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Inspired by films including The Blob, Plan 9 from Outer Space, and Forbidden Planet, the throwback horror-comedy Vampire Zombies…From Space! has been picked up by sales outfit Black Mandala ahead of the Cannes Film Market, Variety reports this morning.

Variety notes in their report, “The black-and-white genre mashup, directed by Mike Stasko, has been a festival favorite, collecting over 20 awards during its impressive festival run, including multiple audience choice awards and best feature honors.”

Vampire Zombies…From Space! is fittingly set in 1957. In the horror-comedy, “From the depths of space, Dracula has devised his most dastardly plan yet.” Here’s the official plot synopsis:

“A motley crew — consisting of a grizzled detective, a skeptical rookie cop, a chain-smoking greaser, and a determined young woman — bands together to stop Dracula‘s cosmic plan to turn the small town of Marlow into his personal army of vampire zombies.”

Jessica Antovski, Rashaun Baldeo,...

New Zealand-based sales outfit Black Mandala has acquired rights to the award-winning horror-comedy “Vampire Zombies…From Space!” ahead of the Cannes Film Market.

The black-and-white genre mashup, directed by Mike Stasko, has been a festival favorite, collecting over 20 awards during its impressive festival run, including multiple audience choice awards and best feature honors.

Set in 1957, the film follows a motley crew — consisting of a grizzled detective, a skeptical rookie cop, a chain-smoking greaser, and a determined young woman — as they band together to stop Dracula’s cosmic plan to turn the small town of Marlow into his personal army of vampire zombies.

“From the depths of space, Dracula has devised his most dastardly plan yet,” reads the synopsis. “A full-blown zombie outbreak hits, prompting the arrival of the dramatic (and slightly unhinged) Colonel Talbit and his troops.”

The 97-minute horror-comedy-sci-fi hybrid features notable genre appearances from Lloyd Kaufman (Troma Entertainment...

Of all the cultural legacies that the 1990s have left us, one of the most dubious is the trend of offering contests and sweepstakes that either have no prize or were made to never be won. When the story surrounding the McMillions scandal broke in 2018, many a '90s kid was both nostalgic and insulted to discover that the Monopoly peel-and-win game presented by McDonald's restaurants had been a cleverly rigged scam. The story was potent enough to draw some attention from Hollywood, and while a proposed film version from Ben Affleck and Matt Damon has yet to materialize, the scandal was covered in an HBO docuseries, "McMillion$" in 2020.

Never mind board games; some of the most notorious no-prize contests came from the world of video games and cinema. A fair number of these weren't rigged scams like the Monopoly scandal, but rather victims of abandoned projects or bankrupt corporations.

Amazon is having a massive sale on over 150 horror movies from the Scream Factory catalog, with Blu-rays as low as $8.49 and 4K Ultra HDs starting at $15.91.

These prices are only available for limited time, so stock up now!

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Candyman

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Kindred

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Ravenous

The Babadook

The Doctor and the Devils

The Slumber Party Massacre

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Assault on Precinct 13

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Day of the Dead

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Lake Placid

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Night of the Comet

Night of the Demons

Psycho II

Psycho III

Pumpkinhead

The Crush

The Funhouse Massacre

The Howling

The People Under the Stairs

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Cat People (1982)

Class of 1984

Deadly Blessing

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Dreamscape

Final Exam

Firestarter

Metalstorm

RoboCop 2

RoboCop 3

Shocker

Slumber Party Massacre (2021)

The Boy Who Cried Werewolf

The Burning

Village of the Damned...

The world is looking very different in Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX , and not just because illegal Gundam fighting is now a thing. Immerse yourself in the alternate Universal Century of this season's new series with creditless cuts of the show's opening and ending movies! Check out the opening, set to "Plazma" by Kenshi Yonezu: Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX Creditless Opening Related: Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX Anime Shares New Key Visual And the ending, set to "Mou Dou Natte mo Ii ya" by Hoshimachi Suisei: Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX Creditless Ending Related: Virtual Idol Hoshimachi Suisei Shares Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX TV Anime Ending Song Music Video Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX is currently streaming on Amazon Prime, which describes the series: Amate Yuzuriha is a high-school student living peacefully in a space colony floating in outer space.When she meets a war refugee named Nyaan, Amate is drawn into...

Moon Knight and Loki directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead helmed the first, eighth, and ninth episodes of Daredevil: Born Again, all three of which were written and produced post-creative overhaul.

In the closing moments of the season 1 finale, Matt Murdock embraces his Daredevil persona and assembles some key allies in Josie's Bar to take the fight back to Mayor Wilson Fisk. However, none of them are Defenders or superheroes, leaving fans to question why the Man Without Fear wouldn't seek out help from his fellow vigilantes. 

Talking to Phase Hero, Benson explained why the decision was made not to bring back Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist for Daredevil: Born Again's final scene. Ultimately, it boiled down to not making things too easy for Matt heading into season 2. 

