Sifting decades of horror television down to just a devil’s dozen requires discipline and ruthlessness. There can be no mercy. If a horror TV show once reigned supreme from a throne of grisly guts but now feels about as desirable an experience as a colonoscopy, it didn’t make this list. If another show spooked us
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This article contains Last Night in Soho spoilers. Our spoiler-free review is here. It takes less than a minute to realize just how much Thomasin McKenzie’s Eloise adores the ‘60s in Last Night in Soho. Strutting into her childhood bedroom as Peter and Gordon’s “A World Without Love” plays (on vinyl, of course), the star
Bestselling author V.E. Schwab isn’t known as a horror writer, but once you begin looking for horror elements in her prolific body of speculative fiction work, you’ll start finding them everywhere: A library where dead people are kept on the shelves like books in The Archived. A world where people come away from near-death experiences
There’s something special about “that moment” in the horror genre. Whether it’s the scene from that movie that’s been burned into your head since childhood or the passage of that book you’ll always wish you couldn’t recite from heart, there are just times when horror is so perfectly distilled into a single moment that we
After nearly four decades making monsters, Greg Nicotero understands how to create scares. From zombies to vampires, mummies, and more, it would seem there is no type of terror the special makeup effects master, director, and producer has not worked on. And it would seem his expertise focusing on so many fictional fears has even
Skydance New Media and Marvel Entertainment have revealed that writer and director Amy Hennig (Uncharted, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver) is working on a new AAA game set in the Marvel universe. “I can’t imagine a better partner than Marvel for our first game,” says Hennig, President of Skydance New Media. “The Marvel Universe epitomizes all
This article contains Last Night in Soho spoilers. Thomasin McKenzie’s Eloise Turner is a young woman who’s always been haunted by ghosts. That was true at the beginning of Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho and it proves just as accurate by the end when she smiles at a blonde haired specter in the mirror.
Directed by Silenn Thomas (300), Frank Miller – American Genius follows the near half-century career of the legendary comic book writer/artist Frank Miller, through his small-town beginnings in Vermont all the way to New York City, Hollywood, and beyond. Now, after over four years creating the documentary, it is showing at this year’s Lucca festival,
Like a needle on a record, Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho drops a sharp stylus into a deep groove and lets her spin. Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie) is a modern fashion design student in the film—modern in the sense that she is a 21st century woman living in contemporary England. But in her dreams she
It’s been six long years since we last saw the shaky, handheld footage of a Paranormal Activity movie. Which by the measurement of Hollywood franchises is probably four or five years too many. That might explain why the franchise’s soft reboot in this weekend’s Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin seemed like a no-brainer for Paramount
“They’re really nice people you know. [Laughs] They look very frightening, but they’re really very nice.” That compliment, dubiously delivered on Saturday Night Live’s 1981 Halloween episode by a thematically-apropriate host in Halloween star Donald Pleasance, served as the introduction for the show’s most unique musical act: SoCal hardcore punk rock band Fear. However, differing
Released: 29 October Certificate: 15 Director: Matthias Schweighöfer Cast: Matthias Schweighöfer, Nathalie Emmanuel, Stuart Martin, Ruby O. Fee, Guz Khan, Jonathan Cohen, Noémie Nakai, Christian Steyer Distributor: Netflix Running Time: 127 mins A non-horror prequel to a horror movie, where zombies are relegated to news reports and dreams, Army of Thieves is a film where
This article contains spoilers for both Army of Thieves and Army of the Dead. If you ever wondered what brought Ludwig Dieter to zombie-infested Las Vegas, Army of Thieves has the answers. The Army of the Dead prequel not only serves as an origin story for Ludwig (Matthias Schweighöfer) but also as an introduction for
While previous production photos from the set of HBO’s The Last of Us series have focused on the show’s main characters, the latest set of leaked shots offers a much better look at the show’s version of this franchise’s Cordyceps fungus ravaged post-apocalyptic world. For those who don’t know, the inciting incident that triggers the
This article contains spoilers for What We Do in the Shadows season 3 episode 10. Nature or nurture appears to be the theme moving forward, as the What We Do in the Shadows’ season 3 finale dropped a bundle on viewers. The vampire housemates are left scattered on ship ports and train platforms, and may
Released: 29 October (at cinemas) Certificate: 15 Director: Kenji Nagasaki Writer: Yōsuke Kuroda (screenplay) Cast: Daiki Yamashita, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Yuki Kaji Running Time: 104 mins With five seasons done and dusted, a sixth announced, and now three movies, My Hero Academia is something of an unstoppable force in the world of anime. That’s not surprising
This article contains spoilers for What We Do in the Shadows season 3 episode 10. There is a very different vibe at the Staten Island vampire house in the aftermath of “The Portrait,” and it has little to do with the oil-based nuances captured by Donal Logue. Artistic master-stokes are usually reserved for Laszlo (Matt
Ben Gibson has a habit of surprising people with his knowledge of intensely local lore. Oftentimes when a stranger mentions that they’re from a small town he’s never heard of, Gibson is ready with a whole host of native facts. “I’ll respond with ‘Oh that place where they have the local legend of the firebird
This article contains Dune: Part One spoilers and minor Dune: Part Two spoilers. So you’ve probably heard that Zendaya doesn’t have a whole lot of screen time in the new Dune movie. Despite the actress being upfront with the press and saying months ago she was only on set for four days, folks have been
The roster for WB’s rumored multiverse platform fighting game (which will reportedly resemble Super Smash Bros. and Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl) has seemingly been leaked, and it features an absolutely mind-boggling collection of characters. While the leaked screenshot of the rumored roster that was initially shared by a prominent Smash Bros. player has since been removed,
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