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Stars: Ana Dragovich, Stephen Kristof, Sarah Elizabeth, Brent Bentley, Craig Benzine, Adam Hinkle, Terry Holt, Samuel James Howard, Janet Jurado | Written and Directed by Jake Jarvi

Haunt Season is the latest in a long line of scary attractions turned into real houses of horror, films like Haunt and Teddy Told Me To. Of course, you can go even further back, before haunted houses were popular, to films like Tourist Trap, the original House of Wax, all the way back to Mystery in the Wax Museum from 1933. It offers a great setting for films, with plenty of opportunity for jump scares and misdirecting the viewer, which keeps attracting filmmakers. It also means that it gets harder and harder to stand out from all the other similar films.

When Taylor doesn’t show up for her shift at the local haunted house, everyone simply assumes she flaked out and ghosted them. Having seen the prologue,...

While you wait for Terrifier 3 to bring Art the Clown and his over-the-top mayhem back to theaters on October 11, seven other brand new horror movies have released at home today.

Here’s all the new horror released on Tuesday, October 8, 2024!

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Tim Burton and Michael Keaton reunite for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and the long-awaited sequel is now available on Digital at home after releasing in theaters last month.

You can rent the film for $19.99 or purchase it for $24.99.

On November 19, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice will be available to own on 4K Uhd, Blu-ray and DVD from online and physical retailers. It will also continue to be available to own in high definition and standard definition from participating digital retailers.

Keaton returns to his iconic role alongside Oscar nominee Winona Ryder (Stranger Things, Little Women) as Lydia Deetz and two-time Emmy winner Catherine O’Hara (Schitt’s Creek,...

When people go through haunted house attractions during the Halloween season, many of them don't who the person is behind the fake gore and zombie makeup. The seasonal actor disappears behind the blood-curdling screams and smoke machine to create a visceral near-death experience that pumps out adrenaline. In Haunt Season, director and writer Jake Jarvi peels back the make-up to shine a light on haunted house actors in an actual death experience.

Haunt Season is a love letter to the actors struggling to make their big break in the entertainment industry, and provides a realistically hard perspective to achieve Jarvi's vision. Recent college graduate Matilda (Sarah Elizabeth) joins a haunted house just when another actor has suddenly ghosted her fellow crew during the height of the Halloween season. As the group of former theater kids and art-house devotees welcome Matilda into the fold, a masked serial killer picks them off one by one.

In October, the latest horror movie from Dread, Epic Pictures' specialty horror label, will be released. Ahead of the movie's arrival, Cbr has an exclusive sneak peek clip to unveil.

The film imagines what might happen if a costumed killer were to embark on a killing spree in a haunted house attraction, blurring the lines between what's real and what isn't. Our clip picks up early into the night of carnage when the haunted house's employees are gathered to plan their night of fright, unaware of the true horrors that await. The film will be released in limited theaters starting on Oct. 4 ahead of its launch for rent or purchase on video-on-demand (VOD) on Oct. 8. For now, Cbr's sneak peek clip can be viewed below.

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Through Crash Course, curious individuals can learn about everything from physics to video game history to philosophy. Now, thanks to the channel’s latest set of courses, those viewers can untangle the magic of cinema. Crash Course has unveiled three film series: A history lesson hosted by Craig Benzine, a production course hosted by Michael Aranda, and an introduction to criticism led by Lily Gladstone.

All three of the new courses will be produced by PBS Digital Studios, which teamed up with Crash Course co-founders Hank and John Green back in 2014. Benzine, who is becoming quite the regular on Crash Course, will examine how the film industry was shaped by the politics of nations like Germany and Russia; Aranda, who regularly collaborates with the Green brothers, will share the knowledge he has picked up in his experience on film sets; Gladstone, an actress, will marry specific films and filmmakers to...

As several past videos have pointed out, the creation of a pop song can be boiled down to a process. A new series will put that theory to the test. AlgoRhythm, from creator Craig Benzine and production companies New Form Digital and Above Average, is a scripted show about pop music production that is now available on Go90.

Benzine, who is best known for his WheezyWaiter YouTube channel, leads AlgoRhythm as Linus, a software developer who uses algorithms to predict the success of pop tracks. Under pressure from his boss, Linus teams up with his neighbor Reid (Jesse Pepe) to write a hit song of their own.

AlgoRhythm is the latest series to come out of the partnership between New Form Digital and Go90, which previously teamed up for shows like The Fourth Door and RePlay. Like many other New Form productions, AlgoRhythm features an online video star (Benzine, who...

