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bloodydisgustingrss_feedThe Paranormal Activity franchise is gearing up for a brand new installment from Paramount and Blumhouse, with James Wan coming on board to produce the film alongside Jason Blum and franchise creator/original director Oren Peli.
Ian Tuason (Undertone) will direct the eighth installment in the Paranormal Activity film franchise, and we’ve learned tonight that it will release in theaters May 21, 2027.
A24 recently acquired Ian Tuason’s Undertone for release. It’s coming this March.
In Undertone, “Paranormal podcast host Evy moves into her dying mother’s house to be her primary caregiver. When she receives audio recordings of a young pregnant couple experiencing supernatural noises, she realizes the woman’s story mirrors her own. Each new recording scratches at her sanity, drawing her into a fate she cannot escape.”
Stay tuned for much more on Paranormal Activity 8 as we learn it.
“I’ve been a huge admirer of Paranormal Activity since the brilliant first movie, with its creeping slow burn and subtle ability to make the unseen terrifying. I’m looking forward to expanding on its legacy and helping shape the next evolution of this scary found-footage franchise,” James Wan told THR when the news recently broke about his involvement.
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bloodydisgustingrss_feedMike Flanagan is bringing The Exorcist back to the big screen with a brand new take, and the film has been dated for theatrical release by Universal Pictures tonight.
Mike Flanagan’s The Exorcist will release in theaters March 12, 2027.
Scarlett Johansson and Jacobi Jupe are leading the new movie’s cast.
Flanagan — the horror master behind “The Haunting of Hill House,” “Midnight Mass,“ and Doctor Sleep — is writing & directing the all-new story set in The Exorcist universe.
Plot details remain under wraps at this time, but we know that the upcoming film is not a remake of the 1973 horror classic or a sequel to 2023’s The Exorcist: Believer.
Flanagan is producing via his Red Room Pictures banner alongside Jason Blum for Blumhouse-Atomic Monster and David Robinson for Morgan Creek Entertainment.
“This is an opportunity to do something that I believe has never been done within the franchise — something that honors what came before it but isn’t built on nostalgia,“ Flanagan previously said of the project. “I really just saw an opportunity to make the scariest movie I’ve ever made. I know expectations are high. No one’s more intimidated than I am.”
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bloodydisgustingrss_feedHorror legend John Carpenter turns 78 today!
Bloody Disgusting has been celebrating the Master of Horror all week long with a handful of tricks and treats. One such treat is the streaming premiere of Halloween Night: John Carpenter Live from Los Angeles on Screambox. Below, we’ve got a tease with the deep cut performance of “Laurie’s Theme” from 1978’s Halloween.
Recorded this past October at Los Angeles’ Belasco Theater, the performance features Carpenter onstage with longtime collaborators Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies as they conjure up his greatest and lost themes — from Halloween and The Fog to Escape from New York and Christine.
New to Screambox? Bloody Disgusting readers can get an exclusive introductory offer of 3 months for a total of $6.66.
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kaberettToday's frivolous low-stakes question is: if following a recipe, to what extent do you consider "mixed lettuces", "mixed greens", and "mixed leaf salad" synonymous?
sidereasidereaAt first glance, my résumé has enough to tantalize a recruiter for America’s Gestapo-in-waiting: I enlisted in the Army straight out of high school and deployed to Afghanistan twice with the 82nd Airborne Division. After I got out, I spent a few years doing civilian analyst work. With a carefully arranged, skills-based résumé—one which omitted my current occupation—I figured I could maybe get through an initial interview.Click through to read the whole thing.
The catch, however, is that there’s only one “Laura Jedeed” with an internet presence, and it takes about five seconds of Googling to figure out how I feel about ICE, the Trump administration, and the country’s general right-wing project. My social media pops up immediately, usually with a preview of my latest posts condemning Trump’s unconstitutional, authoritarian power grab. Scroll down and you’ll find articles with titles like “What I Saw in LA Wasn’t an Insurrection; It Was a Police Riot” and “Inside Mike Johnson’s Ties to a Far-Right Movement to Gut the Constitution.” Keep going for long enough and you might even find my dossier on AntifaWatch, a right-wing website that lists alleged members of the supposed domestic terror organization. I am, to put it mildly, a less-than-ideal recruit.
In short, I figured—at least back then—that my military background would be enough to get me in the door for a good look around ICE’s application process, and then even the most cursory background check would get me shown that same door with great haste.
[...]
I completely missed the email when it came. I’d kept an eye on my inbox for the next few days, but I’d grown lax when nothing came through. But then, on Sept. 3, it popped up.
