Horrors

Fans of Dear Esther, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, make sure to mark June 18 on your calendar. On that day, you'll be able to buy a copy of Still Wakes the Deep for the PC (via Steam and Epic Games Store), the Xbox Series X|S and the PS5, though you can also play it with Game Pass for Xbox and PC. It's the latest first-person narrative horror game from The Chinese Room, the developer behind the aforementioned titles in the same genre.Just a warning if the title itself isn't clear enough:…

Image: Warner Bros.Hollywood’s been trying for years now to revive Little Shop of Horrors for a new cinematic audience. Last we heard, Arrowverse head Greg Berlanti was going to try his hand at it with Billy Porter and maybe Chris Evans. That version ultimately got scrapped in 2022, but Hollywood’s angling to try and grow a new version of the beloved film yet again.Ben Schwartz on Balancing Scripted Comedy and Improv in Renfield | io9 InterviewAs reported by Deadline, the horror-comedy film is being rebooted, with…

The influential career of Italian horror master Dario Argento gets a well-curated tribute in Dario Argento Panico. Simone Scafidi’s new documentary features interviews with the director as well as famous collaborators and admirers, including fellow boundary-pushing filmmakers Guillermo del Toro, Gaspar Noé, and Nicolas Winding Refn.Alex Winter on the Most Important Modern Horror Movie Scafidi (who also made 2019 Lucio Fulci spotlight Fulci For Fake) frames his reflections on Argento’s past with current footage of the…

It’s pretty routine for streaming services to circulate with the old and bring in the new when it comes to classic movies, but that means horror fans who are Max subscribers will have a lot of bingeing to do in a short period if they want to marathon one of the genre’s most underrated franchises. Come August, a whopping six entries in the Hellraiser franchise are going back to the inferno from whence they came. Don’t worry, though; you’ll have until Aug. 31 to watch several entries in the devilishly subversive series…

“Superhero fatigue” is starting to become a word in the vein of “woke,” in that it’s been used so often and so improperly that it’s getting to a point where it doesn’t really mean anything anymore. Jason Blum, despite not being one to be led into the trappings of such a term, has nevertheless identified the congested comic book market as a big plus for the recent roaring success of the horror genre, suggesting in a recent interview with MovieWeb that simply being an alternative to superhero cinema is an attractive…

The masterminds behind the 2023 horror supernova M3GAN are in the final stages of sealing a historic deal. Two powerhouses of horror production – Blumhouse and Atomic Monster – will soon come together to produce the most haunting and twisted terror tales, bringing the best of both worlds. The maestros behind the two production companies, Jason Blum and James Wan have been regular collaborators on the hit Insidious franchise, but the sinister saga will soon wrap up with The Red Door 13 years after beginning. Before the…

Image via Warner Bros and 20th Century Studios It’s debatable whether superhero fatigue is actually a thing, but one moviegoer has shared a pretty interesting take on the whole idea as they believe it to be responsible for the recent boom in horror movies. For the past few years, it seems that audiences have been turning away from superhero movies. While a few gleaming examples have been able to cut through the dreaded fatigue with the genre, such as Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and Spider-man Across the…

Horror is famous – or infamous, depending on how you feel about it – for jumping on any noteworthy bandwagon and churning out a slew of subpar successors. The decision to reinvent children’s favorites as blood-soaked slashers is the latest, but it’s happening at the same time as the success of Cocaine Bear has given rise to the likes of Crackcoon. What’s better than a bear doing so much cocaine that it decides to go on a murderous rampage? Why, the answer is obviously a raccoon ingesting…

Genvid Entertainment and Konami have unveiled a new trailer for the interactive streaming series Silent Hill: Ascension. Set for a 2023 release, Silent Hill: Ascension is a canonical entry in the horror franchise and will feature multiple main characters around the world “as they confront horrors unleashed in their communities.” The game will have an unnerving narrative using Genvid’s real-time interactive system “that enables millions of people to help characters survive and change those characters’ fates.” You can…

From hostile briefings and spad skulduggery to extramarital sex, there’s never been any shortage of bad behaviour in Westminster. But political scandal also makes brilliant fodder for novels. Corrupt, egomaniacal characters are natural-born protagonists. The historic corridors of parliament provide a cloistered, detail-rich setting. A culture of secrecy creates inevitable tension and intrigue. None of this goes unnoticed by the leagues of politicians, aides and journalists who pass through the system, watching the sagas…