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Horror Obsessive founder Andrew Grevas will publish Horror in Haddonfield: The Untold Stories of Halloween in paperback and e-book on October 7 via Tucker DS Press.

The 250-page book unmasks the secrets behind all 13 Halloween films. Combining essays and interviews with the casts and creative teams, Grevas uncomplicates complicated timelines, dishes on unmade films, and reveals never-heard-before stories about the making of the movies.

Halloween franchise actors Danielle Harris, Scout Taylor-Compton, Ellie Cornell, Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Marianne Hagan, Lance Guest, Dee Wallace, Kathleen Kinmont, Jefferson Hall, Sandy Johnson, Daniel Roebuk, Chris Durand, and Brad Loree are among the interview subjects.

The book also features insight from directors Dwight Little and Dominique Othenin-Girard, writers Alan McElroy, Shem Bitterman, Daniel Farrands, Robert Zappia, and Paul Brad Logan, cinematographers Dean Cundey, David Geddes, and Phil Parmet, and more.

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Movie score aficionados rejoice! The Future Ruins Music & Arts Festival is assembling a line-up of film & TV composers to perform their most celebrated themes, as the credo of the festival is “The Music Tells the Story.” Musical acts like John Carpenter, Danny Elfman, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Questlove and Goblin are among those included on the list of performances for the event. The Future Ruins Festival is scheduled to take place on November 8 and will be held at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center. You can get tickets at their official website Here.

The official festival description reads,

“Future Ruins is a first-of-its-kind music festival: a day-long event where the world’s most influential film and television composers step out from behind the screen and onto the stage.

Set across three stages at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center, Future Ruins is designed to feel thoughtful and immersive, bringing this music to...

Mad Duck Posters will release Halloween posters by Kevin Tong tomorrow, May 15, at 12pm Et.

The standard 24×36 screen print is limited to 225 for $85, the blue variant is limited to 125 for $105, and the rainbow foil version is limited to 55 for $150.

“There are a lot of scenes where Michael Myers is observing his victims through some kind of screen, window, or sheet until he’s suddenly on the other side and the result is unspeakable terror. The fence, whether it’s white picket or chain link, is a staple of suburbia, but ultimately, an illusion of safety,” said Tong.

“Michael Myers goes right through the fence and violently intersects the lives of all the characters in the film, all contained within the fence that could never have kept them safe. While there’s no scene that literally shows The Shape going through a fence, it was a great visual to organize the...

Future Ruins, a first-of-its-kind music festival in which film and television composers step out from behind the screen and onto the stage, will take place at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center on November 8.

It will feature genre heavyweights John Carpenter, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Danny Elfman, Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin, Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein (“Stranger Things”), and Howard Shore performing the score of David Cronenberg’s Crash.

The line-up also includes Cristobal Tapia de Veer, Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow, Hildur Guðnadóttir , Isobel Waller-Bridge (“Fleabag”) , Mark Mothersbaugh, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (Candyman), Tamar-kali (Mudbound), Terence Blanchard, Volker Bertelmann, and Questlove presenting the score works of Curtis Mayfield (Superfly).

Set across three stages, Future Ruins is designed to feel thoughtful and immersive, bringing this music to light in an environment where it has never been heard before. Every artist is a headliner, each with their own specially curated moment.

Each artist is...

Nine Inch Nails have announced Future Ruins, a new one-day music festival taking place at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center on Saturday, November 8th, 2025.

Created and curated by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Future Ruins is billed as “a first-of-its-kind of music festival: a day-long event where the world’s most influential film and television composers step out from behind the screen and onto the stage.”

Get Nine Inch Nails Tickets Here

“It’s about giving people who are, literally, the best in the world at taking audiences on an emotional ride via music the opportunity to tell new stories in an interesting live setting,” explained Reznor in a statement.

“There’s no headliner. There’s no hierarchy. This is a stacked lineup of visionaries doing something you might not see again,” added Reznor and Ross.

Alongside Reznor and Ross, the lineup features such composing luminaries as John Carpenter, Danny Elfman,...

Nine Inch Nails principals and veteran film composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have announced “Future Ruins,” a festival featuring some of the top film and TV composers in the business, taking place on Saturday, November 8 in Los Angeles. John Carpenter, Questlove (performing the soundtrack work of Curtis Mayfield), Danny Elfman, Mark Mothersbaugh and Hildur Guðnadóttir are among the participants; the complete lineup and highlights of their careers appears below.

Presented by Live Nation, the event is “a first-of-its-kind of music festival: a day-long event where the world’s most influential film and television composers step out from behind the screen and onto the stage,” according to the announcement. Tickets are available starting Wednesday, May 21 at 12 p.m. Pt.

“It’s about giving people who are, literally, the best in the world at taking audiences on an emotional ride via music the opportunity to tell new stories in an interesting live setting,...

Available this September from 1984 Publishing, we have the first details on Screaming and Conjuring: The Resurrection and Unstoppable Rise of the Modern Horror Movie. From Clark Collis, this extensive look at modern horror is a 504-page hardcover that I guarantee will have something new for even the most seasoned horror fans.

