At its core, Other Mommy is a bedtime lullaby gone haywire. Marketing and trailers try to insinuate otherwise by packing in jump scares and loud musical stings. There's a disconnect between Universal'...

Martyr: a person who suffers persecution and death rather than renounce a religious belief or core principle. Mike Flanagan’s The Exorcist: Martyrs only in theaters March 12. Written & Directed by: Mi...

This October you don't just have the Trick 'r Treat movie to watch throughout the Halloween season... Sam is back in four new tales in Trick 'r Treat: Witching Hours graphic novel on October 13th! Mic...

Just in time for Halloween, Tubi's Original film, R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead 2, is now available to watch! The highly anticipated sequel to last year’s well-received film, inspired by a chilling short s...

Slasher Trash Trailer & Cast Reveal: "Celebrate and explore obscure slashers in the ultimate slasher documentary featuring David Howard Thornton (Art the Clown, Terrifier), Grady Hendrix (Author: The ...

It’s no secret that I’m a really big Hellraiser geek. Here at Daily Dead, folks have likely seen my writing about Clive Barker’s masterpiece, heard me chatting about the dizzying highs and excruciatin...

All eight episodes of the highly-anticipated Carrie series are now available on Prime Video, and I got to catch up with Mike Flanagan and much of the main cast during a recent press day. From discussi...

"Eisner-nominated writer Josh Tierney (World Piece, Iris Complex) joins longtime collaborator Caitlin Soliman (Iris Complex) in this spooky middle-grade graphic novel about ghosts, friendship, and mak...

"All Hell Breaks Loose in This Two-Issue Comics Event Legendary Hellboy creator Mike Mignola is revisiting one of the most iconic chapters in Hellboy history with a brand new two-issue comic event, He...

The crunch of leaves underfoot, the crisp smell of warm apple cider in the air… and a curse that threatens to transform the heads of its victims into pumpkins. Yes, the Halloween season is upon us onc...

Every year, Dark Horse Comics celebrates the Halloween season by making some of their previous issues free to read, and with Mike Mignola returning to his iconic Hellboy in Hell saga, we've teamed up ...

Exploring horror, film, and pop culture, all while celebrating the creators, history, and artistry that keep the genre alive.

For many longtime voyeurs of Italian horror films and their creators, Michele Soavi is a name as revered as Dario Argento, Mario Bava, and Lucio Fulci. Makes perfect sense; Argento was his mentor, and...

Some horror franchises mature; V/H/S seems to be growing more rebellious with each entry. V/H/S/Mixtape continues Shudder’s stellar anthology run behind producer Josh Goldblum, tuning into audio horro...

Heather Wixson explores horror, film, and pop culture, all while celebrating the creators, history, and artistry that keep the genre alive.

Heather Wixson explores horror, film, and pop culture, all while celebrating the creators, history, and artistry that keep the genre alive.

Throughout the perilous pages of Orlok Press' Dracula—Book I: The Impaler, Dracula—Book II: The Brides, and Dracula: Book III—The Count (flying onto shelves October 20th from Dark Horse), Matt Wagner ...

"An art book, Fever Dream features 116 pages of never-before-seen comic pages, sketches, and illustrations. An absolute visual treasure trove, Fever Dream is for fans of the process, the raw and the c...

Over the years, we've seen the Science of Scare Project measure heart rates to determine which movie is the scariest, with Sinister taking the top score multiple years in a row. That project involved ...

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...

Exploring horror, film, and pop culture, all while celebrating the creators, history, and artistry that keep the genre alive.

"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...