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The spooky season may be over but we still love us some Jamie Lee Curtis, forever the most iconic scream queen to emerge from ‘70s horror. Sure, she’s gone on to Oscar glory but we’ll always love her as Laurie Strode, even if she has hung it up on the character…or has she?

In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Jamie Lee Curtis seemed to assure us that Laurie Strode is no more, saying, “I have hung up my bell-bottoms and my pale blue button-down shirt, and I have relinquished [Laurie] to the ages with a warm, ‘aloha,’ and a thanks for all the years and memories.” Then she added a quick, cryptid farewell: “And yet, if I’ve learned anything in my 65 years on the planet, it’s never say never. Goodbye.”

Ok, so it’s highly doubtful that Jamie Lee Curtis would actually play Laurie Strode ever again,...

Alfred Hitchcock is one of those filmmakers who is considered untouchable. The very idea of remaking a Hitchcock movie, or making a sequel to one of his films, often sounds like sacrilege, although that hasn't stopped people from doing it over the years. Many of Hitchcock's films are considered classics, and I think it's fair to say that one of his most-famous, most-beloved movies is 1960's "Psycho." Adapting the pulpy novel by Robert Bloch, Hitchcock created a brilliant thriller with a killer twist ending, and even if you've somehow never seen the film, you're probably very aware of the famous shower scene, where Janet Leigh's Marion Crane is stabbed to death. It's a scene considered groundbreaking and innovative for its quick editing, which convinces us we're watching Leigh get sliced and diced even though we never actually see the knife pierce her flesh.

Hitchcock shot "Psycho" for under $1 million,...

Horror movies are closely associated with rapid succession sequels than they are legacy sequels. (How many years did we have a new “Saw” and/or “Paranormal Activity” sequel to look forward to?) But there are still a fair amount of legacy horror sequels – follow-ups that take much longer to marinate than the traditional sequel – and these are the ones that were definitely worth the wait.

Universal “Psycho II” (1983)

The first true legacy horror sequel was a follow-up to perhaps the most celebrated horror movie ever, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 shocker “Psycho.” “Psycho II” was directed by Australian filmmaker Richard Franklin, whose previous movie “Road Games” is one of the greatest Australian thrillers ever, and was written by Tom Holland, who would go on to direct future classics “Fright Night” and “Child’s Play.”

The sequel sees Norman Bates (once again played by Anthony Perkins) finally released from prison and attempting to enjoy a normal life,...

Leeds International Film Festival (Liff) is set to return this November for its 38th edition, offering an exciting showcase of international cinema with a strong focus on fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and dark comedy through its Fanomenon strand. Running from 1 to 17 November 2024, the festival will take place in various venues across Leeds, including Everyman Leeds, Vue Leeds, Hyde Park Picture House, and the Howard Assembly Room.

The Fanomenon section of the festival, renowned for spotlighting films that push boundaries, will feature a variety of UK premieres, retrospectives, and thrilling movie marathons that celebrate global cinematic creativity. This year’s Fanomenon opens with Escape from the 21st Century, a UK premiere from writer-director Yang Li. This fast-paced sci-fi film blends comic-book animation with high-octane martial arts, setting the tone for the festival’s more unconventional offerings. The closing film, The Killers, hails from South Korea and brings together four inventive crime stories in a gripping,...

“It’s Rear Window… with a twist” is always a fun marketing hook for a horror movie – my personal favorite is 1981’s Road Games, which is essentially Rear Window on the road – and the latest film to put a new spin on the Alfred Hitchcock classic is this year’s 9 Windows.

It’s Rear Window… for the screenlife generation. Exclusively watch the trailer below.

9 Windows will release October 15 on digital and cable VOD.

Written and directed by Lou Simón, the upcoming screenlife horror movie stars William Forsythe, Michael Paré, Diana Garle, Christopher Millan and Jason Hignite.

“On the day of her graduation, Liza and her parents are driving to a restaurant to celebrate when a truck slams into their car. Eighteen months later, Liza is unable to walk and lives alone after her parents’ death. Feeling responsible, Liza spends her days trolling vloggers on a local website. Late one night,...

When you look at the true legacy of a scream queen there are a lot of options out there to choose from. When looking at the top of the heap though? I’d argue that there really is only one option. Jamie Lee Curtis has been making horror movies in 6 different decades now and while a lot of them are directly tied to her most famous franchise with 7 of her horror films being in the Halloween series, there’s so much more. In fact, her run from 1978 to 1981 includes the likes of Halloween 1 and 2, The Fog, Terror Train, and Prom Night. All of those movies have now been remade and are considered classics but there is one in there that doesn’t get talked about enough, was a bomb when it came out, but keeps getting better with age. While Halloween II came out and stole the spotlight in 1981, Road Games...

