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Spoiler Alert: The following article contains spoilers for Weapons.

In Weapons, horror filmmaker-scribe Zach Cregger crafts images that are so striking, it’s hard to believe the movie’s visual language was fluid enough to accommodate happy accidents. But that’s exactly what happened, according to hair department head Melizah Anguiano Wheat, makeup department head Leo Satkovich and special makeup effects designer Jason Collins.

“Nothing is done [in] a vacuum — nothing,” notes Collins, whose company, Autonomous FX, Inc., contributed to the Warner Bros. film. “And I think you always end up [with] a better result when everybody is putting all of their ideas into it. What was great about this group of people, was there was no ego. It was just wanting to create the best character. I think some of that has to do with: We all love Barbarian. We love the script. We love Zach’s energy. Sometimes you win the lottery with people.

This article contains spoilers for "Weapons."

Horror subgenres tend to go through periods of waxing and waning popularity. For example, slasher movies exploded in the early 1980s, died out a bit, came back strong in the late '90s, and so on. One of the more intriguing (and perhaps undersung) horror subgenres is that of the psycho-biddy film, also known as Hagsploitation. As with most all horror cinema subgenres, the trend wasn't created from whole cloth, but instead grew out of elements that had already been present in pop culture.

While it might appear that Hagsploitation is solely about a fear of (or at least an anxiety about) aging — and thus a fear of our own mortality — that's not quite accurate. In general, the psycho-biddy film, as that name suggests, puts an emphasis on elderly women rather than men. The fear that's exploited isn't one of aging or decrepitude, but...

It’s been a major year for Dread Central’s Editor-in-Chief, Mary Beth McAndrews. Her directorial debut Bystanders was a genre film festival darling, taking home awards at prestigious events, including the Nightmares Film Festival, HorrorHound Film Festival, and SoHo Horror Fest. She was the center of a Variety profile and also received her second Rondo Award nomination for her Dread podcast Scarred for Life. Now our resident found footage defender is set to unleash a non-fiction book about the seminal masterpiece of the subgenre, Paranormal Activity, through publisher DieDieBooks.

Horror fans are deeply familiar with the impact that the Paranormal Activity franchise has had on the genre and the industry at large. “The horror genre experienced a seismic shift on September 25, 2009, when no-name director Oren Peli’s found footage masterpiece Paranormal Activity was released in theaters,” DieDieBooks writes on its official pre-order page. “With just a few thousand dollars,...

Hell of a Role Al Pacino recently took on the role of a Catholic priest confronting the Devil himself. The (for lack of a congruent term of what he brings to any role) gravitas of Pacino anchors Father Theophilus Riesinger, the German-born Capuchin priest who famously endured a grueling four-month battle to reclaim Schmidt’s soul from demonic control. Set in 1928 Iowa and steeped in the scorched bones of American demonology, ‘The Ritual’ follows two priests- one devout but fractured, the other wavering in faith- tasked with exorcising a woman gripped by violent possession. This isn’t just another fictional horror tale. The film is based directly on Begone Satan!, the 1935 pamphlet detailing the real-life exorcism of Emma Schmidt, a documented case so harrowing it has long haunted the fringe between folklore and faith. The same material inspired William Peter Blatty’s ‘The Exorcist’ and, eventually, William Friedkin’s landmark 1973 film.

Hell of a Role Al Pacino recently took on the role of a Catholic priest confronting the Devil himself. The (for lack of a congruent term of what he brings to any role) gravitas of Pacino anchors Father Theophilus Riesinger, the German-born Capuchin priest who famously endured a grueling four-month battle to reclaim Schmidt’s soul from demonic control. Set in 1928 Iowa and steeped in the scorched bones of American demonology, ‘The Ritual’ follows two priests- one devout but fractured, the other wavering in faith- tasked with exorcising a woman gripped by violent possession. This isn’t just another fictional horror tale. The film is based directly on Begone Satan!, the 1935 pamphlet detailing the real-life exorcism of Emma Schmidt, a documented case so harrowing it has long haunted the fringe between folklore and faith. The same material inspired William Peter Blatty’s ‘The Exorcist’ and, eventually, William Friedkin’s landmark 1973 film.

Robert Aldrich's 1967 film "The Dirty Dozen" is often cited as one of the most masculine movies ever made. Set in 1944, it follows the travails of Major John Reisman (Lee Marvin) as he is assigned to lead a 12-man platoon of ex-convicts and ultra-violent Army near-dropouts. Reisman is tasked with training up some of the worst and most horrible people in the Army, get them up to snuff, and lead them on a secret mission into a Nazi stronghold in France. The soldiers are all awful in one way or another, so their mission to kill Nazi higher-ups offers them something violently heroic to do with their tempers. The Dirty Dozen included notable actors like Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes, Telly Savalas, Jim Brown, and Donald Sutherland. Ernest Borgnine played a fellow general.