"The dramatic beauty and also just the beauty of the tragedy of the season, and the oddly emotionally satisfying thing about that conclusion,...

It always hurts me when an animated project turns out to be bad, not on a technical level, but on a storytelling level. If the designs for the world-building, the characters, the backgrounds, the foregrounds, the action sequences, the expressions on the faces of the characters, and everything else that you are seeing visually are awful, it’s really easy to say that I didn’t like looking at it. I can appreciate the ambition and whatnot, but I don’t have to split hairs over why it didn’t work for me. Things are different when I love everything that I am looking at, but I don’t feel any emotions. Then it’s the fault of either the characters’ motivations, the lack of emotional stakes, or just the needless overcomplication of a narrative that isn’t as complex as the writers think it is. Recently, it has happened with Kung Fu Panda 4,...

Virtual idol Hoshimachi Suisei released a music video for her latest song, "Mou, Dounattemo Iiya" ("I don't care"), on her official YouTube channel , which is now featured as the ending theme for the spring 2025 TV anime Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX . The song was originally used as an insert song for Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- , a re-edited version of the TV series' some episodes, which screened in Japanese theaters prior to the premiere of the TV series. Along with the opening theme "Plazma" by Kenshi Yonezu, the song continues to be featured in the TV series. Hoshimachi Suisei "Mou, Dounattemo Iiya" Music Video Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX Creditless Ending Video A 90-second "Movie edition" of the song released digitally on February 2 and peaked at #9 Oricon's weekly digital single charts . A full version of the song is now available on digital platforms for streaming and download. "Movie edition" digital...

This year’s Overlook Film Festival was filled with bold movies, many of which broadened the definition of traditional horror. From a tense two-hander and a teen heist movie to a Nsfw alien tale and a philosophical road trip from Hell, these titles played well on the big screen and deserve releases to serve the masses. Distributors, reach into your pocketbooks and pick up these five great movies that haven’t sold yet.

“Hallow Road”

Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys are magnificent in this two-hander set largely in an increasingly claustrophobic car. The pair play a married couple going through a rough patch who receive a call in the middle of the night from their daughter (Megan McDonnell), saying she had a car accident on a deserted back road and may have hit another young woman. The bulk of the action takes place in the cab of the family vehicle,...

Judith Parker Harris, the president and CEO of Worldwide Entertainment Corp., the home of the 1958 sci-fi classic The Blob that featured Steve McQueen in his big-screen debut, has died. She was 74.

Parker Harris died March 31 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after a long battle with multiple sclerosis, a publicist announced.

The Blob, directed by Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. at Paramount, revolved around an oozing, amoeba-like alien that crashes on Earth in a meteorite, then grows as it sucks up people and menaces a small town in Pennsylvania.

The movie, made for just $110,000 and produced by Parker Harris’ future husband, Jack H. Harris, went on to gross more than $3 million.

The Blob spawned a 1972 sequel — directed by Larry Hagman — and, a year after she wed Harris, a big-budget 1988 reboot that was helmed by Chuck Russell and released by TriStar Pictures. There’s another Blob film in the works, to...

Judith Parker Harris, Worldwide Entertainment Corporation’s president and CEO who oversaw the rights to horror classic “The Blob,” died March 31 in Los Angeles. She was 74.

Harris’ death came after a long battle with chronic illness. Her obituary describes her as “a respected and admired figure who navigated the complex world of the entertainment industry with sharp intellect and unwavering integrity.” Harris was actively involved in developing new projects at the time of death.

While working at Wec, the production and distribution company behind the 1958 sci-fi movie “The Blob,” Harris managed a library of more than 30 feature films, including “Equinox,” “4D Man,” “The Astro-Zombies,” “Paradisio” and “Kill the Shogun.” She oversaw development for multiple remakes of “The Blob” and collaborated with her husband, “The Blob” producer Jack H. Harris, on the 1988 remake directed by Chuck Russell, which was released by Tri-Star. She teamed up with her husband again on “Blobermouth...

Writer/director Kevin S. Tenney’s 1986 horror classic Witchboard (watch it Here) is getting the remake treatment couresty of director Chuck Russell, who was bringing us the likes of A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and the remake of The Blob back in the days when Witchboard was gathering its earliest fans. JoBlo’s own Tyler Nichols was able to watch the remake last year (you can read his review at This Link) and talk to Russell and star Madison Iseman about it (you can watch the interview Here) – and now, we finally know when a wider audience will be able to check it out. Collider reports that the Witchboard remake is set to be released on August 15th. Collider also unveiled a new image from the film, and you can take a look at that at the bottom of this article.

According to Deadline, Russell intended to...

The director of two fan favorite horror films from the 1980s, Chuck Russell is back this year with Witchboard, a remake of Kevin S. Tenney’s same-titled movie from 1986. In the film, “Friends playing with an Ouija board at a late-night party unleash a demonic spirit who begins hunting them.”

