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Seeing as he’s effectively batting a thousand with his own output, it should come as no surprise that Hush director Mike Flanagan has impeccable taste in genre cinema. In order to make great movies, you must first know what makes a movie great.

During Covid lockdown, Flanagan compiled a binge guide for housebound horror fans via Rotten Tomatoes. His list features a number of great horror films, several of which we have previously featured here. One of the gems Flanagan recommended via that comprehensive list is They Look Like People.

An excerpt from Flanagan’s commentary on the picture reads: “ [Perry] Blackshear doesn’t just do a lot with a little here — he conjures things out of thin f–king air. This creepy, subtle, tragic, and ultimately uplifting tale of insanity and friendship is one of my all-time favorites and an inspiration to anyone who wants to make a movie.

Prime Video's new apocalyptic zombie movie has become a streaming success. Amazon's streaming service has been consistently producing original movies since 2019, although they take on a variety of genres, they started making horror movies about a year in, including Black Box, The Lie, Nocturne, and Evil Eye. Since then, that roster has expanded significantly to include more movies, such as Bingo Hell, Black as Night, Madres, The Manor, Master, Goodnight Mommy, Nanny, and perhaps Prime Video's most popular horror movie, Totally Killer.

On the series side, one of Prime Video's most popular efforts is the post-apocalyptic drama Fallout, based on the Bethesda video game series of the same name, which has been renewed for a second season. Though some of its content could be categorized as post-apocalyptic, Prime Video has never directly dabbled in the zombie before. However, its first feature-length installment in the genre has recently seen an unexpected...

The “V/H/S” franchise was already on death’s door by the time Shudder resurrected it as an annual streaming event in 2021. So it would be inaccurate to blame the warmed-over familiarity of its sixth installment on the fact that Bloody Disgusting has to churn out another feature-length omnibus every October — especially because the freshest and most satisfying of the five shorts that make up “V/H/S/85” comes from series producer David Bruckner, who should be more burned out on the concept than anyone else at this point. Nevertheless, the “Now That’s What I Call Found Footage!”-ification of these horror anthologies has inevitably confronted them with a degree of saminess, an ironic symptom of a process that leaves precious little time for quality control.

To a certain extent, it’s true that such unpredictability — in terms of tone, subject, and skill level alike — might be more a feature than a...

“Write what you know” is a common piece of writing advice and something that came naturally to writer/director Gigi Saul Guerrero when drawing inspiration for her historical horror segment “God of Death” in the latest anthology installment V/H/S/85.

V/H/S/85 is set to arrive exclusively on Shudder on October 6, 2023.

The filmmaker behind recent horror hits Bingo Hell, Into the Dark’s “Culture Shock,” and Satanic Hispanics joins an all-star lineup for V/H/S/85 that includes David Bruckner, Scott Derrickson, Natasha Kermani, and Mike P. Nelson.

Guerrero’s segment, “God of Death,” draws from Mexican mythology and the devastating earthquake that struck Mexico City on September 19, 1985. For the filmmaker, the harrowing historical event that inspired her segment happened to be personal.

“As soon as they told me ’85, it just clicked to do the most famous traumatic event that happened in Mexico City, where I was born and raised,...

Found footage horror fans rejoice, as another installment in the long-running "V/H/S" franchise is just around the corner, and we've got a new trailer showcasing the '80s goods coming our way this Halloween season. That's right! The franchise is taking a trip back in time with "V/H/S/85" which, as the title implies, will be set right in the heart of the 1980s, when home video was just beginning to revolutionize the movie industry and slasher films were dominating the landscape.

The latest entry in the horror anthology series, which is following in the footsteps of last year's "V/H/S/99," is set to screen at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas this week, but it's going to be debuting on Shudder early next month, making it easily accessible for your spooky season viewing needs. So, what horrors are contained within this collection of throwback '80s shorts? Let's have a look-see.

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Shudder, Studio71, Cinepocalypse & Bloody Disgusting are this time rewinding all the way back to the 1980s with V/H/S/85, which will have its World Premiere at this year’s Fantastic Fest, in Austin, Texas (September 21 – 28).

“The iconic found footage series returns with an array of explosive, bloody scares set in a decade obsessed with serial killers and the Satanic Panic,” writes Fantastic Fest of the film which says goodbye to the nostalgic neon lights and hello to the grit and grime of the ’80s.

V/H/S/85 joins our growing franchise that now consists of several films, including V/H/S, V/H/S/2, V/H/S: Viral, V/H/S/94, V/H/S/99, and the spinoff feature SiREN.

Here are the directors who took part in 85…

The only legacy filmmaker is David Bruckner, who will be spearheading the latest entry. Bruckner directed the “Amateur Night” segment of the first V/H/S which featured the breakout performance of Hannah Fierman as a succubus.

