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Stars: Hassie Harrison, Jai Courtney, Josh Heuston, Rob Carlton, Ella Newton, Liam Greinke | Written by Nick Lepard | Directed by Sean Byrne

Acclaimed Australian director Sean Byrne returns with Dangerous Animals, an inspired mash-up of two beloved horror genres, serial killer thrillers and sharksploitation. Delivering handsomely – and nastily – in both elements, it’s one of the most enjoyable genre movies of the year.

Set in present-day Surfers Paradise on Queensland’s Gold Coast, the film introduces its killer immediately, as burly fisherman Tucker (a scarily massive Jai Courtney) cheerfully stabs one of two tourists he has just taken on a Swimming-With-Sharks tour, before pushing him overboard.

Dangerous Animals then joins the film’s heroine,...

Exclusive: Matt Nable and Ella Newton will star in Who Needs Love Songs?, the debut feature film of Kieran Wheeler. Wheeler penned the script and will produce with Tom Savige, under their Broken Egg Films production banner.

Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the film is described as an urban crime drama with aspects of social realism. The film is in production.

Nable recently starred in Netflix’s Apple Cider Vinegar, while film credits include The Dry, Hacksaw Ridge and Transfusion, which he also wrote and directed.

Newton can most recently be seen in Dangerous Animals. Her credits also include Harrow and SeaChange.

Wheeler’s short film Jungle was an official selection at the 2021 Melbourne International Film Festival.

Nable is represented by Sue Barnett and Associates and Range Media Partners. Newton is represented by Aran Michael Management and Strand Entertainment.

A glimpse at upcoming UK DVD and Blu-ray release dates until early 2026: here’s what’s coming to disc and when.

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Shudder’s epic Season of Screams programming event returns September 1, featuring a supersized lineup of new film releases, series, specials, and live watch parties on Shudder TV. The four-month celebration of fear rounds out the streaming service’s 10th anniversary with the best in horror.

Season of Screams will spotlight popular franchise films from Rec to 28 Weeks Later to The Blair Witch Project, bring back an all-new Ghoul Log, as well as Shudder’s popular Halloween Hotline with movie recommendations from Shudder’s Head of Programming, Samuel Zimmerman.

Shudder’s Season of Screams features highly anticipated films such as the acclaimed Dangerous Animals, a new installment in the popular...

V/H/S/Halloween Debuts on Shudder on Friday, October 3rd: "A collection of Halloween-themed videotapes unleashes a series of twisted, blood-soaked tales, turning trick-or-treat into a struggle for survival"

Country: United States Language: English, Spanish Runtime: 115 minutes

The 8th Installment In The V/H/S Franchise Will Feature:

Diet Phantasma directed by Bryan M. Ferguson Fun Size directed by Casper Kelly Home Haunt directed by Micheline Pitt-Norman and R.H. Norman Kidprint directed by Alex Ross Perry Ut Supra Sic Infra directed by Paco Plaza Coochie Coochie COO directed by Anna Zlokovic



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Shudder Launches Biggest Ever Programming Event “Season of Screams” on September 1: "Shudder’s epic Season of...

Since last year’s release of Longlegs, Osgood Perkins has been on a Hollywood hot streak. He followed up the deeply disturbing Longlegs with an adaptation of the Stephen King short story The Monkey, and his upcoming psychological horror film Keeper is in post-production. With no intentions of slowing down, Perkins is preparing for his next feature, The Young People. Today, we’ve learned that Lola Tung and Nico Parker will topline the filmmaker’s next mysterious feature.

The plot for The Young Ones is being kept secret, though we know it’s shooting in Vancouver in the fall. The project operates under Perkins’ first-look deal with Neon, with plans...

This year marks the landmark 10th anniversary of Shudder, and if you were expecting the all-horror streaming service to go all-out for Halloween this year, you were right on the money.

Shudder is launching their “Season of Screams” programming event on September 1, and they’re calling it the biggest programming event in the 10-year history of the platform.

Straight from Shudder, here’s everything you need to know…

“The four-month celebration of fear rounds out the streamer’s 10th anniversary with the best in horror and will spotlight popular franchise films from Rec to 28 Weeks Later to The Blair Witch Project, as well as bring back an all-new Ghoul...

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If you are a horror fan, then there is a big chance that you might have heard about the horror streaming service Shudder, and if you have its subscription, you might be wondering what’s in store for you in September 2025. Don’t worry. There is a host of new and old horror movies and TV shows coming to the service in the upcoming month, and we have listed the ten best movies and TV shows coming to Shudder in September 2025.

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Vertigo Releasing has acquired U.K. and Irish distribution rights to “Dead of Winter,” the action-thriller starring Emma Thompson that had its world premiere at Locarno Film Festival earlier this month.