Intro: What is the first movie that comes to mind when you hear the name Elisabeth Shue? Do you think of her as the Karate Kid’s love interest? The babysitter who went on an adventure through downtown Chicago? The Oscar-nominated prostitute from Leaving Las Vegas? Chances are, the movie that comes to mind is not Link. A horror movie where Shue shares the screen with a homicidal orangutan that’s passed off as being a chimp. Link isn’t very well known, but it should be. If you haven’t seen it, it’s the Best Horror Movie You Never Saw.

Creators / Cast: Link (watch it Here) was directed by Alfred Hitchcock devotee Richard Franklin, an Australian filmmaker who, for a while, looked like he could be one of the best sources for new Hitchcockian thrillers once the Master of Suspense had passed away. Franklin had even been friends with Hitchcock,...

Richard Franklin's Road Games is a suspense horror movie that takes the best elements of Alfred Hitchcock's films suspense, terror, paranoia, romance, murder and places it in the Australian Outback. American truck driver Quid (Stacy Keach), who thinks he witnessed a murder, proceeds to carry his haul across the Nullarbor Plain, picking up hitchhikers and following the trail of the serial killer. It's a simple plot, one that bears, in no coincidental way, a strong resemblance to the plot of Rear Window, yet the distinctions are what make this a unique picture. A burgeoning Australian film scene, the influence of American filmmaking styles, and the cool yet raucous attitudes of the Australian people all combined to create a thrilling, at times terrifying, movie that defied expectations of a "road movie."...

Grant Page, the larger-than-life Australian stunt performer famous for his jaw-dropping work in films including Mad Max, The Man From Hong Kong and Mad Dog Morgan, has died. He was 85.

Page died Thursday when the car he was driving near his home in Kendall on the coast of New South Wales hit a tree, his son Leroy Page told Daily Mail Australia.

Page worked with director Brian Trenchard-Smith on more than a dozen projects, including The Stuntmen (1973), King Fu Killers (1974), The Man From Hong Kong (1973) — where Page fights martial arts expert Jimmy Wang Yu in scenes using knives, cleavers and meat hooks — Deathcheaters (1976), Stunt Rock (1978) and Hospitals Don’t Burn Down! (1978).

And for the documentary Dangerfreaks (1987), Trenchard-Smith filmed Page standing on a ledge outside the perimeter fence on the observation deck of the Empire State Building in New York.

Page “successfully tampered with the laws of physics and probability,” Trenchard-Smith...

If you want to see a wild midnight movie, there’s a little-known Australian movie called Stunt Rock, which might blow your mind. In it, an Australian stuntman named Grant Page (playing himself) visits Los Angeles to do stunts for a TV show and hooks up with a heavy metal band named Sorcery (the band is like Kiss if they also did magic). It has many fans, including Eli Roth, who used one of Sorcery’s songs in his Death Wish remake and is prominently featured in an incredible documentary about Australian exploitation films (Ozploitation) called Not Quite Hollywood.

More than anything, this documentary was a loving tribute to Page, who did incredible stunts for almost every cool action film shot in Australia over the last fifty years, including Mad Max, and Road Games (in which he played the mostly unseen villain). Sadly, Mark Hartley, the director of Not Quite Hollywood,...

Jamie Lee Curtis will forever be one of horror's most beloved scream queens. She's the ultimate final girl, thanks mostly to her over 45-year run as Laurie Strode in the Halloween films. However, aside from battling Michael Myers, she spent the early '80s starring in a long series of now horror classics. She reteamed with John Carpenter for The Fog in 1980. The same year, she headlined Terror Train, and in 1982, starred in the underrated Road Games. Amidst these releases was another slasher so influential that Randy Meeks (Jamie Kennedy) couldn't help but give it a shout-out in Scream as the slasher everyone must watch to understand the genre. Prom Night might not be on the level of Halloween, but it's a better-than-average representation of the subgenre. More interesting, it has the most gut-wrenching finale. While the likes of Michael Myers and Friday the 13th's Jason Voorhees are to be feared,...

Jamie Lee Curtis celebrates the 45th anniversary of Halloween, the film that established her as a scream queen and launched her career in horror. The original Halloween movie was made on a low budget and only took 17 days to shoot, but it became a massive critical and commercial success. Halloween is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential horror movies ever made, thanks to John Carpenter's direction and the iconic score.

