supernatural (1981)
The Bell from Hell
The House in the Outskirts
The People Who Own the Dark

August 14
Hellcat

August 17
Threads

August 21
Buffet Infinity

August 28
Penny Lane is Dead


Tubi

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Bambi: The Reckoning

August 1
The Black Demon
The Blackening
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Final Destination
Final Destination 2
Final Destination 3
Flatliners (1990)
Flatliners (2017)
Ghost Stories
Godzilla (1998)
Halloween (2018)
Medusa Deluxe
Mimic
Resident Evil: Damnation
Resident Evil: Death Island
Resident Evil: Degeneration
Scary Movie 2
Scary Movie 3
Scream (1996)
Scream 2
Scream 3
They
Zodiac

August 3
God is a Bullet

August 4
Imaginary

August 10
Bambi: The Reckoning
Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare
Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood And Honey 2

August 18
Fall

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Ryan Coogler’s ‘The X-Files’ Reboot Has Wrapped Production on Pilot https://bloody-disgusting.com/tv/3958255/ryan-cooglers-the-x-files-reboot-has-wrapped-production-on-pilot/ https://bloody-disgusting.com/tv/3958255/ryan-cooglers-the-x-files-reboot-has-wrapped-production-on-pilot/#respond Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:47:21 +0000 https://bloody-disgusting.com/?p=3958255 Himesh Patel (Tenet, Don’t Look Up) will star opposite Danielle Deadwyler (The Woman in the Yard) in Ryan Coogler’s reboot of “The X-Files“, which has wrapped filming on the pilot. Patel confirmed the news in a chat with The Direct, while reiterating that he and Deadwyler play new characters. “I don’t want to say anything that’s […]

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Himesh Patel (Tenet, Don’t Look Up) will star opposite Danielle Deadwyler (The Woman in the Yard) in Ryan Coogler’s reboot ofThe X-Files, which has wrapped filming on the pilot.

Patel confirmed the news in a chat with The Direct, while reiterating that he and Deadwyler play new characters.

I don’t want to say anything that’s going to get me disappeared. Needless to say, myself and Danielle Deadwyler are playing completely new characters, and we just wrapped on the pilot. If we get to do more… we’ll see where we go from there,Patel said.

That last sentence is noteworthy, as Patel is reminding that Hulu has only ordered the pilot so far. A full series order has yet to be greenlit. 

It’s a good reminder, considering that Hulu also ordered a pilot for theBuffy: New Sunnydalereboot that was filmed and delivered earlier this year, only for the streamer to send shockwaves when it opted not to move forward with the series.

As forThe X-Filespilot, Sinners filmmaker Ryan Coogler writes and directs the pilot. Jennifer Yale (The Copenhagen Test) serves as showrunner.

Himesh Patel and Danielle Deadwyler play two highly decorated but vastly different FBI agents who form an unlikely bond when they are assigned to a long-shuttered division devoted to cases involving unexplained phenomena.

Patel and Deadwyler previously co-starred together onStation Eleven.

Other actors who have signed on for guest roles include Amy Madigan, Steve Buscemi, Ben Foster, Devery Jacobs, Lochlyn Munro, Tantoo Cardinal, Joel D. Montgrand, and Sofia Grace Clifton.

The X-Filesoriginally ran for nine seasons between 1993 and 2002, with two additional seasons arriving in 2016 and 2018. 218 episodes were produced in total, along with two feature films: 1998’s The X-Files: Fight the Future and 2008’s The X-Files: I Want to Believe.

Himesh Patel in “Station Eleven”

 

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HBO Max, Hulu, Netflix, Peacock, Paramount+, Pluto TV, Screambox, Shudder, and Tubi have announced their July 2026 library additions, but it’s another light month for horror as summer continues to heat up.

Here’s what’s coming.

What’s the Fourth of July without Jaws? Peacock has you covered for a Jaws marathon this holiday weekend. The holiday also brings two 2026 theatrical releases to streaming: Lee Cronin’s The Mummy on HBO Max and Disney+/Hulu adds Ready or Not 2: Here I Come. Sharks close out the month, too, with the arrival of The Devil’s Mouth on Prime Video.

If you missed splatstick comedy Over Your Dead Body in theaters, look for it on Sundance Now on July 31. Also look for 2026 horror releases Exit 8 and Faces of Death to arrive on Shudder.

Read on for all the horror arriving in July.


HBO Max

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy

July 1
Army of Darkness
The Evil Dead (1983)
Evil Dead II (1987)
Evil Dead (2013)
Hereditary
The Disembodied
The Frozen Dead
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
The Meg
The Mummy (1999)
The Mummy (1959)
The Mummy Returns
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
The Strangers
Us

July 3
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy

July 10
The Long Walk


Hulu

Redux Redux
Redux Redux

July 1
The Mummy

July 2
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come

July 3
Bodies Bodies Bodies

July 8
I.S.S.

July 10
Daniel Isn’t Real
Redux Redux


Kanopy

Cold Storage
Cold Storage

July 3
Dangerous Animals
Sharknado

July 10
The Witch
The Ice Tower

July 17
Keeper
Night of the Hunter

July 24
Cold Storage

July 31
Good Boy (2025)
Picnic at Hanging Rock


Netflix

Talk to Me

July 1
The Beguiled
Hellboy
Krampus
Rebirth of Mothra
Rebirth of Mothra II
Rebirth of Mothra III
Talk to Me
The Witch

July 24
Scream
Scream 2
Scream 3

July 28
The Exorcism


Paramount+

The Ring PG-13 Horror Movies
The Ring

July 1
Carriers
Nightwatch
The Ring
The Ring Two
Sleepy Hollow
Super 8
Tremors


Peacock

Jaws: The Revenge

July 1
Blink Twice
Hellboy
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Jaws*
Jaws 2*
Jaws 3-D*
Jaws: The Revenge*
Seven
The Shallows
Van Helsing
War of the Worlds

* = is exclusive to Peacock


Pluto TV

John Carpenter Movies Streaming - The Fog
The Fog

July 1
247 Degrees Fahrenheit
After Darkness
After Midnight (1989)
After.Life
Aftershock
Alone In The Dark
Among The Shadows
American Carnage
Asylum (2008)
Barrens
The Blackcoat’s Daughter
Blood Creek
Bloodline
Boy Eats Girl
The Cabin In The Woods
Candyman III
Chained
Children Of The Corn: Runaway
Christine (1983)
Darkness
Day Of The Dead: Bloodline
Dead End (2003)
Demonic
The Dentist
The Dentist 2
Disquiet
Dracula 3000
Dreamkatcher
Embrace Of The Vampire
Escape From New York
The Eternal Daughter
Fangoria: Blood Drive
Fangoria: Blood Drive II
Fear Clinic
Fear Of Rain
Fertile Ground
The Fog
Ginger Snaps
Ginger Snaps 3
Gothic
Grace
Hatchet
High Life
Hollow Man
House Of The Dead (2003)
In Fear
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
Jack Goes Home
Kill Theory
Knock Knock (2015)
Lamb
La Nina De La Mina
The Little Mermaid (2024)
Los Visitantes (2014)
Love Lies Bleeding
Martyrs (2015)
The Messengers
The Monster
The New Daughter
Night Of The Demons
Night Of The Living Dead 3D (2006)
Open Your Eyes
Parents
Patrick: Evil Awakens
Pet Sematary (1989)
Pet Sematary II
The Possession (2012)
Pulse III: Invasion
Rambler
Shivers
Speak No Evil
Spectre
Strangeland
Summer Camp (2016)
Tamara
To Let
Too Scared To Scream
Toolbox Murders
Under the Skin
The Uninvited
The Vatican Tapes
Waxwork
Waxwork II: Lost In Time
The Witch
Witch Hunt (2019)
Woodshock
Yakuza Apocalypse
You’re Next
Zodiac


Prime Video

The Devil’s Mouth

July 1
Bones And All
Jinn
Leviathan
World War Z

July 8
65

July 17
Do Not Enter

July 29
*The Devil’s Mouth

July 31
Primate

*Prime Original


Screambox

Curtains
Curtains

July 10
Dawn of the Mummy
Black Venus

July 17
Curtains

July 21
Thingy

July 24
2020 Texas Gladiators
Ballad in Blood
Beast Mode
Contamination

July 31
The Forbidden
Beast In Heat
Revenge Of The Living Dead Girls
Caligula & Messalina


Shudder

Exit 8

July 1
A Grand Mockery
Amer
Cabin in the Woods
The Covenant
The Craft
Daydreamers
Dream Eater
The Evil Dead
Ghost Ship
Oscar Tango Hellwater
The Scarecrow

July 3
Touch Me

July 6
Bambi: The Reckoning
I Heart Willie
Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare
Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey
Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey 2

July 8
I Spit on Your Grave (1978)

July 10
Faces of Death

July 13
Dead Snow
The Outwaters
Sleepaway Camp

July 17
Exit 8

July 20
A Good Woman is Hard to Find
Baby in the Basket
Cold Road
Nina Wu

July 24
Saccharine

July 27
Cut Throats Nine
Night Train to Terror
Terminal Island

July 31
Nightborn


Tubi

Man Finds Tape release date
Man Finds Tape

July 1
American Psycho
The Blackcoat’s Daughter
Deep Blue Sea
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
The Eternal Daughter
Exorcist II: The Heretic
The Great Wall
Hellboy (2004)
High Life
Hostel: Part III
I Am Legend
Insidious
Insidious: Chapter 2
Insidious: Chapter 3
Lamb
Love Lies Bleeding
No One Will Save You
Only Lovers Left Alive
The Shallows
The Time Machine
Under the Skin
Vacancy (2007)
The Witch

July 2
The Carpenter’s Son
Man Finds Tape

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The summer box office is heating up, but horror on streaming is light this month. HBO Max, Hulu, Netflix, Peacock, Paramount+, Pluto TV, Screambox, Shudder, and Tubi have announced their June 2026 library additions, but the horror offerings are light this month.

Here’s what’s coming.

Standouts arriving on streaming this month include the scarier new Director’s Cut of The X-Files: I Want to Believe on Disney+ starting June 11, and Mexico’s first stop-motion animated feature film, I Am Frankelda, on Netflix. If you missed the recent theatrical releases for undertone, Return to Silent Hill, or last year’s Keeper, then keep scrolling for details on where and when you can stream these at home.

Read on for all the horror arriving in June.


HBO Max

Evy gets scared by viral image in Undertone.
undertone

June 1
Brainstorm
Contagion
Lady in the Lake
Midsommar
Stoker
Storm Warning

June 26
undertone


Hulu

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Keeper

June 1
Mirrors
Resident Evil: Damnation
Resident Evil: Vendetta

June 5
Keeper

June 9
Underworld: Blood Wars

June 13
The Home (2025)

June 26
Queens of the Dead

June 30
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter


Kanopy

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

June 5
The Killing of a Sacred Deer

June 19
The Triangle (2005)


Netflix

I Am Frankelda

June 1
The Chronicles of Riddick
House on Haunted Hill
Pitch Black
Riddick
Scooby-Doo
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed

June 7
Poor Things

June 12
I Am Frankelda


Paramount+

Death Becomes Her
Death Becomes Her

June 1
Death Becomes Her
John Carpenter’s Escape From L.A.
Mean Creek
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
The Dark Tower*

June 20
Piranha*

*Title is available to Paramount+ Premium subscribers.


Peacock

Strung

June 1
Bride of Chucky
The Exorcist: Believer*
Jennifer’s Body
Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park III
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Resident Evil
Seed of Chucky

June 18
Wolf Man*

June 26
Strung*

* = is exclusive to Peacock


Pluto TV

I Saw the TV Glow

June 1
10 Cloverfield Lane
Attack the Block
Disturbia
Gremlins
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
Hellboy (2019)
Identity (2003)
I Saw the TV Glow
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Men (2022)
Scary Movie
Scary Movie 2
Scary Movie 3
Scary Movie 4
Scary Movie 5

The War of the Worlds (1953)


Prime Video

The Blackening
The Blackening

June 1
Doom: Annihilation
Escape Room (2019)
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956)
The Night Of The Hunter
Thoroughbreds

June 5
The Blackening

June 6
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice


Screambox

Return to Silent Hill International Trailer
Return to Silent Hill

June 5
Bloody Chainsaw Girl Returns
Bloody Chainsaw Girl Returns: Revenge of Nero
End Zone 2
I DON’T LIKE IT HERE
Murdercise
Punk the Capital
Return to Silent Hill
Soldier Warriors
The Blue Diamond
The Haunted Studio
The Life And Deaths Of Christopher Lee
Tonight She Comes
Tokyo Gore Police (English Dubbed)
Tokyo Gore Police (Original Japanese)
Within the Rock

June 9
DRAGN

June 12
Banjo
Debbie Does Demons
Four of the Apocalypse
Jōhatsu
Midnight Monster
Night Of The Howling
Ninja USA
Peggy
Shreck
Shinobi Girl – Season 1
The Amazing Transplant
The Blood Of Fu Manchu
The Castle of Fu Manchu
The Hagstone Demon
The Hideous Sun Demon (1958) (HD Restored Version)
The Ugly
Werewolf Massacre: Carnage Of The Night Creatures

June 16
Night of Blood

June 19
Creepy Crawly
Darkness in Tenement 45
Escape / OBEY!
Life in the XXI Century
The Suffering
Zombeez

June 26
Alter Ego
Brute 1976
Clash – The Rise And Fall Of The Clash Redux
Explorer from Another World
Fred & Rose West: Love & Murder
Isleen Pines
Macabre Mountain
Razor Blade Smile
XXX-Mas


Shudder

The Voices of Our Mother

June 1
30 Days of Night
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
The Burning
Evil Dead II
Fright Night (1985)
Interview with the Vampire
John Carpenter’s Vampires
Raw
Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers
Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland
Squirm

June 5
The Ice Tower

June 8
The Wait

June 12
Find Your Friends

June 15
Cannibal Mukbang
The Columnist
Trespassers (2018)

June 19
The Voices of Our Mother

June 22
Baise-Moi
Criminal Lovers
In My Skin
Evolution (2016)

June 26
Forbidden Fruits


Tubi

The Last House on the Left 2009

June 1
Alien Vs. Predator
Aliens Vs. Predator – Requiem
Brightburn
The Call
The Cave
Dark Harvest
Dark Water
Disturbia
Escape Room (2019)
Fear
I Saw the TV Glow
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
The Last House Of The Left (2009)
Men (2022)
Overlord
Stephen King’s Thinner
Tales From The Darkside: The Movie
Underworld

June 2
I.S.S.
Sasquatch Sunset

June 13
Infinity Pool

June 19
Stepfather

 

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Hulu is developing “What Remains,” a psychological thriller series based on Wendy Walker‘s novel of the same name, Deadline reports.

Kerry Washington (Django Unchained, Wake Up Dead Man) is set to star and executive produce.

Chris Luccy (“A Million Little Things”) is penning the adaptation, with McG (Terminator Salvation, The Babysitter) on board to direct.

In the series, “After taking the life of a disturbed man in the line of duty, Detective Elise Sutton (Washington) – a devoted wife, loving mother, and cold case specialist — reels from the guilt of her actions.

“To convince herself that she did the right thing, she makes contact with a mysterious man that she saved that day, only to discover that he’s not at all what he seems. She’s soon caught in a dangerous game of cat and mouse, following the clues he leaves for her and realizing that the only person who can stop him… is her.”

20th Television and Kapital Entertainment are behind the show, with Walker producing. Executive producers include Luccy; Washington & Pilar Sivone for Simpson Street; McG, Mary Viola & Corey Marsh for Wonderland Sound and Vision; and Aaron Kaplan for Kapital Entertainment.

Released in 2023 by Blackstone Publishing, What Remains is described as a “dark, twisty, and highly addictive psychological thriller” in the vein of The Woman in the Window and The Silent Patient.

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Halfway to Halloween is over and May has arrived. HBO Max, Hulu, Netflix, Peacock, Paramount+, Pluto TV, Screambox, Shudder, and Tubi have announced their May 2026 library additions, but the horror offerings are light this month. Here’s a rundown.

Sam Raimi’s Send Help makes its streaming debut on Hulu this month, along with under-the-radar new releases like Babak Anvari’s Hallow Road, the Daisy Ridley-starring zombie drama We Bury the Dead.

The arrival of Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair on Peacock comes with a Quentin Tarantino collection that includes horror faves like Death Proof. Screambox transforms a kids show into nightmare fuel with Monkey’s Magic Merry Go Round.

Here’s all the horror arriving in May.


HBO Max

Ty Simpkins as Dalton in the Red Door
Insidious: The Red Door

May 1
Insidious: The Last Key

May 4
Insidious: The Red Door (2023)


Hulu

We Bury the Dead zombies in teaser, starring Daisy Ridley
We Bury the Dead

May 1
Love And Monsters
Only Lovers Left Alive
War of the Worlds (2005)

May 2
Hallow Road

May 7
Send Help

May 8
We Bury the Dead

May 21
Alien: Romulus

May 22
The Home (2025)

May 26
Descendent (2025)

May 28
Afraid


Kanopy

The Vanishing
The Vanishing

May 8
Beau is Afraid
Bodies Bodies Bodies

May 15

The Voices (2014)
The Vanishing (1988)
Carrie (1976)
The Mist

May 22
Buried

May 29
The Whistler (2026)

Netflix

Black Phone 2

May 1
Jennifer’s Body
Ouija
Ouija: Origin of Evil
Starship Troopers
Under the Skin

May 16
Black Phone 2

May 18
Nope


Paramount+

Scary Movie 4

May 1
Scary Movie 4
Scary Movie V
Searching


Peacock

The Mummy 4
The Mummy

May 1
The Mummy
The Mummy Returns
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Searching
Shutter Island

May 4
Imaginary*

May 22
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair*
Death Proof
Planet Terror

May 30
The Strangers: Chapter 1*

* = is exclusive to Peacock


Pluto TV

The blob kid metling
The Blob

May 1
30 Days Of Night (2007)
30 Days Of Night: Dark Days
Attack The Block
Beau is Afraid
Below
The Blob (1988)
Bodies Bodies Bodies
Climax
The Covenant (2006)
The Craft: Legacy
Crawl
Cujo
Deliver Us From Evil
Disturbia
The Faculty
Fright Night (1985)
The Gift (2000)
Green Room
Hannibal
The Haunting In Connecticut
Hereditary
Idle Hands
Life After Beth
Mimic
Pet Sematary (2019)
Scary Movie
Scary Movie 2
Scary Movie 3
Shutter Island
The Silence Of The Lambs
Slice
Urban Legend
Urban Legends: Bloody Mary
Urban Legends: The Final Cut
The Wolf Of Snow Hollow
The Woman In Black


Prime Video

Blink Twice leading ladies covered in blood - 2024 horror on streaming
Blink Twice

May 1
Gretel & Hansel
Psycho II
Species
The Return of the Living Dead
The Wolf of Snow Hollow

May 21
Blink Twice


Screambox

Monkey's Magic Merry Go Round
Monkey’s Magic Merry Go Round

May 1
The Man From Nowhere
The Mimic
The Long Night
Shaman
Acid Pit Stop

May 5
The Morrigan

May 8
Dabbe 6: The Return
Rampant
Special ID
Kill Your Friends
Freaks
Deadlocked
American Rickshaw

May 15
The Portrait
The Legend of La Llorona
The Ghost Station
Massacre Academy
Deleter

May 19
Monkey’s Magic Merry Go Round

May 22
The Raven
Protein
The Seasoning House
So Cold the River
Morgue
Piggy
Padmashri
A Hard Place

May 29
Nosferatu – A Symphony of Horror
Hemogoblin
Dark Sea


Shudder

Hidden Halloween Horror Movies on Streaming
Livid

May 1
Baby Blood
Gazer
Goodnight Mommy (2014)
Heresy
Innocence
Livid
Martyrs
Murderrock
Re-Wind
Teeth
The Bride From Hades
The Ghost of Yotsuya
The Ice Tower
The Snow Woman
Vice Squad

May 4
Horror Noire: History of Black Horror
Solvent

May 8
Whistle

May 11
47 Meters Down
47 Meters Down: Uncaged
Aberrance
In Search of Darkness 1990-1994

May 15
Something is About to Happen

May 22
This is Not a Test

May 29
Smothered


Tubi

Happy Death Day 2U

May 1
American Carnage
Beau Is Afraid
Bodies Bodies Bodies
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Cell
Climax
Don’t Breathe
Green Room
Hannibal
Happy Death Day 2U
Hereditary
House At The End Of The Street
In Fabric
Lake Placid
Let The Right One In
Life After Beth
Mama
Misery
Predators
Silent Hill
Slice
The Dead Zone
The Final Girls
The Inhabitant
The Invitation
The Mist
The Predator
The Silence Of The Lambs

May 8
Give Me Back My Baby

May 22
I Didn’t Do It

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Directed by master of horror Sam Raimi, Send Help will make its streaming debut May 7 on Hulu.

