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Joe Hill Said the Trailer for Mike Flanagan’s ‘Carrie’ Brought Tears to His Eyes
Joe Hill wasn’t expecting a horror trailer to get to him. But watching the preview for Mike Flanagan‘s ‘Carrie’ on Instagram, the author found himself fighting back tears — and he took to Threads to say so. “Never had that happen before, watching a preview. Maybe I’m getting a bit soggy in my fifties, I…
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Denise Richards’ Forgotten Gem of a Slasher Movie Is Now Streaming on Netflix
Before she was a Bond girl, before Grey’s Anatomy, before Buffy wrapped up for good, there was Valentine (2001) — the deliciously campy slasher that’s just found new life on Netflix. If you missed it the first time around, or wrote it off when critics did, now is the perfect moment to give this holiday-themed…
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Hideo Kojima Cast Bill Skarsgard as the Lead in ‘Physint,’ the Game He Calls the Culmination of His 40-Year Career
Hideo Kojima has found the face of what he’s calling the crowning work of his career. Bill Skarsgård will lead the acclaimed designer’s action-espionage game “Physint,” joining previously announced cast members Charlee Fraser, Don Lee and Minami Hamabe. Kojima confirmed the casting Thursday during Xbox’s Tokyo Game Show 2026 broadcast. “I’m delighted to confirm the…
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Lizzie Borden Was Acquitted of an Ax Murder 130 Years Ago. The Internet Still Isn’t Convinced
In 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were found hacked to pieces with an axe in their own home in Fall River, Massachusetts — Andrew struck roughly 10 times as he napped on the couch, Abby even more upstairs. The prime suspect: Andrew’s own daughter, Lizzie, a 32-year-old Sunday school teacher with a bitter relationship with…
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Now Streaming on Netflix: Ryan Murphy’s Take on Accused Ax Murderer Lizzie Borden
Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan return with the fourth installment of their anthology franchise, and this time the “monster” at the center is one of America’s most enduring true crime figures. Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, now streaming on Netflix, dramatizes the 1892 killings of Andrew and Abby Borden — and hands newcomer Ella Beatty…
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Matthew Lillard Says He’s Ashamed He Returned for ‘Scream 7’ After Melissa Barrera Was Fired for Her Posts on Palestine
Matthew Lillard says he regrets returning for Scream 7, and he’s not being quiet about why. Matthew Lillard admitted that his excitement about playing Stu Macher again kept him from fully considering Melissa Barrera’s removal from the franchise. “I didn’t really think about Melissa and that journey,” he said during a Sept. 15 Q&A after…
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‘It’ and ‘The Wire’ Actor James Ransone Was Left Out of the Emmys in Memoriam, Months After the Oscars Left Him Out Too
The widow of actor James Ransone is speaking out after the Television Academy left her late husband out of the Emmys’ televised In Memoriam tribute. Jamie McPhee called the omission a genuine snub, noting that Ransone’s name appeared only in the longer tribute the Academy published online. “My husband James Ransone was not acknowledged in…
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Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice Plan to Keep the ‘Creep’ Franchise Going Until They Die
Speaking to Bloody Disgusting ahead of the premiere of the third season of The Creep Tapes, franchise creators Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass discussed the future of Peachfuzz and the potential of a third film: Patrick Brice: “We never want it to end. I think it will end in our actual deaths. Creep 3 is…
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Mike Flanagan Cast His New Carrie Without Her Ever Reading the Book or Seeing Sissy Spacek’s Version
When Summer H. Howell first stepped into the role of Carrie White, she did it with a blank slate. The 22-year-old actor had never read Stephen King’s novel, never watched a single screen version, and knew nothing about the telekinesis or the relentless bullying at the heart of the story. She told Entertainment Weekly that…
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Nicolas Cage Says He’s Done Playing Serial Killers After ‘Longlegs’: “I Don’t Want To Play People Who Are Hurting People.”
Nicolas Cage is drawing a line. After the success of Longlegs in 2024, the actor says he’s done playing serial killers. “I know that the phone’s going to be ringing off the hook to play serial killers after Longlegs,” Cage told IndieWire. “And that’s not really what I like to do. I don’t like violence.…
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Haunted Sets: Joey King Developed a Rare Blood Disorder Filming ‘The Conjuring,’ with Bruises That Doctors Couldn’t Explain
Joey King was 12-years-old when something strange began happening on the set of The Conjuring. During filming in North Carolina, unexplained bruises spread across her chest, back and other unusual areas of her body. At first, the makeup team assumed the marks were fake and tried to scrub them off with alcohol and oil. They…
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Courteney Cox Is Lobbying to Direct ‘Scream 8,’ and She’d Be the First Woman to Run the Franchise’s Creative Crew
Courteney Cox has a pitch for whoever’s hiring on Scream 8: give her the director’s chair. “I think I should, honestly. Nobody knows more about that movie than I do,” Cox said at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, when Deadline asked if she’d take on the eighth film. It’s a fair claim. She’s…
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Stanley Kubrick Cut a Two-Minute Hospital Scene from ‘The Shining’ Days After It Was Already in Theaters, Then Ordered Every Copy Destroyed
For a few days in 1980, audiences who bought a ticket to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining saw an ending that no one has been able to watch since. After Jack Torrance froze to death in the Overlook’s hedge maze, the film continued into a hospital, where Wendy and Danny appear alive and recovering, and hotel…
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Charlie Sheen Called the FBI Because This Horror Movie Was Too Disturbing
In the late 1980s, actor Charlie Sheen sat down to watch a horror movie and became so convinced that what he was seeing was real that he contacted the FBI. The film was so graphic, so committed to looking like an actual murder, that Sheen believed he was watching someone die on camera. The movie…
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8 Horror Movies and TV Shows That Feel Like ‘Widow’s Bay’
Widow’s Bay swept the Emmys, proving a cursed New England island can be both terrifying and funny enough to take home a record 14 awards. There’s a reason small coastal towns and isolated islands keep showing up in horror: the water cuts you off, the fog hides what’s coming, and everyone already knows everyone else’s…
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A Weird Horror Comedy About a Cursed New England Island Just Broke the Emmys Record with 14 Wins
“Widow’s Bay” swept all 6 categories it entered Monday night, bringing its single-season total to 14 Emmys and passing the comedy record of 13 set by “The Studio” last year. The Apple TV series had already collected 8 awards at an earlier ceremony. The first-season show follows a New England island community confronting a centuries-old…
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Linda Cardellini Goes “Full Kill-Crazy Rampage” as a Young Pamela Voorhees in ‘Crystal Lake’
Peacock’s Crystal Lake goes back eight years before Friday the 13th (1980) and treats the camp legend as a family story first. Jason Voorhees has always had a different temperature than Myers, Freddy, Chucky, or Ghostface. He is still an unstoppable murder machine. He is also a drowned kid and a mother who never recovered.…
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Wes Craven Told David Arquette to Look at Courteney Cox “Like You’ve Been Looking For This Person Your Whole Life.” They Got Married Three Years Later
Some of the most enduring love stories start on a movie set — and for David Arquette and Courteney Cox, it started on one of the scariest. Nearly three decades after the cameras rolled on the first Scream, Arquette is reflecting on how a fictional romance between two of the film’s characters quietly turned into…