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If you are a horror fan then there is a big chance that you might have heard about the horror streaming service Shudder, and if you have its subscription you might be wondering what’s in store for you in October 2024. Don’t worry there is a host of new and old horror movies coming to the service in the upcoming month and we have listed the 10 best movies coming to Shudder in November 2024.

Curse of Chucky (November 1)

Curse of Chucky is a supernatural slasher horror thriller film written and directed by Don Mancini. The 2013 film is sixth entry in the Child’s Play franchise and it follows Nica after her mysteriously dies and she begins to suspect that the red-haired doll her niece has been playing with is behind the killings. Curse of Chucky stars Fiona Dourif, Danielle Bisutti,...

The following review contains spoilers for Rick and Morty: The Anime Episodes 1 and 2.

Rick and Morty: The Anime was always going to be a gamble, but Episode 2, "Fighting Mother," shows that the wild fusion of the source material's interdimensional chaos and director/writer Takashi Sano's hyper-stylized vision has more potential than even the most optimistic fans mightve hoped after debut doubts. Where the premiere felt like a skeptical handshake between two worlds, "Fighting Mother" dives headfirst into the madness with a bit more confidence and a helping of satisfying sci-fi schlock.

Excitingly, Episode 2 offers a clearer picture of what both Sano and the Rick and Morty IP at large might be able to do in this new sandbox. Though Rick and Morty: The Anime certainly still has plenty to prove as a long-term experiment, the highest highs of "Fighting Mother" offer a tantalizing glimpse of what could...

“Rick and Morty: The Anime” is blasting into space and taking on a whole new adventure into Japanese animation.

“Rick and Morty: The Anime” comes from director Takashi Sano, who is best known for the anime “Tower of God.”

The voice acting cast includes Youhei Tadano (speaking Japanese) and Joe Daniels (speaking English) for Rick; Keisuke Chiba and Gabriel Regojo for Morty; Akiha Matsui and Donna Bella Litton for Summer; Manabu Muraji and Daniels for Jerry; and Takako Fuji and Patricia Duran for Beth.

Here’s everything you need to know about how to watch the English language version of “Rick and Morty: The Anime.” However, we’ve also provided details about the Japanese sub version, which releases two days after the English dub.

When does “Rick and Morty: The Anime” come out?

The English language dub version of “Rick and Morty: The Anime” will premiere on Cartoon Network’s...

Bill Pullman is a versatile actor, known for his likable and earnest performances in a wide range of genres. Pullman shines in roles like Peter Kirk in The Grudge, showing his talent for portraying complex characters in horror. Pullman's standout performances, such as President Whitmore in Independence Day, have solidified his status as a Hollywood actor.

Bill Pullman has had a film career that's taken him from romantic comedies to science fiction action blockbusters, classic Westerns to Japanese horror, and everything in between. Pullman has had an impressive career on stage and on television, but it's his movie roles that have made him a household name for over three decades. Though his movie performances have never been nominated for a major acting award, he's still managed to carve out a space for himself in Hollywood as an actor who can appear in any kind of movie.

Pullman is an extremely likable actor.

Rick and Morty: The Anime premieres on Adult Swim on August 15 with a Japanese version following two days later. Created by director Takashi Sano, the series features a new voice cast and will have 10 episodes available to stream. To celebrate the launch, real-life Rickmobile and Mortymobile will tour America, offering free screenings of the show.

The hotly-anticipated Rick and Morty: The Anime has finally set a release date, and it's right around the corner. Set in an alternate version of the original show's bonkers world, Rick and Morty: The Anime takes the beloved sci-fi duo on a new intergalactic adventure and will premiere on Adult Swim at midnight on August 15. Ahead of the show's release, new information has been revealed about the show, including its official release date, the cast, episode count, and a surprising real-life event that coincides with its premiere.

Rick and Morty: The Anime's English language...

The Rick and Morty universe will expand with the debut of an all-new anime from visionary director Takashi Sano (Tower of God) that follows Rick, Morty, and the rest of the Smith family in a new intergalactic adventure, Rick and Morty: The Anime.

The English-language version will premiere on Thursday, August 15, at midnight on Adult Swim, with the subtitled version in Japanese following on August 17 at midnight on Adult Swim’s action/anime programming block, Toonami.

In celebration of Rick and Morty: The Anime, Adult Swim’s Rickmobile and Mortymobile will hit the road for a multi-city Anime-rican tour across the nation, giving fans a chance to watch the first episode before it premieres and to score exclusive merchandise and photo ops.

The cross-country fun kicks off at the San Diego Comic-Con, with more cities to follow, and ends in Adult Swim’s hometown of Atlanta, Ga. All dates and...