"The Dirty Dozen" was a huge success, earning over $45 million at the box office on a $5.3 million budget.

In the "Gunsmoke" episode "The Jailer", Miss Kitty (Amanda Blake) and Matt Dillon (James Arness) are kidnapped by a bitter old woman in a black dress. Her name is Etta Stone, and she was played by the legendary Bette Davis (who was credited as "Miss Bette Davis"). Etta aims to hang Matt, as he killed her husband — a criminal — several years before. The old woman feels as if Matt himself committed a crime with his murder, however, and needed to face her own frontier justice. The episode also starred "Gunsmoke" regular-guest Bruce Dern (star of "Nebraska") as Etta Stone's son.

Working with a star of Davis' stature was, according to the trivia section on IMDb, intimidating for the "Gunsmoke" cast. Even though the show had been a hit for 12 seasons by the time "The Jailer" aired, there were still levels of fame that Arness and especially Blake weren't used to dealing with.

Dig deeper into Jenny Pen’s heritage with IndieWire After Dark! In March 2025, our weekly midnight movie club is revisiting three of the fringe film influences that inspired “The Rule of Jenny Pen.”

Where do babies come from? Under “The Rule of Jenny Pen,” the answer isn’t as simple as having unprotected sex or getting a visit from the stork. No, the brainchild of director James Ashcroft and puppeteer Paul Lewis has an especially complicated birth story and answers to more artistic parents than most.

Part David Lynch, part Muppet, the titular Jenny Pen debuted in theaters on March 7. She’s a Pisces who is laying early claim to the title of 2025’s favorite new horror icon, thanks to the midwives over at IFC Films and Shudder. (“The Rule of Jenny Pen” will stream exclusively on the horror platform and AMC+ starting on March 28.)

The centerpiece to a toxic...

While All Elite Wrestling fans know her as high-maintenance, low-saturation champion “Timeless” Toni Storm, moviegoers will meet her Clara Mortensen in Ash Avildsen’s Mildred Burke biopic “Queen of the Ring,” in theaters now.

As both a lifelong wrestling fan and an active participant in the sport, Storm says she was honored to embody an early women’s wrestling pioneer like Mortensen. “It was surreal for me, very surreal. Clara, she was a real person once upon a time. I felt like there was an uncanny resemblance as well. I had no idea I looked so good in yellow.”

Despite limited footage, Storm worked to nail Mortensen’s specific in-ring mannerisms. “I studied absolutely everything and really tried to nail stepping into the role of a female wrestler from the 30s and 40s. When I was filming the actual wrestling part of it, I really tried to make it look...

Whenever you get veteran stars on the level of John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush in leading roles on screen, attention must be paid.

This teaming, and opportunity for Lithgow (79) and Rush (73) in an industry that doesn’t often offer this kind of chance for its veteran stars. is rare. But in director James Ashcroft’s creepy nursing home drama The Rule of Jenny Pen they get one and go for it with no brakes applied. It is deliriously delicious to watch, if sometimes difficult to digest.

Actually, it is almost impossible to see this film and not compare it to the swath of horror films offered to veteran golden age stars, well past their prime, in the 1960s with everything from Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte to Lady in a Cage, Dead Ringer, What’s The Matter With Helen? and on and on. But the movie that comes firmly to mind...

Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during Fantastic Fest 2024. IFC Films opens “The Rule of Jenny Pen” in select theaters Friday, March 7, with a Shudder premiere on March 28.

When recommended a beach-read by a roommate he doesn’t want, the academic Judge Stefan Mortensen (Geoffrey Rush) scoffs, “All those books say the same thing.”

10 years after Julianne Moore won her Oscar for “Still Alice,” moviegoers could argue something similar about an indie drama casting an elite actor as a dementia patient in rapid decline. Those audiences will be the least prepared for “The Rule of Jenny Pen” and may feel its singular wrath stronger than most. That’s an enviable position to be in for one of recent memory’s more unusual thrillers — even if its lack of narrative convention veers more vexing in the end.

Directed by James Ashcroft, this punishing dark genre blend acquired by Shudder...

Hollywood is a pressure cooker of talent, ambition, and, of course, drama. With fame comes competition, and with competition comes some of the biggest celebrity feuds. Whether it’s actors clashing over roles, musicians battling for the top spot on the charts, or directors and stars butting heads over creative differences, the entertainment world is never short of rivalries.

Sometimes it’s a friendly tension, other times it spirals into a full-blown war, especially when egos, relationships, and big money are involved. Some stars simply can’t stand each other, and when their disagreements spill into the public eye, it’s impossible to look away. Fans take sides, social media erupts, and what starts as a private spat often turns into a headline-grabbing saga.

From career battles to personal vendettas, here are the celebrity feuds of all time that had everyone talking!

