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While they’re often used interchangeably in movies, the average person probably doesn’t know the difference between a jinx, hex, and a curse. All three are distinct forms of baneful magick with varying severity, and even for those who don’t believe in magick, the concepts are pretty mainstream. A jinx is a relatively minor spell meant to cause temporary bad luck or annoy their target. A hex is a little more serious, intending to bring about more inconveniences for their target, usually to teach them a lesson. Then, there’s a curse, the worst of the three, intended to cause serious, long-lasting harm. They can destroy, or even take, someone’s life and perhaps affect their entire bloodline. So, curses can be very popular plot points in movies, especially horror movies.

Curses don’t just affect people, though, as many objects have been considered cursed throughout history, and...

Chloë Grace Moretz has signed on to star in The Edge of Normal, the English-language debut of Piggy director Carlota Pereda.

Based on Carla Norton‘s 2013 novel of the same name, the serial killer thriller was written by Matt Venne with revisions by Lori Evans Taylor (Final Destination: Bloodlines).

Reeve LeClaire (Moretz) is still haunted from when she was held captive as a teenager by a sadistic man, but when her psychiatrist asks her to mentor a newly rescued survivor, she’s pulled into a chilling game of cat-and-mouse — one that threatens to drag her back into the nightmare she barely escaped.

Filming will begin this Spring with XYZ Films producing and financing with funding from Ipr.Vc.

Vanishing Angle will produce alongside Andrew Deane and Ava Jamshidi for Industry Entertainment.

No stranger to horror, Moretz’s genre credits include Carrie, The Amityville Horror, Let Me In, Suspiria, and Dark Shadows.

Lezzy Wet Dream.

After a February spent looking at Mitchell Lichtenstein’s horror comedy Teeth (listen), one of the “good” Amityville entries – that would be Amityville 1992: It’s About Time (listen) – and Robert Weine’s classic silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), we’re kicking off a themed month of ‘Doppelgängers and Deception’ with a fresh look at Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan (2010).

P.S. We previously covered the film as part of our editorial series. Read the article here.

In the film, sexually repressed ballet dancer Nina (an Oscar winning Natalie Portman) struggles to convince company director Thomas (Vincent Cassel) that she can handle the emotional complexity of playing the dual lead roles in a new production of Swan Lake.

Her overprotective mother Erica (Barbara Hershey) worries about Nina’s ability to handle the stress, which isn’t helped by the arrival of a new rival named...

Slippery Somnambulist.

After closing out February with discussions of Mitchell Lichtenstein’s vagina dentata-centered horror comedy Teeth (listen) and one of the “good” Amityville franchise entries in Amityville 1992: It’s About Time (listen), we’re taking a look at the oldest film we’ve ever covered in Robert Weine‘s classic silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)!

In the film, Franzis (Friedrich Feher) and his friend Alan (Hans Heinrich von Twardowski) encounter the crazed Dr. Caligari (Werner Krauss), who has just opened up a sideshow featuring his somnambulist Cesare (Conrad Veidt), a hypnotized man who the doctor claims can see into the future. At the performance, Cesare predicts Alan’s death, and by morning his chilling prophecy has come true — making Cesare the prime suspect. Unfortunately for Franzis, Caligari has set his sights on his fiancé Jane (Lil Dagover) next, and it’s only a matter of time...

Despite its validity as a true story long debunked, The Amityville Horror remains one of the 1970s most iconic horror films, and the quaint home in Amityville is instantly recognizable (and recently sold for $1.46 million), and chilling, with its eye-like windows alight and its blood-dripping walls. It spawned two sequels that were given theatrical releases, each getting further away from the success of the first film. The fourth film in the franchise, Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes, bypassed theaters altogether as a made-for-television film on NBC in 1989. While its list of sins is many – the infamous house, despite being destroyed in the third film, is still standing, for one – the most ridiculous is the fact that the sequel’s antagonist is a brass floor lamp.

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.”

Released in Oct 2024, Amityville: Where The Echo Lives was the last Amityville film released last year. Written by Simona Curkoska and Carlos Ayala (who also directs), the film shares a number of the defining qualifiers of the Amityville ‘series.’

Cash-in Title: Like so many of the films that have adopted the moniker Amityville, this is a film with absolutely zero connection to the other films or even Amityville, NY itself. After it was acquired by Lionsgate, the title was changed from The Girl from the Other Side, which is a significantly more appropriate title. Lackadaisical Editing: What is your tolerance for scenes that drag on without purpose? Sure, this is no Amityville Backpack where the editor seemingly went for lunch and never told anyone,...

It’s Time!

