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DAYBREAKERS Brings Greedy Vampires Home with a New 4K UHD Steelbook
Plus a roundup of more horror new to 4K UHD.
THE CONJURING: LAST RITES Review: Series and Franchise Send-Off Delivers Familiar Frights and Fears
Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga return as demon fighters Ed and Lorraine Warren; Michael Chaves directed.
Now Streaming: Michael Chaves' CONJURING Universe Horror
Where to watch the director's earlier films.
M3GAN 2.0 Review: Horror Gives Way to Campy Sci-Fi Action in This Enjoyable Sequel
What do you do when your indie sci-fi slasher about a killer robot becomes a surprise cult hit? You sign on for round two, or course. Director Gerard Johnstone brings back the singing, dancing best friend for life, cutesy AI...
Now Streaming: Gerard Johnstone, M3GAN and Before
Where to watch 'Housebound,' 'The New Legends of Monkey,' and 'M3GAN: Unrated' before 'M3GAN: 2.0' opens on Friday. Plus: posters galore!
Friday One Sheet: M3GAN 2.0
Leaning hard into a magenta, back-lit, pop-star aesthetic, LA's design for the sequel to surprise horror hit M3GAN, has the most elegant alliteration tagline of the year, "Miss Me?" This could easily be a super hero or action movie poster, but that it...
THE MONKEY Review: This Toy Is Scary As Hell And It Means Business
After shocking the horror world last year with box office juggernaut Longlegs, director Osgood Perkins returns with a gonzo adaptation of one of Stephen King’s most nihilistic short stories in The Monkey. Revamping the story from a morose, chaotic, paranoid...
AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM Review: Drowned By Exposition Overload
Jason Momoa, Patrick Wilson, Amber Heard, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Nicole Kidman star in director James Wan's water-logged sequel.
THE NUN II Review: The Dark One Returns
With a cool $2.1 billion (US) take across a series spanning a decade, eight entries, and a rate of investment that would make any studio envious, the so-called Conjuring Universe shows little, if any, sign of slowing down, let alone...
INSIDIOUS: THE RED DOOR Review: Come for The Further, Stay for the Generational Trauma
Onetime Asutralian college students and longtime friends, James Wan and Leigh Whannell began their careers as filmmakers with a proof-of-concept short that — once fully financed — turned into Saw, a cleverly-plotted, attention-grabbing, gore-soaked horror film that spawned eight sequels...
Now Streaming: M3GAN UNRATED, Unleashed, Undaunted, Unstoppable
Allison Williams, Violet McGraw and Ronny Chieng star in a thriller, directed by Gerard Johnstone, now streaming on Peacock TV in both the unrated and theatrical release versions.
Review: M3GAN, You've Got a Friend in Her?
On the one hand, society (or much of it) constantly teases girls for playing with dolls, seeing it as something trite, cute, femme, and most of all, a sign of weakness and docility. On the other hand, if a lot...
Review: MALIGNANT, James Wan Makes a Triumphant Return to the Horror Genre
As Captain & Tennille sang in the last century, love will keep us together. Unless, of course, that same love results in not just one bloodbath but two ridiculously over-the-top bloodbaths within the last twenty minutes of horror auteur James...
Review: THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT, A Floundering Franchise Missing the Wan Touch
Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga reprise their roles in the horror thriller series, directed by Michael Chaves, in theaters and also streaming on HBO Max.
THE CALL Interview: Tobin Bell on His Latest Film and the Legacy of Alan Parker
American character actor Tobin Bell is, of course, a true horror star after appearing throughout the entire Saw franchise as the antagonist John Kramer, aka Jigsaw. More recently, Bell has worked on other movies of this genre, including the Mexican...
Review: AQUAMAN, Throwing Caution to the Sea, and Back Again
Get ready to get wet, for good reason.
Hollywood Horror - How far can the truth be stretched before it's unacceptable
Being a big fan of horror movies in general, I understand that to fully enjoy them there has to be a suspension of disbelief. Most of the times with the genre this isn’t a problem, but what if the horror...
The Nun From THE CONJURING 2 Is Getting Her Own Movie!
In case you missed it, the other day New Line announced that they are moving ahead on a Nun spinoff from the popular The Conjuring franchise. Confessionals will never be the same again. This is the second spinoff film...
Review: In THE CONJURING 2, The Warrens' Second Commission Is Not As Great
The Conjuring 2 has at least two crosses to bear. Firstly, it's burdened with being based on the exploits of a well-documented real-life demonologist couple, Ed and Lorraine Warren. Audiences expect authenticity. Secondly, it's a summer tentpole sequel for a...
Destroy All Monsters: Universal's Monster Movies Ate The Summer Of 2015
Earlier this month Universal took the record for the fastest studio to the $2 billion mark (domestically) in any given year. This isn't particularly surprising - Universal has ruled the roost since Furious 7 came out in April, with an...
