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Four and a half years ago, Sony’s Columbia Pictures announced that they were developing a reboot / reimagining of the 1997 “nature run amok” thriller Anaconda (watch it Here), with the intention of “taking what was a simple and relatively cheap programmer with a B-movie concept and event-izing it in scope and budget.” Back in 2023, we heard that Tom Gormican would be writing and directing the film as his follow-up to the well-received action comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. In recent months, Gormican’s Anaconda reboot, which takes a meta approach, has been making its way through production with a cast that includes Jack Black (School of Rock), Paul Rudd (Ant-Man), Thandiwe Newton (Westworld), Daniela Melchior (The Suicide Squad), Steve Zahn (Joy Ride), Selton Mello (Bury Your Dead), and Ione Skye (Zodiac). Rudd has described the film as a “totally unique” meta comedy – but in a new interview, Black said that,...

Four and a half years ago, Sony’s Columbia Pictures announced that they were developing a reboot / reimagining of the 1997 “nature run amok” thriller Anaconda (watch it Here), with the intention of “taking what was a simple and relatively cheap programmer with a B-movie concept and event-izing it in scope and budget.” Back in 2023, we heard that Tom Gormican would be writing and directing the film as his follow-up to the well-received action comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. In recent months, Gormican’s Anaconda reboot, which takes a meta approach, has been making its way through production with a cast that includes Jack Black (School of Rock), Paul Rudd (Ant-Man), Thandiwe Newton (Westworld), Daniela Melchior (The Suicide Squad), Steve Zahn (Joy Ride), Selton Mello (Bury Your Dead), and Ione Skye (Zodiac). Now, Rudd has given an interview where he describes the film as a “totally unique” meta comedy.

Most filmgoers recognize big cities like Miami, Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles in their favorite motion pictures. Sure enough, those locals provide the backdrop to several classic pictures from Michael Bay's "Bad Boys" to "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "King Kong" and Michael Mann's "Heat."  However, another prominent locale exists in the film world, a place you've likely seen more often than not, even if it didn't immediately stand out. We're talking, of course, about the state of Maine.

Uniquely, many stories take place in the Pine Tree State. Its lush scenery and coastal views make for stunning cinematography, while the colder elements provide the necessary bleakness for heavier dramas. Here, family friendly fare like "Casper" and "Pete's Dragon" took flight, while more intense films such as the alligator thriller "Lake Placid" and the Stephen King horror tale "Pet Sematary" found unique ways to scare the bejesus out of audiences.

Four and a half years ago, Sony’s Columbia Pictures announced that they were developing a reboot / reimagining of the 1997 “nature run amok” thriller Anaconda (watch it Here), with the intention of “taking what was a simple and relatively cheap programmer with a B-movie concept and event-izing it in scope and budget.” Back in 2023, we heard that Tom Gormican would be writing and directing the film as his follow-up to the well-received action comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Now, Gormican’s Anaconda reboot, which takes a meta approach, is in production with a cast that includes Jack Black (School of Rock), Paul Rudd (Ant-Man), Thandiwe Newton (Westworld), Daniela Melchior (The Suicide Squad), Steve Zahn (Joy Ride), Selton Mello (Bury Your Dead), and Ione Skye (Zodiac). During some downtime on set, Black, Rudd, and Mello decided to come up with a song that confirms most of the casting announcements,...

Two of Hollywood's most beloved fan-favorites have joined the cast of Anaconda.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Westworld star Thandiwe Newton has signed on for the upcoming Anaconda reboot film from director Tom Gormican. Silo star Steve Zahn has also joined the project, as have Ione Skye and Selton Mello, the latter of whom will be making his English-language feature film debut in Anaconda.

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News of an Anaconda reboot was confirmed in August 2024, with Columbia Pictures developing the project and Bryan Fuller and Andrew Form's Fully Formed studio set to produce. Anaconda will star Jack Black and Paul Rudd, implying that the upcoming reboot could very well have a decidedly lighter tone than the original. It...

Thandiwe Newton and Steve Zahn have joined the cast of 'Anaconda'.The 'Westworld' actress and the 'Silo' actor will join Paul Rudd and Jack Black in the action comedy, directed by Tom Gormican and co-written by Gormican and Kevin Etten.According to The Hollywood Reporter, Selton Mello will make his English-language debut in the film and Ione Skye will also star.The movie is a reimagining of 'Anaconda', the cult classic 1997 horror movie which featured Ice Cube, Jennifer Lopez, Jon Voight, Eric Stoltz, Jonathan Hyde, and Owen Wilson.The original film told the story of a documentary film crew in the Amazon rainforest led by a snake hunter, who was hunting a legendary green anaconda. According to The Hollywood Reporter, sources previously revealed the new version could see a group of friends head to the rainforest to remake a film from their younger years, only for giant snakes,...