From the Press Release: "On September 2, 2025, 1984 Publishing will release Screaming and Conjuring: The Resurrection and Unstoppable Rise of the Modern Horror Movie—a definitive 504-page hardcover that pulls back the curtain on the horror film industry. Beginning with 1996’s genre-redefining Scream, entertainment journalist Clark Collis traces the blood-spattered path of horror’s evolution through exclusive behind-the-scenes accounts, untold stories, and in-depth interviews with key figures who shaped the era. For the first time, the full story of horror’s modern renaissance is revealed in one essential volume.

From Get Out and M3GAN to The Substance and Sinners, the horror...

On September 2, 2025, 1984 Publishing will release Screaming and Conjuring: The Resurrection and Unstoppable Rise of the Modern Horror Movie! The new book, written by entertainment journalist Clark Collis, is a definitive 504-page hardcover that pulls back the curtain on the horror film industry. Beginning with 1996’s genre-redefining Scream, Collis traces the blood-spattered path of horror’s evolution through exclusive behind-the-scenes accounts, untold stories, and in-depth interviews with key figures who shaped the era.

The modern era of horror has delivered a string of classic terror tales, including The Blair Witch Project, The Sixth Sense, Final Destination, The Others, Pan’s Labyrinth, 28 Days Later, Resident Evil, Saw, Hostel, Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and The Conjuring, which launched the horror genre’s first multi-billion dollar franchise. Screaming and Conjuring dives deep into the challenging and often chaotic production stories behind these films—and many more—offering readers an inside look at the creative turbulence...

After countless books exploring horror’s output from bygone eras, 1984 Publishing is gearing up to release a definitive hardcover that examines horror’s current renaissance in Hollywood.

1984 Publishing will release Screaming and Conjuring: The Resurrection and Unstoppable Rise of the Modern Horror Movie, a definitive 504-page hardcover that pulls back the curtain on the horror film industry, on September 2, 2025.

Starting with 1996’s horror gamechanger Scream, entertainment journalist and author Clark Collis “traces the blood-spattered path of horror’s evolution through exclusive behind-the-scenes accounts, untold stories, and in-depth interviews with key figures who shaped the era. For the first time, the full story of horror’s modern renaissance is revealed in one essential volume.”

Screaming and Conjuring will offer a deep dive into films like The Blair Witch Project, The Sixth Sense, Final Destination, The Others, Pan’s Labyrinth, 28 Days Later, Resident Evil, Saw, Hostel, Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and The Conjuring and their production history.

The high-rise restaurant disaster that kicks off “Final Destination Bloodlines” has a “Looney Tunes” quality to it that some critics will falsely pin on a single falling piano. Yes, there is a thousand-pound string instrument that comes crashing down several stories before flattening a bratty kid in a bow tie. But that’s just the cherry on top of a perfectly cartoonish opening to the best film this fiendish horror franchise from the 2000s has ever known. Delivering the most visually impressive, emotionally compelling, and quick witted “Final Destination” to date, co-directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein work wonders with a reboot that shouldn’t land nearly as well as it does.

Twenty-five years since Flight 180 failed to reach Paris, New Line’s freak accident series — infamous for its mass-casualty events and Rube Goldberg-inspired kill sequences — returns with an unconventional script written by Guy Busick and Lori Evans. Here,...

Jamie Lee Curtiswas at the height of her fame when she began to do commercials, and she has a very practical reason for becoming a product spokesperson. Curtis first burst on the scene in the late 1970s as a horror movie scream queen thanks to movies like Halloween and Prom Night, but she would soon jump to mainstream movies as the decade wore on, playing a wide variety of roles from comedic to dramatic and everything in between. Movies like True Lies were some of her biggest financial hits, but that was also when she began doing commercials.

Curtis continued to find success in film, but it was her spokesperson gigs for the yogurt company Activia that began to gain a lot of attention. With spoofs on shows like Saturday Night Live, Curtis' new gig as a commercial actor overshadowed her big-screen work. Curtis would announce a retirement from acting in 2006 that didn't last long,...

The Halloweenies continue their Universal Monsters coverage with 1925’s The Phantom of the Opera. In anticipation, the gang shares their picks for the best Phantom media of all time. Or something like that. Like their list of favorite vamps ahead of their Dracula episode — or their list of wolves ahead of their Wolf Man coverage; or their list of invisible films before their Invisible Man coverage — this list is as definitive as their voice in the Horror industry.

So, not very.

Stream the episode below or subscribe via Apple Podcasts , Stitcher , Spotify , RadioPublic , Acast , Google Podcasts , and RSS. New to the Halloweenies ? Catch up with the gang by revisiting their essential episodes on past franchises such as Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Scream, The Evil Dead, Chucky, and Alien!

You can also become a member of their Patreon, The Rewind , for hilariously irreverent commentaries, one-off deep dives on your favorite rentals,...