Halloween star Jamie Lee Curtis celebrates the 45th anniversary of the original movie with a nostalgic message on social media. The actor debuted as the teenage babysitter Laurie Strode, who is stalked by the masked killer Michael Myers in John Carpenter's original Halloween movie released in 1978. The horror film established Curtis as a scream queen, and over the years, she starred in other horror films and returned to the Halloween franchise many times, including David Gordon Green...

Jamie Lee Curtis's appearance and relatable screen presence made her a sympathetic and accessible scream queen in Halloween. Curtis's iconic portrayal of Laurie Strode in Halloween solidified her status as cinema's ultimate scream queen, with subsequent horror film roles cementing her fame. Despite being pigeonholed in the horror genre, Curtis successfully transitioned to other genres while still maintaining her scream queen persona, showcasing her versatility as an actress.

Before nineteen-year-old Jamie Lee Curtis made her feature film debut as shy teenage babysitter Laurie Strode in the now classic 1978 horror film Halloween, Curtis was best known for being a child of Hollywood royalty, as the daughter of Hollywood stars Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis.

Indeed, Curtis’s casting in Halloween owed, at least in part, to her mother’s own iconic scream queen persona from the 1960 thriller film Psycho, as Halloween collaborators John Carpenter and Debra Hill thought that...

August is here and with it a whole host of new movies to watch on streaming has arrived. It can be daunting thumbing through the lists of what’s new on Netflix, Prime Video, Max, Hulu, Disney+, Peacock and Paramount+, and that’s where we come in handy. Below, we’ve put together a curated list of some of the best new movies to stream this month, including brand new originals like Gal Gadot’s actioner “Heart of Stone,” new releases making their streaming debut like “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” and excellent library titles such as David Fincher’s “Zodiac.”

You’ll find all of that and more in our curated list of the best new movies to stream in August.

“Mixtape” Paramount+

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This new documentary details how mix tape culture helped hip-hop culture enter the mainstream. From the official press release: “Before radio play, the internet,...

The list of movies Quentin Tarantino loves is as long as Uma Thurman’s toes. There are the expected ones, like those from Brian De Palma, Sergio Leone and Martin Scorsese, but then there are ones that might surprise even his most die-hard fans, such as Team America, Woody Allen’s Anything Else and, as it turns out, the 2003 version of Freaky Friday.

In a new oral history of Freaky Friday to commemorate the body-swap remake’s 20th anniversary, director Mark Waters remembers the Oscar winner approaching him and endlessly praising the big finale. “I love the House of Blues sequence just because it was kind of this big thing in my mind, building up to it, this thing I pitched about the Battle of the Bands. It was a lot of people, a lot of moving parts and to have it come together like it did was super cool.

From follow-ups to classics to unfairly panned continuations, there are a bunch of unloved movie sequels that don’t deserve the hate. Sequels are always tricky to pull off, because replicating the success of a popular movie requires the filmmakers to catch lightning in a bottle for a second time. There are a select few sequels that have managed to outshine their predecessors, like The Godfather Part II and The Empire Strikes Back, but it’s much easier to name the sequels that didn’t live up to the original: The Sting II, Zoolander 2, Batman & Robin, Dumb and Dumber To, for example.

It’s common for a sequel to be met with a negative reception, because audiences and critics judge them against the high bar set by the first movie. But not every poorly reviewed sequel has deserved its negative reception. The Godfather Part III is often named...

Jamie Lee Curtis has been acting for decades, but the “Scream Queen” has only recently gotten the recognition she deserves with her first Academy Award for her role as IRS Agent Deirdre in Everything Everywhere All at Once. However, Curtis has plenty of other great TV and movie roles under her belt, some of which have ranked highly on Rotten Tomatoes.

In each movie and TV show she appears in, Curtis continues to show her passion for the business and ability to tackle just about any role. From her guest star appearance as Donna in The Bear to her iconic performance as Laurie Strode in the Halloween franchise, Curtis has played many great characters in her career.

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Daddy and Them (2001) – 86%

In the 2001 comedy-drama, Daddy and Them, Curtis plays supporting character Elaine. The film's plot centers around Claude (Billy Bob Thornton) and Brenda...

Richard Franklin has been called “The Australian Hitchcock” and 1981’s Road Games is the movie that earned him that title. Unlike many of his contemporaries, however, Franklin did not particularly emulate Hitchcock’s visual style. Instead, he learned how to structure a story and effectively build a sense of dread from the Master of Suspense. He also learned the importance of adding healthy doses of humor along the way to make the suspense even more effective. Though Hitchcock is Franklin’s greatest influence, there is plenty of John Ford and Howard Hawks, along with contemporaries like John Carpenter and Steven Spielberg to be found in his style. This is not to say that Franklin’s work is derivative. Every good filmmaker has influences that they synthesize into their own style. Franklin’s style is more difficult to pinpoint than, say, Scorsese or DePalma’s, but it is no less effective in its narrative capabilities.

