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Eli Roth is channeling his Grindhouse past with The Piano Killer, a new trailer for his horror studio The Horror Section that will be playing in theaters nationwide starting August 15, attached to the first theatrical release from Roth’s new company, Jimmy and Stiggs.

The team previews, “The Piano Killer trailer offers a first taste of the twisted, genre-smashing direction Eli Roth is taking with The Horror Section. Created alongside longtime collaborator Jeff Rendell (Thanksgiving), the trailer follows in the footsteps of their original Thanksgiving teaser, which famously morphed into a cult-favorite feature.

“What starts as an ordinary opening moment, turns into total mayhem…when the mystery killer turns out to be a piano. It’s absurd. It’s terrifying. And it’s exactly the kind of audacious, offbeat horror that defines The Horror Section.”

For now, it’s just a fake trailer for a Dario Argento-style Giallo movie about a killer piano.

Octopi and Incest.

After kicking things off in July with the girls of Stanford High School in The Slumber Party Massacre (listen) and a psychic Jennifer Connelly in Dario Argento’s Phenomena (listen), we’re checking in with a man and his octopus in Park Chan-wook‘s 2003 masterpiece Oldboy.

Oldboy sees a drunken Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik) get kidnapped on the day of his daughter’s fourth birthday. Held in captivity for 15 years and living on a diet of dumplings. Dae-su is suddenly released without explanation. His captor (Yoo Ji-tae) gives him 5 days to figure out why he did this to him, but if he is unable to figure it out, then his captor will murder Mi-do (Kang Hye-jung) a young sushi chef that Dae-su has quickly fallen for.

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Italy’s longest-running celebration of speculative cinema and imagination, the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival, will mark its 25th anniversary with a bold new look and an expanded slate of screenings, talks and exhibitions. Running from 28 October to 2 November 2025, the milestone edition will take place across venues including Politeama Rossetti, Teatro Miela and the festival’s central Sci-Fi Dome in Piazza della Borsa.

To commemorate the occasion, organisers have unveiled a specially commissioned poster by Sara Pichelli, co-creator of Marvel’s Miles Morales and a key artist behind Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The artwork features a lone female figure clutching a flower—a dual symbol of fragility and defiance. Her expression suggests fear and rage, set against a backdrop that evokes the complexities of a world shaped by artificial intelligence and fluid identity.

Speaking on her contribution, Pichelli said she wanted to depict someone caught between self-doubt and determination, reflecting the...

Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin is ready to haunt spooky season 2025 with a pair of North American tours.

From October 8th – 15th, Simonetti’s horror project will bring the score of Dario Argento’s Suspiria along with a screening of the film to Canadian audiences. The outfit will then travel down to the US to perform the music of Argento’s Deep Red / Profondo Rosso as part of a special 50th anniversary screening of the film.

The US leg will run from October 24th in New York City, New York, until concluding in Los Angeles on November 8th as one of featured artists for Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ Future Ruins Music & Arts festival. See all of the tour dates below.

Tickets will go on sale this Friday, August 1 at 10:00 a.m. Et here.

Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin 2025 Tour Dates:

10/08 – Calgary, Ab @ Globe Cinema ^

10/09 – Calgary, Ab @ Globe Cinema ^

10/11 – Edmonton, Ab @ Metro Cinema ^

10/14 – Vancouver,...

Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin is ready to haunt spooky season 2025 with a pair of North American tours.

From October 8th – 15th, Simonetti’s horror project will bring the score of Dario Argento’s Suspiria along with a screening of the film to Canadian audiences. The outfit will then travel down to the US to perform the music of Argento’s Deep Red / Profondo Rosso as part of a special 50th anniversary screening of the film.

The US leg will run from October 24th in New York City, New York, until concluding in Los Angeles on November 8th as one of featured artists for Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ Future Ruins Music & Arts festival. See all of the tour dates below.

Tickets will go on sale this Friday, August 1 at 10:00 a.m. Et here.

Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin 2025 Tour Dates:

10/08 – Calgary, Ab @ Globe Cinema ^

10/09 – Calgary, Ab @ Globe Cinema ^

10/11 – Edmonton, Ab @ Metro Cinema ^

10/14 – Vancouver,...

We kicked off the summer with a look at Steven Spielberg’s classic creature feature Jaws (listen) before checking out our first Jean Rollin lesbian “vampire” movie Fascination (listen), as well as the female dominated slasher The Slumber Party Massacre (listen). Now it’s time to revisit Dario Argento (for only the second time on the pod!) with a first time look at 1985’s Phenomena.

The film stars Jennifer Connelly as Jennifer Corvino, an American girl sent to a Swiss boarding school. The girl has a mysterious ability: she can communicate with insects and even get them to do her bidding. This proves to be a wildly helpful skill when Jennifer finds herself targeted by a killer who preys on young women, including her roommate Sophie.

