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Horror remakes get a bad rap – and let’s be honest, they often deserve it. For every clever reimagining, we’ve sat through a dozen limp reboots that sucked the life (and the scares) right out of the original. But sometimes, a remake comes along that doesn’t just cash in on nostalgia; it sharpens, reinvents, or even surpasses the source material.

With fresh remakes like Wolf Man (2025) and Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming Frankenstein reboot lighting up horror headlines, now’s the perfect time to revisit the remakes that proved this subgenre can deliver more than lazy copy-paste thrills. Here’s our list of horror reboots and remakes that earned their place in the genre’s blood-soaked hall of fame.

Horror Remakes That Actually Worked The Thing (1982)

John Carpenter’s The Thing often gets cited as one of the best horror remakes ever made… and for good reason. While...

Horror video games come in many flavors, but Metroidvanias bring their own kind of chills. They are, after all, twisted labyrinths filled with mysteries and monsters alike. As for Moadra, the Metroid and Blasphemous vibes are strong with this one. Players will need to shoot, roll, and leap their way through claustrophobic environments to survive. Between the insectoid machinery, squid creatures, and distorted voice lines, there's plenty to fear when the game drops for PC and consoles in 2025.

Watch the full Moadra console announcement trailer.

Moadra developer Gloomsoft is a three-person indie team, but Gloomsoft has already accomplished big things with its debut game. Even from the trailers and demo, the attention to detail is evident. Crackling electricity and fiery rockets streak through the blackness. The influence of sci-fi classics like Predator and StarCraft on the visual design is also obvious. None left a bigger impression than Alien, however. Strangely...

Director David Cronenberg’s 2014 Consumed novel could become a TV or film, as the filmmaker says he’s adapting the script.

In 2014, Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg became a novelist with Consumed, a characteristically uneasy book about the relationship between cold technology and fleshy humans.

Currently on the promotional trail for his new film, The Shrouds, Cronenberg has suggested that Consumed could eventually become a TV or film, since he’s currently adapting it into a script.

In an interview with Variety (with a hat-tip to World of Reel), the filmmaker has said that the catalyst for the adaptation is Robert Lantos, the producer he’s regularly collaborated with in the past, from 1996’s Crash to 2022’s Crimes Of The Future.

“We’re talking about possibly doing a movie based on my novel Consumed,” Cronenberg said. “[Lantos has] wanted to turn that either into a series or a movie for some years, and...

Alien: Earth is an upcoming American sci-fi horror TV series created by Noah Hawley. It is based on the famous Alien franchise and takes place two years before the events of the 1979 Alien movie. The show stars Sydney Chandler, Timothy Olyphant, Alex Lawther, Samuel Blenkin, Essie Davis, and Adarsh Gourav.

The story follows a young woman and a group of soldiers after a space vessel crashes on Earth. They soon make a shocking discovery that brings them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat.

Alien: Earth will premiere on FX on Hulu in the United States in mid-2025.

Related: ‘Alien: Earth’ Drops Mysterious New Teaser in Honor of Earth Day

Now ahead of the show’s premiere episode titles have been revealed.

• Neverland • Mr. October • Metamorphosis • Observation • Emergence • The Fly • In Space, No One • The Real Monsters

Here are the ‘Alien: Earth’ episode titles:

• Neverland

• Mr. October

• Metamorphosis

• Observation

• Emergence

• The Fly

• In Space,...

David Cronenberg, aficionado of the unnerving, won’t let his feelings about a creator get in the way of a creation. “I still love my Tesla,” says the filmmaker, seated in a dimly lit conference room at the Criterion Collection’s Manhattan office. “My relationship with my Tesla has nothing to do with Elon. We have a separate love.” He smiles wanly.

One of Musk’s machines plays a minor role in Cronenberg’s latest picture, The Shrouds (out now), when the story’s antagonist, Guy Pearce, programs coordinates into...

For cinephiles of a certain proclivity, a new David Cronenberg movie is a true event.

The director, who just turned 82, has a filmography so singular and distinct that the word “Cronenbergian” has become an adjective and if somebody uses it you know exactly what they mean – twisted, visionary and usually dealing with body horror or technological investigation (oftentimes both).

Cronenberg’s latest, “The Shrouds,” is one of the filmmaker’s very best, most personal movies and, since it premiered last summer at the Cannes Film Festival, the wait has been excruciating.

But now that it’s here, how can you watch it? Read on to find out.

What is the release date?

As of April 25, “The Shrouds” is now in theaters nationwide. It was in limited release last week but is now playing everywhere. As it should be.

Is it streaming?

It is not. You will have to go to...

Indie filmmaker Duncan Skiles’s chilling thriller The Clovehitch Killer was released in 2018, and it took him the better part of a decade for his next directorial effort, Neighborhood Watch, to reach audiences. It was worth the wait, as this two-hander thriller telling the story of a schizophrenic man and a retired security guard who take matters into their own hands to save a kidnapped woman is a fun, taut flick the likes of which we don’t get to see often today.