The film, directed by Brian Kirk in his first feature since 2019’s “21 Bridges,” casts Thompson as Barb, a widowed fisherwoman who becomes trapped in a Minnesotan blizzard and accidentally discovers the kidnapping of a teenage girl. Realizing she’s the victim’s only hope, Thompson’s character must transform from ordinary woman to unlikely hero.

Reviewing the film for Variety, Jessica Kiang wrote: “‘The Dead of Winter’ entertains, largely due to Thompson’s sturdy portrait of grace clad in a sensible, fleece-lined overcoat of gumption.”

Thompson also executive produced the project alongside her starring role. The cast includes Judy Greer, Marc Menchaca, Laurel Marsden (“Ms. Marvel”), and Thompson’s daughter Gaia Wise (“The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim...

With Summer nearing an end and the routine of life resuming, respite may be found in Shudder's lineup for September.    The big one is Sean Byrne's horror flick, Dangerous Animals, so big that only subscribers in the U.S. will be able to watch it on the platform. Sorry on Shudder's behalf? That seems like a weird situation, but with such a popular movie this Summer, everyone wanted their nibble at the worldwide rights for it.    Speaking of sorry, Canada. The Canadian found footage flick, House on Eden, will be available in all territories where Shudder is available. The filmed-in-Canada horror flick, Night of the Reaper, will also be available in all territories.    Regular programming for The Last Drive-in continues and a new...

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AMC Networks’ Shudder has announced the titles that will be available on the streaming service next month. The Shudder September 2025 slate includes horror, thriller, and supernatural titles.

The September schedule includes the films Dangerous Animals, House on Eden, and Night of the Reaper, the series Guts & Glory and The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs, and more.

Dangerous Animals

Shudder’s expanding library of films, TV series, and original content is available on most streaming devices in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.

Shudder September 2025 Highlights

Films

Dangerous Animals (Shudder Film Premiere) – New Film Premieres Friday, September 5 (Available in the US)

When Zephyr, a rebellious surfer, is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer and held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below. Directed by Sean Byrne.

Night of the Reaper...

Osgood Perkins‘ second horror feature of the year, Keeper, has received its first trailer, which stars Tatiana Maslany and Rossif Sutherland at the forefront. Having already delivered two major horror hits in recent memory, Longlegs and The Monkey, this movie marks his second collaboration with the Marvel star.

Although much of the story is still shrouded in mystery, the trailer offers us a glimpse at the plot, featuring a couple in a secluded cabin, which is par for the course when it comes to horror locations. However, what sets it apart is the approach to the story, which is told from dual perspectives.

Keeper Trailer Splits the Perspective Between Tatiana Maslany and Rossif Sutherland

Midway through the trailer, which sees Tatiana Maslany’s character questioning her relationship at the beginning, cuts to Rossif Sutherland’s character, who mimics the same narration and questions regarding their bond.

Tatiana Maslany in Keeper...

Oz Perkins vuelve con más terror. © Neon

Neon ha publicado un nuevo tráiler de Keeper, la nueva película del cineasta Osgood Perkins después de Longlegs y The Monkey.

Con un guion firmado por Nick Lepard (Dangerous Animals), Keeper sigue a una pareja (Maslany y Sutherland) que, para celebrar su aniversario, hace una escapada romántica de fin de semana a una cabaña aislada. Sin embargo, cuando él regresa repentinamente a la ciudad, ella se queda aislada y en presencia de un mal indescriptible que desvela los horripilantes secretos de la cabaña.

La película de terror está encabezada por Tatiana Maslany (The Monkey) y Rossif Sutherland (El cuento de la criada). Completan el reparto Kett Turton, Erin Boyes, Claire Friesen, Logan Pierce, Glen Gordon, Gina Vultaggio y Erin Tipple.

Te Puede Interesar El inquietante primer tráiler de la película de terror crowdfunding ‘Shelby Oaks’ muestra a una mujer en busca de su hermana desaparecida.

Neon did a great job putting together intriguingly strange marketing material for director Osgood Perkins’ horror film Longlegs last year, and it paid off, as the film earned more than $125 million at the global box office. Over $74 million of that was the domestic haul, making that film Neon’s highest-grossing release domestically. The marketing for Perkins’ Stephen King adaptation The Monkey was less intriguing, but the movie still did fine when it was released this past February, pulling in almost $64 million worldwide. Coming up next from the Neon / Perkins collaboration is the dark trip horror movie Keeper, which is expected to reach theatres on November 14th, and Neon is once again coming up with an interesting marketing campaign. It began with the promotional video “It has no end,” then a poster for the film was unveiled, sporting the tagline “I don’t like you anymore.” But that’s not all there wass to it.