Carter Smith (The Ruins) is back with the brand new thriller The Passenger, the latest collaboration between Blumhouse and Epix. Johnny Berchtold (Gaslit) and Kyle Gallner (Scream) star, and the official trailer has arrived this afternoon. Check it out below.

You can buy or rent The Passenger on Digital and On Demand on August 4, 2023.

The film is coming to MGM+ later this year.

“The film follows Randolph Bradley (Johnny Berchtold) who is perfectly content fading into the background, but when his coworker Benson (Gallner) snaps and goes on a violent killing spree, he’s forced to face his fears and confront his troubled past in order to find a way to survive.”

Liza Weil (The Cleaning Lady, How To Get Away With Murder) also stars

The Passenger is written by Jack Stanley.

The Passenger is executive produced by Jason Blum, Chris McCumber, and Jeremy Gold for Blumhouse TV, and Lauren Downey.

Johnny Berchtold (Gaslit) and Kyle Gallner (Scream) have been set to star in horror movie The Passenger, the latest collaboration between Blumhouse and Epix.

Carter Smith (The Ruins) is directing for Blumhouse Television, Deadline reports.

“The film follows Randolph Bradley (Johnny Berchtold) who is perfectly content fading into the background, but when his coworker Benson (Gallner) snaps and goes on a violent killing spree, he’s forced to face his fears and confront his troubled past in order to find a way to survive.”

Liza Weil also stars. “She plays Miss Beard, Randall’s first-grade teacher who lost an eye after a classroom accident. She finds herself keeping Randall safe as she’s dragged into Benson’s destructive mission.”

The Passenger is written by Jack Stanley.

The Passenger is executive produced by Jason Blum, Chris McCumber, and Jeremy Gold for Blumhouse TV, and Lauren Downey.

The post Johnny Berchtold and...

Storytelling in the audio format isn't anything new. After all, the first audiobook came out in the early 1930s, with radio dramas being developed a decade prior. It remains a medium of storytelling that forces us to envision fantastical worlds with our vivid imaginations.

With podcasts gaining prominence in the early 2000s, a new generation of storytellers had a cheap, easy-to-distribute format to tell their tales. It's only natural, then, that streaming services would eventually mine the world of podcasts for stories to bring to life—case in point, Prime Video's upcoming horror dramedy, The Horror of Dolores Roach.

Originally hitting the internet in 2018, The Horror of Dolores Roach will be adapted into a series through a collaborative effort by Amazon and Blumhouse Productions. The two companies have previously collaborated for a litany of horror releases in the past, from the comedic thriller Bingo Hell to the captivating Run, Sweetheart,...

Bingo Hell is a movie directed by Gigi Saul Guerrero starring young upstarts called Adriana Barraza, Richard Brake, L. Scott Caldwell and Bertila Damas among other promising cast members.

The screenplay was written together by Shane McKenzie, Gigi Saul Guerrero and Perry Blackshear. And, apparently, they had a blast writing this.

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Some seniors live a peaceful life caring for their community and spending hours playing bingo until things change: a new owner, with greater and more infernal prizes has arrived at the district to change the way this entertainment is experienced from now on.

About the Movie Bingo Hell (2021)

I was recommended this film as one of the worst films to write about and I will disagree: Bingo Hell is infernal entertainment, and very well made visually (at least the choices they have made). It is tacky, kitsch or whatever you want to call it, it has a neon...

Gigi Saul Guerrero is set to direct “Jenni,” a movie about the life of Mexican American singer Jenni Rivera.

The biopic, which is authorized by the late artist’s estate, will be produced by Los Angeles-based multimedia company Mucho Mas Media and De Line Pictures.

Developed by Guerrero and screenwriter Shane McKenzie, the movie follows Rivera’s rise as a Spanish singer who successfully crossed over to U.S. and global audiences, as well as her work as a women’s rights activist. She died in a plane crash in 2012 at age 43.

Rivera’s variety of banda, mariachi and norteño music made her one of the best-selling regional Mexican artists ever, with 15 gold and platinum records and top-drawing tours. She produced multiple TV series such as “Chiquis & Raq-c” and “I Love Jenni,” and in 2012 she was named one of the top 25 most powerful women by People en Español. She also...

It was a season finale we won't soon forget.

Some major changes happened on Grey's Anatomy Season 18 Episode 19 and Grey's Anatomy Season 18 Episode 20, and now Meredith is stuck with a crumbling hospital and possibly no Nick.

Join Joshua Johnson, Meaghan Frey, and Jasmin Pettie for the final time this season as they discuss the milestone finale.

What would you rate this season finale? Do you think they did a good job celebrating this 400-episode milestone?

Joshua: I'd give it an A-.

Something I think Krista Vernoff has been doing well in her tenure as showrunner is finding believable ways for Grey Sloan and its doctors to experience hardship, so something like a blood shortage in a (nearly) post-pandemic world makes sense and heightens the already-occurring drama.