“Please note that this is a TENTATIVE offer only, therefore do not end your current employment,” the email instructed me. It then listed a series of steps I’d need to quickly take. I had 48 hours to log onto USAJobs and fill out my Declaration for Federal Employment, then five additional days to return the forms attached to the email. Among these forms: driver’s license information, an affidavit that I’ve never received a domestic violence conviction, and consent for a background check. And it said: “If you are declining the position, it is not necessary to complete the action items listed below.”
As I mentioned, I’d missed the email, so I did exactly none of these things.
And that might have been where this all ended—an unread message sinking to the bottom of my inbox—if not for an email LabCorp sent three weeks later. “Thank you for confirming that you wish to continue with the hiring process,” it read. (To be clear, I had confirmed no such thing.) “Please complete your required pre-employment drug test.”
The timing was unfortunate. Cannabis is legal in the state of New York, and I had partaken six days before my scheduled test. Then again, I hadn’t smoked much; perhaps with hydration I could get to the next stage. Worst-case scenario, I’d waste a small piece of ICE’s gargantuan budget. I traveled to my local LabCorp, peed in a cup, and waited for a call telling me I’d failed.
Nine days later, impatience got the best of me. For the first time, I logged into USAJobs and checked my application to see if my drug test had come through. What I actually saw was so implausible, so impossible, that at first I did not understand what I was looking at.
Somehow, despite never submitting any of the paperwork they sent me—not the background check or identification info, not the domestic violence affidavit, none of it—ICE had apparently offered me a job.
According to the application portal, my pre-employment activities remained pending. And yet, it also showed that I had accepted a final job offer and that my onboarding status was “EOD”—Entered On Duty, the start of an enlistment period. I moused over the exclamation mark next to “Onboarding” and a helpful pop-up appeared. “Your EOD has occurred. Welcome to ICE!”
I clicked through to my application tracking page. They’d sent my final offer on Sept. 30, it said, and I had allegedly accepted. “Welcome to Ice. … Your duty location is New York, New York. Your EOD was on Tuesday, September 30th, 2025.”
By all appearances, I was a deportation officer. Without a single signature on agency paperwork, ICE had officially hired me.
nnozomi posting in guardian_learningbloodydisgustingrss_feedThanksgiving 2 was officially announced just two weeks after the first film opened in 2023, with TriStar aiming to have it in theaters in time for the eponymous holiday in 2025.
However, the sequel has still yet to enter production due to scheduling issues — including Addison Rae‘s touring commitments and Milo Manheim having just signed to star in the live-action remake of Tangled.
Nevertheless, Eli Roth is confident John Carver will return when the time is right.
“Everybody wants to do it. I’m gonna have it locked and loaded, and we’ll find a time when we’re all available,” Roth told Variety. “We’ll just go back for a few weeks and have fun.”
Roth will return to direct the sequel from a script he co-wrote with Jeff Rendell.
Nell Verlaque and Rick Hoffman are also expected to reprise their roles alongside Rae and Manheim.
“We’re upping the ante but we are not going to do it with more money,” Roth previously teased of the sequel. “I want it to be a challenge to pull off. Because if I’ve come up with the stuff that I think will make the best kills, then I’m going to do it like I’m never going to make another movie again.”
In Thanksgiving, after a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts – the birthplace of the holiday. What begins as random revenge killings are soon revealed to be part of a larger, sinister plan.
While we wait for Thanksgiving 2, Roth is staying busy with his Horror Section Studios projects, including Ice Cream Man and Don’t Go in That House, Bitch! He’s also developing a “Hostel” TV series for Peacock.
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hrjtrobadorafandomtrees work.badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, daegaer, goddess47, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilmebadly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilmebadly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilmebadly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadorabadly_knitted, brithistorian, china_shop, cornerofmadness, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadorachina_shop, trobadorabloodydisgustingrss_feedSnoop Dogg is going from the dogg house to a haunted house.
Announced back in September, Eli Roth and Snoop Dogg are turning their faux trailer Don’t Go in That House, Bitch! into a feature.
While Snoop was already on board to produce, Roth tells Variety that the hip-hop icon will also star in the horror comedy.
“He’s been wanting to do Death Row Films for a long time,” said Roth. “I said we need to make the ultimate haunted house movie, like the craziest one, something that mixes House, House by the Cemetery, Hausu, and Friday, the 13th, like something so insane people can’t believe it exists. And we have to call it Don’t Go in That House, Bitch!
“And he’s going to star in it.”
Roth continued, “People keep going in the house. People don’t listen. What are you doing, bitch? Don’t go in that house. People just keep going in. Like, what are you doing? You’re not going to come out of there. Don’t do it. Turn around. Leave! It’s basically everything that we yell at the screen during horror movies. You put those as characters in the movie like a Greek chorus.”