Rachel McAdams (Doctor Strange) and Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner) star in the darkly comedic survival thriller as two colleagues who find themselves stranded on a deserted island after they are the sole survivors of a plane crash.

They must overcome past grievances and work together to survive, but ultimately, it is an unsettling and darkly humorous battle of wills and wits to make it out alive.

Edyll Ismail (“La Brea”), Dennis Haysbert (“24”), Xavier Samuel (The Loves Ones), Chris Pang (Crazy Rich Asians), Thaneth Warakulnukroh (“Thai Cave Rescue”), and Emma Raimi (Sam Raimi’s daughter) round out the cast.

Damian Shannon & Mark Swift (Freddy vs. Jason, Friday the 13th) penned the script. Danny Elfman (Spider-Man, Beetlejuice) composed the score.

Raimi produces alongside Zainab Azizi (65, Don’t Move) for Raimi Productions, with JJ Hook (Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Bumblebee) serving as executive producer.

Send Help is full of vibrant personality, packed with all of Raimi’s signatures,” Meagan Navarro wrote in her review, “It’s a raucous, goopy good time at the movies.”

Available now on Digital and physical media, Send Help earned Raimi his first R rating in 25 years for “strong/bloody violence and language.”

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It’s hard to classify the genre for Hulu’s hit series “Paradise,” which started off as a political thriller and evolved into a post-apocalyptic series that then revealed science fiction elements. It’s a series we regrettably haven’t covered much here on BD for the first two seasons, but since it’s a personal favorite of mine, we’ll be changing that for the upcoming third season.

“Paradise” will indeed be returning for a third season at Hulu, and Deadline reports today that small screen veteran Julianna Margulies (“ER”) has joined the cast of Season 3.

“Details regarding who Margulies will play and the plot of the third season are under wraps,” Deadline notes. The Emmy winner is the latest high profile actress to come on board Hulu’s “Paradise,” with Shailene Woodley joining the series for its second season.

While perhaps best known for her role in “ER,” Julianna Margulies has made a few stops in the horror genre over the years. She appeared in both Ghost Ship and Snakes on a Plane, while more recently she’s starred in the TV shows “Dietland” and “The Morning Show.”

Sterling K. Brown leads the cast of “Paradise,” which was created by Dan Fogelman.

The title of the series refers to a underground bunker where humanity’s survivors have been living after a doomsday event ravaged the planet, and we won’t spoil anything further for those who haven’t yet checked it out. Both seasons are now streaming on Hulu and Disney+, and I highly recommend you dive in and use this time between seasons to play catch-up.

How many people are watching, you might be wondering?

Deadline notes in today’s report, “The Season 2 finale (March 30) [of “Paradise”] scored 4.3 million views globally in three days across Disney+ and Hulu, the company said. That’s up 35% over the premiere to a season-best audience for the sci-fi series.”

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‘The Testaments’ Doesn’t Need Torture Porn To Make You Squirm https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3945587/the-testaments-doesnt-need-torture-porn-to-make-you-squirm/ https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3945587/the-testaments-doesnt-need-torture-porn-to-make-you-squirm/#respond Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:00:41 +0000 https://bloody-disgusting.com/?p=3945587 When “Offred,” the first episode of The Handmaid’s Tale, begins, the audience is immediately thrown into adrenaline-pumping action as June (Elisabeth Moss) runs for her life and her family faces irrevocable fracture. It’s a terrifying starting point that conditions the viewer for an uncomfortable ride ahead. Alternatively, “Precious Flowers,” The Testaments’ first episode, begins with […]

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WhenOffred,the first episode of The Handmaid’s Tale, begins, the audience is immediately thrown into adrenaline-pumping action as June (Elisabeth Moss) runs for her life and her family faces irrevocable fracture. It’s a terrifying starting point that conditions the viewer for an uncomfortable ride ahead.

Alternatively,Precious Flowers,The Testaments’ first episode, begins with orderly visuals of an elaborate dollhouse amidst greater opulence. There’s a sense of order, control, acceptance – and even pride – that’s present here that’s completely absent in the introduction to The Handmaid’s Tale’s world. The Testaments begins a little more than four years after The Handmaid’s Tale’s final episode, yet it’s initially difficult to recognize that they’re even a part of the same universe due to the extreme tonal shift at hand.

It was a little less than a decade ago when The Handmaid’s Tale first premiered in 2017, yet there is a shocking degree of parallels between 2017 and 2026. Horror, however, was in a different place, and there was a greater appetite for vicious films like Jigsaw, Gerald’s Game, Downrange, and Victor Crowley. The world has become much more desensitized to carnage and bloodshed, as if it’s just an everyday nuisance that needs to be compartmentalized. Accordingly, The Testaments’ world isn’t any less horrendous than what was on display in The Handmaid’s Tale. It’s just become commodified to such an extent that it no longer even reads as trauma. It’s Stockholm Syndrome to the nth degree.

The Handmaid’s Tale was such a splash of cold water to the face that got the audience’s attention because of its rampant sexual assault, twisted and torturous body horror, genital mutilation, and an oppressive government that makes Escape from New York’s political cabinet look rational. It presents a hellish world where its horrors don’t even have to hide in plain sight because there’s nothing to hide from. 

The Handsmaid’s Tale‘s YA-sequel unlocks an insidious dollhouse of horror

Agnes and other Plums congregate in The Testaments.

Curiously, The Testaments reads as a YA-coded subversion of The Handmaid’s Tale’s norm, and in many ways it is. It also tells a story that’s even more insidious than its predecessor by normalizing and sugar-coating these horrors through a younger point of view. The Testaments presents itsopportunitiesas aspirational inevitabilities that its younger cast of characters has been born into. Many of them have never even known an alternative way of life, whereas The Handmaid’s Tale is all about the anguish of that schism and how to return to the status quo. Gilead is the status quo in The Testaments.  

The Testaments is a coming-of-age drama that follows a new generation of women in Gilead, led by Agnes (Chase Infiniti) and Daisy (Lucy Halliday), two residents with very different backgrounds who share an unexpected connection. Agnes and Daisy make their way through an elite prep school that’s designed to prime them for their obedient futures as wives. It’s fascinating to see Handmaid’s Tale’s aggressive nihilism receive a tie-dyed YA makeover that even plays into the burgeoningmicro-dramaspace.

It’s a smart angle that rejuvenates The Handmaid’s Tale’s brand, which was admittedly flailing after six seasons. The Testaments draws in a completely new audience, while it still does enough to appeal to the original Handmaid’s Tale crowd. The same breed of relationship drama still exists, yet it’s impossibly more corrupted in The Testaments. These arranged marriages and prescribed fealty are something that Gilead’s youth are fighting rather than rebelling against. It’s their idea of a love story. The Testaments often feels more like a Freeform teen drama than a Hulu prestige piece. Even the series’ omnipresent voiceover echoes June’s use of this device in The Handmaid’s Tale, yet it’s turned into egregious, unnecessary narration that evokes the egregious internal monologues found in young-adult fare.

It’s no coincidence that The Testaments repeatedly turns to its introductory dollhouse imagery. It’s a convenient metaphor that displays the conditional happiness and oppressive roles that pull the strings in Gilead. Agnes and Daisy are drowning in a sea of poison, yet The Testaments deceives its victims through overpowering imagery of beautiful pastries, pastel desserts, and ornate tea parties. There’s even aprom episodethat adds a Bridgerton quality to this horrifying story and pretends that it’s a fairy tale. At one point, a character remarks,Gilead was so beautiful I could sometimes forget where I was.The characters focus on dance steps, pomp and circumstance, and fancy pageantry that masks the abuse. It’s an Instagram filter of normalcy over subjugation and ignorance. 

The Testaments‘ hidden mask of cruelty cuts deeper

Shu and Agnes practice dancing in The Testaments.

Even the episode titles in The Testaments reflect a sanitized and repressed nature that focuses on beautiful lies and artifice, rather than the truth. Episodes have titles likePrecious Flowers,” “Perfect Teeth,andGreen Tea,which all hide the true horrors that lurk beneath these ideas and what they really represent. Alternatively, The Handmaid’s Tale would have episodes with titles likeNolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum,” “Unwomen,andJezebels.The girls in The Testaments are so oblivious to life’s true dangers that Agnes has her own Little Mermaid moment in which she misinterprets a crude crack pipe for something beautiful.

The most chilling example of The Testaments’ indoctrinated delusion involves the young girls’ highly stylized and color-coded outfits that delineate their various stages and roles. It’s treated like a fun outfit to coordinate and accessorize with as yet another aspect of this carefully coordinated lifestyle. It’s a disturbing exercise that ostensibly turns all these girls into targets, and yet it’s treated like haute couture. The wholePlumconcept that labels girls who have yet to have their periods is so simple, yet one of the most vile things that the franchise has ever done. This disgusting idea is normalized in such a chilling manner. It turns a twisted tool that’s used to mark young, vulnerable women into a fashion statement. 

Girls are literally crying because they haven’t had their periods, and they want to be paired off with Commanders who are twice their age. It’s presented as a privilege that’s reinforced through a reprehensible cult mentality to characters who are too young to know any better. The whole Plum ritual is aspirational, and those who buck this trend are destined to become outcasts. The horror that’s so expertly weaponized in The Testaments is more akin to The Stepford Wives, Subservience, or even Village of the Damned and Dogtooth, rather than a more blunt and brutal examination of gender and status, like in Hostel, Society, or Revenge. 

The Testaments has even created an ecosystem where women from outside of Gilead are targeted byPearl Girlsand drawn into a world wherewomen still have value.They co-opt and twist this subjugated sex slave narrative into a world where women are valued, cared for, and given a clear purpose. It’s The Testaments’ version of embracing atrad wifelifestyle, albeit with a lot more carnage and cruelty. Funnily enough, the one Testaments episode that ditches its stylized sanitation is a flashback entry that’s set pre-Handmaid’s Tale. It’s also the season’s most gratuitous and brutal episode. It’s outwardly terrifying, and the episode that feels the most like a traditional horror movie.

Gilead’s dystopian system still inspires violence

Women watch torture taking place in The Testaments.

The Testaments masquerades many of its horrors, but the series isn’t completely devoid of violence. There’s a toxic version of girl power that’s exploited throughout the series and channeled into a fiery fury towards men. To be clear, Gilead’s system is still deeply broken. The Testaments is just very particular about how its most overt punishments are done to men, rather than building terror from their freedom to abuse women. This is not a world where violence is erased. It’s just powerfully focused to elicit a very specific response. This illusion of control and agency creates even greater horrors that are interwoven into these young girls’ identities.

The sheer jubilation that Gilead’s youth experience during a man’s dismemberment speaks to the bloodthirsty and rabid tendencies that are bubbling under the surface of these seemingly “proper women.” They’re living embodiments of Gilead’s toxic veneer of compliance. There’s a level of reverence and awe in these girls’ reactions that’s comparable to the Sawyer family watching a butchering session in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Both are governed by self-imposed norms that argue for a simpler, more honest existence. 

It’s fascinating to see both The Testaments and Emerald Fennel’s Wuthering Heights wrestle with the same themes of conditioned normalcy and women’s relationship and curiosity with pain, violence, and death. Surprisingly, The Testaments seems to have more to say on this front as Agnes and Daisy head further down Gilead’s rabbit hole. Daisy has some frame of reference for why all this isn’t normal. Agnes faces a much more challenging struggle ahead that involves liberation from Gilead, but also a complete reeducation on how to exist. 

Agnes’ psychological scars run much deeper than any mutilation wound from The Handmaid’s Tale. She’s so busy getting excited over marriage and celebrating puberty that she doesn’t even know that she’s trapped in a horror movie. Playing with dolls may be more pleasant than kicking and screaming through the woods, but the results can be so much worse. 

The Testaments’ first three episodes are available on Disney+ and Hulu, with new episodes releasing weekly.

A courtship dance occurs in The Testaments.

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From acclaimed Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Stoker), No Other Choice will stream on Hulu beginning April 24.

Lee Byung-hun (“Squid Game”) stars in the black comedy thriller a man who is abruptly laid off by the paper company where he worked tirelessly for many years. He grows increasingly desperate in his hunt for new work, eventually coming to a life-altering decision.

Son Ye-jin (“Crash Landing on You”), Park Hee-soon (“Squid Game”), Lee Sung-min (The Spy Gone North), Yeom Hye-ran (“The Glory”), Cha Seung-won (Night in Paradise), and Yoo Yeon-seok (“When the Phone Rings”) also star.

Chan-wook co-wrote the script with Lee Kyoung-mi, Jahye Lee (Uprising) and Don McKellar (Blindness), based on Donald E. Westlake‘s 1997 novel The Ax.

The film premiered at the Venice International Film Festival and went on to play the Toronto International Film Festival, Beyond Fest, New York Film Festival, Sitges Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, and more.

“Park Chan-wook’s deceptively simple comedy proves anything but,” Meagan Navarro wrote in her review out of TIFF. “It makes for a disarming and almost whimsical experience that wallops you hard with a sucker punch when you least expect it.”

No Other Choice was selected as the South Korean entry for the Best International Feature Film category for the 98th Academy Awards.

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April has arrived, and it brings with it new library titles joining your favorite streaming services. No April Fool’s gags here; we’re here to help when it comes to figuring out what to watch. HBO Max, Hulu, Netflix, Peacock, Paramount+, Pluto TV, Shudder, and Tubi have announced their April 2026 library additions, keeping your watchlists busy. Here’s a rundown.

Bryan Fuller‘s darling Dust Bunny makes its streaming debut this month on HBO Max. Netflix unleashes not one but two genre originals with the Tommy Wirkola’s Thrash and serial killer thriller Apex. Look for a trio of Tubi Originals to arrive this month, including Hive.

If you missed box office juggernaut sequel Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 in theaters or on Digital, head to Peacock this month. Those seeking marathon binges this month may want to head to HBO Max to revisit the Alien franchise, or Paramount+ for Paranormal Activity.

Here’s the horror arriving in April.


HBO Max

Dust Bunny

April 1
Alien vs. Predator: Extended Cut
Alien
Alien 3
Alien 3: The Assembly Cut
Alien Resurrection
Alien Resurrection: Special Edition
Alien vs. Predator: Requiem: Extended Cut
Alien: Director’s Cut
Aliens
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
Aliens: Director’s Cut
AVP: Alien vs. Predator
Practical Magic
The Hole in the Ground
The Mummy (1999)
The Mummy Returns
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

April 3
Alien: Romulus

April 17
Dust Bunny


Hulu

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Shelby Oaks

April 1
Monster House (2006)
Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

April 3
Pizza Movie

April 4
Primitive War

April 5
The Boogeyman

April 6
Sirat

April 17
Shelby Oaks

April 24
No Other Choice (2025)

April 25
Good Boy (2025)

April 30
A Haunting In Venice


Kanopy

Together

April 3
Together
Dream Scenario
High Life
Lamb

April 10
Shelby Oaks
Cloud
Vivarium

April 17
Event Horizon

April 24
George A. Romero’s Resident Evil
Killer Klowns From Outer Space


Netflix

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Thrash

April 7
Beast (2022)

April 10
Scream (2022)
Thrash

April 11
A Quiet Place Part II

April 13
Halloween Ends

April 19
Him

April 24
Apex


Paramount+

Paranormal Activity 8
Paranormal Activity

April 1
Addams Family Values
Cujo
Mindhunters
Monstrous*
Paranormal Activity
Paranormal Activity 2
Paranormal Activity 3
Paranormal Activity 4
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
Shutter Island
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Terminator Genisys
Terminator: Dark Fate
The Addams Family
The Woman in Black

*Title is available to Paramount+ Premium subscribers.


Peacock

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2

April 1
Blade
Blade II
Blade: Trinity
Red Eye
This Is the End

April 3
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2

April 21
Nosferatu

April 26
Five Nights At Freddy’s


Pluto TV

Hollow Man

April 1
Dream Scenario
From Dusk Till Dawn
From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman’s Daughter
High Life
Hollow Man
Shutter Island
Starship Troopers
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Ultraviolet
Under the Skin


Prime Video

The Conjuring: Last Rites

April 1
Anna And The Apocalypse
Child’s Play (1988)
Child’s Play (2019)
Dark Harvest
End of Days
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Lifeforce
Teen Wolf: The Movie (2023)
The Addams Family (2019)
The Addams Family 2 (2021)
The Amityville Horror (1979)
The Amityville Horror (2005)
The Great Wall
The Menu
The Poughkeepsie Tapes
The Prodigy
White Noise

April 17
The Running Man (2025)

April 21
The Conjuring: Last Rites


Shudder

Dolly Review
Dolly

April 1
Ben (1972)
Blood for Dracula
The Boogeyman (1980)
The Crazies
The Devils (1971)
Flesh of Frankenstein
House of Wax (2005)
Luther the Geek
Pumpkinhead
Season of the Witch
Steppenwolf (2024)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
Three…Extremes
Three (aka Three Extremes 2)
Troll (1986)
Troll 2 (1991)
Willard (1971)

April 3
Deathstalker (2025)

April 4
Phantasm: Remastered
Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead
Phantasm IV: Oblivion
Phantasm: Ravager

April 9
Shiver

April 10
Somnium

April 15
Black Eyed Susan

April 17
Night Patrol

April 24
Dolly


Tubi

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April 1
Blood Creek
Cabin Fever
Carrie (1976)
Carrie (2013)
Child’s Play (1988)
Child’s Play (2019)
Dream Scenario
Event Horizon
High Life
Identity (2003)
It Comes at Night
Lamb
Poor Things
Queen Of the Damned
Scary Movie
Scary Movie 2
Scary Movie 3
Scooby-Doo
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Scream (1996)
Scream 2
Scream 3
Straw Dogs (2011)
Sunshine
Teen Wolf: The Movie
The Blackcoat’s Daughter
Under the Skin
Vampire in Brooklyn
You’re Next
Zombieland 2: Double Tap

April 10
The Caretaker

April 15
Predator
Predator 2

April 17
Hive

April 24
Hijacked

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Turkey is renowned for its long-running soapy dramas, but The Strange Story of Gustav Maier sees the country taking a decided different approach.

The eight-episode series is billed as “a hilarious love story between a 350-year-old virgin vampire and a perfectly normal woman.”

Umut Aral (“The Protector”) directs from a script by Giray Altınok (“The Prince”), who also stars in the titular role.

Deadline revealed the first image from the show, pictured above.

Produced by Istanbul’s MGX (“The Prince”), The Strange Story of Gustav Maier will stream on Hulu/Disney+. Stay tuned for more details.

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Murder on Lake Garda,” a series adaptation of Tom Hindle‘s murder-mystery novel of the same name, is in development at Hulu, Deadline reports.

Set in the quiet of Italy’s Lake Garda, a private island hosts the most exclusive wedding of the year between Leopoldo Vigevani, heir to one of the country’s richest and most powerful families, and influencer Eva Bianchi.

When a lifeless body is found on the beach, the island turns into a trap from which no one can escape.

The series will film in Italy, with The Apartment (Bones and All, Challengers) producing.

Drawing comparisons to Agatha Christie, Murder on Lake Garda was published in 2024 by Century/Penguin and became a Sunday Times bestseller.