But who is committing the murders and why? Could it be the disabled local entomologist, Professor John McGregor (Donald Pleasence) or his chimp, Inga?...

Lucy Fry’s Rose, a woman haunted by trauma, ends up checking herself into an inn where reality seems to unravel, blurring the lines between past and present, and waking life and dreams. That’s the set-up for I Live Here Now, writer-director Julie Pacino’s feature directorial debut, which world premieres on Thursday at the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal before screening at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland in the out-of-competition lineup and then traveling to the Edinburgh International Film Festival for its Midnight Madness program.

“The film pulses with competing anxieties: the pursuit of perfection, the weight of generational trauma, and the invisible fist of capitalism tightening its grip around the necks of its characters,” the Fantasia synopsis reads. “Pacino plunges us into a vibrant and nightmarish psychodrama that reverberates with echoes of David Lynch, Dario Argento and the Coen brothers.”

Shot on 35 millimeter film, with...

Drilling home the point.

After shifting gears into full-on summer blockbuster territory with a look at Steven Spielberg’s juggernaut of a creature feature in Jaws (listen) and being introduced to our first Jean Rollin joint in the lesbian “vampire” movie Fascination (listen), we’re checking in with the girls of Stanford High School in Amy Jones‘ The Slumber Party Massacre (1982).

The Slumber Party Massacre sees high school senior Trish Devereaux (Michelle Michaels) host a slumber party for her friends Kim (Debra Deliso), Jackie (Andree Honore) and Diane (Gina Mari) the same weekend that escaped serial killer Russ Thorn (Michael Villella) makes his way into her neighborhood. Wielding an incredibly long power drill, Russ sets his sights on Trish’s house, putting her and all of her friends in grave danger.

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[Editor’s note: this list was originally published in October 2022. It has since been updated with new entries.]

Slasher movies are generally considered to be among the more disreputable horror film subgenres. They can be misogynistic, punishing women for their sexuality while also appealing to viewers’ most prurient, voyeuristic impulses: celebrating the male gaze while damning the objects of that gaze except for a virginal “Final Girl.” But slasher movies can veer the closest to true-crime of any of the horror subgenres, meaning that its issues of representation often say as much about an audience that wants to consume beastly criminality as packaged narrative, as it does the filmmakers who deliver them to us.

The best slasher movies are as idea-oriented as any horror films. And almost all force you to look within and ask yourself: what’s the line between you watching a horrific act… and finally looking away?

The genre as we know it was birthed in the mid-’70s from American filmmakers like Tobe Hooper and John Carpenter,...

Chicago – It’s “Giallo Gelato” time at the Logan Theatre in Chicago, with four exquisite films of that Italian genre, curated by horror maven Stephanie Sack. Click Giallo Gelato for tickets/details.

“Giallo” is Italian for the world yellow, which references the pulp fiction style of this particular genre of films … in the paperback days, pulp fiction had yellow colors … and the four films being screened in this special presentation are “Autopsy” by Armando Crispino (7/18), “Deep Red” by Dario Argento (7/19), “Strip Nude for Your Killer” by Andrea Bianchi (7/20) and “Footprints on the Moon” by Luigi Bazzoni (7/21). Specialized cocktails and (naturally) scoops of gelato will be available throughout the weekend.

’Giallo Gelato,’ Curated by Stephanie Sack

Photo credit: TheLoganTheatre.com

Stephanie Sack is Chicago’s Horror Maven, a film programmer and partner in “Barge Lady Cruises,” a travel experience. Since 2008 she has taken classes in both hemispheres, nine countries, dozens of cities,...

Screambox has revealed a brutal roster of horror titles for July, offering fans a blend of classic slashers, international thrillers and an all-new original series. The month kicks off with Uncle Sam, the Independence Day slasher that turns patriotic pageantry into a blood-soaked spectacle. On the eleventh, the service uncages William Lustig’s cult staple Maniac alongside the ’70s video nasty The Toolbox Murders, post-apocalyptic biker romp The New Barbarians, psychedelic vampire shocker Vampyres and two lesser-known gems in Fire and Ice and The Killing Hour.

Mid-month brings Screambox’s first foray into original programming with The Trouble with Tessa, a two-episode premiere on the fifteenth. The series follows a disgraced documentarian who unearths a cache of mysterious tapes and sets out to expose the darkest secrets of a picture-perfect town. Viewers seeking surreal thrills need look no further than The Stendhal Syndrome from giallo maestro Dario Argento, which arrives...

The ‘obscene’ movies once banned in the UK are now mostly freely available. Are these tales of cannibals and the undead antiquated schlock or genuinely repellent?

Later this month, the cult film service Arrow will do something that would once have plunged the UK into screaming fits of utter chaos. That’s right, it’s going to release Zombie Flesh Eaters in glorious gory 4K detail.