After kicking off February with Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals (listen), Trace and I celebrated Valentine’s Day with Mitchell Lichtenstein’s Teeth (listen). Now we’re ready to dive into our first Amityville film on the pod with a look at Tony Randel‘s Amityville: It’s About Time (1992).

In the film, after returning home from New York with an antique clock, family patriarch Jacob (Stephen Macht) is mauled in a horrific animal attack. His ex-girlfriend Andrea (Shawn Weatherly) is forced to stay in his house and look after him and his two teenage children: “juvenile delinquent” Rusty (Damon Martin) and virginal Lisa (Megan Ward). But as the clock takes literal root in the house, time becomes slippery and several characters begin acting oddly.

Why is Lisa becoming a teenage vamp? Did Rusty really vandalize the neighbor’s property? Is Jacob’s leg infected with gangrene or eeeeeevil?...

For one reason or another, studio vaults are chockfull of movies that have become all but impossible to see nowadays – at least legitimately. We’ve written at length about movies that are surprisingly hard to find, but it’s rare that a mainstream movie exists that never made it to DVD – much less Blu-ray. Such is the case with Columbia’s Night of the Juggler, a well-regarded 1980 thriller starring James Brolin as an ex-nyc cop searching for his daughter, who’s been kidnapped by a psycho (played by future Angel star Cliff Gorman).

A cool, seedy-looking exploitation flick, Night of the Juggler only ever came out on a ratty-old VHS from Media (a low-budget company), with most existing prints of the movie being ripped from sporadic TV showings. Now, our friends at Blu-ray.com have revealed that Kino Lorber is giving the film not only a Blu-ray release but a 4K one to boot.

Take a bite…

After closing out January with a trip to the prom in Carrie (listen) and kicking off February with a look at Tom Ford’s Academy Award-nominated thriller Nocturnal Animals (listen), we’re feeling festive for Valentine’s Day as we check out Mitchell Lichtenstein‘s vagina dentata-centered horror comedy Teeth!

In Teeth, high school student Dawn (Jess Weixler) is an active member of her high-school chastity club, but when she meets Tobey (Hale Appleman), she finds it more and more difficult to resist her sexual urges. When a date goes horribly awry, Dawn suddenly learns that she is a living example of the vagina dentata myth and must learn to control her naughty gnashers before they can claim another classmate’s penis.

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

The Wolf of Snow Hollow, one of modern horror's most underappreciated movies, will land on Tubi next February. Considering Leigh Whannell's newest adaptation of the horror subgenre, Wolf Man, wasn’t exactly as acclaimed as everyone hoped, we still have to rely on the werewolf movies that can make an impact. Jim Cummings' The Wolf of Snow Hollow is one of them.

The Wolf of Snow Hollow can be streamed for free on the platform with one of the finest collections in today's streaming landscape. Other horror titles that have also recently joined the free service include two Stephen King movies (Misery and The Boogeyman), and both the 1979 and 2005 versions of The Amityville Horror. In terms of other genres, you will also be able to stream 1984's The Terminator, the legacy sequel Bill & Ted Face The Music, and dramas like Monster's Ball and Selena.

The Wolf of Snow Hollow...

Producer Brad Fuller talks to us about A Quiet Place, making genre films on a budget, and his latest sci-fi thriller, Elevation.

“I’m speaking to you from jail,” producer Brad Fuller says as he appears on a video call from Brisbane, Australia. And, sure enough, he’s sitting directly in front of a large window with horizontal white bars running across it. This is, he tells us, the set of Anaconda – presumably some back office somewhere – his latest project, and one of a string of genre movies he’s steered over the past quarter of a century.

Fuller is a genuine fan of horror, action and creature features. Aside from the aforementioned snake movie – a meta reworking of the 1997 B-movie of the same name – he’s also produced A Quiet Place and its numerous sequels and prequels. At production company Platinum Dunes – which he co-founded in 2001 with Michael Bay...

A run of successful horror remakes abruptly ended in 2010, which spelled trouble for Platinum Dunes. Producer Brad Fuller explains what happened next.

For almost a decade, Platinum Dunes was one of the most successful independent production companies in Hollywood. Beginning with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in 2003, which made over $100 million on a sub-$10m budget, the studio seemed to have hit on a magical formula: make genre movies to a price, attached to classic horror titles.

Texas Chainsaw was therefore followed by a string of other remakes, all based on films from the 70s and 80s: 2005’s The Amityville Horror was followed by The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning in 2006; The Hitcher, Friday The 13th and A Nightmare On Elm Street were all released between 2007 and 2009.

In the financial crisis era, audiences, it seemed, loved gory escapism. But in 2010, something strange happened: Platinum Dunes co-founder Brad Fuller noticed that his phone had stopped ringing.