Get out your slide rules. The Algorhythm TV show premieres on Verizon's digital go90 platform, Wednesday, July 20, 2016. The new six-part series from New Form Digital was developed as part of the Incubator Series. The Algorhythm TV series features Craig Benzine, an American video producer, musician, and vlogger best known for his YouTube channel WheezyWaiter.The Algorhythm TV show also stars Jesse Pepe, Thea Lux, Antonimar Murphy, Alexa Sutherland, Zack Gold, Mitchell Davis, Justin Wade Adryella Perez, Johnny Rivas, Carlena Britch, Marlon Aquino, Elliot C. Morgan, Teagan Sirset, George Mclachlan, and Guerin Piercy.Read More…...

PBS Digital Studios is sponsoring a show making its return to the internet. The Good Stuff, which began back in 2013 by YouTube celebrity Craig Benzine (known as the WheezyWaiter to online video fans), launched its newest episode on May 18, 2015.

Episodes of The Good Stuff, which each focus on a different theme, are split into separate videos contained in an overarching playlist. The first four-part episode of the series explores everything about sleep, including its history, its scientific aspects, and its effects on health. Upcoming episodes will investigate topics like the future of food, thrill seeking, robots, and the phrase “seeing isn’t believing.”

Benzine originally started The Good Stuff because he liked the format of radio shows such as This American Life and RadioLab. These shows talked about one theme or topic over the course of several segments which were part of a single episode. So Benzine looked for sponsors...

After building its YouTube channel around a flagship program hosted by John Green and then expanding its reach through a separate program hosted by Craig Benzine, Mental Floss has now turned to Elliott Morgan. Morgan is the host of a new web series called Misconceptions, which seeks to clear the air about factoids that are often misunderstood. The first episode is out to debunk "Misconceptions You Learned in School" through a ten-item list of inaccurate beliefs. Some of these "misconceptions", such as the idea that Columbus thought the Earth was flat, are not actually believed by very many people above the age of 10. Others, such as the (apparently false) claim that toilet water flushes in a different direction in the Southern Hemisphere, are more widely held. Morgan has popped up on several different channels since he left his role as a SourceFed host back in April. He has been active on his personal channel,...

Proposal stories always go over well with the online video masses, but they’re even more exciting when they’re meticulously planned down to the last letter. That’s why the 1000th video by Craig Benzine (known as WheezyWaiter to his fans) is so epic. Benzine used the first letter from each of his previous 19 videos to spell out the phrase “Chyna will you marry me,” labeling his 1000th video with a question mark to complete the proposal. Acting like there was something wrong, he asked his girlfriend, Chyna Pate, to “check” if the 20 videos’ first letters said anything. As she finished deciphering the acronym, Benzine got down on one knee with the ring and officially proposed. The message of Benzine’s 1000th video took three months in the making, and obviously a whole lot of planning even before that. It’s no surprise Chyna immediately said “yes.” Benzine just...

Thanks to the charismatic personality of John Green, Mental Floss has established a large YouTube audience to complement the print publication of the same name. Since the channel's April 2013 launch, Green's list show has served as its main attraction, but Mental Floss has now added another brainy option for its viewers. Craig Benzine (who is best known to YouTube viewers as Wheezy Waiter) is the host of The Big Question, a series that answers tricky fan-submitted queries. In the first episode of The Big Question, Benzine responds to a fan who wants to know how caffeinated coffee beans can be used in decaffeinated beverages. He explains that, in most cases, the decaffeination process doesn't actually take out 100% of caffeine, so tread carefully if, for some reason beyond my coffee-addled understanding, you're looking to cut caffeine out of your diet entirely. As a host, Benzine seems a little stiff, especially without...

In 2013, Buffer Festival brought a YouTube-focused film festival north of the border. This year, Buffer Festival is back, and it is appealing to online video professionals with an "Industry Day" that will precede three days of screenings and meetups. The Industry Day, which was launched in partnership with the Canadian Film Centre, will go down on October 16th and will resemble the similarly-named event that occurs during the first day of Vidcon. YouTubers, multi-channel network executives, and digital businesspeople will take the stage at the Hyatt Regency Toronto and will share their thoughts on relevant topics. Presenters will include top Canadian YouTubers like Harley Morenstein of Epic Meal Time and Mitchell Moffit of ASAPScience. Some American creators--such as ShayCarl, Craig Benzine, and Frankenstein, M.D. creator Bernie Su--will also speak. “We were beyond delighted with the success of Buffer Festival last year, with the participation of dozens of YouTube creators and thousands of attendees,...