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Steve Miner is a prolific director known for some of his horror movies that continue to be cult classics in the genre, including iconic sequels in major franchises such as Friday the 13th: Part 2 (1981) and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998). However, arguably, Miner's most underrated directorial work is the '90s creature feature, Lake Placid. Though other creature features of the time period, such as Anaconda and Tremors, have been widely praised for influencing the horror subgenre, this crocodile movie deserves far more credit than it gets.

Despite having a 47% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a slightly higher rating on IMDb with a 5.8/10, Lake Placid is one of the most impressive dark comedy creature features in the niche genre.

The Anaconda remake gets a new update from Paul Rudd and Jack Black, who unite for a video to reveal the film's release date. Released in 1997, Anaconda follows a National Geographic film crew as they are forced to work with an obsessed hunter to capture the world's largest snake. A sequel was released in 2004, followed by new installments in 2008 and 2009. After the franchise lay dormant for 15 years, it was confirmed this August that an Anaconda remake is on the way, with Black, Rudd, and Daniela Melchior all set to star.

Sony now shares a new video featuring Rudd and Black on the Anaconda remake's tropical-looking set, with the pair revealing that the film will hit theaters Christmas 2025. Though there's some confusion over whether the movie will be called "Anaconda" or "The Anaconda," Black does promise that "there's gonna be a big f--king snake." Check out the announcement video below:

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It’s the holiday season which means tons of free time by the fire. If you’re looking to fill your time with horror, Vizio has left you a Pandora’s Box under the tree filled with all the most terrifying Free titles sure to keep your heart racing this December!

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Also streaming for free are The Lake, Open Water, The Golem, The Crazies, Cube, Lake Placid, Stir of Echoes, An American Werewolf in London, Silent Hill: Revelation, and cult classic Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

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Three years after Betty White’s death, the iconic actress will be remembered in a special way.

The United States Postal Service revealed on Friday that one of its 2025 stamps will feature the American sweetheart.

“An icon of American television, Betty White (1922–2021) shared her wit and warmth with viewers for seven decades — including roles on The Golden Girls and The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” the mail service said in a statement. “The comedic actor, who gained younger generations of fans as she entered her 90s, was also revered as a compassionate advocate for animals.”

White died on Dec. 31, 2021, nearly three weeks short of her 100th birthday. On Jan. 11, 2022, it was revealed her cause of death was a stroke she had six days before at her home in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles.

Perhaps most well-known for her roles in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Golden Girls and Hot in Cleveland,...

The best Oliver Platt movies and TV shows include a mix of critically acclaimed shows and award-winning big screen feature films. Platt figured out from an early age that he wanted to be an actor and studied drama at Tufts University before starting to work in theater in Boston. His big break came when he met Bill Murray, who attended one of Platt's plays and then recommended that Jonathan Demme cast him in the movie Married to the Mob in 1988. That was Platt's big break and his career skyrocketed from there.

Since that big break, Platt took on a variety of roles in several genres, with appearances in Working Girl, Beethoven, The Three Musketeers, and Lake Placid. While his movie roles have been plentiful, and resulted in several award nominations, it was his entry to television that gave him a chance to become a bigger star. This started with a...

A Fast & Furious franchise star is set to join Paul Rudd and Jack Black in the upcoming Anaconda remake, which will provide a comedic reimagining of the original movie. The upcoming Anaconda remake was confirmed in August, co-written by Tom Gormican and Kevin Etten (The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent) and sporting a more comedic take on the franchise. Black and Rudd will portray the leads in a group of friends going through a midlife crisis, deciding to remake a movie from when they were younger, implied to be the snake-focused horror movie itself.

Now, Deadline has confirmed Daniela Melchior, who portrayed Isabel Neves in Fast X, will be joining Rudd and Black's Anaconda in an unknown role. Melchoir is best known for being the Portugese dub actor for Gwen Stacy in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse and most recently as Ellie in Road House. Her talent in these large...

The new Anaconda movie from Sony Pictures is currently in the early stages of development. The horror movie, which will provide a new take on the titular snake, recently added another big name to its cast.

