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The latest in horror movie news and horror TV series talk, from the big horror franchises coming to theatrical release to the new favorites slashing their way to streaming services.

Paul W.S. Anderson on Event Horizon’s rushed edit and lost deleted scenes

Posted 6 years ago

Earlier this month, Scream Factory announced that they will be giving director Paul W.S. Anderson's 1997 sci-fi horror film EVENT HORIZON a Collector's Edition Blu-ray release on September 29th (copies can be pre-ordered at THIS LINK). In case you're not...

Legendary acquires the rights to Max Brooks’ Bigfoot novel Devolution!

Posted 6 years ago

THR reports that Max Brooks – author of the popular WORLD WAR Z novel (that became the basis for the blockbuster Brad Pitt film) – has sold the rights to his latest book DEVOLUTION: A FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF THE RAINIER SASQUATCH MASSACRE...

New limited edition pinball machine based on Heavy Metal on the way!

Posted 6 years ago

The 1981 animated film HEAVY METAL is most certainly a formative film for many people (especially boys) of a certain era. It is cited by many as the first adult animated film with excessive nudity and gore that they'd ever...

Shudder’s Creepshow revival orders season 3 scripts, despite no renewal

Posted 6 years ago

The original CREEPSHOW films in the '80s were a collaboration between Stephen King and George A. Romero, and were horror anthology films greatly influenced by old E.C. Comics. Last year, AMC's horror streaming service Shudder revived the series to great...

Thir13en Ghosts remake getting a Collector’s Edition Blu-Ray!

Posted 6 years ago

I've always had a fondness for the 2001 cult horror-thriller THIR13EEN GHOSTS. A remake of the campy 1960's original – which was directed by HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL director William Castle (with a gimmick of wearing glasses to "see the...

Jonathan Levine has signed on to write and direct a film adaptation of the Grady Hendrix novel Horrorstör for Searchlight

Film based on Grady Hendrix’s novel Horrorstor in the works

Posted 6 years ago

This is news we have reported before: there's an adaptation of author / SATANIC PANIC screenwriter Grady Hendrix's 2013 novel HORRORSTÖR in development. Things are different this time around, though. When we previously reported on an adaptation in 2014 and 2015, HORRORSTÖR...

Jason Reitman has been editing Ghostbusters: Afterlife in quarantine

Posted 6 years ago

If the world had stayed on track, we'd now be less than a month away from the release of director Jason Reitman's GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE, a sequel to his father Ivan's films GHOSTBUSTERS and GHOSTBUSTERS II. The movie was scheduled to...

Clive Barker files lawsuit to acquire Hellraiser rights

Posted 6 years ago

FRIDAY THE 13TH PART III actor-turned-entertainment-lawyer Larry Zerner has been our guide through the court battle between FRIDAY THE 13TH director / producer Sean S. Cunningham and screenwriter Victor Miller over the U.S. copyright of the 1980 film, and now...

New still from Monster Hunter shows off Milla Jovovich with a Slinger!

Posted 6 years ago

While Paul W.S. Anderson's directing career has been…mixed, to say the least, he can still lay claim to helming one of the only good videogame adaptations (1995's MORTAL KOMBAT), and the mastermind behind the most financially successful videogame movie franchises ever (the RESIDENT...

You can now read the oral history of making Gremlins 2: The New Batch!

Posted 6 years ago

Joe Dante's irreverent horror-comedy GREMLINS was a surprise success in the summer of 1984. Then, despite many failed starts and a hesitant Dante, the director eventually returned to helm the zany, LOONEY TUNES-esque sequel GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH. While...

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