Physical Media

The Scream 30th-anniversary collector’s set arrives December 15, 2026, as an Amazon exclusive styled as a Woodsboro Police evidence kit. It includes the original 1996 film on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and Digital, plus a replica of Casey Becker’s cordless phone that rings and plays quotes from the movie. Inside the box: a case folder…

Stephen King topped PEN America’s list of banned authors again during the 2025-2026 school year, when public schools across the country imposed nearly 12,000 book bans. The restrictions affected more than 7,000 distinct titles and 4,000 authors. Texas accounted for 8,100 bans, overtaking Florida after 3 years. Florida recorded more than 3,200. PEN America linked…

This is the third and final chapter in the retro-styled Halloween horror trilogy that started back in 2016. Pre-orders are open now on the Scream Team Releasing web site, and shipping is expected mid-October. The Barn Part III is a low-budget horror comedy perfect for the Halloween season. Set years after the events of the…

Playing theaters October 16-22, Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas returns to the big screen in 2026, and Cinemark is using an LED Santa Jack bucket to draw crowds to it. It’s a licensed 85-ounce Jack Skellington head in his red-and-white Sandy Claws hat. The hat lifts off to get at the popcorn, and a…

Legendary Comics will release Trick ‘r Treat: Witching Hours, a 168-page anthology with 4 never-before-published Sam stories, on October 13, 2026. It’s the first all-original graphic novel set in Michael Dougherty’s Trick ‘r Treat Halloween universe in 10 years. Dougherty is joined by writers Todd Casey, Zach Shields, Curtis Waugh and Breehn Burns. Successfully funded…

Doll Haus of Dread is a new JAKKS Pacific collector line that turns 4 horror characters into female fashion dolls: Ghost Face from Scream, Billy the Puppet from Saw, Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th and Pinhead from Hellraiser. These are stylized reinterpretations rather than replicas of the characters. Their looks pull from each franchise,…

Dark Sky Selects is releasing a new 4K UHD special edition of the 1986 classic, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. The disc will be out on October 27, and pre-orders are live now on the DarkSkyFilms web site. There’s also a VHS release there you can pre-order. But before the Blu-ray comes out, Regal…

Regal and Cinemark theaters have revealed the popcorn bucket, the “Whalebucket,” that will be on sale soon. Regal announced that viewers who go see their early, October 14th Whalefall screening in 4DX will get a free Whalebucket with admission. Personally, I tend to stick mostly to the character-head/mask buckets. They’re easier to display than the…

Ask a horror fan to name the scariest haunted house novels of all time, and you’ll almost certainly hear The Haunting of Hill House or The Shining. Rarely will you hear The House Next Door, Anne Rivers Siddons’ 1978 novel that Stephen King himself singled out as one of the best genre novels of the…