Per Deadline, Daniela Melchior will join Jack Black and Paul Rudd in the upcoming Anaconda film. The actor is best known for her role as Cleo Cazo in 2021's The Suicide Squad. She also appeared in Fast X, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, and in Road House, where she starred as Ellie opposite Jake Gyllenhaal. Melchior is also set to star in the Amazon MGM Studios film Balls Up alongside Mark Wahlberg.

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Cult classic horror movie Anaconda starring Jennifer Lopez will be getting remade as a comedy. Jack Black and Paul Rudd may star in the remake directed by Tom Gormican, writer of the Nicolas Cage film The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. The story will follow a group of friends having midlife crises who go to the rainforest to remake their favorite movie from when they were younger.

Jennifer Lopez's classic 1997 horror movie Anaconda is getting a comedy remake, with Jack Black and Paul Rudd eyed for the starring roles in the film. Anaconda featured many famous actors alongside Lopez, such as Ice Cube and Owen Wilson, who portrayed a film crew making a documentary about an Amazonian tribe, before they're attacked by a giant titular snake. Although the film received negative reviews upon its release, it has since become a cult classic horror movie, spawning three sequels and a crossover...

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The horror franchise Anaconda gets a 2025 reboot treatment starring two major Hollywood comedians in obscure roles. Here's what Columbia Pictures hopes to accomplish with the modernized version of the 1997 cult classic.

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A reimagination of the Hollywood cult classic Anaconda is getting launched as a mini-franchise soon. The Anaconda reboot project has been in the works since 2023.

Starring the likes of Tenacious D star Jack Black and Marvel's very own Ant-Man aka Scott Lang, Paul Rudd, the upcoming horror reboot will be directed by The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent's Tom Gormican while co-writing with collaborator Kevin Etten.

According to THR sources, the 1997-inspired film will center on a "group of friends facing mid-life crises who are remaking their favorite movie from their youth." That is until...

Jack Black and Paul Rudd are said to be in early talks to star in a reimagining of 'Anaconda'. The cult classic 1997 horror movie initially featured Ice Cube, Jennifer Lopez, Jon Voight, Eric Stoltz, Jonathan Hyde, and Owen Wilson, but Black and Rudd are in discussions about a new version helmed and co-written by 'The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent' director Tom Gormican.The original movie told the story of a documentary film crew in the Amazon rainforest who were led by a snake hunter, who was hunting a legendary green anaconda. According to The Hollywood Reporter, sources revealed the new version could see a group of friends head to the rainforest to remake a favourite film from their younger years, only for giant snakes, violent criminals and natural disasters to risk their lives. Black and Rudd are expected to portray either an actor whose Hollywood...

Paul Rudd and Jack Black are set to headline a reboot of the Anaconda movie franchise, as they seek to become snake fodder.

It looks like we may be getting another Anaconda film. You could probably have gleamed that from the headline though, to be fair.

While we could make a clever joke about the seemingly endless cycle of reboots, remakes and legacy sequels being somewhat akin to a snake eating its own tail, there’ll certainly be plenty of folks out there that that wish that there had been more Anaconda films, despite the series’ slide into made-for-television ignominy.

The first Anaconda released in 1997 and featured several stars with careers on the rise including Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson and Ice Cube. And let’s not forget that Jon Voight added his talents to the project as well. It was barmy fun, following ‘a film crew that is taken hostage by an insane hunter,...

It's looking like Anaconda will be the next horror franchise to get a reboot. Like the original film, the reported plan is for the new movie to similarly features A-list names in leading roles.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, a new take on Anaconda is in development at Columbia Pictures. The film will be directed by Tom Gormican, who helmed Nicolas Cage in the meta movie The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Gormican, who is co-writing the new film, also served as a writer of the recent Netflix sequel Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. According to the new report, the project has been in development since early 2023, but it has endured multiple rewrites ever since with co-writer Kevin Etten. Bryan Fuller and Andrew Form's Fully Formed will produce the movie.

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Columbia Pictures is hoping to squeeze out a new Anaconda movie for the 2020s.

Jack Black and Paul Rudd are in early talks to star in a reimagining of the 1997 horror movie that launched a mini-franchise.

Tom Gormican, who directed the Nicolas Cage meta movie The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, is co-writing with collaborator Kevin Etten and will direct the feature.

The original movie starred Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson, Ice Cube and Jon Voight, and followed a National Geographic film crew who is hunting for the world’s largest and deadliest snake, only to find the tables turned.

According to sources, the new story involves a group of friends facing mid-life crises who are remaking their favorite movie from their youth. They head to the rainforest, only to find themselves in a fight for their lives against natural disasters, giant snakes and violent criminals.