We at FandomWire got to speak with Neighborhood Watch director Duncan Skiles about the throwback nature of the film, the merits of the 90-minute thriller, and working with Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Walking Dead) and Jack Quaid (The Boys).

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FandomWire: Neighborhood Watch feels like a very old-school, throwback film in many ways.

Before the pandemic, David Cronenberg pitched a series to Netflix.

The director of movies like “Videodrome,” “The Fly” and “eXistenZ” – stories that investigated the dangerous frontier of cutting-edge technology – said that he was interested in streaming as a new form of cinema. “I thought it was really cinema, but it’s not traditional movies – it’s kind of interesting to do, let’s say an eight-hour movie. I thought that’s a form that I maybe would explore,” Cronenberg said. He pitched them an idea that was based on a recent personal tragedy – in 2017 Cronenberg lost his wife of 43 years to cancer. She was only 66.

He told them the story of what would eventually become “The Shrouds” (now in theaters nationwide) – it would follow a man named Karsh, whose wife had tragically died. Bereaved, he concocts the idea for a 21st century cemetery, one that will allow you, through cutting edge technology,...

A Ready or Not sequel was confirmed earlier this year, and now we're starting to get more details about the upcoming film from Radio Silence, which will see the return of star Samara Weaving.

Weaving was the "final girl" from the 2019 movie. Her character, Grace, married into the Le Domas family, unaware of the twisted game they play on every family member's wedding day. Grace picks "Hide-and-Seek," leading her to run from the family as they try to murder her to fulfill their part of a generational curse.

Earlier this week, Searchlight Pictures shared an endearing promotional video announcing new cast members and more.

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come

Even before the sequel was officially announced, fans hoped it would be subtitled "Here I Come." It's similar to Happy Death Day 2U and the upcoming Now You See Me: Now You Don't. Who doesn't love a clever title...

Anticipation of a Ready or Notsequel has been building since it was announced in October, and new cast additions and an unveiled title are sure to add fuel to the fire. The sequel, now aptly titled Ready Or Not: Here I Come, has added horror staples Sarah Michelle Gellar and Elijah Wood, alongside Shawn Hatosy, Néstor Carbonell, Kevin Durand, and the iconic master of body horror, David Cronenberg. These new additions will appear alongside the returning Samara Weaving, who will reprise the role of Grace, the newlywed from the original 2019 film, and Kathryn Newton.

In a statement (via Deadline), the filmmaking team behind the original horror comedy, Radio Silence's Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, shared:

"We're thrilled to be returning to the world of Ready or Not with Samara, Brett, Avery and Andrew, and so excited to work with this immensely talented cast and the incredible artists across every...

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Elijah Wood and David Cronenberg are said to be joining the cast of horror sequel Ready Or Not 2, subtitled Here I Come.

What do Buffy, Frodo Baggins and the master of body horror have in common? Apparently, it’s the forthcoming sequel Ready Or Not 2, better known to its creators as Ready Or Not: Here I Come.

Already in production, the follow-up to the blackly comic 2019 horror thriller is still building up its impressive cast. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the latest additions include Sarah Michelle Gellar, Elijah Wood and legendary filmmaker David Cronenberg.

They’ll be joining Ant-Man actor Kathryn Newton (who joined in March) and returning star Samara Weaving in the horror sequel, which is set to continue the story of Grace (Weaving) who suffers through one of the bloodiest wedding days imaginable. Filmmaking collective Radio Silence are back to direct, along with screenwriters Gary Busick and R Christopher Murphy.

David Cronenberg has shared his current view on the movie theater experience, describing it as less appealing than it once was. At the same time, he’s expanding his creative participation in genre film—this time not behind the camera, but on screen—by joining the cast of Ready or Not: Here I Come, the upcoming sequel to the 2019 horror-thriller Ready or Not.

Speaking with filmmaker Jim Jarmusch in Interview Magazine, Cronenberg addressed several aspects of watching films today. He noted that he rarely attends public screenings. “I stopped going to the cinema many years ago,” he said. “I only see movies in real theaters every once in a while, mostly at film festivals, and I’ve found that the projection isn’t always so great.”

Cronenberg said he watches everything with subtitles and mentioned practical inconveniences such as parking in Toronto. But his reaction extended beyond logistics. “I don...

Ready or not, here some exciting casting announcements come! Following news last month that Freaky star Kathryn Newton is set to join Samara Weaving for some effed-up fun and games when horror-comedy sequel Ready Or Not 2 arrives, Searchlight Pictures have now revealed more of the line-up for Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett's upcoming movie — now officially (quite brilliantly) entitled Ready Or Not: Here I Come. In a social media post set to 'The Hide And Seek Song', we learned that Radio Silence's latest has added genre stalwarts Sarah Michelle Gellar and Elijah Wood to its ensemble, as well as legendary horror filmmaker David Cronenberg.