Kiah Roache-Turner’s latest splatterific effort is a blast, following a squadron of Australian troops who must try to survive ‘a pissed-off 20-foot fish’ in the Timor Sea

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This year Australian shark movies have been particularly ravenous, swimming into different waters and taking a bite into other genres. Sean Byrne’s Dangerous Animals arrived in local cinemas in June, blending the creature feature and serial killer movies into one foul fishy stew, with Jai Courtney playing a psycho who feeds his victims to the sharks. And now we have Kiah Roache-Turner’s Beast of War, a second world war movie with a great white twist, which cheekily begins with a text insert declaring that it was “inspired by actual events”.

That’s cheeky because this film doesn’t exactly aspire for social realism, which will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Roache-Turner’s splatterific oeuvre.

Satan, Lucifer, Beelzebub, Mephistopheles, the Devil – whatever you call him, there are few recurring representations of evil as powerful or as fear-inducing as the ruler of hell in horror.

The Devil has been a fixture for as long as cinema has existed, offering no shortage of depictions in the genre to induce fights or deliver cautionary tales.

This week’s streaming picks highlight some of the best Devils in horror, from a fork-tongued, cloven-hooved beast to Faustian businessmen masking their inhuman side.

Here’s where you can watch them this week.

For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks, click here.

Angel Heart – Hoopla, Kanopy

This twisted psychological horror noir follows Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke), a private investigator whom Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) hires to track down missing musician Johnny Favorite. Harry’s search leads him to New Orleans, where he finds voodoo, murder, love, and a deal with the devil.

A viral Prime Video sci-fi movie has escaped its 0% Rotten Tomatoes fate after receiving a positive critical review. From the critically acclaimed Interstellarto the more recent Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, the streaming platform is home to a variety of science fiction movies.

With new titles regularly added to the platforms, some of the latest in-theater movies being added include 28 Years Later, Jurassic World Rebirth, The Occupant, and Dangerous Animals. Several new straight-to-streaming movies from the studio behind Ben Affleck's The Accountant 2 and Jason Statham's Beekeeper have also arrived on the platform recently, with some ending up on the streamer's Top 10 chart.

Eddie Murphy's action comedy The Pickup, arrived on August 6, is currently the No.1 most popular movie on Prime Video, and it's followed by another new addition.

Ice Cube's War Of The Worlds Is No Longer A 0% Rt Movie

Currently the No.

IFC / Shudder recently announced their acquisition of a very unusual horror film called Good Boy, which had generated a lot of buzz heading towards its sold-out premiere at the 2025 South by Southwest film festival. The buzz only intensified after the premiere, thanks in part to the film’s critical acclaim and its unusual, adorable and very talented leading performer: a dog named Indy..

Good Boy is a haunted house tale as seen through the eyes of a dog. Indy and his beloved human, Todd, leave their established city life to move into an old family home in the country. Almost immediately, Indy sees that something in this house is just not right. He begins to see a dog that is long gone giving him warnings, and he has visions of the home’s prior owner, who suffered a grim fate. As Todd becomes mentally affected by whatever is haunting the house,...

Oz Perkins vuelve con más terror. © DeAPlaneta

DeAPlaneta ha anunciado la fecha de estreno en nuestro país de Keeper, la nueva película del cineasta Osgood Perkins después de Longlegs y The Monkey.

Con un guion firmado por Nick Lepard (Dangerous Animals), Keeper sigue a una pareja (Maslany y Sutherland) que, para celebrar su aniversario, hace una escapada romántica de fin de semana a una cabaña aislada. Sin embargo, cuando él regresa repentinamente a la ciudad, ella se queda aislada y en presencia de un mal indescriptible que desvela los horripilantes secretos de la cabaña.

La película de terror está encabezada por Tatiana Maslany (The Monkey) y Rossif Sutherland (El cuento de la criada). Completan el reparto Kett Turton, Erin Boyes, Claire Friesen, Logan Pierce, Glen Gordon, Gina Vultaggio y Erin Tipple.

Te Puede Interesar Te entrarán escalofríos con el perturbador nuevo tráiler de la película ‘Devuélvemela’, lo nuevo de los...

We kicked off the summer with a look at Steven Spielberg’s classic creature feature Jaws (listen) before checking out our first Jean Rollin lesbian “vampire” movie Fascination (listen), as well as the female dominated slasher The Slumber Party Massacre (listen). Now it’s time to revisit Dario Argento (for only the second time on the pod!) with a first time look at 1985’s Phenomena.