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The Bear is an ongoing dramedy series that focuses on a struggling restaurant and its crew of ragtag cooks.

Carmy Berzatto, a big-time fancy chef who returned to Chicago to take over his deceased brother's business, heads up The Bear, formerly The Beef.

The Bear appeared on FX and Hulu in 2022, with The Bear Season 3 available for streaming on Hulu as of June 27, 2024.

If you think some of the faces seem familiar, you're probably right.

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The Bear has a diverse cast of actors, some series regulars and others who only appear as surprise guests, showing up for a few short scenes.

Here are the cast of The Bear and where they've been in their careers before joining the award-winning FX family dramedy.

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The Bear isn't just the name of the series and the newly revamped Chicago restaurant.

Crocodile and alligator movies offer genuine scares and entertainment, with these reptiles making for truly terrifying horror monsters. Niche subgenre films like Lake Placid and Crawl provide a mix of chills and laughs, showcasing the terror of these creatures. Crocodile movies like Eaten Alive and Rogue feature impressive practical effects and memorable villains, adding to the genre's unique appeal.

There are plenty of crocodile and alligator movies populating the creature-feature horror subgenre, and the very best show why the gigantic reptiles are so terrifying. Due to the popularity of movies like Jaws and The Shallows, many moviegoers consider sharks the most terrifying creature in the water. However, the truth is that the chances of being attacked by a shark are quite slim. However, crocodiles and alligators are much more aggressive with a higher chance of attack and, much like with sharks, Hollywood has attempted to terrify audiences using these cold-blooded reptiles.

A new breed of creature-features was unleashed in the 1990s and continued well into the next decade. Shaking off the ecological messaging of the past, these monsters existed for the sake of pure mayhem. Just to name a few: Tremors, The Relic, Anaconda, Godzilla, Deep Rising and Lake Placid all showcased this trend of irreverent creature chaos. Reptiles and other scaly beasts proved to be a popular source of inspiration for these films, but for that extra crawly experience, bugs were the best and quickest route. Spiders, in particular, led some of the worst infestations on screen in the early 2000s. And on the underbelly of this creeping new wave — specifically the direct-to-video sector — hangs an overlooked offering of spider horror: Arachnid.

In 2000, Brian Yuzna and Julio Fernández launched the Spanish production company Fantastic Factory. The Filmax banner’s objective was to create modestly budgeted genre films for international distribution.

Tubi, Fox’s free streaming service, has announced its list of April titles. The April 2024 slate features new Tubi Originals as well as numerous action, Black cinema, comedy, documentary, drama, horror, kids and family, romance, sci-fi and fantasy, thriller, and Western titles.

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During the knuckle-biting climax of Steven Spielberg's 1984 adventure film "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom," the title hero (Harrison Ford) finds himself on a rope bridge, suspended 100 feet over a canal in India. Evil henchmen with swords are approaching him from either side, aiming to grab the mystical Sankara stones from his satchel. In the ravine below, vicious crocodiles await, hoping to eat any poor souls who may fall. Indiana Jones, seeing no other way out, extracts a sword and threatens to cut the rope bridge. It's all very exciting. 

One can forgive a lot of physical improbabilities in Spielberg's "Indiana Jones" movies, as they tend to be so enjoyable to watch. In the fantasy world of "Indiana Jones," we don't really care about Indy's bodily injuries. Continuity errors only become clear to the audience if Spielberg failed to engage us interestingly (see: "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull...

Horror crossovers can be wild and entertaining, even if they receive bad reviews and box office numbers. Some horror crossovers prioritize fun over scares, resulting in enjoyable B-movie messes. From monsters battling each other to comedic meetups, there are various styles of horror crossovers to choose from.

The horror genre has seen various crossovers, and while some were completely wild, they are worth checking out. Crossovers have happened in various genres for decades, but those in the horror genre are especially interesting. The world of horror is home to a variety of monsters, creatures, murderers, and more, and even though some share a couple of similarities, it would be uncommon to find them in the same universe. However, some filmmakers saw the chance of bringing together one or more horror villains in crossover movies, though not all of them were a success with critics and viewers.

Many horror crossovers brought together characters with similar powers,...

Amazon is running a massive sale on over 100 Scream Factory titles today, including some of the lowest-ever prices on their 4K UHDs and Blu-rays. Now is the time to stock up!

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Horror crossovers have a long history, ranging from brilliant to bizarre, with some silly premises and questionable reviews becoming highly successful franchises. Some notable horror crossovers include Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman, Lake Placid Vs. Anaconda, Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus, and Alien Vs. Predator. While some crossovers have been criticized for their surreal and incongruous elements, others, like "Freddy vs. Jason" and "Alien vs. Predator," have been praised for their enduring popularity and successful execution.