Additionally, Radio Silence rogues gallery alum Kevin Durand (Abigail) is also down for Ready Or Not 2, as is The Pitt's Shawn Hatosy and The Dark Knight's Néstor Carbonell. Now, as you'd expect given the twisty-turny nature of Ready Or Not, details on the...

Ready or Not: Here I come! That's not just a fun thing kids say while playing hide-and-seek. It's also now the official title for Ready or Not 2. The sequel to the hit 2019 horror comedy from directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (Radio Silence) was announced with much anticipation late last year with star Samara Weaving (The Babysitter) returning alongside genre vet Kathryn Newton (Freaky). Now it's been revealed that cameras have started rolling on Ready or Not: Here I Come in Toronto with a slew of casting announcements. The latter of which is headlined by slasher icon Sarah Michelle Gellar (I Know What You Did Last Summer) and Elijah Woods (The Monkey).

Reported by Deadline, Gellar and Woods will join the new cast with Shawn Hatosy, Néstor Carbonell, Kevin Durand and David Cronenberg. The last name on this list is another standout as Cronenberg has directed such genre classics as The Fly (1986), Scanners and Videodrome.

Ready or not, here comes the cast of Ready or Not: Here I Come. Several actors have just joined the hotly anticipated sequel, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Sarah Michelle Gellar.

Per Deadline, the full cast of the horror movie has been announced, with Gellar, Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings), Shawn Hatosy (The Pitt), Néstor Carbonell (Bates Motel), Kevin Durand joining returning star Samara Weaving and fellow new addition Kathryn Newton, whose casting was announced back in March. With Durand's casting, Ready or Not: Here I Come now features two stars from Radio Silence's last feature, Abigail.

Why Ready or Not: Here I Come Is the Perfect Title for the Sequel

As production kicks off today in Toronto, the official title for the sequel was unveiled as Ready or Not: Here I Come. Similar to the forthcoming Now You See Me: Now You Don't, Ready or...

Sarah Michelle Gellar knows more than what you did last summer, she knows she’s joining Searchlight’s Radio Silence sequel Ready Or Not: Here I Come with genre vet Elijah Wood, Shawn Hatosy, Néstor Carbonell, Kevin Durand, and David Cronenberg rounding out the cast. Cameras are rolling in Toronto today.

All of them join previously announced Samara Weaving and Kathryn Newton in the Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy penned script.

“We’re thrilled to be returning to the world of Ready or Not with Samara, Brett, Avery and Andrew,” said filmmakers Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett aka Radio Silence, “and so excited to work with this immensely talented cast and the incredible artists across every department joining the Ready or Not family.”

Added Matthew Greenfield, President of Searchlight Pictures, “We’re beyond excited to make another film with the phenomenal Radio Silence. With Ready or Not: Here I Come,...

Let there be no doubt: Ryan Coogler's "Sinners" is a critical and commercial smash. The wildly inventive horror film currently holds a 98% Fresh rating at review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, and grossed an impressive $45.6 million at the domestic box office during its first weekend of release — that's the biggest opening for an original movie since Jordan Peele's "Us" took in $71 million in the pre-pandemic year of 2019.

And yet "Sinners" most remarkable achievement thus far might be the A grade it received from moviegoers polled by CinemaScore. This is a terrific rating for any movie, one that augurs well for its box office performance going forward. But it's especially notable because no horror film in the 46-year history of the market research company has ever scored higher than an A-. In other words, as far as 2025 moviegoers are concerned, "Sinners" is the best horror movie of just about the last half-century.

David Cronenberg has given us classics such as Scanners, Videodrome, The Fly, and more, but could The Shrouds be his final feature film? The 82-year-old director doesn’t seem willing to call it quits just yet, but he told the Los Angeles Times that he isn’t counting on getting behind the camera again.

“We all have some kind of arrogance,” Cronenberg said. “But I don’t have that much. The world does not need my next movie.” When asked if he would feel any grief if The Shrouds ends up being his last movie, Cronenberg said, “Well, yes and no. Even when I thought I might never make another movie, I never thought I’d stop being creative. I thought maybe I’d write another novel. There are many ways you can be creative.“

The director said he doesn’t lack ideas; he just questions whether he has the...

David Cronenberg is back with his latest Cannes Film Festival premiere The Shrouds, a blend of body horror, grief, comedy, sex, high-tech graveyards and international intrigue starring Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger (in three roles), Guy Pearce and Sandrine Holt. Sideshow/Janus Films is opening the film – the first English-language foray by the distributor of Drive My Car and Flow — at three theaters: NYC’s Angelika Film Center and Film at Lincoln Center, and Los Angeles’ AMC Grove.