At the end of the first episode, I texted my mother about how intense it felt, and it did! There was so much drama,...

This post contains minor spoilers for "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" episode 5.

"Who doesn't love hijinks?" Nurse Chapel (Jess Bush) asks in the new episode of "Star Trek: Strange New World," just before a body-swapped Spock (Ethan Peck) attempts to take over for T'Pring (Gia Sandhu) in an important meeting. Clearly, "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" loves hijinks, as the show's latest episode features not only a cheeky Vulcan body swap, but also a rousing game of Enterprise Bingo, plus a possible hint at a future "Trek" romance. Captain Pike (Anson Mount) mostly stays out of the kooky action this time around, but...

The post Captain Pike's Green Uniform Comes Straight From Classic Star Trek appeared first on /Film.

Exclusive: Production starts today in Vancouver on the new Prime Video and Blumhouse Television horror-comedy slasher feature Totally Killer, starring Kiernan Shipka (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Olivia Holt (Cruel Summer), Julie Bowen (Modern Family), and Randall Park (Fresh Off the Boat).

The film follows Jamie (Shipka) whose mom, Pam (Bowen), is terrorized by the resurgence of the Sweet Sixteen Killer — a masked maniac that slaughtered a group of teenage girls in the ‘80s. With the help of her friend Amelia (Kelcey Mawema), Jamie travels back in time to 1987 and teams up with the teen version of her mom (Holt) to try and stop the killer.

Nahnatchka Khan is directing, and Jen D’Angelo penned the screenplay based on an original script by David Matalon and Sasha Perl-Raver.

The pic is a continuation of the deal forged by Prime Video and Blumhouse Television in 2019.

The cast...

This article contains spoilers for Better Call Saul through season 6 episode 3.

Better Call Saul is one of the best shows in television history for a myriad of reasons. From the impeccable performances to the brilliant call backs to Breaking Bad, the spinoff has etched its name as one of the most artistic endeavors ever put on the small screen.

Of all the elements that makes the show special, however, the cinematography has got to be at the top of the list. Using a variety of Pov shots, pan-outs to the New Mexico skies, and brilliant uses of lighting, there is nothing quite like the type of filmmaking that is used on Better Call Saul.

With that in mind, let’s discuss the 15 best shots in the show below, most of which are sourced and compiled from the Better Call Saul (In Frames) Twitter account. Tell us if we missed any of your favorites!

This article contains spoilers for Better Call Saul season 6 episode 2.

The producers of Better Call Saul have already made it clear that the sixth and final season of the Breaking Bad spinoff will feature two of the biggest cameos possible in the form of Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul).

While we don’t know when Walt and Jesse will stop by Saul Goodman’s Albuquerque (or perhaps Gene Takovic’s Omaha), the first two episodes of the season reveal that there’s still room for other non-Walt or Jesse-sized guest appearances. In fact, the second episode of this final season, “Carrot and Stick”, reaches all the way back to Better Call Saul season 1 to reintroduce some (sort of) familiar old faces.

As Saul (Bob Odenkirk) and Kim (Rhea Seehorn) work out the details of their plot to frame Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian) for “something unforgivable” they...

What exactly was Jenna up to during her time at The Coterie?

The mystery surrounding Joaquin's sister intensified on Good Trouble Season 4 Episode 4, and his connection with Mariana feels different from a run-of-the-mill sexual attraction or flirtation.

Interestingly, Joaquin seems to be the only other person attuned to how upset and lonely Mariana is these days post-Callie.

Do you know who remains one of the most exhausting characters? Yuri.

He has this quality to him where he's positively loathsome, but he also has such endearing glimmers of decency and humanity that you can never write him off altogether.

At his core, he's a sorrowful, lonely father who misses his daughter, and everything he does in his life is dictated and driven by that.

It puts him in an incredible position to advise Gael, give his input, and do things like loan Gael thousands of dollars if only so Gael won't...

Exclusive: Kyle Gallner (Scream 5) and Johnny Berchtold (Gaslit) have been cast in lead roles in Blumhouse Television and Epix’s latest dramatic-thriller The Passenger directed by Carter Smith.

The film follows Randolph Bradley (Berchtold) who is perfectly content fading into the background, but when his coworker Benson (Gallner) snaps and goes on a violent killing spree, he’s forced to face his fears and confront his troubled past in order to find a way to survive.

The Passenger is executive produced by Jason Blum, Chris McCumber, and Jeremy Gold for Blumhouse Television, and Lauren Downey.

Gallner recently starred in Scream 5, the Paramount Players feature film Something’s Wrong with Rose, and the Ben Stiller produced Dinner in America. Other credits include Outsiders for WGN, Disney’s The Finest Hours, and Warner Bros.’ Beautiful Creatures.

He is repped by Paradigm Talent Agency,...