In addition to sharing a brand new image from Chuck Russell’s Witchboard remake this week (seen below), Collider has announced that the film will be released on August 15, 2025.

Expect a new trailer soon.

Here’s the full plot synopsis for the remake…

“Emily, her fiancé Christian and a group of their friends open an organic café, refurbishing an old carriage house in New Orleans’ French Quarter. But a darkness descends over Emily when she discovers an ancient pendulum board, once used to summon spirits.

“Christian seeks help for Emily from occult expert Alexander Babtiste, but Babtiste has secrets of his own,...

Every year, the historic Colonial Theatre on 227 Bridge Street in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania pays tribute to horror classic The Blob with Blobfest – the theater, after all, was prominently featured in the classic 1950s movie starring Steve McQueen! – and tickets for this year’s upcoming 26th annual Blobfest are now officially up for grabs this afternoon.

Running July 11 – 13, this year’s theme is “Camp Blobfest,” promising an outrageously over-the-top festival experience filled with nostalgia, thrills, and larger-than-life fun.

Grab your tickets to the 26th annual Blobfest right now! These events tend to sell out within a few days, so if you’re planning on attending, make sure you secure them as soon as possible.

The three-day festival of ghoulishly gooey fun pays homage to the theatre’s starring role in the 1958 classic Steve McQueen film, The Blob. Phoenixville’s favorite movie monster oozed into town more than 60 years ago after the Colonial...

One of the very first narrative films, Georges Méliès's "A Trip to the Moon," is about aliens. Sure, everyone remembers that shot of a rocket ship crashing into the eye of the man in the moon, but as the narrative unfurls, the astronauts meet a group of people who live up there. It's not scary, exactly, but there are chase scenes, and in the end, the astronauts bring one of the Selenites back down to Earth with them. Cinema has been obsessed with aliens ever since.

Of course, aliens aren't just the stuff of science fiction. They can also be found throughout the horror genre. After all, there are a lot of ways to make aliens scary. What does an otherworldly visitor look like? Is it scarier if it's something unfamiliar and hideous, or if it looks uncannily like we do? If and when the aliens visit, will they be desperate for our resources?...

April is right around the corner, marking the halfway point to the best holiday of the year: Halloween. Pluto TV is celebrating accordingly with the return of April Ghouls programming.

Beginning April 1, Pluto TV will be streaming themed programming dedicated to supernatural, thrills, and chills. April Ghouls will also feature stunts and horror film marathons across a number of channels; Pluto TV is making sure everyone is able to get in on the Halfway to Halloween fun.

To celebrate April Ghouls, here’s the horror that’s getting featured all April long.

New Horror Movies On Pluto TV This Month

● 30 Days of Night & 30 Days of Night: Dark Days

● Bram Stoker’s Dracula

● Deliver Us from Evil

● The Evil Dead (1983)

● Fright Night

● Grace: The Possession

● Idle Hands

● Oculus

● Only Lovers Left Alive

● Paranormal Activity 1-4

● Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones

● Pet

● Pet Sematary II

● Quarantine

● The Ring, The Ring Two & Rings

● Silent Hill

● Skinwalkers

● Urban Legend,...

Steve McQueen was the Oscar-nominated performer who helped define the meaning of "cool" in just a handful of movies before his untimely death in 1980 at the age of 50. But how many of those titles remain classics? Let's take a look back at 15 of his greatest films, ranked worst to best.

Born in 1930, McQueen first came to the attentions of movie audiences with his leading role in the sci-fi B-movie classic "The Blob" (1958). He quickly made a name for himself as an action star thanks to a series of hits through the 1960s and early 1970s, including "The Magnificent Seven" (1960), "The Great Escape" (1963), "Bullitt" (1968), "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968), "The Getaway" (1972), and "The Towering Inferno" (1974). Known as "The Kind of Cool," his onscreen persona as a reluctant antihero made him a favorite of both men who wanted to be him and women who wanted to be with him.

His sole Oscar nomination...

Forty years ago, author William Gibson brought the world a cyberpunk novel called Neuromancer – and an adaptation of that story has been trudging its way through development hell pretty much ever since. Versions of a feature film adaptation have passed through the hands of directors like music video maker Chris Cunningham, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and The Blob‘s Chuck Russell, Torque‘s Joseph Kahn, Cube‘s Vincenzo Natali, and Deadpool‘s Tim Miller. An adaptation of Neuromancer is currently moving forward as a 10-episode series that’s set up at Apple TV+, and Deadline reports that Dane DeHaan of Oppenheimer and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has signed on to play a character named Peter Riviera.

In the source material, Peter Riviera was “a thief and sadist who can project holographic images.” Which sounds like a great character for Dane DeHaan to play.

We’ve...