30. Sean Young and James Woods

The feud between...

Justin Baldoni's media team will have to come up with some stronger hit pieces if they think they can weasel their way out of this current PR disaster.

As every gossip outlet in the English language continues to proclaim in explosive headlines designed to make heads spin in the check-out line, the It Ends with Us star and director is currently embroiled in the most high-profile celebrity feud with former co-star Blake Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds since Bette Davis and Joan Crawford turned the set of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? into a war zone. Lively accused Baldoni of sexual harassment and creating a toxic work environment on It Ends with Us in a lawsuit filed late last year, and Baldoni has since shot back with dizzying $400 million defamation countersuit against Lively, her publicist Leslie Sloane and Reynolds, whom Baldoni's lawyer believes created the character of...

It’s no secret that the 1960s gave us some of the finest horror movies ever made. Psycho, Rosemary’s Baby, Night of the Living Dead, and The Birds are just a few that come to mind, yet in the midst of all those came a psychological horror-thriller in 1962 that has gone on to be regarded as a classic of the genre, despite its campy elements. Now, more than 60 years later, the Academy Award-nominated film is a streaming hit on Tubi that’s being rediscovered by a ton of new viewers.

Per Tubi, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? sits at number five on the streaming platform’s Top 10 list at the time of this writing, sandwiched in between Queen of the Damned and the Robin Williams hit Mrs. Doubtfire. Released on Halloween, 1962, the film stars incomparable actresses Bette Davis and Joan Crawford as two former child star sisters tormenting one...

Horror movie villains come in all forms, but there's something to be said about some of the genre's best female antagonists. Historically, horror films often relegated women to stereotypical roles as damsels in distress or disposable victims devoid of autonomy and rationality. While suspense movies occasionally featured female villains, it's only recently that horror has begun to present women as antagonists on equal footing with their male counterparts. The most chilling female antagonists defy stereotypes and challenge traditional perceptions of women, girlhood, and femininity by weaponizing them to unsettle viewers through blood-soaked rampages.

These characters exploit outdated assumptions about women being underestimated or dismissed as threats, cleverly using these perceptions to catch both their victims and audiences off-guard. With ruthless precision, they orchestrate events and execute their twisted visions without hesitation, whether through violent slayings or masterful manipulation. In doing so, they command respect and evoke fear typically reserved for male characters.

Receiving an Academy Award is the pinnacle of any actor's career. While winning is the goal, just being nominated is also an honor. Leonardo DiCaprio is a classic example of an actor who was nominated countless times before finally winning for his performance in The Revenant in 2016, 12 years after he was first nominated in 1994 for What's Eating Gilbert Grabe. It can be a tense waiting game for actors who are nominated several times and continue to lose, especially for those actors who've put their energy into transforming into different characters and getting nominated for stellar performances consecutively.

To say you're a "three, four, or five-time Academy Award-nominated actor" is an especially desirable accolade. When those nominations are one after another, it keeps the actor relevant. Bradley Cooper's Oscar losing streak comprises him being nominated three times in a row for Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, and American Sniper from...

David Tennant's Rivals show makes for a worthwhile watch ahead of the wait for Feud's third season. The first season of Feud focused on the rivalry between legendary Hollywood actresses Bette Midler and Joan Crawford during their time on the set of the movie Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?; season 2, released seven years later, chronicled the conflicts between author Truman Capote and his socialites. Both seasons included believable performances and strong scripts that helped make the series a success.

Both seasons of Feud received critical acclaim, receiving praise for its casting and multiple Emmy nominations. A potential third season of Feud has yet to be confirmed, but creator Ryan Murphy has admitted that he has ideas on what he would like it to be about. While waiting for the confirmation of Feud Season 3, there is a new series on Disney+ that should be watched by those who enjoyed the drama series.

Nothing like a little decapitation to ring in the spooky season! Expanding on one of its most beloved showcases, “Mind F*ck Night” the Lower East Side Film Festival is unveiling a new, three-day pop-up festival called “Off/Season.” The series will focus on terrifying, mind-altering, genre-defying cinema and feature a curated selection of advanced screenings, retrospectives, short films, as well as filmmaker Q&As and receptions, all held at the Alamo Drafthouse, Lower Manhattan location from October 2-4.

In honor of the film’s 60th anniversary, “Off/Season” is proud to present “Strait-Jacket” from B-Movie horror master William Castle. Featuring screen legend Joan Crawford, this “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” follow-up continued the star’s decent into hagsploitation, but has become a cult classic in its own right, with her madly swinging an axe becoming one of cinema’s most iconic images. Castle’s daughter, Terry Castle, will be...