Christina Applegate says she still feels "very proud" of her work in Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead.

Per Entertainment Weekly, Applegate opened up about the film on the latest episode of her podcast, MeSsyWith Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler. "I didn't wanna do it, because it was a commercial film. I was so into indies back then," Applegate recalled. "I was like, 'I'm only gonna do independent film acting.' I was such a f---ing asshat."

Applegate went on to note that, while she believed at the time that she was effectively selling out as an actor, she still had fun working on the film. Applegate also explained that she is proud of Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead at this point in her career, especially because of the specific place it holds in the wider realm of pop culture. "What movie has a bunch of drag queens steal their car?...

Iconic and terrifying Five Nights at Freddy's animatronic Springtrap is coming to Dead by Daylight, the long-running asymmetrical multiplayer horror game. DbD is no stranger to horror franchise collaborations, having previously brought characters from Resident Evil, Alien, and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre into the fold, among many others.

Fnaf's Springtrap will be the latest Killer introduced to Dead by Daylight, marking a major milestone for both games. The announcement was made at a live broadcast from Pax East, with more details revealed on the Dead by Daylight website. Springtrap will be the featured Killer for DbD's upcoming Chapter, which will also make available a legendary outfit for the newcomer, based on Matthew Lillard's "Yellow Rabbit" version of the character from the Five Nights at Freddy's film adaptation. The collab will also bring a new map to DbD, based on Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.

Why Springtrap Is Important A...

Matthew Lillardwill return as William Afton sooner than expected. Dead By Daylight will bring the world of Five Nights at Freddy'sto their catalog as part of a highly-anticipated downloadable package. What will surprise fans of the franchise is the fact that the video game has managed to recruit Matthew Lillard to voice the dangerous Springtrap. The villain is the result of the horrific accident William Afton went through, in which the spring locks of his mascot suit stabbed him several times. In a supernatural way, Afton managed to survive the accident. The decaying corpse eventually becomes the main antagonist of Five Nights at Freddy's.

Dead by Daylight is a survival multiplayer game where a player takes on the role of the killer while four other participants have to survive against them. The game featured its own original characters, but the title also took on the opportunity of including several icons...

Last week, the big Summer cinema season kicked off with another trip to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with another Impossible Mission and a Disney remake debuting in just a few weeks. So, does that mean that horror fanatics (Aka “gore-hounds”) will have to wait for the cooler temps for their “fright fix”? Well, Rosario gave up some scares last week, and that late April “sleeper smash” Sinners is still dishing up some plasma with its blues soundtrack. So, why not a new chiller featuring the “go-to” thriller icons of the last couple of decades? No, we’re not talking about more vampires, werewolves, or zombies, but less supernatural creeps. Yes, it’s those brightly garbed, painted-on-smiles, former kids entertainers, that are now nightmare “fodder” after several “Jokers” and Pennywise of the It flicks. And how about seeing their oversized feet tromping about the usually tranquil heartland? Who wouldn’t dash...

The horror scene post-1996 was really just every studio under the sun trying to recapture the lightning-in-a-bottle success of Scream. It wasn’t enough to be scary anymore—there needed to be an undercurrent of cleverness to ground the horror. The Faculty, Urban Legend, and franchise favorite Halloween H20 were all Scream riffs, and several of those boasted the involvement Scream scribe Kevin Williamson himself.

Of course, his most famous post-Scream writing credit was actually written long before he sold the spec script for what would become a legacy horror franchise. I’m talking about I Know What You Did Last Summer, an adaptation of Lois Duncan’s novel of the same name, though the source author famously (and reasonably) rejects the adaptation. With a new trailer for the forthcoming legacy sequel, also titled I Know What You Did Last Summer (Halloween (2018) really was influential, huh), why not revisit...

Last year, an adaptation of the Stephen King novel The Long Walk (which was, like The Running Man and Thinner, published under the pen name Richard Bachman) went into production, with director Francis Lawrence, whose previous credits include Constantine, I Am Legend, Water for Elephants, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Parts 1 and 2, Red Sparrow, Slumberland, and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, at the helm. Lionsgate will be releasing the film on September 12th – and today, the first trailer for The Long Walk has dropped online! You can check it out in the embed above.

An adaptation of The Long Walk has been trudging through development hell for decades. At one point, the rights were in the hands of Frank Darabont, who made the King adaptations The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, and The Mist. Then the rights passed over to New Line Cinema,...

The trailer for The Long Walk asks a haunting question: How far can you go?

The beginning of the official trailer, featuring Shaboozey‘s infectious “Last of My Kind,” sets up a coming-of-age tale before giving way to the dystopian horrors that await.

Based on Stephen King‘ 1979 novel of the same name, The Long Walk arrives in theaters on September 12 from Lionsgate. Watch the official trailer below for a preview.

The story follows Raymond Garraty, a 16-year old who takes part in an annual contest in which 100 teens must journey, nonstop and under strict rules, until only one is left alive.