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‘Pizza Movie’ – Hulu’s Hallucinogenic Comedy Starring Gaten Matarazzo Streams in April https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3939082/pizza-movie-hulus-hallucinogenic-comedy-starring-gaten-matarazzo-streams-in-april/ https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3939082/pizza-movie-hulus-hallucinogenic-comedy-starring-gaten-matarazzo-streams-in-april/#respond Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:05:39 +0000 https://bloody-disgusting.com/?p=3939082 Gaten Matarazzo’s first post-“Stranger Things” role is in the college comedy Pizza Movie alongside Sean Giambrone (“The Goldbergs”) and Lulu Wilson (“The Haunting of Hill House”). The film will debut on Hulu April 3 following its world premiere at SXSW in Texas on March 13. Pizza Movie follows a shy college student and his reckless […]

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Gaten Matarazzo’s first post-“Stranger Things” role is in the college comedy Pizza Movie alongside Sean Giambrone (“The Goldbergs”) and Lulu Wilson (“The Haunting of Hill House”).

The film will debut on Hulu April 3 following its world premiere at SXSW in Texas on March 13.

Pizza Movie follows a shy college student and his reckless roommate who set out on a simple mission to grab pizza. After a strange dose of a mind-bending experimental drug, they’re thrust into a chaotic night of absurd encounters, wild hallucinations, and unexpected revelations that could change their lives forever.

Jack Martin, Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Marcus Scribner, Caleb Hearon, Sarah Sherman, Justin Cooley, Kevin Matthew Reyes, Adam Herschman, and Lucas Zelnick round out the cast.

“Saturday Night Live” alumni Nick Kocher & Brian McElhaney write and direct. The duo, collectively known as BriTANicK, also penned the upcoming action comedy thriller Over Your Dead Body, out April 24.

Pizza Movie is produced by Jeremy Garelick & Will Phelps of American High, Billy Rosenberg of All Things Comedy, Jason Zaro, Molle DeBartolo, and Max Butler. Matarazzo receives an executive producer credit.

Stay tuned for a trailer.

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A brand new month means a plethora of new additions to your favorite streaming services, so we’re here to help when it comes to figuring out what to watch. HBO Max, Hulu, Netflix, Peacock, Paramount+, Pluto TV, Screambox, Shudder, and Tubi have announced their March 2026 library additions, keeping your watchlists busy. Here’s a rundown.

Get lucky this St. Patrick’s Day with seven Leprechaun films arriving on Peacock, or catch up on the Saw franchise via Netflix. Another Friday the 13th arrives in March, so look to Paramount for your marathon needs. For new releases, sci-fi action comedy Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice debuts exclusively on Hulu after its SXSW World Premiere. Violent actioner Pretty Lethal pirouettes onto Prime Video after its SXSW premiere as well. 

Check out the March horror streaming lineup below.


HBO Max

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Angel’s Egg

March 1
Angel’s Egg
Blair Witch
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Final Destination
Final Destination 2
Final Destination 3
Final Destination 5
Happy Death Day
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Men (2022)
The Blair Witch Project
The Bride of Frankenstein
The Final Destination (2009)


Hulu

Dangerous Animals 2025 horror
Dangerous Animals

March 27
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice

March 28
Dangerous Animals

March 31
House on Eden


Kanopy

I Saw the TV Glow streams March 2026
I Saw the TV Glow

March 6
Midsommar
I Saw the TV Glow

March 20
I See You


Netflix

Shawnee Smith Saw X
Saw X

March 1
Goosebumps
Jurassic World
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Legion
Misery
Stephen King’s Sleepwalkers
Zombieland

March 2
Jurassic World: Dominion

March 6
War Machine

March 19
Jigsaw
Saw
Saw II
Saw III
Saw IV
Saw V
Saw VI
Saw X
Saw: The Final Chapter


Paramount+

Eco Horror Movies The Ruins survival horror
The Ruins

March 1
Assassination Nation
Below
Beneath
Case 39
Crawl
Cursed
Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th Part II
Friday the 13th Part III
Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter
Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
Pet Sematary (1989)
Pet Sematary (2019)
Pet Sematary II (1992)
The Gift
The Ruins


Peacock

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Come Play

March 1
Death Becomes Her
Death Race
Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th – Part III
Leprechaun
Leprechaun II
Leprechaun III
Leprechaun 4: Lost in Space
Leprechaun V: In the Hood
Leprechaun VI: Back 2 tha Hood
Leprechaun Origins

March 27
Bambi: The Reckoning

March 31
Come Play
Hellboy


Pluto TV

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Censor

March 1
April Fool’s Day
Area 51
Bless the Child
Bones and All
Brahms: The Boy II
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Carriers
Censor
Cloverfield
Cujo
Cursed
DeepStar Six
Disturbia
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
Event Horizon
Fear Pharm
Funhouse
Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
Hellraiser: Bloodline
Hellraiser: Deader
Hellraiser: Hellseeker
Hellraiser: Hellworld
Hellraiser: Inferno
Hide and Seek
I Saw the TV Glow
King’s Graveyard Shift
Men (2022)
Mimic
Mimic 2
Mimic 3: Sentinel
Organ Trail
Paranormal Activity
Paranormal Activity 2
Paranormal Activity 3
Paranormal Activity 4
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
Phantoms
Phase IV
Silent Hill
Sleepy Hollow
Stephen King’s Silver Bullet
Stephen King’s Thinner
Student Bodies
The Crow
The Crow: City of Angels
The Crow: Wicked Prayer
The Dead Zone
The Devil Inside
The Final Girls
The Haunting
The Hole in the Ground
The Prophecy
The Prophecy 3: The Ascent
The Prophecy II
The Prophecy: Forsaken
The Prophecy: Uprising
The Relic
The Ring
The Ring Two
The Sacrament
Vacancy (2007)
What Lies Beneath
When a Stranger Calls (2006)
White God
Zodiac


Prime Video

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(l-r) Zoe (Iris Apatow), Bones (Maddie Ziegler), Chloe (Millicent Simmonds), Princess (Lana Condor), and Grace (Avantika) in PRETTY LETHAL
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March 1
Carrie (1976)
Carrie (2013)
Dressed to Kill
Halloween With The New Addams Family
Hannibal
Resident Evil (2002)
Teen Wolf (1985)
The Shallows
The Silence of the Lambs

March 25
Pretty Lethal


Screambox

Pig Hill heads to Screambox
Pig Hill

March 6
Arachnado
Foibles
Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind

March 10
Pig Hill

March 13
Restraint
They Wait In the Dark

March 20
Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks
Ilsa, the Wicked Warden
Hanukkah: Uncut
The Things You Kill
Vampire Zombies From Space!

March 24
The Daemon

March 27
Dabbe 5: Curse Of The Jinn
The Frankenstein Complex
Good Manners
Kombucha
Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters
The Slaughterhouse KillerS


Shudder

A bloody jaw unhinges to unnatural lengths in Bodycam still, streaming soon on Shudder
Bodycam

March 1
Bridge to Nowhere
Embodiment of Evil
In Search of Darkness
Messiah of Evil
Monolith
The Last Horror Film
The Last Video Store
The Woman

March 6
Lilly Lives Alone

March 9
The Beastmaster
Evilspeak
Fade to Black
Hostile Dimensions

March 13
Bodycam

March 15
The Alchemist Cookbook
Buzzard
Relaxer
Vulcanizadora

March 20
1000 Women in Horror

March 22
She Loved Blossoms More

March 27
The Mortuary Assistant

March 31
An American Werewolf in London
Hostel
Hostel Part II
May
Rob Zombie’s Halloween
Rob Zombie’s Halloween II
The Fog
Sorority Row
Wolf Creek


Tubi

Still of unlucky characters trapped in high tech escape room in Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, heading to streaming in March
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions

March 1
A Breed Apart
Anaconda 3: Offspring
Anaconda: Hunt For The Blood Orchid
Anacondas: Trail Of Blood
Case 39
Escape Room: Tournament Of Champions
Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)
I Saw the TV Glow
Jennifer’s Body
Men (2022)
Mirrors
Morbius
Priest
Resident Evil: Damnation
Resident Evil: Death Island
Resident Evil: Degeneration
Resident Evil: Vendetta
Scouts Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse
The Amityville Horror (2005)
The Hole In The Ground
The Monster Squad
Warhunt

March 9
Possessor

March 15
Exorcism of God

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Predator: Badlands has become the number one film premiere on Hulu since 2022’s Prey — the streamer’s most-watched movie debut of all time.

The latest installment in the Predator saga started streaming last week, amassing nearly 9 million global views in its first five days on Hulu and Disney+, Deadline reports.

All nine films in the Predator franchise are now on Hulu, along with 15 new videos in the Predator Creators Collection, amassing over 300 million hours streamed.

Predator: Badlands hit theaters in November and went on to become the franchise’s highest-grossing entry with $184.5 million worldwide.

Dan Trachtenberg (Prey, 10 Cloverfield Lane) directs from a script written by Patrick Aison (Prey) and Brian Duffield (Love and Monsters).

Set in the future on a remote planet, a young Predator (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi), outcast from his clan, finds an unlikely ally in Thia (Elle Fanning) and embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary.

Meagan Navarro wrote in her review, “Trachtenberg and his talented team craft a stunning adventure epic with winsome characters, action, and creatures, but one that’s so drastically different that it’s polarizing.”

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Dan Trachtenberg’s ‘Predator: Badlands’ Streams on Hulu Next Week https://bloody-disgusting.com/home-video/3932900/dan-trachtenbergs-predator-badlands-streams-on-hulu-next-week/ https://bloody-disgusting.com/home-video/3932900/dan-trachtenbergs-predator-badlands-streams-on-hulu-next-week/#respond Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:13:07 +0000 https://bloody-disgusting.com/?p=3932900 Predator: Badlands will stream on Hulu in the US and on Disney+ internationally next Thursday, February 12. It joins the rest of the Predator franchise on the streaming services, along with 15 newly added videos in the Predator Creators Collection by pocket.watch on Disney+ and Hulu. The highest-grossing entry in the franchise’s 38-year history, Predator: […]

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Predator: Badlands will stream on Hulu in the US and on Disney+ internationally next Thursday, February 12.

It joins the rest of the Predator franchise on the streaming services, along with 15 newly added videos in the Predator Creators Collection by pocket.watch on Disney+ and Hulu.

The highest-grossing entry in the franchise’s 38-year history, Predator: Badlands earned $184.5 million worldwide, surpassing the previous record holder, Alien vs. Predator ($177.4M).

Dan Trachtenberg (Prey, 10 Cloverfield Lane) directs from a script written by Patrick Aison (Prey) and Brian Duffield (Love and Monsters).

Set in the future on a remote planet, a young Predator (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi), outcast from his clan, finds an unlikely ally in Thia (Elle Fanning) and embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary.

Blending themes of survival and self-discovery with intense combat, striking visual effects, and moments of humor, the film deepens Yautja lore with a high-stakes action adventure.

Meagan Navarro wrote in her review, “Trachtenberg and his talented team craft a stunning adventure epic with winsome characters, action, and creatures, but one that’s so drastically different that it’s polarizing.”

Predator: Badlands will be released on physical media on February 17.

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Vince Vaughn Time Travel Action Comedy ‘Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’ Hits Hulu in March https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3929301/vince-vaughn-action-comedy-mike-nick-nick-alice-time-travels-to-hulu-in-march/ https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3929301/vince-vaughn-action-comedy-mike-nick-nick-alice-time-travels-to-hulu-in-march/#respond Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:23:48 +0000 https://bloody-disgusting.com/?p=3929301 Following its world premiere at SXSW in Texas on March 14, Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice will time travel to Hulu on March 27 via 20th Century Studios. Get your first look at stars Vince Vaughn, James Marsden, and Eiza González in the image below. The film is about two gangsters and the […]

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Following its world premiere at SXSW in Texas on March 14, Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice will time travel to Hulu on March 27 via 20th Century Studios.

Get your first look at stars Vince Vaughn, James Marsden, and Eiza González in the image below.

The film is about two gangsters and the woman they love trying to survive the most dangerous night of their lives. As if that wasn’t enough, there’s one wild ingredient added to the mix: a time machine.

BenDavid Grabinski (“Scott Pilgrim Takes Off,” “Are You Afraid of the Dark?”) writes and directs the movie, described as “a hilarious, stylized, R-rated action-comedy.”

Keith David, Jimmy Tatro, Stephen Root, Lewis Tan, Ben Schwartz, Emily Hampshire, and Arturo Castro round out the cast.

The crew includes cinematographer Larry Fong (300, Watchmen), editor Tim Squyres (Life of Pi, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), and composer Joseph Trapanese (“The Witcher,” Oblivion).

Andrew Lazar (American Sniper) produces, with Richard Middleton (The Artist) and Vanessa Humphrey as executive producers.

Stay tuned for more as the release approaches.

Photo by Heather Beckstead. © 2026 20th Century Studios.

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Macon Blair’s ‘The Toxic Avenger’ Streams on Hulu This Week https://bloody-disgusting.com/home-video/3924005/macon-blairs-the-toxic-avenger-streams-on-hulu-this-week/ https://bloody-disgusting.com/home-video/3924005/macon-blairs-the-toxic-avenger-streams-on-hulu-this-week/#respond Mon, 05 Jan 2026 21:42:24 +0000 https://bloody-disgusting.com/?p=3924005 After erasing over $15 million in medical debt with its theatrical run, The Toxic Avenger will stream exclusively on Hulu beginning this Thursday, January 8. Produced by original Toxic Avenger creator Lloyd Kaufman, the fresh take on Troma’s 1984 cult classic is written and directed by Macon Blair (I Don’t Feel at Home in This World […]

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After erasing over $15 million in medical debt with its theatrical run, The Toxic Avenger will stream exclusively on Hulu beginning this Thursday, January 8.

Produced by original Toxic Avenger creator Lloyd Kaufman, the fresh take on Troma’s 1984 cult classic is written and directed by Macon Blair (I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore).

In the unrated superhero horror comedy, downtrodden janitor Winston Gooze is exposed to a catastrophic toxic accident, transforming him into a mutant vigilante.

Toxie must rise from outcast to savior, taking on ruthless corporate overlords and corrupt forces who threaten his son, his friends, and his community.

Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”) stars as Toxie, with Luisa Guerreiro (“The Witcher”) as the suit performer.

Jacob Tremblay (Doctor Sleep), Taylour Paige (“IT: Welcome to Derry”), Julia Davis (Phantom Thread), Jonny Coyne (“11.22.63”), Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings), and Kevin Bacon (Friday the 13th) also star.

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All the Horror Heading to Hulu, Netflix, Tubi & Other Streaming Services in January 2026 https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3922337/all-the-horror-heading-to-hulu-netflix-tubi-other-streaming-services-in-january-2026/ https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3922337/all-the-horror-heading-to-hulu-netflix-tubi-other-streaming-services-in-january-2026/#respond Thu, 01 Jan 2026 16:00:03 +0000 https://bloody-disgusting.com/?p=3922337 It’s a brand new month in a brand new year, and the streamers are unleashing much more horror than expected this time of year. HBO Max, Hulu, Netflix, Peacock, Paramount+, Pluto TV, Screambox, Shudder, and Tubi have announced their January 2026 lineups, which are sure to keep your watchlists busy all month long. Notable titles […]

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It’s a brand new month in a brand new year, and the streamers are unleashing much more horror than expected this time of year. HBO Max, Hulu, Netflix, Peacock, Paramount+, Pluto TV, Screambox, Shudder, and Tubi have announced their January 2026 lineups, which are sure to keep your watchlists busy all month long.

Notable titles arriving in January are Final Destination Bloodlines, The Shrouds, and Prey, finding new streaming homes in the new year. 2025 releases like Primitive War and Ash also head to streaming this month.

Check out the January horror streaming lineup below.


HBO Max

superhero horror constantine
Pictured: Constantine

January 1
Bodies Bodies Bodies (A24)
Constantine
Frankenstein 1970
Glass
The Curse of Frankenstein
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Part 1)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Part 2)
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Twilight

January 8
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Hulu

Ash Clarke
Pictured: Ash

January 1
28 Weeks Later
I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer
Predator
Predator 2
Predators
Resident Evil (2002)
Shutter (2008)
The Predator (2018)

January 2
Ash (2025)

January 22
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Kanopy

Primitive War
Pictured: Primitive War

January 2
Hereditary
X
It Comes at Night

January 9
Love Lies Bleeding
The Cabin in the Woods
Primitive War

January 16
The Shrouds

January 30
Rabbit Trap
Come to Daddy


Netflix

Pictured: Bone Lake

January 1
Becky
Dawn of the Dead
Ghostbusters: Answer the Call
Green Room
Hellboy

January 15
Bone Lake


Paramount+

Sinister Black Phone
Pictured: Sinister

January 1
10 Cloverfield Lane
Carriers
Event Horizon
From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman’s Daughter
Maniac
Scary Movie
Scary Movie 3
Scream
Scream 2
Scream 3
Sinister
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
The Crow (1994)
The Crow: City of Angels
The Crow: Wicked Prayer
The Haunting
What Lies Beneath
Would You Rather
Zodiac


Peacock

Pictured: Misery

January 1
The Chronicles Of Riddick
Freaky*
The Green Mile
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Misery
Pitch Black
R.I.P.D.
Riddick
The Shining
Us

January 16
Jurassic World

* = is exclusive to Peacock


Prime Video

Pictured: Final Destination Bloodlines

January 1
Alien: Romulus
Final Destination Bloodlines
Meg 2: The Trench
Zombieland: Double Tap

January 31
Earthquake (1974)
Play Misty For Me
The Beguiled (1971)
The Funhouse
The Serpent and the Rainbow


Shudder

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Pictured: Beast of War

January 1
A Desert
Marshmallow
Shark Night
Carrie (1976)
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
From Beyond
The Other
Bone Tomahawk
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 2

January 9
Chain Reactions
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Don’t Torture a Duckling
Don’t Go Into the Woods

January 10
In the Mouth of Madness

January 12
Founders Day
The Severed Sun

January 16
Beast of War

January 23
Mother of Flies


Tubi

Prey
Pictured: Prey

January 1
An American Werewolf in London
Bones
Brainscan
Carrie (1976)
Censor
Devil’s Advocate
The Descent
Evil Dead
Talk to Me
Die Alone
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Happy Birthday To Me
Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghost of Georgia
Hereditary
Pearl
Prey (2022)
Separation
Spawn
Swallowed
The Amityville Horror (2005)
The Blob (1958)
The Cabin in the Woods
The Crazies (2010)
The Fog (2005)
The Grudge (2019)
The Haunting in Connecticut
The Jacket
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
Urban Legend
X
Wind Chill

 

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Before “IT: Welcome to Derry,” Hulu’s short-lived series “Castle Rock” similarly played with and remixed elements from the world of Stephen King, with tales like Salem’s Lot, The Shawshank Redemption, The Shining, and Misery being tossed into a blender throughout the course of the two-season series. Back in 2020, unfortunately, the series was cancelled by Hulu.

But now that “Welcome to Derry” is proving itself to be a massive hit for HBO Max, Netflix will bring both seasons of Hulu’s “Castle Rock” to their streaming service this holiday season.

“Castle Rock” arrives on Netflix beginning December 16, 2025.

Based on Stephen King lore, locations, and characters, the series premiered back in 2018 with a debut season centered on Bill Skarsgård‘s “The Kid,” a mysterious inmate at Shawshank State Penitentiary. The superior second season of the series more directly played with King storylines and characters, telling the origin story of Misery villain Annie Wilkes (Lizzy Caplan).

As I wrote here on Bloody Disgusting back in 2019, “The second season was considerably more satisfying than the first, and the handling of Annie Wilkes’ storyline brought the show to heights that it was never quite able to reach in season one. It’s as if the creators have cracked the code and figured out what kinds of stories the show ought to be telling, and that makes the future possibilities both endless and incredibly exciting for the King fans watching.”

What I didn’t know at the time, of course, was that “Castle Rock” would not be returning for a third season. This despite the show’s first season ending with a tease that we’d someday see more of Jane Levy (Evil Dead) as Jackie Torrance, the niece of Jack Torrance!

“Castle Rock” was developed by Sam Shaw & Dustin Thomason, and produced by J.J Abrams.

‘Castle Rock’: Season 1

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Entire ‘Predator’ Collection Now Streaming on Hulu and Disney+ Ahead of ‘Predator: Badlands’ https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3912602/predator-franchise-now-streaming/ https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3912602/predator-franchise-now-streaming/#respond Mon, 03 Nov 2025 18:47:23 +0000 https://bloody-disgusting.com/?p=3912602 A new Predator film is set to arrive this Friday in theaters, but you can prepare for the hunt ahead of Predator: Badlands with the entire franchise collection, save for the crossovers, now streaming on Hulu and Disney+. Predator: Badlands will release in theaters on November 7, 2025, in IMAX, Dolby Cinema, RealD 3D, Cinemark XD, 4DX, […]

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A new Predator film is set to arrive this Friday in theaters, but you can prepare for the hunt ahead of Predator: Badlands with the entire franchise collection, save for the crossovers, now streaming on Hulu and Disney+.