Look, Morty! Adult Swim has unveiled the official trailer for “Rick and Morty: The Anime.”

The 10-episode anime series from director Takashi Sano (“Tower of God”) follows Rick, Morty and the rest of the Smith family as they embark on new intergalactic adventures. The official synopsis reads, “Rick relaxes in a pseudo-world between multiverses, Summer helps Space Beth fight the evil Galactic Federation, and Morty falls in love with a mysterious girl who happens to be an atemporal being.”

“Rick and Morty: The Anime” is written and directed by Sano and is produced for Adult Swim by Sola Entertainment with Jason Demarco and Joseph Chou serving as executive producers. English voice actors include Joe Daniels as Rick and Jerry, Gabriel Regojo as Morty, Donna Bella Litton as Summer and Patricia Duran as Beth. Japanese voice actors include Youhei Tadano, Keisuke Chiba, Akiha Matsui, Manabu Muraji and Takako Fuji.

“Takashi Sano,...

The episode of Wtf Happened to This Horror Movie? covering The Grudge (2004) was Written and Narrated by Adam Walton, Edited by Juan Jimenez, Produced by Andrew Hatfield and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

If there was one thing the early noughties had in an abundance, especially within the horror genre, it was remakes. We were graced with reboots, or re-imaginings, whatever you want to call them, of the likes of Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead, The Hills Have Eyes, The Amityville Horror, House of Wax, Rob Zombie’s Halloween remake from 2007 and The Ring. However, despite the decent quality of those examples, well most of them, one thing that stands out in the film we’re focusing on today, The Grudge (watch it Here), is the fact that the original’s director, Takashi Shimizu, chose to also take on the remake. In 2002 the aforementioned The Ring,...

J-Horror is among the most renowned internationally genres of Asian cinema, with the popularity of titles like “Ringu”, “Ju-on”, “Pulse” and so many others still echoing quite intensely. As such, it is quite interesting, even today, to shed a more thorough look to the roots, the motifs, and the reasons of success of these movies, also because some of the most central directors are still at large.

Check also this article Is J-Horror Coming Back? Six Movies that Suggest So

As such, I have to begin the review by stating that shooting this documentary seems like a colossal endeavor, both for arranging interviews with the likes of Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takashi Shimizu, Teruyoshi Ishii, Joji Iida, Masayuki Ochiai, Shinya Tsukamoto, and Mari Asato, and for tracking down Rie Ino'o, who played Sadako in the first two films, and Takako Fuji, who played Kayako in a number of entries of “Ju-on”. Add...

The Japanese horror boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s, spawned in large part by Hideo Nakata’s Ring, gets the spotlight in the upcoming documentary The J-Horror Virus.

Check out the trailer below, first shared by Fangoria earlier today.

From Sarah Appleton and Jasper Sharp, The J-Horror Virus is said to be a “feature-length documentary charting the origins, evolution and diffusion across the world of a distinctive brand of made-in-Japan supernatural chillers that seeped into the global consciousness at the turn of the millennium, films featuring vengeful ghosts manifesting themselves through contemporary technology again a backdrop of urban alienation and social decay.”

The synopsis continues, “From its origins in Teruyoshi Ishii’s 1988 fake documentary Psychic Vision: Jaganrei (1988) and Norio Tsuruta’s seminal Scary True Stories (1991/92) straight-to-video series, through such key titles as Hideo Nakata’s Ring (1998), Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Pulse (2001) and Takashi Shimizu’s Ju-On: The Grudge...

Announced by Arrow Video this morning, Ju-On: The Grudge Collection is due out this December, featuring a brand new 4K restoration of Japanese classic Ju-On: The Grudge.

This one is a UK Release, headed our way on December 19, 2022.

“Ju-On”: the name given to a deadly curse spawned when someone dies in the grip of a violent rage. All who come into contact with it are doomed… Collected together for the first time, writer-director Takashi Shimizu’s Ju-On: The Grudge series represents the flesh-crawling pinnacle of Japanese chillers that swept the globe at the turn of the millennium.

The films introduce the anonymous family house in the suburbs of Tokyo where an unspeakable evil lingers alongside its residents, the ghastly mother-son pairing of Kayoko and Toshio Saeki. Shimizu’s disconcerting approach to plotting, unnerving eye for the uncanny details in the dark corners of the frame and an innate talent...