Roth said he just completed script over the holidays. Shooting expected to kick off in June with his Horror Section Studios producing.
“We’re budgeting now,” Roth noted. “I’m going to apply for the California tax credit. If I get the tax credit, I want to shoot it in Los Angeles so we can have all L.A. people on it.”
Snoop also is contributing music to Roth’s next film, Ice Cream Man. He wrote a song that the filmmaker hopes to use during the end credits, in addition to composing part of the score.
“He sent me some score — not hip-hop, but actual score. I was like, ‘Oh my god, this is incredible,'” Roth said. “So we have a whole section of the movie that’s completely scored by Snoop.”
Roth and Snoop first collaborated on the rapper’s 2012 “La La La” music video, which Roth directed.
Snoop Dogg’s previously genre roles include Day Shift, Bones, Hood of Horror, Meet the Blacks, and Scary Movie 5.
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schneefinkmrissaP.F. Chisholm, A Suspicion of Silver. Ninth in its mystery series, set late in the reign of Elizabeth I/in the middle of when James I and VI was still just James VI. I don't recommend starting it here, because there was a moment when I wailed, "no, not [name]!" when you won't have a very strong sense of that character from just this book. Pretty satisfying for where it is in its series, though, still enjoying. Especially as they have returned to the north, which I like much better.
Joan Coggin, Who Killed the Curate?. A light British mid-century mystery, first in its series and I'm looking forward to reading more. If you were asked to predict what a book published in 1944 with this title would be like, you would have this book absolutely bang on the nose, so if you read that title and went "ooh fun," go get it, and if you read that title and thought "oh gawd not another of those," you're not wrong either. I am very much in the "ooh fun" camp.
Matt Collins with Roo Lewis, Forest: A Journey Through Wild and Magnificent Landscapes. Photos and essays about forests, not entirely aided by its printer printing it a little toward the sepia throughout. Still a relaxing book if you are a Nice Books About Nice Trees fan, which I am.
John Darnielle, This Year: A Book of Days (365 Songs Annotated). When I first saw John Darnielle/The Mountain Goats live, I recognized him. I don't mean that I knew him before, I mean that I taught a lot of people like him physics labs once upon a time: people who had seen a lot of shit and now would like to learn some nice things about quantum mechanics please. Anyway this book was fun and interesting and confirmed that Darnielle is exactly who you'd think he was from listening to the Mountain Goats all this time.
Nadia Davids, Cape Fever. A short mildly speculative novel about a servant girl in Cape Town navigating life with a controlling and unpleasant employer. Beautifully written and gentle in places you might not have thought possible. Looking forward to whatever else Davids does.
Djuna, Counterweight. Weird space elevator novella (novel? very short one if so) in a highly corporate Ruritanian world with strong Korean cultural influences (no surprise as this is in translation from Korean). I think this slipped by a lot of SFF people and maybe shouldn't have.
Margaret Frazer, This World's Eternity. Kindle. I continue to dislike the short stories that result from Frazer trying to write Shakespeare's version of historical figures rather than what she thinks they would actually have been like. Does that mean I'll stop reading these? Hmm, I think there's only one left.
Drew Harvell, The Ocean's Menagerie: How Earth's Strangest Creatures Reshape the Rules of Life. If you like the subgenre There's Weird Stuff In The Ocean, which I do, this is a really good one of those. Gosh is there weird stuff in the ocean. Very satisfying.
Rupert Latimer, Murder After Christmas. Another light British murder mystery from 1944, another that is basically exactly what you think it is. What a shame he didn't have the chance to write a lot more.
Wen-Yi Lee, When They Burned the Butterfly. Gritty and compelling, small gods and teenage girl gangs in 1970s Singapore. Singular and great. Highly recommended.
Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older, eds., We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope. There's some really lovely stuff in here, and a wide variety of voices. Basically this is what you would want this kind of anthology to be.
Diarmaid MacCulloch, Lower Than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity. I don't pick your subtitles, authors. You and your editors are doing that. So when you claim to be a history of sex and Christianity...that is an expectation you have set. And when you don't include the Copts or the Nestorians or nearly anything about the Greek or Russian Orthodox folks and then you get to the 18th and 19th centuries and sail past the Shakers and the free love Christian communes...it is not my fault that I grumble that your book is in no way a history of sex and Christianity, you're the one that claimed it was that and then really wanted to do a history of semi-normative Western Christian sex among dominant populations. What a disappointment.
Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris, The Lost Spells and The Lost Words (reread). I accidentally got both of these instead of just one, but they're both brief and poetic about nature vocabulary, a good time without being a big commitment.
Robert MacFarlane, Underland: A Deep Time Journey. This is one of those broad-concept pieces of nonfiction, with burial mounds but also mycorrhizal networks. MacFarlane's prose is always readable, and this is a good time.
David Narrett, The Cherokees: In War and At Peace, 1670-1840. And again: I did not choose your subtitle, neighbor. So when you claim that your history goes through 1840...and then everything after 1796 is packed into a really brief epilogue...and I mean, what could have happened to the Cherokees after 1796 but before 1840, surely it couldn't be [checks notes] oh, one of the major events in their history as a people, sure, no, what difference could that make. Seriously, I absolutely get not wanting to write about the Trail of Tears. But then don't tell people you're writing about the Trail of Tears. Honestly, 1670-1800, who could quibble with that. But in this compressed epilogue there are paragraphs admonishing us not to forget about...people we have not learned about in this book and will have some trouble learning about elsewhere because Cherokee histories are not thick on the ground. Not as disappointing as the MacCulloch, but still disappointing.
Tim Palmer, The Primacy of Doubt: From Quantum Physics to Climate Change, How the Science of Uncertainty Can Help Us Understand Our Chaotic World. I found this to be a comfort read, which I think a lot of people won't if they haven't already gone through things like disproving hidden variables as a source of quantum uncertainty. But it'll still be interesting--maybe more so--and the stuff he worked on about climate physics is great.
Henry Reece, The Fall: Last Days of the English Republic. If you want a general history, that's the Alice Hunt book I read last fortnight. This is a more specifically focused work about the last approximately two years, the bit between Cromwell's death and the Restoration. Also really well done, also interesting, but doing a different thing. You'll probably get more out of this if you have a solid grasp on the general shape of the period first.
Randy Ribay, The Reckoning of Roku. As regular readers can attest, I mostly don't read media tie-ins--mostly just not interested. But F.C. Yee's Avatar: the Last Airbender work was really good, so I thought, all right, why not give their next author a chance. I'm glad I did. This is a fun YA fantasy novel that would probably work even if you didn't know the Avatar universe but will be even better if you do.
Madeleine E. Robins, The Doxie's Penalty. Fourth in a series of mysteries, but it's written so that you could easily start here. Well-written, well-plotted, generally enjoyable. I was thinking of rereading the earlier volumes of the series, and I'm now more, not less, motivated to do so.
Georgia Summers, The Bookshop Below. I feel like the cover of this was attempting to sell it as a cozy. It is not a cozy. It is a fantasy novel that is centered on books and bookshops, but it is about as cozy as, oh, say, Ink Blood Sister Scribe in that direction. And this is good, not everything with books in it is drama-free, look at our current lives for example. Sometimes it's nice to have a fantasy adventure that acknowledges the importance of story in our lives, and this is one of those times.
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Lives of Bitter Rain. This is not a novella. It is a set of vignettes of backstory from a particular character in this series. It does not hang together except that, sure, I'm willing to buy that these things happened in this order. I like this series--it was not unpleasant reading--but do not go in expecting more than what it is.
Iida Turpeinen, Beasts of the Sea. A slim novel in translation from Finnish, spanning several eras of attitudes toward natural history in general and the Steller's sea cow in specific. Vivid and moving.
Brenda Wineapple, Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877. The nation in question is the US, in case you were wondering. This was a generally quite good book about the middle of the 19th century in the US, except of course that that's a pretty big and eventful topic, so all sorts of things are going to have to get left out. But she did her very best to hit the high spots culturally as well as politically, so overall it was the most satisfying bug crusher I've read so far this year.
hebethen posting in fffridaybloodydisgustingrss_feedWritten and directed by “Mr. Robot” creator Sam Esmail, Panic Carefully is described as being in the vein of “Mr. Robot” and The Silence of the Lambs.
Warner Bros. has set a February 27, 2027 release date for the film in theaters and IMAX. It will open against CoComelon: The Movie.
Julia Roberts leads the star-studded cast, which also includes Eddie Redmayne (Fantastic Beasts), Brian Tyree Henry (Godzilla vs. Kong), Ben Chaplin (The Thin Red Line), Aidan Gillen (“Game of Thrones”), Joe Alwyn (The Favourite), Naledi Murray (“Sweet Tooth”), and Elizabeth Olsen (“WandaVision”).
Esmail previously directed Roberts in Netflix’s Leave the World Behind.
Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the paranoid thriller is said to involve the hunt for cyber-terrorist.