Predator: Badlands will release in theaters on November 7, 2025, in IMAX, Dolby Cinema, RealD 3D, Cinemark XD, 4DX, ScreenX, and premium screens everywhere, but you can catch up on every film since the 1987 original now.

The newest entry in the franchise is set on a remote planet where a young Predator, outcast from his clan, finds an unlikely ally in Thia (Elle Fanning) and embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary. 

Dan Trachtenberg (Prey, 10 Cloverfield Lane) directs from a script he co-wrote with Patrick Aison (Prey).

Dive into the full streaming lineup that redefined sci-fi action and introduced a horror icon:


Predator (1987)

Predator cast

Dutch, a soldier of fortune, is hired by the U.S. government to secretly rescue a group of politicians trapped in Guatemala. But when Dutch and his team, which includes weapons expert Blain and CIA agent George, land in Central America, something is wrong. After finding a string of dead bodies, the crew discovers they are being hunted by a brutal creature with superhuman strength and the ability to disappear into its surroundings.


Predator 2 (1990)

Los Angeles is enduring a heat wave and a crime wave, so the pressure on police officer Michael Harrigan (Danny Glover) to solve a strange string of murders is mounting. Harrigan thinks the culprit can be found among the warring gangs and drug cartels, but FBI Special Agent Peter Keyes (Gary Busey) knows the horrible truth: Their killer is a fearsome extraterrestrial (Kevin Peter Hall) with keen hunting abilities that include superior night vision and the power to make itself invisible.


Predators (2010)

Predators

Brought together on a mysterious planet, a mercenary (Adrien Brody) and a group of coldblooded killers now become the prey. A new breed of aliens pursues the ragtag humans through dense jungle. The group must work together to survive, or become the latest trophies of the fearsome intergalactic hunters.


The Predator (2018)

From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home. The universe’s most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other species. When a boy accidentally triggers their return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and an evolutionary biologist can prevent the end of the human race.


Prey (2022)

A skilled Comanche warrior protects her tribe from a highly evolved alien predator that hunts humans for sport, fighting against wilderness, dangerous colonizers and this mysterious creature to keep her people safe.


Predator: Killer of Killers (2025)

Predator Killer of Killers - June 20

A Viking raider, a ninja in feudal Japan, and a World War II pilot encounter a fierce intergalactic hunter.

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All the Horror Heading to Hulu, Netflix, Tubi & Other Streaming Services in November 2025 https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3912558/all-the-horror-heading-to-hulu-netflix-tubi-other-streaming-services-in-november-2025/ https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3912558/all-the-horror-heading-to-hulu-netflix-tubi-other-streaming-services-in-november-2025/#respond Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:52:45 +0000 https://bloody-disgusting.com/?p=3912558 November ushers in the post-Halloween blues as the streaming services shift gears for the holidays. While that means that horror isn’t the focus this month, the genre still has a strong presence in November’s new library additions. HBO Max, Hulu, Kanopy, Netflix, Peacock, Paramount+, Pluto TV, Shudder, and Tubi have announced their November 2025 lineups, […]

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November ushers in the post-Halloween blues as the streaming services shift gears for the holidays. While that means that horror isn’t the focus this month, the genre still has a strong presence in November’s new library additions. HBO Max, Hulu, Kanopy, Netflix, Peacock, Paramount+, Pluto TV, Shudder, and Tubi have announced their November 2025 lineups, which may go leaner with horror but still have plenty to keep us satiated throughout the month. 

Notable titles arriving in November are Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein on Netflix, Drop on Prime Video, the restoration of Night of the Juggler on Kanopy, and Pluto TV’s massive horror lineup that keeps the Halloween merriment going this month. 

Check out the November 2025 horror streaming lineup below.


HBO Max

Devil's Rejects
‘The Devil’s Rejects’

November 1
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Hellboy (2004)
House of 1000 Corpses
Red Riding Hood
The Bride of Frankenstein
The Devil’s Rejects
The Devil’s Rejects: Director’s Cut
The Wolfman

November 20
Missing


Hulu

‘Osiris’

November 1
Season of the Witch
Wish Upon

November 10
Apollo 18
Don’t Breathe 2
Skyline
Villains (2019)

November 15
Don’t Breathe
Osiris (2025)
November 25
The Ugly Stepsister
November 30
The First Omen

Kanopy

‘In Fabric’

November 7
Night of the Juggler (1980)
In Fabric (2018)
Child’s Play (1988) 

November 14
High-Rise (2015) 

November 28
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)


Netflix

‘Frankenstein’

November 1
Doctor Sleep
Don’t Worry Darling
I Know What You Did Last Summer
The Nun II

November 7
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein

November 17
Zodiac


Paramount+

‘Cujo’

November 1
Cujo
Scrooged
Starship Troopers


Peacock

‘Jurassic Park III’

November 1
Drive Angry 3D
The Frozen Ground
Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park III
Knowing
The Lost World: Jurassic Park


Pluto TV

Arrow's Hellraiser: Bloodline Workprint
‘Hellraiser: Bloodline’

November 1
30 Days Of Night (2007)
Angel Heart
April Fool’s Day
Area 51
Below
Beneath
Carrie (1976)
Carrie (2013)
Child’s Play (1988)
Child’s Play (2019)
Clara’s Ghost
The Devil Inside
The Eternal Daughter
Evil Dead (2013)
Fresh
Friday The 13th (1980)
Friday The 13th – Part II
Friday The 13th – Part III
Friday The 13th Part – IV:The Final Chapter
Friday The 13th Part V: A New Beginning
Friday The 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
Friday The 13th Part VII:The New Blood
Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
Hellraiser III: Hell On Earth
Hellraiser: Bloodline
Hellraiser: Deader
Hellraiser: Hellseeker
Hellraiser: Hellworld
Hellraiser: Inferno
I See You
In Fabric
Jacob’s Ladder
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
King Kong (1976)
The Last Exorcism Part II
The Last House On The Left
Life (2017)
The Loved Ones
Motel Hell
Mother! (2017)
Once Bitten
Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer
Phantoms
Poltergeist II: The Other Side
Poltergeist III
The Possession (2012)
Pumpkinhead
The Return Of The Living Dead
Stigmata
Teen Wolf (1985)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
When A Stranger Calls (2006)
The Woman In Black


Prime Video

Meghann Fahy to lead Banquet
Meghann Fahy as Violet in Drop, directed by Christopher Landon.

November 1
Bones and All
Child’s Play (1988)
Child’s Play (2019)
Rear Window
Scrooged
Species
Species II
Species III
The Poughkeepsie Tapes
Vertigo

November 14
Drop

November 26
Mickey 17


Shudder

‘There’s Something in the Barn’

November 1
Abraham’s Boys: A Dracula Story
Habit
The Last Winter
Depraved
Lovely Molly
Sew Torn
The Shed
The Blair Witch Project
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
The Blair Witch (2016)
There’s Something in the Barn
Heavy Trip
Heavier Trip
The Retreat (2021)

November 7
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers

November 11
Spin the Bottle

November 15
Krampus


Tubi

Thirteen Ghosts series
‘Thirteen Ghosts’

November 1
Black Christmas
Brightburn
Carrie (1976)
Carrie (2013)
Child’s Play (1988)
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Dead & Buried
Deep Blue Sea
Dream Scenario
Fallen
Ghost Ship
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Hellboy (2019)
House of Wax (2005)
In Fabric
Jason X
Legion
The Lost Boys
Lost Boys: The Tribe
Misery
Riddick
The Shining (1996)
Sisu
Super 8
Terrifier 3
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
The Thing (2011)
Thirteen Ghosts
Trap (2024)
Trick ‘R Treat
Wolf

November 3
Shadow in the Cloud
The Skulls

November 5
Marrowbone

November 23
The Mist

November 24
10 Cloverfield Lane

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‘The Hand That Rocks The Cradle’ Review – Hulu Remake Dials Back the Crazy https://bloody-disgusting.com/reviews/3910499/the-hand-that-rocks-the-cradle-review-hulu-remake-dials-back-the-crazy/ https://bloody-disgusting.com/reviews/3910499/the-hand-that-rocks-the-cradle-review-hulu-remake-dials-back-the-crazy/#respond Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:51:15 +0000 https://bloody-disgusting.com/?p=3910499 Stop me if you’ve heard this before: a well-to-do white family hires a “too good to be true” nanny to help with the children and quickly discovers that she’s not the perfect aide they hoped for. That’s the plot of both the 1992 movie The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, as well as the new 2025 […]

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Stop me if you’ve heard this before: a well-to-do white family hires a “too good to be true” nanny to help with the children and quickly discovers that she’s not the perfect aide they hoped for.

That’s the plot of both the 1992 movie The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, as well as the new 2025 Hulu remake. Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead in the Annabella Sciorra role and Maika Monroe in the Rebecca De Mornay role, the new film follows an affluent couple living in LA with their two children, daughter Emma (Mileiah Vega) and baby Josie (Nora Contreras and Lola Contreras).

Early in the film, there’s some vague dialogue between Caitlin Morales (Winstead) and her husband Miguel (Raúl Castillo) about her troubles following Emma’s birth, hinting at issues of depression and paranoia. Initially, this suggests that screenwriter Micah Bloomberg is going to lean into the hysterical woman trope, so it’s a testament to The Hand That Rocks The Cradle that Caitlin is presented, for the most part, as a capable, albeit overwhelmed, mother and lawyer.

The film opens with a scene of Caitlin meeting and advising Polly (Monroe) at a pro bono Tenants’ Rights Event. Outside in her car, Caitlin goes into labor, and the film jumps ahead to a point when Caitlin is back on her feet, but struggling. A near miss involving Chekhov’s stop sign proves that she needs a little extra help, and so, enter Polly, first as a babysitter and eventually as the live-in au pair.

Bloomberg’s screenplay does a solid job of introducing the cracks in the Morales family early on. There are intimacy issues between husband and wife (which can be expected after a newborn), and Emma is a willful child who isn’t afraid to scream at her mother. Though Caitlin and Miguel’s relationship is supportive and features plenty of open communication, there’s also a suggestion that Caitlin’s rigid approach to child rearing, as well as her past mental health issues, are cause for concern for Miguel.

Obviously, these are all fissures for Polly to exploit when she inserts herself into the family’s life and begins to systematically dismantle their relationships. Polly swaps out Caitlin’s depression meds, feeds Emma sugar, and, at one point, she even poisons the stew at a dinner party.

Audiences expecting sequences on par with the original film’s greenhouse sequence should temper their expectations, especially if the goal is to see Maika go off the rails. That’s because, unlike the original, which introduced De Mornay’s Peyton in a sympathetic light before quickly turning her into a full-blown villain, Polly isn’t a straightforward monster. The remake of The Hand That Rocks The Cradle is a much more grounded affair because the film has a legitimate interest in the complicated relationship between Caitlin and Polly.

As the housewife slowly begins to peel away the layers of Polly’s deception, aided by her work husband, Stewart (Martin Starr), it’s revealed that Polly has her own traumatic backstory. Despite a heel turn featuring explicit violence around two-thirds through the film and a climax featuring the women’s explosive face-off, most of the film positions Caitlin and Polly as two-sides of the same socio-economic coin. Caitlin happened to come out somewhat unscathed and well-off, whereas Polly has been struggling all of her life.

Polly’s envy of Caitlin’s life extends beyond mere coveting, though. It’s also queer.

To be clear, this isn’t mere coding; it’s canonical in the text. From Caitlin’s confession that she was dating a woman before she met Miguel to multiple instances where the women touch, exchange clothes and mimic each other’s hairstyles to a voyeuristic sequence when Caitlin spies on a sexual encounter between Polly and Amelia (Yvette Lu), it is evident that beneath the jealously, deception, and lies, there’s also an undeniable level of attraction between Caitlin and Polly.

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Remake

Cinematographer Jo Willems and director Michelle Garza Cervera (who knows a thing or two about motherhood and queerness, as evidenced by Huesera: The Bone Woman) shoot the film in soft focus, emphasizing the cool blue, brown, and grey tones of the Morales’ incredible wooden and glass house. Much of the film has a slight hazy blur on the periphery of the frame, and – in several scenes – there’s a visual effect akin to witnessing the action through the bottom of a glass. This helps to reinforce both the cold and anti-septic “perfect life” façade that Caitlin has cultivated, but also her wavering grip on reality.

Whereas the original film was a conventional warning to white middle-income audiences about opening your home to outsiders, 2025’s The Hand That Rocks The Cradle is a grounded contemplation of motherhood, marriage, and female relationships.

Although the film ultimately reaches a slightly conventional violent apex in the last act, it never loses its interest in the humanity of its female leads. Audiences hoping for a catty smackdown between Winstead and Monroe may find this low-key approach a little underwhelming, but Cervera and Bloomberg have actually crafted something more interesting and contemporary: a well-shot thriller that values the flawed complexity of its characters. 

The Hand That Rocks The Cradle is now streaming on Hulu.

4 out of 5 skulls

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Maika Monroe (Longlegs) and Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Birds of Prey) lead the cast of Hulu’s The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, a fresh new take on the classic 1990s thriller from director Michelle Garza Cervera (Huesera: The Bone Woman). It’s coming exclusively to Hulu and Disney+ later this week, and we’ve got an exclusive clip from the movie.

In The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Mary Elizabeth Winstead stars as Caitlin Morales, an upscale suburban mom who brings a new nanny, Polly Murphy (Maika Monroe), into her home, only to discover she is not the person she claims to be. Our exclusive clip provides a sneak peek into Polly’s troubled childhood and twisted mind. Watch the clip below, along with the trailer.

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, which will begin streaming on October 22, is officially rated “R” for “some strong/bloody violence, sexual content and language.”

Raúl Castillo, Martin Starr, Mileiah Vega, Riki Lindhome, and Shannon Cochran also star.

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle is written by Micah Bloomberg based on a screenplay by Amanda Silver. The producers are Michael Schaefer, Mike LaRocca, and Ted Field, and the executive producers are Michael Napoliello, Maria Frisk, and Seth William Meier.

“The studio gave me all the chances to recreate the whole thing and build a new story, new characters, with its own heart. I think that was the best way to honor the original, not try to redo it,” Michelle Garza Cervera told PEOPLE. “We build a whole different kind of thriller.”

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New ‘Family Guy’ Halloween Special Gets Silly In Its Pursuit of the Perfect Holiday Song [Review] https://bloody-disgusting.com/reviews/3907396/family-guy-halloween-special/ https://bloody-disgusting.com/reviews/3907396/family-guy-halloween-special/#respond Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:05:36 +0000 https://bloody-disgusting.com/?p=3907396 Family Guy’s newest Halloween special hatches a passionate trick-or-treating scheme while also righting an age-old wrong that’s hung over the holiday’s head for years. Halloween episodes are a tried and true television tradition that has thankfully only grown more creative over time. They’re a great opportunity for characters to try on new skins – figuratively […]

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Family Guy’s newest Halloween special hatches a passionate trick-or-treating scheme while also righting an age-old wrong that’s hung over the holiday’s head for years.

Halloween episodes are a tried and true television tradition that has thankfully only grown more creative over time. They’re a great opportunity for characters to try on new skins – figuratively and literally – during a time when it can often feel like reality’s rules don’t apply. Family Guy is no stranger to Halloween episodes, yet they’re hardly something that the series has run into the ground. Family Guy’s first Halloween episode didn’t occur until the show’s ninth season, and it’s been fairly selective on that front ever since. Corporate synergy and Hulu holiday specials have given Family Guy the chance to embrace Halloween in new ways. While the series is still finding its footing with how it approaches these specials, “A Little Fright Music” is a strong, silly Halloween episode that’s a great apéritif for this year’s spooky season. It turns to music and mischief to get to the very core of the holiday.

Brian and Stewie were front and center in Family Guy’s previous Halloween special, and “A Little Fright Music” unites this duo over a very relatable annoyance. There’s plenty that Brian and Stewie love about Halloween, yet they’ve developed a growing disdain for the holiday’s lackluster song catalogue. Trick-or-treaters have been forced to accept “The Monster Mash” as Halloween’s anthem. Disappointed with the state of Halloween’s musical affairs, Brian and Stewie pledge to craft the ultimate Halloween song instead of waiting for the holiday to create one on its own. 

This is a small-scale plot in concept, but the perfect type of story that has infinite room to grow as these characters get lost in the creative process. This idea could play out with so many potential outcomes that are all dependent on which characters are involved in the carol creation. Stewie and Brian are certainly the most satisfying duo to embark on this endeavor, which results in an entertaining episode that’s as much a love letter to everyone’s favorite autumnal holiday as it is a celebration of Brian and Stewie. It’s a playful story that explores the endless creativity that Halloween inspires, rather than an episode that opts for scares and suspense (although there’s a little of that, too). “A Little Fright Music” pursues an angle that represents an equally important part of the holiday that’s helped Halloween become a touching time for new traditions and personalized passion, regardless of age.

 

There’s plenty of fun to be had with the dissonance that’s created between Stewie and Brian as they get deeper in this project. Stewie gets lost in every aspect of song production except the song itself, while Brian loses his patience and grows to regret this creative collaboration. Curiously, there are quite a few sitcoms that attempt to create new musical anthems for holidays, albeit typically not with Halloween. That being said, the same principles are in place, and this turns into one of the more entertaining examples where two stubborn, creative forces attempt to work together and create something. There’s a moment in which Brian uses the term “bon mot” as an early indication of the turbulence that these two will have in their musical endeavor. While this is hardly a reference to Frasier, the dynamic that’s shared between Stewie and Brian here is very akin to Frasier and Niles and how they would go about such a pursuit. It’s a successful tone that helps both characters shine in their own ways, rather than pitting them against each other and punching down with them.

Brian and Stewie’s musical mission becomes a light-hearted balance for the rest of the episode’s exploits. Chris finds himself looking inward when he experiences malaise as a teenager who longs to continue trick-or-treating, while his older age suggests that he’s now banished to hand out candy at home with the rest of the joyless adults. Family Guy has something compelling to say with all this, especially once it turns into an opportunity for Chris to “become a man” with Peter. This – evidently – means learning how to comfortably lie to the women in his life while he does what he wants.

“A Little Fright Music” heads into a ludicrous third act that’s rich in car crashes, urban legends, and masked killers. It’s a heightened trope-filled turn of events, but it at least finds a way to justify all this and make sense of it all, rather than actual serial killers being in pursuit of Peter, Chris, and company. These holiday machinations push Lois to go all “get off my lawn” when it comes to Halloween’s mutation over the years, as it’s turned into yet another extended excuse for adults to regress and commandeer the holiday away from children. What’s supposed to be fun escapism becomes an opportunity for bragging rights, class disparity, and ego boosts. Lois is certainly a fitting Halloween Grinch, but this doesn’t necessarily become a storyline of its own. Lois’ irritation works as an obstacle to Peter and Chris’ pursuits. Her initially toxic perspective blossoms over the course of the episode until it becomes an unlikely inspiration to the rest of the cast, rather than something that impedes their holiday joy.

 

Chris and Peter’s night on the town is an innocuous enough story that reinforces the episode’s grander themes of Halloween’s societal expectations and how this is often bifurcated between kids and adults; creative freedom over the prison of monotony. In this sense, it’s appreciated that Family Guy attempts to say something a little deeper with this holiday. It’s the right move for a show that’s committed itself to multiple Hulu holiday specials at this point, and so it better have something about Halloween that goes beyond a surface level analysis. Family Guy’s previous Halloween special, “Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Cheater,” was much less successful because it indulged in hollow guest stars and an exaggerated storyline that strayed too close from home. “A Little Fright Music” finds a better balance that turns this into a significantly stronger Halloween special and a better Family Guy episode in general.