Hollywood and the West in general have been remaking some of the greatest Asian movies since the 60s, picking the most commercially successful and the most adaptable productions to bring to both American and worldwide audiences. A number of them were of equal or at least similar quality, with John Sturges’s “The Magnificent Seven” (based on “Seven Samurai”) and Sergio Leone’s “A Fistful of Dollars” (based on Yojimbo”) being some of the most prominent samples. At the same time, however, and particularly after the 90s, the quality of remakes decreased significantly, resulting in a series of remakes that can only be described as truly awful, even though, on occasion, they were directed by the same filmmakers who shot the originals. Here, we have included 15 of the worst ones, in random order.

1. Ju-On: The Grudge Remake: The Grudge

Takashi Shimizu, who was also the screenwriter, puts the events in a non-chronological order,...

A young toy collector named Ken happens upon a rare figure. Unknown to him, the figure is in fact an alien creature with designs on Ken’s fate. Directed by Norman England. Written by Norman England and Jiro Kaneko. Starring Yukijiro Hotaru, Takako Fuji, Tomoo Haraguchi ( Death Kappa, Gamera …

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In the midst of the J-horror craze of the early 2000s ignited by Hideo Nakata’s “Ringu” (1998) director Takashi Shimizu created another entry within his home country’s specific brand of horror with “Ju-On: The Grudge”. While many viewers regard this film as the first in the franchise, it is actually the third film in the series with the first two films being released for home video only. In the aftermath the film would receive the inevitable Hollywood treatment with Shimizu directing also the American version and start a franchise, which, including the recently released “The Grudge” by Nicolas Pesce consists of 13 movies along with video games, manga adaptations and movie novelizations.

However, if we go back to the origin of the franchise, which in this case is the first movie to be released in cinemas, we have to consider the status of “Ju-On” as J-horror as...

A naive young girl sells a video player with a haunted tape to an unsuspecting couple in a new clip from Sadako Vs Kayako, a.k.a. The Ring Vs. The Grudge. Although it has already hit theaters in Japan, the film will have its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival as part of the festival's Midnight Madness genre program, before it debuts in the U.S. on the Shudder streaming platform later this year. The clip reveals that at least one big change was made from The Ring franchise mythology.

After viewing a legendary cursed videotape, Natsumi (Aimi Satsukawa) discovers she has only two days before she will be killed by the demonic entity known as Sadako. The only way to break the curse: pitting the demon Sadako against Kayako, an accursed spirit possessing a haunted house where everyone who enters disappears. This clip, which debuted at Vulture,...

Wanna know how some of your favorite sounds, action sequences, or visual effects were created? Daily Dead got a chance to do a Q&A with the VFX Legion team who worked on The Purge: Anarchy, Hardcore Henry, Ouija, and more. Also in today’s Horror Highlights: a Sharkansas Women’s Prison Massacre Blu-ray clip and trailer as well as three promo videos for Sadako vs Kayako.

Daily Dead Q&A with the VFX Legion Team, Breakdown Reel and Images:

Thanks for taking the time to answer some questions for us. Can you give our readers an idea of what the VFX Legion team does to improve the look of a film and enhance the cinematic experience for viewers?

There are a lot of things that make up a movie. There’s sound, acting, locations, lighting, editing, and often times, visual effects. There are a ton of aspects to visual effects.

Familiar and frightening faces from two of Japan’s biggest horror franchises, Ringu (aka The Ring) and Ju-On (aka The Grudge), haunt humans who get caught in their cursed crossfire in the new trailer for Sadako vs Kayako.

Like something plucked from a horror fan’s daydream, Sadako vs Kayako will feature a showdown between the supernatural antagonists from the Ringu and Ju-On franchises. Horror fans living in Japan won’t have to wait long to lay eyes on Sadako vs Kayako, as the film is scheduled for a June 18th release. There’s no word yet on when it will debut elsewhere in the world. In the meantime, Paramount will release Rings in the Us on October 28th.

Sadako vs Kayako is directed by Kôji Shiraishi and stars Mizuki Yamamoto, Tina Tamashiro, Aimi Satsukawa, Misato Tanaka, Masahiro Kômoto, and Masanobu Andô, with Takako Fuji reprising her role as the...

In the early 2000s, "versus" movies were quite popular, with Freddy vs. Jason, Alien vs Predator and several other movies hitting theaters, pitting two cinematic icons against each other. Earlier this year, the "versus" format was pushed to a whole new level with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, although that wasn't really a true "versus" movie, since it helped set up Warner Bros.' Justice League universe. The format will go back to its horror roots this summer with the Japanese movie Sadako vs. Kayako, which pits the evil spirits from The Ring and The Grudge against each other. Today we have a new trailer and photos which showcases the horror battle of the year.

Ironically enough, Sadako vs Kayako was actually birthed through an April Fool's Day joke which quickly went viral. Japanese studio Kadokawa and NBCUniversal Japan realized the cinematic potential of this joke, and Sadako vs. Kayako was born.