Cronenberg will be in-person with screenings hosted by Brady Corbet and Richard Kelly, with the iconic director traveling to San Francisco and Chicago later in the week ahead of a move to 250-plus screens, Sideshow’s widest expansion this early in a film’s run.

The director of The Fly, Dead Ringers and Videodrome has “long been one of my favorite filmmakers. It’s his most personal film. I loved it when I...

The Shrouds — the newest vision from renowned filmmaker David Cronenberg — is an exercise in obsession, grief, loss, and death, all wrapped in a morbid shroud of mystery. Death — as with most Cronenberg — is at the center of this twisted tale of blended genres. Part conspiracy thriller, part character study and a dash of erotic drama, that’s the recipe here. It’s a mixture that — on paper — makes for a spectacular cinematic cocktail, but the finished product tastes just a bit… off.

The Shrouds plot

Karsh (Vincent Cassel) owns a high-tech cemetery. His wife, Becca (Diane Kruger), is buried there. Here, the graves are equipped with top-of-the-line technology that allows visitors to see the body of their buried loved one in real-time. When the cemetery is vandalized, Karsh and his ex-brother-in-law Maury (Guy Pearce) work desperately to find meaning behind the attack and identify the culprits.

The review

The film...

The most frightening zombies to ever appear on the big screen are back, and faster than ever. But can they run all the way to the 2026 Oscars?

Set almost three decades after 28 Days Later (2003) and 28 Weeks Later (2007), the first two films in Alex Garland's horror franchise, 28 Years Later is scheduled for a theatrical release on June 20. Garland is back as the writer and Danny Boyle, who directed the first flick, returns to direct. (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo directed and cowrote the sequel.) The latest trailer (below) dropped this morning.

The new movie stars Jodie Comer as Isla, a pregnant woman; Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Jamie, a scavenger and Isla's husband; and Ralph Fiennes as Dr. Kelson, a knowledgable fellow survivor. The plot follows a group of people who've avoided zombie attacks for decades by living on an isolated island. When one member goes to the mainland, he discovers...

David Cronenberg would like to have a few words with you about death.

There have, of course, been an abundance of folks who’ve shuffled off this mortal coil within the Canadian filmmaker’s nearly six decades’ worth of movies, often in the most baroque, grotesque manner possible. (Who could ever forget this? Or this? Or even this?) No one dies in a Grand Guignol-style manner in The Shrouds, Cronenberg’s chilly, chic mix of conspiracy thriller, corporate-espionage drama, and cryptic-in-more-ways-than-one meditation on mourning routines; apologies if that constitutes a spoiler.

Stars: Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Michael Ironside, Jennifer O’Neill, Lawrence Dane, Robert A. Silverman, Mavor Moore, Adam Ludwig, Fred Doederlein | Written and Directed by David Cronenberg

David Cronenberg’s Scanners is a film that lingers in the mind long after the credits roll—not just because of its infamous head-exploding sequence, but because of the way it explores the intersection of science fiction, body horror, and psychological paranoia. Watching it again, I’m struck by its unsettling atmosphere, its mixture of cerebral and visceral horror, and its willingness to engage with themes that feel just as relevant today as they did over forty years ago.

At its core, Scanners is about a secret group of individuals gifted (or perhaps cursed) with extraordinary telepathic abilities. These “scanners” can read minds, control others’ bodies, and—in the most extreme cases—cause gruesome cranial detonations. Our protagonist, Cameron Vale (Stephen Lack), begins the film as a lost soul,...

Remakes are often viewed with tremendous suspicion by moviegoers, especially when the film getting revisited is a bona-fide classic. This is because the rationale for most remakes is pure exploitation. The studio holds the rights to a property that once made it a gazillion dollars, and, because the money people have decided the original's laid fallow long enough, the time is right to splash a fresh coat of paint on it and see if a new generation of viewers will fork over cash to check out a gussied-up retread.

There have certainly been worthwhile remakes over the years, but those were made with tremendous care and purpose by people who had a passion for the material. For the most part, you wind up with lifeless dreck such as 2014's "RoboCop," 2005's "The Fog," and 2006's "The Omen".

Speaking of indistinguishable, what are we to make of 1998's "Psycho," the shot-for-shot...

I’m not a huge fan of the body horror genre and generally tend to veer away from it unless it’s an allegory for something profound. While open to interpretation, David Cronenberg’s The Fly (1986), for instance, is considered by many to be an allegory for the AIDS epidemic sweeping across the United States at that time. Isn’t Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) a meditation on the dehumanization of our species in a brutally capitalist society? I believe Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance follows in a similar vein and carries a sweeping undercurrent of introspection. Bold, brazen, and brutal, Fargeat’s magnum opus was nominated for Best Picture at this year’s Academy Awards—no mean feat for a horror flick. The only other designated horror movie to make it to the podium in the best picture race in recent times is Jordan Peele’s Get Out...