With Now Showing, your Halloweenies gather each month for a review on something new and something old in horror. This month, co-hosts Justin Gerber and Michael Roffman are joined by Halloweenies editor and musician Mae Schults. Together, they discuss Influencer, Sick, Infinity Pool, Roadgames, The Collector, and Crimes of Passion.

Stream the episode below or subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, RadioPublic, Acast, Google Podcasts, and RSS. New to the Halloweenies? Catch up with the gang by revisiting their essential episodes on past franchises such as Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Scream, and The Evil Dead. This year? It’s Chucky!

You can also become a member of their Patreon, The Rewind, for hilariously irreverent commentaries, one-off deep dives on your favorite rentals, and even topical spinoffs like their ensuing Fortune & Glory: An Indiana Jones Podcast.

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You’ve been asking for it and we’re thrilled to announce today that Cinedigm and Bloody Disgusting’s Screambox streaming service is now available on Apple TV devices!

You can download the Screambox app onto your Apple TV device right now, and start streaming all the original, exclusive, and catalogue content we’ve loaded onto the service in the past year. That includes big screen hits like Terrifier 2 and The Outwaters, plus award-winning documentary films including Pennywise: The Story of It and Living With Chucky.

You also won’t want to miss #RobertEnglundDay on Tuesday, June 6, which will mark the premiere of Screambox Original documentary Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story. Additionally, we just added A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), plus Tobe Hooper movies Night Terrors (1993) and The Mangler (1995)!

Other new arrivals for June 2023 include the entire five-film Subspecies franchise – and yes, that includes brand new...

A full Free Movie of the Day is posted on the JoBlo Horror Movies YouTube channel every other day during the week – but on Fridays things get even freakier and a little more fun. Get your weekend started the right way by indulging in Friday Fright Nights! Every Friday, we’ll be taking a look at another genre movie you can watch in its entirety, free of charge, either on the YouTube channel linked above or in the video embed here.

The Friday Fright Night feature we have for you this week is the horror film Lurking Woods. This one was an Australian production, but the set-up works all around the world: a group of young friends head off to spend a relaxing time in the countryside and end up being menaced by a dangerous person wearing a mask. In this case, the masked person is lurking in the woods that surround their vacation spot.

Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing 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, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk 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 film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors.

The Filmmaker’s Podcast #335: ‘The Last of Us’ – Making the hit TV...

A24 is ready to scare you silly (again). “Talk to Me,” the latest horror sensation from the world’s hippest movie studio, is coming this summer. And the deliciously creepy first trailer is here. Watch it above (if you dare).

The movie follows a young girl (Sophie Wilde), who recently lost her mother, and is coaxed into playing a game with an embalmed hand that supposedly opens up a door to the other side. Of course, things quickly escalate out of control, with a demonic force being unleashed (because of course). Apparently Australian teenagers have never heard of your classic Ouija board, because this is some next-level supernatural tomfoolery. (Don’t kids today just do TikTok dances and eat Tide pods?) Miranda Otto, Alexandra Jensen, Joe Bird, Otis Dhanji and Zoe Terakes also star.

“Talk to Me” is directed by Danny and Michael Philippou, twin filmmaking brothers from Austrlia who...

Jamie Lee Curtis is one Hollywood star who has never forgotten her horror roots, most recently reprising her iconic role as Halloween final girl Laurie Strode in a series of legacy sequels. The very same year that the final film in the trilogy was released, Jamie Lee Curtis also starred in Everything Everywhere All At Once, a genre film that just won big at the Oscars.

Everything Everywhere All At Once won a whopping Seven statues at the 2023 Academy Awards, and one of those awards went directly to one of horror’s most iconic living legends.

For her role in Everything Everywhere All At Once, Jamie Lee Curtis won the “Best Supporting Actress” trophy, and she made sure to bring some horror love into her acceptance speech.

“I know it looks like I’m standing up here by myself, but I am not,” Jamie Lee Curtis began her speech, shouting...

Everything Everywhere All At Once is an award-winning sci-fi, comedy, and action movie that thrusts its immaculately well-casted characters into a truly surreal multiverse. For her role as the lead character, Evelyn Wang, Michelle Yeoh won the 2023 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical/Drama, while Ke Huy Quan's role as Evelyn's husband Waymond won the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture. Yeoh and Quan are also nominated in the 2023 Oscars for these same roles, alongside Everything Everywhere At Once supporting cast members Stephanie Hsu and Jamie Lee Curtis — just four of the 11 Oscar nominations the Everything Everywhere All At Once cast and crew garnered.

