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Exclusive: Cineverse has acquired North American rights to French Belgian body horror Else and set a July 8 streaming launch via its Fandor streaming service and all digital platforms.

The deal was negotiated by Cineverse Executive Director, Acquisitions Brandon Hill with Gregory Chambet of WTFilms, out of the Berlinale’s European Film Market.

The mesmerising body horror and debut film of French director Thibault Emin revolves around the blossoming romance between an introvert man and a confident woman, which is threatened when a strange epidemic causes the infected to merge with their surroundings.

Trapping in a shapeshifting nightmare, the couple face choices around whether they will merge for love.

Else joins a growing Fandor catalog which also features the breakout picture Hundreds of Beaver about a drunken applejack salesman who morphs into North America’s greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.

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Valentine’s Day might be about flowers, chocolates, and romance – but in horror, love often leads to obsession, betrayal, and bloody revenge. With slasher thrills, supernatural hauntings, or twisted tales of doomed romance, horror movies set around love and relationships add an extra layer of intensity. Interestingly, horror movies that use romance as a device go right back to the origins of horror cinema, intertwining desire with thrills and kills.

For those who prefer their Valentine’s Day with a side of terror, we’ve rounded up the best horror films to watch on February 14th. These movies prove that sometimes, love doesn’t just break your heart – it rips it out.

The Best Valentine’s Day Horror Movies 1. My Bloody Valentine (1981 & 2009)

Few films embody Valentine’s Day horror better than My Bloody Valentine. This cult classic slasher follows a mining town plagued by a masked killer seeking revenge on Valentine’s Day.

The 2016 horror comedy The Love Witch is a campy, satirical masterpiece that blends the iconic technicolor cinematic style of the '60s with classic femme fatale and witch tropes to comment on and deconstruct the male gaze. Produced, written, directed, edited, set & costume designed, and scored by Anna Biller, the film is an alchemical experience of the female gaze that immerses the viewer through its references and theatricality. On top of its uncanny late '60s/early '70s aesthetic, the writing is razor-sharp in its exploration of the notion of women as sexual objects that men simultaneously exploit and fear. It does this by framing the story through the lens of a witch, which has for centuries been a device used to demonize women who stray from the behaviors that have been prescribed to them by the patriarchy. Using classic cinematic tropes and imagery, mixed with heavy-handed, campy, satirical dialogue,...

Spoopy Season is upon us, dear readers, and any cineaste worth their weight in bone matter is likely scouring the world's many streaming services looking for the best fright flicks available. Most casual horror fans may be content to idly re-watch well-trodden classics like "Halloween," while more enterprising gorehounds will be studiously studying the carefully curated films on Shudder. The jaded, more experienced fright fans, however, will require stronger coffee to get their fear fix, and those brave souls may dive face-first into the overstuffed trough of Night Flight or Eternal Family, looking for oddities that the average soul cannot stand. Are you going to watch a gentle film like "Hocus Pocus" this October, or are you the type to try out "Bloody Muscle Bodybuilder in Hell?"

We can say for sure that actor Kevin Bacon, a great actor with impeccable taste, is an aficionado of the genre and likes...

As we’re well into October, I’m sure plenty of you have already watched more than a few horror movies (as if you need an excuse), but it’s always fun to see what other folks recommend for the spooky season. Kevin Bacon, who I believe has appeared in a few horror movies, took to Instagram to share a list of twenty of his personal favourites.

Audition Don’t Look Now One Cut of the Dead Dawn of the Dead (1978) Shaun of the Dead 28 Days Later Get Out A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night Let The Right One In X Pearl MaXXXine The Witch The Love Witch The Blair Witch Project The Descent Slither Midsommar Martyrs Hereditary Smile Stir of Echoes

A quality list, and as you can see, Bacon appears in a few of them. Bacon’s most recent horror movie was MaXXXine, which appears on the list alongside X and Pearl.

Everyone’s got horror on the mind as we inch closer to Halloween, and that list of “everyone” most definitely includes Kevin Bacon, who has damn sure made his mark on the horror genre over the years. From appearing in the original Friday the 13th to starring in this year’s MaXXXine, Bacon’s horror pedigree is strong – and he’s a genre fan through and through.

Bacon notes in one of the bonus features for MaXXXine, “I’m a huge horror film fan.” And he’s building on that statement over on Twitter today, sharing some of his personal favorites.

“I love October because it’s all about apples and leaves changing and pumpkins, but it’s also about horror movies,” he begins the video. “So here are 20 of my favorite horror movies in no particular order.” The list naturally includes some films the Bacon family has appeared in,...

From an evil queen pondering “Mirror, mirror on the wall: Who is the fairest of them all?” to Three Weird Sisters chanting “Double, double toil and trouble! Fire burn, and cauldron bubble,” witchcraft has been something of a skeleton key across centuries of storytelling on screen and in print. As old as ghost stories themselves, witches are fabled beings — typically more human than creature, but sometimes vice versa — known for using magic to abuse and manipulate us mere mortals.