Since its surprising theatrical run, The Substance has established itself as an instant classic. It showcased incredible horror scenes and brilliant makeup effects and opened the door for other body horror films in the years ahead. Movies like Together have been picked up by major studios after The Substance‘s success, and there will undeniably be more body horror flicks in production because of Fargeat’s masterpiece. While we wait for those movies, let’s check out some of the great horror, comedy, and drama films that both inspired The Substance and will appeal to fans of the movie.

1. American Mary (2012) Directed by Jen Soska & Sylvia Soska

While The Substance is a little heavy on its themes around plastic surgery to maintain youth, American Mary never hesitates to make this part of the text. The indie horror film might not feature great performances, but it does nail a campy, hedonistic...

It’s common for stars of blockbuster franchises to turn to independent cinema as their career progresses, trying on new avant-garde roles for size in a complete change of pace. It‘s a seemingly natural trajectory, tread by Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, The Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood, and, of course, Twilight star Robert Pattinson. A24 anti-heroes and thick-accented Southerners were the roles Pattinson picked following his fame as the diamond-skinned vampire Edward Cullen. The British actor has proved that he’s more than a pretty face and a romantic love interest, donning our screens as space-bound or on-the-run criminals, abusive period officers, and historical figures such as Salvador Dal, Dennis Stock (James Dean’s photographer) and Louis of Guyenne (son of King Charles VI of France).

Unafraid of difficult accents and niche artistic tastes, Pattinson likes a challenge—not to mention range. But the Team Edward-icon...

David Cronenberg has offered up his thoughts on the backlash that the Oscar-winning film The Brutalist was on the receiving end of throughout awards season.

The Canadian filmmaker was at a London Soundtrack Festival talk with career-long collaborator Howard Shore to discuss some of the films they’ve partnered on over the years.

The two visionaries discussed M. Butterfly, Cronenberg’s 1993 film about a French diplomat (Jeremy Irons) who becomes infatuated with a Chinese opera performer, Song Liling (John Lone). Their affair lasts for 20 years, and they subsequently marry, but Irons’ character is unaware or willfully ignorant that Liling is a man.

Cronenberg compared his editing of the film to the criticism surrounding Brady Corbet’s post-war epic when it was revealed that artificial intelligence was used on the film’s lead, Brody (who went on to win the best actor Oscar for his performance), to enhance the accuracy of his character’s Hungarian accent.

FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper of Twin Peaks is one of the most iconic TV protagonists of all time. His distinctive appearance, mannerisms, and eccentric approach to investigating the murder of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) in the eponymous Washington town are all part of why "Coop" is arguably the most famous role of actor Kyle MacLachlan's career. But, even before the show premiered on ABC in 1990, traces of the character of Dale Cooper could be seen in some of MacLachlan's film roles. For instance, both MacLachlan (New York Times) and Twin Peaks co-creator David Lynch (LA Times) have described Cooper as an older version of Jeffrey Beaumont, the protagonist played by MacLachlan in the 1986 film Blue Velvet, which Lynch directed.

But, one year after Blue Velvet, MacLachlan played another character who arguably bears an even greater resemblance to Cooper — one whom Lynch had nothing to do with. That would be Lloyd Gallagher,...

The highly anticipated “Wicked” movie is here, and is finally streaming on Peacock. After a tear-filled press tour and glitzy awards season, Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba and Ariana Grande’s Glinda took audiences by storm last fall and is destined to do the same on streaming.

The two leading ladies have become true sisters in the rollout of the film, even revealing several matching tattoos together. While the duo seem picture perfect for the musical adaptation, a list of stars admitted to being in the running for the powerhouses, including Dove Cameron, Renee Rapp and Amanda Seyfried for Glinda.

Jon M. Chu’s adaptation is chalked full of musical theatre trained actors, here’s your guide to the “Wicked” cast.

Cynthia Erivo in “Wicked” (Credit: Universal Pictures) Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba

Erivo leads the larger-than-life film adaptation as Elphaba. The witch (who was born green) attends Shiz University and is...

In 2019, the Argentinian thriller4x4 made waves with its biting black comedy, sharp and cynical social commentary, and its eye-catching, relevant premise — a impovershed street criminal finds himself locked in a struggle of life and death after breaking into a self-locking, bulletproof, soundproof, polarized and remote-controlled car owned and operated by a wealthy but morally indignant vigilante. Since its release, this film has been remade a few times, each in a different nation. This time, it's the United States's turn. Directed by David Yarovesky and starring Anthony Hopkins and Bill Skarsgård, Locked revisits this tried-and-true storyline, albeit with a surprisingly humane twist, and more sympathetic characters portrayed by two seasoned, versatile horror icons. When petty criminal Eddie (Skarsgård) is down on his cash and luck, he breaks into a particularly fancy SUV — and finds he can't get out. The vehicle belongs to William (Hopkins), an ailing surgeon who is determined...