Everything Everywhere All At Once was written and directed by the creative duo of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, also known as the Daniels — the same minds behind the surreal 2016 comedy Swiss Army Man starring Daniel Radcliffe.

The horror genre is packed with great heroines that have been brought to the screen by actresses who have earned legions of fans through their awesome performances. So to celebrate the fact that one of the genre’s most famous heroines / scream queens is back on the screen in this weekend’s release Halloween Ends, we here at Arrow in the Head have compiled a list of some of the Best Scream Queens. To see who made the list, keep scrolling! Then let us know who you think the greatest scream queens of all time are by leaving a comment below.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Her work in the Halloween franchise alone would be enough to earn Jamie Lee Curtis a spot on this list. She has gone up against Michael Myers in seven different films over the decades. She has (appeared to have) killed him, she has been killed by him – and like him,...

Happy Friday, everyone! This time last week, we celebrated the amazing independent horror films that were released throughout the 1970s, so it only makes sense that we shift our focus today to all the great indie genre movies and moviemakers that helped make the ’80s one of the most unforgettable decades in horror.

Much like the 1970s, we saw a handful of eventual Masters of Horror establish themselves as genre storytellers on the indie side of things throughout the ’80s. On the East Coast, we saw an explosion of creativity come out of New York City with filmmakers such as William Lustig, Frank Henenlotter, Larry Fessenden, and Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman making their feature debuts in the world of horror during the ’80s. And even though Troma Entertainment was founded in 1974, the company really came into its own during the 1980s as well. The indie studio founded by the aforementioned...

About midway through the pandemic in 2020, after watching more films at home in just six months than I would typically watch in 12 months, I was dealing with a significant case of cabin fever. So, I would go for long drives across the many local Arizona highways late in the evenings. My steering wheel soundtrack was mostly film scores from every single decade of film throughout history. Along my many drives, through busy city lights, and out on the lonely borders of the town, I would be reminded of my love for road trip films. When a giant semi-truck refused to pass me and instead followed closely on my bumper, I remembered Spielberg's Duel. When a hitchhiker appeared out of nowhere, wearing an ankle-length black duster, I immediately thought of Rutger Hauer from The Hitcher. But the most memorable moment from these late-night cruises had to be pulling into a gas...

Over the last decade, us genre fans have been blessed by the second phase in genre veteran Barbara Crampton’s career that has seen her tackle a wide array of roles in projects like You’re Next, We Are Still Here, Sun Choke, Beyond the Gates, Channel Zero, Road Games, Into the Dark: Culture Shock, and many more. Beyond that, Crampton has also stepped into the role of producer on several films and even contributes to Fangoria with her insightful column as well.

Daily Dead recently had the opportunity to speak with Crampton about her latest role in Sacrifice, a Norweigan cult thriller where she plays the leader of a cult who has plans for an unassuming couple that arrive in the area, unaware of the danger lurking at every turn. During our interview with Barbara, she discussed her involvement with Sacrifice, taking on a Norweigan accent for her role in the film,...

If you like your horror movies set in the Australian wilderness à la Rogue, Wolf Creek, or Road Games, then you may be interested in The Marshes, which is coming to Blu-ray, DVD, Digital HD, and VOD on June 16th following its release on Shudder earlier this year:

From the Press Release: Los Angeles – Rlje Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to The Marshes from Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural. The Marshes will be released on VOD, Digital HD, DVD and Blu-ray on June 16, 2020.

The horror/thriller stars Dafna Kronental, Mathew Cooper, Sam Delich, and Eddie Baroo. Roger Scott makes his feature directorial and screenwriting debut with the film. Rlje Films will release The Marshes on DVD for $27.97 and on Blu-ray for $15.95.

In The Marshes, when a group of young microbiologists head deep into the Australian wilderness to test water samples,...

A Good Woman is Hard to Find is a thriller from the United Kingdom and Belgium. From director Abner Pastoll and writer Ronan Blaney (Love Bite), this title focuses on a single mother, who has a run-in with a local drug dealer. Several worlds collide as Sarah (Sarah Bolger) struggles to keep her children safe. A Good Woman is Hard to Find had its World Premiere in Montreal, back in 2019. Showing at several other film festivals, this title has won a number of awards, throughout 2019 and 2020. Now, this title is set for a U.S. release, this May. Actress Bolger has won a couple of "Best Actress" for her central role. The wins took place at Screamfest and FrightFest. A Good Woman is Hard to Find has also won a "Best Feature" award at Frightfest. A complex thriller, A Good Woman is Hard to Find will show on Digital platforms on May 8th.

