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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…

A24’s Slayground campaign lets you peer into a fictional haunted attraction through looping security-camera feeds, with rooms labeled KILL_CHAMBER and TOMB_OF_DOOM. The attraction belongs to the promotion for Jeremy Saulnier’s upcoming movie. Nerdist reports that there’s no real-world haunt to visit. You can explore the campaign at runlikehell.com or watch “Slayground | Official Promo |…

“R.L. Stine’s Afraid of Clowns” is heading to Tubi in 2027, a new original horror movie from the “Goosebumps” author built around a traveling clown troupe and a kid who vanished years ago. The logline sets it in a town called Redhaven. When Ringmaster Rollo and his clowns roll in, Frankie figures out their arrival…

Horror director Ti West is taking on A Christmas Carol, and he wants its ghosts to be spooky. Ebenezer stars Johnny Depp as Scrooge, with the filmmaker behind The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers and the X, Pearl and MaXXXine trilogy bringing his eye for horror to Dickens’ story. The CinemaCon footage gives a…

Chris Hansen says A24’s “Primetime,” with Robert Pattinson playing a fictionalized version of him, uses his name and recognizable mannerisms to profit from a reputation he spent 45 years building. After watching the film, the “To Catch a Predator” journalist told Variety in an Oct. 1 interview that lawyers are reviewing a possible legal challenge.…

George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead turns 58 today. Its October 1, 1968 premiere at Pittsburgh’s Fulton Theater introduced audiences to flesh-eating corpses and a farmhouse siege that would help shape decades of zombie horror. The hometown debut came with a reception at the William Penn Hotel, according to a surviving invitation published…

At Fan Expo Dallas, Nicolas Cage had some pointed words for Marvel. Speaking to fans at the convention, the actor argued that the studio’s movies have drifted toward spectacle at the expense of character and story, comparing their recent action to professional wrestling. Cage didn’t dismiss the MCU wholesale. He praised its early films for…