Students of history know that 355 was the code name assigned to a woman who spied on behalf of George Washington, during the war for independence. We never learned who she was and the digits have been immortalized in pop culture ever since. Most recently, it was appended to the female empowerment action film The 355 Buy Generic Amoxil Online , out now on disc from Universal Home Entertainment.

The brainchild of star Jessica Chastain, she pitched it to Simon Kingberg as they were shooting X-Men: Dark Phoenix and it should have been out in 2021, but you know, Covid-19. The movie is overall an entertaining enough experience but its overall laziness in design and execution makes it a lesser effort.

While it’s nice to see operatives from CIA, MI6, Germany’s Bnd, China’s Ministry of State Security, and Colombia’s National Intelligence Directorateavoid political considerations to band together, the film also...

The TikTok community is mourning the death of Candice Murley. According to an obituary, the content creator passed away at her home in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador on Sunday, Jan. 2. She was 36 years old. A cause of death was not revealed, but on a GoFundMe page set up to cover funeral expenses, her sister Marsha McEvoy wrote Candice's death was "very unexpected" and a "massive shock" to their family, one that has left their hearts "torn apart."  "Candice was so full of life and always lived life her own way," Marsha stated. "She was full of energy and loved to dance & listen to her music; can't forget about her Bingo, oh how...

Here's something we didn't have on our 2022 Bingo cards: Elmo releasing a statement addressing his longstanding squabble with his Sesame Street co-star Zoe's pet rock, Rocco. But that was exactly what happened this week after a video of the red Muppet sharing some heated words about the inanimate object resurfaced online. The 35-second clip, which was taken from a 2004 Sesame Street episode titled "Elmo feels he's treated unfairly by Rocco," showed the beloved children's icon completely losing his cool when Zoe told him he couldn't have an oatmeal raisin cookie that had been reserved for Rocco. "How? How is Rocco going to eat that cookie, Zoe? Tell Elmo," an...

"The Banana Splits" horror movie, re-imagines 'Bingo', 'Fleegle', 'Snorky' and 'Drooper' from "The Banana Splits Adventure Hour" TV series (1968), directed by Danishka Esterhazy for Warner Bros Television Group's digital studio Blue Ribbon Content:

"...a boy named 'Harley' and his family, including brother 'Austin', mother 'Beth' and father 'Mitch', attend a taping of the 'Banana Splits' TV show, featuring a humanoid lion, beagle, elephant and orange gorilla.

"It is supposed to be a fun-filled birthday for young Harley and business as usual for 'Rebecca', producer of the series. But things take an unexpected turn. Can Harley, his mom and their new pals safely escape ?..."

Cast includes Dani Kind, Finlay Wojtak-Hissong, Romeo Carere, Steve Lund and Sara Canning.

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Stars: Aleks Paunovic, Lee Majdoub, Lisa Durupt, Richard Harmon, Gigi Saul Guerrero, Kyle Cassie, Geoff Gustafson, Beverley Elliott, Johannah Newmarch | Written by Kevin Mosley | Directed by Lisa Ovies

Of course, horror is well known for having killer puppets. Depending on how you define ‘puppet’, there’s been Chucky, Annabelle, Jigsaw and others in films like Poltergeist, Krampus and Dolls. Puppet Killer is the first I remember to feature a fluffy pink puppet though.

Hat puppet and it’s owner are big horror movie fans though and so obviously end up in a cabin in the woods with a murderer (guess who) out to kill the group of friends staying there. It’s predictable but it’s supposed to be. This is a movie clearly made by people who like their old school horror movies, and as this one is a comedy, they have some fun with it and the usual horror movie clichés.

Did you happen to have Cardi B offering to officiate Kal Penn's wedding on your 2021 Bingo card? After the Harold & Kumar alum tweeted about seeing the "Up" rapper on his flight, she made him an offer he couldn't refuse. "Cardi B was on my flight to LA," the actor tweeted on Nov. 3. "I fell asleep and had a dream that she officiated our wedding on the plane and the three of us walked out of Lax holding hands." Cardi followed up to the tweet with the best response, writing, "First, why didn't you say hi! Second, I'm licensed to do that sooo……. let me know." And understandably, Kal is completely on board with the...

There’s a terrifying amount of scare-centric programming this October, whether it’s being broadcast or streamed.

Paramount+ has announced its “Peak Screaming” package, which will encompass scary movies, kids shows and originals. Amazon, of course, is releasing four original Blumhouse films this month: Bingo Hell, Black as Night, The Manor and Madres. Peacock may have the largest cache of Halloween goodies, none more tasty than the latest installment of that most seasonally-appropriate of franchises, Halloween Kills. It debuts on October 15 on Peacock and in theaters.