The film comes with a tremendously confusing backstory. In Italy, George A Romero’s Dawn of the Dead was recut by Dario Argento and retitled Zombi. Zombi, no relation to Bambi, was such a success that a sequel was commissioned, using the script of an unmade movie entitled Nightmare Island. This film became Zombi 2. In the UK, Zombi 2 was renamed Zombie Flesh Eaters. And then it was banned.

Vinegar Syndrome has announced 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray releases of Mac and Me, The Rage: Carrie 2, The Card Player, and Yongary, Monster from the Deep.

Exclusive slipcover editions will ship later this month, while standard retail versions are due out on August 26.

Mac and Me has been newly restored in 4K from the 35mm original camera negative with Dolby Vision Hdr.

The 1988 E.T. knock-off is directed by Stewart Raffill (The Philadelphia Experiment), who co-wrote the script with Steve Feke (When a Stranger Calls). Jade Calegory, Christine Ebersole, Jonathan Ward, and Katrina Caspary star.

Special features:

4K Uhd presented in Dolby Vision High-Dynamic-Range Newly scanned & restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative Brand new commentary track with co-writer/director Stewart Raffill & Jim Branscome of Cinematic Void Brand new commentary track with film historians Wayne Byrne and Paul Farren “Strange Adventure” (12 min) – a brand new interview with co-writer...

Screambox has revealed the new films that are joining the Bloody Disgusting-powered horror streaming service in July 2025.

Uncle Sam wants you… dead! Celebrate Independence Day with the 4th of July slasher on Screambox. Follow it up with another cult classic from genre luminary William Lustig, Maniac.

Screambox Original horror series The Trouble with Tessa debuts with a two-episode premiere on July 15. The show follows a disgraced documentarian who unearths a box of old tapes and sets out to unravel the dark secrets buried in a seemingly perfect town’s past.

Other highlights include Dario Argento‘s surreal giallo The Stendhal Syndrome, Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead‘s cosmic horror mind-bender The Endless, ’70s video nasty The Toolbox Murders, and record-breaking South Korean supernatural horror The Wailing.

The month’s full schedule is as follows:

July 1: Uncle Sam July 11: Fire and Ice, Maniac, The Killing Hour, The New Barbarians, The Toolbox Murders,...

The Dark Fantastic is an intimate and enthralling look at the vast career of acclaimed film composer Simon Boswell, an amazing musician who has created music for so many films, particularly in the horror and fantasy genres.

He was responsible for an audio spectrum, from Demons 2, Graveyard Disturbance and Phenomena to Hardware and Perdita Durango, as well as cult classics like Shallow Grave, Hackers and The Crying Game. Throughout his career Boswell has worked with the legendary likes of Lamberto Bava, Dario Argento and Clive Barker and has constantly created vast and compelling music for the films that they feature in. The Dark Fantastic tells the entire story of his career through both music and film.

Far from being a standard documentary where film clips are interspersed with interviews, The Dark Fantastic contains continuous live performances of music that Boswell has created, with details about the particular films and the making of them.

Julie Benz made her screen acting debut in the 1990 Dario Argento / George A. Romero anthology film Two Evil Eyes, appearing in the Argento half of the movie. Since then, she has racked up almost 100 additional credits, appearing in Satan’s School for Girls, Roswell, Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Supernatural, Rambo, Saw V, Punisher War Zone, Desperate Housewives, Locusts: The 8th Plague, Dexter, 8Mm 2, Defiance, The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, Havenhurst, Hawaii Five-0, V.C. Andrews’ Heaven, Foster Boy, Gold Digger Killer, 9-1-1: Lone Star, and Love, Victor, among many other things. Now, Deadline reports that Benz has signed on to star in the horror comedy Horrified, where she’ll be playing a down-on-her-luck scream queen.

Joining Benz in the cast are Busy Philipps (Mean Girls), Ron Perlman (Hellboy), and Jim Rash (The Way Way Back).

The...

Cosmic Buzz Films is set to ignite the Raindance Film Festival with the UK premiere of The Dark Fantastic on 26 June. Directed by Dutch multidisciplinary artist Lg White, this hallucinatory music documentary plunges into the mind and work of cult British composer Simon Boswell. Best known for his groundbreaking scores on over 150 films, Boswell has long been a defining voice in horror and fantasy cinema. Now, under White’s colourful lens, his story unfolds in an audiovisual trip that promises to be unlike any concert or documentary you’ve ever seen.

Shot across landmark venues and feature film sets, The Dark Fantastic weaves together archive footage, live performances and contributions from icons such as Iggy Pop, Dolly Parton and Ewan McGregor. Boswell’s own reflections on his journey – from composing in Chopin and Mozart styles as a child to crafting apocalyptic soundscapes for Lord of Illusions and Hardware – anchor the film.

The 33rd Raindance Film Festival will open the crypt once more for its annual Horror Strand, running 19–22 June 2025 at London’s Vue Piccadilly. This year’s horror selection digs deeper into the subconscious and stretches the genre in unexpected directions, showcasing a fever dream of films that blend folklore, future-tech, eroticism and existential dread.