A24’s new horror film “The Front Room” is a wild ride even by the standards of the studio that earlier this year brought us “Maxxine” and “Love Lies Bleeding“; its tale of a young wife (Brandy Norwood) who finds herself locked in spiritual and physical combat with the ailing evil mother-in-law (Kathryn Hunter) who moves into her home veers back and forth between genres and tones with dazzling dexterity. At times a social realist drama about how practical necessity informs life-changing choices (this is every bit as much an economic horror film as the original “Amityville Horror”), at others a hallucinatory nightmare infused with outrageous dark comedy, “The Front Room” encompasses a wide range of emotional effects that don’t typically coexist in the same movie.

According to filmmaking twin brothers Max and Sam Eggers, the approach grew organically from their real life experiences as caretakers for their dying grandfather.

Relatives are generally seen as just another fact of life, people who can either be a comfort, an annoyance, or a burden. Given the multi-faceted nature of people, it's typically some mixture of all three. Yet their burdens can quickly become quirks that get raised to the level of family mythology, a series of events, stories and inside jokes that only you and those related to you can chuckle at. Stuff like "Oops, Aunt Lydia stunk up the bathroom again" turns the chore-esque aspect of having relatives into something more manageable, even charming. Because, deep down, there's love there, and being human is not always an easy or smooth experience. But what if there wasn't any love? What if there was only hate, and not just run of the mill hate, but deep-seated, generational, bigoted hate?

That's just one of the themes explored by "The Front Room," the first feature...

When finding your angle on a film review, it can be helpful to use dialogue as inspiration. From brothers Max and Sam Eggers, A24’s “The Front Room” is a wildly inappropriate horror effort that offers several good options in this regard.

“Why can’t I Die?!”

“I’m a racist baby, goo-goo, gah-gah.”

“Stop crying for yourself.”

“Just…let me know who wins.”

“Are you Kidding me?”

Take your pick of those lines or combine a couple. Whatever you come up with won’t get close to the sheer ridiculousness in this bonkers co-directorial debut. Starring Brandy as the very pregnant Belinda, the Eggers twins’ first feature is a melodramatic fairytale about end-of-life caregiving, generational racism, and hating the literal shit out of your mother-in-law. This feces-centric film is better off not compared to the work of the filmmakers’ older brother, Robert Eggers; although, there are specks of surreal...

Quick Links Pearl and Maxine Show the Sympathetic Side of Killer Ambition Mia Goth Joins the Ranks of Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, and Divine Stardom Isn't Forever, But These Stories Are Timeless

The trilogy of X, Pearl, and MaXXXine features two women who sacrifice everything for fame where "everything" usually means "other people". The naked ambition of Pearl Douglas and Maxine Minx has won them legions of fans, and while their movies feel strikingly original, fame is a familiar cult film subject. Ti West and Mia Goth's antiheroes have predecessors in movies ranging from Sunset Boulevard to Female Trouble, and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? to The Neon Demon.

The frequently-remade A Star Is Born proves that fame fables have mainstream appeal, but cult movies do it better. Showgirls depicts a desperate dancer's Dantesque journey to the dark heart of Las Vegas, while Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls...

There is nothing as haunting as a mother’s grief over losing a child.

Anne Hathaway stars as a woman whose son has a fatal fall from her balcony, with Jessica Chastain playing her best friend and neighbor. Benoît Delhomme directs the domestic drama “Mothers’ Instinct,” which is a remake of Olivier Masset-Depasse’s 2017 Belgium film “Duelles” based on the novel “Derrière la Haine” by Barbara Abel.

Director Masset-Depasse won a record-breaking nine Magritte Awards from the Belgian Academy including Best Film and Best Director for the original film “Duelles.” Writer Sarah Conradt (“50 States of Fright”) adapted the English language script.

The official synopsis reads: Set in the 1960s, “Mothers’ Instinct” centers on best friends and neighbors Alice (Chastain) and Celine (Hathaway), who live in a suburban paradise. Both are mothers to two sons of the same age, and their idyllic domestic happiness is shattered after a tragic accident.

Spoiler Alert: The following review contains mild spoilers.

Now here’s a first: Apart from the pale-faced freak show of the film’s title, the experience of watching “Longlegs” didn’t strike me as all that frightening. At first. In the moment, it’s considerably less scary than the ecstatic early buzz — ginned up by Neon via whisper campaigns and strategic advance screenings — would have you believe. Less than 12 hours after seeing it, however, the demented Nicolas Cage character resurfaced in my nightmares, popping up out of nowhere to screech, “Hail Satan!” in that unnerving, high-pitched voice of his.

How many horror movies can claim to hijack your subconscious? With “Longlegs,” writer-director Osgood Perkins (“The Blackcoat’s Daughter”) delivers the kind of payoff we sought out as kids, daring ourselves to watch films about boogeymen that made us want to sleep with the lights on. Here, Cage plays a clearly unwell...