Esmail and Chad Hamilton produce for Esmail Corp. (“Mr. Robot”), along with Roberts, Scott Stuber (Frankenstein), Marisa Yeres Gill (Leave the World Behind), and Lisa Gillan (Leave the World Behind). Kevin McCormick and Chrystal Li are overseeing the project for Warner Bros.
After Panic Carefully, Esmail will helm the mystery sci-fi feature Tesseract with Glen Powell attached to star.
Stay tuned for more details on both projects as we learn them.
Elizabeth Olsen in “Love and Death”
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bloodydisgustingrss_feedSet in the vast world of H.P. Lovecraft, Dreams of a Dead God takes place in 1936 Louisiana following the events of the author’s seminal cosmic horror story The Call of Cthulhu.
The kicker? The 36-minute short film is presented as found footage.
Sanity and reality itself are tested during the interrogation of a murderer with ties to an ancient cult in the trailer below.
Tracking a kidnapper and murderer from France to Louisiana, a young woman and her adopted brother team up with local police and set out into the swamps north of New Orleans. Here the group uncovers much more than they expected, barely succeeding in capturing the fugitive before being forced to flee.
The only surviving record of the event, Dreams of a Dead God is the recovered film recording of the rushed interrogation that occurred shortly after.
“Inspired by the authors appearing in Weird Tales magazine such as Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert Bloch, Dreams of a Dead God represents my own contribution to the cosmic horror mythos,” said writer-director Jim Weter.
Cameron Crawford, Chris Steinmetz, Larshay Watson, Ryan Gilliam, and Jerry Kimble star.
Dreams of a Dead God will have its world premiere at the Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival in Lafayette, LA, on January 24.
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bloodydisgustingrss_feedHorror legend John Carpenter turns 78 today, and Halloween Night: John Carpenter Live from Los Angeles is now streaming on Screambox. Bloody Disgusting is celebrating with John Carpenter Week. Luiz H.C. closes out the festivities with a look at the horror master’s unforgettable creatures.
You don’t become a Master of Horror by making the same movie over and over again, and if there’s one genre filmmaker who makes a point of never repeating himself, it has to be John Carpenter. From iconic slashers to over-the-top kung-fu comedies, Carpenter has always been willing to tackle fresh subject matter in order to tell an unpredictable story.
However, there’s a common throughline connecting the New York-born director’s filmography that I rarely see discussed, and that’s his recurring use of movie monsters even in projects that aren’t necessarily creature features. In honor of Carpenter’s latest concert streaming on our very own Screambox, today we’re highlighting six of the most memorable monsters in John Carpenter’s work!
For the purposes of this list, we’ll be defining ‘monster’ as any non-human creature featured in one of the director’s projects, though we’ll be limiting entries to one creature per movie. That being said, this is by no means a definitive list celebrating all of the otherworldly beings in Carpenter’s films, so don’t forget to comment below if you think we missed a particularly memorable one.
With that out of the way, onto the list.
6. The Flying Eye Guardian – Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
From exploding gods to demonic primates, there’s no shortage of over-the-top effects in Carpenter’s urban fantasy opus, Big Trouble in Little China. And while fans of the movie might be expecting to see the hairy Wild-Man here, I’d actually like to dedicate this spot to a less-celebrated but no less memorable creature, the many-eyed Guardian!
Looking like a fleshy parody of Dungeons & Dragons’ Beholder monster, John Carpenter’s Flying Eye Guardian has always stuck out to me as both a kick-ass special effect and an incredibly bizarre design. From its mouth eyeball to its leathery skin and pained expression, there’s just something so off-putting about this critter that I can’t help but find him endearing.
5. Fallen Angel – Cigarette Burns (2006)
Often hailed as the last great gasp of John Carpenter’s celebrated career before stepping back from filmmaking in order to focus on music, Cigarette Burns is one of the director’s greatest achievements in serious horror storytelling – as well as the single best episode of the Masters of Horror anthology show.
Of course, much of the episode’s scare factor has to do with the horrific inclusion of a fallen angel in the cursed film-within-a-film, Le Fin Absolue Du Monde (“The Absolute End of the World”). While the creature effects here don’t exactly reinvent the wheel, with the angel being brought to life by Christopher Redman under just enough makeup meant to make him look uncanny, it’s the context behind the angel’s emaciated appearance that makes this one of the most disturbing inclusions on the list.
I also wouldn’t be surprised if this minimalist design ended up inspiring some of those popular “fallen angel” videos that went viral on early YouTube!