Horror movie crossovers have been produced for decades, but often vary wildly from the brilliant to the plain bizarre. While some have been met with critical acclaim, it is often the movies with seemingly the silliest premises and questionable critic reviews that are successful and spawn highly prosperous franchises. Nevertheless, horror crossovers have been a cinematic staple for years.

The horror genre has routinely sought to pair off iconic villains for an epic, spooky showdown.

Horror movie franchises are certainly not a rarity in the genre, with some of the biggest names in the horror game having multiple movies in their cinematic collection. While many of these long-running movie series have come to a conclusion, other franchises have promised a final film, going so far as to include that very word in the movie's title, only to renege on that promise and continue to add more entries following that "final" feature.

Although not contained solely to the horror genre, the prevalence of final chapters that do not actually conclude their franchises is higher when it comes to horror movies. Most of these horror movie franchises continued long beyond their claim to cap off their story, as is the case with Children of the Corn and Puppet Master, and one of the most popular horror properties is a repeat offender. With Saw X debuting in theaters...

The '90s brought about iconic horror movies, including The Blair Witch Project and The Sixth Sense. It was a revolutionary point in the genre that changed how modern viewers watch horror. However, while this decade had some exceptionally frightening films, it also had some of the best campy horror movies.

Odd creature features such as Leprechaun and Lake Placid didn't perform well upon their release, but are viewed today as some of the most humorous films in the subgenre. Sequels such as Bride of Chucky and Army of Darkness were controversial additions to their franchises that quickly became cult classics. These horror movies might not be the most terrifying, but they have a quirkiness that makes them unforgettable.

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The episode of Revisited covering Idle Hands was Written by Emilie Black, Narrated by Niki Minter, and Edited by Ric Solomon, Produced by Tyler Nichols and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

1999, Y2K was pending, some folks were freaking out about it while most teens couldn’t be bothered. Things that stressed our parents didn’t worry us one bit and things we stressed about they found silly. Escape was found, as before and as still is, in horror movies. That year saw a few big releases, some great fun ones like eXistenZ, Deep Blue Sea, and Lake Placid, some that were meant to be great like Virus, The Haunting and The Astronaut’s Wife, and a whole lot of middle of the road titles like The Bone Collector, Resurrection, and From Dusk Till Dawn 2. The world was covered in the ooey, gooey goodness of horror and its special effects.

What's more adorable than a cuddly little sloth who kills sorority sisters? If that's your bag, you'll be excited to learn that Slotherhouse is being released theatrically for one night only, Aug. 30, and that we're giving away from fun merchandise for the film.

Alpha the sloth is captured and brought to America, where a sorority sister uses it as part of a social media campaign for popularity. The sloth seeks its righteous revenge in this campy, off-kilter horror comedy that merges slasher cinema with animal attack flicks. You can check out the trailer below and learn more about the giveaway.

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The synopsis of the film reads as follows:

"It’s senior year of college for sorority sister Emily Young and for the first time ever, Sigma Lambda Theta is having elections for who will be president. Wanting to have a killer year,...

Great horror movies often receive low critic scores on Rotten Tomatoes, even when they are undeserving of it. Critics overlook the genre's artistic value. Underrated horror movies like The Tall Man and Lake Placid suffer from low Rotten Tomatoes ratings, despite their clever premises and success with audiences. Rotten Tomatoes ratings don't accurately reflect the quality of horror movies like Scream 4, Deep Rising, and I Come In Peace, which deserve more recognition.

Even great horror movies are sometimes saddled with terrible critic scores on Rotten Tomatoes, as evidenced by a number of underrated gems. Critics are often unkind to horror movies, even when there is no real justification for it. Like comedies, horror movies have traditionally been viewed as a lower art form than dramas. Despite the critical reevaluation horror cinema has undergone in recent decades, movies from the genre are more likely to go underappreciated by reviewers.

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There are some movies that are so absurd and bizarre, that we can't help but be intrigued by them. And a movie about a killer sloth is certainly one of them. Slotherhouse toys with many genres, and offers up a slasher/animal attack movie not to miss. It's utterly ridiculous. But what do you expect when you tune into a horror comedy movie with an agile, acrobatic, highly intelligent, and incredibly strong sloth, slaughtering an entire sorority house in the most hilarious ways possible? By the trailer and synopsis alone, you know exactly what to expect.