The film stars Jennifer Connelly as Jennifer Corvino, an American girl sent to a Swiss boarding school. The girl has a mysterious ability: she can communicate with insects and even get them to do her bidding. This proves to be a wildly helpful skill when Jennifer finds herself targeted by a killer who preys on young women, including her roommate Sophie.

But who is committing the murders and why? Could it be the disabled local entomologist, Professor John McGregor (Donald Pleasence) or his chimp, Inga?...

Bambi and Pete Davidson are featured in this week’s new horror movies, but unfortunately they’re not sharing the screen in the same movie. They’re joined by the at-home release of one of this year’s best horror movies so far, along with a new Gill Man movie from Shudder.

Here’s all the new horror that released from July 21 – July 27, 2025!

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

There’s a monster in the basement in Bait, now available on VOD.

In the new indie monster movie from Uncork’d Entertainment, “On their way to a family get-together, the Herring family are in a bad car accident, waking in a terrifying, dark basement. Something is there with them. And it craves human flesh.”

Bait was directed by Andrea M. Catinella, written by Sam Gurney.

The cast includes Ingrid Evans, Connor Powles, Andrew Rolfe, and Natalie Hughes.

This week’s streaming premieres are a healthy mix of both movies and TV shows. Three films that were released in theaters earlier this year have made their streaming and on-demand debuts this week. Netflix and Paramount+, meanwhile, have added new episodes of two wildly different, popular shows to their platform. On Friday, Netflix is also set to host the premiere of one of this summer’s biggest and most star-studded sequels.

Here are the eight best new movies and shows that you can stream this weekend.

“Dangerous Animals” (Shudder) “Dangerous Animals” (2025)

A savage mash-up of the serial killer and shark survival horror genres, director Sean Byrne’s “Dangerous Animals” is unlike any other thriller you will likely see this year. An Australian and American co-production, it follows a free-spirited surfer (Hassie Harrison) who is abducted by a maniacal serial killer (Jai Courtney) who ritualistically holds his victims captive on...

Creature features continue to be a dominant subgenre when it comes to horror. The fear and the terror that an often unknown vicious entity can introduce continues to run our imaginations wild. The 50th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws reminds us of the tremendous impact the subgenre has had through generations. And of course, the recent craze over Jurassic World Rebirth further reinforces that the audience still craves a good old creature horror! In recent years, the concept of the antagonist has been put to the test. Can a creature be truly evil, or are they simply misunderstood—is a prominent question that some filmmakers have dared to tackle. For example, in Sean Byrne’s Dangerous Animals, the antagonist is not really the creature, aka sharks, but a psychopath. Mike Wiluan’s Monster Island takes a similar route. Yes, there is a monster involved, but is it really villainous?...

Discovery’s annual “Shark Week” is now officially underway, and the horror genre is getting in on the feeding frenzy with the at-home premiere of Sean Byrne’s Dangerous Animals today.

One of Bloody Disgusting’s 10 best horror movies released in the first half of 2025, Dangerous Animals is now available for Digital purchase for $24.99 or at-home rental for $19.99.

It’s the only new shark attack movie that’s actually being released during “Shark Week” this year, but many more shark-themed horror movies are swimming our way very soon.

Here are 10 upcoming shark horror movies to keep an eye out for!

Deep Water

Renny Harlin (Deep Blue Sea) returns to shark infested waters with Deep Water, an action thriller that will receive a wide theatrical release later this year from Magenta Light Studios.

The film follows an eclectic group of international passengers whose plane, en route from L.A. to Shanghai,...

Oz Perkins vuelve con más terror. © Neon

Neon ha publicado el primer tráiler y póster de Keeper, la nueva película del cineasta Osgood Perkins después de Longlegs y The Monkey.

Con un guion firmado por Nick Lepard (Dangerous Animals), Keeper sigue a una pareja (Maslany y Sutherland) que, para celebrar su aniversario, hace una escapada romántica de fin de semana a una cabaña aislada. Sin embargo, cuando él regresa repentinamente a la ciudad, ella se queda aislada y en presencia de un mal indescriptible que desvela los horripilantes secretos de la cabaña.

La película de terror está encabezada por Tatiana Maslany (The Monkey) y Rossif Sutherland (El cuento de la criada). Completan el reparto Kett Turton, Erin Boyes, Claire Friesen, Logan Pierce, Glen Gordon, Gina Vultaggio y Erin Tipple.

Te Puede Interesar Te entrarán escalofríos con el perturbador nuevo tráiler de la película ‘Devuélvemela’, lo nuevo de los directores de...