There’s also plenty to appreciate in “A Little Fright Music” outside of the core storytelling and character development. The episode’s non sequiturs land, for the most part, while the cutaway jokes are a cut above the norm. There’s a brilliant riff on “Who’s on First?” that’s filtered through Abbott Elementary that genuinely had me laughing. Another gag takes a ridiculous jab at FOX Animation Domination synergy through a Grimsburg shout-out. This is all accompanied by decent pacing and an episode that doesn’t waste time. “A Little Fright Musicisn’t anything revelatory, but it accomplishes what it sets out to do in this Halloween showcase.

Family Guy does solid work in this holiday installment. However, episodes that revolve so heavily around the debut of a big song – while admirable – are often set up to fail in some respects. “A Little Fright Music makes a decent argument that there aren’t any definitive Halloween songs. Granted, Halloween is not as song-heavy a holiday as Christmas, but the point still stands. An episode of this nature would really hammer its point in if Brian and Stewie’s song legitimately caught on in the real world and turned into a seasonal hit. Now, such a feat is nearly impossible, and something with even the cultural pull and legacy of Rick and Morty, The Simpsons, and South Park would struggle to pull this off. This doesn’t turn “A Little Fright Music into a failure by any means, but it does just underscore how an episode like this could really succeed on a meta level under the right circumstances. Family Guy doesn’t attempt anything nearly as lofty in “A Little Fright Music, but that’s more than okay. This is a Halloween special that features far more treats than tricks. Brian and Stewie’s song is unlikely to become an evergreen Halloween hit, but this Family Guy episode might become a part of many audiences’ annual Halloween watch list.

“A Little Fright Music” is available to stream now, as of October 6, on Hulu.

3 skulls out of 5

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Buckle up: the month dedicated to all things horror has arrived, and all of the streaming services are celebrating accordingly with October’s new library additions. Criterion Channel, Hulu, HBO Max, Kanopy, Netflix, Peacock, Paramount+, Pluto TV, Shudder, and Tubi have announced their October 2025 lineups, ensuring your Halloween watchlists will be packed from now through November. 

Arriving in October are the streaming premieres of V/H/S/Halloween on Shudder, Vicious on Paramount+,  The Hand That Rocks the Cradle on Hulu, and The Elixir on Netflix. Also, look for recent releases like Bring Her Back to arrive on streaming, buried among the overwhelming selection of horror titles hitting your favorite platforms this Halloween season.

Check out the October 2025 horror streaming lineup below.


Criterion Channel

Possession
‘Possession’

October 1
Altered States
Big Trouble in Little China
Bug
Christine
Dahmer
Dark Star
Eraserhead
Escape from L.A.
Escape from New York
Eyes Without a Face
Fascination
Ghosts of Mars
In the Mouth of Madness
Lake Mungo
Lips of Blood
Lost in New York
Matango
May
Possession
Prince of Darkness
REC
Requiem for a Vampire
Rogue
Shivers
Stuck
Teeth
The Brood
The Face of Another
The Fly
The Fog
The Grapes of Death
The Living Dead Girl
The Others
They Live
Toolbox Murders
Triangle
Trouble Every Day
Vampires
What Lies Beneath


HBO Max

The Substance
‘The Substance’

October 1
A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
Beetlejuice
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
Christine
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
Drag me to Hell
Firestarter
Freaks
Freddy vs. Jason
Friday the 13th (2009)
From Hell It Came
Gone Girl
Gremlins (1984)
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Halloween: Resurrection
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
Hereditary
House of Wax (1953)
House on Haunted Hill (1958)
Insidious: Chapter 2
Insidious: Chapter 3
Interview with the Vampire
Isle of the Dead
Macabre
Pearl: The X-Traordinary Origin Story
Poltergeist (1982)
Scooby-Doo (2002)
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Talk to Me
The Disembodied
The Exorcist (1973)
The Monster
The Mummy (1959)
The Mummy (2017)
The Mystery of the Wax Museum
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Return of Doctor X
The Shining
The Sixth Sense
The Walking Dead (1936)
The Witch
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
Trick ‘r Treat
X
Zombies on Broadway

October 3
Bring Her Back

October 10
The Substance


Hulu

The Empty Man
‘The Empty Man’

October 1
Barbarian
Blade (1998)
Blade 2
Blade: Trinity
Halloween (2018)
Hide And Seek (2005)
Nightmare Alley
Saw
Saw 2
Saw 3
Saw 4
Saw 5
Saw 6
Saw: The Final Chapter
Scream
Scream 2
Scream 3
Sinister
The Empty Man
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
The Last Witch Hunter
Underwater (2020)

October 3
The Happening
The Sixth Sense
Werewolves

October 7
The Rule of Jenny Pen

October 8
Stay

October 10
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
The Hills Have Eyes 2
The Omen (2006)
Saint Clare

October 16
The Cabin in the Woods

October 17
40 Acres

October 22
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (2025)

October 28
The Exorcism


Kanopy

Your Monster Melissa Barrera
‘Your Monster’

October 3
Your Monster
Paranormal Activity
The Blackcoat’s Daughter

October 10
Under the Skin
Scream
Men
Timecrimes (2009) Magnolia Pictures

October 17
V/H/S

October 24
Triangle 

October 31
The Monkey


Netflix

The Wrath of Becky
‘The Wratch of Becky’

October 1
Death Becomes Her
Dracula
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
Red Dragon
Sinister 2
Slender Man
The Strangers
When a Stranger Calls
The Wrath of Becky

October 4
Night of the Living Dead

October 7
We Have Always Lived in the Castle

October 23
The Elixir


Paramount+

Vicious
Dakota Fanning stars in Paramount Pictures’ “VICIOUS.”

October 1
30 Days of Night
American Psycho
American Psycho II: All American Girl
Hostel
Hostel: Part II
House at the End of the Street
I See You
In Fabric
King Kong (1976)
Lake Placid
Nightcrawler
Panic Room
Prophecy
Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders
Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire
Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster
Scooby-Doo in Where’s My Mummy?​​
Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster
Scream
Scream 2​​
Scream 3
Searching
The Babysitter
The Craft
The Evil Dead (1981)
The First Purge
The Fly (1986)
The Menu
The Prophecy
The Prophecy 3: The Ascent
The Prophecy II
The Prophecy: Forsaken
The Prophecy: Uprising
The Shallows
Urban Legend

October 10
Vicious


Peacock

James Gunn's Slither
‘Slither’

October 1
American Psycho
American Psycho 2
Bones And All
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
The Crow
Darkman
Dead Silence
Event Horizon
Exorcist: The Beginning
Friday The 13th
Friday The 13th – Part II
Friday The 13th – Part III
Fright Night
The Frightners
From Dusk Till Dawn
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters II
The Hitcher
Krampus
Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3
Leprechaun
Leprechaun II
Leprechaun III
Leprechaun 4: Lost In Space
Leprechaun Origins
Leprechaun V: In The Hood
Leprechaun VI: Back 2 Tha Hood
Mama
The Mist
Monster House
The Omen
Ouija: Origin Of Evil
The People Under The Stairs
Poltergeist
The Purge
The Purge: Election Year
Quarantine
The Ring
Scary Movie
Scream
Scream 2
Scream 3
Shaun Of The Dead
Silent Hill
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
Silent House
The Skeleton Key
Slither
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
Van Helsing
The Visit
The Wolf Man (1941)
World War Z

October 14
Cocaine Bear

October 15
Don’t Breathe
Jurassic World
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

October 16
The Cabin in the Woods


Prime Video

Jack Quaid smashing car window in COMPANION
(L-R) Sophie Thatcher as Iris and Jack Quaid as Josh in New Line Cinema’s “COMPANION”, a Warner Bros. Pictures release.

October 1
Bodies Bodies Bodies
Bride of Frankenstein
Candyman (1992)
Cat People (1982)
Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954)
Dracula (1931)
End of Days
Frankenstein (1931)
Ghost Story
Scooby-Doo (2002)
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
The Boy (2016)
The Invisible Man (1933)
Tremors
Us

October 5
The Boogeyman

October 16
Dracula Untold

October 18
Companion

October 24
The Beast Within

October 31
The Woman in the Yard


Shudder

Hell House LLC: Lineage Trailer
‘Hell House LLC: Lineage’

October 1
Psycho
Rear Window
The Birds
Vertigo
REC
REC 2
REC 3: Genesis
REC IV: Apocalypse
Wolf Creek
Final Prayer (aka The Borderlands)
High Tension

October 3
V/H/S/Halloween

October 6
When A Stranger Calls (1979)
Invader
Crumb Catcher

October 9
Bloat
Alien Expanded

October 13
Odd Thomas
The Limehouse Golem

October 15
Etheria Film Night 2025

October 17
Jack-O
OTHER

October 19
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards

October 22
Tale of Tales

October 30
Hell House LLC: Lineage


Tubi

Dark Harvest Review - Dark Harvest trailer
‘Dark Harvest’

October 1
30 Days of Night (2007)
30 Days of Night: Dark Days
An American Werewolf in London
Annihilation
Arachnophobia
Big Trouble in Little China
The Blackcoat’s Daughter
The Burbs
Climax
The Crow
Dark Harvest
Frankenstein (2004)
From Dusk Till Dawn
The Good Son (1993)
Grind House: Death Proof
Grind House: Planet Terror
The Grudge (2019)
The Guardian
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
The Hills Have Eyes
The Hills Have Eyes 2
Hollow Man
Insidious: The Last Key
Interview With a Vampire
Jennifer’s Body
Lamb
The Last Witch Hunter
Life After Beth
Medusa Deluxe
Men (2022)
The Monster
The Mummy (1999)
The Mummy Returns
The Munsters
The Omen
P2 (2007)
Pi
The Ring
Saw
Saw 2
Saw 3
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
Tusk
The Twilight Zone
Under the Skin
Vampire in Brooklyn
The Vault
The Visit
The Voyeurs
Wicked City

October 3
Match

October 6
Eraserhead

October 11
Sting

October 15
Don’t Breathe

October 17
R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead

October 25
Don’t Turn Out the Lights

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This Year’s ‘Family Guy’ Halloween Special Arrives October 6 on Hulu [Trailer] https://bloody-disgusting.com/tv/3906574/this-years-family-guy-halloween-special-arrives-october-6-on-hulu-trailer/ https://bloody-disgusting.com/tv/3906574/this-years-family-guy-halloween-special-arrives-october-6-on-hulu-trailer/#respond Tue, 30 Sep 2025 19:54:49 +0000 https://bloody-disgusting.com/?p=3906574 The long-running animated series “Family Guy” is back with brand new Halloween special “A Little Fright Music” in October, and IGN debuted the episode trailer this afternoon. In the new Halloween special, “A Little Fright Music,” Brian and Stewie realize there is a shortage of quality Halloween songs, so they set out to write a […]

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The long-running animated series “Family Guy” is back with brand new Halloween special “A Little Fright Music” in October, and IGN debuted the episode trailer this afternoon.

In the new Halloween special, “A Little Fright Music,” Brian and Stewie realize there is a shortage of quality Halloween songs, so they set out to write a hit, and Peter and the guys discover that lying about trick or treating can have deadly consequences.

The episode will premiere Monday, October 6 only on Hulu.

Executive Producers/Showrunners Rich Appel & Alec Sulkin joke, “One day in the writers room we realized that no animated show had ever done a Halloween special — besides The SimpsonsTreehouse of Horrors I through XXXIV — so we thought, let’s be the XXXVth!”

“We also realized that while everyone had a favorite Christmas song, and a ton to pick from, nobody really had a favorite Halloween song,” the duo’s statement to IGN continues. “And we thought maybe we could actually be the first there. Plus, given the very limited competition, ours would have a better chance becoming everyone’s favorite.”

“A Little Fright Music” is part of this year’s “Huluween” celebration from Hulu.

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Accidents Happen: Ranking The Six Gnarliest Kills From ‘The Monkey’ https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3892045/the-monkey-gnarliest-kills/ https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3892045/the-monkey-gnarliest-kills/#respond Thu, 07 Aug 2025 17:55:35 +0000 https://bloody-disgusting.com/?p=3892045 The recurring line in director Osgood Perkins’ The Monkey sums it up well: “Everybody dies, and that’s life.” Perkins’ adaptation of Stephen King’s short story from 1985’s Skeleton Crew, now streaming on Hulu, uses its source material as a loose framework for a Final Destination-like, gory romp filled with a nonstop onslaught of over-the-top, elaborate deaths.  […]

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The recurring line in director Osgood Perkins’ The Monkey sums it up well: “Everybody dies, and that’s life.”

Perkins’ adaptation of Stephen King’s short story from 1985’s Skeleton Crew, now streaming on Hulu, uses its source material as a loose framework for a Final Destination-like, gory romp filled with a nonstop onslaught of over-the-top, elaborate deaths. 

The plot centers around twin brothers who find a mysterious wind-up monkey, triggering a series of outrageous deaths that will tear their family apart. When the Monkey’s arm winds up, get ready; a brutal death occurs whenever the cursed object bangs his toy drum. It’s always at random, too. Per the wind-up toy’s box, it is “like life, after all.

And in this movie, death comes fast and furious in morbidly funny fashion. So much so that there are over two dozen gruesome demises packed into The Monkey’s runtime, all highlighting the gallows’ humor with gore. However, many of them are shown in fleeting montages or featured in the background, especially in the film’s final act when the cursed object’s reign of terror unleashes chaos. 

Now that The Monkey is on streaming, we’re highlighting six of the horror-comedy’s standout kills beyond the quick montage and background deaths. Spoilers ahead, of course…


6) Hibachi Grill Decapitation

The Monkey Annie Wilkes

The first time Hal Shelburne (Christian Convery) winds up the Monkey, he doesn’t know what it does or what’s to come. That the audience does means a suspenseful build-up as Hal and his twin brother Bill (also Convery) get treated to dinner by their babysitter, Annie (Danica Dreyer), at a Hibachi restaurant. The chef at the trio’s tableside grill strikes up a flirtation with Annie while attempting to impress with cooking flair. It spectacularly backfires; a quick flip of the wrist with a sharp spatula winds up decapitating the babysitter instead. While The Monkey quickly reveals itself to be rather fond of decapitations, Annie’s freak accident is the twin brothers’ first tangible brush with death. More noticeably, the babysitter’s full name, revealed at her funeral service, makes for an amusing joke in itself: Annie Wilkes, as in Misery‘s Annie Wilkes.


5) Uncle Chip Mince Meat 

Of the deaths on this list, Uncle Chip’s is the briefest for good reason. It’s arguably the goriest of the bunch and only shown in quick flashes. After Hal and Bill’s mom dies from an aneurysm courtesy of the monkey, they’re taken in by their swinging Uncle Chip (Osgood Perkins) and Aunt Ida (Sarah Levy) in Casco, Maine. Somehow, the wind-up monkey finds its way to them and promptly triggers another freak accident. This time it claims Uncle Chip, who was decimated off-screen by a horse stampede in his sleeping bag while on a camping trip, but Perkins does give a gag-worthy look at the mince meat aftermath that earns a spot here. 

 


4) Wasp Face Ricky

The Monkey Ricky

When Bill finally connects the dots on the Monkey’s M.O. as an adult, he hires Casco local Ricky (Rohan Campbell) to find and retrieve it so he can enact vengeance upon his brother. Ricky becomes obsessed with the wind-up toy, holding Hal and his son Petey (Colin O’Brien) at gunpoint under Bill’s orders. Just before the final confrontation between estranged brothers, the monkey bangs his drum once again, sentencing Ricky to an outlandish demise courtesy of one massive hornet’s nest whose pissed off inhabitants charge straight into his mouth to rearrange and mutilate his jaw.


3) Pawn Shop Harpoon

The Monkey harpoon

Talk about a great hook for an opening. The Monkey begins in 1999, where the twins’ blood-drenched dad, Petey (Adam Scott), frantically makes his way to a pawn shop to offload his cursed object. The skeptical owner isn’t interested in the children’s toy or Petey’s insistence that it isn’t one. That’s when the Monkey’s arm comes banging down, setting off a chain of events within the shop that causes a harpoon gun to fire, landing straight into the pawn shop owner’s belly, revealing just how long the small intestines can coil in a brutal disemboweling. It’s the type of scene that warns to buckle up for an absurdly wild ride. 


2) Going to Pieces Over a Night Swim

The Monkey pool scene

Hal and Petey’s father/son bonding trip derails almost immediately, thanks to Bill’s murder scheme. The pair stops at a motel not unlike the famous Bates Motel, where the deeply broken a/c signals the grim reaper is lurking near. It arrives shortly after Hal steps outside to take a phone call, where he begins to notice the telltale signs that something is amiss. The faulty a/c unit slips from the roof, crashing into the wet pool area and electrifying the water just as a woman takes a dive. Hal is helpless to warn her; she doesn’t even hit the water as she explodes mid-air. It’s as nasty as it is funny, only further underscoring the random cruelty of death.


1) Fish Hooked

Aunt Ida the Monkey

The randomness of death doesn’t just apply to who dies, but how they die, too. Some are lucky to receive a swift death, while others inexplicably suffer protracted fates of immense suffering. The worst of it befalls poor Aunt Ida, whose insanely elaborate death reignites a new wave of annihilation 25 years after the twins thought they’d destroyed the Monkey for good. The perky but quiet woman, living alone, succumbs to a bizarre chain of events that sees her falling through basement steps into a faceful of fish hooks. Ida manages to dust herself off and clean her wounds with rubbing alcohol, the move that proves fatal when she ignites her stovetop for a calming beverage, only for her newly flammable face to go up in flames. She runs out the door and impales her fiery head upon the realtor’s sign in her yard. It’s a centerpiece kill that heralds in the second half of the film, and Perkins marks the occasion with Rube Goldberg Machine-style gallows humor.

 

 

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Samara Weaving stars in Eenie Meanie, an irreverent high-speed thriller heading to Hulu next month. 20th Century Studios has unveiled the first trailer today for the violent thriller.

Eenie Meanie will premiere on August 22 on Hulu.

The film follows a former teenage getaway driver who is dragged back into her unsavory past when a former employer offers her a chance to save the life of her chronically unreliable ex-boyfriend.

It’s written and directed by Shawn Simmons and stars Samara Weaving as the titular character Edie, also known as “Eenie Meanie.”

Eenie Meanie also stars Karl Glusman (Watcher), Jermaine Fowler (The Blackening), Marshawn Lynch, Randall Park, with Steve Zahn and Andy Garcia. The producers are Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick (Zombieland, Deadpool), and Marty Ewing.

The high-speed thriller is rated “R” for “violence/bloody images, pervasive language, nudity, some sexual material, and brief drug use.

A favorite in the horror world, Samara Weaving has a handful of projects headed our way soon, also including the sequel Ready or Not: Here I Come and remake Over Your Dead Body.

Check out the new Eenie Meanie trailer and poster below.

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All the Horror Heading to Hulu, Netflix, Tubi & Other Streaming Services in August 2025 https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3890554/all-the-horror-heading-to-hulu-netflix-tubi-other-streaming-services-in-august-2025/ https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3890554/all-the-horror-heading-to-hulu-netflix-tubi-other-streaming-services-in-august-2025/#respond Wed, 30 Jul 2025 19:24:57 +0000 https://bloody-disgusting.com/?p=3890554 This is it. August is the final calm before the Halloween season frenzy kicks off in September. As such, expect a much lighter month for horror on streaming and buckle up for massive horror onslaught heading our way soon. Hulu, HBO Max, Netflix, Peacock, Paramount+, Shudder, and Tubi have announced their August 2025 lineups, so […]

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This is it. August is the final calm before the Halloween season frenzy kicks off in September. As such, expect a much lighter month for horror on streaming and buckle up for massive horror onslaught heading our way soon. Hulu, HBO Max, Netflix, Peacock, Paramount+, Shudder, and Tubi have announced their August 2025 lineups, so we’re compiling them all into a handy horror guide for your watchlists.

There’s plenty of new horror to look forward to in August; Osgood Perkins‘ raucous horror comedy The Monkey heads to Hulu along with comedic summer camp slasher Hell of a Summer and the debut of the Samara Weaving-starring thriller Eenie Meanie. If you need a double dose of Weaving, look for Borderline on Peacock. HBO Max celebrates the arrival of Final Destination Bloodlines with an HBO linear marathon of all six Final Destination films.

Check out the August 2025 horror streaming lineup below.