October 1

30 Days of Night (Peacock)

Bingo Hell (Prime Video)

Black As Night (Prime Video)

Blippi’s Spooky Spells Halloween (Hulu)

The Blob (Peacock)

Bride of Chucky (Peacock)

Cat People (Peacock)

Child’s Play (Paramount+)

Child’s Play 2 (Peacock)

Child’s Play 3 (Peacock)

Crawl (Paramount+)

Cult of Chucky (Peacock)

Curse of Chucky (Peacock)

Curse of the Fly (Peacock)

Day of the Dead (Peacock)

Devil (Peacock)

The Devil Inside (Paramount+)

Dracula,...

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“I Know What You Did Last Summer,” the mystery thriller series about a group of teens haunted by a deadly secret, is now streaming on Amazon Prime.

The first four episodes of the show premiered on Friday. Additional episodes will air weekly leading up to the season finale on November 12.

Written and executive produced by Sara Goodman, “I Know What You Did Last Summer” is based on Lois Duncan’s 1973 novel of the same name from which the 1997 film was adapted. The series’ plot centers around a group of teens still haunted by a fatal car crash, one year later. Bound by the dark secret, and stalked by a brutal killer, the teens...

There’s a certain charm to modest genre offerings that most viewers wouldn’t seek out beyond October, when so many of us spend the entire month immersed in all things horror. Though “Madres” probably wasn’t planning to fall under that umbrella, at least it’s in good company. Arriving as part of Welcome to the Blumhouse, an annual series of four Amazon Originals produced by, well, Blumhouse, director Ryan Zaragoza’s socially conscious chiller evokes everything from “Rosemary’s Baby” to the folklore tale of La Llorona while trying — but only occasionally succeeding — to carve a space for itself in that crowded milieu. It’s the kind of distraction you might pad a midnight-movie marathon with, likely sandwiched between more accomplished films with similar thematic underpinnings.

The film opens with a quote from Joseph Conrad — “The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are...

The “Welcome to the Blumhouse” series of horror features has done well so far in showcasing diverse emerging talent, if not in hitching relevant social themes to stories that are actually scary. Another case in point is “Black As Night,” which joins “Bingo Hell” in a second annual quartet of Halloween releases rolling out on Amazon Prime.

Maritte Lee Go’s solo feature directorial debut is a sort of female African-American spin on “The Lost Boys,” chronicling what its heroine pegs as “The summer I got breasts and fought vampires.” It works well enough as a teen supernatural melodrama, reasonably slick if a tad silly — less well as straight-up horror, let alone as a commentary on race-centric historical and political issues that never feel more than pasted-on here.

Fifteen-year-old Shawna was born in the immediate wake of Hurricane Katrina. That disaster destroyed her family’s former house, as well as...

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One of the great things about October is that you finally get to gorge on Halloween movies like “Black as Night,” a spooky new horror flick about a teenage vampire slayer. The film began streaming on Amazon Prime on Friday, and if you’re not already subscribed to the platform you can join today and instantly stream the movie for free.

An action-horror hybrid film with social conscience notes and a biting sense of humor, “Black as Night” stars Asjha Cooper, Fabrizio Guido, Keith David, Mason Beauchamp, Frankie Smith, and Craig Tate. The film was directed by Maritte Lee Go.

Taking place 15 years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, “Black as Night” centers...

Part two of our Amazon Studios and Blumhouse Television Welcome to the Blumhouse directorial interview series interviews the director of Bingo Hell, who reveals just how blood-thirsty seniors can get over their beloved bingo game.

Bingo Hell, directed by Gigi Saul Guerrero, shows the unwanted gentrification of the Oak Springs barrio on its older residents, especially Lupita (Adriana Barraza), who calls it home. Soon a mysterious force takes over their beloved bingo hall, thrusting into a battle for the soul of their beloved neighborhood.

Guerrero has made a name for herself in horror as the director of several Crypt TV shorts, most recently Mistress of Bones. She also has directed several projects for Blumhouse television, including The Purge series episode “Hail Mary” and the Into the Dark: Culture Shock.

If you were a character in your movie, what would be your weapon of choice?

After the movie was made, I thought,...

One of the lesser-sung items among umpteen offbeat little ’70s movies was Larry Yust’s “Homebodies.” That 1974 black comedy on the cusp of horror was about a community of frail old retirees who turn out to be surprisingly vigorous — even homicidal — in defending their homes from the callous forces of market-driven “progress.” A similar premise is the starting point for “Bingo Hell,” which alongside “Black as Night” kicks off the second quartet of genre features premiering under the “Welcome to the Blumhouse” umbrella on Amazon Prime. This first full-length solo directorial project for Gigi Saul Guerrero exchanges the Cincinnati grit of “Homebodies” for the hotter palette of a Southern California desert town.

The comedy and horror elements get amped up as well — maybe too much so. In any case, what starts out looking like another caustic commentary on gentrification at the expense of the elderly soon takes a turn into half-baked Stephen King territory,...