In Robert Aldrich's 1967 World War II film "The Dirty Dozen," an ambitious army Major named John Reisman (Lee Marvin) is tasked with assembling 12 American soldiers who have all been thrown in military prison for their insubordination and tendencies toward violence. His job is to whip them into shape, as he intends to send them on a particularly dangerous mission: infiltrating a Nazi stronghold. It's easily one of the manliest films ever made, something Aldrich was good at; he also directed "Kiss Me Deadly," "The Longest Yard," and "The Flight of the Phoenix." It's a testament to Aldrich's talent that he also made famously femme films like "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?," and "Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte."

The second member of the Dirty Dozen was a character named Vernon L. Pinkley, played by the late, great Donald Sutherland. There is a scene wherein Reisman asks Pinkley -- at the last...

There’s nothing quite like cinema under the stars. The Los Angeles based screening org Cinespia understands that and for the last 22 years, founder John Wyatt and his team have been bringing people together for outdoor showings of classic films every summer at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Sponsored by Amazon & Wondery, this month and next features screenings of “D.E.B.S” for L.A. Pride, “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?,” “Rocky” on July 4th with fireworks, and many more, but this past Saturday’s presentation of the 2007 Beatles musical “Across the Universe” had an extra special treat for guests. Star Evan Rachel Wood was there to introduce the film via video message and offered some fascinating tidbits on making it and the struggle getting it released, as well as the impact it had on her life and career.

A knee injury prevented Wood from attending in person, but sitting on the grass...

Ranker is a popular place on the Internet where people can rank whatever they want, however, they want, and whenever they want. This is always a fan-focused ranking system, and it is never officially tied to the people behind the projects in question. Recently, a large survey was organized on Ranker, whose goal was to determine the best actresses of all time. The list includes more than 300 names, but in our report, we have decided to list the top ten actresses from the site to provide you with better insight, combined with our original comments and opinions, which will add flavor to the whole report.

Of course, since this is indeed an important list, we have decided to report on it, so we are going to bring you the results by listing the top 10 actresses on this list, from 10th to first place. We hope you’ll enjoy it!

10. Cate Blanchett...

Between its striking title, lurid artwork, and the timing of its release — 1981 bore the likes of Halloween II, Friday the 13th Part 2, My Bloody Valentine, The Burning, The Funhouse, The Prowler, and Happy Birthday to Me — one might mistake Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (also known as Night Warning) for a run-of-the-mill slasher flick. While it vaguely fits in the slice-and-dice mold, the film is anything but generic.

The prologue — which may have inspired Final Destination 2‘s unforgettable opening sequence — was directed by Michael Miller with cinematography by Jan de Bont, but Miller was let go by the production after falling behind schedule. He was replaced by TV veteran William Asher, who shot the remainder of the film with Robbie Greenberg as director of photography.

14 years after his parents were killed in an over-the-top car crash, Billy Lynch witnesses his infantilizing aunt-turned-guardian, Cheryl Roberts, kill a repair man in cold blood.

On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.

First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.

Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.

The Pitch: After Dark but Make It for Gays of a Certain Age

When I was pressed into service for IndieWire After Dark, I hesitated all of five seconds before I screamed, “What’s the Matter With Helen?” at Ali. Partly because it’s a truly bonkers hagsploitation movie but mostly because I greedily grasp at every excuse to discuss Curtis Harrington’s examination of what the mothers of thrill killers Leopold and Loeb might have done with their lives after their sons’ convictions.

Move from the Midwest to Los Angeles to...

If you’ve been anywhere near a television in the last couple of years, odds are you’re already familiar with Dominic Burgess. The British actor broke through in 2017’s “Feud: Bette and Joan” as actor Victor Buono, before popping up in a number of memorable appearances — playing everything from serial killer John Wayne Gacy in “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” to an accident-prone man on “The Good Place” whose hideous red boots create an existential crisis for Chidi.

Most recently, the actor has been stealing scenes as Grayman, the stylist to the grande dames (including Kristen Wiig and Allison Janney) on Apple TV’s “Palm Royale” — and as Hamish Moss, a director on the rise on “American Horror Story: Delicate.” That is, he was on the rise before the April 3 episode, in which Moss met a gruesome death at the hands of Kim Kardashian’s devilish publicist.

We all know the idiom, “A watched pot never boils.” And in the context of FX’s latest anthology, Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, time indeed feels sluggish while you’re waiting for something to happen. You know there are juicy stories to savor, but the narrative keeps on bubbling and at some point, you get tired of waiting for the tea to spill.

Capote Vs. The Swans comes seven years after Feud: Bette and Joan dished out striking details on the drama between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford surrounding the filming of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?. It also comes on the heels of a planned premise about the royals, Charles and Diana (later renamed Buckingham Palace), starring Matthew Goode and Rosamund Pike. That iteration of Feud was scrapped in 2018.

