January Nelson
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Austin Abrams Says His Signature High-Pitched Scream in ‘Resident Evil’ Just Came Out That Way, and It Mortified Him
Austin Abrams didn’t plan the high-pitched scream that became part of Bryan Hodukavich’s panic in Resident Evil (2026). During a Fantastic Fest interview with Collider’s Perri Nemiroff, the actor said it was “just what comes out” when he played the medical courier trapped in Raccoon City’s early T-Virus outbreak. Director Zach Cregger, who joined Abrams…
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Keanu Reeves Refused Coppola’s Order to Scream Insults at Winona Ryder on ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’
A story of what happened on the set of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) has resurfaced, and it centers on a difficult crying scene, a director’s unusual technique, and Keanu Reeves quietly refusing to go along with it. Winona Ryder was about 20 when the scene was filmed. Her character, Mina, had been discovered drinking Dracula’s…
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The Exorcist Was Based on a Real 1949 Exorcism Performed on a 14-Year-Old Maryland Boy
The 1973 film that made audiences afraid to sleep with the lights off didn’t spring entirely from William Peter Blatty’s imagination. Hollywood changed the child’s identity and moved the story to Georgetown, but the horror at the heart of The Exorcist still traces back to clergy treating one family’s claims seriously enough to conduct weeks…
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Matthew Lillard Says He’s Ashamed He Returned for ‘Scream 7’ After Melissa Barrera Was Fired for Her Posts on Palestine
Matthew Lillard says he regrets returning for Scream 7, and he’s not being quiet about why. Matthew Lillard admitted that his excitement about playing Stu Macher again kept him from fully considering Melissa Barrera’s removal from the franchise. “I didn’t really think about Melissa and that journey,” he said during a Sept. 15 Q&A after…
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Haunted Sets: Joey King Developed a Rare Blood Disorder Filming ‘The Conjuring,’ with Bruises That Doctors Couldn’t Explain
Joey King was 12-years-old when something strange began happening on the set of The Conjuring. During filming in North Carolina, unexplained bruises spread across her chest, back and other unusual areas of her body. At first, the makeup team assumed the marks were fake and tried to scrub them off with alcohol and oil. They…
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Zach Cregger Wrote Barbarian’s Opening Scene Based on a Book About the Tiny Warning Signs Women Brush Off So They Don’t Seem “Like A B*tch”
In Barbarian, Keith keeps crossing Tess’s boundaries in ways that can look harmless: an unwanted touch, a sexualized compliment and a favor she never asked for. The tension in the scene comes from how quickly those small intrusions pile up when she’s alone with him. Zach Cregger says he started the sequence believing Bill Skarsgård’s…
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Robert Pattinson Finally Weighs in on Chris Hansen’s Criticism on Primetime
Robert Pattinson says he never planned to build a movie around the former TV host. The script felt “electrifying,” and the character became a source of inspiration for the people making it. The man at the center of the story, Chris Hansen, tried to attend a private screening in August, then declined an NDA he…
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Vincent Price Learned to Cook, Sew, and Mend as a Boy Because His Mother Ran the House Like a “One-Woman Home Economy Class.”
Vincent Price was a horror icon did all the cooking, shopping, and cleanup in his home well into his 70s. He credited his mother for teaching all 4 kids to cook, sew, and mend, and to understand the work behind every meal. “Well I do all the cooking at home,” Vincent Price said at 75.…
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Edward Norton Is Still Talking About Death to Smoochy 23 Years Later, Probably Because It’s the Best Weird Movie Ever Made
Roger Ebert called it so bad that only talented people could have made it. Norton calls it one of the proudest things he’s done. Death to Smoochy opened on March 29, 2002, opposite Panic Room over Easter weekend. It grossed just $8.36 million domestically against a budget of roughly $50 million, earned a C from…
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Netflix’s ‘Kaleidoscope’ Lets You Watch Its 8 Episodes in Any Order, and the Sequence You Pick Changes the Whole Story
Seven episodes, one story, and you pick the sequence. Watch them out of order and you get a mystery. Watch them chronologically and you get a straight con. Whatever order you pick ends with episode 8. The heist at the center of Kaleidoscope is worth $7 billion, and the crew pulling it off falls apart…
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Nicolas Cage Is Back in Full ‘Mandy’ Mode, Battling Cannibals in a Bombed-Out Wasteland in His New Movie ‘Parish.’
Nicolas Cage’s next movie, Parish, hinges on a single rule: never let anyone through the gate. When a woman shows up outside the compound with an infant, and Cage has to choose between keeping her out and keeping himself alive. Parish is set 30 years after a nuclear apocalypse, with Cage playing a survivor who’s…
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Emmy Rossum Is Hunting a Killer Who Targets Men, and ‘Furious’ Won’t Let You Decide How to Feel About That
Hulu’s Furious isn’t particularly subtle about the questions it wants you to sit with—and that seems to be the point. Created by Elizabeth Meriwether, the mind behind New Girl and The Dropout, the eight-episode thriller stars Emmy Rossum as FBI agent Alice Black, who becomes consumed by the hunt for a female serial killer targeting…
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Anne Hathaway’s Next Role Is a Real Texas Mother Who Talked Her Way Out of a Serial Killer’s Car After Eight Hours, Then Befriended Him on Death Row
In 1981, a Texas mother named Margy Palm spent eight hours held captive by one of the most prolific serial killers in American history. She talked her way to freedom by praying with him, then kept visiting him in prison until the day he was executed. Stephen Morin was accused of more crimes than Ted…
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Robert Pattinson Got So Scared by a Horror Movie That He Fell Asleep on the Couch Holding Two Kitchen Knives
Robert Pattinson has apparently reached the age where watching a horror movie can turn into a full-scale home-invasion drill. The actor recently recalled an especially bizarre night during a conversation with Mickey 17 director Bong Joon Ho for GQ. Pattinson said he had to watch a horror movie before meeting its director, and the experience…
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Everything We Know So Far About ‘Shiver’, the Upcoming Summer Survival Film from the Director of ‘Violent Night’
Extreme weather, disaster, and sharks come together for what will surely be a harrowing survival thriller.
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Everything We Know About ‘Evil Dead Burn’
‘Evil Dead Burn’ is currently scheduled for a summer 2026 release.
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Everything We Know About ‘Other Mommy’, the Upcoming Supernatural Horror Movie from Director Rob Savage
A family in turmoil is haunted by a supernatural presence in ‘Other Mommy’.
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3 Scary Movies That Show What It’s Like to Have a Mom Who Is a Narcissist
The moms in these movies go far beyond the normal range of selfishness and play motherhood for scares.