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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…

“R.L. Stine and I have been in the business of scaring kids for a long time, so joining Pumpkinhead 2 was such a treat,” Peterson said in a statement. “Playing Cassandra was the perfect ‘witchy’ role for me.” R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead 2 is a Tubi Original. The movie follows Sam (Bean Reid) and Becka (Adeline…

Timothy Olyphant is a terrific actor who has donned the Ghostface mask in Scream 2, faced off against a serial killer in A Perfect Getaway, fled from the government in The Crazies and portrayed a badass U.S. Marshal in Justified. But even great actors have bad jobs. They might be a bad fit for the…

M. Night Shyamalan is back with a supernatural thriller, and he’s brought an unlikely partner along for the ride. The director of “The Sixth Sense” has teamed with romance novelist Nicholas Sparks for a film that folds a love story inside a creeping mystery, hitting theaters February 5, 2027 via Warner Bros. The collaboration traces…

Every generation of horror finds its monster in whatever we’re most afraid of losing control over — and right now, that’s the machines we built ourselves. The fear just got a lot less hypothetical. This week, AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic after three years working on pretraining research at both Anthropic and OpenAI,…

Holler is a Midwestern Gothic story that follows Ray, a self-destructive loner who has survived in the years since the dead rose by isolating himself. When he encounters Sydney, a pregnant young woman trying to get home, Ray reluctantly agrees to escort her across the rural Midwest, sending them both on a journey that will…

The set of “The Exorcist” has been shadowed by stories of misfortune for half a century. A fire tore through much of it during production, and one crew member lost a newborn child while the film was shooting. Ellen Burstyn, who played Chris MacNeil, has long counted those deaths and accidents among the reasons the…

One of the smartest lines of dialogue in Jordan Peele’s ‘Get Out’ (2017) was so subtle, the actor who delivered the line didn’t realize it was a joke. “I didn’t even know that was a joke,” Bradley Whitford said of his character’s now-famous “I would have voted for Obama for a third term if I…

Hocus Pocus (1993) is a classic Disney Halloween comedy-fantasy directed by Kenny Ortega, starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy as the Sanderson sisters — three 17th-century witches accidentally resurrected in modern Salem. The cult classic follows the Sanderson sisters on Halloween night. New-in-town teen Max Dennison lights the Black Flame Candle and…

Andrew Garfield is trading Spider-Man’s suit for a Silicon Valley hoodie. The new trailer for “Artificial” drops the actor into the November 2023 crisis that briefly cost Sam Altman his job, when OpenAI’s board fired the CEO and rehired him a few days later. Altman, 41, was back within a few days and still runs…

At its heart, “Leviticus” is a love story — one so tender and so charged that it becomes the very thing that can kill you. The 2026 Australian film, the debut feature from director Adrian Chiarella, follows Naim, a grieving teenager who moves to a devout evangelical town and falls, quietly and completely, for a…

If you read any number of reviews for writer/director Alexander Ullom’s new movie It Ends, you’ll probably see people comparing it to the play No Exit from French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. May say the movie was influenced by the play, or that It Ends is at least a “retelling” of No Exit. Variety asked Ullom…

If you’re looking for your next horror-comedy, Ready or Not is now streaming on Netflix. The film follows Grace, played by Samara Weaving, who believes she is marrying into a wealthy family. On her wedding night, her new in-laws ask her to draw a card as part of a “family tradition.” She draws hide-and-seek and…

Adam Wingard is opening up about his new film, Onslaught, an action horror movie about an army sniper who’s forced to protect her young daughter from genetically engineered super soldiers who’ve escaped a secret military facility. In a letter to A24 members titled “Inauspicious Surroundings,” Wingard explained why bringing production back to New Mexico mattered…

After a decade of studio blockbusters shot overseas for tax breaks, Adam Wingard went back to New Mexico to make the kind of movie he started out making. ‘Onslaught’ is an action horror movie that follows an army sniper as she struggles to protect her young daughter from an army of genetically engineered super soldiers…

In 1996, a courtroom thriller called Primal Fear turned an unknown actor into an overnight Oscar contender — and sent two future stars back to their apartment to write the screenplay that would make them famous. The story of who lost the role of Aaron Stampler is almost as remarkable as who won it. Edward…

The creepiest line in Netflix’s ‘The Whisper Man’ came from writer Alex North’s own living room. He was in the kitchen when he heard his young son playing alone, poked his head in to ask what he was up to, and got the answer that changed his book: “I’m just playing with the boy in…

Few movie homes have captured the public imagination quite like the Owens house from Practical Magic (1998). With its wraparound porch, cliffside views, and centuries-of-witchcraft aesthetic, it’s the kind of house that makes you want to grow your own herb garden and start brewing midnight margaritas. But the story behind how it was built —…