Exclusive: Emmy winner Dan Bucatinsky (Scandal) and Emmy-nominated Entourage alum Kevin Dillon have joined the cast of thriller The Highest Stakes from Steven Paul’s Sp Media Group. They join previously announced Dylan Walsh, Seth Green and Charlie Weber.

In The Highest Stakes, five strangers are invited to a high-stakes poker game, but as the night unfolds and buried secrets come to light, they discover the game isn’t about winning – it’s about survival.

Tony Dean Smith (Volition) directs from a script by Gary Preisler (Gold Diggers) based on a story by Paul, who produces. The film is slated for distribution by Paramount Global Content Distribution next year.

Bucatinsky plays Dr. Scott Stevens, studious yet anxious, Stevens is a talented surgeon who’s also a gambler. When his gambling debts grew too much for him, Dr. Stevens then made tens of thousands of dollars per month on the black...

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. To keep up with our latest features, sign up for the Weekly Edit newsletter and follow us @mubinotebook on Twitter and Instagram.News The Blob.While moviegoing trended downward elsewhere (though box office receipts increased), France, Great Britain, Brazil, and Turkey saw an uptick in cinema attendance last year. French theater owners and analysts point to several nationally specific contributing factors: government art subsidies, distribution laws that mandate long theatrical windows, the inability for urban apartments to accommodate big home-theater setups, and the public's strong cultural connection to the cinema.As more small-town movie theaters close because of low ticket and concession sales, local residents have begun forming nonprofit organizations to save them. In 2023, Nicki Wilson of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, successfully organized a fundraiser to save the Triplex Cinema, the town’s only moviehouse. By means of donations, grants, and volunteer labor,...

Forty years ago, author William Gibson brought the world a cyberpunk novel called Neuromancer – and an adaptation of that story has been trudging its way through development hell pretty much ever since. Versions of a feature film adaptation have passed through the hands of directors like music video maker Chris Cunningham, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and The Blob‘s Chuck Russell, Torque‘s Joseph Kahn, Cube‘s Vincenzo Natali, and Deadpool‘s Tim Miller. An adaptation of Neuromancer is currently moving forward as a 10-episode series that’s set up at Apple TV+, and Variety reports that Peter Sarsgaard of Garden State and The Batman has signed on to play a character named John Ashpool.

In the source material, John Ashpool was a character who wakes up delusional and paranoid after a thirty-year cryogenic sleep.

We’ve previously heard that BAFTA Award-nominee Callum Turner of Masters...

Forty years ago, author William Gibson brought the world a cyberpunk novel called Neuromancer – and an adaptation of that story has been trudging its way through development hell pretty much ever since. Versions of a feature film adaptation have passed through the hands of directors like music video maker Chris Cunningham, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and The Blob‘s Chuck Russell, Torque‘s Joseph Kahn, Cube‘s Vincenzo Natali, and Deadpool‘s Tim Miller. An adaptation of Neuromancer is currently moving forward as a 10-episode series that’s set up at Apple TV+, and Variety reports that Clémence Poésy of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon and Tenet has signed on to play a character named Marie-France Tessier.

We’ve previously heard that BAFTA Award-nominee Callum Turner of Masters of the Air and The Boys in the Boat will be playing the lead character, Henry Dorsett Case,...

Lovecraft and South Park may seem like an unlikely pairing to the uninitiated, but fans know that the ancient entity known as Cthulhu made an appearance in the hit comedy show in Season 14 episodes "Coon 2: Hindsight" and "Mysterion Rises." Even the crab people give off some serious Lovecraftian vibes. Still, South Park's comedic edge keeps it from giving horror fans a proper homage to the late author of cosmic terror.

This gap is perfectly filled by the 2019 hand-crafted animated film, Attack of the Demons. It captures the artistic DIY flair of early South Park but manages to touch on a more macabre and mature horror story that does H.P. Lovecraft justice. The best part? The movie is free to stream.

Hell Comes to a Sleepy Town in 'Attack of the Demons'

Set in 1994, Attack of the Demons follows three friends with different nerdy interests — Kevin, Jeff, and Natalie...

The official website of Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX has announced that the anime series will premiere on April 8 and air every Tuesday at 24:29 Jst.

Alongside the release date, it was also revealed that the anime’s theme song will be Plazma by Japanese singer Kenshi Yonezu.

Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX series is co-produced by Studio Khara, famed for the Evangelion series, and Sunrise, the studio behind the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise.

Kazuya Tsurumaki, who served as an assistant director under Hideaki Anno for Evangelion, is directing the anime.

Yoji Enokido will handle series composition, co-writing the screenplay with Anno. Mechanical designs will be handled by Ikuto Yamashita.

Cast members include:

Tomoyo Kurosawa as Amate Yuzuriha Yui Ishikawa as Nyaan Shimba Tsuchiya as Shuji Ito Mariya Ise as Annqi Yukitoshi Tokumoto as Jezzi Kosuke Echigoya as Pomeranian Shoya Chiba as Nabu Yuusuke Nagano as Kaine Rie Kugimiya as Haro Shinji...