“Into the Dark” may be over, but Jason Blum and his Blumhouse company aren’t done delivering original horror films to streaming subscribers who are looking for something new this spooky season. Following the quartet of releases from last October under the “Welcome To the Blumhouse” banner that included “The Lie” and “Nocturne,” two films that gathered a reasonably strong social response primarily due to their young casts and memorable twists, Amazon Prime Video offers a second slate of original movies for fans with two dropping on October 1 and another double feature landing on October 8.

Continue reading Welcome To The Blumhouse: ‘Bingo Hell’ & ‘Black As Night’ Are Both Horror Busts [Review] at The Playlist.

Amazon Prime Video is packing its library this fall as October makes way for plenty of original and familiar titles. Among the streamer’s new original content is the arrival of series Fairfax, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and All or Nothing: Toronto Maple Leafs among others. Movies are also part of the large slate including new originals like Bingo Hell, Black as Night, Justin Bieber: Our World, and The Manor as well as others. Below, we’re rounding up the full list of what’s coming to Amazon Prime Video as well as the free streamer IMDb TV. I Know What You Did Last Summer (Credit: Amazon Studios) Available for Streaming on Prime Video: October Tba *Fairfax – Amazon Original Series: Season 1 October 1 *Bingo Hell – Amazon Original Movie (2021) *Black as Night – Amazon Original Movie (2021) *My Name is Pauli Murray – Amazon Original Movie (2021) A Good Year (2006) American Masters: Raul...

Need to catch up? Read our previous Riverdale recap here.

There’s a new mystery to solve in Riverdale this week… and Betty and Jughead are on the case.

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Tabitha learns that her old friend Squeaky — who we last saw getting into a stranger’s truck to leave town — has gone missing. So she hires the best detectives she...

Considering Fantastic Fest 2021 is this writer’s first time back at an in-person festival since Sundance 2020, I’m very excited (and a teeny bit nervous) about getting to spend a whole week indulging in movies from all over the world once again. Later this week, Fantastic Fest will be kicking off on Thursday, and will continue running in-person through September 30th (and the Ff Virtual Fest will begin the very same day).

And even though I’m always pumped for Fantastic Fest’s entire genre-spanning programming slate, there are a handful of films that have already caught my eye, and I thought I’d go ahead and preview 13 titles that I’m incredibly psyched to see as a horror and sci-fi fan. Also, I just wanted to make a note: I didn’t include films that Daily Dead has already covered at previous festivals. Not that they’re not worthy,...

Chicago – At the red-carpet premiere of “Black as Night” on Sept. 21, 2021 at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre, HollywoodChicago.com interviews director Maritte Lee Go (who admits she’s a Jason Blum fangirl) and writer Sherman Payne.

We also speak with stars Fabrizio Guido (who reveals his longtime passion for vampires; he used to go to school with vampire teeth while popping his collar), Craig Tate and Mason Beauchamp.

Watch now in our video above! The new vampire horror/comedy will be released on Oct. 1, 2021 on Amazon Prime Video as part of the Welcome to the Blumhouse series from Jason Blum. The 2021 series also features “Bingo Hell,” “Madres” and “The Manor”.

Video and editing by: Jeff Doles

Interviews by: Adam Fendelman

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Knoxville Horror Film Fest 2021: "The Knoxville Horror Film Fest will present its lucky 13th annual weekend of cinematic scares Thursday, October 21 through Sunday, October 24, with events split between Maryville, Tennessee’s Parkway Drive-In and the festival’s home base at Central Cinema in Knoxville.

It was Covid-era necessity that drove last year’s premier programming to the Parkway, but it’s pure pleasure that brings it back for a second year. Thursday night’s lineup will kick off the festival with a triple feature of John Carpenter’s ghostly 1980 classic The Fog, Rialto Pictures’ new 40th anniversary 4K restoration of Joe Dante’s The Howling (1981), and heavy metal horror cult item Trick Or Treat (1986). Friday night will continue the fun with the trailers of the 2021 Khff Grindhouse Grind-out, followed by another triple feature of Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984), An American Werewolf In London (1981) and SFX genius Phil Tippett’s years-in-the-making Mad God.

Amazon Prime Video recently announced the latest installment of Welcome to the Blumhouse. Featuring films directed by Gigi Saul Guerrero, Maritte Lee Go, Ryan Zaragoza, and Axelle Carolyn, we now have individual trailers for reach film, ahead of their premiere this October!

"Amazon Prime Video is excited to announce this year's installment of "Welcome To The Blumhouse," featuring an all new set of unique, unsettling thrillers developed with an eye towards original, diverse storytelling. Produced by Blumhouse Television and Amazon Studios, Bingo Hell, Black As Night, Madres and The Manor premiere worldwide this October exclusively on Prime Video.

The “Welcome to the Blumhouse” slate once again showcases both well-established and breakout actors collaborating with emerging, predominantly female, directors.