Producer Brad Fuller explains why Anaconda is a meta horror comedy rather than a straight remake of the 1997 creature feature.

Remakes – particularly of genre films – are hardly a new phenomenon, but the upcoming Anaconda promises to be rather different. It stars Jack Black and Paul Rudd as two filmmakers (a director and actor respectively) whose careers have hit the skids.

In a final attempt to make something of themselves, the pair head to the Amazon and attempt to shoot their own low-budget remake of a 1997 creature feature called – you guessed it – Anaconda. In other words, it’s a meta comedy take on a familiar name, brought to the screen by director Tom Gormican, whose The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent – a likeably daft dissection of Nicolas Cage’s career – was similarly post-modern.

The new Anaconda is being produced by Brad Fuller, co-founder of production company Platinum Dunes. He’s no stranger to remakes,...

Throwback To When Ryan Reynolds Accidentally Slapped His Young Co-Star (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Ryan Reynolds is back in the headlines, and this time, it’s not about Deadpool or his bromance with Hugh Jackman. Social media just dug up a throwback interview where Reynolds casually admitted to slapping a child actor—on camera, unscripted.

Before you start suspecting Reynolds going full method actor, let’s clarify—it happened during the filming of The Amityville Horror (2005). He played a dad who slowly lost his mind, and in one scene, things got a little too authentic.

Ryan Reynolds later recalled how he accidentally slapped his young co-star, Jesse James, in an unplanned moment. And while he immediately felt terrible, the kid apparently thought it was awesome. Meanwhile, the script supervisor? Crying. Just another day on set!

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People are drawn to any edge of truth in a story, especially in horror. A film has extra appeal if it’s based on a true story, pulled from long-standing folklore, or boasts a story or set that seems cursed. Our fascination with the macabre on screen easily carries over into a Wikipedia rabbit hole or even lifelong infatuations. This is true on every account for The Amityville Horror. Released in 1979, The Amityville Horror was an instant classic. Based on a novelization of the same name by Jay Anson, the film had not only the dazzle of a pre-existing supernatural occurrence but the spectacle of true crime. Ghosts and demons are not a measurable tragedy, but the murders committed by Ronald DeFeo Jr. certainly are. With countless rumors of demons and curses in the Amityville home, on the set of Amityville related films, or even long into the personal lives of its stars,...

The Amityville Horror, the 2005 horror movie starring Ryan Reynolds, has gotten a free streaming home. Two decades after the film's release in theaters, The Amityville Horror is now streaming on Tubi as of Feb. 1.

Directed by Andrew Douglas and written by Scott Kosar, The Amityville Horror was one of many feature films to be made based on the original novel by Jay Anson. It is also inspired by the original feature film adaptation that was released in 1979. The story is also based on true events, taking inspiration from real-life mass murderer Ronald DeFeo Jr., who killed several family members in an Amityville, New York home. After the killings, married couple George and Kathy Lutz, along with their children, moved in and subsequently made claims that the house was haunted.

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If you're looking at buying some property this spring, you can get some helpful tips from two classic horror movies — and now you can stream them for free. Check out 1979's The Amityville Horror and its 2005 remake, and be sure to ask your realtor about bleeding walls, mysterious basement rooms, and demonic ghost pigs. Both films are now streaming on Tubi.

Back in 1922, after an extended battle with the censors of the time (who were unhappy with the subject matter of “doctors creating artificial life and attempting to play God”), Goldwyn Pictures released a silent horror film called A Blind Bargain, which starred the legendary Lon Chaney as both Dr. Arthur Lamb and his assistant, the Ape Man. Sadly, A Blind Bargain went on to become a lost film, as MGM destroyed the original negative years after they took over Goldwyn Pictures, and the last surviving print is thought to have burned in the same 1965 fire in Vault #7 on the MGM backlot that also resulted in the loss of London After Midnight and other Lon Chaney films. Now, director Paul Bunnell has made a reimagining of A Blind Bargain, and we have the Exclusive first look at the trailer. Check it out in the embed above!

Based on Barry Pain’s novel The Octave of Claudius,...

Ryan Reynolds’ start in the film industry was not easy, since he had to deal with several setbacks and lackluster films before he became world-famous as Merc with a Mouth. However, even back then the actor was not free from controversies, as his experience while filming The Amityville Horror reveals.

Ryan Reynolds with wife Blake Lively | Credit: Instagram / @vancityreynolds

While Reynolds is today battling a sea of criticism over his wife Blake Lively’s ongoing feud with Justin Baldoni, back then he caused quite a trouble on set when he slapped a child actor. But that wasn’t the only thing he did, as the actor himself revealed once.

