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As traditional slashers clung on for dear life in the early 1990s, police procedural films took off. Audiences still craved death and mayhem done at the hands of a mad and methodical butcher, however, they wanted it all done differently. Fast forward to the beginning of the next decade, and one film combined both formats: 2001’s Ripper. This British-Canadian co-production, one subtitled Letter From Hell in some markets, plucked traits from both the slasher and the crime thriller. Yet rather than putting some beat cops or detectives on the case, the story pits forensics students against a killer. And not just any killer either — as the title of this film indicates, the culprit has modeled his or herself after one of history’s most notorious serial killers.

Ripper was not the first slasher from John Eyres; the British director helmed the obscure Goodnight, God Bless (a.k.a. Lucifer) back in the ‘80s.

Exclusive: Anna Popplewell (The Chronicles of Narnia franchise) and Katelyn Rose Downey (Clean Sweep) have signed on to star alongside Taissa Farmiga and Storm Reid in New Line’s The Nun 2 — the sequel to 2018’s global blockbuster The Nun, which came in as the highest-grossing film out of the Conjuring Universe to date.

The original film watched as a priest with a haunted past (Demián Bichir) was sent by the Vatican along with Sister Irene (Farmiga), a novice on the threshold of her final vows, to investigate the death of a young nun in Romania and confront a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun. Corin Hardy directed from a script by Gary Dauberman, which was based on his story written with James Wan.

Details as to the sequel’s plot are being kept under wraps, though Farmiga will reprise her role as Sister Irene. Popplewell will play Kate,...

Just when you thought Cuba Gooding Jr.'s post-Oscar career couldn't possibly get any more unintentionally laughable, along comes The Last Warrior. Production Weekly says it's a post-apocalyptic film set in a war-ravaged, disease ridden future where a genetically altered soldier escapes, goes on the run, and lays waste to everything in his path. And guess what? Cuba Good Jr. is starring in it. No word yet on whether Cuba will play the aforementioned genetically altered soldier, but if he does it will no doubt be his best performance since Radio. In the movie along with him is Olivier Martinez, and according to IMDb maybe even Spanish beauty Paz Vega. It's being written and directed by John Eyres, the mind behind such films as Irish Jam, Octopus, and the Shadowchaser series. It's being produced on a budget of $15 million by Hannibal Pictures. What I'm getting at here is that this...