After a massive run in Japanese theaters, the TV anime version of Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX will premiere on Japanese TV on April 8. The official Gundam website announced the premiere date today and revealed that the theme song for Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuX -Beginning- , “Plazma" by Kenshi Yonezu, will continue to be the theme song for the TV anime. Yesterday, a new spoiler-filled promotion reel for Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuX -Beginning-, the theatrical advance screening of the TV anime, was released to celebrate its success on movie screens. Earlier this week , the feature was confirmed to have passed 2.5 billion yen (US$16.71 million) at the box office in just a month, making it the second highest-grossing theatrical release in the Gundam franchise. Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuX -Beginning- Promotional Reel 2 Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuX is also set to be the main feature of the Gundam stage at AnimeJapan 2025. The stage will be...

DinoBoss is still plugging away on development for their roguelite twin stick shooter Demon Spore. The developer recently announced a new co-op demo for Demon Spore that allows you and up to 3 of your friends to team up via Steam Remote Play Together, or you can go it alone.

Taking inspiration from Chuck Russell‘s 1988 version of The Blob and other 80s monster movies, Demon Spore puts you in a genetic research laboratory, where a tissue replication experiment has gone wrong. The resulting accident has given birth to a viral mass of cells that is spreading out of control and evolving into some otherworldly creature. You play as an unfortunate scientist trapped inside the room where this experiment is taking place, along with a handful of staff members. You’ll have to use your scientific experience to learn how the organism behaves, find it’s weaknesses and fight your way to safety.

Eric Bana loves a good Steve McQueen movie. During his visit to the Criterion Closet, the Australian actor — known for his performances in Steven Spielberg’s “Munich” and Ang Lee’s “Hulk” — started his selections by praising the work of Anthony Hopkins in Jonathan Demme’s “The Silence of the Lambs,” but quickly shifted gears toward one of McQueen’s first films, the 1958 version of “The Blob.”

“I grew up in a time where these movies weren’t readily accessible, so you’d have to wait for them to come on television,” said Bana. “And if it was a Saturday and ‘The Blob’ came on, it was like, ‘Game on, we are sitting through ‘The Blob.” I’ve probably seen this film 10 times over the course of my life.”

He added, “This is one of Steve McQueen’s early films, but…one of the most ridiculous films of all time.

When it comes to slasher films, the iconography of the killer is often more important than the story. As long as fans are being given the chance to watch Michael Myers show up in his white-painted Captain Kirk finest to slaughter anyone who gets in his way, no one cares about trying to make sense of the the nonsensical and convoluted timeline of the "Halloween" franchise. Even people who have never watched a horror movie in their life could probably identify Jason Voorhees from "Friday the 13th" in his iconic hockey mask, or clock Leatherface from "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" even without his titular weapon. The look of a slasher villain should strike fear into the hearts of the audience ... but it should also be memorable enough to be marketable.

It's a delicate balance, and it's not the easiest thing in the world to pull off. The basic "sackhead...

What do you get when you mix Nora Ephron with Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, and Michael Myers? The combination might seem antithetical, but it works scarily well in director Josh Ruben‘s sweet, funny, terrifying rom-com/slasher movie mash-up, “Heart Eyes.”

Working from an inventive script by Phillip Murphy, Christopher Landon, and Michael Kennedy, Ruben somehow deftly satisfies fans of both “Sleepless in Seattle” and “A Nightmare on Elm Street.” An iconic new horror villain is born in the form of the movie’s Heart Eyes Killer, a slasher who stalks young lovers each Valentine’s Day.

Ruben, as he explained to IndieWire, wanted the movie’s two sides to be equally strong so that the horror would deepen the romance made all the more terrifying because of our investment in the two young lovers (Olivia Holt and Mason Gooding) fleeing from the Heart Eyes Killer. In studying films of both genres,...

Forty years ago, author William Gibson brought the world a cyberpunk novel called Neuromancer – and an adaptation of that story has been trudging its way through development hell pretty much ever since. Versions of a feature film adaptation have passed through the hands of directors like music video maker Chris Cunningham, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and The Blob‘s Chuck Russell, Torque‘s Joseph Kahn, Cube‘s Vincenzo Natali, and Deadpool‘s Tim Miller. An adaptation of Neuromancer is currently moving forward as a 10-episode series that’s set up at Apple TV+, and we’ve previously heard that BAFTA Award-nominee Callum Turner of Masters of the Air and The Boys in the Boat will be playing the lead character, Henry Dorsett Case, while Briana Middleton of Sharper and The Tender Bar takes on the role of Case’s partner Molly, “a razor-girl assassin with mirrored eyes.