When Ryan Reynolds slapped a kid on the set of The Amityville Horror Ryan Reynolds and Jesse James in The Amityville Horror | Credit: MGM Distribution Co.

Ryan Reynolds starred in the critically blasted yet commercially successful (via Box Office Mojo), The Amityville Horror.

When life gives you lemons, you make oranges. However, in Justin Baldoni-Blake Lively’s case, fans are literally throwing watermelons in the air. A lot of them have no relation to the ongoing drama and simply end up being dry and tasteless. This time, they have landed straight on the heads of both Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds.

Blake Lively in It Ends with Us (2024) | Credit: Sony Pictures Entertainment

Both the stars are larger-than-life performers, and they breathe life into any role with their invigorating aura. This often takes form in the way of on-the-spot improv—an age-old method used by actors to bring unexpected but welcome improvements to their roles. However, two instances where Reynolds and Lively improvised caught their co-stars off guard, being labeled as inappropriate by the fans.

So, what went wrong in those scenes? And were they really as bad as some fans...

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.”

The second to last Amityville film released in 2024 was Amityville Backpack, an extremely low budget effort written, edited, and directed by Evan Jacobs. The film is exactly what you’d expect from the title (or the ~57th entry in a long-running franchise): it’s about a murderous, sentinel backpack that hails from Amityville.

The film follows lowly office worker Luther Boots (Mike Hartsfield), a perennially late and often forgettable man who doesn’t have a lot going on in life. He has a cat named Poopsie, a single bed in a dilapidated apartment and not much else.

His unreliability frequently lands him in hot water with his irate boss Mr. Bags. Meanwhile, Luther’s crush, Delilah Fontaine (Lindy Hartsfield)…tolerates him,...

Steven Soderbergh's "Presence" is steadily building a reputation as an unconventional ghost story, with the maverick director choosing to, in effect, play the ghost himself and shoot the entire film from the ghost's point of view. As my review out of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival (where the film premiered) explains, this technique allows "Presence" to straddle the line between a found footage movie and a character Pov film in a subversively clever way: While the camera is disembodied enough to move at will and be present in situations that another human person couldn't observe, Soderbergh never lets us forget the fact that there's an identity to this point of view, even if the entity itself doesn't know who they are at first.

This perspective means that "Presence" is less a terrifying supernatural horror film and more of a thoughtful, character-based thriller, because after all, we know where the ghost...

Tubi, Fox’s free streaming service, has announced its list of February titles. The Tubi February 2025 slate features new Tubi Originals, TV series, and numerous action, art house, Black cinema, comedy, documentary, drama, horror, kids and family, romance, sci-fi and fantasy, thriller and Western titles.

As a leading ad-supported video-on-demand service, the company engages diverse audiences through a personalized experience and the world’s largest content library of over 250,000 movies and TV episodes, a growing collection of exclusive Originals, and nearly 250 live channels.

You can watch the Tubi February 2025 lineup for free on Android and iOS mobile devices, Amazon Echo Show, Google Nest Hub Max, Comcast Xfinity X1, and Cox Contour.

You can also watch the service on connected television devices such as Amazon Fire TV, Vizio TVs, Sony TVs, Samsung TVs, Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and on the Tubi site.

Tubi Originals...

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.”

For the first entry in what will be the final year of this editorial series, The Amityville IP is going seasonal with the Thanksgiving themed Amityville Turkey Day, the sequel to Amityville Thanksgiving.

The new film is once again co-directed by Will Collazo Jr. and Julie Anne Prescott, both of whom co-write the screenplay with David Rodriguez. Despite three credited co-writers, however, the diegetic references to the lack of a script and ad-libbed dialogue could easily be seen as a meta reference to the film itself. After all, both Amityville Turkey Day‘s narrative and characters are so poorly sketched that for most of its runtime the majority of what happens and why verges on incomprehensible.

The plot, as it were, picks...

Have you ever wondered why there are so many different horror movies out there with the word "Amityville" in the title? Of course, they're all a callback to the original 1979 film, The Amityville Horror, which itself was based on the Jay Anson book of the same name. Though the accuracy of the supposedly true story has often been questioned, the original film has been considered a horror classic, one that continues to inspire new generations of filmmakers. With over 40 different installments in the greater Amityville franchise, why is it that there are so many of these? Well, the answer may surprise you.