Some witches feed on children; see Roald Dahl‘s “The Witches” and its two film adaptations starring Anjelica Huston and Anne Hathaway respectively. Some witches just want to be loved; consider the appropriately-named “The Love Witch” or the middle chunk of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.” Others crave beauty, youth, power, or something altogether more sinister; think the unending greed examined in Luca Guadagnino’s astounding re-imagining of Dario Argento’s “Suspiria.

This Halloween, check out the free streaming platform for cult classic and indie horror films: Dark Matter TV.

With Halloween approaching, you may be wondering what free streamers there are out there to set the tone with a scary movie as you eat candy corn and wait for trick-or-treaters to raid your candy stocks. One to consider is the aptly named Dark Matter TV, a free ad-supported streaming platform that will bring the screams this Halloween without scaring your wallet. Keep reading to see if you should add Dark Matter TV to your streaming library.

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“Sabrina the Teenage Witch” is a certified Criterion title, believe it or not.

The beloved franchise about a beloved occult teen, iconically played by Melissa Joan Hart, is officially amongst the new streaming selections for the Criterion Channel. “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” centered on Sabrina (Hart), a high school student who lives with her two aunts Hilda (Caroline Rhea) and Zelda (Beth Broderick) as she navigates coming into her powers. Her cat Salem (Frank Conniff) also provides snarky spiritual guidance.

The ABC-produced franchise was based on the comic book series that debuted in 1971. The “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” show is available to stream on Paramount+ as of 2023.

The 1996 TV movie was a spinoff of the TV series, and was followed by 1998’s “Sabrina Goes to Rome” and 1999’s “Sabrina Down Under.”

Now, “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” joins Criterion’s “Witches” programming for October 2024, ushering in the 40-year anniversary of the Criterion platform.

The Criterion Channel’s at its best when October rolls around, consistently engaging in the strongest horror line-ups of any streamer. 2024 will bring more than a few iterations of their spooky programming: “Horror F/X” highlights the best effects-based scares through the likes of Romero, Cronenberg, Lynch, Tobe Hooper, James Whale; “Witches” does what it says on the tin (and inside the tin is the underrated Italian anthology film featuring Clint Eastwood cuckolded by Batman); “Japanese Horror” runs the gamut of classics; a Stephen King series puts John Carpenter and The Lawnmower Man on equal playing ground; October’s Criterion Editions are Rosemary’s Baby, Night of the Hunter, Häxan; a made-for-tv duo includes Carpenter’s underrated Someone’s Watching Me!; meanwhile, The Wailing and The Babadook stream alongside a collection of Cronenberg and Stephanie Rothman titles.

Otherwise, Winona Ryder and Raúl Juliá are given retrospectives, as are filmmakers Arthur J. Bressan Jr. and Lionel Rogosin.

Fantasy and horror genres go hand in hand in movies, as magic, the supernatural, and mythical creatures can be as thrilling as they are dangerous. However, it's not enough for films to simply make the mystical aspects of the story scary. There must be a certain atmosphere within a project that makes it a true blend of fantasy and horror. Speculative fiction has drawn upon different elements of the genre for generations to create unforgettable narratives. It's not surprising that so many of these films draw from literature, as many dark fantasy books border on being horror.

It's through the worldbuilding, atmosphere, and character dynamics that the audience learns about how the magic and terror of the story will uplift each other throughout the plot.

While there are plenty of dark fantasy TV shows that have time to flesh out both the horror and magic of the story's world, movies...

Quick Links Hellbender's Mother and Daughter Live In the Woods and Use Nature to Practice Their Witchcraft A Real-World Family Made Hellbender On a Small Budget, Something They've Done Many Times Hellbender Is a Great Example of Why This Is the Most Exciting Time for Horror Fans

Witchcraft is on the rise across the world. While exact numbers are hard to determine, many reports in the 90s and 2000s (including from Newsweek and U.S. Today) estimated that there are over 1 million people in the United States alone who identify as witches, whether followers of the Wiccan religion, one of many other established practices or unaffiliated. Considering that the number of witches in those estimates was reported to be growing faster every year, it's likely that the number of Americans who practice some form of witchcraft is up even more in the 2020s, and indeed the popular "#witchtok" tag on TikTok has over 6.9 million posts.

Best known for playing Annie Brackett in John Carpenter’s original Halloween, Nancy Loomis (aka Nancy Kyes) returns to the screen for the first time in over 30 years in the upcoming horror anthology Hauntology from Gravitas Ventures. We’ve got the exclusive trailer.

Hauntology comes to FrightFest on August 23 before hitting VOD on September 17.

Watch the official trailer below and read on for everything you need to know.