Curated to confront, disturb and confound, Raindance Horror 2025 launches with Deformelody: An American Nightmare, an off-kilter slasher satire shot entirely on a mobile phone over three years. From there, the madness expands: Dirty Boy, starring Graham McTavish, explores a cult member’s descent into paranoia and murder. Paul Raschid’s The Run invites the audience to choose the fate of a woman on a morning jog turned deadly, with horror legends Dario Argento and Franco Nero making appearances. Meanwhile, Zhaza, from Kazakhstan, delivers a feral, rage-fuelled take on familial betrayal and vigilante justice.

On Saturday, things turn folkloric and feral.

A few months ago, it was revealed that Walmart has purchased the Monroeville Mall, the primary filming location for the George A. Romero classic Dawn of the Dead (get it Here). For decades, fans have been going to the Monroeville Mall to check out the spots where Romero had zombies walk and bikers ride – and while there have been plenty of changes over the years, this sale has fans worried that things are going to be changing too much soon. We still don’t know how much Walmart intends to change the property – and now Dawn of the Dead star Ken Foree has joined the fans who have been speaking out on social media and signing a Save the Monroeville Mall petition in trying to make sure this piece of history will be preserved.

Foree wrote on X, “This place means a great deal to millions. It is now going...

The Monroeville Mall, where George A. Romero famously filmed Dawn of the Dead, was recently sold to Walmart. Although the retail giant has yet to disclose its plans for the property, horror fans are concerned about losing the iconic location.

The mall is currently home to a bronze bust of Romero, commemorating its cinematic legacy, as well as The Living Dead Museum. It has also hosted zombie walks, tours, and conventions, in addition to becoming a tourist spot for horror fans.

Ken Foree, who starred as Peter Washington in Dawn of the Dead, shared his impassioned thoughts about the future of the Monroeville Mall on social media:

“This place means a great deal to millions. It is now going to be replaced by a major retailer. The question is: does the Monroeville Mall have the necessary requirements to become a Historical Landmark? Historical Landmarks are places where people visit because...

Screambox has revealed the new films that are joining the Bloody Disgusting-powered horror streaming service in June.

If you’re thirsty for more blood in the wake of Sinners, sink your fangs into the Screambox Original film Bleeding on June 10. In a world where vampire blood is harvested as a drug, two desperate teenagers on the run from a vicious dealer break into an empty house and find a sleeping girl locked inside.

This month celebrates the masters of horror with new additions from George Romero (Two Evil Eyes), Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Bob Clark (Deathdream), and Mario Bava (Shock).

There’s also several cults classics featuring genre icons like Jamie Lee Curtis (Terror Train), Bruce Campbell (Maniac Cop 2), Robert Englund (Dead & Buried), Christopher Lee, and Tom Savini (The Prowler).

The month’s full schedule is as follows:

June 6: The Cat o’ Nine Tails, The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave...

Outpost 512 debuted three new Dario Argento posters at Texas Frightmare Weekend, and the remaining inventory is now up for grabs online.

Suspira by Matt Ryan Tobin is a 24×36 8-color screen print with Uv gloss. Two variants are available, each limited to 125 for $75.

Opera by Bruno Vergauwen is a 24×36 10-color screen print with Uv gloss. It’s limited to 175 and costs $90.

Demons by Robert Sammelin is a 24×36 10-color screen print. It’s limited to 175 and costs $90.

Tobin commented, “Suspiria is such an iconic film. Like most Argento films, it bursts with color and vibrance. I approached this art as I would were it 1977 and I was asked to create art for a film no one had yet seen. A simple visual that is a literal peek behind the curtain of the story. Something that spawned more questions than answers. Questions like… ‘Do you know anything about witches?’”

Posters will ship in 4-8 weeks.

Welcome back to Shadyside! Netflix’s Fear Street franchise returns with a new standalone installment, Fear Street: Prom Night.

I spoke with director/co-writer Matt Palmer and actors India Fowler, Suzanna Son, Fina Strazza, David Iacono, Ella Rubin, Rebecca Ablack, and Ariana Greenblatt about carving out their own unique corner of the Fear Street universe with a slasher that’s set in and steeped in the 1980s.

While 2021’s Fear Street trilogy drew broad inspiration from R.L. Stine‘s ’90s teen horror novels, Prom Queen is based on a specific book in the series — 1992’s The Prom Queen — but don’t expect a straight adaptation.

“Because it was a slasher movie and in slasher movies you have the whodunit element, it felt like we had to go in a different direction, and R.L. Stine’s really open to that,” Palmer explains. “I thought the book had an absolutely killer premise,...

Earl Cave hopes Cannes audiences walk out of The Chronology of Water.

“It’s a very bold and quite outrageous film,” the young star teases. “If everyone sat there liking it, something’s wrong. If there’s people running out screaming, I think it’s a good sign.”

