Horror fans have eaten good lately, with studios continuing to invest in big-screen genre adaptations and pairing break-out filmmakers finding fresh material to tackle. But when rising filmmakers join forces with a horror icon to bring one of the genre’s defining novels to the screen, it’s worth stopping to pay attention. And that is exactly […]
Streaming was supposed to end the cable-era headache of paying for channels you never watched just to get the two or three you wanted. Unfortunately, the landscape has splintered into a dozen separate subscriptions, each one holding a piece of the catalog hostage. A studio’s entire horror library might live on one platform this year […]
If religious-themed horror movies are your thing, then you are definitely in luck, because Sydney Sweeney’s recent step into terrifying territory is finally making its way to Netflix. And considering all of the powerhouse performances that she’s delivered lately, this horror film is sure to dominate the streaming chart once it lands, and that might […]
Universal Pictures built one of Hollywood’s most enduring horror brands nearly a century ago, long before “shared universe” became an industry buzzword. Starting in the early 1930s, the studio’s roster of Universal Monsters turned gothic literary villains into movie stars, including Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, the Wolf Man, the Invisible Man, the Bride of Frankenstein, the […]
Although M. Night Shyamalan’s earlier horror success quickly made him a Hollywood legend, his penchant for twist endings went a bit too far with a divisive sci-fi blockbuster from 2002. Not all of M. Night Shyamalan’s movies actually have twist endings, but it is still easy to see how the director’s name became synonymous with […]
’90s kids will be very familiar with Barney, the big purple dinosaur from the TV show Barney & Friends, but while that character was meant to be a lovable friend and comfort character for children, Keegan-Michael Key‘s brand-new horror movie, Buddy, has twisted that concept into something truly nightmarish. Buddy, which is set to hit […]
The streaming business has grown increasingly fragmented over the past several years, with major services locking flagship titles behind subscription tiers and forcing viewers to juggle multiple platforms just to keep up with their favorite franchises. Free, ad-supported services such as Tubi, Plex, and Pluto TV have carved out a significant niche by countering this […]
A sequel that fans have been waiting on for decades is finally coming together, with Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz officially returning to The Mummy franchise after decades. The one-two punch of the first two movies back in 1999 and 2001 created a major adventure-horror franchise that, despite a third movie and an entire Scorpion […]
Although it took one of the most ambitious Stephen King movie adaptations over a decade to hit screens, the resulting fantasy movie was so bad that it never even received a sequel. From Disney’s The Black Cauldron to the expensive Antonio Banderas misfire The 13th Warrior, dark fantasy movies have always been unreliable at the […]
Eli Roth made a name for himself with shocking, gory horror films in the early 2000s, at a time when the genre itself was in need of some…new blood. The likes of Cabin Fever and Hostel gave way to even wilder movies like The Green Inferno and his long-awaited Grindhouse spinoff movie, Thanksgiving. His new […]