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The writer of Black Swan says his directorial debut was inspired by a real, and really scary, experience. It’s about a couple who go looking for healing and find something that wants to consume them. Pendulum comes from Mark Heyman, the BAFTA-nominated writer of Black Swan, in his first film as director. He calls it…

2026 has been a banner year for horror, and as the reviews pile up, a clear picture of the year’s best is starting to form. At the very top, two films are locked in a tie for the best-reviewed horror movie of the year: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, which slipped from 99%…

Vince Gilligan and his team have finalized the story for all of Pluribus season 2, with every episode plotted and outlined. Speaking with Collider at Televerse, Gilligan said “the hard part” is done and the scripts are what’s left to write. Season 2 will follow Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn) and Manousos Oviedo (Carlos-Manuel Vesga) as…

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…

Cat Cam stars Nug, a cat who is left at home while her owners Sammy and Riley are away on vacation. There is a cat-sitter who checks in from time to time, but there are two ever-present presences in the house along with Nug: a collection of cameras spread throughout the house, and, well, a…

Dagr follows Thea and Louise, to content creators who create videos that mix activism with petty crime. Their current video shoot is intended to be a robin-hood-style heist where they’ll steal items from a mansion to give to the poor. But once they arrive at the location, they become the target of a mysterious presence.…

Michael Douglas wasn’t wearing anything under his pants during the famous kitchen scene in “Fatal Attraction,” and the fumbling that followed left “one frame, one frame only, of his balls” in the finished movie. Director Adrian Lyne told the story at an Aug. 13 screening, explaining he shot the scene over a sink instead of…

Ridley Scott’s filmmaking process rattled Josh Brolin so badly that he panicked one day into filming “The Dog Stars.” He calmed down eventually, but he still calls the director’s method “stratospherically creative and stratospherically dangerous.” Brolin told Empire Magazine he “got really scared” during his first day on the post-apocalyptic sci-fi, enough to call his…

Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick have made a horror-comedy with their two grown kids, and they cast the whole family as a filmmaking clan whose fake slasher turns real. It’s the couple’s first time directing a feature together. “Family Movie” follows the Smiths, a family shooting a low-budget horror flick called “Blood Moon,” until a…

Paul Ragsdale, the writer and co-director of the vampire comedy OnlyFangs, just released a novelization of the film! Paul wrote it himself, and he says it digs deeper into certain aspects of the story. OnlyFangs premiered in late 2025, and it went on to find success with fans of fun indie horror-comedies. The movie takes…

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…

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…

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…

Don’t worry, Dolph says that he is now cancer-free. But the life-changing drama of when he was told that he had two to three years to live because of kidney cancer completely reshaped the documentary Dolph: Unbreakable. “They came to me back in 2020 during COVID, and we started shooting footage,” Lundgren told Entertainment Weekly.…