Massacre

This yuletide slasher movie is about as enjoyable as being force-fed a Christmas tree and having it violently pipeclean your insides. It joins Black Christmas, Bad Santa and this year’s Violent Night in the anti-Christmas oeuvre – but its placeholder characters, this’ll-do dialogue and mechanical gallery of kills show that seasonal subversion alone won’t cut it.Novelist Clara (Beatrice Fletcher) is reeling from her boyfriend Paul (Andy Dixon) cheating on her and decides to bunker down at the country manor of Auntie Marie…

In this image provided by the City of Tulsa, Crews work on an excavation at Oaklawn Cemetery searching for victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, in Tulsa, Okla. Officials say the search for remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre has turned up 21 additional graves in the city’s Oaklawn Cemetery. Credit: City of Tulsa via AP The search for remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race…

Just four months after the release of his debut album Crunkstar, Quality Control rapper Duke Deuce returns with his new mixtape Memphis Massacre III.A follow up to 2018’s Memphis Massacre and 2020’s Memphis Massacre 2, the 13-track project features a Memphis-only collection of guests, including Big Moochie Grape (“Black Ops”), ATM Rich Baby (“Buck the System”), Lil Thad (“Respect”), Dubba C (“Respect”), Glockianna (“Riverside,” “Respect”), and fellow QC labelmate Gloss Up (“Gwak Gwak”), as well as production from DJ Paul…

Credit: New Line Cinema The original home from the Texas Chain Saw Massacre film is about to have its final curtain call, with the house expected to be sold and potentially knocked down. The property on the grounds of Kingsland, Texas’s The Antlers Hotel is believed to be on the way out following its status as a horror tourism rite of passage for many years. Currently operating tours and offering fans the chance to feel the authentic terror of Leatherface’s home, the owners has posted a call for the last ever…

Image via Warner Bros Though Harry Potter is predominantly marketed as a children’s book it isn’t all whimsical magic and mischievous adventures –there is a dark side to the books. Voldemort may be the greatest evil known to the wizarding world, but he isn’t the only character that has done harm. There are plenty of other dark witches and wizards, but one that surprisingly seems to have done a huge amount of damage is not one that immediately comes to mind: Peter Pettigrew aka Wormtail. Pettigrew not only…

But this is far from the first time family members’ genetic material has been used to put names to unidentified remains. Scientists around the world have used DNA to identify missing persons and victims of war, genocide, and natural disasters. The International Commission on Missing Persons, or ICMP, a nongovernmental organization based in The Netherlands, has conducted several DNA profiling efforts, including in the Western Balkans, to identify Muslim men and boys killed in the 1995 Srebrenica genocide during the Bosnian…

Based on the skeletal remains, scientists reconstructed the face of a male adult (left) and a child (right). Credit: Professor Caroline Wilkinson, Liverpool John Moores University Seventeen bodies found at the bottom of a mediaeval English well were likely Jews who were murdered in an anti-Semitic massacre more than 800 years ago, scientists have revealed.…

Dir: Justin Kurzel. Starring: Caleb Landry Jones, Judy Davis, Essie Davis, Anthony LaPaglia. 15, 112 minutes“We don’t understand it. And I guess we never will,” says the police officer on TV, somewhere in the background of Justin Kurzel’s dark-hearted new drama Nitram. The footage is real – a clipped news report that aired in the wake of the Dunblane massacre of 1996, in which a gunman shot dead 16 pupils and a teacher at a primary school outside Stirling, Scotland. Its horror was deemed unfathomable. Two new Firearm Acts…

Low-poly, highly scary If you’re into low-poly, PS1-style games like I am, today’s Puppet Combo Direct stream was a dream. It’s a smorgasbord of games coming our way, both from the Godfather of lo-fi horror, Ben Cocuzza, and by way of his publishing label, Torture Star Video. All the titles look fantastic, but let’s go from the tip to the top. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIGMvC-KpgI Stay Out of the House this July It’s been listed on Steam for a hog’s age, but Stay Out of the House will finally be in the wider…

Here’s a fresh look at the 3v4 gameplay The horror-movie-turned-asymmetric-multiplayer-game trend isn’t slowing down, and I’m curious to see how Gun Interactive will pull off its killers-versus-survivors setup in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. The 2023 video game is coming into more gruesome focus today with a highly choreographed, albeit mood-setting, new gameplay trailer. They aren’t kidding around with that “Unrated” notice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v1tQ9Zb3nc Last month, the developers dove into three of the…