Francis Lawrence directs from a script by Jt Mollner (Strange Darling).

Cooper Hoffman (Licorice Pizza) and David Jonsson (Alien: Romulus) lead the ensemble cast. Garrett Wareing (“Manifest”), Tut Nyout (“The Witcher: Blood Origin”), Charlie Plummer (The Clovehitch Killer), Ben Wang (Karate Kid: Legends), Roman Griffin Davis (Jojo Rabbit), Jordan Gonzalez...

Horror fans who are planning to drop by a Fan Expo-backed event from now until the end of 2028 are in for the greatest chill and thrill of their lives. Today, Fan Expo HQ announced a multi-year deal signed with the maestro of terror, John Carpenter, that will place the iconic genre filmmaker at a slew of the company’s events over the next few years. The partnership kicks off in just a few days at Fan Expo Philadelphia with more appearances set to be revealed in the upcoming weeks. From up-close-and-personal interactions with fans through signings and photo ops to one-of-a-kind Q&As at panels, Carpenter is slated to take part in every aspect that has made Fan Expo such an important part of the fandom experience.

It’s an incredibly exciting time for Carpenter who, after decades in the industry, finally received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Stephen King shared the poster for The Long Walk, an adaptation of his 1979 dystopian coming-of-age horror novel.

Walk or die when the film arrives in theaters on September 12 from Lionsgate.

In The Long Walk, the country holds an annual walking contest in which 100 teens must journey, non-stop and under strict rules, until only one of them is still standing alive and receiving a prize. The story follows a 16-year old walker named Raymond Garraty and the teens — some good, some bad, some mysterious — in his orbit.

Francis Lawrence directs from a script by Jt Mollner (Strange Darling). Cooper Hoffman (Licorice Pizza) and David Jonsson (Alien: Romulus) lead the ensemble cast.

Garrett Wareing (“Manifest”), Tut Nyout (“The Witcher: Blood Origin”), Charlie Plummer (The Clovehitch Killer), Ben Wang (Karate Kid: Legends), Roman Griffin Davis (Jojo Rabbit), Jordan Gonzalez (“Pretty Little Liars: Origin Sin”), Joshua Odjick (Welcome to Derry), Josh Hamilton (“The Walking Dead...

Last year, an adaptation of the Stephen King novel The Long Walk (which was, like The Running Man and Thinner, published under the pen name Richard Bachman) went into production, with director Francis Lawrence. An adaptation of The Long Walk has been trudging through development hell for decades. At one point, the rights were in the hands of Frank Darabont, who made the King adaptations The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, and The Mist. Then the rights passed over to New Line Cinema, where Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark director André Øvredal was hired to direct the film from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt, whose credits include the two most recent Scream movies.

Last month, Francis Lawrence, Mark Hamill and star David Jonsson were all present for the Lionsgate panel at CinemaCon. A trailer was shown that our own Chris Bumbray (who was in attendance) called “insanely intense.

Back in 2002, I witnessed director Neil Marshall’s werewolf movie Dog Soldiers in a packed theatrical screening at a 24-hour horror marathon where the audience around me laughed and cheered at all the right moments. It was a great viewing experience – and because Dog Soldiers was so cool that it could provide an experience like that, I have been rooting for Marshall ever since. His career has had its ups and downs, but I’m always glad to hear he’s working on something new – so I was pleased to see the Variety report that Outlander actor Graham McTavish has signed on to star in Marshall’s latest action horror survival thriller, Gunn.

Although Marshall usually writes his own films, he’ll be directing this one from a screenplay written by Doug Rao that won the Gold Prize at the Page International Screenwriting Awards a while back. The survival horror...

The Righteous Gemstones has ended, and HBO hitmaker Danny McBride is looking for his next project. Many horror fans were hoping that he would next turn his attention to The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, a 2020 novel by Grady Hendrix; a Max adaptation of the novel was announced last year, with both McBride and fellow Gemstone Edi Patterson on board. However, in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, McBride reveals that the project has stalled.

Set in the 1990s, Hendrix's book centers around an unfulfilled homemaker who joins a book club, only to enlist their help when she realizes one of her neighbors is a deadly vampire. Says McBride, speculating that the book's mixture of comedy and horror makes it a tough sell: "We haven’t gotten much momentum on it. Even at HBO, it’s tough making a 30-minute show ensemble that mixes genres. Really difficult.

The new creepy clown movieClown in a Cornfieldis already giving critics something to talk about beyond its goofy tone and the insane amounts of gore. The film had its debut at the SXSW festival this year, and it's set to release nationwide on May 9. However, early screenings have proven that the latest "killer clown" feature is a huge hit with critics. By the time of writing, it sits at 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, a very good score for a slasher horror movie.

Clown in a Cornfield is based on Adam Cesare's novel of the same name, which won the 2020 Bram Stoker Award in the category of Best Young Adult Novel. The film is directed by Eli Craig, who co-wrote the script with Carter Blanchard. It stars Katie Douglas, Aaron Abrams, Carson MacCormac, Will Sasso and Kevin Durand, among others. Rlje Films and Shudder are in charge of distribution, which means...