New Form Digital, the studio formed by Discovery, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, announced on Tuesday that it has launched its first creative venture, New Form Incubator, through which they will develop and fund 14 short films with popular YouTube content creators. The first 14 shorts will be produced by YouTube personalities 5SecondFilms, Anna Akana, Bertie Gilbert, Chris Riedell and Nick Riedell (The Brothers Riedell), Craig Benzine (WheezyWaiter), Joe Penna (MysteryGuitarMan), Joey Graceffa, Meghan Camarena (Strawburry17), Pj Liguori (KickThePJ), Poykpac, Sawyer Hartman, Tim Hautekiet, Tony Valenzuela (BlackBoxTV) and Yulin Kuang. Also read: Discovery, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer Form New Digital Studio The.

Craig Benzine has noticed a problem. The YouTuber, who makes videos under the name WheezyWaiter, has recently seen a decline in viewership on his videos and those of his fellow YouTubers. "It seems like, if people are making videos on a regular basis," he explained, "their views are declining, unless they're shooting to the top." Benzine wants to figure out why traffic is going down, so he created a WheezyWaiter vlog where he hypothesized several reasons why his viewcounts (and his compatriots' viewcounts) may be in decline. If you can't spare five minutes to watch Benzine put on his "rant pants," here's a summary: Benzine noted five factors that could be contributing to lower viewcounts. He discussed changes in the way YouTube counts views as well as the decreased presence of subscriptions at the top of the YouTube home page. He also admitted the possibility of a drop in his...

Craig Benzine is better known on YouTube as Wheezy Waiter, where he’s built up a sizable following of 500,000+ subscribers thanks to his pensive, whimsical, and imaginative videos and playlists of him highlighting the good stuff. Matt Hogan is better known on YouTube as the upstart GlobalSoup, where he’s built a modest following that belies the quality of his videos and on camera presence (which are much better than his 2,000+ subscriber count would lead you to believe). Together, Benzine and Hogan are WheezySoup. (Do you see what they did there?) The company is a platform from which the pair can “create more awesome and creative stuff,” like their mobile charades game I’m Actin Here. And this week, the company just welcomed another partner. Christopher Bingham joins WheezySoup as its Director of Product and Brand Relations. The self-proclaimed “Internet Video Mad Scientist” has built a number of channels on YouTube (like slomozovo,...

Many of YouTube's brightest stars have descended on Toronto for the first ever Buffer Festival. The film festival created for and by the YouTube community will include three days of screenings, Q&A sessions, and signings. It would be easy to pigeonhole Buffer as 'Vidcon, but in Canada', but Corey Vidal's brainchild has a much heavier focus on actual content. On Friday, creators like The Fine Bros, The Gregory Brothers, and PrankVsPrank will host screenings where we can expect them to present recent videos to their respective audiences. The 'Holy Trinity Of Comedy', consisting of BFFs Grace Helbig, Hannah Hart, and Mamrie Hart, will present their snappy live show on Friday as well. In addition to showcasing their own work, attending creators will help host 'genre shows', where certain popular YouTube categories are highlighted; these specialized events begin on Friday with a Musical Comedy screening hosted by Jack Douglass and...

Craig Benzine Aka Wheezy Waiter has built up a sizable YouTube following on his main channel, where he posts whatever unusual, brainy, and imaginative videos fly from his unique brain. Now, the Chicago-based creator is using his YouTube notability to launch a new series, titled The Good Stuff, where he examines a weekly topic using a playlist of related videos. Each week, Benzine posts about six videos to the Good Stuff channel, each one relevant to that week's theme. The first week's theme was 'origins'; as a result, the playlist included Bill Nye talking about the origin of everything and Benzine's mother talking about the origin of Craig. Benzine's second effort is focused on airplanes, as he attempts to get over a fear of flying (with an assist from Mark Malkoff and others). In a blog post, Benzine explained his intention for The Good Stuff: There’s this type...

Actor creates fake stink with 'bathroom strike' campaign, to 'make people give a shit about toilets' on World Water Day

Matt Damon gazes at a press conference of unusually well-groomed journalists. He has an announcement to make. "I'm going on strike," he says, to protest lack of sanitation in developing countries. "Not from acting, that would be too easy." He pauses. "A strike from going to go the bathroom."

There is silence, then consternation. "What?" asks a bewildered reporter. Questions erupt. For how long will he strike? Will he refrain just from actual bathrooms, and do his business elsewhere? Will he forswear, asks a flustered TV anchor, groping for network-acceptable vocabulary, from "pee-pee and caca, or just pee-pee?"

Damon shoots back, quickly if not very helpfully: "You do the math." The press conference ends in tumult.

The surreal exchanges are scripted and the journalists are actors, but the scene is not part of a movie.