After its buzzed-about festival run (including Emily's 5/5 review), The Restoration at Grayson Manor is headed to theaters. It will be opening in the US on October 9th, but we also have news of its Ir...

Fans of Trick 'r Treat have a lot to get excited about this October. Michael Dougherty has launched SAM: THE SOUL OF HALLOWEEN, a new creative hub that will house all things surrounding everyone's fav...

After wowing Matt Donato and many more attendees of the film's recent Fantastic Fest screening, Joko Anwar's Ghost in the Cell will be released in the US theaters on October 2nd. This week, I had a ch...

Just in time for Halloween, the first issue of the new Bride of Frankenstein comic book series will hit stores on October 28th. Titled The Bride of Frankenstein Lives, the 4-issue miniseries was writt...

Sometimes films are a bit hard to categorize. They flirt with being one thing or another and yet don’t fully commit in either direction. It can make them difficult to qualify, but still fascinating to...

"‘The Traveler & The Troll’ is a Horror-Fantasy Comedy, starring Erika Ishii (Dropout, Ghosts of Yotei) as a weary adventurer who stops to rest in a haunted forest, where they’re terrorized by a Troll...

The world of A Quiet Place expands into the Florida Keys in A Quiet Place: Rising Tides, an upcoming comic book series from writer Declan Shalvey, artist Luke Sparrow, colorist Colin Craker, and lette...

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"Dive into the chilling depths of Latiné horror with this groundbreaking anthology, edited by Bram Stoker Award winner Cynthia Pelayo, where each story reimagines immigration, colonization, faith, and...

Did you know that trans people are allowed to be angry? On screen, too. Representation matters. And I don’t mean tucked away in archives to be discovered 40 years later. I mean aggressively marketed, ...

Sick is for the sickos; low-hanging fruit, but there’s no better description. Agata Trzebuchowska’s erotic-tinged thriller is a twisted tale of forbidden desires and familial boundaries. It’s tasteful...

"When a documentary team set out to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young girl, events soon take an unexpected turn, leading the filmmakers down an increasingly dark and horrifying path....

Filmmaking brothers David and Nathan Zellner march to a beat no one else can hear. Sasquatch Sunset is their most idiosyncratic: a grunted Bigfoot family drama. Their latest, Alpha Gang, is far more c...

Give me a divisive film over a safe, 3-stars-across-the-board title any day. At Fantastic Fest this year, that movie is Compliance.  A quick gander at Letterboxd shows my mutuals in two camps—either t...

"Dive into the chilling depths of Latiné horror with this groundbreaking anthology, edited by Bram Stoker Award winner Cynthia Pelayo, where each story reimagines immigration, colonization, faith, and...

Christmas Horror titles tend to be based on festive themes (duh). A killer St. Nick; nefarious elves; sabotaged presents. Ilja Rautsi's Nordic addition to the ever-growing Xmas massacre canon, Red Sno...

Starry Eyes is a star-making breakout; Pet Sematary (2019) is a remake I’ll stand behind. I'm clearly a fan of filmmaking duo Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer, which makes their latest mucky eco-thrill...

Directed by Jem Garrard (R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead) from a screenplay by Suzanne Keilly (2021’s Slumber Party Massacre), Buzzkill follows sorority sisters trying to survive a revenge-seeking killer, wi...

"Get fully immersed into the world of WERWULF by visiting DevourethAllMankynde.com, an alternate reality game that is timed to each of the full moons between September through November and culminates ...

There's something snug and quaint about the J-Horror stylings of Never After Dark. Writer and director Dave Boyle explores an affable take on the afterlife that becomes a terrifying assessment of the ...

To resurface the old argument yet again, horror has always, and will always, be political. It’s part of its nature. It’s a reflection of our times, our society, and ourselves. Sometimes the social com...

After leading viewers through one of the most breathtaking opening sequences in 21st century horror in Final Destination Bloodlines, Brec Bassinger returns for another round of cinematic scares in Buz...

Lionsgate must be very happy with Beware Boiúna because it's been announced that Mike P. Nelson will be directing the next Saw movie. Partnering with Blumhouse Atomic Monster, this film will see the r...

As India's horror output grows in popularity, films like Samjad's South Indian Half will pave the way. Underrepresented regions with unique voices all have their stories to tell. In this case, Samjad ...

If you've been keeping up on my Instagram posts this year, you know that I've been having some problems with my hands and I had surgery to fix one of them. But I still have one more surgery to go... s...

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Steve Niles’s iconic paranormal detective Cal McDonald returns in Cal McDonald: Plague of Evil and Other Stories, a 216-page hardcover collection featuring ten brand-new stories, each with an illustra...

Duncan Jones’ name hasn’t been on the big screen for far too long. Jones’ last film, Mute, was for Netflix eight years ago, so it’s actually been a decade since we’ve seen a theatrical release from th...

This November, Archie finds himself... in hell! Written by Patrick Horvath, featuring art and lettering by Tyler Crook, and with colors by Francesco Segala and Sabrina del Grosso, the creative team al...

As Maika Monroe solidifies her legacy as a modern genre queen, Victorian Psycho shoots to the top of her resume. Zachary Wigon's unruly period horror flick features the actress at her most unhinged—a ...

I walked out of Joko Anwar’s Ghost in the Cell at 2 AM charged with enough energy to wrestle King Kong off the Empire State Building. Anwar’s scared us senseless with Indonesian imports like Santa’s S...

This year, a friend of mine inspired me to explore areas of film I felt that I didn’t have enough familiarity with. One of those for both of us was silent film. This started a deep dive for me. Now, h...

Interview With the Vampire is now available on 4K UHD and to celebrate the release, I had the opportunity to speak with director Neil Jordan about the restoration, his approach to adapting the book, c...

Written and directed by Dave Boyle, Never After Dark is a ghost story you don't want to miss. I was fortunate to catch it early at the Overlook Film Festival, where it took the Grand Jury Prize and wa...

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Hurt people hurt people; life is cruel and, at times, unfair. At their core, straightforward adages. In Adam Egypt Mortimer’s deliriously heartrending Pathetic Fallacy, they’re the impetus for karmic ...

There is something uniquely scary about being held at the whim of another person who is not in their right mind. Horror has returned to this concept again and again, particularly when the aggressor is...

I love a witch movie. It is one of my favorite little corners of the horror genre. They can be moody and thought provoking (The Witch, She Will), they can be colorful and strange (Suspiria, The Lords ...

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Hello there, Daily Dead Twitch fiends! As many of you likely know, the world of Phantasm suffered a loss recently when the great Reggie Bannister passed away at the age of 80. We want to take the oppo...

I wouldn’t say Julie Darling (1983) is an ideal film to watch on a first date. I wouldn’t say it would work for a ninth one either... unless you are using it as a litmus test to calibrate the weirdnes...

If Him reignited the sports horror subgenre, I'll do a touchdown celebration. That means we'll get more gnarly films like Nikias Chryssos' Bloody Tennis. Chryssos takes competitive sports and survival...

Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson have teamed up with artist Michael Avon Oeming, with colors by Taki Soma and letters by Clem Robins, for Ghost of a Ghost, an all-new 4-issue limited series spinning ou...

As a surprise Halloween season treat, Blumhouse has released The Last Kiss, "a fun and twisted coming-of-age mystery thriller that will keep audiences on their toes and guessing until the very end." D...

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Joshua Giuliano's slasher debut, River, has made quite the splash on the festival circuit. The IFC and Shudder production unexpectedly sold to Universal and Blumhouse Atomic Monster for $10 million in...