4. The Fascinators – They Live (1988)
The Blue Aliens from They Live are much more humanoid than the reptilian Fascinators from Eight O’Clock in the Morning (the Ray Nelson short story that the film is based on), but that doesn’t make them any less freaky. Skeletal ghouls that look more like the hollowed-out husks of human beings than actual extraterrestrials, these creatures have since become known as the terrifying face of authoritarian manipulation around the world.
That’s why Carpenter’s version of the Fascinators makes it onto the list, as it’s hard for a monster to be more memorable than by becoming forever associated with the ideas that it was created to criticize.
3. Beach Ball Alien – Dark Star (1974)
John Carpenter’s big-screen debut may be one of the most divisive features in his filmography, but even the haters have to admit that Dark Star boasts plenty of low-budget charm. If you need proof of that, look no further than the bizarre Beach Ball Alien that the crew of the Dark Star kept as an interplanetary pet.
A gas-based life-form with plastic-like skin and webbed feet that look suspiciously like a crewmember’s hands, the Beach Ball Alien has to be one of the most ridiculous monster designs in all of genre cinema. While it ultimately attacked Sgt. Pinback, I still felt bad for the inflatable critter when it was accidentally blown up by a tranquilizer dart.
2. Lovecraftian Wall of Monsters – In The Mouth of Madness (1994)
This one is a bit of a cheat, as the Wall of Monsters is more of a collection of several different Lovecraftian abominations rather than a single monstrous entity, but since they all represent the same idea of insane fiction burrowing its way into reality, I figured that we could make an exception for the work of Sutter Cane.
Besides, from fleshy star-spawn to multi-limbed crab-people, these designs are so damned cool that it would be impossible to choose a single favorite! In fact, it’s a shame that we only get the briefest glimpse of these practical creatures in the finished film, as they only get more interesting the more you look at them.
1. The Dog-Thing – The Thing (1982)
The most obvious inclusion on this list, The Thing, is also likely the creature responsible for the most nightmares. Using John W. Campbell’s 1938 novella as a jumping-off point, John Carpenter’s expert combination of gross-out body-horror and cosmic dread (brought to life by practical effects master Rob Bottin) is undoubtedly the scariest version of Who Goes There?
Out of all the alien antagonists’ terrifying forms, I’d argue that the initial dog-alien hybrid remains the most memorable. Not only does it introduce us to the grisly biology that allows the creature to shapeshift, but this Shoggoth-like exterior also helps to tell the disturbing story of all the previous beings who fell victim to the Thing from Another World.
Keep up with John Carpenter Week here.
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hamsterwomanfandomtrees still has 3 trees below the minimum number of 2 gifts, and is thus at risk of delaying reveals again (currently scheduled for Jan 17 reveals), with the decision on delaying to be made the morning of 1/17. Needy trees are mastershield's Tree (f:astro boy, f:balan wonderland, f:kingdom hearts); kalloway's Tree (f:brave nine, f:crossovers, f:fire emblem, f:granblue fantasy, f:gundam, f:kingdom of heroes, f:super robot heroes) whoremoantreatments' Tree (f:advance wars, f:bleach, f:hypnosis mic, f:kuroko no basket, f:pokemon, f:tales of berseria, f:the world ends with you). (List kept updated here.) All of these are open to fic, and the minimum fill for fic is only 100 words, if anyone knows these fandoms and can help out. lunasariel is hosting a sync read of To Shape a Dragon’s Breath in her DW here. Currently it’s her, me, and cyanmnemosyne reading along, but contrary to the name, we don’t actually have to be all synched up to participate, so if (like me) you’ve been meaning to read this book for a while, or if you’ve read it already and want to follow our impressions as we make progress through it, come join! I am currently just past halfway, lunasariel is 10-20 chapters ahead of me, and Cyan has just recently started. (And yes, my thoughts on this book are ~50% on the chemistry. Actual Periodic Table of Elements chemistry, I mean, not chemistry between characters, although I’m enjoying that too.) 
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bloodydisgustingrss_feedGet ready to Shiver next summer.
Warner Bros. has set an August 13, 2027 release date for the sci-fi thriller starring Keanu Reeves.
Tim Miller (Deadpool, Terminator: Dark Fate) is directing from a script by Ian Shorr (Infinite, Splinter), which has been described as having shades of Edge of Tomorrow and The Shallows.
Shiver is said to center on a ne’er-do-well smuggler in the middle of a deadly double-cross while on a job in the Caribbean Sea. Surrounded by bodies, hostile mercenaries, and bloodthirsty sharks, the man finds himself in a time loop and scrambling to break the cycle.
Kick-Ass and Kingsman filmmaker Matthew Vaughn is set to produce via his Marv Films banner along with Aaron Ryder (Arrival, The Prestige).