The horror of a truly terrifying sound-effect is contextual: a brilliantly-executed effect can be killed by poor placement, whereas the most mundane noise can send shivers up the spine with the right counterpoint...

10: Jurassic Park III (2001) - It's for you

Phone calls can come at the most inconvenient moments, but they're rarely quite as unwelcome as in this scene from Joe Johnston's sequel to the 1993 Spielberg classic. The true terror of this moment is similar to that of The Innocents, in that the ring-tone reveals something awful that has been looking at you for a long time, and wondering what its next course of action should be. It's the sheer mundanity of the sound that succeeds in doubling the shock value, as we realise that the Spinosaurus is having his lunch repeat on him in the most disturbing way...

9: The Entity (1982) - Welcome home

Sidney J. Furie...

Despicable Me is coming out next week (Friday, 15th October to be exact) and while I was watching the trailer for the movie again recently, I got hooked on the ‘does this count as annoying’ bit of the trailer by character Agnes (voiced by Elsie Fisher) and it made me laugh so much! It got me thinking that maybe we could do a feature on the cutest and creepiest kids in movies.

Since Despicable Me is an animated film, I’ve gone down the line of animated for the cuties and live action for the creepies! Have a little look down the list and then feel free to let me know who I’ve missed in the comments section below.

Cute Animated Kids

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Does this count as annoying?!

Agnes (Despicable Me)

Lets start with Agnes since she’s the inspiration for the post. She’s cute and you just want to squidge her!

It's time for another installment of Fangoria Musick's Lists Of Doom - the column where we track down some of your favorite (or soon-to-be favorite) bands to get their thoughts on on the world of horror.

For number 15, we caught up with Mika Andre, bassist of the French band, Eryn Non Dae, whose Stateside debut Hydra Lernaia will arrive in-stores on June 23rd via Metal Blade Records. Mika's List of Doom is a bit different than what we usually see, with a strong lean toward Asian Horror.

Mika, the stage is yours...

I’m really into Asian horror movies because of their very calm and restrained atmosphere. Even if it’s a bit overrated now, there’s something very unique Ring had brought at the beginning; a kind of deep esthetic beauty in the horror.

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(Thai version, by Parkpoom Wongpoom and Banjong Pisanthanakun)

Another Asian ghost style movie but...

A good look at the Blu-ray artwork for Sony Pictures Home Entertainment's The Grudge crept online today, and we have a look at it as well as a listing of the disc's special features for you. Excited yet?

The Blu-ray will hit store shelves on May 12th, and special features are set to include:

• Commentary with Sam Raimi, Ted Raimi, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and more

• Commentary with director Takashi Shimizu, producer Taka Ichise, and actress Takako Fuji

• Deleted scenes with optional commentary

• Myth of the Ju-On

• Under the Skin Featurette - A Medical Explanation of Fear Response in Film

• Sights and Sounds: The Storyboard Art of Takashi Shimizu

• Production Designer's Notebook: The Sketches of Iwao Saito

• Ju-On Short Film: 4444444444

• Ju-On Short Film: In a Corner

Check out the artwork courtesy of DVD Active and pre-order yourself a copy below.

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Takashi Shimizu's The Grudge , the 2004 American redo of Ju-On , is coming to Blu-Ray via Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on March 24th. The special features reflect a combination of Sony's previous two Grudge releases: . Commentary with Sam Raimi, Ted Raimi, Sarah Michelle Gellar & More . Commentary with Director Takashi Shimizu, Producer Taka Ichise and Actress Takako Fuji . Deleted Scenes with optional commentary . Myth of the Ju-On . Under the Skin Featurette - A Medical Explanation of Fear Response In Film . Sights and Sounds: The Storyboard Art of Takashi Shimizu . Production Designer's Notebook: The Sketches of Iwao Saito . Ju-on Short Film: 4444444444 . Ju-on Short Film: In a Corner Also on March 24th, Sony will debut The Grudge 3 . You can find art in...

The last time we saw Sarah Michelle Gellar's Karen Davis, the spooked American exchange student was being hospitalized after trying to burn down the Tokyo house believed to be the source of a horrible curse.

It turned out that "The Grudge", filmmaker Takashi Shimizu's English-language remake of his acclaimed "Ju-On", was anything but cursed at the boxoffice, scaring up $110 million domestically, ushering in the Friday the 13th arrival of "The Grudge 2".

While Gellar's character returns for just a brief portion of the ride, even less of the original's creepy atmosphere makes the trip intact, leaving at lot of boring exposition and empty suspense in its wake.