In addition to Nancy Kyes aka Nancy Loomis, the cast also includes Samantha Robinson, Zoey Luna (The Craft Legacy), and Naomi Grossman (American Horror Story).

“In this queer horror anthology, 12-year-old Venus runs away from home, but their journey is cut short when their older sister, Jazmin, spots them wheeling a suitcase down the sidewalk. Jazmin then takes Venus on a journey around Ohio, where Jazmin tells supernatural tales whose characters have more in common with Venus than they first realize.”

Hauntology features four ghostly vignettes…...

Parker Brennon’s Hauntology is set to make its international premiere at the 2024 Pigeon Shrine FrightFest, bringing a unique blend of queer horror to the festival’s line-up. Scheduled for a late-night screening on Friday, 23rd August, this anthology film offers a chilling exploration of ghost stories with a distinctly queer perspective, blending supernatural elements with themes of identity and belonging.

Hauntology follows the journey of twelve-year-old Venus, who, after running away from home, is intercepted by their older sister, Jazmin. Instead of taking Venus back home, Jazmin takes them on an eerie road trip around their Ohio hometown, sharing spine-tingling tales at each stop. Each location they visit harbours its own ghost story, all intricately tied to queer experiences. From a trans woman’s desperate spell to become her ideal self, only to unleash a dark spirit, to a troubled couple discovering a love that transcends death, the anthology...

Patrick Lussier's 2011 film "Drive Angry" might belong to a genre hereby designated "neo-grindhouse." There was a wave of films in the late 2000s and early 2010s that sought to evoke the style or the content of a very specific type of exploitation movie that was popular in the 1970s. In addition to the Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez 2007 twofer "Grindhouse" and its spinoffs, films like "Redline," "The Man with the Iron Fists," "Turbo Kid," "Kung Fury," "Hatchet," "Torque," "Deathgasm," "House of the Devil," and "The Love Witch" popped up on the regular. 

"Drive Angry" gleefully embraced its goofy, action/horror premise with aplomb. A dead race car driver named (sigh) John Milton (Nicolas Cage) escapes the clutches of Hell having stolen Satan's persona gun, a device called the Godkiller. On his tail is Satan's Accountant (William Fichtner), assigned with nabbing John and dragging him back to Hell. John,...

The Bloody Disgusting-powered Screambox is home to a variety of unique horror content, from originals and exclusives to cult classics and documentaries. With such a rapidly-growing library, there are many hidden gems waiting to be discovered.

Here are five recommendations you can stream on Screambox right now.

Possum

Like Jordan Peele, John Krasinski, and Zach Cregger, Matthew Holness made a name for himself in the comedy space — most notably, creating and starring in Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace — before delivering one hell of a horror movie right out the gate. 2018’s Possum is a psychological slow-burner that follows a disgraced children’s puppeteer back to his childhood home, where the trauma of his past comes back to haunt him.

A lifelike human head tethered to spindly spider legs, the titular puppet would be creepy in any context, but Holness turns it into pure nightmare fuel. Combined with an oppressive tone, unnerving...

Two Indian films flexed at the domestic box office — and when they hit they really do hit, buoying exhibitors through good times and bad — with Kinds Of Kindness hitting no. 10 in a major expansion and Thelma not far behind.

Kalki 2898 Ad, a Telugu sci-fi epic from Prathyangira Cinemas, is looking at an estimated $5.4 million on 1,049 screens for the three-day weekend, at no. 5. It’s also approaching a cume of $11 million including Wednesday previews and Thursday opening day, one of the best ever openings of an Indian film in North America.

Written and directed by Nag Ashwin, Kalki is toplined by superstars Prabhas with Deepika Padukone and Amitabh Bachchan. As Deadline has reported, this is India’s most expensive film ever.

Jatt & Juliet 3, the latest instalment of the Punjabi romantic comedy franchise, from White Hill Studios, is at no. 9 with $1.8 million for the weekend at just 143 locations, and a $1.9 million cume,...

Famous witch movies like Practical Magic and The Craft explore different aspects of witchcraft, from family dynamics to darker occult themes. Practical Magic's blend of fantasy and romance resonates with audiences, while The Love Witch and The Lords of Salem take a darker approach to the genre. Whether it's horror, comedy, or romance, there's a witch movie for every taste, with Practical Magic set to receive a long-awaited sequel.

Practical Magic is one of the best movies about witches of the past several decades, but many witch films like it aren't recognized as often. Other famous movies that tackle the subject of witchcraft, like The Craft or The Blair Witch Project, focus on the more sinister aspects of the occult. While Practical Magic has some scary scenes, the most memorable parts of the story revolve around the character's interpersonal relationships. However, the visual aesthetic and atmosphere of the film...

