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Horror movies are the perfect films to watch during Halloween, making it the holiday of choice for many of them. Eli Roth's slasher movie Thanksgiving brought a heaping helping of horror on another day of the year. While it's certainly a change of pace, it's not the only explicitly holiday-themed scary movie.

Christmas is another popular time to spread holiday fear, with some movies decking the halls with bowels of victims. Conversely, one fearsome movie explores the concept of a particularly bad birthday through the lens of another "holiday" movie. Add in a European pagan celebration for the changing of seasons, and it's clear that Thanksgiving will have some seasonal competition from discerning movie lovers.

Updated by Arthur Goyaz on November 25, 2024: The holiday season has begun, arguably the best time of the year to catch up with holiday horror movies. For fans of the genre, the transition from...

The horror genre keeps churning out great movies, such as the intoxicating Hugh Grant thriller Heretic. Part of its success is how it's able to produce movies that not only terrify audiences with gross-out scenes or a well-timed jump-scare, but also be a ton of fun. A great example of this is the Terrifier series, with Terrifier 3's funniest moments arriving among the requisite brutality and gore. Thanks mainly to Art the Clown's silent, but deadly, humor.

However, it's not just more recent horror films that have managed to be creepy as all hell, while bringing some solid fun along the way. Classic franchises have gained popularity thanks to quick-witted villains like Freddy Krueger, who is also incredibly creepy. The great thing about the horror genre is its ability to bring audiences together, to share an experience that'll be intense, and uncomfortable at times, but also a lot of fun.

Trick 'r Treat fans just got a much-needed update about the franchise's big-screen future. Michael Doughtery, who wrote and directed the original horror movie, recently offered a positive update on the long-gestating sequel.

In a new commentary track for Trick 'r Treat, released in Arrow Video's 4K Ultra HD edition of the movie, Dougherty opened up about the difficulties plaguing the sequel, which was first announced back in 2013. "Its tricky, because I think we really did capture lightning in a bottle with this one, and it nearly killed me. What a lot of people dont realize is that the bulk of our favorite horror movies, especially the ones that introduced new horror icons, were all independent movies," said Dougherty (via Bloody Disgusting) about having to work within the studio system for Trick 'r Treat.

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On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every other day throughout the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. The Free Movie of the Day we have for you today is the action comedy Ace of Hearts, starring Dean Cain. You can watch it over on the YouTube channel linked above, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.

Directed by David Mackay from a screenplay by Frederick Ayeroff, Ace of Hearts has the following synopsis: A police officer tries to save his beloved partner, a German shepherd, from being put to sleep. Ace is wrongly accused of mauling a suspect, and his 13-year-old daughter steps in to prove the dog’s innocence.

Cain is joined in the cast by Britt McKillip, Mike Dopud, Anne Marie DeLuise, David Patrick Green, Burkely Duffield,...

If I’ve learned anything from Trick ‘r Treat, it’s that you don’t disrespect Halloween. “I hate Halloween,” says Emma (Leslie Bibb) in the opening scene. She blows out the lone jack o’lantern and whines to her husband Henry (Tahmoh Penikett) about taking down the decorations on Halloween night. Moments later, she gets her comeuppance and becomes bloody and artsy décor on the front lawn. Her head is chopped off and her limbs hung with rope in the trees, a pumpkin lollipop shoved into her gaping mouth. Sam might be tiny, but he suffers no fools when it comes to the beloved holiday. It’s a gnarly image that drives home the film’s central theme: Halloween is sacred and should be treated as such.

With the long-awaited theatrical run this October, Michael Dougherty’s Trick ‘r Treat remains an emblem for great anthologies everywhere and perfectly...

(L-r) Isabelle Deleuce as Sara, Jean Luc Bilodeau as Schraeder, Samm Todd as Rhonda, Alberto Ghishi as Chip and Britt McKillip as Macy in Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ horror thriller “Trick ‘r Treat,” distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

Legendary Entertainment invites fans to a special Halloween watchalong of the beloved horror saga Trick ‘R Treat on Friday, October 30. Director Michael Dougherty will guide fans through the twisted, interwoven tales featuring the iconic star Sam, the mischievous spirit of Halloween who enforces the holiday’s ancient traditions, providing special commentary and a rare glimpse behind-the-scenes of the cult classic film.

To participate, fans should hit play at exactly 7pm Pt / 10pm Et on Friday, October 30 and follow along as director @mike_dougherty tweets from the @Legendary twitter account. Fans can choose their preferred way to watch at JustWatch.com and can join the conversation using #LegendaryHalloweenatHome. After the film,...