One is the master of gruesome horror, the other is the composer who scored his most famous films. They sit down to discuss their 46-year collaboration, and the unlikely source of their darkest, most disturbing inspiration

What would having sex in a car crash sound like, as music? What about a gynaecological exam performed by identical twins, or a man’s transmogrification into a grotesque human-insectoid hybrid? These are just some of the challenges faced, over more than 40 years and upwards of a dozen films, by the composer Howard Shore as part of his long collaboration with the director David Cronenberg. Shore, 78, may have won three Oscars for the magisterial sweep of his Lord of the Rings score, but it is his work on the 81-year-old Cronenberg’s notorious body-horror movies, from The Fly to Dead Ringers and Crash, that is most indelible. Those last two films will be screening...

Neca‘s latest wave of Ben Cooper Costume Kids action figures is a monster mash of beloved horror and sci-fi creatures.

Series 7 includes Godzilla, Planet of the Apes‘ Warrior, Jaws, Return of the Living Dead‘s Tarman, and The Fly trick-or-treaters in masks and soft good clothing styled after the vintage costumes from Ben Cooper, one of the largest Halloween costume manufacturers from the 1950s through the ’80s.

Each fully poseable toy stands approximately 6″ tall and comes with a trick-or-treat bag or bucket.

The figures are individually packaged in numbered, retro-style window boxes that pay homage to the original costume packaging.

Estimated to arrive in September, the set of five costs $104.99.

Neca’s previously wave of Ben Cooper Costume Kids — featuring Wolfman, Visible Man, Spooky Monster, Metaluna Mutant, and Clown — is due out this month.

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Though a lot of fans remain a little confused about the decision to give this particular character his own solo project, we are getting a Clayface movie from the director of Speak No Evil, James Watkins, with a script from Mike Flanagan.

James Gunn has confirmed that the film will be set in the Dcu, but it seems the original plan was to introduce the villain in Matt Reeves' BatVerse.

You may recall the trades noting that Clayface would have a "significant role" in The Batman II prior to the solo movie announcement, and Batman on Film's Bill Ramey believes the character was indeed going to be the primary antagonist of Reeves' sequel before the idea for his own Dcu film began to take shape.

If you're wondering how a character like Clayface would fit in Reeves' relatively grounded BatVerse, it's worth pointing out that the original version of Basil...

Though we don't have any word on an actor DC Studios might be considering to play the lead role of Basil Karlo in Clayface, a new rumor is claiming that casting is currently underway for a female character named "Caitlin Bates."

There is no one by this name in the comics, and scooper Daniel Richtman speculates that it might actually be Caitlin Snow, aka Killer Frost. Though they are both villains, Frost and Clayface have faced off a number of times in the comics, and also joined forces on occasion.

This is just one theory, of course. A gender-swapped Hannibal Bates, aka Everyman, is also a possibility since the villain is a fellow shape-shifter. Or, Caitlin Bates might simply turn out to be... Caitlin Bates!

Speak No Evil director James Watkins was recently confirmed to take the helm of the project, which is believed to be budgeted at $40 million. The...

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Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research

My screening series Amnesiascope hosts the La Clef Revival Collective for a screening of Bye Bye Tiberias this Sunday.

Spectacle

Meanwhile, La Clef presents Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche’s Dernier Maquis on Saturday.

Anthology Film Archives

A Volker Spengler retrospective brings three films by Fassbinder while a Matías Piñeiro-curated series offers Antonioni and Straub-Huillet.

Nitehawk Cinema

A secret Hong Kong film plays on 35mm Sunday afternoon.

Museum of the Moving Image

Snubbed Forever concludes with The Lady from Shanghai and Vertigo.

IFC Center

Hideaki Anno’s Love & Pop plays in a new restoration; eXistenZ, Mulholland Dr., Paprika, Dogra Magra, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas show late.

Roxy Cinema

Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart screen.

Film Forum

Play It As It Lays begins a week-long run; Godard’s A Woman Is a Woman continues...

Short stories have always been prime real estate in the world of adaptations. Largely those are relegated to horror anthology TV shows like Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Tales From the Darkside, or the new Creepshow revival but that doesn’t mean exclusively. You can have things like Lawnmower Man, Eight O’Clock in the Morning, or Children of the Corn that are anywhere from 8 to 18 pages and make a whole movie, or in case of Children of the Corn an entire franchise, out of those pages. Today is all about a short story that probably had more legs than you realized. The Fly, written by George Langelaan and published in 1957 would go on to be part of 5 movies. While 3 of those are cash in sequels, one of them is a somewhat slept on late 50s classic while the other is listed at or near the top of any list discussing remakes.