Stars: Caitlin Cavannaugh, Jordon Talor, Alex Alexandrou, LeJon Woods, Jalen Wilson-Nelem, Linnea Quigley | Written and Directed by Ian Courtney

Horror films set in movie theatres have a long and diverse history, starting with old-school films like The Blob and The Tingler to supernatural films like Demons and Porno and slashers such as The Last Matinee and All About Evil. And even as the cinema becomes an endangered species, films like Ian Courtney’s (The Other Side of the Shadows) Movie Theater Massacre continue to get made.

Taking place during the final week of independent theatre Redford’s, before it’s scheduled to close, it opens with a discussion between Val and one of her fellow employees, Nick about streaming vs physical media framed in terms of buying Criterion Blu-rays as opposed to subscribing to The Criterion Channel. He never makes it home to see Dial M for Murder, as a...

Few actors epitomized "cool" like Steve McQueen. He was dressed to the nines in The Thomas Crown Affair, had the most badass car chase in Bullitt, and played a brave fighter in The Towering Inferno, just to name a few examples from a legendary acting career. As iconic as he became, and as he still is today, over four decades after his death, all actors have to start somewhere. For Steve McQueen, his first role came in his late 20s with the 1958 monster movie The Blob. McQueen was ashamed of the film later in his life, but he shouldn't have been. The Blob isn't perfect, but it's certainly one of the better monster movies from the 1950s.

The official YouTube channel for singer-songwriter Kenshi Yonezu began streaming a music video for his latest digital single song, "Plazma," which is now featured as the theme song for Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- . The song was written, composed and arranged by Yonezu himself. The video includes no spoilers of the anime's story. Kenshi Yonezu "Plazma" Music Video Visual creator Sho Yanagisawa , known for his work on various TV commercials, served as the director of the music video as his first collaboration work with Yonezu. "The phrase 'initial impulse' was particularly memorable in the discussions with Yonezu-san about the music video," said Yanagisawa. "From there, a single picture of the moment when a girl encounters 'something' that she will be crazy about for the rest of her life came to mind. If we could express this picture using an underwater set and an ultra-analog illusion technique, it would create a chemistry with the music.

"The Mask" seems like one of those movies that could only have existed in the 1990s. Though Chuck Russell's beloved 1994 comedy is known mostly for being one of the quintessential Jim Carrey classics that launched him to superstardom, it's also got a weird kind of '90s gloom and an oddly incongruous adult sensibility to it.

Perhaps it has something to do with the fact "The Mask" was originally envisioned as a horror movie, or because it was directed by the guy that helmed "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors" and the 1988 remake of "The Blob," but there was always something a little dark to a film that, on its surface, seemed like a good excuse to have Carrey chew scenery in his typical fashion. When Peter Greene's Dorian Tyrell donned the titular artifact at the end of the movie, for instance, it was genuinely a...

Ahead of the TV broadcast of the latest Gundam anime, Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- was released in theaters across Japan on Friday (and next month in North America), editing a few episodes of the future TV anime into the feature-length format. To celebrate its first place in the weekend audience rankings and the release last week, a new trailer was released with some slight (read: very large!) spoilers set to "Plazma" by Kenshi Yonezu, the theme song for the feature. Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- Promotional Reel The 16th installment of the Gundam franchise was released in Japan on January 17 and has so far made 598 million yen (US$3.84 million) in the first three days of showings, with over 352,500 tickets sold, putting it at first place in the Japanese box office charts. Also announced today was the second-week theatrical gift, a Design Works setting book with the original production materials.

For a generation of youth growing up in the Europe of the 80s, their secret and often illicit diet of exploitation films caused a moral panic that spilled over borders. With some of the now cult titles like The Blob and I Spit on Your Grave decorating the list of forbidden films, the world was both vexed and amused by the power of the medium of video. Loosely labeled as ‘video nasties,’ to its opponents, the proliferation of these films painted a horrifying picture of Europe as it supposedly slid into its decadence. Sadism, violence, and sex lie at the heart of these videos. However, more often than not, they were just promotional bait with all these elements being merely suggestive in the film. The 2025 BBC series, Video Nasty, however, satirically exposes the dangers of society’s empty-mindedness and how that contributes to an even greater state of terror. It...

Although Goosebumps: The Vanishing doesn’t follow the story of season 1 directly, that doesn’t mean there are no potential links between the two outings. 2023’s Goosebumps TV adaptation changed the approach of the ‘90s TV show that first adapted author Rl Stine’s best-selling children’s horror series. Goosebumps is aimed at an older audience and, where the original ‘90s series adapted one standalone book per episode, the 2023 TV show instead merged the storylines of various Stine novels to make a single season-length storyline. This culminated with Goosebumps season 1’s cliffhanger ending.

