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The trailer for Scream VI follows the survivors of the fifth from California to New York, with Ghostface on their trail. While they may have changed locations, the threat of death still hangs in the air for them all. The sixth film brings back returning cast members Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, along with previous film franchise survivors Hayden Panettiere and Courteney Cox. It also adds Jack Champion, Henry Czerny, Liana Liberato, Dermot Mulroney, Devyn Nekoda, Tony Revolori, Josh…

One of the early surprises of Sick, a tight and serviceable slasher flick from the Scream writer Kevin Williamson, is not the numerous jump scares nor stalker set-up but how triggering it is to hear Anderson Cooper’s voice describe 98% of the US population in lockdown. The pandemic never really ended, but there’s a specific era of early Covid that has distinctly passed and remains, for most people, locked in a memory box somewhere – a time of fear, uncertainty, contempt, callousness, Clorox-ing groceries, and inescapable…

American Horror Story: 1984 | Season 9 Ep. 1: Jazzercise Highlight | FXBefore the main characters in American Horror Story: 1984 head to the doomed summer camp where most of the anthology show’s ninth season takes place, they meet in... Jazzercise class. It’s just one of many clever winks to the slasher genre that pepper every episode, and it sets up the slaughter to come with a knowing sense of pitch-perfect camp that helped make 1984 one of the long-running series’ most entertaining installments.Want more io9 news?…

There are points in time in which everyone can recall where they were, what they were doing, and how they responded. But nothing has ever had this sensation quite like the pandemic. So of course, here comes a pandemic-themed slasher movie to streaming. Sick will be slashing its way right into the hearts of streaming audiences, with it looking to return everyone to the worst year of their lives: 2020. We’re officially at the point in time where pandemic-era movies and themed period pieces are coming out of major studios.…

The bone-chilling case of the four murdered University of Idaho students has taken another bizarre turn, as it surfaced on Thursday that the sister of Bryan Kohberger actually starred in a horror film over a decade ago in which a group of college students are slashed to death. Kohnberger is accused of killing Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin in the early morning hours of Nov. 13, 2022 at a shared off-campus rental home in Moscow, Idaho. The 2011 film, called Two Days Back, is about a young…

Scream VI is now a little over two months from slashing its way into cinemas, and hype for the horror sequel is at an all-time high following the first-look trailer that arrived for it back in December. That teaser indicated that the new chapter in the Ghostface saga would freshen things up by seeing the most meta killer in the genre take Manhattan, what with the film switching locales from Woodsboro to New York City. The newly revealed runtime, however, promises that the sixth Scream will continue with tradition in…

Wes Craven’s Scream completely revolutionized the slasher genre when it landed with a bang in 1996, to the extent that any movie indebted to the glory days of the 1980s felt incredibly dated by comparison. 2001’s Valentine didn’t care, but the misguided throwback to the straightforward knife-happy terrors of old suffered as a result. Loosely based on Tom Savage’s novel of the same name, the uninspiring exercise in steadfastly refusing to acknowledge the subgenre had evolved could generously be labeled a critical and…

It’s an age-old debate as to whether or not horror is a feminist genre; there are examples for and against, so it’s hard to say. Obviously, John Carpenter’s Halloween empowers Laurie Strode as the kick-ass leading lady, whereas Terrifier — on the total opposite end of the spectrum — specifically murders and mutilates (mostly) women in a needlessly violent manner. There’s arguments that horror embraces feminism as most last (wo)men standing are, well, women. That says a lot for the female race, who are typically…

Since the very dawn of the seventh art, critics and cinephiles have debated … what are the very best LGBT slasher films? It is possible that in a couple of decades, this film will be subject to some kind of bold revisionist reconsideration, some flashy contrarian reassessment, and creep in to the lower reaches of the Top Million. But right about now, there’s not much to be said for it, save for a certain wry irony in the pertly self-aware title.Jordan Ver Hoeve brings minimal nuance to the role of Brian, just starting at…

The colossal horror genre is chock-full of iconic villains that are easily recognizable and always intimidating. And while a plethora of horrifying figures have become fan favorites that moviegoers would truthfully spend their last dime on to watch on the big screen, only a select few have earned the golden opportunity to be named as the core 4 when it comes to the “Mount Rushmore” of the horror genre. Over on the r/horror subreddit, genre fanatics took the time out of their busy schedule to debate as to which villains…