While Slotherhouse undoubtedly has a few issues, mainly some weird dialogue (which would be horrendously awkward elsewhere but actually kind of fits in this campy film), Slotherhouse is at the end of day one of the most entertaining flicks of 2023.

Throughout the past decade, we have seen some pretty outlandish and ridiculous animal attack movies.

Cocaine Bear might have taken the pop culture world by storm earlier this year, but there's an even more thrilling killer animal movie coming soon in Slotherhouse. While Cocaine Bear might have gained immense attention, especially since it was based on a true story, the concept of killer animals as movie antagonists is nothing new. Jaws may have put the subgenre on the map, but killer animal movies have existed since the 1920s. In fact, Cocaine Bear wasn't even the first of its kind to follow a bear; that accolade went to 1976's Grizzly.

Though considered "animal horror," the subgenre is encompassed by a more extensive range of living creatures who traditionally target humans. Before Jaws, Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds served as one of the best mainstream killer animal movie releases. As the decades went on, there were movies centered on all types of natural horrors, including insects (Them!

Monster movies and creature features are among the best horror sub-genres, boasting some incredibly iconic films. Movies like Jaws, Tremors, and Nope have shown stories centered around monsters to be incredibly versatile and entertaining. However, the genre is also incredibly vulnerable to absurd films that end up being so terrible that they become sources of memes and mockery among fans.

Many fans of the genre enjoy the more ridiculous monster movies, and they're often a source of unwitting comedy for audiences. Whether it's hammed up, awful acting, silly-looking practical effects, or a mismatch between themes in the movie, some have developed cult statuses for being so terrible they're great. Much like movies like The Room, these films gained new life from audiences loving their low-quality nonsense.

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Large scale puppets, miniatures and various other all-practical effects will come together for Grylu Sker, an Icelandic ghost story from the creators of The Haunted Swordsman – along with Sjón, co-writer of Robert Eggers’ The Northman – that is now funding on Kickstarter.

The film will even feature a stop motion animation sequence supervised by Oscar-winner Phil Tippett (Mad God), so it’s no surprise that the Kickstarter fund has been a smashing success so far. Running until August 11, over $90,000 of the total $120,000 goal has already been raised!

Billed as a gothic adventure, Grylu Sker is the tale of a lost explorer set in a world of Icelandic folklore written by Tab Murphy and Icelandic author Sjón (co-writer of The Northman). It is a story of an explorer’s fight for survival on a bleak unforgiving island and also a re-imagining of the legendary Icelandic witch Gryla.

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The scene where Robert Shaw gets eaten in “Jaws” is one of the most thrilling moments in movie history. After all of Steven Spielberg’s virtuoso framing and cool ’70s Hitchcock scare tactics, the shark’s big-mouthed consumption of a man who fully deserves to be eaten had a shockingly raw “Look, there it is!” exploitation-film brazenness. (One not inaccurate way to describe “Jaws” would be to call it the greatest B-movie ever made.) “The Flood,” an alligator-attack movie that’s also a violent prison-break thriller, takes its cue from that scene. Set in a backwater Louisiana police station during a hurricane, the film isn’t shy about serving up its big, nasty human-torso-meets-jaws moments. It’s basically a slasher movie with teeth.

The alligator thriller, of course, was always a bargain-basement knockoff of “Jaws” — literally, since the alligators are inevitably slithering out of some basement somewhere. But it was...

The Anaconda episode of The Black Sheep was Written and Narrated by Andrew Hatfield, Edited by Ryan Cultrera, Produced by Lance Vlcek and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

I’ll be the first to admit my mistakes. When I made that Alligator 2 defense, and no, doing that video is not the mistake I’m referring to, I mentioned that the giant monster movie had become somewhat of a lost art, particularly in the ’90s. Then I ended up rewatching Anaconda (watch it Here) and realized I had totally forgotten about it. That’s because it got lost in the likes of Deep Blue Sea and Lake Placid. Both those movies seem to have longer lasting impacts. Deep Blue Sea has that great surprise kill and Lake Placid has, well, it has Betty White. There are others, too. The Relic is a gory fun time, Bats isn...

Just yesterday, we shared the news that the “nature run amok” horror thriller The Flood is going to receive a theatrical, VOD, and digital release on July 14th, courtesy of Saban Films. With the release date so close, we knew a trailer would be available soon – we just didn’t expect it to be this soon! The trailer for The Flood is now online, and you can check it out in the embed above.