Bingo Hell and Black As Night premiere on October 1, followed by Madres and The Manor on October 8."

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In the Barrio of Oak Springs live a strong and stubborn group of elderly friends who refuse to be gentrified. Their leader, Lupita, keeps them together as a community, a family. But little did they know, their beloved Bingo hall is about to be sold to a much more powerful force than money itself.   Here it is, the first trailer for Bingo Hell, Gigi Saul Guerrero's new feature film from Blumhouse. It will also have its world premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin at the end of September where we will catch all of its bright and bloody glory in person. Bingo Hell kicks off the second season of the Welcome To The Blumhouse series with vampire film Black As Night, from director Maritte Lee Go, as...

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Fantastic Fest returns this September (September 23 - September 30) and had already announced a killer first wave of programming, including screenings of Titane, Lamb, and Gigi Saul Guerrero's Bingo Hell! Today, they announced their final wave of programming, which includes the world premiere of The Black Phone, and much, much more!

The entire press release is included below and you can learn more at: http://fantasticfest.com/

Austin, TX — September 9, 2021 — Fantastic Fest is proud to announce the final wave of programming for the festival’s 16th edition, featuring the widest selection of weird and wonderful films gathered from across the globe to screen in Austin, TX, from September 23rd - 30th.

“Working on this second wave has been a pure joy for the programming team,” says Fantastic Fest Director of Programming Annick Mahnert. “With films coming from as far as Senegal, Latvia, Iran and Kazakhstan, and topics ranging from teenage assassins,...

Since 1933, Mexico has been a major pioneering force in Latin American horror cinema. In contemporary times, Mexican horror has blossomed into a diverse array of horror subgenres including paranormal, art house, independent, social-political, and extreme.

For those inspired to explore what Mexican horror has to offer, this film list is a beginner’s guide to contemporary Mexican horror, featuring films by art-house cinema icon Alejandro Jodorowsky, the Oscar-winning monster maker Guillermo del Toro and Mexico’s tiger queen Issa Lopez.

10. El Gigante

Though the only short film on this list, it’s a bold mix of Mexican wrestling, Rob Zombie, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, with lots of blood and gore. While attempting to cross the American/Mexican border at night via a “coyote”, Armando is attacked and awakens in a dirty blood-splattered room. He is forced to wrestle for the entertainment of a sadistic family with the blood-thirsty wrestler El Gigante.

Amazon Prime Video is ramping up the promotion for the upcoming ‘Welcome to the Blumhouse’ event which drops from October 1st, with a brand new trailer consisting of all four movies.

The event is a series of unique, unsettling thrillers developed and produced with an eye towards original, diverse storytelling. The ‘Welcome to the Blumhouse’ slate once again showcases both well-established and breakout actors collaborating with emerging, predominantly female, directors.

Details on the next batch of films lined up to terrify audiences are below;

Bingo Hell

When a sinister figure threatens the residents of a low-income community, a feisty senior citizen tries to stop him in Bingo Hell, a wickedly original horror movie with a fiendishly funny twist. After 60-something neighbourhood activist Lupita (Adriana Barraza) discovers that her beloved local bingo hall has been taken over by a mysterious businessman named Mr. Big (Richard Brake), she rallies her elderly friends...

Blumhouse and Amazon Prime Video are at it again with another round of "Welcome to the Blumhouse" films. Last year, four Blumhouse movies premiered directly on Prime Video, and the results were...not great. Perhaps this new round of movies will be an improvement. Once again, we'll be getting four new movies, with two dropping on one weekend, and two more dropping the following weekend. The titles include "Bingo Hell" directed by Gigi Saul Guerrero; "Black as Night" directed by Maritte Lee Go; "Madres" directed by Ryan Zaragoza; and "The Manor" directed by Axelle Carolyn. 

Watch the "Welcome to the Blumhouse 2021" trailer below.

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Amazon Prime Video recently announced the latest installment of Welcome to the Blumhouse. Featuring films directed by Gigi Saul Guerrero, Maritte Lee Go, Ryan Zaragoza, and Axelle Carolyn, we now have the trailer for you to watch ahead of the films premiering this October!

"Amazon Prime Video is excited to announce this year's installment of "Welcome To The Blumhouse," featuring an all new set of unique, unsettling thrillers developed with an eye towards original, diverse storytelling. Produced by Blumhouse Television and Amazon Studios, Bingo Hell, Black As Night, Madres and The Manor premiere worldwide this October exclusively on Prime Video.

The “Welcome to the Blumhouse” slate once again showcases both well-established and breakout actors collaborating with emerging, predominantly female, directors.

Bingo Hell and Black As Night premiere on October 1, followed by Madres and The Manor on October 8.

Bingo Hell

October 1, 2021

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A feisty senior citizen fights to protect her beloved...

