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Celluloid Screams 2026: Sheffield Horror Film Festival Announces Lineup
With spooky season running head on like a psycho killer wielding a machete our attention turns to the regional genre festivals that happen around the UK. Every year we check in on our friends at Celluloid Screams, the horror film...
MOTELX 2026 Award Winners: NO REST FOR THE WICKED And MANCAVE win Best European films, IT'S CHICO TIME! wins Best Portuguese Short
The twentieth edition of this year's MOTELX film festival is drawing to a close today. The award winners were announced yesterday, so it is time for a bit of catch up. The Méliès d’argent Awards for the best European...
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Beyond Fest 2026: Announcing a Full Line-up, a Bevy of Premieres, Reperatory, Restoration and Anniversary Screenings to Delight Genre Fans
Those fine folks at Beyond Fest have announced the full line-up of features, reperatory, anniversary and 4K screenings at this year's festival.
Toronto After Dark 2026: First Wave of Titles Announced, Featuring I LOVE PARIS, FROGMAN RETURNS, And 5 MORE MINUTES
Our friends at Toronto After Dark have announced the first four titles for this year's 19th edition of the festival. This year's festival will feature the Canadian Premiere of timey wimey flick 5 More Minutes, the fabulously funnny vampire...
Vancouver Horror Show 2026: First Wave Announced, Michael Dougherty in Attendance to Present Anniversary Screening of TRICK 'R TREAT (Exclusive)
Here is your first look at the first wave of titles and special guests attending this year's edition of the Vancouver Horror Show.
IGNORE IT: Sam Evenson's Viral Short to be Adapted With SMILE Producers
Their one rule for survival: ignore it.
BEYOND FEST 2026: Night Visions: The Shock and Awe of M. Night Shyamalan, a Retrospective of The Filmmaker's Work
With the arrival of September our attention turns to one of the big genre events happening this month in the U.S. - Beyond Fest. The first big announcement is this year's retrospective program. Last year the festival celebrated the...
GOODY GOODY: Trailer And Key Art Debut For Birthing Body Horror
Lulled into a necessary sense of comfort during a long home birth process, expecting parents and their midwife begin to realize something may be horribly wrong. A blizzard rages outside, trapping the family in their home as increasingly sinister complications...
CASSIE WORKMAN IS WITCHY AF Trailer: ETCH and Lilly Wachowski's Anarchists United Studios Announce Release of Comedy Web Series
As algorithms go, we do not have much truck for them. The Devil's software does someone else's bidding the moment you start browsing and your feed is inundated with demands for your money and time. Mostly your money. Yet...
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PENDULUM Official Teaser: Horror Fans Know. New-Age Retreats = Bad.
In Mark Heyman's feature film directorial debut, Pendulum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Phoebe Dynevor go one a new-age retreat to recover from a traumatic event. The official teaser was released today, and at the very end, when Abigail submerges her head...
BLOODY TENNIS Official Trailer: Releases on Shudder on September 25th
Nikias Chryssos's sports themed horror Bloody Tennis releases on Shudder on September 25th. The movie had its world premiere at Locarno Film Festival and is all set to have its North American Premiere at Fantastic Fest next month. The official...
BloodStream in September: New Movies Every Day, And The Entire Severin Films Catalog
BloodStream is adding 48 titles across 30 days with no gaps, marking a catalogue expansion to coincide with Severin Films' 20th anniversary. Alongside the daily releases, the update introduces over 300 titles from the Severin Films vault.
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IT ENDS New Trailer: Now Playing in NY & LA, Opens Nationwide This Friday
Alex Ullom's indie thriller, It Ends, is now playing in theaters in New York and Los Angeles. It will open nation wide this weekend, so a new trailer was released today. Check it out below. Some wrong turns last...
CHRONOVISOR Official Trailer: What if we Could Reproduce Visuals From Any Point in History on a TV Screen?
While writing a monograph on historical theories of memory, Béatrice, a respected academic, becomes beguiled by the allegedly true story of the Chronovisor, an occult device said to reproduce visuals from any point in history on a TV screen.
THE OTHER PEOPLE Trailer: Release Date For Psychological Horror Thriller Announced by The Horror Collective (Exclusive)
Our friends at The Horror Collective have asked us to be the first to share with you news about one of their upcoming releases, Chad McClamon's debut feature film, The Other People. When a new stepmom's troubled eight-year-old girl...
THE CREEP TAPES Official Trailer: Season Three is Coming, Watch And Prepare Yourselves
In case you missed it, Shudder released the official trailer for season three of The Creep Tapes yesterday. If you are a fan of the show you may already have seen it. If you are not, have a look below...
STARSUCKERS: Satirical Thriller to Have Canadian Premiere at Cinéfest
The Butler Brothers will return to where it all began for their latest flick, the satirical thriller Starsuckers, to have their homegrown, Canadian Premiere. They will host in in Subury, Ontario, where the movie was shot, during the 38th Cinéfest Sudbury...
THE LAST ASSASSINS: Canadian Sci-fi Thriller Out Now on Digital (Exclusive)
You heard it here first. The Canadian sci-fi thriller flick, The Last Assassins, will have its North American release across all digital platforms today, on August 18th 2026.
MOTELX 2026: DRAG Yourself to Lisbon This September, Full Programme For 20th Edition Announced
Our friends at MOTELX are preparing to hold their 20th anniversary edition of the Lisbon International Horror Film Festival. No small feat, making it to twenty years is indeed a big milestone for our friends in Portugal and they have...
DEATHGASM 2: GOREMAGEDDON: One-Night Theatrical Event Precedes Digital And Physical Releases (Exclusive)
Our friends at Raven Banner have tasked us with sharing this exclusive news about the digital and physical release of Jason lei Howden's metal horror comedy, Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon. Years after thwarting a demon apocalypse, Brodie finds himself unemployed,...