It would have been nice if Shimizu, who stayed on as director for what would be his sixth "Grudge" match (counting two Japanese video versions), had tried just a little harder to do something different this time out, but things get awfully repetitive here.

The latest batch of victims who find themselves in the vengeful grip of the ghostly, wide-eyed Kayako (Takako Fuji) include Karen's sister Aubrey ("Joan of Arcadia's" Amber Tamblyn), who, at the urging of her sickly mother (Joanna Cassidy), travels to Japan with the intention of bringing Karen Back to their Pasadena home.

Before her arrival, over at an international school in Tokyo, the eager-to-fit-in Allison (Arielle Kebbel) accepts a dare by venturing into the closet of that charred house, located beneath Kayako's attic retreat, with predictably horrifying results.

Meanwhile, in Chicago, Jennifer Beals moves in with her widowed fiance and his two children, and, if figuring out the stepmother thing isn't challenging enough, she and the kids must also contend with increasingly strange goings-on in their apartment building.

Needless to say, it would appear Kayako has been getting around lately.

Although the original American version, which also was filmed in Japan, was no great shakes in the story department, either, its unique, dread-dripping ambiance went quite a long way in distracting from all the nonsensical plotting.

But by now, that visual novelty has worn off and Shimizu's direction and Stephen Susco's script are content to simply trot out old fright eyes whenever the anemic proceedings threaten to grind to a stagnant halt.

Aside from a couple of passably inventive effects sequences, including one set in a photographic dark room, this particular "Grudge" proves too pointless to bear.

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The last time we saw Sarah Michelle Gellar's Karen Davis, the spooked American exchange student was being hospitalized after trying to burn down the Tokyo house believed to be the source of a horrible curse.

It turned out that The Grudge, filmmaker Takashi Shimizu's English-language remake of his acclaimed Ju-On, was anything but cursed at the boxoffice, scaring up $110 million domestically, ushering in the Friday the 13th arrival of The Grudge 2.

While Gellar's character returns for just a brief portion of the ride, even less of the original's creepy atmosphere makes the trip intact, leaving at lot of boring exposition and empty suspense in its wake.

It would have been nice if Shimizu, who stayed on as director for what would be his sixth Grudge match (counting two Japanese video versions), had tried just a little harder to do something different this time out, but things get awfully repetitive here.

The latest batch of victims who find themselves in the vengeful grip of the ghostly, wide-eyed Kayako (Takako Fuji) include Karen's sister Aubrey (Joan of Arcadia's Amber Tamblyn), who, at the urging of her sickly mother (Joanna Cassidy), travels to Japan with the intention of bringing Karen Back to their Pasadena home.

Before her arrival, over at an international school in Tokyo, the eager-to-fit-in Allison (Arielle Kebbel) accepts a dare by venturing into the closet of that charred house, located beneath Kayako's attic retreat, with predictably horrifying results.

Meanwhile, in Chicago, Jennifer Beals moves in with her widowed fiance and his two children, and, if figuring out the stepmother thing isn't challenging enough, she and the kids must also contend with increasingly strange goings-on in their apartment building.

Needless to say, it would appear Kayako has been getting around lately.

Although the original American version, which also was filmed in Japan, was no great shakes in the story department, either, its unique, dread-dripping ambiance went quite a long way in distracting from all the nonsensical plotting.

But by now, that visual novelty has worn off and Shimizu's direction and Stephen Susco's script are content to simply trot out old fright eyes whenever the anemic proceedings threaten to grind to a stagnant halt.

Aside from a couple of passably inventive effects sequences, including one set in a photographic dark room, this particular Grudge proves too pointless to bear.

THE GRUDGE 2

Columbia Pictures

Sam Raimi and Columbia Pictures present a Ghost House Pictures production

Credits:

Director: Takashi Shimizu

Screenwriter: Stephen Susco

Based on Ju-On: The Grudge, written and directed by Takashi Shimizu

Producers: Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, Taka Ichise

Executive producers: Joe Drake, Nathan Kahane, Roy Lee, Doug Davison

Director of photography: Katsumi Yanagijima

Production designer: Iwao Saito

Editor: Jeff Betancourt

Costume designer: Kristin M. Burke

Music: Christopher Young

Visual effects supervisor: Hajime Matsumoto

Cast:

Aubrey Davis: Amber Tamblyn

Allison: Arielle Kebbel

Trish: Jennifer Beals

Eason: Edison Chen

Lacey: Sarah Roemer

Karen Davis: Sarah Michelle Gellar

Mrs. Davis: Joanna Cassidy

Kayako: Takako Fuji

Running time -- 87 minutes

MPAA rating: PG-13...