The Academy Award for Best Makeup is one of the youngest Oscars. It was first handed out in 1981, one year after the Academy took heat for not having a specific award that could recognize Christopher Tucker's remarkable work for David Lynch's "The Elephant Man." Really, though, there had been mounting pressure on the Academy to honor makeup effects since the early 1970s, when Dick Smith helped Marlon Brando become Don Vito Corleone in "The Godfather" and transformed young Linda Blair into a demon in "The Exorcist."

The first Oscar for Best Makeup went to the great Rick Baker for "An American Werewolf in London," and it felt like validation for horror fans the world over. Our genre would probably never be deemed worthy of major Oscars, but here was a category that it would likely own for decades to come, because no one was doing more revolutionary work...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Anthology Film Archives

A Volker Spengler retrospective brings three films by Fassbinder; films by Ozu and Pudovkin play in Essential Cinema.

Museum of the Moving Image

Snubbed Forever continues with films by Bogdanovich and a 35mm print of Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street.

IFC Center

Hideaki Anno’s Love & Pop plays in a new restoration; Herzog’s Nosferatu, Mulholland Dr., Funeral Parade of Roses, Dogra Magra, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas show late.

Roxy Cinema

Saturday brings Susan Seidelman’s She-Devil on 35mm and Wild at Heart.

Film at Lincoln Center

The career-spanning Frederick Wiseman retrospective has its final weekend.

Film Forum

Tales from the New Yorker includes films by Hitchcock, Spike Jonze, the Marx Brothers, and John Huston; Godard’s A Woman Is a Woman continues in a new 4K restoration; Addams Family Values screens on Sunday.

Last year, over 670 films were released in America, and that number has been steadily increasing every year since the end of the pandemic. That’s why I believe the Academy Awards’ limited selection of nominees will never be able to please everyone no matter how hard they try. That being said, it’s awfully clear that the Academy likes some kinds of movies more than others, as horror fans have noticed that genre productions are very rarely rewarded at the annual ceremony.

And while we think there’s a good chance that both Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu and Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance might earn their very own statuettes at this Sunday’s event, today we’d like to take a look back on other horror movies that were infamously snubbed at the Oscars. After all, it wasn’t very long ago that nearly all scary movies had to fight to...

The Academy Awards aren’t exactly an objective measure of cinematic quality, but it’s always gratifying to see hard-working artists be rewarded for their output – especially when those artists happen to work in the horror genre. And in honor of Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance being nominated for a whopping five Oscars this year, we’ve decided to look back on the small selection of horror movies that have managed to win Academy Awards.

Of course, the lines separating one genre from another can sometimes be hard to define, so don’t be surprised if we end up disagreeing on what does or doesn’t count as a proper horror picture. That being said, don’t forget to comment below with your own Oscar-winning favorites if you think we missed a particularly good one.

With that out of the way, onto the list…

14. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

Often cited as one...

A while ago DC Studios officially greenlit Clayface, a horror-themed film about a struggling B-movie actor who uses a mysterious substance to stay relevant—only to transform into a creature made entirely of clay.

The script was written by Flanagan. Safran compared the film’s tone to the 1986 horror classic The Fly. However, due to Flanagan’s commitments to his upcoming The Exorcist movie (2026) and a planned Carrie TV series, he was unable to direct.

Instead recently, James Watkins was hired to take on directing duties, with filming expected to begin later that year. Reeves is also involved as a producer alongside Lynn Harris through his production company, 6th & Idaho Productions.

Gunn and Safran clarified that Alan Tudyk, who voiced Clayface in Creature Commandos, would not reprise the role for this film, as his voice work was not considered one of his main Dcu roles.

Now industry insider Jeff Sneider...

Jeff Goldblum has earned fame for quite a few of his star-studded works across numerous genres, though the one he seems to have excelled in is the sci-fi and thriller genre. This is especially evident from the excellent chops he displayed in his 1986 masterpiece The Fly, which is even considered his best film to date by many.

Jeff Goldblum. | Credits: The Fly / 20th Century Studios.

But as much as it was loved for the outstanding performance by the actors and an even better storyline, there have also been quite a few conversations about critics deeming it a cultural metaphor specifically for AIDS. And while the reason behind it is pretty understandable, filmmaker David Cronenberg has set the record straight by revealing what it is actually about.

Jeff Goldblum’s The Fly was never really about AIDS Goldblum. | Credits: The Fly / 20th Century Studios.

Set around a scientist who ends up...

We had heard that he was the front-runner, and the trades have now confirmed that Speak No Evil director James Watkins will take the helm of DC Studios' solo Clayface movie.

According to THR, Watkins landed the gig after an extensive search, and met with DC co-ceo James Gunn on Thursday for a final presentation before officially being offered the project.

"Sources say the film is budgeted at $40 million and is a Hollywood horror tale centering on a B-movie actor who injects himself with a substance to keep himself relevant, only to find out that he can reshape his face and form, becoming a walking piece of clay."