Directed by Brandon Slagle (Attack of the Unknown) from a screenplay by Chad Law (Daylight’s End) and Josh Ridgway (Howlers), this project could be described as “Crawl meets Assault on Precinct 13”. Here’s the synopsis: A horde of giant hungry alligators is unleashed on a group of in-transit prisoners and their guards after a massive hurricane floods Louisiana.

The film stars Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers), Nicky Whelan (Hall Pass), Louis Mandylor (Rambo: Last Blood), Devanny Pinn...

Bloody Disgusting has learned this week that special effects artist Bill Basso, whose work can be seen in a handful of genre favorites, passed on May 4, 2023 at the age of 60 years old.

“William Anthony Basso Jr. was a sculptor, painter, and special effects makeup artist. He was born on December 8, 1962, in Manalapan, and attended Christian Brothers Academy for high school and Parsons School of Design for college,” his obituary reads.

Primarily working for the legendary Stan Winston Studio throughout the 1990s, Bill Basso’s special effects credits include “Monsters,” Tremors, Bride of Re-Animator, Edward Scissorhands, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Batman Returns, Jurassic Park, Interview with the Vampire, Congo, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Relic, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Creature, Lake Placid, Inspector Gadget, Lost Souls, and Reign of Fire.

Basso was also on the special effects makeup crew for Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, and he did puppeteer work on Predator 2,...

If you weren’t able to catch director Elizabeth Banks’ horror comedy Cocaine Bear in theaters, Peacock has you covered. The viral film will stream exclusively on the platform beginning April 14th.

Inspired by the 1985 true story of a curious black bear who got into over 800 pounds of blow dumped over a Georgia national park, Cocaine Bear features a stacked cast led by Keri Russell, Margo Martindale, Alden Ehrenreich, O’Shea Jackson Jr., and a posthumous performance from Ray Liotta.

In our review, Senior Staff Writer Clint Worthington said the film keeps a “firm grasp on the likable characters they’ve set up” and described it as “an energetic throwback to devil-may-care creature comedies of yore like Tremors or Lake Placid.”

Naturally, the movie’s soundtrack features a song from Cocaine’s Dr. Seuss himself: Pusha T fully leaned into the Cocaine Bear story with “White Lines,” a reworking of Grandmaster...

This episode of Wtf Really Happened to This Horror Movie was Written and Narrated by Andrew Hatfield, Edited by Mike Conway, Produced by Lance Vlcek and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

“Don’t let them bury me, I’m not dead!”

When we think of zombies, it’s only natural to first go right into everyone’s favorite flesh-eating ghouls that were popularized by George Romero in his genre classic Night of the Living Dead. But the idea of zombies has been around much longer and is actually steeped in fact. Haitian voodoo has claimed to create zombies for hundreds of years and in film, these were represented in some of our earliest horror movies. White Zombie and I Walked with a Zombie are two of the more famous ones, but the entire sub-genre has some fascinating watches. Horror legend Wes Craven brought a return to Voodoo...

On February 24, 2023, Universal released “Cocaine Bear,” Elizabeth Banks‘ comedy-horror flick that raked in $22 million its opening weekend. An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge on a Georgia forest where a huge black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine. The film, which currently holds a score of 70% on Rotten Tomatoes, has garnered generally positive reviews.

The critics consensus reads, “Despite Cocaine Bear‘s half-baked plot and uneven acting, the titular fur fiend’s scene-snorting frenzy will give B-movie enthusiasts a contact high.” The ensemble cast (beyond VFX-driven “Cokey” the bear) includes Keri Russell, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Christian Convery, Alden Ehrenreich, Brooklynn Prince, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Margo Martindale and the late Ray Liotta. Read our review roundup below.

See Box office: ‘Ant-Man’ drops dramatically to make room for ‘Cocaine Bear’ and ‘Jesus Revolution’

Jamie Graham of Total Film writes, “A 500lb American black bear...

Despite its strance concept of a bear ingesting cocaine and going on a killing spree, Cocaine Bear actually continues a strange February trend. Written and directed by actress Elizabeth Banks, it's loosely based on the true story of drug smuggler Andrew Thornton's stash of 75 pounds of cocaine which, after dropping from a plane along the Georgia-Tennesse border, was partially consumed by a mountain bear. In that instance, the only person harmed was Thornton after parachuting into the forest, but Banks imagines the wild ride that might have happened if a 500-pound black bear got a hold of much of the merchandise and encountered hikers, campers, and park rangers.

Like an ode to the horror action comedies of the '90s and early '00s such as Lake Placid, Snakes on a Plane, and Sharknado, Cocaine Bear combines a strong cast with dark humor and an outrageous premise. Its trailer...