HBO Max

Tony Todd
Tony Todd as “William Bludworth” in New Line Cinema’s “Final Destination Bloodlines,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo credit: Eric Milner

August 1
Alien: Covenant
Final Destination Bloodlines
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Martha Marcy May Marlene
The Nun (2018)

August 8
Freaky Tales


Hulu

‘Hell of a Summer’

August 1
Evil Dead (2013)
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
One Hour Photo
Ready Or Not
Resident Evil: Extinction
Take Shelter

August 7
The Monkey

August 15
It Feeds(2025)

August 17
Thanksgiving

August 22
Eenie Meanie (Film Premiere)

August 26
Little Bites

August 29
Hell of a Summer


Kanopy

Trollhunter
‘Troll Hunter’

August 1
Slice
Troll Hunter

August 29
Presence (2024)


Netflix

‘Anaconda’

August 1
Anaconda
Jurassic Park
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park III

August 14
Mononoke The Movie: Chapter II – The Ashes of Rage


Paramount+

‘Annihilation’

August 1
Annihilation
Case 39
Crawl
Event Horizon
Love and Monsters
Mother!
Paranormal Activity
Paranormal Activity 2
Paranormal Activity 3
Paranormal Activity 4
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
Red Eye
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
Shutter Island
The Ruins
What Lies Beneath
Zodiac

August 3 
Don’t Knock Twice

August 29
Halloween II


Peacock

Borderline Review
‘Borderline’ Photo courtesy of Magnet Releasing.

August 1
Borderline
The Faculty
Happy Death Day
Ma
R.I.P.D.
Seven
Texas Chainsaw 3D
Victor Frankenstein

August 24
M3GAN
M2GAN (Unrated)


Prime Video

Werewolves Review
‘Werewolves’

August 1
The Addams Family 2
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

August 4
Hellboy: The Crooked Man

August 16
Werewolves


Shudder

‘Clown in a Cornfield’

August 1
La Abuela (Aka The Grandmother)
Urban Legend
Urban Legends: Final Cut
Venus

August 4
All The Gods in the Sky
Gags the Clown
Pelican Blood

August 8
Clown in a Cornfield

August 11
Never Have I Ever
I Saw the Face of the Devil

August 29
The Twin


Tubi

‘The Strangers: Prey at Night’

August 1
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
I See You
Priest (2011)
Slice
The Grudge 2 (2006)
The Omen (2006)
The Strangers: Prey At Night

August 8
XX

August 13
Room 203

August 16
Ouija: Origin of Evil

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‘The Monkey’ Streaming on Hulu Beginning the First Week of August https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3890300/the-monkey-streaming-on-hulu-beginning-the-first-week-of-august/ https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3890300/the-monkey-streaming-on-hulu-beginning-the-first-week-of-august/#respond Mon, 28 Jul 2025 23:27:14 +0000 https://bloody-disgusting.com/?p=3890300 From director Osgood Perkins and distributor NEON, gruesomely demented horror movie The Monkey will be making its streaming debut courtesy of Hulu next month. The Monkey will be streaming on Hulu beginning August 7, 2025. Based on the Stephen King short story from 1985’s Skeleton Crew, the gory horror-comedy is written and directed by Osgood Perkins (Longlegs) and produced by James […]

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From director Osgood Perkins and distributor NEON, gruesomely demented horror movie The Monkey will be making its streaming debut courtesy of Hulu next month.

The Monkey will be streaming on Hulu beginning August 7, 2025.

Based on the Stephen King short story from 1985’s Skeleton Crew, the gory horror-comedy is written and directed by Osgood Perkins (Longlegs) and produced by James Wan.

In the film, “When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. 25 years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy.” Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, Elijah Wood, Christian Convery, Colin O’Brien, Rohan Campbell, and Sarah Levy star.

Meagan Navarro wrote in her review, “With storytelling efficiency and a playful spirit, The Monkey delivers a King adaptation like no other. Perkins pushes back against logic in favor of entertaining midnight madness, and death has never been funnier or gorier as a result.

The Monkey scared up $68.8 million at the worldwide box office, leading to a new pact between Perkins and NEON. In addition to launching his own production banner titled Phobos, alongside Chris Ferguson, Perkins has also signed a first look deal with NEON.

Up next from Perkins and NEON? New horror movie Keeper in November!

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‘Predator: Killer of Killers’ Co-Director Dan Trachtenberg Explains What That Ending Image Means [Spoiler] https://bloody-disgusting.com/interviews/3872147/predator-killer-of-killers-naru/ https://bloody-disgusting.com/interviews/3872147/predator-killer-of-killers-naru/#respond Mon, 09 Jun 2025 17:05:08 +0000 https://bloody-disgusting.com/?p=3872147 Major spoilers ahead: The end credits of Prey featured ledger art paintings that depicted Yautja vessels descending upon the Comanche tribe, signaling the story wasn’t over. Original animated anthology Predator: Killer of Killers continues that thread with imagery hinting toward the franchise’s future. The anthology, now streaming on Hulu, features a triptych depicting three of the […]

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Major spoilers ahead: The end credits of Prey featured ledger art paintings that depicted Yautja vessels descending upon the Comanche tribe, signaling the story wasn’t over. Original animated anthology Predator: Killer of Killers continues that thread with imagery hinting toward the franchise’s future.

The anthology, now streaming on Hulu, features a triptych depicting three of the fiercest warriors in human history: a Viking raider guiding her young son on a bloody quest for revenge, a ninja in feudal Japan who turns against his Samurai brother in a brutal battle for succession, and a WWII pilot who takes to the sky to investigate an otherworldly threat to the Allied cause.

The self-contained stories eventually converge as the human warriors awaken from suspended animation and find themselves displaced by time on a strange new planet, held captive and forced to enter a gladitorial arena where they must fight each other to the death. The prize for survival? The winner must face a behemoth Warlord Predator to determine the ultimate Killer of Killers. 

Ursa
A scene still from 20th Century Studios’ PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS, exclusively on Hulu. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios. © 2025 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.

The trio of humans eventually learn to work together to escape their new fate, but tough-as-nails shield-maiden Ursa (Lindsay LaVanchy) sacrifices herself to aid the escape. But the Yautja have long been established as an extra-terrestrial species that honors a worthy opponent and places Ursa back in stasis instead of killing her. The anthology ends with Ursa getting placed back in their cryo storage alongside countless others that the Yauja have collected throughout time and space, with the final image of the film resting on another warrior in their possession: Naru (Amber Midthunder), the Comanche warrior who bested the Predator in Prey.

 

It’s a startling sight in that it not only answers the questions Prey‘s closing credit imagery evoked but that it’s not exactly the fate we’d wish for the young Comanche warrior. Still, it means she’s alive and poised to face the Predators again sometime in the future. 

Predator Killer of Killers Naru

Naru’s surprise appearance also highlights that Prey director and Predator: Killer of Killers co-director Dan Trachtenberg is playing the slow game when it comes to expanding the Predator franchise. The filmmaker also has Predator: Badlands on the way this year, but this Killer of Killers cameo is laying the groundwork for what’s beyond. Don’t expect to see Naru pop up in Badlands; Trachtenberg has larger ambitions for her return, which he’s keeping close to the vest.

Trachtenberg tells Bloody Disgusting, “The fun is that now we have the end of Prey set up something, and then there’s this, and I love the slow play of it all. I think is cool rather than smushing everything together inside one movie right away, we can really be elegant with our storytelling and hopefully aspire to that. So, it is not a setup for what’s in Badlands, but it is a setup for what could happen afterward.”

It’s clear the director is thinking many steps ahead, and that Naru factors into those plans if they come to pass. Naru’s appearance in the Yautja cryo bay means that a sequel to Prey could take place anywhere, at any time. What are the Yautja up to with their collection of hunters? The possibilities are now endless.

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Predator: Killer of Killers, the original animated anthology from co-directors Dan Trachtenberg (Prey) & Joshua Wassung, pits new characters across time against the mighty Yautja. It also features a few callbacks to the Predator franchise and beyond.

The film, now streaming on Hulu, follows three of the fiercest warriors in human history: a Viking raider guiding her young son on a bloody quest for revenge, a ninja in feudal Japan who turns against his Samurai brother in a brutal battle for succession, and a WWII pilot who takes to the sky to investigate an otherworldly threat to the Allied cause.

It’s the third segment, the 1941-set “Bullet,” that brings the film closer to the familiar Predator timeline.

The segment introduces Torres (Rick Gonzalez), a young car mechanic drafted into the war as a fighter pilot. It makes him uniquely suited to notice something deeply amiss during an intense dogfight. Torres becomes an unlikely hero in the skies, and an asset to his superior, Vandy.

But the actor lending his voice to Vandy also has experience with playing hero against an extra-terrestrial threat: Michael Biehn.

Torres
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This role puts Biehn in a rare club among very few actors. Trachtenberg, speaking with Bloody Disgusting, sums it up best: “Now nothing thrills me more about the whole movie than that because of what we’ve done, Michael Biehn has faced off against the Terminator and a Xenomorph and now finally a Predator. It’s the greatest thing.”

Wassung agrees, “It’s pretty awesome for him to join that rare club of being in each of the famous, iconic franchises that we all know and love. That was just really rad. I got to meet him in the sound recording, and it was definitely a very full circle moment for us all.”

Torres’ unexpected battle against the Yautja evolves beyond the sky, where he comes into possession of the film’s most familiar weapon of all to fans of the franchise: the Raphael Adolini 1715 flintlock pistol.

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‘Predator 2’

This particular pistol first appear in the franchise in 1990’s Predator 2, set in 1997, which ended with the Yautja honoring Lieutenant Mike Harrigan (Danny Glover) with the antique weapon after besting one of their own. Trachtenberg took it even further with franchise prequel Prey, where French voyageur Raphael Adolini (Bennett Taylor) traded his pistol to Naru (Amber Midthunder) in exchange for tending to his wounds. 

Predator: Killer of Killers brings the weapon into the story in a very amusing way as the Yautja later assign human warriors a weapon, but it also makes sense for the overarching canon. Trachtenberg revealed that the pistol’s appearance wasn’t initially part of the plan.

“Funny enough, that sequence didn’t initially have them being given weapons, and then we had the idea for them to be given weapons, and then it was like, ‘wait, wait, hold on. We could give Torres the gun.’ I think, as a byproduct of that, one could assume that up there in cold storage could be the previous owner of that gun,” Trachtenberg teases. 

Read Bloody Disgusting’s review of Predator: Killer of Killers.

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Director Dan Trachtenberg (Prey) teams with co-director Joshua Wassung on a stunning animated anthology that expands the universe further by exploring the Yautjas’ pursuit of a worthy hunt across time in Predator: Killer of Killers, now streaming on Hulu.

The original animated action-adventure film follows three of the fiercest warriors in human history: a Viking raider guiding her young son on a bloody quest for revenge, a ninja in feudal Japan who turns against his Samurai brother in a brutal battle for succession, and a WWII pilot who takes to the sky to investigate an otherworldly threat to the Allied cause.

It’s a premise that suggests a straightforward triptych, but playing with the anthology format allowed for more surprises in Killer of Killers’ franchise expansion. Trachtenberg tells Bloody Disgusting that it was making three distinct tales into one cohesive whole that cracked this anthology open.

“That was really when this unlocked for me, and I was toiling over exactly what to do and what the take could be. Once we had that little nugget of like, ‘Oh, actually, we could be doing more.’ That the movie wouldn’t just be Twilight Zone as an anthology. That it would be Pulp Fiction as an anthology. That these stories could really be interwoven and build to something incredibly special.”

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Trachtenberg further explains, revealing a surprising source of inspiration in the process.

“So to be under a spoiler umbrella about the ending, if you want, the thing that I’ve always been chasing was a feeling I had watching Best In Show, the Christopher Guest movie. Normally, when you’re watching a contest movie or a sports film, you’ve got one character that you’re rooting for and hoping for them to win. Something crazy happened as a byproduct of just the nature of that movie that you’ve connected with all of these people. You weren’t thinking about who’s going to have to win the competition. You were just enjoying them, and all of a sudden, the competition builds to a climax. It’s like I’ve never had more stakes for the winner of a contest because I’ve really connected to the characters equally. That was what I knew would be so special about this structure. So, that was a huge piece of figuring out the movie was the format.”

Though Predator: Killer of Killers does tie each distinct story together eventually, each of the three stands apart with its own style, cadence, and action matching the era. Each brings a cultural specificity, too, bringing depth and pathos to the protagonists featured in each. 

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“I credit Amy Carter,” Wassung says. “She is one of our production designers. She has this special superpower that she can just really drill down on historical cultures. She came from that background. She was a researcher on Lincoln and many other films. She grew up through art, and her dad was a production designer. She was just so great at finding these pieces of history and these photos from this museum or this book or whatever, and she would coalesce them in a way that was very authentic. Then, 20th was able to bring in professional cultural advisors.”

That extended to the action itself; Wassung explains, “There was just a lot of input even down to we had stunt consultants, some of whom were trained in really advanced Sword Mastery, and they were able to video for us little tutorials on how to properly hold a sword, what is the proper form for a situation, and we were able to give that to every animator on the project. So they got this tutorial on how to be a proper samurai and how you hold and what you do. It was just so many elements that went into it, but it was a very high priority for us all.”

Read Bloody Disgusting’s review of Predator: Killer of Killers.

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Prey director Dan Trachtenberg finds an inventive way to expand the Predator universe further in Predator: Killer of Killers with co-director Josh Wassung from animation company The Third Floor. The three-part animated anthology boasts stunning Arcane-inspired animation and a commitment to gory action in its bid to explore lethal brawls with the Yautja throughout time, revealing a deep well of potential for the franchise in the process. Killer of Killers functions as a standalone feature, but Trachtenberg continues to push the universe forward in exciting ways.

Killer of Killers begins in 841 AD, in a story titled “Shield,” where shield-maiden Ursa’s (Lindsay LaVanchy) quest for vengeance is well underway amidst harsh winter terrain. A primal battle between two Viking tribes turns into an all-out bloodbath when the feud is interrupted by the arrival of a Predator eager to join the hunt. That pattern, in which a Predator interrupts human combat, repeats twice more to introduce new opponents deemed worthy by the Yautja’s fiercest warriors.

“Sword” brings viewers to Feudal Japan just as a deep-seated rivalry between two brothers (both voiced by Louis Ozawa), a samurai and a ninja, explodes into violence, attracting an inhuman foe. “Bullet” shifts gears to 1941, where aspiring pilot Torres (Rick Gonzalez) discovers an invisible threat amidst intense aerial dogfights. 

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Each story reflects its era and cultural specificity, lending a distinct style and tone to each act. That, in turn, brings a different flavor of action and carnage to each segment that prevents them from feeling too repetitive. The iron will of Ursa and the Vikings inspires a very different style of combat than the elegance of the samurai, for example. The effervescent Torres, by comparison, is untrained and scrappy, leading to a battle of wits in the sky.

Each unique set of circumstances opens breathtaking animated action sequences that make full use of the R-rating and then some; it’s a lot easier to get away with decapitations, maiming, and viscera in animated form, after all. The throughline isn’t the Predator-induced carnage, though, but the duty-bound honor and heart that fuels each unwitting participant in the Yautja’s game. The filmmakers and cast manage to endear these protagonists in a short period, earning laughs and tears along the way; though the short form format does create limitations.

Just when Predator: Killer of Killers starts feeling too self-contained to make much of an impact beyond its stunning craftsmanship and elegant storytelling, screenwriter Micho Robert Rutare, working from a story Trachtenberg, saves the anthology’s biggest surprises for last. Namely, the final act serves as connective tissue between this standalone anthology and the greater universe, revealing new facets to the Yautja while dangling teases of what may lie ahead.

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That’s far more exciting than Killer of Killers‘ requisite use of Easter eggs and references to the past, though Trachtenberg and Wassung ensure they’re as satisfying as they are fleeting. Aliens actor Michael Biehn, for example, makes his first appearance in the Predator franchise by lending his voice to Torres’ mentor and superior. And a certain 1715 flintlock pistol earns genuine laughs for its clever inclusion here. But the emphasis always remains on the present characters.

It’s the ambition and reverence for the Predator world that prevents Killer of Killers from falling into repetitive stagnation or feeling like a mere appetizer to this fall’s Predator: Badlands. Trachtenberg hints at future plans for the franchise with a provocative final image guaranteed to get fans buzzing. It’s one small moment of many that elevates this handsomely made but conceptually simple anthology into a worthwhile addition to the Yautja canon, raising new questions along the way.

Predator: Killer of Killers begins the hunt on Hulu on June 6.

3.5 out of 5

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Based on the acclaimed novel by Walter Mosley, director Nadia Latif’s thriller The Man in My Basement is coming to theaters and Hulu in Fall 2025, and the teaser has arrived.

Corey Hawkins and Willem Dafoe star in The Man in My Basement alongside Anna Diop, Jonathan Ajayi, Gershwyn Eustache Jnr., Pamela Nomvete, and Tamara Lawrance.

Watch the official teaser trailer below.

In the upcoming psychological thriller, “In the African American neighborhood of Sag Harbor, New York, Charles Blakey (Corey Hawkins) is out of work, out of luck and on the verge of foreclosure on his ancestral home. A knock on the door from a mysterious businessman, Anniston Bennet (Willem Dafoe), brings a bizarre and lucrative proposition; rent his dusty stand-up basement out for the summer and receive enough money to clear his debts for good.

“Once Charles accepts, he finds himself led down a terrifying path that confronts his family’s ghosts and locks the men in a terrifying puzzle, at the heart of it race, the source of their traumas and the root of all evil.”

Walter Mosley & Nadia Latif wrote the screenplay for the novel adaptation.

The novel was originally published back in 2004.

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‘Predator: Killer of Killers’ Exclusive Clip Takes the Hunt to the Sky in WW2 Dogfight https://bloody-disgusting.com/exclusives/3871260/predator-killer-of-killers-clip-exclusive/ https://bloody-disgusting.com/exclusives/3871260/predator-killer-of-killers-clip-exclusive/#respond Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:00:01 +0000 https://bloody-disgusting.com/?p=3871260 The classic action-horror franchise is getting its first animated installment this Friday with the anthology movie Predator: Killer of Killers, and we’ve got an exclusive clip that drops a Yautja hunt in the middle of a WW2 dogfight. Predator: Killer of Killers begins the hunt on Hulu on June 6. Check out the clip below, […]

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The classic action-horror franchise is getting its first animated installment this Friday with the anthology movie Predator: Killer of Killers, and we’ve got an exclusive clip that drops a Yautja hunt in the middle of a WW2 dogfight.

Predator: Killer of Killers begins the hunt on Hulu on June 6.

Check out the clip below, titled “Stay In Your Lane,” in which dogfighter Torres (Rick Gonzalez) takes the lead once a strange new enemy enters the fight. If you listen closely, you can hear Aliens actor Michael Biehn‘s voice as his character doles out orders. 

Co-Director Dan Trachtenberg previously said of his original animated feature, “Thematically, all segments are driven by a simple question: ‘Who would be a unique challenge for the Predator?'” That certainly appears to be the case; this anthology is unleashing a Predator aerial battle. 

The original animated action-adventure film follows three of the fiercest warriors in human history: a Viking raider guiding her young son on a bloody quest for revenge, a ninja in feudal Japan who turns against his Samurai brother in a brutal battle for succession, and a WWII pilot who takes to the sky to investigate an otherworldly threat to the Allied cause.

But while all these warriors are killers in their own right, they are merely prey for their new opponent – the ultimate killer of killers. Yes, we’re talking about those lovable Predators.

The film is directed by Dan Trachtenberg with Josh Wassung, from animation company The Third Floor, serving as co-director. The film stars Lindsay LaVanchy, Louis Ozawa, Rick Gonzalez, and Michael Biehn and is written by Micho Robert Rutare and story by Trachtenberg and Rutare, based on characters created by Jim Thomas & John Thomas.

Producers are John Davis, Dan Trachtenberg, p.g.a., Marc Toberoff, and Ben Rosenblatt, p.g.a., with Lawrence Gordon, James E. Thomas, John C. Thomas, and Stefan Grube as executive producers.

In the animated movie’s wake, Predator: Badlands hits theaters on November 7.