With the recent news that Tubi surpassed Max, Disney+ and Paramount+, it got me thinking about how far the service has come. It was mostly just seen as a joke but now it’s beating some of the heavy hitters. I’m not exactly shocked as even my grandparents have proclaimed their love for Tubi. The ease of access is always going to be the biggest winner for the average viewer. Plus the fact that it’s Free doesn’t hurt either. At a time where other streaming services are adding ads of their own and increasing their paid tiers to absurd prices, services like Tubi become more and more appealing.

Tubi has come a long way since its days of direct-to-streaming shlock. Sure, there are classics like Child’s Play, Interview with the Vampire, Pumpkinhead, The Descent and Near Dark. But what about some titles that are more off the beaten path?...

Madness and misfortune darken the doorstep of the 2024 Chattanooga Film Festival with Adrien Beau’s The Vourdalak, celebrating its North American premiere after an acclaimed run on the European festival circuit. Like an accidental renaissance rendition of Pet Sematary or a Napoleonic re-telling of Salem’s Lot, this French nightmare is a lush and looney folk tale of grave misfortunes. And monsters! Here be monsters…

Shot on film and featuring some incredible moments of handmade horror, The Vourdalak is, yes, a Period Piece- but not a Period Piece that haters of Period Pieces should immediately disregard. I get it, fancy talk and frilly garments aren’t for everyone…but how about live-sized puppets of skeletal ghouls with long boney fingers that stalk in the shadows at night and feast on the blood of the living? How ’bout them Elizabethan apples!? The Vourdalak is like Jim Henson meets The Brothers Grimm, filtered...

Director Anna Biller‘s cult horror-comedy The Love Witch is now streaming on Screambox.

In the film, Elaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment, she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and seduces them. However her spells work too well, and she ends up with a string of hapless victims. When she finally meets the man of her dreams, her desperation to be loved will drive her to the brink of insanity and murder.

“I wanted to make a movie about a witch because I think that every woman is made to feel like a witch by the men who don’t understand her: that is, mysterious, dangerous, different, abnormal,” said Anna Biller when the film was initially released. “Elaine, the main character, has men constantly freaking out around her because of her sexiness. But...

Where are all my witches at?

I, like many women of my age, spent a formative part of my youth enamored with the idea of witches. While Buffy the Vampire Slayer wasn’t quite my bag, I adored Charmed. My VHS copy of Practical Magic got more play than a yo-yo. And, of course, I was an avid viewer of Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

Did I myself dabble in magical arts, though? No, and I won’t pretend I did either. But man, did I so often wish that one day I’d just wake up with magical powers. I also wished I’d wake up one day and have a twin, too, as I also voraciously devoured the T*Witches novel series.

When it came to classic Halloween tropes, witches often received the lightest treatment for a long time. Witch media, post the long-standing green-face, wart-nosed, pointy-hat likeness instead...

Screambox has revealed the new films that are joining the horror streaming service in June 2024, including Frogman, Coherence, and We Need to Talk About Kevin.

Just announced this week, both Frogman and Coherence are getting sequels, so this summer is the absolute perfect time to catch back up on them and see where it all started!

The croaks are no hoax! Frogman hops onto Screambox exclusively on June 7. The ribbiting found footage curio explores the local legend of an amphibious cryptid.

Coherence will rearrange your brain on Screambox June 14. A group of friends experience a disturbing chain of reality-bending events when a comet passes by in the surreal sci-fi thriller. A sequel to the 2013 cult classic was recently announced.

From master of horror John Carpenter, The Ward haunts Screambox on June 14. Amber Heard (Aquaman), Mamie Gummer (The Good Wife), Danielle Panabaker (Friday the 13th), Jared Harris (Mad Men), and Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria) star.

Screambox has announced their lineup for the month of June. The big tickets draws are Frogman, Coherence and We Need to Talk About Kevin.    If you realized after seeing Immaculate that you need to catch up on the Sydney Sweeney back catalogue Screambox is here to help with John Carpenter's The Ward.   Director John Schnitzer may have turned to a life of stand-up comedy but you can watch his haunted house documentary Haunters: The Art of the Scare next month.    Anna Biller's The Love Witch was a production designer's wet dream. If you haven't seen it you can catch it on Screambox next month.    Everything else coming to Screambox next month is in the announcement below.    Screambox June Streaming Line-Up Includes...

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Outbreak Park: "Lethal Comics and Holy Crow Press present Outbreak Park! The Walking Dead meets Jurassic Park! Writer Allan Amato and artist Andy Belanger bring you their startling vision of a post-post apocalyptic world. Humanity exists in vastly smaller numbers, within fortified enclaves mirroring the early city-states of ancient Greece. While a vaccine inoculating humans against a bite has been created, most of the planet is still subject to roving herds of undead. And equally frightening anarchist wellness Men’s groups..

In New Alhambra, Outbreak Park is built to further research into the undead phenomenon, using docile zombies as teaching tools for the children growing up in the new republic. Lest the near extinction of humanity ever be forgotten, and repeated.

