by Michael Gingold | Feb 23, 2025 | Books, News
Novelizations of “THE GATE,” the “MANIAC COP” trilogy and more coming from Echo On Publications By MICHAEL GINGOLD The new wave of adaptations of classic horror movies just keeps getting stronger. Echo On Publications, which previously published Christian Francis’...
by Grace Detwiler | Feb 23, 2025 | Interviews, Reviews, Short Films
Slamdance Short Film Review: Privilege Plays Dead in “POSSUM” By GRACE DETWILER Few things are more terrifying than a group of artists left to their own devices, and POSSUM understands that better than most. A queer absurdist horror short from writer-actor...
by Kevin Hoover | Feb 23, 2025 | Games
“THE THING: REMASTERED” Gets a Physical Release for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 5 By KEVIN HOOVER Video games and movies make for odd bedfellows. Despite the cogent argument that one or the other should, could or will work when crossing the line into...
by Rue Morgue Manor | Feb 22, 2025 | The Fractured Mind
THE FRACTURED MIND: Horror Cinema’s Problematic Relationship With Mental Illness, Part 2 (Editor’s Note: Mental illness and its depiction in media are sensitive subjects. Proceed with caution. The views and opinions expressed in the following are those of the...
by Shawn Macomber | Feb 21, 2025 | Reviews
MOVIE REVIEW: PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER “BLACKWATER LANE” WAVES A TANGLED WEB INDEED By SHAWN MACOMBER Starring Minka Kelly, Dermot Mulroney, and Maggie GraceDirected by Jeff CelentanoWritten by Elizabeth FowlerLionsgate “Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we...
by Michael Gingold | Feb 21, 2025 | News
Encyclopocalypse novelization gives new life to “DEADGIRL” By MICHAEL GINGOLD We’ll learn more about the title character in this prose adaptation. Encyclopocalypse Publications has announced it will release a novelization of the 2008 shocker DEADGIRL on May 6. Written...
by Payton McCarty-Simas | Feb 20, 2025 | Reviews
Movie Review: “CREEP BOX” Is Too Funereal To Raise the Dead By Payton McCarty-Simas Starring Geoffrey Cantor, Sean Mahon and Ian LithgowWritten and directed by Patrick BiesemansQuiver Distribution CREEP BOX, Patrick Biesemans’ uber-meditative debut feature is clearly...
by Michael Gingold | Feb 20, 2025 | Interviews
Exclusive Interview: Osgood Perkins on “THE MONKEY’s” autobiographical side, the death that got left out and more By MICHAEL GINGOLD THE MONKEY, opening tomorrow from Neon, may be the most blackly humorous film yet from writer/director Osgood Perkins, but it may also...
by Michael Gingold | Feb 20, 2025 | News
Red-band trailer and teaser poster pop up for “CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD” By MICHAEL GINGOLD There’s a new frightful funnyman preparing to paint the heartland red. CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD has its world premiere at the SXSW fest March 10 before it comes to theatrical wide...
by Rue Morgue Manor | Feb 20, 2025 | News
Sneak Peek: “UNTIL DAWN” Transitions from Console to Screen in RUE MORGUE #223 Mar/Apr 2025 Issue! On the occasion of its tenth anniversary and upcoming film adaptation, writers LARRY FESSENDEN and GRAHAM REZNICK revisit the labyrinthine scares of UNTIL DAWN, their...