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‘Jaws at 50: The Definitive Inside Story’ Swimming to Hulu & Disney+ This Summer [Trailer] https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3870517/jaws-at-50-the-definitive-inside-story-swimming-to-hulu-disney-this-summer-trailer/ https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3870517/jaws-at-50-the-definitive-inside-story-swimming-to-hulu-disney-this-summer-trailer/#respond Fri, 30 May 2025 14:12:06 +0000 https://bloody-disgusting.com/?p=3870517 Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster classic Jaws is celebrating its milestone 50th anniversary with all kinds of special events this year, including a theatrical re-release and various festivities at Martha’s Vineyard, which played the role of the fictional Amity Island in the film. We’re also getting a brand new documentary this summer, with Jaws at 50: The […]

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Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster classic Jaws is celebrating its milestone 50th anniversary with all kinds of special events this year, including a theatrical re-release and various festivities at Martha’s Vineyard, which played the role of the fictional Amity Island in the film.

We’re also getting a brand new documentary this summer, with Jaws at 50: The Definitive Inside Story set to premiere on National Geographic on July 10 followed by Hulu and Disney+ on July 11. The doc’s tagline says it all: “The movie you know. The story you don’t.”

Nat Geo previews, “Jaws at 50: The Definitive Inside Story is the authorized documentary celebrating the film that redefined Hollywood, 50 years after its premiere. Alongside Steven Spielberg, Jaws @ 50 charts the extraordinary journey from Peter Benchley’s bestselling novel to one of the most iconic films ever made.

“Featuring rare archival footage and interviews with acclaimed Hollywood directors, top shark scientists, and conservationists, the documentary uncovers the behind-the-scenes chaos and how the film launched the summer blockbuster, inspired a new wave of filmmakers, and paved the way for shark conservation that continues today.”

The documentary will feature insights from Spielberg alongside J.J. Abrams, James Cameron, Jordan Peele, Guillermo del Toro, George Lucas, John Williams, and Robert Zemeckis.

Interesting to note, this same 90-minute documentary will also be included with the new 50th anniversary 4K SteelBook release of Jaws, which will be swimming our way on June 17.

Thanks to Screen Rant for debuting the trailer this morning.

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June arrives this weekend, which means a new slate of library additions is set to arrive on your favorite streaming services. Hulu, HBO Max, Netflix, Peacock, Paramount+, Shudder, and Tubi have announced their June 2025 lineup, so we’re compiling them all into a handy horror guide for your watchlists.

Of note, Hulu is embracing the Aliens and Predator franchises in a big way, especially with the arrival of the animated anthology Predator: Killer of Killers. Peacock goes all in on the Jurassic World franchise just ahead of Jurassic World Rebirth, which will be released in theaters in July. The streamer also celebrates the 50th anniversary of Jaws with a film collection dedicated to the franchise.

Check out the June 2025 horror streaming lineup below.


Hulu

Tribeca Film Fest 2025 lineup
A scene still from 20th Century Studios’ PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS, exclusively on Hulu. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios. © 2025 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.

June 1
Alien (1979)
Alien 3
Alien Resurrection
Alien vs. Predator
Alien: Covenant
Aliens
Alien vs. Predator: Requiem
Mirrors
Predator (1987)
The Predator (2018)
Predator 2
Predators
28 Weeks Later

June 3
Presence (2025)

June 6
Predator: Killer of Killers

June 8
Scream (2022)

June 16
Black Christmas (2019)

June 19
The Quiet Ones

June 20
Out Come the Wolves


HBO Max

The Invitation review
‘The Invitation’ (2022)

June 1
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
A Perfect Getaway (2009)
Hellboy (2004)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Split (2017)

June 24
The Invitation (2022)

June 27
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (2025)


Netflix

Barbarian June 2025 streaming
‘Barbarian’

June 1
Barbarian
The Birds
Frenzy
Rear Window
Us
Vertigo

June 16
The Last Witch Hunter

June 27
Squid Game: Season 3


Paramount+

Cloverfield
‘Cloverfield’

June 1
Carriers
Cloverfield
Crawlspace
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
The Autopsy of Jane Doe*

* Title is available to Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers.


Peacock

Jurassic Park - June 2025 streaming
‘Jurassic Park’

June 1
Anna and The Apocalypse
Bride of Chucky
The ‘Burbs
The Chronicles of Riddick
Deep Rising
I am Legend
Jennifer’s Body
Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park III
Jurassic World
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Knock Knock
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Pitch Black
Riddick
Scooby-Doo
Seed of Chucky
Shaun of The Dead
Van Helsing
The World’s End

June 4
The Blackening

June 15
Jaws
Jaws 2
Jaws III
Jaws The Revenge
June 19
Revival, Season 1 – Premiere (SYFY)

Shudder

Dead Silence 4K heads to streaming in june
‘Dead Silence’

June 1
Curse of the Devil
Dark Windows
Dead Silence
Head Trauma
Homebound
Insidious
Ladyworld
The Loved Ones
The Ward
We Kill for Love

June 9
Alien Outpost
Fascination
Lips of Blood
Requiem for a Vampire
Shiver of the Vampires
Sputnik
The Grapes of Death
The Living Dead Girl
The Nude Vampire

June 13
Best Wishes to All

June 16
Rats!

June 17
Hell Motel

June 20
Ash

June 22
The Strain


Tubi

The Purge
‘The Purge’

June 1
Cuckoo
Alone in the Dark
Big Trouble in Little China
Brahms: The Boy II
Deadstream
Friday the 13th (1980)
Get Out
Girl With All the Gifts
Gremlins
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Hannibal Rising
Hereditary
House on Haunted Hill
Jaws
Joy Ride
Kong: Skull Island
La Llorona
Leatherface
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Love and Monsters
Mom and Dad
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
Personal Shopper
Piranha 3D
Stephen King’s Cat’s Eye
Texas Chainsaw 3D
The Djinn
The First Purge
The Lodge
The Purge
The Purge: Anarchy

June 10
Nightcrawler

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‘Predator: Killer of Killers’ – Animated Anthology Film Arrives This June! [Trailer] https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3863310/predator-killer-of-killers-animated-anthology-arrives-this-summer/ https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3863310/predator-killer-of-killers-animated-anthology-arrives-this-summer/#respond Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:00:57 +0000 https://bloody-disgusting.com/?p=3863310 Overnight, Dan Trachtenberg became the Predator whisperer. His Comanche action-horror prequel Prey breathed life into the uneven franchise, and its success opened the door to pitch future entries. One idea became Predator: Badlands, which is slotted for a November 7th, 2025 release date (with new details coming out of CinemaCon this past weekend). But what […]

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Overnight, Dan Trachtenberg became the Predator whisperer. His Comanche action-horror prequel Prey breathed life into the uneven franchise, and its success opened the door to pitch future entries. One idea became Predator: Badlands, which is slotted for a November 7th, 2025 release date (with new details coming out of CinemaCon this past weekend). But what if I told you Trachtenberg completed another Predator film in secret that’ll be available before we enter the Badlands?

Because that’s the truth, and Bloody Disgusting has the exclusive first details.

Predator: Killer of Killers is a three-part animated anthology that showcases Yautja warriors hunting human prey across global history. It’ll premiere as a Hulu exclusive on June 6th, 2025. The voice cast includes Lindsay LaVanchy, Louis Ozawa, Rick Gonzalez, and Michael Biehn.

Here’s the official synopsis with all the glorious details:

Predator: Killer of Killers, an original animated action-adventure film set in the Predator universe, will premiere June 6th, 2025, exclusively on Hulu. The anthology story follows three of the fiercest warriors in human history: a Viking raider guiding her young son on a bloody quest for revenge, a ninja in feudal Japan who turns against his Samurai brother in a brutal battle for succession, and a WWII pilot who takes to the sky to investigate an otherworldly threat to the Allied cause. But while all these warriors are killers in their own right, they are merely prey for their new opponent – the ultimate killer of killers.”

It’s a brilliant concept that passionate fans have long pondered since Predators can interrupt any era. Maybe King Arthur’s Camelot guard versus Predators or Blackbeard’s crew firing cannonballs at Predators. Wherever worthy adversaries exist, a Predator might challenge for dominance. Trachtenberg was so in love with the project that he co-directed alongside Josh Wassung (from animation company The Third Floor) while on location for Predator: Badlands. “We were writing the script for [Killer of Killers] while we were prevising stuff on [Badlands], and then [once on location] in New Zealand, on the way to shoot [Badlands], we would remote with everyone back here and [watch footage] thanks to Starlink.” 

When asked why on Earth he’d make two films at once, Trachtenberg chuckled and admitted, “This all was like a game of hopscotch…That was dumb. I hope I don’t do it again.”

Oh, I should probably tell you that I was lucky enough to watch the first twenty-ish minutes of Predator: Killer of Killers with Trachtenberg in attendance. That spanned the icy Viking revenge arc in its entirety, which, let me confirm, doesn’t lose a lick of Predator signatures through illustration versus a gore-forward, practical effects showcase. The spectacle of action sequences and brutal kill shots reminds me of Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge, Warner Bros. Animation’s hyper-violent and bone-shattering animated franchise starter. Another journalist quickly pointed out how the visual design resembles Netflix’s Arcane (complimentary), which Trachtenberg cited as an artistic inspiration.

Predator: Killer of Killers marks The Third Floor’s first full-length feature, but they’re no rookies. As Trachtenberg notes, Wassung and his team have handled VFX for countless properties you’ve loved across Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, The Boys, Netflix Originals—the list continues. Many companies contributed to the film, but Wassung’s co-director tag speaks to Trachtenberg’s enthusiasm about working together, laying the groundwork for visual compositions that do not lack survivalist ferocity or intensity despite biased preconceptions about cartoons.

This isn’t Trachtenberg’s first animated rodeo, either. He recalls directing the opening cinematic for a video game titled Warframe, and how the experience made him realize there’s not that stark a difference between live-action and animated filmmaking. “I was so struck by how animation, on the one hand, you can do anything—but also, you become just as limited as you do in live action.” The number of sets costs money, the number of characters, the number of wardrobes, yadda yadda. That experience helped Trachtenberg “shoot it the way I would a live-action movie, and so that it felt cinematic from my voice.” 

Of the elements to be excited about, segment individuality remains paramount. “Most characters are dealing with generational [issues], trying to break a cycle. All the chapters are different genre-wise.” The frosty, fog-thick battlegrounds of 841 AD have a chill to them as this badass Viking death-dealer avenges her lineage while massacring her foes, yet the trailer footage for the American pilot segment looks much brighter and more adventure-centric. But, thematically, all segments are driven by a simple question: “Who would be a unique challenge for the Predator?” Time periods were chosen based on their trademark fighting capabilities and “cool” factor, from Japanese samurai choreography to WW2 airborne dogfights. The door is wide open to so many alternate possibilities, but Trachtenberg confirms Predator: Killer of Killers was created to stand alone, always as an anthology feature (versus, say, television episodes).

“You don’t want to feel shortchanged by the experience, that it was incomplete. I won’t sleep at night if I don’t feel like I’ve communicated everything I wanted to with [Badlands and Killer of Killers].

It’s clear how Trachtenberg and screenwriter Micho Robert Rutare want to embolden Yautja lore beyond its familiar attributes. In the segment we watched, the Predator looms a bulkier build with this sonic charge-up fist weapon that introduces never-before-seen technology. He’s a heavyweight Yautja, throwing haymakers that turn craniums into splattery mist. Predator: Killer of Killers takes advantage of its medium and visualizes Predator storytelling that’d otherwise be far harder to accomplish in live-action. Trachtenberg likens his approach to his experiences at sleepovers: “When I was 12, and I saw Akira for the first time, and I was like, what the fuck? What did I just see? I can’t believe a movie could be like that.” He wants Predator: Killer of Killers to be that sleepover awakening for a new generation of movie lovers.

If my multiple gasps during bloodthirsty Viking warfare are a tell, he’s on the right track. There’s one decapitation, a head popped between two crescent cutouts on dual-bladed spherical shields, that’s worth the price of admission alone.

Predator: Killer of Killers makes the impossible, or at least improbable, possible. Stan Winston‘s legendary Predator body suit and mechanical facial effects are Hall of Fame craftsmanship, but exhibit limitations. Through animation, Predators aren’t inhibited by their costumes. There’s an entire underwater combat sequence in the footage we saw, and more elaborate and far-fetched science fiction gizmos. Trachtenberg’s not trying to overwrite a legacy, but to bring the Predator franchise to the “next level.” Oh, the places the Yautja can go are endless, and it won’t cost live-action budgets.

Since Badlands is on the horizon, we tried to connect continuity dots. As per a cheeky and coy Trachtenberg: “There’s so much cool stuff in this movie. It might even go into more than Badlands or—or it might not.” There’s also a framing device that looks oddly familiar to Nimrod Antal’s Predators, with prisoners en route somewhere, but evidently that’s just a coincidence. “It’s different. You do not need to [rewatch] Predators.” Predator: Killer of Killers is its own beast, themed around a throughline of courage and tenacity in the face of Yautja threats. “The movie is very much about the connection between the characters, as much as the stories themselves.”

With that enthusiasm, Trachtenberg plans to crack open the Predator franchise and expose vast new worlds. There are no current plans for a sequel, but it’s hard to foresee any future where Predator: Killer of Killers—as long as it’s deemed successful—doesn’t add future chapters. There are so many breeds of soldiers for the Yautja to de-spine, and as many variations you can spin on Predator builds. Predator: Killer of Killers could be the start of something fantastic, but at the very least, it promises three brand new Predator experiences like you’ve never seen before.

A scene still from 20th Century Studios’ PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS, exclusively on Hulu. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios. © 2025 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.
A scene still from 20th Century Studios’ PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS, exclusively on Hulu. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios. © 2025 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.
A scene still from 20th Century Studios’ PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS, exclusively on Hulu. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios. © 2025 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.
A scene still from 20th Century Studios’ PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS, exclusively on Hulu. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios. © 2025 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.
A scene still from 20th Century Studios’ PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS, exclusively on Hulu. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios. © 2025 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.
A scene still from 20th Century Studios’ PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS, exclusively on Hulu. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios. © 2025 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.
A scene still from 20th Century Studios’ PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS, exclusively on Hulu. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios. © 2025 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.

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Hulu Original ‘Control Freak’ Trailer Afflicts Kelly Marie Tran With Demonic Parasite https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3856403/hulu-original-control-freak-trailer-afflicts-kelly-marie-tran-with-demonic-parasite/ https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3856403/hulu-original-control-freak-trailer-afflicts-kelly-marie-tran-with-demonic-parasite/#respond Thu, 27 Feb 2025 18:20:17 +0000 https://bloody-disgusting.com/?p=3856403 Hulu has unveiled the official new trailer for Control Freak, an original horror movie starring Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi actor Kelly Marie Tran as a woman afflicted with a demonic parasite. Control Freak debuts exclusively on Hulu on March 13. The logline for this psychological thriller is straightforward, simple, and effective: “A […]

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Hulu has unveiled the official new trailer for Control Freak, an original horror movie starring Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi actor Kelly Marie Tran as a woman afflicted with a demonic parasite.

Control Freak debuts exclusively on Hulu on March 13.

The logline for this psychological thriller is straightforward, simple, and effective: “A motivational speaker is tormented by an unrelenting itch on the back of her head.”

Watch the new trailer below, which introduces the start of the parasitic affliction. Intriguingly, the trailer withholds any full glimpse of the entity, though the creepy, crawly new poster below might give us a better look.

In Control Freak, Tran plays  “Valerie, a woman whose life spirals into chaos due to this inexplicable and relentless affliction.” Opposite Tran, Miles Robbins (Daniel Isn’t RealHalloween) plays “her on-screen husband Robbie.”  Toan Le rounds out the cast as Valerie’s father, Sang, with Kieu Chinh as Aunt Thuy.

The  WorthenBrooks and Hulu Original horror movie was written and directed by Shal Ngo (The Park, “The Box”), expanding his 2021 horror short “Control” featured in the second season of Hulu’s Bite Size Halloween. That means that Control Freak joins WorthenBrooks’s expanding slate of horror features for Hulu, which includes titles like Appendage, The Mill, ClockMr. Crocket, and Carved.

Producers include David Brooks, Arbi Pedrossian, Jenna Cavelle, and Shaum S. Sengupta, with Miles Alva serving as executive producer.

Control Freak arrives next month on Hulu before heading to Disney+ internationally at a later date.

Control Freak Poster

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Kelly Marie Tran Battles Parasitic Demon in Hulu Original ‘Control Freak’ First Look [Exclusive] https://bloody-disgusting.com/exclusives/3855029/control-freak-first-look-exclusive/ https://bloody-disgusting.com/exclusives/3855029/control-freak-first-look-exclusive/#respond Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:00:16 +0000 https://bloody-disgusting.com/?p=3855029 Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi star Kelly Marie Tran will find herself dealing with a mysterious parasitic affliction in WorthenBrooks and Hulu Original’s Control Freak, and our exclusive first look images indicate a psychologically disturbing, bloody time ahead. Control Freak debuts exclusively on Hulu on March 13 before heading to Disney+ internationally […]

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Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi star Kelly Marie Tran will find herself dealing with a mysterious parasitic affliction in WorthenBrooks and Hulu Original’s Control Freak, and our exclusive first look images indicate a psychologically disturbing, bloody time ahead.

Control Freak debuts exclusively on Hulu on March 13 before heading to Disney+ internationally at a later date.

The logline for this psychological thriller is straightforward, simple, and effective: “A motivational speaker is tormented by an unrelenting itch on the back of her head.” That strange itch gives way to an intense journey as the woman finds herself battling a parasitic demon from her homeland.

Tran plays  “Valerie, a woman whose life spirals into chaos due to this inexplicable and relentless affliction.” Opposite Tran, Miles Robbins (Daniel Isn’t Real, Halloween) plays “her on-screen husband Robbie.”  Toan Le rounds out the cast as Valerie’s father, Sang, with Kieu Chinh as Aunt Thuy.

The Hulu Original horror movie was written and directed by Shal Ngo (The Park, “The Box”), expanding his 2021 horror short “Control” featured in the second season of Hulu’s Bite Size Halloween. That means that Control Freak joins the ranks of WorthenBrooks’s expanding slate of horror features for Hulu, which includes titles like Appendage, The Mill, Clock, Mr. Crocket, and Carved.

The producing team behind Control Freak includes David Brooks, Arbi Pedrossian, Jenna Cavelle, and Shaum S. Sengupta, with Miles Alva serving as executive producer.

Look for Shal Ngo’s Control Freak to arrive next month on Hulu. In the meantime, check out the exclusive first look images below, which doesn’t give away any parasitic details but does tease a bloody journey ahead.

Miles Robbins looks terrified
Photo Credit: WorthenBrooks/Hulu
Kelly Marie Tran
Photo Credit: WorthenBrooks/Hulu
Kelly Marie Tran in Control Freak
Photo Credit: WorthenBrooks/Hulu
Kelly Marie Tran looks at Miles Robbins with bloody hand in Control Freak
Photo Credit: WorthenBrooks/Hulu
Kelly Marie Tran with blood dripping down forehead
Photo Credit: WorthenBrooks/Hulu

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Ringing In 2025 With Influencer Horror and “Into The Dark: New Year, New You” [Horror Queers Podcast] https://bloody-disgusting.com/podcast-news/3849789/ringing-in-2025-with-influencer-horror-and-into-the-dark-new-year-new-you-horror-queers-podcast/ https://bloody-disgusting.com/podcast-news/3849789/ringing-in-2025-with-influencer-horror-and-into-the-dark-new-year-new-you-horror-queers-podcast/#respond Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:33:34 +0000 https://bloody-disgusting.com/?p=3849789 #Manifesting After spending December revisiting Joel Schumacher’s 2004 version of The Phantom of the Opera (listen), Bette Davis’ Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (listen) and Damien Leone’s Terrifier 3 (listen), Trace and I rang in 2025 with a look back at Sophia Takal‘s Into The Dark entry, New Year, New You (2018), co-written with Adam Gaines. In the Hulu […]

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#Manifesting

After spending December revisiting Joel Schumacher’s 2004 version of The Phantom of the Opera (listen), Bette Davis’ Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (listen) and Damien Leone’s Terrifier 3 (listen), Trace and I rang in 2025 with a look back at Sophia Takal‘s Into The Dark entry, New Year, New You (2018), co-written with Adam Gaines.