Everyone knows about the fabled and miraculous box office run of James Cameron’s “Titanic.” The film rode a wave of rave reviews, following months of bad press related to cost overruns, release date delays and behind-the-scenes melodrama, to a record-setting 600 million domestic and 1.8 billion worldwide total. Opening with just 28 million, it spent its first 15 weekends atop the domestic box office, still a record for consecutive Fri-Sun frames.

What of the films that perished in the first months of 1998? For three straight months, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet’s Oscar-winning romance/disaster feature sunk most of the competition. This was 1998, when big movies were not expected to open before the May-to-August summer movie season. The film that dethroned “Titanic,” an expensive, grimdark adaptation of “Lost in Space,” was itself a surprisingly “big” movie for its early April opening weekend.

That’s not to say the films were all bad, or...

2022 saw cinema come back in full force, blasting out of a global pandemic with a hunger to tell dynamic stories, and the best trailers for 2023's movies reveal a continuation of that trend to an even greater degree. From continuous installments in big MCU franchises with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 to intimate and compelling thrillers like Inside, there's something from each genre made for every taste. With fewer restrictions on production over the past year and so much variety to choose from, 2023 is shaping up to be a spectacular time for movies.

2023 has already started strong with Avatar: The Way of Water, and boasts a lot of tentpole blockbusters like Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse later in the year. While first looks have already been given to movies like Mission: Impossible - Day of Reckoning, Part One, audiences might have to...

Who doesn't love a good crossover? Besides the fact that they settle nerds' constant debates of "who would win in a fight between ___ and ___?," there's something so exciting about seeing the main characters of two or more different franchises coming together for the first time ever. Another reason why crossovers have so much appeal with audiences is that there are often legal reasons why characters from one series can't mingle with those of another, making the times when they do meet on the big (or small) screen all the more special.

Crossovers got a massive boost in popularity due to the wildly successful Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, crossovers haven't only been relegated to the superhero realm; for decades, there have been numerous other examples of fictional worlds colliding across numerous genres. In fact, well before Nick Fury appeared at the end of "Iron Man" to tell Tony Stark about the Avengers Initiative,...

A new episode of The Black Sheep video series has arrived online this morning, and with this one we’re looking back at director Steve Miner‘s 1999 killer crocodile horror comedy Lake Placid (watch it Here). To find out why we think Lake Placid deserves more love than it gets, check out the video embedded above!

Scripted by David E. Kelley, Lake Placid tells the following story: When a mysterious creature violently kills a man in a Maine lake, Jack Wells, the local game warden, looks into the bizarre case, along with Sheriff Hank Keough and visiting paleontologist Kelly Scott. Looking for clues in a tooth that the beast left behind, Kelly and the others eventually locate the monster, a massive and vicious reptile eager to devour anything in its path. Can the crocodile-like creature be stopped?

The film stars Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Brendan Gleeson, Oliver Platt, Betty White,...

Luis Llosa's 1997 creature feature "Anaconda" is one of those rare films that many people saw, but that few people love. Unapologetically reminiscent of monster movies from the 1950s, "Anaconda" was snarfed at by the general public, earning generally negative reviews (it currently holds a 40 approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes) and netting 11 Razzie nominations. It won none of its Razzies, "losing" to films like "The Postman" and "Batman & Robin." One may interpret the losses as a compliment or an insult. Despite the sour reception, "Anaconda" -- which starred Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Danny Trejo, Eric Stoltz, Owen Wilson, and Jon Voight -- earned a massive 136 million on a mere 45 million budget. It was followed by four sequels, including a "Lake Placid" crossover film wherein the titular snake did battle with a giant crocodile. 

The premise of "Anaconda" is about as complex as a cheap animal attack movie might warrant,...

The Independence Day star landed his first major role in his 30s, but has since made up for lost time. Now he’s heading to the stage in a furious satire. He talks about family, fame and how Ibsen put him in a coma

Bill Pullman was 32 years old when he starred in his first film, 1986’s Ruthless People. This is, he notes, at least a decade later than most movie stars get their big break. “The term ‘late bloomer’ sounds awfully like loser, but I guess it’s what I am,” he says. “It sounds to me like a politically correct term for: ‘You’re stupid. Why did you take so long?’”

The reason he took so long is theatre. Prior to Pullman’s Hollywood career, during which he has hopscotched from film noir (Lost Highway) and kids’ films (Casper) to horror, romcoms and a triumphant blockbuster (Independence Day...