Everyone is familiar with the fairytale scenario of falling in love with someone from across a crowded room. It’s in the eyes, they say. You feel that spark. It pulls you into each other’s orbit, with the rest of the story waiting to be written by fate. However, butterflies can only survive inside a stomach for so long; after some time, they’ll die, along with that initial feeling of wonder. In Osgood Perkins‘ Keeper teaser trailer, love blossoms and withers as time tarnishes what began as something beautiful.

Keeper falls under Osgood Perkins and Chris Ferguson’s new production studio, Phobos. Previously, Neon hosted a looping teaser video for Keeper on the studio’s YouTube channel. The video featured a young, unblinking individual repeatedly drawing on a notepad, the sound of their pen against paper playing like Asmr for sickos. Once in a while, the scene changes...

You can’t holler down our rain barrel, you can’t climb our apple tree. I don’t wanna play in your yard if you can’t be good to me.

That’s the cryptic verse attached to the teaser trailer for Keeper, which previews those who are not right for this place.

Directed by modern master of horror Osgood Perkins, the dark trip hits theaters on November 14 via Neon.

It follows a couple as they escape for a romantic anniversary weekend at a secluded cabin. When Malcolm suddenly returns to the city, Liz finds herself isolated and in the presence of an unspeakable evil that unveils the cabin’s horrifying secrets.

Tatiana Maslany (“Orphan Black”) and Rossif Sutherland (Possessor) star. Nick Lepard (Dangerous Animals) wrote the script.

Keeper marks Perkins’ third collaboration with Neon in two years, following Longlegs and The Monkey.

The post ‘Keeper’ Teaser – Osgood Perkins’ Dark...

Drilling home the point.

After shifting gears into full-on summer blockbuster territory with a look at Steven Spielberg’s juggernaut of a creature feature in Jaws (listen) and being introduced to our first Jean Rollin joint in the lesbian “vampire” movie Fascination (listen), we’re checking in with the girls of Stanford High School in Amy Jones‘ The Slumber Party Massacre (1982).

The Slumber Party Massacre sees high school senior Trish Devereaux (Michelle Michaels) host a slumber party for her friends Kim (Debra Deliso), Jackie (Andree Honore) and Diane (Gina Mari) the same weekend that escaped serial killer Russ Thorn (Michael Villella) makes his way into her neighborhood. Wielding an incredibly long power drill, Russ sets his sights on Trish’s house, putting her and all of her friends in grave danger.

Be sure to subscribe to the podcast to get a new episode every Wednesday. You can subscribe on iTunes/Apple Podcasts,...

Of all the horror subgenres out there, I think killer shark horror is the hardest to get right. It’s strange since, at least on the surface (pun intended), it seems like the easiest to get right. There’s a primal kind of fear of swimming alone with such beautiful yet terrifying creatures, and at its core, that’s all a killer shark movie really needs. Yet, as a bonafide killer shark fan, it’s too easy to concede that the subgenre has been drowning as of late.

Titles like Dangerous Animals wisely subvert expectations, and The Shallows is too stylish to dismiss outright, though the subgenre has always been at a disadvantage. After Jaws, it’s impossible to come anywhere close to that classic, and the subgenre has been treading water ever since. Mostly, at least, since filmmaker Johannes Roberts (The Strangers: Prey at Night) has helmed not one,...

Tits Out.

We transitioned from Pride Month discussions of Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later (listen) and ’90s nostalgia in Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: The Movie (listen) into summer blockbuster territory with Jaws (listen) last week. Now we’re inching the dial up a few years to discuss French director Jean Rollin‘s “lesbian vampire film” Fascination (1979).

The quotes are there because these characters, particularly the women, are much more sexually fluid, and there’s no actual vampires present (if anything this is a film about a cult!).

In case you’re unaware, Fascination is the story of a duplicitous thief named Marc (Jean-Marie Lemaire) who seeks refuge in a French castle with his stolen loot. He mistakenly believes the place is empty until he happens upon Eva (Brigitte Lahaie) and Elizabeth (Franca Maï), female lovers who allow him to hide but also tease that he must be gone by nightfall.

AMC Networks’ presence will be very strong at Comic-Con International this year, as they present multiple panels and a Shudder activation centered around Clown in a Cornfield. The film was a hit in theaters in May, and will soon be streaming on Shudder and AMC+.

Comic-Con International is held in San Diego at their Convention Center, and will run from July 24 through July 27.

Here’s a breakdown of the events AMC will be hosting:

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon will present a panel in Hall H on Friday, July 25, from 12:15 – 1:15. Panelists will include Chief Content Officer of the Walking Dead Universe Scott M. Gimple, Executive Producer / star Norman Reedus, EP David Zabel, EP / Director Greg Nicotero and EP / star Melissa McBride. The panelists will be debuting the official trailer for season three, as well as discussing the season. The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon will return on Sunday, September...