For many years, Hollywood didn't really know what to do with Ryan Reynolds. He was tried as a romantic lead, but few of his romance films were enormous hits. He also stumbled as an intense horror icon; the remake of "The Amityville Horror" didn't do him any favors. Reynolds was celebrated as a comedic lead in films like "Waiting..." and "Van Wilder," but he could only play an immature buffoon for so long. Many know of his missteps as an action star, as films like "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" and "Green Lantern" have been wildly lambasted by fans and even Reynolds himself. It wouldn't be until performances in films like "The Voices," "Pokémon Detective Pikachu," and of course, "Deadpool" that the destined-for-stardom star would finally become a force to be reckoned with. His 2024 film "Deadpool & Wolverine" (which he also produced and co-wrote) made over $1.3 billion. 

In 2013, three years before "Deadpool,...

Like any movie genre with hugely popular movies and franchises, there comes a time when the studios decide to revisit their existing IPs by remaking movies from their back catalog. The horror genre is no different, and while audiences often get some great remakes, such as 1982's The Thing, and The Fly from 1986, there are many horror remakes that would have benefited from a few changes.

There have also been some excellent modern horror remakes recently, such as the intoxicating Speak No Evil, plus hopes are high for Robert Eggers' upcoming Nosferatu. However, for every horror remake that lands a killer blow with audiences, and at the box office, there are other movies from the genre that would have been much better with a few tweaks. There's nothing wrong with remaking classic horrors, if they're remade with respect to the original.

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The 1990s were a golden era for straight-to-video horror films. While these productions often had limited budgets and resources, they compensated with creativity, bold storytelling, and memorable scares. Here’s a countdown of just Some of the straight-to-video horror gems from that decade.

10. Ice Cream Man (1995)

Plot: A deranged ice cream vendor terrorizes a suburban neighborhood.

Why It’s Great: Starring Clint Howard in a wonderfully creepy performance, Ice Cream Man is a cult favorite that blends absurd humor with gruesome horror. Its mix of over-the-top kills and campy charm makes it unforgettable.

9. Ticks (1993)

Plot: Genetically engineered ticks wreak havoc on a group of troubled teens at a wilderness retreat.

Why It’s Great: With impressive practical effects and some genuinely disturbing moments, Ticks delivers gooey creature-feature thrills. Plus, it features a young Seth Green and an unhinged performance by Alfonso Ribeiro.

8. Leprechaun 2 (1994)

Plot: The titular leprechaun returns to...

Have your tissues at the ready if you're a fan of The Conjuring universe! Lead actress Vera Farmiga took to her Instagram earlier today to post a heartwarming farewell tribute to her co-star, Patrick Wilson, in honor of the movie wrapping filming soon.

Based on the real demonologists of the same name, fans have lovingly embraced Farmiga and Wilson's portrayals of Lorraine and Ed Warren, who they have faithfully portrayed in The Conjuring Universe since it started in 2013. For more than a decade, we've fallen in love with the tender romance nurtured between the two actors on-screen in more than three films, and now we'll get to see the grand finale next year when The Conjuring: Last Rites releases in theaters.

In Farmiga's post, she noted that she and Wilson said "I do" to playing these characters in their initial Warner Bros. contract and have enjoyed their time together ever since.

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.”

Don’t you hate it when you make a list of 50+ films and then realize you missed one? Well folks, we’re circling back to 2021, to cross off a title that was accidentally overlooked.

Geno McGahee’s Amityville: The Final Chapter (2021) was released under the title Sickle when it came out in 2015. Co-written by McGahee and Forris Day Jr, the pseudo-slasher supernatural film has a few interesting ideas…and none of the technical expertise or funds to pull it off.

In the cold open, a twelve-year old named Michael Hart is convicted of murdering his babysitter in the family’s kitchen. A disgruntled neighbour blames Satanism and rock music, then the narrative jumps ahead fifteen years as Michael, now in his late...

The Amityville Horror is an essential piece of American folklore whose famous claim of being "based on a true story" fascinates audiences everywhere. The 1979 film depicted the real-life Lutz family's supernatural ordeal in the notorious De Feo murder house, and Amityville II: The Possession suggested that the De Feo killings were caused by demonic forces. Today, the franchise includes more than 30 films, but few fans realize that Amityville 3-D is based on the real person who fought to expose a hoax.

The Amityville Horror created a cottage industry of media and merchandise, and it kickstarted the careers of demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren, now famous through the Conjuring franchise. A few individuals have cried fraud over the years, and the recent AMC docuseries Amityville: An Original Story catalogs some of the controversies. However, even that show misses out on the truth-seeking parapsychologist Stephen Kaplan, whose story is told in a...

