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A great horror film is only as frightening as its main character, the villain.From psycho killers in Halloween; Scream and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre to mysterious beings from outer space like The Thing and The Blob and lest we not forget possessed dolls. To satisfy a horror junkie the body count must be high and…

So far in 2023 we've had the sixth installment of the Scream franchise and a fifth Evil Dead movie in Evil Dead Rise. Both did surprisingly well at the box office, given that the failure of the 13th iteration of Halloween suggested that horror fatigue might be setting in. But for genre crowds, the real…

The Final Girl trope defined characteristics of the last character left alive to confront the killer in horror films, particularly in slasher films. The rise of feminism in the 1970s became a milestone in the genre as the damsel in distress did not need a man to rescue her anymore. Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns) from T…

EXCLUSIVE: UK sales and distribution company Blue Finch Films has acquired world sales rights summer camp horror She Came From The Woods, ahead of its world premiere in the genre-focused FrightFest in London in August. Paying tribute to 1980s horror, the feature follows a group of counsellors who accidentally unleash…

Shudder, AMC Networks' premium streaming service for horror, thrillers and the supernatural, is thrilled to release the first trailer for the Shudder Original Good Madam ahead of the film's debut on the platform on Thursday, July 14. The film is the fourth feature from celebrated South African writer/director Jenna…

Shudder, the streaming service focused on horror, thrillers and the supernatural, said Tuesday it has passed the 1 million subscriber mark. AMC Networks launched Shudder in 2015. The company has pursued a niche streaming strategy, a contrast with larger media rivals launching mass-audience services like HBO Max…

The just-released trailer for A24’s Saint Maud is a holy terror. The eerily intense and dangerously devout Maud (Welsh actress Morfydd Clark) is a hospice care worker who is out to save souls but may take some lives in the process. The film is the debut effort by writer-director Rose Glass and the trailer’s unsettling…

A new and unnerving red-band trailer for The Grudge has just arrived from Sony Pictures Entertainment and Screen Gems and, if you’re anything like cast member John Cho, it’s going to be hard to get the thing out of your head. The project from producer Sam Raimi is a twisted new take on the Japanese horror classic Ju-On…

After months of project secrecy, Lionsgate has just released a teaser trailer for Janelle Monáe’s upcoming screen project: Antebellum, an eerie thriller rooted in the Deep South and chained to the region’s plantation past. Details are scant but the single-sentence synopsis describes Monáe character as “successful…

Eli Roth’s History of Horror will live again. AMC has renewed the fake-blood retrospective by the Hostel director for a six-episode second season that will include a deep dive into the cinema realms of magic-weilding witches, misshapen monsters, and infamously evil youngsters. Season 2, which will also appear on AMC…

AMC Networks' Shudder has renewed Creepshow for Season 2 after the hit horror anthology’s record-setting premiere season, which concludes on Halloween with the show’s aptly scheduled Season 1 finale. Executive produced by showrunner Greg Nicotero (The Walking Dead), Creepshow is based on the iconic 1982 movie written…

EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Factory TV will launch a 13-part digital docuseries called Cult-Tastic: Tales from the Trenches with Roger and Julie Corman that premieres Nov. 15 on Shout Factory TV’s Amazon Prime Video Channel and via Roku Channel's Premium Subscription. Created, written and co-produced by Ashley Sidaway and…