Having a front row seat to all the goings on at the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival this week meant seeing some invigorating new films that, much like Cannes did just a couple months back, confronted the frequently dark and painful parts of our world in an attempt to find whatever small slivers of humanity they could. The films couldn’t always hold onto this feeling and the searching could often be more than a little fraught, though the festival’s brightest spots came from the ones that tried to do so all the same.

In particular, the best two films in the main competition were the Czech films “Broken Voices” and “Better Go Mad in the Wild,” the latter of which rightfully took home the top prize Saturday evening while the former received a special jury mention for the exciting newcomer Kateřina Falbrová. Though their recognition opened up...

Sunrise Films and Vertigo Releasing will bring Samuel Clemens’ debut feature The Drowned to digital platforms this autumn, unleashing a seaside terror rooted in Greek mythology. The film follows three art thieves who, having stolen a priceless painting, retreat to a remote coastal safe house only to discover their fourth accomplice is nowhere to be found. As suspicions mount that one of them may be responsible, an unseen presence stirs beneath the waves, turning their refuge into a prison of dread.

The Drowned premiered at London’s FrightFest Halloween earlier this year under its original title The Waterhouse. It stars Alan Calton – fresh from Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning – as the heist’s ringleader, joined by Lara Lemon of War of the Worlds: The Attack and Lily Catalifo from Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Dominic Vulliamy of BBC One’s Rules of the Game appears as a suspicious accomplice,...

Collider Ladies Night hit a milestone last year at San Diego Comic-Con. We did our very first live edition of the show with Melissa Barrera, Erika Henningsen, and Katy O’Brian in a packed house in one of the biggest rooms of the convention, Ballroom 20. We’re beyond thrilled to announce that Ladies Night is coming back for more in 2025.

In partnership with IFC Entertainment Group, Collider Ladies Night returns to San Diego Comic-Con, but with a spin. This year, we're hosting Collider Ladies Night After Dark and putting the spotlight on the women of the IFC Entertainment Group – encompassing the brands of The Independent Film Company, Shudder and Rlje. Those women? Clown in a Cornfield star Katie Douglas, Hassie Harrison from Dangerous Animals, Whistle headliners Dafne Keen and Sophie Nélisse, and Alexandra Shipp who’ll be promoting both Forbidden Fruits and Violent Ends.

If you’re looking for unparalleled insight into Douglas,...

The grossest, goriest, and most gratuitous of the year are set to be feted at the 2025 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards.

The horror magazine has unveiled the nominees for its signature awards, which includes the big categories you'd expect — like Best Wide Release and Best Lead Performance — and some you mind not—like Best Video Game and Best Public Domain Resurrection.

The Chainsaw Awards are also among the first opportunities for this year's potential awards frontrunner, Sinners, to flex its muscles. (Metaphorical muscles. Michael B. Jordan's are currently streaming on HBO Max.) Ryan Coogler's period vampire thriller is in contention for Best Wide Release — where it will compete with 28 Years Later — and boasts a total of ten nominations in all.

With an eligibility window that ran from July 2024 to June 2025, the Chainsaw Awards also include some of last year's awards contenders, including The Substance, which tied Sinners for nominations.

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The Academy Awards may not celebrate the horror genre all that often, but that’s why horror has its own awards celebrations. The biggest and best are the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, and the nominees for this year’s ceremony have been announced this morning. As always, the legendary horror magazine is putting the power in Your hands, with voting Open Now!

The Fangoria Chainsaw Awards 2025 will recognize standout achievements in horror across film, television, and gaming, and voting is open now through July 20 at fangoria.com/vote!

Fangoria previews, “Highlights from this year’s nominee slate include genre-defying films like The Substance and Sinners, standout lead performances by Willa Fitzgerald (Strange Darling) and Hunter Schafer (Cuckoo), and some highly anticipated sequels in the video game category like Death Stranding 2 and Silent Hill 2 Remake.

“Nominees were selected by a nominating body of over 150 industry tastemakers, creators, and professionals, drawing from the...

“Sinners” and “The Substance” lead the nominations for Fangoria’s 2025 Chainsaw Awards, which recognizes standout achievements in horror across film, television and gaming.

“This year we continue the new tradition of pitting the second half of last year with the first half of this year in a cage match of cinematic carnage,” Phil Nobile Jr., Fangoria Eic, said in a statement. “Like the Grammys, but gorier. It’s made for a rather chaotic list of nominees, and we expect the voting to be vicious and voluminous.”

“Sinners” and “The Substance” each earned 10 nominations, competing in the same categories for best wide release, best cinematography, best score, best director, best screenplay, best costume design, and best lead and supporting performances. Nominations also include “Strange Darling,” Cuckoo,” “The Ugly Stepsister,” 28 Years Later” and “Longlegs.” Other categories include best streaming premiere, best kill and best creature FX.