The saying goes that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery; and while that may hold true for the originator, it can often hide the imitator’s intentions behind an aesthetic curtain too hard to see through. Luckily this is not the case with Richard Franklin’s Road Games (1981), a taut yet humorous highway take on Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window. While it is a loving homage, it has a light touch even in its tensest moments that renders it beguiling.

Released by Avco Embassy Pictures stateside in November, Road Games’ production sputtered along before hitting full speed, getting veteran actor Stacy Keach on board, and then despite protests from Australians who wanted them to shop local, snagging Jamie Lee Curtis as well. The film received some positive notices (so much so it got him the job helming Psycho II), hailing Franklin’s efforts to create a classy thriller amongst the Australian outback; unfortunately,...

Out this month from Scream Factory, Shout! Factory's horror/thriller imprint, comes the 1981 Australian thriller, Road Games. This collector's edition features a ton of bonus interviews and a colorful poster with some pretty rad art --- that is, if you order soon enough. Directed by Richard Franklin, the film stars Stacy Keach as Pat Quid, a trucker in the Outback who picks up an American along the way --- a young Jaime Lee Curtis, who also played a hitchiker in John Carpenter's The Fog ... Funny enough in that film she gets picked up by Tom Atkins, who's a similar character to Keach's Pat Quid here in Road Games.  Anyway, there's a serial killer on the loose, because of course there is --- and there are plenty...

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As we start gearing up for the Holiday Shopping Season, there are a new batch of home media releases arriving this week, and a few of those titles might feel right at home on your wish list this year. Heathers, a personal favorite of mine is getting the Steelbook treatment this Tuesday, courtesy of Rlje Films, and in terms of recent horror releases, both 47 Meters Down: Uncaged and Bliss are both hitting Blu-ray and DVD as well.

Scream Factory is showing some love to Stacey Keach and Road Games (1981) this week, and for those of you who enjoy your sibling survival stories with a bit of a nasty twist to them, Arrow Video has put together a special edition release of Flowers in the Attic.

Other Blu and DVD films coming home on November 12th include Wicked World, The Attic, Polaroid, Darkslide, Small Town Killers, and Southern Chillers.

47 Meters Down: Uncaged...

Director Abner Pastoll’s icy Irish thriller opens brilliantly with a blood smudged woman showering while an ominous score throbs in the backdrop, implying something petrifying is about to happen. The music explodes into a terrifying crescendo as the scene flits into a low gliding aerial view of a suburban neighbourhood, recalling the eerie intro to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.

We then dart back in time to meet protagonist Sarah (Sarah Bolger): a twenty-something, single mother, battling grief following the recent death of her husband. Sarah’s life is then hurled into further turmoil after local ruffian Tito (Andrew Simpson) breaks into her home to hide a stash of cocaine he stole from local gangsters.

After a quite tight set-up, Ronan Blaney’s script simmers during slow scenes establishing secondary characters, which are hugely detrimental to the temper and flow. While more emphasis should have been on plot progression,...

Scream Factory will release Road Games on Blu-ray™ on November 12, and riding shotgun is a host of new bonus features, including a new interview, audio commentary, script read, and music demos. Customers ordering from Shoutfactory.com will receive an exclusive 18×24 rolled poster featuring our brand new artwork, available while supplies last. Stacy Keach is …

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Scream Factory will release Roadgames on Blu-ray on November 12, and riding shotgun is a host of new bonus features, including a new interview, audio commentary, script read, and music demos. Customers ordering from Shoutfactory.com will receive an exclusive 18x24 rolled poster featuring our brand new artwork, available while supplies last.

Stacy Keach is Pat Quid, a lone trucker who plays games to keep his sanity on long hauls through the desolate Australian Outback. Jamie Lee Curtis is a free-spirited hitchhiker looking for excitement with a game of her own. And somewhere up ahead is a maniac in a van whose game may be butchering young women along the highway. But when the killer decides to raise the stakes, Quid's game becomes personal ... and the rules of this road are about to take some very deadly turns.

Director Richard Franklin (Psycho II) packs plenty of Hitchcock-like twists and suspense into...

Initially announced at their Comic-Con panel, Scream Factory has now revealed the full list of special features and cover art for their Collector's Edition Blu-ray of 1981's Road Games (starring Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis) ahead of its release on November 12th:

Press Release: Los Angeles, CA – Scream Factory will release Road Games on Blu-ray™ on November 12, and riding shotgun is a host of new bonus features, including a new interview, audio commentary, script read, and music demos.