But while humanity is slowly clawing it way back from the brink, underneath the veneer of civilization lies a fervent minority plotting against the yoke; religious zealots that insist...

Dive into the deliciously dark side of cinema with our guide to “good for her” horror movies, where the leading ladies don’t just fight back, they bite back—with style. This isn’t just about scares; it’s about screams of triumph from female anti-heroes who redefine horror movie vengeance.

We’re slicing into tales that offer more than just good for her horror moments; these films are a banquet of revenge horror movies served with a side of female villains so badass, you’ll be cheering them on from behind your popcorn. So, pull up a chair, and let’s celebrate the women who turn nightmares into their playgrounds, proving that when it comes to settling scores, they’re monstrously good at it.

Oscilloscope 10. The Love Witch (2016)

Elaine (Samantha Robinson), our spellbinding protagonist, isn’t your typical witch. In her quest for love, she brews potions more potent than your grandma’s moonshine,...

Experimental French filmmaker Bertrand Mandico isn’t for everyone — i.e. an acquired taste whose visions push boundaries of cinematic expression — but he’s achieved something of a cult fandom over the last three decades. After last pairing with the director on 2022’s “After Blue” and 2017’s uninhibited Venice winner “The Wild Boys” — Cahiers du Cinéma’s top film of 2018 — the distributor Altered Innocence again teams with Mandico on another provocation. His 2023 Cannes premiere “She Is Conann,” nominated for the Queer Palm before going on to play at other festivals including Locarno, is an acid-trip transgressive riff on the Conan the Barbarian myth. IndieWire shares the trailer here.

Influences on the film include Tony Scott’s “The Hunger,” the works of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Liliana Cavani’s “The Night Porter,” and Fellini’s “Satyricon.” Throw Ken Russell in there for good measure, with profane images in “She Is Conann” reminiscent of “The Devils.

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2023, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.

It’s been a great year to be a strange little guy. We’ve rolled on from Everything Everywhere All at Once sweeping the Oscars to the auspicious release of Yorgos Lanthimos’ sexy baby drama Poor Things. Our culture’s ever-increasing appetite for horror fueled hype for blockbusters about killer robot girls and homicidal animatronics. Genres were blended and transcended on and off the festival circuit, as major distributors embraced weirdness in films like Bottoms, May December, and the aforementioned Poor Things.

This has also been a year of extremes. In January Skinamarink, a $15,000 indie horror, made $2.1 million at the box office. Every favorite for Best Picture is at least 100 minutes long. Barbenheimer… happened. New heights of camp were achieved on larger scales than ever before. Casting...

This post is part of a series, Girlblogging. Read the introduction here. Maybe you have seen this image: five outlines of a head (turned sideways in profile), each holding (in its mind’s eye) one of four images of apples stamped (from left to right) in decreasing order of detail, except for the last head, which is empty. This is an image of images, an image about how imagination works. At its most basic level, imagination is image visualization. When you think of an apple, what do you see? In The Love Witch (2016), witchcraft looks a lot like imagination—energy concentrated […]

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This post is part of a series, Girlblogging. Read the introduction here. Maybe you have seen this image: five outlines of a head (turned sideways in profile), each holding (in its mind’s eye) one of four images of apples stamped (from left to right) in decreasing order of detail, except for the last head, which is empty. This is an image of images, an image about how imagination works. At its most basic level, imagination is image visualization. When you think of an apple, what do you see? In The Love Witch (2016), witchcraft looks a lot like imagination—energy concentrated […]

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Clockwise from top left: Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Sony), Dracula (Universal), Only Lovers Left Alive (Sony), The Hunger (MGM/UA), Nosferatu The Vampyre (Shout Factory), Nosferatu (Kino Lorber) Graphic: AVClub

The vampire is cinema’s favorite monster. Ever since Nosferatu more than a century ago, bloodsuckers of every conceivable persuasion...

SpectreVision, the production company behind horror films Mandy and Daniel Isn’t Real, and co-founders Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah have teamed up with streaming platform Pluto TV for a special Halloween treat: a horror movie marathon streaming event.

Wood and Noah are bringing their favorite horror and psychological films for Pluto TV viewers to enjoy for Free on Wednesday, October 18 on the Pluto TV Cult Films channel.

The theme of the evening is “Ladies’ Night,” celebrating women lead horror and to kick off the marathon at 8pm Et/5pm Pt, Wood and Noah will host a live stream-along on SpectreVision’s Instagram so viewers can watch along and hear special commentary. That means that not only can you watch their curated picks, but you can follow along and participate with the horror fun.

As for what to expect, the titles selected for this marathon include:

· The Babadook

· Beyond The Black Rainbow...