Feud season 2 will explore the rift between Truman Capote and his high-society friends after he exposed their debauched antics in his unfinished novel Answered Prayers. Chapters of Capote's unfinished novel were published in Esquire, causing controversy and leading to his wealthy friends cutting off all ties with him. Psychologist Carolyn Mair suggests that Capote's ability to recall conversations verbatim made him a source of gossip, leading him to resent and expose the secrets of the elite world he was part of.

Feud season 2 will revolve around the depraved socialites who turned on their friend, famed writer Truman Capote, when he described their lifestyle on paper. After season 1 tackled the rivalry between Hollywood starlets Joan Crawford and Bette Davis during the making of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Feud season 2 – subtitled Capote vs. The Swans – will tell the story of the rift between acclaimed author Truman Capote and his...

FX on Wednesday released a trailer for Feud Season 2 — which comes nearly seven years after the end of Season 1.

Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans — the second installment in Ryan Murphy’s critically acclaimed anthology — is based on Laurence Leamer’s book Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era, and chronicles author Truman Capote’s betrayal of his close female friends in the 1970s. Read on for the official logline:

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FX has released the first teaser for Ryan Murphy’s upcoming series “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans.” The second season of Murphy’s anthology series chronicles the literary scandal that sparked a fallout between writer Truman Capote and a high-society group of women, known as his “Swans.”

Tom Hollander portrays Truman Capote, the “In Cold Blood” and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” author who betrayed his close circle of powerful women by publishing a story titled “La Côte Basque, 1965” in Esquire. The “Swans” include Babe Paley (Naomi Watts), C.Z. Guest (Chloë Sevigny) and Slim Keith (Diane Lane), wealthy and powerful women whose secrets are revealed after Capote’s story is published.

Joining the cast are Calista Flockhart, Demi Moore, Treat Williams and Molly Ringwald. Flockhart and Moore portray fellow “Swans” Lee Radziwill and Ann Woodward, respectively. Williams, who died in June 2023, plays Watts’ husband, TV executive William Paley, whose indiscretions are detailed in “La Côte Basque,...

Set upon a melodramatic pile-up of pulpy excess and fairly macabre shocks, Strait-Jacket is a nippy thriller that teeters on the edge of psychological horror from the pen of Psycho's Robert Bloch and featuring a memorably showy role for its star Joan Crawford. Released 4 years after the aforementioned masterpiece and 2 years after Crawford locked horns with an unforgettably tyrannical Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Strait-Jacket serves as more than mere imitation in the way it blends creeping unease with well-delivered bursts of grisliness. It also ushers in a fairly predictable but nonetheless entertainingly staged third-act twist that only serves to further highlight Crawford's effectiveness in the lead role. A thespian of commanding force, and capable of providing a borderline over-the-top shriek with full-bodied gusto, she carries what could've been a fun but forgettable schlock-piece into something with bucketloads of attitude.

The late, great comedian Paul Reubens first started developing his popular Pee-wee Herman character while working for the Groundlings, a comedy troupe in Los Angeles. They famously encouraged comedians to invent wild, outsize characters that would provide comedy in any situation they entered. Reubens' Pee-wee character caught the attention of the local -- then the national -- comedy scene, leading to a long-running live show. Eventually, Pee-wee became the star of three feature films. Tim Burton's "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" was released in 1985, Randal Kleiser's "Big Top Pee-wee" was released in 1988, and John Lee's "Pee-wee's Big Holiday" was released on Netflix in 2016. 

The third of those films came after Reubens had experienced multiple career highs and lows, having starred in a hit TV series, then having retreated from the public eye in the 1990s because of a very public arrest. Reubens returned to film in a big way...

Do you remember your first horror movie? I do. I can remember how petrified I was like it was yesterday.

And I’ll never come close to a TV set broadcasting ants racing, thanks to Poltergeist. I’m still too terrified of being sucked in.

My little brother was terrified of Michael Jackson’s Thriller and would cry whenever his name was mentioned. And my son turned sheet white when he first saw Vanessa rip her face off in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.

The point is that we’ve all been scared by something on TV or in theaters. Although, some of us seem to enjoy it more than others.

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As horror fans, nothing compares to the thrill of a window blown open by the wind in complete darkness. Candles flickering out can make us shudder.

You’re no longer alone – behold!

Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.

Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!

Ghoulies II Blu-ray from Mvd

Ghoulies II will be released on Blu-ray on September 12 via Mvd’s Rewind Collection. It comes with reversible artwork, a slipcover, and a mini poster. The first Ghoulies hits 4K Uhd and Blu-ray the same day.

The 1987 horror-comedy sequel is directed by Albert Band (I Bury the Living) and written by Dennis Paoli. Damon Martin, Royal Dano, Phil Fondacaro, J. Downing, and Kerry Remsen star. Charles Band executive produces.