Shiver‘s August 13 release pits it against an as-yet-unnamed Blumhouse film from Universal, although that one may shift to avoid the genre competition.
Reeves’ upcoming slate includes John Wick: Chapter 5, an animated John Wick prequel, an adaptation of his comic BRZRKR, and the long-awaited Constantine 2.
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bloodydisgustingrss_feedJ.J. Abrams is directing a top secret sci-fi movie for Warner Bros that’s officially received a title and release date.
The Great Beyond will release in theaters and on IMAX this year, on November 13, 2026.
The mysterious film is confirmed to be sci-fi, but it is not a time travel movie. Expect this feature to remain shrouded in secrecy for as long as possible.
What we do know is that The Great Beyond stars in-demand actors Jenna Ortega (“Wednesday”) and Glen Powell (The Running Man). It also stars Emma Mackey, Sophie Okonedo, Merritt Wever, and Samuel L. Jackson.
Abrams wrote and directed the film, which Indiewire notes was thought to be titled “Ghost Writer.” The filmmaker also produced the film with Tommy Gormley.
It’s also worth noting that Abram’s latest will go up against Ti West’s Ebenezer: Christmas Carol film, opening on the same day.
Stay tuned for more on Abrams’ latest mystery project.
Glen Powell stars in Paramount Pictures’ “THE RUNNING MAN.”
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bloodydisgustingrss_feedHit horror video game The Mortuary Assistant is about to possess the big screen with a feature film adaptation, and we have the trailer below.
The movie will be released in theaters nationwide on February 13 via Epic Pictures before streaming on Shudder beginning March 27.
It follows newly certified mortician Rebecca Owens, who accepts a night shift at a mortuary, embalming bodies alone after hours. As disturbing events escalate, Rebecca uncovers demonic rituals, the dark secrets of her enigmatic mentor, and her own buried trauma — racing to survive the night before her body becomes a vessel for possession.
Willa Holland (“Arrow”) and Paul Sparks (“Boardwalk Empire”) star, with Mark Steger (“Stranger Things”) as The Mimic.
The Mortuary Assistant creator Brian Clarke co-wrote the script with Tracee Beebe. Jeremiah Kipp (Slapface) directs.
Originally released on PC in 2022, The Mortuary Assistant quickly became a viral sensation and made its way to Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch. The film will expand on the game’s world, delving deeper into the lore of the demonic entities plaguing River Fields.
Patrick Ewald’s Epic Pictures produces via Dread alongside Cole Payne’s Traverse Media and Jacob P. Heineke. Executive producers include Clarke, Katie Page, Yulissa Morales, Randy Sinquefield, Patrick Fischer, and Oliver Garboe.
“With The Mortuary Assistant, we’re thrilled to translate one of gaming’s most unnerving experiences into a relentlessly immersive feature film,” said Ewald. “This is an authentic adaptation grounded in the same dread, the same characters, and the same world that made the game so unforgettable.”
Ewald continues, “We’re bringing River Fields Mortuary to life in full detail, building it from the ground up as a practical set to preserve its claustrophobic atmosphere and sinister realism. The result is a chilling blend of storytelling and sustained tension, and we can’t wait for audiences to step into this terrifying new chapter of horror cinema.”
“Seeing The Mortuary Assistant make the leap from game to film is incredibly rewarding,” added Clarke. “Fans of the game will finally witness the world they’ve explored come alive, while genre film audiences will discover a story filled with tension, dark secrets, and unforgettable scares. It’s a unique crossover that bridges two communities of horror fans in a way I’ve always imagined.”
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bloodydisgustingrss_feedThe sheer versatility of vampires will always make them appealing to storytellers. These creatures of the night can be everything from counts to cowboys, and they can show up practically anywhere. Be it a far-flung castle in olden times, or a modern apartment complex, bloodsuckers go wherever they please. Simply put: there is no stopping what the vampire can do or be in a movie.
Now, if no two vampires are ever alike, it only makes sense that their movies be so different from each other. And although plenty of titles have broken through and become well recognized by the public at large, others remain in the dark.
This list showcases just ten overlooked vampire movies that are worth sinking your teeth into after watching Ryan Prows’ Night Patrol.
If you’re looking for pure vibes in your vampire movie, then this Filipino classic, The Blood Drinkers (or Kulay Dugo ang Gabi), is for you. Admittedly, Gerardo de Leon‘s take on vampirism isn’t too out-there or different from what was available at the time, at least in the West; but what makes The Blood Drinkers so enticing is its unusual color choices. Because color film wasn’t always available, this movie occasionally switches to saturated reds and blues. That compromise benefits the production as a whole, boosting the pulpy aesthetic and enhancing the story.