There are a lot of go-to platforms for seasonal streaming but do not forget what you presume are outliers to the spooky season cause.   Take Mubi for instance. Regarded as a home for the arthouse and the autuer, Mubi is stacked to the rafters with quality programming. They also know that their suscribers like to get their spook on so they've curated a handful of terror-ific titles for the month of October to scratch that spooky itch.    Mubi's seasonal programming will include two films from Masumura Yasuzo, Blind Beast and Irezumi - Spider Tattoo. Mubi has also put together a collection of film from female filmmakers, including Censor and The Love Witch. On the doc side they also have Rodney Ascher's A Glitch...

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Unleash your inner scream queen and buckle up for a spine-tingling adventure where horror gets a fabulously feminine makeover! As audiences everywhere gear up for the release of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie, we’ve conjured up a killer list of 10 ‘Barbiecore’ horror movies that will have you shrieking with delight.

We’ve had Barbie on the brain for a while, just last week we released an article highlighting the best pink hued horror movies. Our list of Barbiecore horror movies is dripping with girly glamour and bursting with major girlboss energy, blending the spookiness of horror with the charm, allure, and unapologetic strength of femininity. So, slip into your most bewitching pink ensemble, get Ken to make you some popcorn, and pinky swear to scream your lungs out.

United Artists Carrie (1976)

Carrie White, a shy and introverted high school student with telekinetic powers, becomes the target of cruel classmates and her religiously fanatic mother.

Welcome to a world where terror meets the vibrant hue of magenta! In this list, we celebrate the mesmerizing and blood-curdling genre of pink horror movies. These films bring together the captivating intensity of horror with a touch of rosy surrealism with a vibrant color palette.

Get ready to immerse yourself in a realm where fear and the color pink collide! From classics to modern gems, here are 10 pink horror movies that will leave you spellbound.

International Classics Suspiria (1977)

Dario Argento's iconic masterpiece, Suspiria, sets the stage for our pink horror extravaganza. This kaleidoscope of nightmares takes place within a renowned ballet school plagued by supernatural forces. The film's vibrant color palette, particularly its vivid use of magenta, engulfs the audience in a surreal and unsettling atmosphere.

Focus Features Last Night in Soho (2021)

Edgar Wright's Last Night in Soho seamlessly weaves together horror, suspense, and… time travel! Set...

Welcome to a world where terror meets the vibrant hue of magenta! In this list, we celebrate the mesmerizing and blood-curdling genre of pink horror movies. These films bring together the captivating intensity of horror with a touch of rosy surrealism with a vibrant color palette.

Get ready to immerse yourself in a realm where fear and the color pink collide! From classics to modern gems, here are 10 pink horror movies that will leave you spellbound.

International Classics Suspiria (1977)

Dario Argento's iconic masterpiece, Suspiria, sets the stage for our pink horror extravaganza. This kaleidoscope of nightmares takes place within a renowned ballet school plagued by supernatural forces. The film's vibrant color palette, particularly its vivid use of magenta, engulfs the audience in a surreal and unsettling atmosphere.

Focus Features Last Night in Soho (2021)

Edgar Wright's Last Night in Soho seamlessly weaves together horror, suspense, and… time travel! Set...

The Etheria Film Festival, a showcase of new horror, science fiction, and fantasy films directed by women, turns 10 this year, and they’re celebrating accordingly. And Bloody Disgusting can exclusively unveil what’s in store for this year’s fest, along with a sneak peek trailer.

The annual festivities will kick off with a live event in Kansas City, Missouri, on Saturday, July 1, 2023, at the Screenland Armour Theater with filmmakers and special guests in person for an onstage Q and A followed by an official afterparty. If you’re not able to attend in person, don’t worry; Etheria reteams with Shudder this year, and the official festival lineup will stream exclusively on the streaming service from July 2 through July 31, 2023.

Horror actress and director Brinke Stevens will receive the 2023 Etheria Inspiration Award from special guest presenters in person at the event.

“These films are so good your eyes will melt out of your brain,...

Walpurgisnacht, also known as Walpurgis Night or Hexennacht, is a pagan holiday celebrated on the night of April 30th. It is named after Saint Walpurga, an eighth-century nun who Christianized parts of Germany. However, the holiday has roots in pagan traditions that celebrate the coming of spring and the triumph of life over death. It is also associated with witchcraft and supernatural phenomena, making it a perfect occasion to indulge in some spine-chilling horror films.

So, grab some popcorn and get ready for a night of scares with these ten chilling recommendations for Walpurgisnacht.

1. Dracula (1931)

What better way to kick off Walpurgisnacht than with the most iconic vampire movie of all time? Dracula (1931) stars Bela Lugosi as the titular count who travels from Transylvania to England to spread his curse of the undead. The beginning of the film is actually set on Walpurgisnacht, as Renfield (Dwight Frye) arrives at Dracula...

The Walking Dead Universe RPG: "Free League Publishing today announced the official The Walking Dead Universe RPG on Kickstarter. The game invites you to explore the unforgiving, post-apocalyptic world of the dead, where you must learn to survive. Together.

