Chrissy Stockton
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Folk Horror Film ‘Blood Shine’ Is So Intense One Premiere Attendee Lost Consciousness and Had to Be Hospitalized
There are horror movies that make you jump, and then there are horror movies that reportedly send someone to the emergency room. The new folk horror film “Blood Shine” appears to be the latter. A woman watching the movie at its Los Angeles premiere became unresponsive during one of its most intense scenes and had…
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Two New Horror Movies Hit Theaters Today, August 21
Two very different frights arrive in theaters today: one is the sixth chapter of a franchise that turned “The Further” into a household nightmare, the other a debut director’s road trip into a more subtle kind of terror. First up is It Ends, a liminal road-trip horror from Neon. The feature debut of director Alexander…
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Chris Hansen Says He Had Nothing to Do with the Robert Pattinson Movie, and A24 Hasn’t Even Let Him See It Yet
Chris Hansen didn’t find out that a movie about his work was being made until the cameras had already stopped rolling. According to the “To Catch a Predator” host, A24 has offered him a private screening of the film — but as of now, he still hasn’t been shown a single frame. The A24 drama…
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Marlon Wayans Says the ‘Dismantling of the Weinstein Regime’ Is Why He Came Back to ‘Scary Movie’ After 25 Years
After 25 years, the Wayans family is back in the Scary Movie franchise. Scary Movie 6 opened to $54 million and closed out its theatrical run with more than $230 million globally before landing its streaming date. It will hit Paramount+ on Sept. 3. It’s the first entry since “Scary Movie 2” to involve the…
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Shudder Is Loading Up Its ‘Season of Screams’ with More Than 20 New and Classic Horror Titles, from All Four ‘Psycho’ Movies to a Fresh ‘V/H/S’ Installment
Shudder’s Season of Screams stacks the fall calendar with a horror premiere nearly every Friday from September through Halloween. Between the classics is a run of brand-new originals, including the ninth V/H/S movie and a Halloween special going out live. Shudder is dropping a new original film almost every Friday this fall, starting with Parasomnia…
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Hayden Panettiere Called Her First Mushroom Trip, a Glamping Night with Her Scream 4 Castmates, One of the Funniest and Most Carefree Experiences of Her Life
During Hayden Panettiere’s last known public outing, she was laughing about something that happened during Scream 4 (2011). Cameras caught her at LaGuardia on May 20, 2026, the day after her memoir “This Is Me: A Reckoning” hit shelves, and she waved off questions about its most talked-about moments while walking through the terminal with…
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Is Set 53 Years Ago Today
53 years ago today was the worst day of Sally Hardesty’s life. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre didn’t reach theaters until October 1974, but the events it depicts are set on August 18, 1973 — which is why fans and filmmakers now mark August 18 as “Chain Saw Day.” Directed by Tobe Hooper, the film…
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The ‘Friday the 13th’ Prequel ‘Crystal Lake’ Has “Blood Everywhere,” Says Star Linda Cardellini
The gore in Crystal Lake is practical, not digital, and star Linda Cardellini says shooting some scenes got so bloody it made her wish for CGI. “There’s a couple of gory moments on set that were very practical that were pretty gross. Blood everywhere at one point,” she told Variety. Produced by A24, Crystal Lake…
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The ‘Scream’ Cast Is Mourning Hayden Panettiere, “A Brave And Brilliant Soul”
Hayden Panettiere played horror fan Kirby Reed in the Scream movies. She injected the franchise with heart and like Hayden in real life, her character was a ferocious survivor. Her castmates are now mourning this incredible loss. “Hayden should still be here,” Melissa Barrera told USA Today. “I feel so incredibly lucky that I got…
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Ryan Murphy Says American Horror Story Season 13 Is “Like The Avengers,” with Every Season’s Characters Teaming Up to Defeat One Ultimate Evil
Ryan Murphy says season 13 will be American Horror Story‘s Avengers moment. After twelve seasons of self-contained horror stories, season 13 gathers the franchise’s most memorable characters to deliver some real fan service. He told Entertainment tonight “Everybody thinks it’s a Coven season and it’s not…It’s all the seasons.” Murphy added that we’ll see “characters…
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Orlando Jones Is Taking Over Papa Legba in American Horror Story: 13, the Role Lance Reddick Played Before He Died in 2023
Orlando Jones is stepping into Papa Legba for American Horror Story: 13, taking over the role Lance Reddick originated before his sudden death at 60. Reddick originated the role in Coven and returned for Apocalypse, making the soul-dealing gatekeeper one of the franchise’s most chilling figures with his deep voice and precise stillness. He died…
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You Probably Missed the Bleakest Part of ‘Obsession’
The horror in Obsession (2026) isn’t just what Nikki goes through, it’s what happens after the credits roll. At the end of Obsession, the spell is broken and Bear is dead. In a lot of horror movies this means the threat is over and the heroine is saved. But Nikki doesn’t get a happy ending.…
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A Real Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza Is Opening in New Jersey in 2027, Animatronics and All
A Five Nights at Freddy’s fan’s dream (or nightmare) is becoming reality in New Jersey in 2027. American Dream in East Rutherford is teaming up with ScottGames, the studio behind the franchise, to build an actual Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza—and this isn’t just a themed restaurant that happens to look like the one from the games.…
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“Looksmaxxing” Is a Body Horror Short About Jaw Surgery and Bonesmashing
The film is called Looksmaxxing, a 15-minute body horror short from Dogma Studios, directed by Elan Alexander in his feature debut. He developed it over roughly three years and frames it as a dark satire on internet culture, virality, and the cost of chasing physical perfection, using horror to explore the subculture without promoting or…
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Horror Is the Most Inventive Genre in Film Right Now: It Just Produced the Youngest #1 Director in Box Office History.
The Backrooms started as a single image posted to 4chan in 2019. Endless yellow wallpapered rooms, fluorescent hum, the idea that you could “noclip” out of reality and fall into infinite empty space. It was a creepypasta. A piece of anonymous internet folklore. In 2022, a 16-year-old named Kane Parsons turned it into a found-footage…
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Snooki Has a Ghost Hunting Show in Canada and She Drinks “Spirit Juice” When the Spirits Get Too Close
Nicole “Snooki” LaValle was on the Good Guys Podcast with Josh Peck and Ben Soffer when she casually revealed that her next chapter is paranormal investigator. The show is called “Snooki: Paranormal Rookie.” It’s a real eight-episode unscripted series commissioned by Crave, Bell Media’s Canadian streaming platform. Crave announced it on October 30, 2025, and…
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Sam Levinson Based Nate’s Buried-Alive Death on the 1973 Grindhouse Film The Candy Snatchers
Beware multiple spoilers from last night’s Euphoria are in the caption. Sam Levinson told Esquire that Nate Jacobs’ death in Season 3, Episode 7 (“Rise and Shine”) is a direct homage to The Candy Snatchers, a 1973 grindhouse thriller in which kidnappers bury a young girl alive in a box with a breathing pipe sticking…
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The Official Scary Movie 6 Popcorn Bucket Is Shaped Like a Bong
The bucket has percolator-style arms, a working mouthpiece, and fake smoke effects on the larger versions. It went viral the moment right away, with replies asking whether it actually functions and how fast theaters would sell out. It’s a tie-in for Scary Movie 6, the first entry in the franchise since 2013 and the first…