Ghoulies II has been scanned in 2K from the interpositive, overseen by MGM, with Lpcm 2.0 Stereo Audio. Special features include a making-of featurette with Band, Remsen, actor Donnie Jeffcoat, and special effects artist Gino Crognale; an introduction and interview with Paoli; and deleted scenes.

“RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars” season 8 continued on June 9 with the sixth episode streaming on Paramount+. For the first time ever, RuPaul Charles announced a “second way to win” in addition to earning the coveted crown and $200,000 prize given to the traditional winner. One of the eliminated queens will also be named Queen of the Fame Games and earn a $50,000 cash prize.

The queens still in the running at the start of episode 6 were: Alexis Michelle, Jaymes Mansfield, Jessica Wild, Jimbo, Kahanna Montrese, Kandy Muse, and Lala Ri.

Check out our full recap of episode 6 below to find out what happened when the queens got rid of all the wire hangers in “Joan: The Unauthorized Rusical”:

Relieved that Ru saved Kahanna Montrese and Jessica Wild from possible elimination, the queens returned to the Werk Room in high spirits to congratulate the two bottom queens on having another chance to prove themselves.

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Following the double bill of vampire films with The Hunger and Ganja & Hess, Trace and I jumped into genre hodge podge last week with Fred Dekker’s delightful sci-fi homage, Night of the Creeps.

This week we’re veering gently into camp territory with the birth of hagsploitation in Robert Aldrich‘s What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? The film follows Blanche and Jane as sisters and former vaudeville stars, played by real-life rivals Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. The sisters live together and Jane takes care of (read: abuses) her older sister Blanche after she lost her ability to walk following a car accident.

As Blanche plots to escape her sister’s torment, Jane hires pianist Edwin Flagg (gay actor Victor Buono) to assist with her delusional plans to mount a comeback. As Jane spirals, she directs her madness toward her sister in increasingly malicious and dangerous ways.

This one bitch…

After finishing April with back-to-back looks at stylish vampire films like The Hunger and Ganja & Hess, we’re kicking off May a film we’ve actually discussed before (in written form): Fred Dekker‘s 1986 classic Night of the Creeps!

Night of the Creeps sees fraternity pledges Chris (Jason Lively) and Jc (Steve Marshall) take part in a hazing prank, only to find a frozen body filled with alien slugs that escape and begin to take over everyone on campus. They must team up with a cop with a haunted past (Tom Atkins) and Chris’ new crush Cindy (Jill Whitlow) to stop the invasion before it’s too late.

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Cindy!

Jessica Chastain has an instinct about the upcoming psychological thriller and Old Hollywood throwback film “Mothers’ Instinct.”

The 1960s-set film, helmed by cinematographer Benoît Delhomme, is a remake of Belgium director Olivier Masset-Depasse’s 2018 film “Duelles” for an American audience. “Mothers’ Instinct” co-stars Anne Hathaway as Chastain’s best friend and neighbor. However, their shared suburban paradise is rocked after a tragic accident involving their sons. Per the official synopsis, guilt, suspicion, and paranoia bleed into their friendship as a psychological battle of wills gives way to a darker side of the maternal instinct.

“Annie and I, we have a lot of fun in that movie. And it’s a throwback to another…I like to think of it like a little bit of ‘What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?'” Chastain told IndieWire at the 48th Annual Chaplin Gala honoring her former “The Help” co-star Viola Davis.

Chastain continued,...

It was only a matter of time before these words ended up in a sentence together: Kim Kardashian will be joining the 12th season of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk's long-running anthology, "American Horror Story." A collaboration between the man who explores fame, camp, luxury, and what captures America's attention, and the woman who has captured America's attention better than anyone else feels so natural, that it's surprising it hasn't happened sooner.

Kardashian posted a teaser promo to her Instagram account today announcing the collaboration. In the promo, you can hear the sound of children playing along with a slow, eerie rendition of "Rock-a-bye Baby." An enigmatic, slowly revealed tagline reads: "Emma Roberts and Kim Kardashian are delicate." Roberts is an "American Horror Story" veteran who played the witch Madison Montgomery in the seasons titled "Coven" and "Apocalypse," and appeared as other characters in the anthology along the way.

There are so many different streaming services in play that it’s impossible to keep track of them all, but we find it’s good to at least be aware of what’s *leaving* the ones you’re subscribing to. This way you can make sure to knock things off your list before they’re gone.

On that note, a couple hundred movies will be leaving HBO Max in April 2023, including several that horror fans may want to watch before they can no longer be found on there.

That list of horror movies leaving HBO Max next month includes James Wan’s Malignant, as well as last year’s holiday horror movie Adult Swim Yule Log (don’t miss that one!).

