Tag: Horror


  • Dread Sets Release Dates for Heavy Metal Monster Mash Movie: Devour

    Epic Pictures imprint Dread have announced October release dates for Devour, a new supernatural horror film from Bad Candy director Scott B. Hansen. The film follows an all-girl heavy metal band , featuring KateLynn E. Newberry and Butcher Babies vocalist Heidi Shepherd, who find themselves stranded after a disastrous gig. When they try to help…

  • Andrรฉs Beltrรกnโ€™s Grief Horror Postmortem Sets Screamfest LA Premiere

    Writer and director Andrรฉs Beltrรกn (Quicksand, Tarumama) is bringing his new psychological horror Postmortem to Screamfest LA, where the film will make its World Premiere on October 10. Odette Annable (Cloverfield) leads the cast as Helena Martinez, a grieving medical examiner running a small-town morgue on the Californiaโ€“Mexico border while quietly falling apart six months…

  • Severin Films Announces Morbid Pleasures: A Massive 12-Disc Deep-Dive into Grand Guignol and Macabre Cinema

    Severin Films have just announced what looks set to be one of the most ridiculously ambitious physical media releases ever put together. Titled Morbid Pleasures, this mammoth 12-disc Blu-ray set attempts to chart the evolution of macabre entertainment from the literal birth of cinema right through to modern splatter, packing in more than 80 hours…

  • Full Moon Rising Review: The Puppet Master of Independent Cinema

    If you have an interest in Cult Cinema, then you know who Charles Band is. If you donโ€™t, I highly recommend you go do some research before reading any further. And if you donโ€™t know who Charles Band is while claiming to love Cult Cinema, hand in your membership card on your way out. Charles…

  • Supernatural Thriller Split Rock Sets Sitges Premiere

    A mysterious chunk of magnetic stone buried in the badlands, a couple of geologists, and an ancient consciousness looking for a way out. Yeah, Split Rock has my attention. The new supernatural horror feature comes from writer/director Ryan Glover and stars Clark Backo (The Changeling, Venom: The Last Dance), Drew Ray Tanner (Riverdale), Olivia Luccardi…

  • Practical FX Metagore: Wounds Headed To Screamfest LA On October 8

    Director Ron Krauss is bringing his new psychological thriller Wounds to Screamfest LA for its World Premiere on October 8, starring Jack Kilmer and Paris Jackson alongside the ever-present Eric Roberts. Shot on 35mm film, the movie is being billed as a throwback to classic practical-effects horror. Kilmer plays Caleb Castle, a horror-obsessed makeup artist…

  • Tommy Wiseau Meets Cosmic Horror in Bizarre First Trailer for Silt

    Tommy Wiseau, a possessed lake, and a character stating: โ€œThis is some weird shit, Rick.โ€ The trailer for Silt has landed, and this looks like some properly crazy-ass stuff. Originally titled Lake Vernon, the film comes from director Aaron Jay Rome and writer/producer Isaiah LaBorde, adapting a concept created by former NFL star Vernon Davis…

  • No Green Screens, Just Blood: The Cycle Trailer Delivers Pure Practical Horror

    If Stephen King tells you a horror film is a cross between The Thing and The Silence of the Lambs, you pay attention. Thatโ€™s the pitch for The Cycle, the new creature feature from The Head Hunter and V/H/S/Beyond director Jordan Downey. Ahead of its October 23rd premiere, Shudder dropped the official trailer, and it…

  • Y2K Camcorder Terror: Erie Set for Beyond Fest World Premiere

    Director Alison-Eve Hammersley is taking her feature debut to Beyond Fest this October with Erie, a late-nineties found footage piece set during the paranoid run-up to Y2K. Following her shorts Fragile.com and You’ll Only Have Each Other, Hammersleyโ€™s first feature gets its first screening on October 1st at the Los Feliz 3 Theatre in Los…

  • Beware Boiรบna: Giant Snakes and Survival Terror in the Amazon

    You know the best way to get my attention? Put a giant bloody snake in your film. Thereโ€™s an immediate, primal pull to reptile horror, but the subgenre has spent the last twenty years choking on its own self-awareness. The second studios realized they could turn giant monster flicks into cheap, ironic comedies, anyone actually…