In the Hulu film, Alexis (Suki Waterhouse) joins friends Kayla (Kirby Howell-Baptiste), Chloe (Melissa Bergland) and social media influencer Danielle (Carly Chaikin) to ring in the new year.

But Alexis has ulterior motives for attending this year’s festivities. She blames Danielle for her facial disfigurement, resents her for her fame, and has a devious plan to exact revenge. The party quickly turns into a hostage situation with Kayla and Chloe forced to pick sides as the other two work out their issues in an escalating series of verbal and physical spats.

Will Alexis get her revenge? Will Danielle acknowledge her faults? And who will survive to celebrate the new year?

P.S. Did you miss our other New Year’s episode on Into The Dark: Midnight Kiss? Listen to it here.

Be sure to subscribe to the podcast for a new episode every Wednesday. You can subscribe on iTunes/Apple PodcastsStitcherSpotifyiHeartRadioSoundCloudTuneInAmazon Music, and RSS.


Episode 315: Into The Dark: New Year, New You (2018)

We’re #manifesting a happy New Year’s with our best influencer friend courtesy of Sophia Takal and Adam Gaines’ “New Year, New You” (2018).

The all-female entry of Into The Dark is about toxic (female) friendships and anticipates a ton of 2022 “Influencer” horror titles, particularly Sissy.

Plus: praise for Carly Chaikin, questions about Suki Waterhouse’s career, debates about social media advertising and complaints of “wokeness”, and sly commentary (maybe?) by Takal and Gaines about the importance of Black, queer and fat people in white women’s stories.


Cross out Into The Dark: New Year, New You!

Coming up on Wednesday: We’re tackling the *other* half of Grindhouse‘s double bill with a look at Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof (2007). Did you miss our coverage of Rodriguez’s half? Check out our episode on Planet Terror from last year (listen).

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‘Alien: Earth’ – Watch the First Footage from the First Ever ‘Alien’ Television Series https://bloody-disgusting.com/tv/3839192/alien-earth-watch-the-first-footage-from-the-first-ever-alien-television-series/ https://bloody-disgusting.com/tv/3839192/alien-earth-watch-the-first-footage-from-the-first-ever-alien-television-series/#respond Tue, 12 Nov 2024 13:57:08 +0000 https://bloody-disgusting.com/?p=3839192 In the wake of Alien: Romulus comes the FX/Hulu series “Alien: Earth” sometime next year, which is set to be the first ever television series set within the official Alien universe. As part of a 2025 preview video from Disney+, we’ve got the first footage from “Alien: Earth” this morning, which gives us a brief […]

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In the wake of Alien: Romulus comes the FX/Hulu series “Alien: Earth” sometime next year, which is set to be the first ever television series set within the official Alien universe.

As part of a 2025 preview video from Disney+, we’ve got the first footage from “Alien: Earth” this morning, which gives us a brief sneak peek at the locations and characters.

One character says in voiceover, “This ship collected specimens from faraway moons… monsters.” The suggestion there is that a Xenomorph specimen has been brought back to Earth in the upcoming “Alien: Earth,” which will indeed be the franchise’s first installment set here on Earth. Check out the first look preview footage for next year’s “Alien: Earth” below.

Creator Noah Hawley recently told Deadline, “There’s something about seeing a Xenomorph in the wilds of Earth with your own eyes that is truly chilling… to think of it moving here among us. And so I can’t tell you under what circumstances you’ll see that, but you’ll see it — and you’re going to lock your door that night.”

Sydney Chandler stars in FX’s “Alien: Earth,” set roughly 70 years in the future. FX had originally teased, “Expect a scary thrill ride set not too far in the future here on Earth.”

In “Alien: Earth”…

“When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, a young woman and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat.”

The series is set 30 years before the events of the original Alien – Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, meanwhile, takes place 20 years *after* the events of Ridley Scott’s Alien.

The upcoming “Alien: Earth” deals with “the emergence of the story’s infamous Weyland-Yutani Corporation and the race between corporations to create new android life.”

Sydney Chandler is playing a character named Wendy in the series, said to be “a hybrid, a meta-human who has the brain and consciousness of a child but the body of an adult.”

Babou Ceesay (“Guerrilla”), Jonathan Ajayi (“Wonder Woman 1984”), Erana James (“Uproar”), Lily Newmark (“Sex Education”), Diêm Camille (“Washington Black”), Adrian Edmondson (“War & Peace”), Timothy Olyphant (“Fargo”), David Rysdahl (“Fargo”), Essie Davis (The Babadook), Alex Lawther (The End of the F*cking World), Samuel Blenkin (“Black Mirror”), Adarsh Gourav (The White Tiger), Sandra Yi Sencindiver (“Foundation”), and Moe Bar-El (The Peripheral) also star in the upcoming sci-fi/horror series.

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‘Carved’ – Hulu Unleashes a Man-Eating Pumpkin With Retro Style Teaser for Huluween Original https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3836224/carved-hulu-unleashes-a-man-eating-pumpkin-with-retro-style-teaser-for-huluween-original/ https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3836224/carved-hulu-unleashes-a-man-eating-pumpkin-with-retro-style-teaser-for-huluween-original/#respond Fri, 18 Oct 2024 16:00:19 +0000 https://bloody-disgusting.com/?p=3836224 In the wake of Mr. Crocket, Hulu’s “Huluween” lineup continues this month with the original horror-comedy Carved, and we’ve been provided with a retro-style teaser trailer today. Dig into the nasty pumpkin guts below… The horror-comedy Carved premieres only on Hulu Monday, October 21. “When a heartbroken teenage playwright, her younger brother, and a disparate group of […]

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In the wake of Mr. Crocket, Hulu’s “Huluween” lineup continues this month with the original horror-comedy Carved, and we’ve been provided with a retro-style teaser trailer today.

Dig into the nasty pumpkin guts below…

The horror-comedy Carved premieres only on Hulu Monday, October 21.

“When a heartbroken teenage playwright, her younger brother, and a disparate group of survivors become trapped in a historical reenactment village on Halloween night, they must band together to survive a relentless assault by a sentient and vengeful pumpkin.”

Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Corey Fogelmanis, Wyatt Lindner, Carla Jimenez, Sasha Mason, Jonah Lees, DJ Qualls, Marc-Sully Saint-Fleur, Elvis Nolasco, Matty Cardarople, Jackson Kelly, and Chris Elliott star in the upcoming Halloween horror movie Carved.

Directed by Justin Harding, Carved is based on the short film of the same name, which he also wrote and directed for a shorts program for Huluween Film Fest and teamed up with writer Cheryl Meyer to pen the feature version together.

As part of WorthenBrooks’ first-look horror slate with Hulu Originals, Carved was developed by WorthenBrooks with David Brooks, Debbie Liebling, Arbi Pedrossian, and Jenna Cavelle serving as producers. Miles Alva is an executive producer

Lorne Raimi, Alex Hansen, and Nick Page are co-producing.

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‘American Horror Stories’ Season 3 Ups Its Game & Becomes the Perfect Halloween Treat [Review] https://bloody-disgusting.com/reviews/3835553/american-horror-stories-season-3-ups-its-game-becomes-the-perfect-halloween-treat-review/ https://bloody-disgusting.com/reviews/3835553/american-horror-stories-season-3-ups-its-game-becomes-the-perfect-halloween-treat-review/#respond Wed, 16 Oct 2024 13:31:27 +0000 https://bloody-disgusting.com/?p=3835553 ‘American Horror Stories’ delivers five uniquely alarming tales of terror that tackle liminal spaces, clones, Leprechauns, and more. “You know, we invented hell.” There was a lot of promise in American Horror Stories — an episodic anthology horror series — when it was first announced as a companion piece to American Horror Story proper. American […]

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‘American Horror Stories’ delivers five uniquely alarming tales of terror that tackle liminal spaces, clones, Leprechauns, and more.

“You know, we invented hell.”

There was a lot of promise in American Horror Stories — an episodic anthology horror series — when it was first announced as a companion piece to American Horror Story proper. American Horror Stories’ first season was a lackluster effort that oddly felt compelled to needlessly connect its stories to American Horror Story. The second season worked out many of these kinks and, while still imperfect, there are some genuine gems in the mix, like the Twilight Zone-aping “Facelift.” The third season was an even greater improvement that arguably didn’t have any duds in the mix (although the AI assistant, “Daphne,” is a little derivative). More importantly, American Horror Stories seemed to finally find the right rhythm and creative team to do this series justice. Additionally, Season 3 eclipsed the modern seasons of American Horror Story and felt like the purest version of what Ryan Murphy should be doing with the horror genre. Not only do the new season’s remaining five episodes build upon this success, but they’re some of the best episodes that the anthology horror series have ever done – and the perfect Halloween binge.

Both American Horror Story series’ have tackled nearly every horror subgenre and trope imaginable at this point, but this batch of American Horror Stories episodes boldly tackles the more recent fascination of liminal space horror — specifically the Backrooms phenomenon that gained life on 4chan and was popularized by YouTuber Kane Parsons’ short films. Parsons is tapped to direct a feature film adaptation of the Backrooms for A24, but it’s exciting to see American Horror Stories beat them to the punch and provide its own eerie take on this surreal, hostile purgatory.

“Backrooms” is a tragic tale of obsession that’s directed by David Gelb, who isn’t a complete newcomer to horror — he helmed 2011’s polarizing The Lazarus Effect — but his primary mode is as a documentary filmmaker, with food as his area of expertise. This makes Gelb a particularly unique choice for American Horror Stories, but his skills as a documentarian help give “Backrooms” some extra bite. The strong episode is really able to lean into the cinéma vérité faux-reality angle that’s essential for this type of story. It’s a gambit that really pays off and it’s satisfying that one of the first mainstream celebrations and adaptations of “Backrooms horror” is such a success, rather than soullessly chasing a viral trend.

American Horror Stories trailer

This collection of episodes continues the theme of missing people, fractured families, and slipping sense of self with “X,” “The Thing Under the Bed,” and “Clone.” Matt Spicer directs “X,” a striking black-and-white installment about a medical conspiracy and a nurse’s efforts to locate a dangerous patient who has disappeared, only for the situation to become considerably more supernatural. Spicer is another new voice for the American Horror Stories family, having previously worked on poppy titles with dark edges, like Dollface, On Becoming A God in Central Florida, and Ingrid Goes West. Spicer thrives in this environment and proves that he has very natural impulses as a horror director. There are several sequences from the episode that feel like they’re straight from a George A. Romero film.

“Clone” is the type of story that feels two steps removed for Black Mirror and feels the weakest out of these five new entries. The Max Winkler-directed installment has the regular American Horror Story collaborator explore the potential in a tech billionaire who creates a robotic clone who is supposed to fill in for him after he’s unable to perform his duties after a harrowing accident. What begins as a privileged life hack soon gradually becomes a prolonged fight for survival as the robotic counterpart pleads for autonomy and supremacy. There are shades of M3GAN, AfrAId, and the many other tech-based horror films that have been churned out over the past few years. “Clone” finds strength in its central questions of identity and how it’s more in line with a horror-centric version of Multiplicity than it is a riff on Ex Machina.

Much like how “X” and “Clone” deconstruct familiar ideas, “The Thing Under the Bed” and “Leprechaun” subvert fairly standard storytelling tropes that zig just when you expect them to zag. “The Thing Under the Bed” begins as a melancholy bedtime story that continues to peel back its layers and turn into a nightmare that proves that monsters are lurking in far more places than just under the bed. “Leprechaun” might be the most unhinged and surprising entry of the lot. A by-the-book bank heist becomes infinitely more complicated when the titular creature gets unleashed. There’s a lot of seasonal horror that American Horror Story and American Horror Stories has failed to tackle and this is honestly one of the most creative takes on a Leprechaun story that either series could approach, while not unnecessarily being tethered to St. Patrick’s Day. 

“Leprechaun” along with “Backrooms” are both written by Joe Baken (the latter of which is co-written with Jon Rabin Baitz). Baken and Baitz are the co-creators and co-writers for Ryan Murphy’s Grotesquerie (as well as Dr. Odyssey), but Baken also penned the two strongest episodes from the first-half of American Horror Stories’ third season, “Bestie” and “Tapeworm.” Baken’s scripts continue to shine and it’ll be a shame if this is American Horror Stories’ end because he’s someone who genuinely understands the right tone and energy for a pulpy horror anthology series that’s still deeply disturbing. 

It also doesn’t hurt that these episodes also continue American Horror Stories’ tradition of absolutely stacked casts. Some of the guest stars from these five episodes include Michael Imperioli, Henry Winkler, Victor Garber, June Squibb, Debby Ryan, and Jeff Hiller. Everyone is clearly having a lot of fun here, but Winkler, Garber, and Hiller all give particularly memorable and heightened performances that understand the assignment. Imperioli, while not as exaggerated, gives a rich, pained performance that becomes the necessary emotional anchor to “Backrooms.” If nothing else, American Horror Stories delivers constant delights with its guest stars, even if the horror and storytelling from these episodes fall flat for some audiences.  

American Horror Stories Season 3: Part 2 is a surprise highlight of the Halloween season that’s dense in both tricks and treats. It’s everything that horror fans want from an anthology series that’s completely lacking in the standard Murphy smarm and excess that’s prone to dragging his series down. These five episodes are filled with haunting visuals, rewarding surprises, and crushing conclusions that will make audiences want to repeatedly return to these twisted tales. 

3.5 out of 5

All three seasons of ‘American Horror Stories’ are available to stream on Hulu.

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‘Solar Opposites’ returns for a transformative Halloween special that gets to the crux of the spooky season by riffing on a Christmas classic.

“Stop celebrating Halloween? Oh no, my pretty. I think you’ll find that you ARE Halloween.”

Halloween specials have become a long and storied tradition in television and they’re a great opportunity for series – comedies and dramas alike – to really flex their genre muscles and remind audiences of Halloween’s inherent splendor. The beauty of Solar Opposites is that it’s a series that’s endlessly devoted to pop culture parodies and extended satire subversions that have touched on everything from Gerald’s Game to Now You See Me. The Solar family have largely fallen in love with Earth and its customs through their obsession with television and cinema’s warm inviting glow. It’s the perfect series for farcical holiday specials that poke fun at the structure and tropes of these seasonal installments, which is exactly why Solar Opposites’ previous Christmas, Halloween, and St. Valentine’s Day specials have been some of the series’ most enjoyable episodes. 

The horror genre is particularly conducive to sequels, so it’s perhaps only appropriate that Solar Opposites’ latest holiday installment – “’Solar Opposites’ Halloween Special Part 2: The Hunt for Brown October” – returns to Halloween with a direct follow-up to its previous Halloween special, “A Sinister Halloween Scary Opposites Solar Special,” rather than tackle a new festivity, such as Easter or St. Patrick’s Day. It’s satisfying to have Solar Opposites return to the horror genre, but “The Hunt for Brown October” brilliantly weaponizes the nature of horror sequels into a holiday special that’s exciting and new, rather than derivative. It’s an entertaining addition to anyone’s Halloween binge session.

Sequels can be set up for failure if they’re entered into under the wrong conditions. “The Hunt for Brown October” is careful about actually having something to say here rather than coming off as a hollow retread and round-up of the series’ past holiday hits. Solar Opposites gets playful and self-aware with the idea of a second Halloween special and begins as an outright refusal of the spooky season. The Solars go through a checklist of holidays that they’d rather celebrate before they’re roped into supernatural shenanigans that make their efforts to ignore Halloween increasingly impossible. It’s a successful angle for a “sequel” that doesn’t step on its predecessor’s toes. 

“A Sinister Halloween Scary Opposites Solar Special” got a lot of mileage out of its subversion of two powerful horror icons – The Crypt Keeper and the Great Pumpkin – the fallout of which becomes the catalyst for “The Hunt For Brown October.” The Great Pumpkin’s grisly end by Korvo’s hand in the last Halloween special triggers a spirit transfer that turns Korvo into this demonic deity. It’s kind of brilliant that Solar Opposites essentially does a Halloween version of The Santa Clause and turns to the plot of a celebrated Christmas movie and spookifying it. It’s an unexpected angle that’s more powerful than reserving it for the series’ next Christmas special or turning to a more conventional Halloween movie for the special’s inspiration. There’s something wonderfully ridiculous about the idea that the Great Pumpkin is a seasonal figure that needs to exist and it’s an angle that more horror films should employ. It’d be genuinely terrifying to see a final girl or survivor kill Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, or Michael Myers, only to then turn into their greatest nightmare because of some twisted cosmic karmic balance that’s bigger than them.

Korvo is the funniest character to experience this Great Pumpkin-ification based on his contentious relationship with Halloween in the previous holiday special. It’s a small detail, but one that gets a little more narrative juice out of this premise. The slow burn nature of Korvo’s transformation is understandably played for laughs, but it could have been fun to see Solar Opposites indulge in a particularly laborious and vicious transformation sequence that’s akin to An American Werewolf in London where it just goes for broke with gratuitous gore. “The Hunt for Brown October” turns the Great Pumpkin into its focal point, but there’s also some fun to be had with the surprisingly complex lore that it introduces regarding more Nightmare Before Christmas-esque holiday totems such as the First Witch and the Grand Brown Gravy. A whole holiday hierarchy that brings Highlander to mind is an effective way for Solar Opposites to go all-in with this convoluted idea and set up future holiday specials to come. It’d be genuinely shocking if none of these ideas or characters ever appeared again. 

Solar Opposites Halloween Special Solars As Monsters

“The Hunt for Brown October” is mostly interested in Korvo’s plight, but the abundance of Halloween figures also facilitates an enjoyable enough B-story where the Pupa and JK Sevens embrace their morbid juvenile curiosity and try to eviscerate Halloween’s First Witch. This digression isn’t necessary, but it’s a fun aside to return to on several occasions that’s fueled with a gleeful maliciousness that’s appropriate for the Halloween season. If nothing else, it’s appreciated that Solar Opposites continues to develop the Pupa and JK Sevens’ budding friendship.

On a similar note, Korvo’s resistance to his supernatural transmutation also has seasonal side effects that turn the rest of the Solars into creepy alternate versions of themselves. This feels like an easy excuse to get wacky varieties of Terry, Yumyulack, and Jesse that rival Korvo’s own macabre metamorphosis, but it’s not especially annoying or distracting. All this helps contribute towards Halloween spreading and enveloping the Solars’ surroundings like a virus. Forget about Spirit Halloween. Solar Opposites explores Sickness Halloween.

Solar Opposites always has such a good knack for subverting standard sitcom tropes, which are once again at the core of this Halloween special and feature a hilariously hackneyed scenario where nothing can go wrong, which of course means that everything does. Solar Opposites routinely welcomes “sci-fi bullshit” and so it’s no surprise to see “The Hunt for Brown October” develop a fascination with dark magic and wicked elixirs as a solution to restore normalcy. This is a fairly straightforward special, but it still finds an opportunity to detonate some satisfying surprises that leave the Solars feeling like bigger outsiders than ever, even after they’ve neutralized this Halloween magic. 

Solar Opposites’ “The Hunt for Brown October” tells a frivolous and silly story – because of course it does – but it culminates in a satisfying final act where the Solars need to use the power of Halloween to defeat Thanksgiving and survive the season. This experience helps Korvo better appreciate Halloween’s true glory and why it’s regarded as such a cherished holiday. This, on its own, is true lunacy. It’s also a conclusion that feels purely Solar Opposites and the perfect way to resolve a Halloween special of this nature. “The Hunt for Brown of October” is on the weaker end of Solar Opposites’ four holiday specials. However, that’s not to say that this is an unsuccessful episode of television and Halloween programming. 

“The Hunt for Brown October” is still incredibly strong and it’s certainly on par with a standard Solar Opposites episode. It’s an amusing addition to anyone’s October watchlist and this episode plays even better if it’s watched back-to-back with “A Sinister Halloween Scary Opposites Solar Special” and enjoyed as an hour-long Halloween spectacular. It’s unlikely that Solar Opposites is going to stop with these holiday specials and there are still limitless ideas for them to explore. One can’t help but wonder how The Wall or the SilverCops celebrate Halloween, for instance. However, a future return to Halloween is going to require a more layered approach that works a little harder to sensationalize this scary season. 

3.5 out of 5

“Solar Opposites: The Hunt for Brown October” is currently streaming on Hulu.

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