The Brit is the son of rocker Nick Cave — best known as frontman of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds — and it must be said, the resemblance is striking.

The younger Cave, with a mop of jet black hair and thick eyebrows just like his father, is talking to The Hollywood Reporter about being directed by Kristen Stewart in her feature film debut.

“She is the most generous director [and] it was the most beautiful sight to behold,” the 24-year-old gushes. “Her being an actor, she’d just do these things that directors would never do, which was so refreshing. She’d say,...

Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival unveiled the first wave of its upcoming 29th edition on Thursday, a boisterous roster that brings new work from Hwang Wook,the Adams Family, Steve Pink, Julie Pacino, and Brock Bodell.

One year after debuting Mash Ville at Fantasia, South Korea’s Hwang returns with The Woman, a psychological thriller starring Han Hye-ji in which a girl pursues a mysterious stranger after an innocent act results in her friend’s suspicious suicide.

The first wave includesMother Of Fliesfrom John and Zelda Adams and Toby Poser, about a woman who seeks dark magic from a...

Dario Argento’s Cult Classic Phenomena is now streaming on MoviVue. The young Jennifer Corvino (played by Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Connelly) is sent to a private Swiss academy for girls where a killer is on the loose, brutally murdering students. Jennifer is a “gifted” girl with the strange ability to communicate with insects, and Dr. McGregor …

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As summertime approaches, anticipation starts to grow for the annual Fantasia International Film Festival, held every year in Montreal. This year makes the festival’s 29th edition with an electrifying program of screenings, workshops, and launch events running from July 17 through August 3, 2025, presented by Mels in collaboration with Concordia University. Fantasia returns to their usual venues of Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas, with additional screenings and events at Montreal’s Cinéma du Musée.

Fantasia will announce the full lineup in July, but for now, they’ve provided a delicious list for its first wave of titles, which include Julia Pacino’s feature film debut, the latest from the Adams’ Family, Kurtis David Harder’s sequel film Influencers, and so much more.

Check out the first wave of 2025 Fantasia titles below: Terrestrial (dir. Steve Pink)

World Premiere

As director of the Hot Tub Time Machine films, Accepted, and About Last Night,...

The 29th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival is set to run from from July 17th through August 3rd at the Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas in Montreal, with additional screenings and events at Cinéma du Musée – and today the festival announced the first wave of titles that will be screening there this year! The full line-up will be announced in early July, but for here’s a sample of what attendees can expect to see there, with the information coming directly from the Fantasia press release:

Terrestrial Reveals A Different Shade Of (Steve) Pink: As director of the Hot Tub Time Machine films, Accepted, and About Last Night, and the co-writer of High Fidelity and Grosse Point Blank, Steve Pink has made a distinctive name for himself with individualistic comedy works that ooze personality. Now, he’s exploring darker edges of his sensibilities with Terrestrial,...

Filmmaker Julie Pacino, producer and daughter of actor Al Pacino, makes her feature directorial debut with I Live Here Now. Pacino’s debut is set to premiere at Fantasia this summer, bringing a first look at the Lynchian psychodrama.

I Live Here Now was announced in Fantasia’s first wave of programming.

Night Teeth and Bright actor Lucy Fry stars as “Rose, a woman haunted by trauma and trapped in a motel where reality unravels, the film blurs the lines between past and present, dream and waking life, captured in vivid 16mm.”

Fantasia’s description provides additional insight, stating Pacino’s debut is about “competing anxieties: the pursuit of perfection, the weight of generational trauma, and the invisible fist of capitalism tightening its grip around the necks of its characters.” It’s also described as a “vibrant and nightmarish psychodrama” that “reverberates with echoes of David Lynch, Dario Argento, and the Coen brothers.

The Fantasia International Film Festival is one of the very best events to experience the latest and greatest genre films from around the world. There's nothing quite like it, and if you haven't had a chance to attend, I highly recommend planning a visit to Montreal this summer, especially now that the first wave of titles has been officially announced:

From the Press Release: "The Fantasia International Film Festival will celebrate its upcoming 29th edition with an electrifying program of screenings, workshops, and launch events running from July 17 through August 3, 2025, returning to the Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas, with additional screenings and events at Montreal’s Cinéma du Musée.

The festival’s full lineup will be announced in early July but in the meantime, Fantasia is excited to reveal a select first wave of premiere titles.

Terrestrial Reveals A Different Shade Of (Steve) Pink

As director of...

The Fantasia International Film Festival will be celebrating its 29th edition with another densely packed slate of events and programming running from July 17 through August 3, 2025, returning to the Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas and presented by Mels, with additional screenings and events at Montreal’s Cinéma du Musée.