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The theatrical version of the upcoming Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX TV anime, Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- , opens in Japan next Friday. In the meantime, a brief new trailer made its way online to show off more footage and reveal the theme song as "Plazma" by Kenshi Yonezu. Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX Trailer Related: Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX Advance Theatrical Edition Reveals Trailer, Visual Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX  is co-produced by studio Khara, which handled the  Evangelion  movie series, and Sunrise, which has worked on the  Gundam  series since  the first TV anime series  in 1979. The theatrical version will mark the first time for a Gundam anime to screen in select IMAX theaters in Japan. Kazuya Tsurumaki , who directed the  Rebuild of Evangelion  film series including the final installment  Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time , serves as the director, alongside series composition writer  Yoji Enokido , character designer  take  and mechanical designer...

As 2024 comes to a close, we here at JoBlo.com would like to take a moment to pay tribute to some of the people who sadly passed away this year. Our deepest respect goes out to everyone in the industry we have lost, and our thoughts and prayers are with the friends and family of those who died in 2024. These talented individuals will always be remembered for their impact on the world of film and television.

In Memory Of…

David Soul

David Soul died on January 4th at the age of 80. The actor was best known for playing Detective Kenneth “Hutch” Hutchinson on Starsky & Hutch alongside Paul Michael Glaser.

Although Starsky & Hutch would become one of the most iconic shows of the ’70s, Soul and Glaser had no clue it would become as successful as it did. “We didn’t have a clue it was going to be so successful.

“The Blob” movie franchise consists of 3 science fiction horror films, including the 1958 Steve McQueen-led original, its 1972 sequel and a 1988 remake, based on a story by Irving H. Millgate, where an attack against Earth is started by an ‘amoeboidal alien’ from outer space that emerges from a meteorite while the planet's inhabitants attempt to thwart the monster’s advances:

“…in the beginning, ‘Steve’ and his best girl, ‘Jane’ try to protect their hometown from…

“…a gelatinous alien life form…

“…that engulfs everything it touches.

“The first to discover the substance…

“…and live to tell about it…

“…they beg local cop ‘Dave’ to believe their story…”

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From ‘Bad Boys’ to ‘Fargo,’ Tubi is bringing a few great titles to streaming in January 2025. All titles below begin streaming for free on January 1 unless otherwise noted:

Originals Action Don’T Mess With Grandma (1/24):

A drunk Army ranger must fight off the vicious robbers who plan to loot the cabin belonging to his sweet, oblivious grandmother.

Documentary TMZ Presents: UFO Revolution S2 (1/15):

Embed with UFO journalist Jeremy Corbell on his mission for transparency culminating in the explosive November 13, 2024 UFO congressional hearing.

Thriller Sugar Mama (1/3):

When a businesswoman pursues a relationship with a sugar baby for research purposes, her curiosity with him spirals into obsession.

A Kill For A Kill (1/17):

A deceptive motivational speaker becomes entangled in a deadly game with a fan who suggests they kill each other’s spouses.

Happy Anniversary (1/31):

A young woman assumes three identities to prey upon the men who...

Brains! That's what it takes to make a good zombie movie these days. While the horror genre had a renaissance in the early 2000s, the leg-dragging flesh feasters have waned in popularity recently. Writer/Director Steve Wolsh of Living Dead Media is hoping to turn that around with a holiday twist on the Return of The Living Dead franchise. While details on the production are scant, Wolsh is getting some interesting pieces in order.

Wolsh spoke with The Hollywood Reporter and said that the film won't be a reboot but a sequel to the 1985 original, directed by Dan O’Bannon, and called the installment "a brand new adventure." He also confirmed that this film will use practical effects and real locations instead of greenscreen, which some may argue has robbed the potency and visceral power of the zombie genre in this century. Wolsh reflected on the practical effects teased in the...

Tubi, Fox’s free streaming service, has announced its list of January titles. The Tubi January 2025 slate features new Tubi Originals, TV series, and numerous action, art house, Black cinema, comedy, documentary, drama, horror, kids and family, romance, sci-fi and fantasy, thriller, and Western titles.

As a leading ad-supported video-on-demand service, the company engages diverse audiences through a personalized experience and the world’s largest content library of over 250,000 movies and TV episodes, a growing collection of exclusive Originals, and nearly 250 live channels.

You can watch the Tubi January 2025 lineup for free on Android and iOS mobile devices, Amazon Echo Show, Google Nest Hub Max, Comcast Xfinity X1, and Cox Contour.

You can also watch the service on connected television devices such as Amazon Fire TV, Vizio TVs, Sony TVs, Samsung TVs, Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and on the Tubi site.

Tubi Originals...

We all know Arnold Schwarzenegger terminated the 1980s as the premiere action movie star alongside Stallone, but what about the 90s? Beyond Total Recall, T-2: Judgment Day, and True Lies, what’s the best Arnie action flick released between 1990 and 1999? And when we mean best, we don’t mean box office success, we’re talking about old-school ass-kicking Schwarzenegger action hinting at the halcyon days that date back to Commando and Conan the Barbarian. Is it Last Action Hero? End of Days? Or is it Chuck Russell’s underrated 1996 conspiracy espionage thriller Eraser? If you said Junior, Jingle All the Way, or Batman & Robin, you may kindly show yourselves out the door this instant. Better yet, stick around, Eraser is about to wipe your memory and prove why it’s the last great Arnie action flick to blast the masses in the 1990s.