Jamie Lee Curtis, the horror icon and star of films like Halloween, The Fog and the Academy Award winner of Everything Everywhere All at Once, has become the latest celebrity to praise the spectacular Ryan Coogler vampire movie Sinners. Curtis went old-school, displaying her love for the film by taking a picture of the screen when she attended a 70 mm Imax show. and saying the experience had a "profound effect."

Ever since its release last April 18, Sinners has taken Hollywood by surprise. It's not only a powerful cultural statement, but it is a horror movie as well, a genre that many in the industry look down on. Critics and audiences have fallen under the spell of Sinners, which currently holds a 98% Certified Fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes.

However, the appraisal wave has also included several of Coogler's colleagues in the film industry, who have voiced their love for the movie.

When you hear John Carpenter’s 1998 classic, your mind immediately goes to Halloween H20: 20 Years Later. However, Carpenter was not involved in this seventh instalment of the Halloween franchise. He turned down the directing gig of the film after the Weinstein brothers rejected his salary demand of $10 million.

Carpenter instead committed to the vampire genre film, Vampires, starring James Woods. The 1990s weren’t kind to Carpenter, as none of his films up until Vampires made any financial gains for the studios despite the fact that many of them went on to become cult hits. The 1998 film broke this pattern and went on to become financially successful.

John Carpenter’s must-watch blood-sucking thriller of 1998 is on Netflix James Woods in a still from John Carpenter’s Vampires | Credits: Columbia Pictures

John Carpenter‘s Vampires came at a time when the director thought about quitting the industry. However, when the...

Who doesn’t love John Carpenter’s Halloween? It’s one of the greatest horror films of all time. We have Halloween to thank for the slasher boom of the ‘80s. The flick was a resounding success that resonated with critics and fans in equal measure. Not to mention, it also inspired future generations of filmmakers. Speaking of filmmakers upon whom the film imprinted in a meaningful way, Guillermo del Toro counts himself a massive fan of this beloved feature.

The Pacific Rim director once took to Twitter (I still refuse to call it X) to proclaim his undying appreciation for the flick. His tweet reads: “Halloween by John Carpenter. A genre supernova. Creates a taxonomic category that still lives. Unsparing precision, simplicity and elegance.”

Mr. del Toro said it far better than I could. Halloween is a benchmark of genre filmmaking to which all subsequent slashers will be compared,...

While the rest of the world was in Easter mode, Blumhouse hatched a deliciously blasphemous bit of counterprogramming the horror shingle is calling “Halfway to Halloween.” Basically, producer Jason Blum is capitalizing on fans’ year-round appetite for scary movies by putting three of the company’s biggest hits — “M3GAN,” “Annabelle” and “Ma” — back in theaters for one day apiece, six months removed from Halloween.

As I settled into my seat for the April 30 screening of “M3GAN” (the 2023 murder-doll thriller that ranks right up there with “Get Out” and “Glass” among the company’s top-grossing films), Blum appeared in a pre-recorded message on screen to compliment the halfway full room of horror movie die-hards for celebrating what he called “the most sacred of made-up holidays.”

With “M3GAN 2.0” scheduled for release this summer, I figured we might get an early tease of what’s to come in the sequel — or, if we were really lucky,...

Neon has set itself apart with a series of critically acclaimed horrors and the studio has a few more up its sleeve. One of them is the highly acclaimed body horror film Together.

The movie premiered earlier this year at Sundance and received a rare perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes from the critics. Together stars real-life married couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco, who play a couple who trigger a supernatural incident that changes their entire relationship, existence, and physical form. Ahead of the movie's release this summer, Neon just revealed an eerie sneak peek.

Together.Alison Brie. Dave Franco. The best horror film of the year.Join us. 7.30. pic.twitter.com/TmN9vROMLq— Neon (@neonrated) April 30, 2025

The poster shows a close-up of Brie and Franco so close they are eye to eye, their lashes intertwined. The studio further hyped the upcoming movie as "the best horror film of the year.

When you think about Stephen King movies from the 1980s, there are a few classics that immediately come to mind. The Shining, Stand By Me, The Dead Zone, and, of course, 1983's Cujo. Directed by Lewis Teague, who can forget the horrifying tale of a rabid St. Bernard terrorizing a mother and her son trapped in a Ford Pinto on a blistering-hot summer day? Both the book and the movie managed to strike a chord with audiences, not only because of the subject matter, but also because of the way each one ended. Now, star Dee Wallace has revealed King's reaction to the film's conclusion, which was noticeably different from his novel.

Appearing on Still Here Hollywood with Steve Kmetko, Wallace spoke at length about her incredible career, which has included appearances in Steven Spielberg's E.T., The Howling, Rob Zombie's Halloween, and Cujo. Wallace played Donna Trenton in the King film,...

