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Evil Dead Rise has its world premiere tonight at the SXSW Film Festival before arriving in theaters in April. And while it won’t feature Bruce Campbell’s Ash Williams, Lee Cronin’s film will include some other important series characters, like the Book of the Dead, and blood. Lots of blood.And before you point out that blood is actually not a character, here’s Cronin, speaking to Entertainment Weekly, explaining his point of view on the matter. “From very early on, I said, the blood is going to be a character in this…

Throwing an excessive amount of blood, guts, and bodies into a horror movie can often enhance the story, but it can just as easily be nothing more than a gimmick engineered specifically for shock value and nothing else. Depending on who you ask, 2008’s The Ruins can quite easily be placed in either camp. Author Scott Smith penned the screenplay for the feature-length adaptation of his own novel, but the big screen version of the story didn’t quite win the same levels of acclaim as the book. Not only did The Ruins leave…

Nothing on this planet will ever come close to leveraging the ethos of the galaxy’s most abominable eldritch masses than the brain of an artist. With that in mind, if you haven’t watched Braindead yet, we recommend you stop reading and take the plunge without paying any mind to the name of the director, and then relieve yourself of the mystery before reveling in the ungodly contrast that this film has with his claim to fame. For those of you that have continued on, know that the director of 1992’s Braindead, a cult…

Writer-director Phillip Trow’s short Upstairs is tense from the start, as a mom and two of her two adult children await the arrival of the family’s other daughter, who’s bringing her boyfriend to meet them for the first time. A sense of dread hangs heavily over the table, and it only increases as the meal continues.Read more... Writer-director Phillip Trow’s short Upstairs is tense from the start, as a mom and two of her two adult children await the arrival of the family’s other daughter, who’s bringing her boyfriend…

Scooby-Doo is a childhood favorite that some fans watch even into adulthood. There’s a lasting charm hidden in Scooby‘s characters, canned laughter, and mysteries that always led to them finding the guy who would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for those meddling kids. One fan would love to see the cartoon come to life in a horror/comedy in the hands of Edgar Wright. It has all the elements already built into it. After all, Velma, Daphne, Fred, Shaggy, and Scooby investigate haunted houses. Even though they…

Diablo 4 has received an official release date, and fans of Blizzard Entertainment‘s gory role-playing game will get their hands on it in June 2023. The release date was confirmed during a new trailer at The Game Awards last night (December 9), revealing that the game will launch on June 6, 2023. When it launches, Diablo 4 will be available on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, PS5 and PC. Cross-platform play and progression will be enabled, and console versions of the game will launch with couch co-op. “We are excited to…

A new digital showcase for Dead Island 2 has revealed the forthcoming game’s weapon roster and sun-kissed gory gameplay. Publisher Deep Silver has shared more of the Dead Island (2011) sequel’s open-world, zombie-bashing ahead of the game’s release on April 28, 2023. As Eurogamer reports, the 15-minute showcase largely shows uninformative live-action sequences featuring a meta storyline of zombie apocalypse survivors discovering a copy of Dead Island 2 in an LA mansion. There were, however, a few minutes of gameplay that…

Few newly released or upcoming horror movies have had as much ink spilled in their name as special effects artist-turned-director Damien Leone's Terrifier 2. The splatter flick has been praised for its outstanding use of practical gore effects, masterful handle on anxiety-inducing tension and employment of dark humor. The movie is supposedly so intense it caused some fans to vomit in the theaters. Whether this is true of the slasher or a clever marketing tactic on the part of producers, one thing is for sure; people are…

Image: ShudderThe apocalyptic dread of Y2K, captured by the last era of camcorder users, looms large in V/H/S/99, the fifth in the V/H/S found-footage horror anthology series. Unlike last year’s V/H/S/94, this installment gathers five unconnected stories, mashed together by an unseen editor who has a good instinct for saving the best for last.That’s not to say there’s dead weight here—it’s just that not every segment is outstandingly memorable, and the wildest one happens to be at the end. Though there’s no framing…

Image: ShudderFound-footage horror—which once felt like a gimmick on its way to obscurity—just keeps finding new ways to reinvent itself. One big reason is the V/H/S series, which revived itself with last year’s sickeningly entertaining V/H/S/94. A new entry (set five years later) hits Shudder just in time for Halloween.The new trailer arrived following today’s V/H/S/99 panel at New York Comic Con, should your eyeballs be ready to drink in its mayhem.V/H/S/99 - Official Trailer | A Shudder OriginalA synopsis, for those…