What could make a horror movie even more terrifying than it already is? Imagine if the horrors on screen suddenly became real. That is exactly what happened during filming of the 2005 remake of The Amityville Horror. As the cast and crew worked to recreate the 1979 horror story, life imitated art in the most chilling ways possible.The Amityville Horror is a modern retelling of the original horror flick, with Ryan Reynolds and Melissa George stepping into the roles of George and Kathy Lutz. After purchasing a home at a surprisingly low price, the Lutz family discovers that the former occupant, Ronald DeFeo, murdered his whole family after allegedly being possessed by the devil. At first they brush it off, convinced that there is nothing about the house that can harm them, and get to work making it their dream home. However, when George begins exhibiting violent behavior similar to that of DeFeo,...

Ed and Lorrain Warren movies are based on the paranormal investigators' demon-hunting adventures and are the focus of The Conjuring franchise. Released in 2013, The Conjuring was a huge hit that spawned a lucrative franchise and numerous successful spinoffs. The film followed the characters of Ed and Lorraine Warren, a portrayal of the real-life married couple who claimed to have intervened in numerous hauntings and exorcisms throughout their decades together. With The Conjuring: Last Rites on the way there's no better time to look back at all the Ed and Lorraine Warren movies of which there have been dozens.

The third film in the Conjuring franchise, the less scary Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It, looked at the trial of Arne Cheyenne Johnson, who claimed demonic possession led him to murder. While the mega-successful Conjuring franchise may be the most lucrative iteration of the Ed and Lorraine Warren movies,...

The sixth season of the Mubi Podcast, titled “Haunted Homes,” considers how movies about haunted houses let us explore—and often parallel—our relationships with our homes.This five-part series is guest-hosted and written by author, film programmer, podcaster, and horror expert Anna Bogutskaya. Below she introduces this special, haunted season.To listen to the show and subscribe on your preferred podcast app, click here.In 1950, science-fiction author Ray Bradbury wrote: “Nothing ever likes to die—even a room.” Seventy-four years later, I read those words and think of how a house can become haunted. In Bradbury’s story “The Veld,”two parents try to unplug a room that is capable of manifesting into reality whatever their two raucous (read: sociopathic) children imagine. It happens to be lions. The back-and-forth between them about what to do with the room—which is and isn’t a character, because it is implied...

Sunday Am Final: In one of the year’s second-best triumphs for indie genre cinema after Neon’s Longlegs, Cineverse’s under $5M investment, Terrifier 3, is screaming to an estimated $18.3M+ 3-day after an $8.2M Friday, $5.9M Saturday and $4.2M Sunday. That Sunday hold -30% is on account of the Indigenous Peoples holiday. The threequel received a B CinemaScore, which is high praise from the moviegoer pollster as it doesn’t hand out a lot of As to horror titles.

The jaw dropping awe is how this movie, which was largely marketed to Cineverse’s sole Bloody Disgusting fanbase and 80M streaming subscribers across 30 channels for under $1M, broke out to bigger numbers. Unlike some of the other wide entries this weekend, iSpot doesn’t show any national spots for Terrifier 3.

Many studios have tried this low P&a spend, laser focused demo marketing approach and just seem...

In the wake of 2020’s must-watch Shudder Original Anything for Jackson, director Justin Dyck will return with new horror movie William, officially announced by Deadline today.

Dyck will adapt the same-titled novel from author Andrew Pyper, which was optioned by Aperture Entertainment. The novel was released this past September by Putnam.

Justin Dyck is adapting the novel alongside Chris Sivertson (Monstrous).

Deadline details, “A contained sci-fi horror film that blends the worlds of Ex Machina and The Amityville Horror, William is set in a timely haunted house story in which the haunting is AI.”

Here’s the full synopsis for the novel, published under the pen name Mason Coile…

Henry is a brilliant engineer who, after untold hours spent in his home lab, has achieved the breakthrough of his career—he’s created an artificially intelligent consciousness. He calls the half-formed robot William.

No one knows about William. Henry’s...

Exclusive: Aperture Entertainment has optioned rights to bestselling author Andrew Pyper’s recently published novel William, with Justin Dyck set to direct.

Penned under Pyper’s sci-fi/thriller pen name Mason Coile, William hit store shelves September 3 via Putnam.

The author and Chris Sivertson will adapt the novel as a thriller to be shot in Canada.

A contained sci-fi horror film that blends the worlds of Ex Machina and The Amityville Horror, William is set in a timely haunted house story in which the haunting is AI.

The New York Times Book Review praised the novel, calling it “a cyber-horror tale that combines cerebrality and carnage … a twist on The Shining in which the house is haunted by a ghost in the machine. … Coile [elevates the genre] with meticulously unsettling prose and a knowing dissection of character that transcends stereotype.”