A four-disc deluxe edition of The History of Metal and Horror is now available for $49.99 directly from the filmmakers.

The set includes the feature-length documentary on Blu-ray, two bonus Blu-rays with over 20 hours of additional interview footage, a CD featuring the soundtrack by Knights of the Black, and an eight-page booklet, all packaged in an individually signed and numbered magnetic box.

The film also includes an audio commentary by writer-director-editor Mike Schiff and producer Robert L. Lucas along with a behind-the-scenes image gallery.

Hosted by Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes), the doc explores the origins of heavy metal music, its deep-rooted connections to horror cinema, and its lasting cultural significance with over 60 interviews with icons from both worlds.

Film subjects include John Carpenter (Halloween), Rob Zombie (The Devil’s Rejects), Tom Savini (Dawn of the Dead), Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th VII-x), Sid Haig (The Devil’s Rejects), Bill Moseley (The Devil’s Rejects...

Dario Argento’s Cult Classic Phenomena is now streaming on MoviVue.

The young Jennifer Corvino (played by Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Connelly) is sent to a private Swiss academy for girls where a killer is on the loose, brutally murdering students. Jennifer is a “gifted” girl with the strange ability to communicate with insects, and Dr. McGregor enlists her to help locate the killer.

Other Argento films on MoviVue include Demons, Demons 2, Opera, and Tenebrae

Phenomena on MoviVue:

https://movivue.com/programs/phenomena?category_id=245816

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Throughout the Halloween franchise, many have tried to kill Michael Myers with varying degrees of success. He’s been shot. Stabbed. Beaten. In 2009, Rob Zombie tried to kamikaze his entire career at him. But that white-faced bastard is still standing. No matter how many times Loomis screams into the void “Die, Michael, Die!” He always comes back for more. The good news is that all this madness has created an entire gallery of violent injury and death for us to peruse at our leisure. Today, we’ll be doing just that. Welcome to Best of the Bad Guys, where we celebrate the best of horror’s worst villains. Today, we’re ranking the many deaths of Michael Myers. Now, when I say “deaths,” I mean it loosely. Real loose. Like screws on a roller coaster in a Final Destination movie loose. Because as we know, evil never dies. Legend even...

We’re just about halfway to Halloween, and Fright-Rags is celebrating with a Halloween III: Season of the Witch bundle packed with spooky goodness featuring the iconic Silver Shamrock masks.

The set includes four exclusive items with retro-style artwork by Austin Pardun: a shirt, a tote bag, a 32-ounce souvenir cup, and a set of three die-cut stickers.

Priced at $50, they’re expected to ship the week of May 30.

From producer John Carpenter, the once maligned and now celebrated 1982 installment in the Halloween franchise is written and directed by Tommy Lee Wallace (It). Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, and Dan O’Herlihy star.

When a terrified toy salesman is brought to the hospital clutching the year’s most popular Halloween mask, Dr. Daniel Challis and the salesman’s daughter, Ellie, trace the costume to Silver Shamrock Novelties and its founder, Conal Cochran. They uncover Cochran’s shocking plan and must stop him...

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Cinema changed in the 1970s. After countless Westerns and studio-driven productions, the decade gave way to independent filmmaking and ushered in a handful of creative titans. Filmmakers like Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, and Brian De Palma laid the groundwork on which modern cinema was constructed, for better or worse. Stars such as Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Carrie Fisher, Sylvester Stallone, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Harrison Ford became household names, and the once tame cinematic landscape was tossed aside in favor of more complex character studies brought to life by naturalistic performances, raw visuals, and shocking violence.

Blockbuster films like "Star Wars" were just coming into existence and charted a unique course with enormous financial results, but smaller, more personal productions like "Rocky" and "Halloween" snuck between the larger tentpoles and captured the imagination of audiences.

In 2025, the Halloweenies are celebrating the storied legacy of the Universal Monsters. Dracula, Wolf Man, Frankenstein, his Bride, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Invisible Man… all will be covered. In fact, each monster is getting their own month, giving the Halloweenies plenty of time to dig deep into their respective origins and chart their influence over the past century and some change.

Last month, the gang traveled to ancient Egypt to unravel Karl Freund‘s 1932 classic The Mummy starring Boris Karloff. This month, they book a night at The Lion’s Head Inn to unravel the sordid and wild discoveries behind James Whale‘s 1933 Hollywood wonder The Invisible Man starring Claude Rains.

Topics include: the movie’s long road to realization, Rains’ commanding presence, H.G. Wells’ approval over script, the iconic and groundbreaking special effects, Whale’s resistance to returning to horror post-Frankenstein, the fact that...

(Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.)

"I had much higher hopes." Those are the words of "Star Wars" icon Mark Hamill when asked by the folks at the Alamo Drafthouse what he thought of 1995's "Village of the Damned." Hamill also noted that "The Wolf Rilla one is still the best." Indeed, Rilla's 1960 version of the story is regarded as one of the best horror movies of the '60s to this day. Unfortunately, despite the remake being put in the hands of an unquestioned horror master, it didn't have the same impact.