The festival’s full lineup will be announced in early July, but in the meantime, Fantasia 2025 has revealed a select first wave of premiere titles. Highlights include Influencers, writer-director Kurtis David Harder‘s follow up to his 2022 thriller. Actor Al Pacino‘s daughter, film producer Julie Pacino, makes her feature directorial debut with the Lynchian I Live Here Now. From the director behind Hot Tub Time Machine and multiple episodes of “Santa Clarita Diet,” Steve Pink, comes an unconventional sci-fi comedy Terrestrial. The Adams family (Hellbender) is back with Mother of Flies, desrcribed as a personal dark fairy tale.

Mutant will release Dario Argento‘s Tenebre posters designed by Francesco Francavilla tomorrow, May 8, at 1pm Et.

The standard 24×36 screen print is limited to 110 for $65, while the pink variant is limited to 60 for $80.

“If you’ve followed our output over the years, you know that we are big fans of Dario Argento’s films, and especially his monumental work in the giallo genre,” Mutant writes.

“1982’s Tenebre is one of the genre’s most important entries, and really, one of the more interesting horror films ever made. The plot was inspired by a real-life interaction where a fan blamed Argento for the psychologically damaging effects of his films. It is a gorgeous (but brutal), classic piece of Italian genre cinema.”

Mutant continues, “For the poster, we were excited to once again team up with Italian illustrator Francesco Francavilla. Argento and Francavilla are a perfect match, with the latter’s violent,...

Tales of masked killers and man-eating mutants are more associated with the world of film than literature, but if the success of horror writers like Stephen King and Clive Barker has taught us anything, it’s that a good story can transcend the limitations of a single medium. That’s why there are so many popular adaptations in the horror genre, with some of the most popular scary movies of all time having been based on existing short stories and novels.

With Eli Craig’s Clown in a Cornfield bringing Adam Cesare’s 2020 novel to the big screen this Friday, we’ve decided to come up with a list celebrating six horror movies that you may not have known were also adapted from books!

For the purposes of this list, we’ll be focusing on films with lesser-known literary origins, so you shouldn’t expect to see classics like Jaws,...

Though Aaa darlings like Resident Evil and Silent Hill sometimes hog the spotlight, Clock Tower casts a shadow just as long. Even on the Super Famicom, harrowing chase sequences created narrative tension like nails on a chalkboard. The result? An anxiety-inducing horror experience that still looms in the minds of many a '90s gamer. The newest product of Clock Tower's legacy? Midnight Special, which is set to release in early access on Steam on May 8.

A point-and-click survival horror game from Scared Stupid Inc., Midnight Special knows how to twist a familiar formula. Babysitting for a pair of twins in a creepy manor? It's a horror premise that would be equally at home in a Goosebumps novel or Dario Argento film. That's the first sign that Midnight Special is, well, special. From this simple start, we get mysteries, murders, and moderate puzzling. If anyone needed a reason to believe in Giallo games,...

Warner Bros. threw the film industry a curveball when it abruptly shut down pre-production on Luca Guadagnino's "Sgt. Rock." The DC Studios production carried a $70 million budget (reasonable for a studio war flick based on a comic book), had attracted a killer cast that included Colin Farrell (who took over the role from Daniel Craig) and Mike Faist and David Jonsson, and was set to shoot this summer. Some felt it was an odd choice for Guadagnino, but he's made a career out of odd choices. I still don't know if I like his earth-tone remake of Dario Argento's "Suspiria," but I respect the audacity. To his maverick credit, Guadagnino's "Sgt. Rock," which got greenlit primarily because DC Studios heads James Gunn and Peter Safran flipped for "Challenger" writer Justin Kuritzkes' screenplay, almost certainly wouldn't have been the "Sgt. Rock" movie I've been clamoring for since the late 1980s.

Screambox has revealed the new films that are joining the Bloody Disgusting-powered horror streaming service in May.

Oscar winner Ken Russell (Devils) explores the drug-fueled night that inspired Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein in Gothic. Gabriel Byrne (Hereditary), Julian Sands (Warlock), Natasha Richardson (The Parent Trap), and Timothy Spall (Harry Potter) star.

From Italian horror maverick Mario Bava (Black Sunday) comes Kill, Baby… Kill. A small village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous young girl in the sumptuous Gothic chiller, which is said to have influenced Dario Argento’s Suspiria.

Heaven help those caught in The Devil’s Rain. The ’70s supernatural horror ensemble includes William Shatner (Star Trek), Ernest Borgnine (Escape from New York), Tom Skerritt (Alien), Church of Satan founder Anton Lavey, and John Travolta in his film debut.

Other May highlights include: The Stuff director Larry Cohen‘s genre-defying God Told Me To; acclaimed psychological nightmare...

Dario Argento’s Cult Classic Phenomena is now streaming on MoviVue.

The young Jennifer Corvino (played by Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Connelly) is sent to a private Swiss academy for girls where a killer is on the loose, brutally murdering students. Jennifer is a “gifted” girl with the strange ability to communicate with insects, and Dr. McGregor enlists her to help locate the killer.