The crowdfunding campaign for the highly anticipated tabletop roleplaying game has already reached its initial funding goal. It is now running through a long list of stretch goals, such as Atlanta area map, Bonus Archetype: The Criminal, custom dice, a threat meter, adventure maps, pre-generated characters based on the TV series and a solo mode, with more on the way.

Find out more at The Walking Dead Universe RPG Kickstarter-page!

We have seen many stories take place in The Walking Dead Universe - now, the time has come to see yours. No matter what impossible choices and daunting challenges you may encounter, the hardest choice will always be the same: Who are you going to be?...

Just when you thought filmmakers and creators had exhausted everything worth saying in American high school-set comedies and thrillers, along comes Chicago-based independent Jennifer Reeder, who seems devoted to this subgenre as if by a monastic oath. The high school movie––with its classic, standby imagery of jocks, lockers, and losers––seems to have passed through three main cycles in the ’80s, ’90s, and ’00s, and in spite of its absolute specificity to the US education system, has found itself weirdly comprehensible and translatable in many different cultures. With Ghost World a notable exception, it’s also never felt especially feminist, which is what makes Reeder’s perspective fresh and novel.

Reeder––whose independence from typical US film-financing structures, art school background, and genre inclinations make her comparable to Anna Biller (The Love Witch)––has devised a nifty, sometimes gnarly little horror-thriller with Perpetrator. Indebted to the two king Davids...

Even in the horror world there’s never been much love for torture porn, and with the possible exception of Canada’s Soska sisters, few female directors have been inclined to try to reclaim it. Jennifer Reeder’s Perpetrator, which premiered in the Berlin Film Festival’s Panorama section, begins with all the icky tropes of the genre—the blood-spattered credit sequence literally looks like the intro to a particularly grisly episode of CSI—and for a time it looks like it’s really going to go there. Instead, it proves to be something much more striking and bizarre, a high-school body-horror movie for the gender-fluid Bones and All generation.

As with Luca Guadagnino’s movie, the opening scenes will see off the faint-hearted, as a girl named Evelyn Tufts is drugged and abducted, waking to find a masked psychopath doing something unspeakably medical and worryingly lo-fi. Her tormentor warns her not to resist,...

Roses are red. Violets are blue. We hate Valentine’s Day. How about you?

Ok, “hate” is an overstatement. At the very least, capitalism’s annual ode to the big L-o-v-e is an excellent excuse to revisit our favorite rom-coms and dramatic love stories. From “The Notebook” and “Moonlight” to “Notting Hill” and “Crazy Rich Asians,” the best movies about the highs and lows of finding The One can bring smiles to our faces and tears to our eyes. Arguably, it’s these films that make the most compelling arguments for a holiday wholly dedicated to flowers, greeting cards, and other displays of chocolate-dipped devotion.

Still, Valentine’s Day draws ire for its materialistic center and vaguely exclusionary culture. More than ever, singles, couples, and so-called “situationships” are foregoing the traditional dinner-for-two and enjoying Galentine’s, Palentine’s, and other counter culture celebrations on or around February 14. Whether you’re...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Roxy Cinema

Coppola’s Dracula, The Ring, and The Love Witch all play on 35mm; Spanish Dracula plays with live guitar accompaniment from Gary Lucas on Saturday; Suspiria screens; “City Dudes” returns on Saturday.

Bam

The bold, brilliant, stomach-churning films of Shinya Tsukamoto screen in a new retrospective.

Anthology Film Archives

Shivers, Rabid, and The Brood all play on 35mm this weekend.

Museum of Modern Art

One of our greatest living filmmakers, Tsai Ming-liang, is subject of a career-spanning retrospective that contunes.

Museum of the Moving Image

See It Big: Extended Cuts! offers unique opportunity to see films in their original form, starting with Das Boot and Little Shop of Horrors; Nosferatu and Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations also screen.

Film Forum

Isabelle Huppert, maybe our greatest actress, is celebrated in a retrospective having its last weekend; Breathless continues,...

New Press DieDieBooks Launches to Publish Killer Books on Horror Movies: "Created by and for horror fans, each book will focus on a different horror movie, with its initial run featuring Poltergeist, Threads, The Wolfman, Sleepaway Camp, and The Love Witch.

Today marks the official launch of the indie press DieDieBooks, which is currently raising funds on Kickstarter to publish a series of stylish, collectible books that bring different fans’ perspectives to their favorite horror movies.

The first books include a deep dive on the Hooper vs. Spielberg debate surrounding Poltergeist written by author Jacob Trussell, a primer on the nuclear apocalypse film Threads written by nuclear scholar and activist Bob Mielke, a queer perspective on the controversial slasher Sleepaway Camp by Bj and Harmony Colangelo, a portrait of Lon Chaney Jr.’s mental anguish during his performance in The Wolfman by Philip J Reed, and a love letter to...