This stopover in one’s journey into overlooked vampire cinema definitely leaves a strange taste in the mouth. Henry Silva starred in this Australian oddball about a cult whose members achieve their peak prowess by consuming human blood. So, naturally, they abduct the descendant of fabled vampire royalty, Elizabeth Báthory, and hold her (Chantal Contouri) captive on their blood farm. The ideas here are more interesting than they are perfectly executed, but Rod Hardy’s Thirst is still quite hard to turn down, especially if you love Ozploitation.
From the small screen comes I, Desire, a telefilm directed by John Llewellyn Moxey (Home for the Holidays, The Night Stalker). This TV-flick is still in dire need of a proper restoration, but for those who have seen it, they can attest to its charms. For what it lacks in blood it makes up for in character and thematic sinew. The cast is also nothing to scoff at; David Naughton and Brad Dourif lead this television gem.
A good starter idea for any potential vampire movie: their showing up in the least likely of places. A hot, sunny desert seems too inhospitable for any traditional sort of bloodsucker, but to be fair, Anthony Hickox’s Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat isn’t all that traditional. Bruce Campbell, David Carradine, Maxwell Caulfield, Deborah Foreman, Dana Ashbrook and M. Emmet Walsh stack the cast of this western and horror comedy. If you’re a fan of Waxwork, also directed by Hickox, then you’re certainly going to want to seek out this fun movie.
Horror fans know Tony Randel’s work well enough; he’s directed Hellbound: Hellraiser II, Amityville 1992: It’s About Time, and Ticks. Yet one of his movies still goes unnoticed, despite its occasional appearance on streaming services. The out-of-print DVD goes for a pretty penny as well. That movie is Children of the Night. Although it’s got nothing on Fright Night, this small-town battle against vampires boasts not only decent makeup effects (courtesy of Robert Kurtzman and Greg Nicotero), but it also starred the horror icon, Karen Black.
On the same wavelength as older and tragic monster films, Isidro Ortiz’s Shiver (or Eskalofrío) is more somber than scary. This Spanish story finds a teenager (Junio Valverde) moving to a remote mountain village with his mother, on account of his unique condition. The boy being allergic to the sun doesn’t sit well with the already xenophobic locals. Oh, and vampires aren’t the only supernatural creature to be reimagined here; the werewolf is also retooled.
Before What We Do In the Shadows left a sizable bite in the subgenre of vampire comedy, Belgian director Vincent Lannoo handed in his own darkly humorous two cents on blood fiends living in contemporary society. Presented as a mockumentary, Vampires doesn’t ever feel too inclined to pull off first-person scares and thrills, but the often messy and complicated interpersonal relationships here may elicit a different kind of dread. That said, the movie is also not opposed to blood and violence.
Shunji Iwai’s Vampire doesn’t exactly win points for creative titling, but this contemplative, arthouse horror-drama excels in other ways. An unassuming teacher (Kevin Zegers) leads a second life in between classes and taking care of his sick mother: he feeds on the blood of suicidal women. Truth be told, the protagonist isn’t a conventional vampire; he’s a mortal who hasn’t quite taken to his sanguinary cravings, despite his belief he is a vampire. Nonetheless, this gruesome secret takes a toll on him and his personal life, and it even attracts the attention of another vampire (Trevor Morgan).
Using vampires to better understand humanity is nothing new, but Dave Schultz’s Rufus approaches that concept a lot better than first anticipated. What looks to be another Twilight imitator is really an engaging study of loss as well as that universal desire to find somewhere to belong. Rory J. Saper is that mysterious, lost soul who’s taken in by a still-grieving family, then has the most bloody coming-of-age experience. In the end, this movie has the surprising ability to warm the heart—that is, once the carnage has passed.
The story of Abhartach, the supposed basis for Bram Stoker’s Dracula, comes to life in Chris Baugh’s Boys from County Hell. This Irish movie, which is adapted from the director’s own short, injects a good deal of local color. And although the mash of humor and horror loses some balance, especially once the bloodsucking monster shows up in the flesh, the overall delivery feels fairly fresh.
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sanguinityIn these works, a human character experiences so much stress that they transform into a Pomeranian dog. They can only revert back to their human form if the stress is relieved via receiving love and affection from other people.
Form'd for Idleness and Ease
Keith & Ewen
Pomegaverse, Animal Transformation, Bad Things Always Happen to Keith, Let's Get That Man Some Affection For a Change, Or At Least a Mini-Vacay as a Beloved Lapdog
Captain Keith Windham's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day just got worse. Ewen, of course, is a perfect gentleman about it all.
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