Pyper is the internationally bestselling author of 11 novels including The Demonologist,...

Today marks the launch of No Sleep October, a month-long celebration for Halloween and horror fans alike. Max’s brand new exclusive films, horror library, imaginative curations, designs, and specially designed art featuring iconic stars from fans’ favorite scary movies will haunt viewers and keep them up all night with fear.

No Sleep October brings horror fans three films only available to stream on Max, including Salem’s Lot on October 3. In the film, author Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot in search of inspiration for his next book, only to discover his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire.

The new Max Original film Caddo Lake debuts on October 10. When an eight-year-old girl mysteriously vanishes, a series of past deaths and disappearances start to link together, forever altering a broken family’s history. And in Trap, debuting October 25, a father and teen daughter attend a pop concert,...

October is here! Which means peak Halloween season is now underway, and that includes the launch of “No Sleep October,” a month-long celebration for Halloween and horror fans alike at Max. Max’s brand new exclusive films, a best-in-class horror library, imaginative curations, and specially designed art featuring iconic stars will keep you busy all month long.

Look for new Max Original Film, Salem’s Lot on October 3. In the film, “Author Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot in search of inspiration for his next book only to discover his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire.”

Max Original Film Caddo Lake arrives on October 10. “When an eight-year-old girl mysteriously vanishes, a series of past deaths and disappearances start to link together, forever altering a broken family’s history.” Celine Held & Logan George (Topside) wrote and directed for New Line Cinema, and the film...

Ready for Halloween? So is Max. The streamer just debuted their month-long Halloween and horror movie celebration, dubbed “No Sleep October,” and we’ve got the full list for your perusal.

There’s a batch of A24 horror movies that includes favorites like “Bodies Bodies Bodies” and “Midsommar” alongside new releases “MaXXXine” and “I Saw the TV Glow.”

Timed to the release of Max’s “Salem’s Lot” adaptation from “Anabelle Comes Home” director Gary Dauberman, which debuts on Oct. 3, Max also has a collection of Stephen King movies, including Tobe Hooper’s 1979 mini-series adaptation, “It” and “It: Chapter Two,” “The Shining” and “Doctor Sleep.”

And with the streaming debut of “Trap” landing on Max on Oct. 25, M. Night Shyamalan is also getting the spotlight with a collection that includes “Unbreakable,” “The Sixth Sense” and “The Visit.”

Finally, there are of course plenty of horror and Halloween classics, including “A Nightmare on Elm Street,...

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.”

After toiling in the trenches with Nick Box’s three releases from the week of April 13, it’s something of a relief to jump ahead to May 8, 2023 with a discussion of Louis DeStefano’s Amityville Emanuelle.

Presumably influenced by the French book and film series of the same name (minus the extra “m”), Geno McGahee’s screenplay returns to a tried and true Amityville premise: a cursed object, a spectral haunting, and some sexy shenanigans.

Amityville: Emanuelle immediately situates itself within the “franchise”s canon with recreated footage of Ronald DeFeo’s murder spree in April of 1974. This is familiar territory: we’ve seen variations of the shootings in Amityville II, The Amityville Legacy, Amityville: The Awakening and more.

It makes...

The Conjuring: Last Rites adds X-Men star Ben Hardy and Mia Tomlinsonas the latest new additions to join Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine Warren's (Vera Farmiga) final case. Slated for release in 2025, the ninth installment in the Conjuring franchise is set to bring the paranormal investigator's story to a close. The characters have been key parts of the franchise since the original 2013 movie, with the series having crafted a fictionalized representation of the real-world investigators and many of their notable cases.

With The Conjuring: Last Rites confirmed to be the last hurrah for the Warrens, Deadline has reported two new faces expected to star alongside Wilson and Farmiga in the fourth movie of the franchise's core narrative. Hardy, known for his roles of Archangel in X-Men: Apocalypse and Roger Taylor in Bohemian Rhapsody, will be joined by The Beast Must Die star Mia Tomlinson in the final installment in the story.

The episode of What Happened to This Horror Movie? covering Blade: Trinity was Written by Mike Holtz, Narrated by Tyler Nichols, Edited by Paul Bookstaber, Produced by Andrew Hatfield and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

You know that scene in Ted where he’s in the bathtub trying to get Mark Wahlberg to come over because he has the Cheers DVD box set and everyone is talking sh*t about each other during the interviews? Well that’s Friday the 13th documentary Crystal Lake Memories…..but it’s also today’s video about Blade Trinity….where we breakdown a long and twisted story that involves a director hiring a biker gang to protect him from his lead actor, the possible birth of Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool, and multiple lawsuits. Thank goodness all this ended up producing a universally loved Blade sequel we can all enjoy for years to come.