Other Argento films on MoviVue include Demons, Demons 2, Opera, and Tenebrae

Phenomena on MoviVue:

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Luca Guadagnino is a loyal collaborator. He’s worked with Timothée Chalamet and Dakota Johnson twice, Tilda Swinton four times, but the people he’s worked with most frequently are his screenwriters. Over the years, IndieWire has spoken multiple times with Guadagnino’s go-tos, David Kajganich and Justin Kuritzkes, each time learning more about what it takes to collaborate with one of cinema’s most respected and revered filmmakers.

Kajganich is known for penning Guadagnino’s adaptations of “A Bigger Splash,” “Suspiria,” and “Bones and All,” while Kuritzkes wrote “Challengers” as a spec script, prompting the filmmaker to later ask him to help conceive the screenplay for the William S. Burroughs-inspired “Queer.” Keep reading below to find out the lessons they learned working with the subversive, yet alluring creative.

Research, Then Adapt

In a 2018 interview with IndieWire’s Jamie Righetti, Kajganich said his reimagining Dario Argento’s giallo classic “Suspiria” began with facts,...

The ballots are being tallied, the hair has been styled, the corsages are on the wrists, and the trailer for Fear Street: Prom Queen is finally here. But, we’re missing something. Oh, that’s right, it’s the copious amounts of blood that will make the halls of Shadyside High run red when a maniacal killer takes out their wrath upon the unsuspecting prom queen hopefuls. Featuring a leading call sheet that includes India Fowler (The Agency), Suzanna Son (The Idol), Fina Strazza (Paper Girls), Ella Rubin (Until Dawn), and Ariana Greenblatt (In the Heights), surviving high school has never been as literal as it is in the latest adaptation to come from R.L. Stine’s hit YA book series.

School’s not quite out for summer in the first official trailer for Fear Street: Prom Queen, but the countdown for the biggest night for the 1988 class of Shadyside High is on,...

Fandor has revealed the new films that are joining the artfully entertaining streaming service in May.

This month includes Dario Argento‘s influential directorial debut The Bird with the Crystal Plumage along with a several other stylish giallo murder-mysteries, like Footprints, Night of the Scorpion, Libido, and Sonno Profondo, plus the documentary All the Colors of Giallo.

Other highlights include: Mario Bava‘s Gothic chiller Kill, Baby… Kill!; Ken Russell‘s Gothic, a retelling of the drug-fueled night that inspired Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein; ’60s sci-fi horror Queen of Blood with Dennis Hopper; and horror anthology Trapped Ashes featuring segments by Joe Dante (Gremlins) and Sean S. Cunningham (Friday the 13th).

Here’s the full line-up:

May 2: The Tree, The Mayor and the Mediatheque, 1982, Quackser Fortune Has A Cousin In The Bronx, Lie With Me, Labyrinth of Cinema, All the Colors of Giallo, Sonno Profondo, Trapped Ashes

May 9: Footprints,...

Dario Argento’s 1985 cult classic Demons is coming soon to MoviVue. A group of random people are invited to a screening of a mysterious movie, only to find themselves trapped in the theater with ravenous demons. Demons (Demoni) is directed by Lamberto Bava and Bava co-writes the screenplay with Dario Argento, Dardano Sacchetti and Franco [...]

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Dario Argento’s Four Flies on Grey Velvet returns with renewed visual menace and psychological unease this month, as Shameless Films brings the giallo classic to 4K Uhd and Blu-ray on 28 April. Often overshadowed by its more widely celebrated successors, this final entry in Argento’s early ‘Animal Trilogy’ now gets the restoration it has long deserved, complete with Dolby Vision Hdr and a host of newly unearthed special features.

Originally released in 1971, Four Flies on Grey Velvet finds celebrated rock drummer Roberto Tobias, played by Michael Brandon, drawn into a surreal spiral of paranoia and death. After accidentally killing a stalker, Roberto becomes the unwilling target of a mysterious figure who seems to be toying with him. As the bodies pile up and reality starts to fracture, the only clue lies in an image reportedly captured on the retina of a dying victim. Equal parts murder mystery, psychological fever dream,...

Dario Argento’s 1985 cult classic Demons is coming soon to MoviVue. A group of random people are invited to a screening of a mysterious movie, only to find themselves trapped in the theater with ravenous demons. Demons (Demoni) is directed by Lamberto Bava and Bava co-writes the screenplay with Dario Argento, Dardano Sacchetti and Franco …

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"Snow White" is a tale with plenty of gothic horror elements, even in its most Disneyfied form. As such, it's no surprise that the story has been reimagined into a horror movie on occasion. Granted, this is the type of thing that evokes images of Rhys Frake-Waterfield's 2023 feature "Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey" and the ever-expanding Twisted Childhood Universe it has spawned ... and indeed, Snow White's horror history includes films like the less than exemplary 2012 teen camp slasher, "Snow White: A Deadly Summer."