Here’s all the horror leaving HBO Max in April 2023…

April 11

Adult Swim Yule Log (aka The Fireplace)

April 27

Malignant, 2021 (HBO)

April 30

Blade, 1998 Blow Out, 1981 (HBO) Deep Blue Sea,...

This year’s Oscar nominations might’ve overlooked horror, but TCM’s dedicated Oscar programming won’t.

Turner Classic Movies’ annual 31 Days of Oscar® programming returns for its 29th year with a month-long showcase of films recognized by the Academy in March. The showcase will highlight films that have either been nominated or awarded the esteemed ranking of “best” in their respective categories.

This year, TCM will celebrate with categorized blocks of genre programming, and it’s closing out with a bang.

TCM’s 31 Days of Oscar® programming will conclude on March 31 with a marathon of horror films recognized by the Academy. These must-see classics were all nominated for Academy Awards, proving that the Academy does, on occasion, recognize the genre.

You can view the complete TCM Schedule Here. But if you’d like to skip straight to the genre classics, TCM’s horror block includes:

March 31st

8pm – Psycho...

As much as Robert Aldrich's 1962 film "What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?" became a camp classic for its wild twists, shrieking old women, and creepy makeup, its tragic power can't be denied. There's a grand scope to the movie, even though so much of it takes place in the glamorous but suffocating home of its two leading ladies. Some of that scope comes from the prologue, which takes viewers as far back as 1917 — but it also comes from the movie's reckoning with Hollywood history, in the ways stars were treated, in the venomous effects of celebrity on the soul, and in the use of Joan Crawford and Bette Davis as the clashing sisters at its center.

Of course, Crawford and Davis had a legendary feud going back decades, one so well-known in Hollywood lore that it (and the production of "Baby Jane") became the subject of Ryan Murphy's miniseries "Feud,...

"The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in 'What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?'" Bette Davis said this about her co-star in the classic 1962 film, and it's hardly the worst words spoken by either of these women — who were rumored to be something of rivals. As detailed in Ryan Murphy's excellent "Feud: Bette and Joan," in which both Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon gave unforgettable turns as Crawford and Davis, respectively, the actresses were reportedly as antagonistic towards each other offscreen as their characters, sisters Blanche and Baby Jane Hudson, were in the movie.

Based on the 1960 Henry Farrell novel of the same name, "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" centers on the twisted relationship between the siblings, and things only grow more fraught as the film progresses. Jane (Davis) was once a child star happily basking in the spotlight,...

The Chevrolet Corvette, which turns 70 this week, was unveiled on Jan. 17, 1953, at the General Motors Motorama, held at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The sleek two-seater, named after a small warship, was a concept car, but interest was so high that it went into production later that year, with 300 hand-built models in Polo White. The Corvette would star in CBS’ Route 66 from 1960 to 1964, turning it into an emblem of American freedom. But its first major screen appearance was in 1955’s Kiss Me Deadly, a subversive film noir from director Robert Aldrich, who went on to direct What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) and The Dirty Dozen (1967).

Based on the 1952 Mickey Spillane novel Kiss Me, Deadly, the film, adapted by screenwriter A.I. Bezzerides, veered wildly from the book, putting Spillane’s P.I. Mike Hammer at the center of a web of intrigue involving a dead woman (Cloris Leachman, then 29, in...

Ever since there have been movies, there have been movie stars – and becoming one of the world’s greatest actors involves being able to be many things at once. For one, you have to be able to act – to really inhabit a character’s deepest emotions, to step into their skin so that the words on the page come across as lived and felt. Plus, you have to be able to take that technical mastery and apply it across multiple genres, from quiet character dramas to epic action-packed blockbusters. And on top of that, you have to have that thing that can’t really be learned, or taught – a charisma, a command of the camera, an energy that enlivens even the most stellar script, and makes audiences flock to the multiplex in their droves.

For Empire’s February 2023 issue, we asked readers to vote for the best actors of all...

When Angelo Badalamenti, composer and renowned collaborator of filmmaker-musician David Lynch, died on Sunday at age 85, he left behind some of the most evocative soundscapes known to cinema. Lustrous orchestration and small combo jazz sounds for Lynch works such as “Blue Velvet” and “Twin Peaks” tweaked the senses while underscoring the grotesquerie below the surface of the American dream. But there was so much more to Badalamenti than his sweeping cinematic ambience for a single filmmaker.

Here is a list of some of Angelo Badalamenti’s finest musical moments, with and without David Lynch.

The Slow Club scene in “Blue Velvet” and “Mysteries of Love” (1986)

Along with a cameo appearance as the pianist/band leader at the Slow Club where the tortured Dorothy Valens (played by Isabella Rossellini) sings, Badalamenti starts off her musical rendition of “Blue Velvet” as a sleazy lounge song, all blowzy saxophone and off-the-beat rhythms, before segueing into the tempered,...