The horror master in question is John Carpenter, one of the best horror directors of all time thanks to his work on movies such as "Halloween" and "The Thing," among many others. Carpenter has...

Opening title sequences are dying a slow death. Though they may have been replaced by the closing credits sequence (thanks Marvel), even those are a rare treat. Filmmakers simply don't deliver a 2.5-minute opening title sequence that often, perhaps suspecting today's viewers don't have the patience. Blame our micro-second attention spans, somewhere between fruit flies and goldfish. Or maybe -- considering every other movie is a 2.5-plus-hour epic -- filmmakers simply don't want to spend one second on scenes they didn't shoot. Whatever the reason, it's a darn shame, as great opening title sequences have often contributed greatly to cinematic masterpieces. So we're going to celebrate the best!

Firstly, we're saluting opening title sequences, not opening credits scenes. What's the distinction? While a title sequence is separate from the movie itself, whjile a scene occurs within the movie. Secondly, this is not a ranking. Honestly, we're not even sure how...

Sinners Rotten Tomatoes Score Compared With The Top 10 Horror Movies Of Rotten Tomatoes Poll ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Ryan Coogler’s period horror movie Sinners starring Michael B. Jordan in the lead role(s) was released in theatres on April 18, 2025, and has received a terrific response from critics and audiences alike. Sinners has a Rotten Tomatoes critics’ score of 98%, which is unusually high for a horror film. It will be interesting to see how Sinners’ Rotten Tomatoes score compares with the scores of the scariest horror movies of all time (as per Rotten Tomatoes’ 2024 poll).

Here are the top ten scariest horror movies ever, per a list published by Rotten Tomatoes (based on a poll conducted by Rt last year). We have curated our list from the Top 10 horror movies, mentioned in Rotten Tomatoes’ poll and ranked them based on their Rotten Tomatoes score. Let’s find out whether any of...

Despite being heralded as one of the most iconic scream queens of all time after playing Laurie Strode in the Halloween franchise, Jamie Lee Curtis once claimed that she didn't like horror movies. However, she sure loves being part of them!

Not only did Curtis return for Blumhouse's Halloween reboot trilogy, but she also recently joined the cast of new film Return to Sender with Late Night with the Devil star David Dastmalchian. Next, Deadline reports that the actress will executive produce a television show for Blumhouse based on Marisha Pessl's bestselling novel Darkly.

Released in November 2024, Darkly is a YA mystery thriller novel published by Penguin Random House. It is about a girl named Arcadia "Dia" Gannon and her obsession with a series of intriguingly terrifying games and toys designed by the Darkly empire. She looks up to the lead game designer, Louisiana Veda who suffers a mysterious death,...

Marvel’s upcoming movie Thunderbolts is just around the corner, and director Jake Schreier has shared something interesting — he originally wanted Man-Thing to be part of the team.

In an interview, Schreier revealed, “I think there was a point during pitching when I really wanted Man-Thing to be on the team.” He was talking about the early stages of planning the movie, when different characters were being considered for the lineup.

But Marvel Studios had different plans for the swamp creature. Instead of joining the Thunderbolts team, Man-Thing made his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in 2022’s Werewolf by Night Halloween special. Schreier said that change “worked out for the best,” suggesting he’s happy with how things turned out in the end.

Related: Jake Schreier Hints at a Link Between ‘Thunderbolts*’ and ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

Man-Thing is a strange and powerful creature in Marvel Comics, known for his connection to the...

JoBlo’s own Ryan Cultrera was recently able to catch up with several popular Final Girls at the Ve Neill’s Vampire Weekend convention in California. Last week, we shared Ryan’s interviews with Lisa Wilcox from the Elm Street franchise, Christine Elise from the Child’s Play / Chucky franchise, and Melanie Kinnaman from Friday the 13th: A New Beginning. He also got to talk with one of the horror genre’s greatest male heroes, Ken Foree, and the legendary character actor Michael Ironside. But we’re not done sharing Vampire Weekend interviews yet!

Now, we’ve collected moments from Ryan’s conversations with Lisa Wilcox, Ken Foree, and Michael Ironside in the video embedded above, which also includes previously unreleased interviews with makeup artist Ve Neill and actor Daniel Roebuck!

Ve Neill’s career stretches back to the 1970s and includes work on Kingdom of the Spiders, Laserblast, Tourist Trap,...

It's pretty apt that the next movie in Legendary's MonsterVerse franchise is generating such discussion around Easter time, for it was Easter last year that saw the most recent film in the series take the world by storm upon its release. This year, it's all about the casting, as the film has added yet another major star to its ever-growing cast.

The third movie in the Godzilla x Kong saga and sixth overall in the MonsterVerse film series (and to feature at least one of the titular movie monster legends), the upcoming sequel was commissioned off the back of the monumental success of last year's Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. And for this new, somewhat unanticipated next chapter in the franchise, the monsters are reeling in some big stars.

