Chrissy Stockton

Chrissy is the co-founder of Creepy Catalog. She has over 10 years of experience writing about horror, a degree in philosophy and Reiki level II certification.

Timothy Olyphant Has a Funny Story About Getting Fired from ‘Practical Magic’

Timothy Olyphant is a terrific actor who has donned the Ghostface mask in Scream 2, faced off against a serial killer in A Perfect Getaway, fled from the government in The Crazies and portrayed a badass U.S. Marshal in Justified. But even great actors have bad jobs. They might be a bad fit for the…
Jack in the Box Is Dropping a ‘Treehouse of Horror’ Simpsons Meal with Six Glow-In-The-Dark Cups, and It Lands September 10

Jack in the Box is getting into the Halloween spirit with a new menu that pays tribute to The Simpsons’ long-running “Treehouse of Horror” specials. The limited-time Munchie Meal of Horror pulls Springfield’s spookiest imagery into a full lineup of collectible cups and horror-themed food. The centerpiece of the promotion is a set of collectible…
Ted Cruz Went on ‘The View’ and Said Elon Musk Told Him AI Has a 20% Chance of Killing Us All

On Wednesday’s The View, Sen. Ted Cruz was asked what Congress would do about AI that researchers say could kill people this decade. The spark was a warning from former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who quit his job and said that the people building the technology “earnestly believe it could kill us all by the…
The Notebook Guy and the Sixth Sense Guy Joined Forces on a Jake Gyllenhaal Romantic Psychological Thriller Called “Remain”

M. Night Shyamalan is back with a supernatural thriller, and he’s brought an unlikely partner along for the ride. The director of “The Sixth Sense” has teamed with romance novelist Nicholas Sparks for a film that folds a love story inside a creeping mystery, hitting theaters February 5, 2027 via Warner Bros. The collaboration traces…
8 Deeply Unsettling Movies About AI

Every generation of horror finds its monster in whatever we’re most afraid of losing control over — and right now, that’s the machines we built ourselves. The fear just got a lot less hypothetical. This week, AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic after three years working on pretraining research at both Anthropic and OpenAI,…
A Researcher Who Spent 3 Years Training AI at Both OpenAI and Anthropic Just Quit, Warning the Tech “Could Kill Us All By The End Of The Decade.”

A researcher who spent three years training AI systems at two of the industry’s leading labs has resigned with a stark warning: the technology he helped build could pose an existential threat within a decade. Jacob Coxon announced his departure from Anthropic on Twitter/X, writing that “the people building AI earnestly believe that it could…
The Man Netflix’s ‘Death of a Pastor’s Wife’ Painted as John-Paul Miller’s Right-Hand Man Says He Barely Knew Him

“I never witnessed John Paul abuse Mica,” Mark Kaufman wrote in a statement addressing nearly every role Netflix’s “Death of a Pastor’s Wife” put him in. “Had I witnessed abuse or believed that Mica was in danger, I would not have ignored it.” Kaufman gave the statement to Florida creator Robbie Harvey, who has covered…
Ellen Burstyn Maintained the ‘Exorcist’ Set Was Cursed. William Friedkin Denied It Until He Died

The set of “The Exorcist” has been shadowed by stories of misfortune for half a century. A fire tore through much of it during production, and one crew member lost a newborn child while the film was shooting. Ellen Burstyn, who played Chris MacNeil, has long counted those deaths and accidents among the reasons the…
The Killer in ‘Jeepers Creepers’ Is Probably Inspired by a Frightening ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ Segment from 1991

Few horror films feel as unsettling as the ones rooted in something real. The killer in “Jeepers Creepers” may be a supernatural creature, but the terror at the heart of the story likely came from a true crime — one that played out on a 1991 episode of “Unsolved Mysteries” and needed no supernatural elements…
‘Be My Cat’ Plays Like a Horror Version of Borat, Following a Man Who Films Himself Hurting Actresses to Impress Anne Hathaway

“I will change the world with you, Anne!” That’s the promise at the heart of ‘Be My Cat: A Film for Anne,’ a 2015 Romanian found footage film that Adrian Țofei wrote, directed, produced, and starred in. It’s been widely called one of the best low-budget horror movies ever made . The film follows Adrian,…
Bradley Whitford Worked on Obama’s Campaigns, So He Played Get Out’s Smug Liberal Dad Without Realizing He Was Being Mocked

One of the smartest lines of dialogue in Jordan Peele’s ‘Get Out’ (2017) was so subtle, the actor who delivered the line didn’t realize it was a joke. “I didn’t even know that was a joke,” Bradley Whitford said of his character’s now-famous “I would have voted for Obama for a third term if I…
‘Hocus Pocus’ (1993) Was First Imagined as Much Darker and Scarier

Hocus Pocus (1993) is a classic Disney Halloween comedy-fantasy directed by Kenny Ortega, starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy as the Sanderson sisters — three 17th-century witches accidentally resurrected in modern Salem. The cult classic follows the Sanderson sisters on Halloween night. New-in-town teen Max Dennison lights the Black Flame Candle and…
Andrew Garfield Morphs into OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for New Luca Guadagnino Movie, ‘Artificial’

Andrew Garfield is trading Spider-Man’s suit for a Silicon Valley hoodie. The new trailer for “Artificial” drops the actor into the November 2023 crisis that briefly cost Sam Altman his job, when OpenAI’s board fired the CEO and rehired him a few days later. Altman, 41, was back within a few days and still runs…
Stephen King Says the Scariest Movie Ever Made Is a Black-And-White Thriller from 1955 You Can Stream Free on Tubi

“It’s a hard world for little things…” In The Night of the Hunter, Robert Mitchum plays Harry Powell, a con man posing as a traveling preacher who marries a widow to get at $10,000 her late husband hid with their two kids. The only person who sees through him is her 9-year-old son. The movie…
A New Docuseries on OJ Simpon’s 2005 Prank Show Claims He Got Too Comfortable With Prank Victims and Started Discussing the Murders

In 2005 — a decade after the murders that made him one of the most notorious figures in America — O.J. Simpson filmed a hidden camera prank show called “Juiced,” where he pulled gags that played on his own notoriety as a onetime murder suspect. In one bit he stands beside a white Ford Bronco…
‘Leviticus’ Is the Most Romantic Horror Movie Since ‘Bones and All’

At its heart, “Leviticus” is a love story — one so tender and so charged that it becomes the very thing that can kill you. The 2026 Australian film, the debut feature from director Adrian Chiarella, follows Naim, a grieving teenager who moves to a devout evangelical town and falls, quietly and completely, for a…
A Veteran Film Reporter Spent 12 Hours Melting Down on Twitter Because a 25-Year-Old Actress’s Team Won’t Give Him the Time of Day

Jeff Sneider spent roughly 12 hours crashing out on Twitter this weekend because Inde Navarrette’s team had stopped answering his emails. Rather than let it go, the veteran film reporter turned the silence into an all-day public spectacle. The 42-year-old styles himself as “A proud Hollywood rule breaker who loves movies & publishes the industry’s…
Rosemary Kennedy Was JFK’s Outgoing, Strong-Willed Sister, Until Her Father Had Her Lobotomized at 23

Rosemary Kennedy flew into rages her father couldn’t control. So in the fall of 1941, Joseph Kennedy had doctors cut into his daughter’s brain to calm her down. The surgery destroyed her. Rosemary Kennedy spent the next 63 years hidden away — and for a long time, her own siblings weren’t even told where she…