After the 2000s seemingly kickstarted a new wave of independent horror, the 2010s (and beyond) were an exceptional time for new and emerging, as well as established, filmmakers to leave their own mark on the landscape of genre storytelling. One of the most notable aspects, or even trends, that I noticed while doing research for this entire series of retrospectives is how out of all of the decades, it feels like the 2010s was one of the best times for female filmmakers to get the opportunity to take the helm in comparison to other decades. The 1980s had a handful of women directors working in independent horror, but during both the ’90s and ’00s, it felt like the industry as a whole had taken a few steps backwards in providing female filmmakers the opportunity to tell the stories they wanted to tell.

Thankfully, though, the door swung back open in...

Moviegoing Memories is a series of short interviews with filmmakers about going to the movies. Jane Schoenbrun's We're All Going to the World's Fair is Mubi Go's Film of the Week in the US for April 15, 2022. We're All Going to the World's Fair.Notebook: How would you describe your movie in the least amount of words? Jane Schoenbrun: “Le Fantasia Dysphoria.” Notebook: Where and what is your favorite movie theater? Why is it your favorite? Schoenbrun: The Brattle in Cambridge—a holy space for me where, during my college years, I watched many double features, unforgettable rep classics, independent first runs, and at least one Mount Eerie concert. Just a beautiful and peaceful room that I've got a ton of nostalgia for—the balcony especially.Notebook: What is the most memorable movie screening of your life? Why is it memorable? Schoenbrun: The Love Witch at the Maryland Film...

Monia Chokri’s “Babysitter” is The story of middle-aged sex pest Cédric (Patrick Hivon), his over-compensating feminist brother Jean-Michel (Steve Laplante), his depressed wife Nadine — a new mother, played by Chokri herself — and their mysterious, youthful nanny Amy (Nadia Tereszkiewicz) who seems intent on spicing up their love life, the film arrives with thunderous, uncompromising energy that only lets up when Chorkri decides to veer into the phantasmagorical.

Adapted by Catherine Léger from her play of the same name, the French-Canadian satire opens on the verge of an overdose of testosterone and adrenaline, with Cédric and his skeevy pals Carlos (Stéphane Moukarzel) and Tessier (Hubert Proulx) ogling pictures of women on their cellphones while cheering on a bloody cage-fight. With rapid-fire close-ups of breasts, butts, and the trio’s leery eyes, Chokri, cinematographer Josée Deshaies, and editor Pauline Gaillard yank the audience into an uncomfortably ravenous sensory overload with a sickly,...

If you unearthed a glittery demon with one hairy arm who awakened your deepest desires from the third eye between her legs, what lengths would you travel to find her again? This, and plenty more completely insane scenarios, are among the many posed in Bertrand Mandico’s seductive, ethereal, and bizarre epic “After Blue,” aptly subtitled “Dirty Paradise.”

Set on a fantasy planet where only women can survive the harsh climate, the adventure follows a mother and daughter on a grueling journey to find and kill the evil “Kate Bush,” rumored to be death herself. One part “Annihilation” and one part “The Love Witch,” and cast under the veneer of a sadistic “The NeverEnding Story,” the film

The fantastical fable is narrated by Roxy (Paula-Luna Breitenfelder), a petulant teenager with a bleached-blonde mullet, who stares blankly into the camera in conversation with a mysterious disembodied voice. “The Earth was sick,...

Horror fans don’t have to wait until October to celebrate the scary movies, but this month offers a welcome opportunity to embrace the form. Last year, when the pandemic made in-person film festivals hard to achieve, four respected genre festivals from around the country — Boston Underground, Brooklyn Horror, North Bend, and Overlook — joined forces for a virtual festival event called Nightstream. Blending traditional horror programming with broader examples of genre filmmaking, the lineup provided a welcome opportunity to bring the festival experience to audiences nationwide.

This year is no exception: The second edition of Nightstream begins tonight and runs through October 13, with an exciting online program of films and events accessible to anyone in the U.S. Badgeholders will be able to tune into conversations with David Lowery, “Malignant” writer Akela Cooper, and “Creepshow” showrunner Greg Nicotero, as well as recurring events like The Future of Film Is Female...

At over sixty years old now and screening over three hundred movies over the course of two weeks, the London Film Festival is a huge event on the film festival calendar. And it’s no surprise that female-directed horror movies will be ever present at this year’s London Film Festival. Not only has Prano Bailey-Bond’s Censor taken the festivals by storm this year but in the last five year’s or so, Karyn Kusama’s The Invitation, Julia Ducournau’s Raw, Anna Biller’s The Love Witch, Coralie Fargeat’s Revenge and many other great genre movies have been well received and made viewers take a closer look at female directors.

With that in mind, two debut features and a returning genre director will be at this year’s festival.

She Will, directed by Charlotte Colbert, stars both Malcom McDowell and John McCrea but it’s experienced actor...