The most recent addition to the line-up comes in the form of a Hollywood icon who knows a thing...

Scream Queen and Oscar-winner Jamie Lee Curtis is co-starring and producing a new psychological horror flick, “Sender,” and they’ve revealed quite the casting addition to the lineup.

Deadline is reporting that actress Britt Lower has joined Curtis, David Dastmalchian (“Late Night With The Devil”), and Anna Baryshnikov (“Love Lies Bleeding”) in a lead role as the pic is based on Russell Goldman‘s “Return To Sender.”

An award-winning 2022 short that Goldman later adapted into a 2023 Black List script (a collection of the best unproduced scripts that have led to some excellent films) and is now making his feature directorial debut as production is underway.

Continue reading ‘Sender’: Britt Lower Joins Jamie Lee Curtis & David Dastmalchian In New Psychological Horror Flick at The Playlist.

We announced yesterday that Rohan Campbell will be playing iconic slasher Billy Chapman in the upcoming Silent Night, Deadly Night reboot from Bloody Disgusting, Cineverse, and director Mike P. Nelson (Wrong Turn, V/H/S/85), and today we’ve got some more exclusive casting news to whet your appetite for the holiday horror.

Bloody Disgusting can exclusively report this afternoon that Ruby Modine (Happy Death Day) will be playing Pamela in Silent Night, Deadly Night, alongside Rohan Campbell’s Billy!

In addition to playing Lori Spengler in both Happy Death Day and its sequel Happy Death Day 2U, Ruby Modine also starred in 2019’s Satanic Panic and 2023’s Fear. Outside the horror genre, Modine’s credits include “Shameless,” American Desert, and The Survivalist.

From Cineverse, a next-generation entertainment studio, and Bloody Disgusting, its horror division, Silent Night, Deadly Night will be slashing into theaters this holiday season.

A reimagining of...

The Halloweenies continue their Universal Monsters coverage with 1933’s The Invisible Man. In anticipation, the gang shares their invisible picks for the best invisible films of all time. Or something like that. Like their list of favorite vamps ahead of their Dracula episode — or their list of wolves ahead of their Wolf Man coverage — this list is as definitive as their voice in the Horror industry.

So, not very.

Stream the episode below or subscribe via Apple Podcasts , Stitcher , Spotify , RadioPublic , Acast , Google Podcasts , and RSS. New to the Halloweenies ? Catch up with the gang by revisiting their essential episodes on past franchises such as Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Scream, The Evil Dead, Chucky, and Alien!

You can also become a member of their Patreon, The Rewind , for hilariously irreverent commentaries, one-off deep dives on your favorite rentals, and even spinoffs like their recent run...

It's hard to question the legacy of a movie like The Breakfast Club. John Hughes' coming-of-age masterpiece of 1985 was a fascinating depiction of teenage angst, as seen from the perspectives of five students coming from different parts of '80s society. It was a game-changer for its young cast, who would then become part of the Brat Pack and pursue acting careers outside the stereotypes the movie built for them. Curiously, as famous as the film was and as timeless as it remains for its fans, in over 40 years, the cast has never reunited. That was until a few days ago, when Andrew, Brian, John, Claire, and Allison were seen together at a pop culture convention.

The Breakfast Club cast has reunited for the first time in 40 years, although not in a sequel to the beloved high school movie. As reported by People, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Emilio Estévez,...

After the recent announcement that Severance star Britt Lower would lead the cast for a new Netflix prison break series, the rising star has lined up yet another project, this time teaming with legendary actress Jamie Lee Curtis on a new horror film.

Per Deadline, Lower is set to lead the cast of Sender, a psychological horror film from Russell Goldman, who makes his feature directorial debut with the movie. The horror flick is based on Goldman's 2022 short film Return to Sender. Lower will star alongside David Dastmalchian, Anna Baryshnikov, and Curtis. Per the official logline, Sender follows "a woman (Lower) who experiences an e-commerce package delivery scam that becomes so personal and disturbing that she becomes hellbent on discovering the identity of her anonymous sender."

In addition to starring in the film, Curtis serves as a producer alongside Molly Hallam and Jake Katofsky, while Lower is an executive producer.

Terrifier 3 saw the glorious return of the Christmas-themed slasher last fall. Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting aren't ready to stop making blood-red snow anytime as their reboot of the iconic and equally controversial '80s horror film Silent Night, Deadly Night will be coming down the chimney later this year. Fans of the slasher franchise have slowly been getting earlier seasonal treats like a teaser poster a few months back. Now, this version of Silent Night, Deadly Night has found their Billy in Halloween Ends star Rohan Campbell.

First reported by Bloody Disgusting, the reimagining is “blending psychological horror, brutal slasher thrills and a touch of the supernatural and, shockingly, a sprinkle of romance, the new film hopes to deliver a modern new take on the ultimate holiday nightmare.” Silent Night, Deadly Night is written and directed by Mike P. Nelson (Wrong Turn). Original franchise producers Scott Schneid and Dennis Whitehead...