Nominees were chosen by a...

Neon did a great job putting together intriguingly strange marketing material for director Osgood Perkins’ horror film Longlegs last year, and it paid off, as the film earned more than $125 million at the global box office. Over $74 million of that was the domestic haul, making that film Neon’s highest-grossing release domestically. The marketing for Perkins’ Stephen King adaptation The Monkey was less intriguing, but the movie still did fine when it was released this past February, pulling in almost $64 million worldwide. Coming up next from the Neon / Perkins collaboration is the dark trip horror movie Keeper, which is expected to reach theatres by the end of the year, possibly on November 14th, and Neon is once again coming up with an interesting marketing campaign. It began with the promotional video “It has no end,” embedded above. Now, a poster for the film has been unveiled, sporting the tagline “I don’t like you anymore.

I don’t want to play in your yard, I don’t like you anymore. You’ll be sorry when you see me, sliding down our cellar door. That’s the creepy poem attached to the reveal of a brand new official poster for Keeper, an upcoming “dark trip” horror movie from Neon and director Osgood Perkins. Check out the poster for Keeper down below.

Tatiana Maslany (“Orphan Black”) and Rossif Sutherland (Possessor) will star in Keeper, which is shrouded in secrecy at the present moment. Stay tuned for more as we learn it.

We expect Keeper will be released in theaters in late 2025.

“Keeper follows a couple as they escape for a romantic anniversary weekend at a secluded cabin. When Malcolm (Sutherland) suddenly returns to the city, Liz (Maslany) finds herself isolated and in the presence of an unspeakable evil that unveils the cabin’s horrifying secrets.”

Nick Lepard (Dangerous Animals) wrote the screenplay.

Editor’s note: The promise and peril of artificial intelligence has captivated Washington D.C., Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Hollywood. Composer Michael Yezerski has taken a hands-on approach to it: The author of the score of the likes of the Oscar-winning short The Last Thing, Blindspotting (the movie and the series), Sean Byrne’s The Devil’s Candy, this year’s Dangerous Animals and the just released Liam Neeson-starring Ice Road: Vengeance put the tech to the test, as he details in a guest column for Deadline.

The other week at a party, I was asked by a picture editor if I am feeling the threat of AI.

I honestly replied that I am not. But then he told me that he uses AI music generators in his everyday work as a picture editor for commercials and all of a sudden, I felt threatened. I found the conversation sobering,...

Sympathy for Mr. Mayor.

After concluding Pride month with discussions of Danny Boyle’s modern classic 28 Days Later (listen) and the Freddy-Krueger-for-kids villain in Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: The Movie (listen), we’re shifting gears into full-on summer blockbuster territory with a look at Steven Spielberg‘s juggernaut of a creature feature in Jaws (1975).

In case you’ve lived under a rock your entire life: Jaws tells the tale of a monstrous Great White Shark that has staked its claim over the beaches of Amity Island. In charge of stopping its rampage is police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider), against the wishes of the island’s capitalistic mayor (Murray Hamilton). When the shark slaughters one too many people, Brody teams up with marine biologist Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) and crazed shark hunter Quint (Robert Shaw) to track it down and kill it for good.

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Set against a lakefront untouched by time, the Neuchâtel Intl. Fantastic Film Festival offers an annual snapshot of a genre landscape in motion. Holding its 24th edition from July 4 – 12, the Swiss showcase for fantastical film, Asian cinema and digital creation has evolved in tow, growing from upstart to institution as outré fare and auteurs seized ever-greater opportunities.

“We’ve heard the claim that ‘genre is leaving its ghetto’ for nearly as long as we’ve been around,” says Nifff artistic director Pierre-Yves Walder. “Of course, it was never entirely marginalized, but there simply weren’t as many high-profile films openly embracing the fantastic. That’s changing, and we have to evolve along with it.”

This year’s program shows as much. Opening with the international premiere of the sci-fi thriller “Dalloway” – with star Cécile de France on-site to kick off the festivities – this Nifff selection boasts an uncommonly high star-wattage,...

Two years ago this month, while the industry was in the thick of the dual writers and actors strikes, Range Media Partners and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Fred Berger, principles of the busy production banner Automatik, decided to tie the knot. In 2024, the fledgling film and production division of Range Studios enjoyed a banner year by any measure.

Searchlight Pictures’ “A Complete Unknown” scored at the mainstream box office ($140 million worldwide) and had a strong award season ride capped by eight Oscar nominations.