However, the subject matter has also spawned a truly fascinating gothic horror film starring none other than Sigourney Weaver. 1997's "Snow White: A Tale of Terror" removes all the frills and cutesy aspects of the story, focusing instead on the lean, mean horror at its heart. As it turns out, adopting a comparatively realistic approach to a tale that features a murderous stepmother with supernatural...

Fear Street: Prom Queen, the continuation of the Fear Street film franchise that began with the release of the trilogy of Fear Street Part One: 1994, Fear Street Part Two: 1978, and Fear Street Part Three: 1666 on the Netflix streaming service back in the summer of 2021, made its way through production last year, and recently it was announced that the new film will be available to watch on Netflix as of May 23rd. With that date right around the corner, Collider has heard from director Matthew Palmer that he aimed to make this movie feel like a lost ’80s slasher classic!

Author R.L. Stine has written over 100 books that have been published under the various Fear Street banners. While the initial trilogy of films wasn’t directly based on any specific Fear Street book, the new movie will be telling a version of the story Stine crafted for his 1992 book The Prom Queen.

It’s almost prom season, and a pair of new images from Fear Street: Prom Queen debuted on Collider.

Releasing May 20 on Netflix, the fourth film in the Fear Street franchise is based on the 1992 R.L. Stine novel The Prom Queen.

“Visually, we actually took a lot of inspiration from movies like River’s Edge and Blue Velvet, in terms of nailing down an authentic ’80s look and a wrong side of the tracks feeling for Shadyside,” director Matt Palmer told Collider.

“As the movie progresses, and we move into prom itself, the visual look becomes more heightened, falling more in line with the slasher classics of the ’80s, as well as the Italian giallos of the same period. Some of my favorite directors — John Carpenter, Dario Argento and David Lynch — also feel like influences on the visual look and movie as a whole.”

Palmer continues, “The entire movie is...

Whether it’s the original director or not, following up all time classics in a series is a tall task. We have seen it with many of the greatest movies of all time like Rick Rosenthal having to follow up John Carpenter and Halloween or John Boorman following up William Friedkin and The Exorcist. Sometimes the original director has a go at it for contractual obligations like Tobe Hooper and Cannon films giving us Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 or for passion like John Carpenter himself electing to attempt to give us a better version of Escape from New York but in Los Angeles. Sorry, John, we still think you are wrong about that one. One director that made a career of it was George Romero. While he certainly had a varied career with things like Knightriders, Creepshow, and Monkey Shines, he is also the godfather of modern zombie horror. After Night of the Living Dead...

Fear Street fans, beware; you’re in for a scare. Finally, after four long years, the wait is coming to an end with the arrival of Fear Street: Prom Queen on May 23, 2025. Veering from the original trilogy that came out in 2021, this chapter, told by director Matt Palmer, who co-wrote the screenplay alongside Donald McLeary, will focus on R.L. Stine’s 1992 novel The Prom Queen. With the ballot box nearing its count, we’re excited to take our readers onto the dance floor, thanks to Collider’s Exclusive Preview of two new images from the film and a special interview with Palmer and Prom Queen stars India Fowler and Fina Strazza. Tag along as we pick the trio’s brains while also sharing some exclusive images from the gory mayhem that will unfold when the film arrives on Netflix just in time for Spring Fling season.

There’s no doubt...

Frankenstein’s Army filmmaker Richard Raaphorst is looking to return to the director’s chair with Children of the Moor.

Variety reports that the darkly comic folk horror film will pitch at the upcoming Frontières Platform at the Marché du Film in Cannes.

Described by Raaphorst as “handmade folk horror meets a home renovation show,” the film follows a family seeking a fresh start in a remote countryside farmhouse. There, their teenage daughter uncovers the land’s grim history – the spirits of murdered children haunt the land – as her father slowly loses his grip on reality.

The feature is backed by Raaphorst’s creative collective The Mad Scientists in collaboration with 52 Films, a UK-based company headed by Children of the Moor screenwriter Adam Park.

Slated to shoot in Spring 2026, the team is seeking co-producers, a sales agent, and potentially a third European partner to support the financing strategy.

Raaphorst...

Acclaimed Dutch genre filmmaker Richard Raaphorst (“Frankenstein’s Army”) is returning to feature directing with “Children of the Moor,” a folk horror feature infused with a handmade aesthetic and darkly comic twist.

The project will pitch at the upcoming Frontières Platform at the Marché du Film in Cannes, presented by Canada’s Fantasia and the Marché, backed by Raaphorst’s creative collective The Mad Scientists, in collaboration with 52 Films, a U.K.-based company headed by “Children of the Moor” screenwriter Adam Park.

Currently in development and looking for a third international co-producer, “Children of the Moor” is slated to shoot in Spring 2026. Described by Raaphorst as “handmade folk horror meets a home renovation show,” the film follows a family seeking a fresh start in a remote countryside farmhouse. There, their teenage daughter uncovers the land’s grim history – the spirits of murdered children haunt the land – as her father...