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Monster movies are a popular subgenre that often features unique, threatening creatures, resulting in exciting and thrilling narratives, but a few monster films over the years have taken longer to earn proper appreciation. Many of these films fall into the horror and science-fiction genre, from the underrated creature film Deep Rising to the now-deemed cult classic Anaconda. The reasons for the poor box office performances of these monster movies include unfortunate release dates, deceptive marketing, and unintentional campy tones audiences couldn't get behind.

Regardless of whether audiences have changed their tune about such monster movies, the response upon the films' release was less than enthusiastic. Though it's understandable why a handful of monster films were unsuccessful, it's a shame considering they contain enjoyable components that should have been more than enough to lead them to success at the box office.

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Chuck Russell's 1994 supernatural comedy "The Mask" was based on an ultra-violent character that first appeared in Dark Horse Comics in 1987. In the comics, a magical mask gives the wearer supernatural powers, as well as an outsized, mutated head with green skin and tombstone-like teeth. The mask also robs the wearer of their inhibitions and morality, making them insane, invincible clowns. At best, the comic book version of the Mask is a violent antihero, and he exists in a genre more akin to horror than to traditional superheroism. 

Russell's film sanded down the edges a bit. The PG-13-rated movie featured a meek and weak-willed character named Stanley Ipkiss (Jim Carrey) who was transformed into a confident, flirty, brash cartoon character when he donned an enchanted mask. He did commit acts of violence (the masked Stanley is particularly cruel to a pair of mechanics that ripped him off), but Stanley...

Hammer Films was founded in 1934, but it took an eleven year hiatus on the way to the ‘50s, the decade when the company entered the era it’s best known for. In 1955, the sci-fi horror film The Quatermass Xperiment became their first major international success, inspiring Hammer to start building toward becoming one of the most popular genre companies of all time. Since this year marks the 90th anniversary of Hammer Films, we decided it was time to put together a list of some of The Best Hammer Horror Movies. Here we go:

Horror Of Dracula (1958)

Sure, this is yet another adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula; a re-telling of the story that any horror watcher will see roughly fifty versions of over the course of their fandom. But director Terence Fisher and screenwriter Jimmy Sangster brought some twists to this one that are not present in others and shuffled some of the characters.

Any fan of Baywatch will be quick to remember Erika Eleniak, the Playboy beauty who stole hearts during three seasons of the show. She later pursued a film career and landed roles in Under Siege, Chasers, and Girl in the Cadillac. In Under Siege, she played a Playboy model who becomes the sidekick to Steven Seagal’s chief petty officer Casey Ryback.

Steven Seagal and Erika Eleniak in a still from Under Siege | Credits: Warner Bros.

Eleniak is now 55 years old and looks different from her younger self. Her most recent pic comes from Halloween of this year when she dressed up as a witch. Last year, she was seen in a rare outing where she showed off her impressive tattoos. While she’s not the model you once saw on Baywatch, she is still a real beauty.

Under Siege Actress Erika Eleniak Looks Gorgeous At 55 Erika Eleniak’s latest...

"The Happening" isn't regarded as one of Mark Wahlberg's best movies, and the "Transformers: Age of Extinction" star would be the first to agree with this sentiment. Director M. Night Shyamalan's critically panned 2008 sci-fi thriller has Wahlberg playing a science teacher who finds himself caught up in a nature-induced apocalypse that causes trees, plants, and wind to rage against humanity. At the time, it was a change of pace from the macho roles Wahlberg was accustomed to, but it seems that he regrets lending his talents to the maligned flick.

While speaking to Entertainment Weekly in 2010, Wahlberg recalled how Amy Adams, his co-star in "The Fighter," was once lined up to play Zooey Deschanel's character (who's married to Wahlberg's character) in "The Happening." Unfortunately, she didn't get the gig, but Wahlberg believed it was for the best. "She dodged the bullet," he said before going on to diss the movie.

A horror cult classic from the 1980s has just been given an update. Written and directed by Ryan Krueger, the new Street Trash is now available on Digital and Screambox.

Street Trash is a new sequel to the 1987 film of the same name directed by J. Michael Muro. 37 years after its release, the film is known among horror fans as one of the decade's best "melt movies" alongside titles such as The Stuff and The Blob remake. The newly-released sequel similarly utilizes 80s-style practical effects to reimagine Street Trash in just as much of a revolting way, and as Kruger teased in a new interview with Horror Geek Life, it's resulted in putting a "sh*tload of gore" on display.

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