Meanwhile, Neon’s “Longlegs” proved that there’s still plenty of box office gold to be mined from distinctive indie films. The horror film that finished out with $127 million in worldwide box office ($74 million domestic) also vaulted the director Osgood Perkins to a new level of industry recognition. Having that kind of career-building relationship with filmmakers is important to Kavanaugh-Jones and Berger, regardless of whether the talent is...

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Steven Spielberg's "Jaws" is one of the most commercially successful, critically beloved, and important blockbuster movies ever made. Full stop. It just turned 50 this week, and few movies that are five decades old look quite as fresh to modern audiences as this masterful, terrifying depiction of man vs. nature. Put simply, it's the best shark movie ever made -- and it's not even close.

Me saying that "Jaws" is the greatest shark movie to ever grace the silver screen is far from original, it's pretty much accepted as fact (or as close as one gets to fact when expressing a critical opinion). That being the case, it's not surprising that we've had many shark movies over the years that have tried to mimic the success of Spielberg's 1975 cinematic classic. Some have been sort of successful (like "Great White...

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium horror streaming service, turns 10 this year and has been celebrating accordingly with a year’s worth of fan events, programming, custom merchandise, and more, dubbed Shudder10.

That included a special Friday the 13th Shudder Anniversary Tattoo Party at Wild Heart Tattoo Parlor in Brooklyn, New York, where friends, family, alum, and Shudder fans descended to commemorate 10 years of horror programming with ink.

Shudder gave the artists at Wild Heart Tattoo Parlor free reign to design flash inspired by the streaming service’s expansive catalog, and they more than delivered. Willing participants could select from eleven sheets of flash inspired by films like Dangerous Animals, Late Night with the Devil, Mandy, Revenge, Tigers Are Not Afraid, The Dark and the Wicked, and In a Violent Nature, or series like “Creepshow,” “The Creep Tapes,” and “The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula,” to name only a few.

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Sharks aren’t the only threat in Survive, a new shark thriller preemptively acquired by Amazon MGM Studios based on a feature pitch, Deadline reports today.

Screenwriter Ian Levy (Pay the Ghost) will pen the script.

In Survive, “a desperate mother and her 12-year-old daughter attempt to flee from her abusive boyfriend. Their escape turns into a harrowing fight for survival after a highway crash leaves them stranded on a coastal cliff, battling not only the violent man they tried to escape but also a group of sharks circling in the waters below.”

That premise seems to continue the trend established by the recent release Dangerous Animals, which sees a serial killer employ sharks as a weapon for his ritualistic murders. There’s plenty more shark horror on the way, too. Tommy Wirkola’s Shiver swims into theaters next summer, and Hatchet filmmaker Adam Green is returning to the director...

Here’s the latest episode of The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.

For those unfamiliar with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro-budget indie films to bigger-budget studio films and everything in between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dom Lenoir, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk about how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their filmmaking experiences from directors, writers, producers and screenwriters, to actors, cinematographers and distributors.

The Filmmaker’s Podcast #456: Jai Courtney and Sean Byrne talk making indie feature Dangerous Animals,...

Dangerous Animals is out now. In it, Jai Courtney plays a maniacal serial killer with a unique method of dispatching his victims: feeding them alive to hungry sharks. Directed by Sean Byrne, the thriller breathes new life into the tired shark subgenre of horror, just in time for Jaws‘ 50th anniversary. I had the chance to speak with Jai Courtney about what it was like getting into the mind of a killer for his role as Tucker in Dangerous Animals.

Check out my review of Dangerous Animals here.

Jai Courtney: Dangerous Animals interview Jai Courtney towers as Tucker in ‘Dangerous Animals’ Hassie Harrison stars alongside Jai Courtney in ‘Dangerous Animals’ Tucker and Zephyr face off in ‘Dangerous Animals’ One of Tucker’s victim’s dangles above sharks in ‘Dangerous Animals’ Hassie Harrison fights for survival in ‘Dangerous Animals’

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On Sunday June 15 2025, ABC broadcasts Entertainers: With Byron Allen!

Episode 13 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “Entertainers: With Byron Allen” promises an exciting lineup of guests that will surely entertain viewers. This episode features a diverse group of talented individuals from various fields in the entertainment industry. Fans can look forward to engaging conversations and lively interactions.

Gerard Butler, known for his role in “How to Train Your Dragon,” will be part of the episode. His charm and charisma are expected to shine through as he shares insights from his career. Angela Bassett, a celebrated actress, will also join the discussion, bringing her wealth of experience and wisdom to the table.

In addition to these stars, the cast of “Dangerous Animals” will make an appearance, adding a unique flavor to the episode. Comedian Zach Galifianakis, known for his work in “Lilo & Stitch,” will likely bring humor and wit to the conversation.