Customers ordering from Shoutfactory.com will receive an exclusive 18x24 rolled poster featuring our brand new artwork, available while supplies last.

Stacy Keach is Pat Quid, a lone trucker who plays games to keep his sanity on long hauls through the desolate Australian Outback. Jamie Lee Curtis is a free-spirited hitchhiker looking for excitement with a game of her own. And somewhere up ahead is a maniac in a van whose...

Stars: Sarah Bolger, Edward Hogg, Andrew Simpson, Jane Brennan, Caolan Byrne, Packy Lee, Rudy Doherty, Macie McCauley, Susan Ateh | Written by Ronan Blaney | Directed by Abner Pastoll

A Good Woman Is Hard to Find is a Northern Irish film about a young Mum who has been recently widowed, and with a willingness to go to any lengths in idea to protect her kids, seeks the reasons behind the murder of her late husband. Written by Ronan Blaney (Love Bite) and directed by Abner Pastoll (Road Games), it’s a crime thriller with a fantastic lead performance from Sarah Bolger (The Moth Diaries).

Bolger, is Sarah, a down-on-her-luck mother who is desperate to find out the information about the death of her husband, while struggling to make ends meet and support her kids, and she’s bloody great. She brings a real emotional depth to the character, seeming emotionally exhausted, frustrated and depressed,...

"They're my children. I'm their mother. And I love them." Signature Entertainment has debuted an official UK trailer for the indie crime thriller A Good Woman Is Hard to Find, the latest from filmmaker Abner Pastoll. This first premiered at Fantasia this summer, and is premiering in the UK at FrightFest this month before opening in cinemas this fall. Sarah Bolger stars in this film as a recently widowed young mother who will go to any lengths to protect her children as she seeks the truth behind her husband's murder. Also starring Edward Hogg, Andrew Simpson, Jane Brennan, Caolan Byrne, Packy Lee, Rudy Doherty, Macie McCauley, and Susan Ateh. Described as a "dynamic killer thriller with its finger firmly on the pulses of stark social commentary and shattering suspense," Pastoll has made a "dazzling, dark and daring journey through Northern Ireland’s criminal ...

A UK trailer has debuted for Abner Pastoll's A Good Woman Is Hard to Find ahead of its closing night bow at FrightFest Film Festival on August 26. The new Ireland-set thriller sees Sarah Bolger playing a recently widowed young mother who will go to any lengths to protect her children as she seeks the truth behind her husband's murder. It was written by Ronan Blaney and co-produced by Frakas (Raw). Following its FrightFest screening, Signature Entertainment will release A Good Woman Is Hard to Find in UK cinemas and on Digital HD October 25, 2019. Besides Bolger, the film also stars Edward Hogg (Taboo), Andrew Simpson (Road Games), Jane Brennan (Brooklyn), Packy Lee (Peaky Blinders), Caolan Byrne (The Foreigner), and Josh Bolt (Nowhere Boy). The film...

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Abner Pastoll's follow-up to Road Games sees Sarah Bolger as a recently widowed young mother who will go to any lengths to protect her children as she seeks the truth behind her husband's murder. The thriller was written by Ronan Blaney and co-produced by Frakas (Raw).

A Good Woman is Hard to Find will see a UK release by Signature Entertainment in cinemas and on Digital HD October 25, 2019.

The film also stars Edward Hogg (“Taboo”), Andrew Simpson (Road Games), Jane Brennan(“Brooklyn”), Packy Lee (“Peaky Blinders”), Caolan Byrne (“The...

In the latest edition of his Arrow Video Frightfest preview podcasts, host Stuart Wright talks A Good Woman is Hard to Find with the films director Abner Pastoll.

A dynamic killer thriller with its finger firmly on the pulses of stark social commentary and shattering suspense, Road Games director Abner Pastoll crafts a dazzling, dark and daring journey through Northern Ireland’s criminal underbelly. Recently widowed mother of two Sarah (a tour de force Sarah Bolger) is desperate to know who murdered her husband in front of their young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping a low-life drug-dealer stash narcotics stolen from the local Mr. Big, she’s forced to go beyond humanity into taking drastic action to protect her children while learning the awful truth about her spouse.

A Good Woman Is Hard To Find is the closing film at the 20th Arrow Video Frightfest

22th to 26th August 2018

Leicester Square,...