Big-budget action films are commonly associated with the summer, but a few horror films throughout the years have proven the spooky genre is just as in demand during the season. While haunting stories are usually reserved for colder months, especially around Halloween, the needed escape into a chilled theater from the outside heat could be a reason why horror films still find success during the summer. Additionally, a few films, like Freddy vs. Jason and It, were highly anticipated by audiences, making the venture to the theaters a perfect group activity.

The big releases and box office responses to such films might not be entirely possible without the release of what's often credited as the first summer blockbuster. Steven Spielberg's Jaws is recognized as the initiator of this trend, changing the game with its wide release and innovative approach to the horror genre. Since then, many of the most...

Looks like Michael Bay isn’t just a success on the big screen. The first docuseries from the “Transformers” and “Bad Boys” director is a hit for ID with “Born Evil: The Serial Killer and the Savior” drawing 6.4 million viewers in its first week, TheWrap has exclusively learned.

Those viewers spanned ID, Max and discovery+. The five-part series premiered last Monday on Sept. 2.

“Born Evil” follows the complicated and dysfunctional family of Hadden Clark, a serial killer most people have never heard of. It also details the alleged confessions Clark made to his cellmate, whom he believed was “Jesus.” Those very confessions sent investigators on a search to solve a series of cold cases that were linked to him.

Ultimately, Clark was only convicted on two murders, those of 6-year-old Michele Lee Dorr in 1986 and 23-year-old Laura Houghteling in 1992. Both were killed by a knife and buried. Due to those cases,...

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

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

The Amityville Horror has become a staple of the horror genre, but there are numerous differences between the original book and the two films it directly inspired. Based on a supposedly true story of a haunting in upstate New York, Jay Anson's book The Amityville Horror became a smash hit when it was released in 1977. This inspired 1979's cinematic adaptation of the same name. Starring James Brolin and Margot Kidder, the success of the film spawned a decade-spanning Amityville Horror franchise. The first film would be remade in 2005, with Ryan Reynolds and Melissa George in the lead roles.

Although both versions of the horror movie are based on the true story from the book and share the same characters, there are some notable differences between the book and the films it inspired. This ranges from the lore surrounding the haunting to the specifics of the event itself. There are...

In 2014, Bryce McGuire released a short film titled Night Swim, which you can still watch on YouTube. At only three minutes long (not including credits), its a taut, genuinely creepy piece, but it only scratches the surface of how scary a haunted pool could be. In 2024, McGuire helmed a theatrical adaptation of his own short starring Wyatt Russell and Kerry Condon. The full-length movie allowed McGuire to include more characters, add some family drama, and, most importantly, expand on the mythology of the supernatural pool. The final result feels like a blend of a traditional haunted house movie and Japanese folklore - think Amityville Horror meets Dark Water. But how much of the movie is based on real mythology or legend? In other words - how scared should you be before you take a dip into your own swimming pool?...

Peacock has announced the lineup of movies, TV shows, and live sports that will be available on the streaming service in September. The Peacock September 2024 schedule includes Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist, which tells the infamous story of how an armed robbery on the night of Muhammad Ali’s historic 1970 comeback fight transformed Atlanta into the “Black Mecca”).

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Little House on the Prairie on September 11 (all nine seasons are currently streaming on Peacock). Plus, get a double dose of housewife realness with the two-part reunion of The Real Housewives of Dubai Season 2 uncensored on September 11 and 18, and the season five premiere of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City on September 19.

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September also brings the spooks! Peacock’s “Face Your Fears” horror collection starts to roll out on the 1st, with more than 75+ Halloween titles arriving in September alone,...

Spooky season is nearly here.

And Peacock, Universal’s direct-to-consumer streaming platform, has just unveiled its Halloween programming line-up, full of tricks and treats from the studio’s back catalog, as well as two new series (“Teacup” and “Hysteria!”) for some fresh scares.

In 2022 and ’23, there was at least one big Blumhouse movie that simultaneously debuted on Peacock — in ’22, it was David Gordon Green’s trilogy-capping “Halloween Ends” and last year, it was the video game adaptation “Five Nights at Freddy’s”. This year doesn’t have anything quite like that, but it’s still a powerful collection of titles for every viewer.

The Sept. 1 batch includes classics like “Bride of Frankenstein,” “It Came From Outer Space” and “Werewolf of London;” 1980s favorites like “Halloween III: Season of the Witch,” “The Funhouse” and “The Thing;” along with more modern hits like the original “Candyman,” Jordan Peele’s “Us” and several entries in the “Saw” franchise.