Walmart has joined Cleopatra Entertainment’s US release of Julian Richards award winning horror Daddy’S Girl starring Jemma Dallender (I Spit On Your Grave II), Costas Mandylor (Saw), Britt McKillip (Trick r Treat) and Jesse Moss (Tucker & Dale Vs Evil). On September 29th Daddy’S Girl will be released across all digital platforms and from October …

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Tagline: "Come to Daddy." Daddy's Girl is an upcoming horror thriller. To show via Cleopatra Entertainment, this film was created by director Jullian Richards (Reborn) and writer Sean Hogan. Together, they will bring Daddy's Girl to the screen this September and into October. In the story, a stepfather keeps his daughter close at hand. Meanwhile, a local cop is suspicious of their relationship. Daddy's Girl stars: Costas Mandylor (Saw IV), Britt McKillip, Jess Moss and Jemma Dallender. The film's official trailer is available here. Director Richards has talked about this title, over the years. He says of the film's themes: "I introduced a new theme to the story, making both the killer and the cop Iraq war veterans and linking the torture to Abu Ghraib." In today's sensitive climate on culture, Richards had to limit any scenes of torture and violence: "when I directed torture scenes, I panned away or...

Not to be confused with the god-awful found footage film with almost the same name, on tap right now we have the artwork and trailer for Amber Alert: Terror on the Highway, which is headed our way courtesy of Nasser Entertainment.

George Mendeluk directs. Tom Berenger, Torri Higginson, and Britt McKillip star.

Synopsis

Larsan is a man on the edge, making a dead rush for Mexico and kidnapping two young girls along the way. He is hotly pursued by Police Chief Martha Geiger, herself a mother of two. Using the Amber Alert system, Geiger constructs a psychological trap that will brutally punish the man who came in to mess with her town.

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A sequel to the very-entertaining horror Trick 'r Treat is coming as the news broke after a fan screening on Monday, October 28th. News of Trick 'r Treat 2 came during the Q&A where the "Trick 'r Treat" character Sam, and director Michael Dougherty, stole the show with the surprise announcement. This was much to the joy of fans who were gathered in La to ring in Halloween with the stars of Trick 'r Treat, including Dylan Baker and Brian Cox, and host Seth Green. Also, producer Bryan Singer made a surprise appearance! Trick 'r Treat starred Anna Paquin, Brian Cox, Dylan Baker, Quinn Lord, Lauren Lee Smith, Moneca Delain, Tahmoh Penikett, Brett Kelly and Britt McKillip.

At Monday night's special fan screening of the cult horror classic Trick 'r Treat hosted by Legendary, the film's iconic character, Sam, and director, Michael Dougherty, stole the show by announcing a sequel during the Q&A session. Other panel participants included two of the film's stars Dylan Baker and Brian Cox, as well as a surprise appearance by producer Bryan Singer.

Watch the entire panel below, moderated by Seth Green.

Director Michael Dougherty started the conversation by discussing how the idea for a sequel came about.

"It's funny because when I first dreamt up the idea of making the first film, I thought, "How neat would it be if we made them a series?" I'm a firm believer that October should be filled with Halloween movies, or horror movies. That's something I remember from childhood. Horror movies and Halloween, they go hand-in-hand. And so the idea was, "Well we...

To the delight of fans, Hasbro has announced that it will release a My Little Pony: Equestria Girls 2013 special edition pony, inspired by the popular DJ Pon-3 character at San Diego Comic-Con. Adding to the DJ Pon-3 celebrity status at this year's convention, Idw's Sdcc special edition My Little Pony #9 variant will feature a glitter cover with the fan-favorite pony.

Michael Kelly, Director of Global Publishing at Hasbro made this statement.

"Idw's special Sdcc edition of My Little Pony #9 is a must have for any My Little Pony fan. The cover is a great companion piece to Hasbro's special edition pony inspired by the DJ PON3 toy, and the additional content provides an exciting glimpse into the origins of Twilight Sparkle's adventures in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls. Where else can you get so much awesome in one comic?

While Hasbro lights up the convention, Idw has a few special...

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is getting the big screen treatment this June 16 with the animated adventure My Little Pony: Equestria Girls. Twilight Sparkle and her friends find themselves transported to another dimension, where they are transformed into oddly hued humans. Twilight must find out who stole a magical crown while traversing the challenges of high school. We're not making this up. Check out the first trailer and poster for this must-see Brony event of the summer.

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Trailer

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls comes to theaters June 16th, 2013 and stars Ashleigh Ball, Andrea Libman, Paulina Gillis, Cathy Weseluck, Nicole Oliver, Claire Corlett, Michelle Creber, Britt McKillip. The film is directed by Jayson Thiessen.

DVD Playhouse—November 2011

By Allen Gardner

Tree Of Life (20th Century Fox) Terrence Malick’s latest effort is both the best film of 2011 and the finest work of his (arguably) mixed, but often masterly canon. A series of vignettes, mostly set in 1950s Texas, capture the memory of a man (Sean Penn) in present-day New York who looks back on his life, and his parents’ (Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain) troubled marriage, when word of his younger brother’s suicide reaches him. Almost indescribable beyond that, except to say no other film in history so perfectly evokes the magic and mystery of the human memory, which both crystalizes (and sometimes idealizes) the past. Like Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, this is a challenging, polarizing work that you must let wash over you. If you go along for the ride, you’re in for a unique, rewarding cinematic experience. Also available on Blu-ray disc.

