Horror
All Six of ‘The Omen’ Movies, Ranked
The Omen was never conceived with the intention of spawning a franchise and yet it has remained one of Hollywood’s most enduring horror properties. The original theatrical trilogy ended in the early ’80s, when religious horror gave way to slasher film. But in five short years, The Omen had cemented a legacy within pop culture. […]
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‘The First Omen’ Review: Horror Prequel Is a Fever Dream With More Atmosphere Than Narrative Coherence
Debuting feature director Arkasha Stevenson returns the unholy franchise to Rome, exploring the backstory behind the birth of the Antichrist Damien in this prequel to the 1976 horror classic.
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‘Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey’ Franchise to Launch Crossover Event ‘Poohniverse’
The makers of Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey 1 & 2 are at work on another twisted take on A.A. Milne’s children’s story. The prolific low-budget genre labels Jagged Edge Productions and ITN Films have unveiled plans to swing their bloody axe again with Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble, a slasher horror pic set to shoot this year […]
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StudioCanal Partners With ‘Mayhem!,’ ‘Perpetrator’ Producer WTFilms on Genre Slate
StudioCanal is teaming up with French production outfit WTFilms on a slate of European genre films. The agreement will see StudioCanal and WTFilms collaborate in the development, production and distribution of action, thriller, science fiction and horror movie over a period of at least two years. StudioCanal will act as a co-producer and distributor for […]
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Christopher Nolan Says He Wants to Make a Horror Movie
A Christopher Nolan horror film? The Oppenheimer director says he “would love” to make that happen. During a conversation with the British Film Institute on Thursday, Nolan said that doing an outright horror picture was something he’d eventually like to tackle — and he broke down precisely why the genre appeals to him. “I think […]
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Berlin: Grace Glowicki’s ‘Booger’ Body Horror Pic Lands at Dark Sky Films
Dark Sky Films has acquired the U.S. rights to Booger, Mary Dauterman’s debut feature starring Grace Glowicki. The distribution deal comes as Visit Films introduces the body horror pic to international buyers in Berlin. Glowicki plays Anna, a New Yorker faced with the sudden and unexpected death of her best friend and roommate, Izzy, played […]
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‘The Moogai’ Review: Indigenous Australian Trauma Feeds Supernatural Horror in Mixed-Bag Expansion of Potent Short
Writer-director Jon Bell’s debut feature uses a predatory monster as an allegory for the Stolen Generations, Aboriginal children taken from their parents in white assimilation programs.
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‘Handling the Undead’ Review: Renate Reinsve in an Unsettling Arthouse Zombie Movie From Norway
The ‘Worst Person in the World’ discovery is joined by another standout from that cast, Anders Danielsen Lie, in this adaptation of the novel by ‘Let the Right One In’ author John Ajvide Lindqvist.
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‘Presence’ Review: Steven Soderbergh Spins a Nail-Biting Ghost Story, Working Magic in a Single Setting
Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan and newcomer Callina Liang star in this haunted house chiller about a family that appears on the brink of falling apart.
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AFM: IFC Films, Shudder Take ‘Late Night With the Devil’ for North America, U.K. and Ireland
IFC Films and Shudder have snatched up rights to hot AFM horror title Late Night with the Devil, taking the film for North America, U.K. and Ireland in a deal with Cinetic Media. IFC said it plans to release the film exclusively in theaters, with a later streaming window on Shudder. Directed by Australian filmmaking […]
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‘Late Night With the Devil’: Directing Duo on Serving up 1970s-Era Chills From Down Under
Australian siblings and directing duo Colin and Cameron Cairnes have earned a following on the cult horror circuit with their first two features: the low-budget horror comedy 100 Bloody Acres (which won the Midnight X-treme award at the 2013 Sitges Film Festival) and 2016’s Scare Campaign, a gruesome twist on the slasher genre. Their follow-up, […]
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Warner Bros. Releases Special Digital Collection of 25 Horror and Sci-Fi Movies for $30: Here’s Where to Get It Online
Save a whopping 85 percent off the new set, which includes 'The Exorcist,' 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'The Conjuring,' 'A Nightmare On Elm Street' and more.
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