Movies

Robert Pattinson’s movie Primetime, which is about Chris Hansen and the popularity of the “To Catch a Predator” show, has sparked debate over whether it makes viewers sympathize with the predators it depicts. Does watching a predator face the consequences of their actions make you feel sorry for them? I didn’t have this experience while…

In a scenario Guillermo del Toro described to ScreenAnarchy in 2013, you see your dad watching TV in the living room, then learn he died 3 years earlier. His other example begins when you open the front door and find that the street is gone, with black space beyond it. He uses the scenes to…

Joey King was still dealing with a low platelet count after she finished filming The Conjuring and went home. Her first hospital follow-up showed numbers as low as those recorded during production; at her next appointment, 1 day later, they’d fully normalized. Doctors diagnosed King with ITP, a blood disorder, after initially warning that she…

A malevolent force that feeds on negative energy is loose inside a prison in the gory Indonesian horror film GHOST IN THE CELL, now playing in theaters. Ghost in the Cell was written and directed by Joko Anwar, the filmmaker behind movies including Impetigore (2019), Queen of Black Magic (2019), and Satan’s Slaves (2017). The…

Deepfakes are weaponized to cause extreme chaos in APPOFENIACS, now in theaters. Appofeniacs is a story told from many different perspectives. At the center of it all is Duke, a man who uses highly-advanced AI deepfakes in malicious ways. His targets range from people who annoy him to pretty much anyone, and their lives inevitably…

An influencer making a documentary about herself discovers she has a stalker in the screenlife movie THE INFLUENCER PROJECT, now in theaters. Chiara King stars in The Influencer Project as Chiara, a popular influencer who travels to Copenhagen with a small crew to make a documentary about online fame. As cameras capture her, she discovers…

BEWARE BOIÚNA, the giant snake movie starring Kiana Madeira and Jessica Rothe, is now playing in theaters. A humanitarian mission trekking into the heart of the Amazon rainforest draws the ire of surveyors looking to tear it down for profit. As the humanitarians are chased downriver, they accidentally awaken the legendary, and gargantuan, Boiúna. Beware…

Danny Boyle has confirmed that the planned finale to the 28 Years Later trilogy will center on Cillian Murphy, and that Alex Garland has already written the script. Speaking at the Zurich Film Festival on September 30 while presenting Ink, Boyle said the film would happen but couldn’t pin down a timeline. “[It will have]…

Curry Barker builds his scripts around a single rule he borrowed from the people behind South Park: link every beat with “but then” or “therefore,” never “and then.” He laid out the approach on CBC’s Q with Tom Power around Sept. 25, 2026. Stringing scenes together with “and then this happens and then this happens”…

Stuck in a drug deal gone wrong, a man is left for dead in a club bathroom. He doesn’t die, but his head is now stuck in the hole of a squat toilet. His night is about to get even worse. That is the setup for Flush, an upcoming French film that sounds like is…

In 1974, a woman named Doris Bither walked up to two UCLA parapsychologists in a bookstore and told them she was being beaten and sexually assaulted — by something invisible. Her kids heard the attacks through the walls. Her friends saw the bruises. The researchers investigated for months and even photographed an unexplained light formation…

TikTok film critic Stephen Nothum says A24’s “Primetime” isn’t the Chris Hansen biopic everyone assumed. He reads it as a “Dracula” adaptation built to turn Hansen into a monster myth. His first clue was the logo. Nothum says the two pointed M’s look like fangs, and he says the designer more or less confirmed the…

The doll behind 2014’s Annabelle is a mass-produced Raggedy Ann from the late 1960s or early 1970s. The movie’s custom porcelain version was created after test audiences found the original cloth design too harmless to be frightening. The story traces back to around 1970, when a mother reportedly gave the doll to her daughter, a…

Leatherface grew from several separate sources that filmmakers fused into one nightmare. The “true story” framing made their fictional massacre feel like a real case. Leatherface’s human-skin masks have a real-world connection to Ed Gein, the Wisconsin killer and grave robber who helped inspire 1974’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Police discovered that Gein had preserved…

A total of 24 horror and thriller movies are scheduled to hit theaters in October 2026. This list of theatrical releases is compiled from TheNumbers, IMDB, and Fandango. There will almost certainly be more movies in theaters during the month, since announcements can happen at any time. But for now, this is a decently thorough…

Shudder has a solid line-up of movies new to the platform in October 2026. A couple of their originals, The Cycle and Infirmary, are the ones I’m personally most looking forward to. But there’s a lot to like throughout the entire month. Here’s the full list: October 1 Alice, Sweet Alice (1978) Alone in the…

CAPTURING BIGFOOT promises to reveal the truth about the famous Patterson–Gimlin, including the emotional toll it took on the people directly and indirectly involved with making it. In theaters and on Prime Video October 20. The Patterson–Gimlin film is probably the most famous “evidence” of Bigfoot ever produced. Shot in 1967, it is a long-debated…