The Twitter page for Trick 'r Treat teases us with this: "Sam Will return..." The original 2007 movie was Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: An everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank; a woman who loathes the night has to contend with her holiday-obsessed husband. It starred Quinn Lord as Sam (Peeping Tommy) with: Dylan Baker, Rochelle Aytes, Lauren Lee Smith, Moneca Delain, Tahmoh Penikett, Brett Kelly, Britt McKillip, Isabelle Deluce, Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Alberto Ghisi, Samm Todd, Anna Paquin, Brian Cox and Leslie Bibb. LEEE777 - I really enjoyed the first one and remember them saying they wanted to do one annually, but that never happened, so fingers crossed.

The Twitter page for Trick 'R Treat teases us with this: "Sam Will return..." The original 2007 movie was Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: An everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank; a woman who loathes the night has to contend with her holiday-obsessed husband. It starred Quinn Lord as Sam (Peeping Tommy) with: Dylan Baker, Rochelle Aytes, Lauren Lee Smith, Moneca Delain, Tahmoh Penikett, Brett Kelly, Britt McKillip, Isabelle Deluce, Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Alberto Ghisi, Samm Todd, Anna Paquin, Brian Cox and Leslie Bibb. LEEE777 - I really enjoyed the first one and remember them saying they wanted to do one annually, but that never happened, so fingers crossed.

How long has it been since you’ve seen a really good, well-produced horror film? One that didn’t pride itself on being low-budget in the tradition of film school wannabes everywhere? It’s not your fault – Hollywood just doesn’t like to sink cash into that kind of investment when it knows schlock like Prom Night will draw in the high school crowds. The streak ends now, though. Trick ‘r Treat may be the most fun you’ve had in a horror film in the last decade. Forget all the horror franchise reboots, all the shakey-cam opuses and the creature-features of the week, here we have a horror film that does it right from beginning to end – all 8 of them.

Four stories of a single Hallows Eve fold weave together in a fantastic series with performances your average horror film would kill for. The night begins with an eerie...

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Bittersweet. Wholly bittersweet. Dead Like Me: Life After Death presents fans of the original series with a quandary. What is Dead Like Me without Rube (Mandy Patinkin)?

The new Dead Like Me feature film, reprising the plot of the ill-fated television series, answers that question but in a way that most fans will find lacking. By most accounts, getting 70% of an original cast back together 5 years after it ended (quite abruptly, I might add) would seem like a dream come true. Did we notice Laura Harris, who played Daisy Adair, was replaced by Sarah Wynter? You bet your ass we did. Did we care as much? No. What really gets at us - eats at us - is the void left by Rube's absence.  Sure, they play it off decently well in the story but you can't replace the grounding character of...

Chicago – Oscar madness has left the Round Up a little weary of high profile, award-bait movies. We need a break from the Oscars and what better way to do that than with a few titles that might have slipped through the cracks while everyone was singing “Jai Ho”.

Catch up with some of your favorite characters from the cult hit “Dead Like Me,” watch the latest in Warner Brothers’ direct-to-dvd horror series known as “Raw Feed,” and check out a documentary that I think everyone thought would make bigger waves than it did, Bill Maher’s “Religulous”.

All three of these titles were released on February 17th, 2009.

“Alien Raiders”

Photo credit: Warner Bros. The “Raw Feed” series of Warner Bros. horror releases has been relatively disappointing. There hasn’t been a single real gem, although you’ll find some hardcore fans of “Rest Stop” and “Otis”. To this critic, they’re almost all near-misses,...

As we told you a few weeks ago in Ask AfterEllen.com, Tuesday was the release date of the Dead Like Me movie on DVD — and it’s not what I was expecting.

(Warning: Spoilers ahead.)

As expected, the movie starts five years after George (Ellen Muth) died and became a reaper. Head reaper, Rube (Mandy Patinkin) “got his lights” and the reapers have a new boss, Cameron (Henry Ian Cusick).

The Post-it notes are gone in favor of smart phones and the diner where the reapers used to meet is a pile of ashes. And Cameron’s approach to reaping is just the opposite of Rube’s by-the-book attitude. Those differences change the whole tone of the story — and not necessarily in a good way.

Now, George is sort of the moral compass, the reaper who chooses ethics over the new life, er, death of luxury Cameron brings to the scene.

by Ian Spelling Ellen Muth is dead again, and she couldn’t be happier about it. Muth starred on the creepy, cult-favorite series Dead Like Me. She played Georgia “George” Lass, a young woman who was killed by a wayward toilet seat, only to discover that she was a Reaper, as in Grim Reaper, a member of the undead tasked with plucking the souls of those about to die in the instant before they expire. George worked with several other Reapers – among them Daisy (Laura Harris), Mason (Callum Blue), and Roxy (Jasmine Guy) – and they all answered to their boss, Rube (Mandy Patinkin). The show vanished in 2004, after just two seasons, much to the dismay of its modest but intensely loyal fan base. That fan base lobbied hard for more and, after all this time, Dead Like Me returns as a made-for-dvd movie entitled Dead Like Me: Life After Death.