Every year, Scream Factory gives horror fans a bunch of new home media releases to look forward to at their annual Comic-Con panel, and this year is certainly no exception, as they've announced an exciting slate of horror Blu-rays on the horizon, including Collector's Editions for Silver Bullet, Big Trouble in Little China, Pet Sematary II, and My Bloody Valentine (1981), as well as The Fly Collection and new Neca figure collaborations for Night of the Demons (1988) and The Slumber Party Massacre.

Complete special features will be revealed at later dates, and we'll be sure to keep Daily Dead readers updated as more details are revealed. In the meantime, we have a look at Scream Factory's full announcement and images of their exclusive Neca figures for Night of the Demons and The Slumber Party Massacre. For more Comic-Con news, visit our online hub to catch up on all of our convention coverage!

If you caught Sarah Bolger in Emelie (here’s our review) you’d never let her near your kids or hamster again. She is set to take on another mothering role in the upcoming A Good Woman is Hard to Find. Bloody Disgusting has three new shots from Road Games director Abner Pastoll‘s next feature, which was filmed last year in Northern Ireland and Belgium […]...

Come To Daddy Photo: courtesy of Frightfest

This year's Arrow Video Frightfest is to open with Ant Timpson’s Come To Daddy, which stars Elijah Wood, Stephen McHattie, Martin Donovan and Michael Smiley, it was announced today. It will close with Belfast-set crime thriller A Good Woman Is Hard To Find, directed by Abner Pastoll, whose sophomore feature, Road Games, was a hit with genre fans in 2015.

"FrightFest's 20th year celebration year is all about honouring our past while looking towards an exciting future for the genre," said festival co-director Alan Jones.

The festival runs from 22 to 26 August. The full line-up will be announced on 4 July....

How terrible to be the solitary vampire; cursed to walk the earth alone, sleepless nights interrupted by an insatiable blood lust, no one to go shopping with. It just doesn’t seem like the most sociable of lifestyle choices. This would be the case for most of horror’s filmdom until Thirst (1979), a quirky Australian blend of political satire and nightmarish imagery that presents a society of bloodsuckers intent on branding long before it entered the consciousness.

Released by New Line Cinema in late September, Thirst traipsed its way through the market place of grindhouse and drive-ins before popping up on VHS, where a young horror fiend (me) eagerly lapped up everything coming out by the nascent home video realm. What did the ten year old think? Well, not much at the time; he found it well made but slow. The man-child before you has the same thoughts, except time has brought me patience,...

Much like Aerosmith, our latest installment of “From Streams to Screams” is living on the edge. Terrible jokes aside, psychologically driven horror movies are a great way to push my buttons as a viewer, and I love immersing myself in all kinds of mind-bending genre stories that feature characters either being driven to the brink of insanity, or those who have embraced their darker impulses and choose to revel in their madness.

So, with that in mind, here’s a look at 25 horror movies available on various streaming platforms that are the perfect way to get you ready for Halloween, and also deliver up some unexpected twists and turns along the way.

Frailty (Available on Amazon Prime & Shudder)

Years after terrorizing a small Texas community, the God's Hand Killer has returned - leaving in his wake a perplexing trail of fear and death. Convinced that he knows the killer's identity,...

Whether you know her as Megan Halsey from Re-Animator, Dr. Katherine McMichaels in From Beyond, or the enigmatic Evelyn from Beyond the Gates, Barbara Crampton has become of the horror genre's most celebrated and versatile performers, and we're honored to have her as a special guest on a new episode of Corpse Club!

From her memorable performances in Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator and From Beyond, to her recent roles in Tales of Halloween and Beyond the Gates, actress and producer Barbara Crampton has become a beloved fixture in the horror community, and as a Halloween season treat, the iconic actress sits down with Corpse Club co-host Heather Wixson for a special installment of Daily Dead's podcast! In this career-spanning conversation, Crampton discusses her H.P. Lovecraft collaborations with filmmaker Stuart Gordon and actor Jeffrey Combs, her performances in soap operas, her time away from the world of filmmaking, the current...

Like the John Wick of scream queens, it seems that Jamie Lee Curtis keeps getting pulled back in for one final job as Laurie Strode. In a recent interview, the Halloween actress offered a thorough breakdown of the various times she’s returned to this iconic role, making it clear that she’s long harbored a feeling of loyalty to the character who was first introduced in the classic 1978 original.

The first time Curtis reprised the role was in 1981’s Halloween II, which she saw as an opportunity to complete Laurie’s story while also serving as a fitting conclusion to the horror-heavy first act of the film star’s career.

The truth of the matter is I did Halloween 1 and 2 because Halloween 2 picked up exactly where Halloween 1 left off…I felt I owed it to the people who loved the original movie…I had already done Prom Night, Terror Train,...