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What would you do if you accidentally killed someone while hanging out in a house that you weren’t exactly supposed to be in? Most rational people would immediately call the police and tell the truth. But if you’re one of the three friends in Dan Berk and Robert Olsen’s Body, however, you’re going to do pretty much anything but that.
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The Gallows is comprised of a trifecta of horror movie lameness. The film’s found footage conceit uses standard tricks to deliver the requisite jump scares, it includes a supernatural element in order to conveniently break the rules of the physical world when needed, and weak third act twists pose as meaningful when they’re really meager. It all adds up to a whole lot of nothing.
6.5
I’ve always been a sucker for the creature feature; describe a movie as “giant killer (insert literally any noun in here),” and I’ll probably be excited to check it out – the campier the better. Such is the case with director Benni Diez’s feature debut, Stung, which involves giant killer wasps. It’s, gross, violent, silly and sometimes just plain stupid but in the best kind of way. Top it off with two completely ridiculously fun performances from Clifton Collins Jr. and Lance Henriksen, and you have yourself a bloody good time.
Although I can’t tell you exactly what the plot entails, all you really need to know about the upcoming Indonesian horror film Badoet is that there is a killer clown involved and that should be enough to creep you out.
A new trailer has been posted for the upcoming supernatural horror film The Chosen, starring Kian Lawley, former member of YouTube supergroup O2L (whatever that is). The film revolves around a child stealing demon who attaches itself to a little girl and the
The 5th entry in the Paranormal Activity series (not counting The Marked Ones), Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, received its first trailer today, which promises to finally uncover all the remaining secrets with the series. Although most of us are pretty tired
Dimension Films and Trancas International Films announced today that a new Halloween film is in the works and will officially begin production this July with the title Halloween Returns. Marcus Dunstan (The Collector, The Collection) will be directing and co-writing the film, with Patrick Melton
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When you hit the proverbial wall, it seems like the next logical step would be to go backward. In the case of the hit supernatural franchise Insidious, it seemed like there was nowhere else to go after two films covered the events of the Lambert haunting.
In fact, the route filmmakers eluded to at the end of the second film just felt tacked on and pointless, such that the franchise would have become a parody, no matter how scary and creepy they tried to make the third installment. So having hit the logical end of the Lambert story, the filmmakers decided to go back to the beginning in this less-than-inspiring prequel to the Insidious saga.
One of the more fun films I saw at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival was Benni Diez‘s horror-comedy Stung, in which a garden party gets attacked by giant killer wasps. The film stars Matt O’Leary, Jessica Cook, Clifton Collins Jr., and Lance Henriksen. As
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The restless souls of 2015’s version of Poltergeist have upgraded their method of communication to HDTV, but the film as a whole does little to repackage or freshen-up the 1982 original. This update is a half-hearted and half-baked retread that coasts on straight mimicry rather than tweaking the now well-worn formula for supernatural intrusions into suburbia.
A new trailer for the upcoming Blumhouse-produced horror film The Gallows has been released, and although it looks to follow the same found footage formula as countless others, this one appears to at least provide a decent amount of scares. The film revolves
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In 2009, a little horror film – The Human Centipede (First Sequence) – broke onto the scene and became a notorious sensation. In the film, a mad scientist creates the first “medically accurate” human centipede, where three individuals’ digestive systems are fused together into one gruesome tract.
Universal and Legendary Pictures have released a new international trailer for Guillermo del Toro‘s upcoming gothic horror film Crimson Peak, starring Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam and Jim Beaver.
Crimson Peak opens in theaters October 16th.
Gravitas Ventures has released a new trailer for the upcoming horror film Anarchy Parlor, which involves a group of youngsters on vacation in Lithuania (for some reason) who happen upon a tattoo shop offering more than just tramp stamps and tribals. The
IFC Midnight has released a new trailer for Tom Six‘s The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence), in which a crazed prison warden decides to make an example of his prisoners by creating the world’s largest human centipede consisting of 500 people. The
Gravitas Ventures has picked up the horror film Anarchy Parlor, also known as Parlor, written and directed by Kenny Gage and Devon Downs. The film stars Robert LaSardo as a tattoo artist who provides more than just ink to tourists that happen