Gunn will produce alongside Peter Dafran and The Batman director Matt Reeves, with Lynn Harris and Chantal Nong serving as executive producers.

Mike Flanagan penned the script, but was reportedly unavailable to direct due to his commitments to a Carrie TV series and the new Exorcist movie.

The Screen Actors Guild Awards have always been about actors celebrating their peers, but Sunday’s 31st annual ceremony will be a twofold celebration of something else as well: Los Angeles.

“One is kind of a love letter to L.A., post-fires,” executive producer Jon Brockett tells Gold Derby. “And then the other part of it is, how does that work within our room, the DNA of the show? And that is, to us, where do actors come to live out their dreams? And that has traditionally long been Los Angeles.”

For the second year in a row, Brockett is producing the show with Silent House Productions’ Mark Bracco and Linda Gierahn for Netflix. The team “regrouped and shifted” a bit after last month’s devastating wildfires. A two-decade-long resident of L.A., Brockett says he realized after the fires “how much I truly love the city, its determination, its resilience,...

John Lithgow has built a remarkable career with roles that prove his versatility as an actor. However, there was one role that could have changed his career in an entirely different way. Long before The Fly became a horror classic, the actor had the opportunity to play the lead character, Seth Brundle. But instead of accepting the part, he chose to walk away.

Jeff Goldblum in a still from The Fly | Credits: 20th Century Fox

At the time, The Fly was just another project in development, but it later became one of the most iconic body horror films of all time. Jeff Goldblum’s unforgettable performance cemented his place in Hollywood, yet Lithgow was initially considered for the role. Looking back, he admitted that there was something about the story that made him uncomfortable.

What made John Lithgow turn down The Fly?

John Lithgow has played many different roles in his long career.

There have been some conflicting reports regarding the upcoming Clayface movie doing the rounds over the past week or so, with Deadline claiming that Jeff Wadlow is in contention to direct, and THR disputing the filmmaker's potential involvement while adding that J.A. Bayona has met with DC Studios about the gig.

Speak No Evil director James Watkins is the one name the trades do agree on, and according to Mttsh, he is still the "clear favorite and top choice" to helm the project.

The scooper also claims the recent rumor that James McAvoy is in talks to play the lead is not accurate, as casting has not begun just yet.

The script by Mike Flanagan is reportedly complete, but he is unavailable to direct due to his commitments to a Carrie TV series and the new Exorcist movie. The project has been given an official release date of September 11, 2026.

Based on comments from James Gunn,...

Late last year, the trades confirmed that DC Studios is moving forward with a solo Clayface movie, with The Haunting of Hill House and Doctor Sleep director Mike Flanagan on board to pen the script.

The search is currently on for a director, since Flanagan is unavailable due to his commitments to a Carrie TV series and the new Exorcist movie. The project has been given an official release date of September 11, 2026.

Based on comments from James Gunn, the movie will be set in the Dcu, as opposed to The Batman director Matt Reeves' "BatVerse."

"Exciting news out of [DC] Studios today as [Clayface], a Dcu story from a script by Mike Flanagan, has been Officially greenlit. Clayface premieres in 2026."

DC Studios co-ceo Peter Safran recently shared a few new details on the Flanagan script, noting that Clayface is indeed going to be a full-on horror movie in the same vein...

A young woman's pregnancy takes an unexpected turn when she discovers she's carrying a bloodthirsty demonic entity in the new horror film The Fetus. Starring Lauren Lavera, Julian Curtis, Amy Arena, and Bill Moseley, The Fetus recently screened at Orlando's Megacon and enjoyed a red-carpet premiere in Los Angeles before it heads to select theaters in partnership with Emagine Entertainment, Mjr Theatres, Malco Theatres, and Santikos Entertainment on March 7th. Daily Dead caught up with writer/director Joe Lam to discuss collaborating with his skilled cast to develop their characters, the two most memorable moments that stand out from the making of the movie, and working with a talented effects crew behind the scenes of The Fetus.

Thanks for taking the time to answer questions for us, Joe, and congratulations on your new film The Fetus! How did you initially come up with the idea for this movie?

Joe Lam:...

When Coralie Fargeat set out to write “The Substance” she wanted to create a film that stayed with the audience long after they left the theater. So, it’s not surprising that when she sat down to write her Oscar nominated screenplay she looked to the films that had left an indelible mark on her.

While on a special edition of the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast, Fargeat returned with a list of six films she wanted to discuss because they had directly inspired the ideas, story, and the visual and aural storytelling of “The Substance.” During the podcast, Fargeat talked about why certain movies left such a lasting imprint on her and what she learned from each.

“It’s about the phantasmagoria, the fact that you break the rules of reality,” said Fargeat. “You create the reality of your film, and then I think it gives you such a freedom to...