Amazon Prime Video Announces Latest Installment of “Welcome To The Blumhouse”: "Amazon Prime Video is excited to announce this year's installment of "Welcome To The Blumhouse," featuring an all new set of unique, unsettling thrillers developed with an eye towards original, diverse storytelling. Produced by Blumhouse Television and Amazon Studios, Bingo Hell, Black As Night, Madres and The Manor premiere worldwide this October exclusively on Prime Video.

The “Welcome to the Blumhouse” slate once again showcases both well-established and breakout actors collaborating with emerging, predominantly female, directors.

Bingo Hell and Black As Night premiere on October 1, followed by Madres and The Manor on October 8.

Bingo Hell

October 1, 2021

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A feisty senior citizen fights to protect her beloved neighborhood from an evil force that’s taken over the local bingo hall and is killing the residents in gruesome ways.

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When a sinister figure threatens the residents of a low-income community,...

Yesterday, Amazon Prime Video and Blumhouse announced the next installment of their Welcome to the Blumhouse film series with four original thrillers from a diverse slate of filmmakers. The films – Bingo Hell, Black as Night, Madres, and The Manor – will premiere worldwide this October exclusively on Prime Video. Now, we have exclusive info on director Ryan Zaragoza‘s feature debut, Madres. Set […]

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Fantastic Fest has announced the lineup for its Sept. 23-30 edition in Austin, Texas and specified that proof of vaccination will be required for all badge-holders.

With the Covid-19 infection rate currently at a high level in the state, the festival is working hard to try to keep the event safe for attendees, mandating that “All badge holders will be required to show proof of Covid vaccination” and that attendees much “bring physical or electronic proof of vaccination to check-in. No vaccine, no Fantastic Fest, no exceptions.”

The festival also announced that masks must be worn at all times indoors when not eating or drinking.

The festival lineup includes Palme d’Or winner “Titane,” and the festival plans to display vintage muscle cars in keeping with the film’s theme. “Metallic-themed or ‘French firefighter’ costumes are highly encouraged,” the festival said.

Also premiering are A24’s “Lamb,” “Bingo Hell” from...

Fantastic Fest returns this September (September 23 - September 30) with a vaccine-required event and a killer lineup of programming, including screenings of Titane, Lamb, Gigi Saul Guerrero's Bingo Hell, and much, much more! The entire first wave is included below and you can learn more at: http://fantasticfest.com/

Austin, TX — August 6, 2021 — Mechanophilia, possessed nuns, possessed children, hallucinations, ghostly hauntings, time travel, exorcism, cerebral expansion, heavy metal, friendship, yakuza, canine trauma, multiple serial killers, coprophagia, cannibalism, tender embraces, vampires, copious bodily fluids, superheroes, warm laughs, disco-dancing firemen and more, more, more!

Yes, this can only mean one thing: Fantastic Fest is back.

After 18 months of isolation and uncertainty, this year’s “Post-Apocalyptic” edition of Fantastic Fest is here to remind us of the joy of cinema, community, and weird and wonderful movies.

The first wave of films is headlined by the truly extraordinary 2021 Palme D’Or winner Titane from Parasite distributor Neon.

The Wonder Years has found its new Kevin Arnold. Elisha “Ej” Williams has been tapped to star as Dean, the new Kevin in ABC’s The Wonder Years single-camera comedy reboot pilot, from Dave exec producer Saladin Patterson, Fred Savage and Empire co-creator Lee Daniels.

Savage, who played Kevin in the original dramedy series, has officially passed the torch to a new generation. You can watch of clip of Savage and Patterson delivering the good news to Williams below.

Written by Patterson and directed by Savage, the reboot of the classic 1980s family comedy-drama is set in the same era as the original. It looks at how the Williamses, a Black middle-class family in Montgomery, Al, in the turbulent late 1960s made sure it was the Wonder Years for them too.

Williams’ Dean is an inquisitive and hopeful 12-year-old kid coming of age in a turbulent time. It’s 1968 in Montgomery,...

L. Scott Caldwell will star in Blumhouse and Amazon’s “Bingo,” the latest thriller on the “Welcome to the Blumhouse” slate.

The Tony Award-winning actor, known for her roles as Rose in “Lost” and in “The Fugitive” will star as Delores, the “witty, loyal and tough grandmother” at the center of “Bingo’s” story.

Caldwell joins previously announced stars Adriana Barraza (Oscar nominee for “Babel”), who plays Delores’ best friend Lupita, and “The Good Lord Bird” breakout Joshua Caleb Johnson, as her grandson Caleb.

Set in the barrio of Oak Springs, the film follows a strong and stubborn group of elderly friends who refuse to be gentrified. Lupita is the leader of the group, keeping them together as a community, a family, but little do they know, their beloved Bingo hall is about to be sold to a much more powerful force than money itself.

“Bingo” is directed by Gigi Saul Guerrero...