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In the past few years, some of the most popular shows on streaming services have been those centered on true crime stories. Whether they are documentaries or documentary series based on a real events or adaptations of chilling true crime stories, audiences have become engrossed in series that are ripped from the headlines. Another must-watch true crime series is coming this fall.

Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy release date on Peacock

Peacock has officially set a release date for the new true crime limited series Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy, which will premiere on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. Rather than releasing new episodes weekly, the streaming service will drop all eight episodes of the series at once. Each episode is about one hour in length, making for a quick binge-watch this fall.

While other limited series that center on serial killers have been criticized for exploiting the victims, Peacock insists...

Peacock has ordered up their own limited scripted series based on the John Wayne Gacy murders, “Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy,” and an eerie new teaser brings an unsettling first look.

“Devil in Disguise” premieres on Peacock on October 16, 2025.

The official synopsis: “From 1972-1978, thirty-three young men were kidnapped, murdered, and buried in a crawl space beneath their killer’s house. And no one was the wiser. Not for all those years. Why? He was charming and funny. Had a good, All-American job. Was a community leader. He even volunteered to entertain sick kids… while dressed as a clown. Devil In Disguise: John Wayne Gacy peels back the twisted layers of Gacy’s life while weaving in heartrending stories of his victims; exploring the grief, guilt, and trauma of their families and friends; and exposing the systemic failures, missed opportunities, and societal prejudices that fueled his reign of terror.

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Apple Cider Vinegar is an Australian true crime drama miniseries created by Samantha Strauss. Based on the non-fiction book The Woman Who Fooled the World by Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano, the Netflix series follows a young woman who built an empire in the early days of Instagram, but the problem is that it was all a lie. Apple Cider Vinegar stars Kaitlyn Dever, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Aisha Dee, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Mark Coles Smith, Ashley Zuckerman, Susie Porter, Matt Nable, Catherine McClements, Essie Davis, Chai Hansen, Richard Davies, and Kieran Darcy-Smith. So, if you loved the true crime drama, thrilling story, and compelling characters in Apple Cider Vinegar, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

Inventing Anna (Netflix) Credit – Netflix

Inventing Anna is a true crime drama miniseries created by Shonda Rhimes. Based on the New...

Industry is a British-American drama series created by Mickey Down and Konrad Kay. The HBO series follows a group of young finance graduates as they enter the cut-throat world to get a job at the prestigious investment bank in London, Pierpoint & Co. after the financial crisis of 2008. Industry stars Marisa Abela, Harry Lawtey, Myha’la, Freya Mavor, Ken Leung, David Jonsson, Sarah Parish, Indy Lewis, Jay Duplass, and Kit Harington. So, if you liked the high-stakes world of finance and battle of egos with billions at stake in Industry here are some similar shows you should check out next.

Billions (Paramount+ & Prime Video) Credit – Showtime

Billions is a financial drama series created by Brian Koppelman, David Levien, and Andrew Ross Sorkin. The Showtime series follows the battle of egos between Chuck Rhoades, a sincere but ruthless US attorney who tries to take the hedge fund kingpin Bobby ‘Axe’ Axelrod. But Axe...

We all know about the success stories in the startup world because if they were successful, that means that they are still around, and one way or another, we are using them, but there are also some spectacular failures in the world of startups. In fact, their failure was so spectacular that some people decided to make films and TV shows about them. So, if you are also interested in some of the biggest startup failures, here are the 5 best movies and TV shows based on true stories you can watch about them.

Blackberry (Hulu & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – IFC Films

Blackberry is a biographical comedy-drama film directed by Matt Johnson from a screenplay co-written by Johnson and Matthew Miller. Loosely based on the 2015 book titled Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry by authors Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff, the...

The Unholy is a horror movie directed by Evan Spiliotopoulos starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan. It is based on the novel written by James Herbert.

A supernatural horror film about miracles and apparitions, with a lot of religion (Catholic this time) and some clichés that work in lightweight horror films that work in a film that treads a firm ground without any risks…

Plot of The Unholy

A journalist with no scruples on the hunt for a scoop runs into the miracle of an apparition… and something else.

Movie Review The Unholy (2021)

If you like religion themed films, then this one is just about okay, it has its film touch (a little too much if you have watched movies for some time). It has touches of The Exorcist, apparitions like in The Ring and many others. Here and there, reputed screenwriter Evan Spiliotopoulos directs his first feature film cleverly but staying...

"She realized what she really wanted, ever since she was a faceless little girl, was to belong." Are you ready to finally get your face? Check out this fun horror short film titled We Want Faces So Bad, made by actor / filmmaker Matthew Van Gessel. This one recently played at the Fantasia Film Festival and is now online to watch thanks to Short of the Week. Alexx must 'face' the reality of her overnight transformation when she joins her faceless friends in their nightly manifesting faces ritual. It's set entirely in one room and is a quick and easy watch. This stars Jasmine Kimiko, Cricket Brown, Meagan Kimberly Smith, and Rebecca Brinkley. This is a clever short about obsession with identity and vanity, and how we try to hide our faces. I wish there was a bit more to it, following these faceless girls outside of this evening. But still worth a watch.

Sony Pictures Releasing UK has debuted a new trailer for the horror film ‘The Unholy’ starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

Gerry Fenn (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a disgraced journalist turned stringer-for-hire, of supernatural tabloid fodder, is sent to investigate a strange occurrence in a small farming community. A born sceptic, Fenn quickly dismisses the incident as just another benign story. But, before he writes it off as a hoax; Fenn witnesses a deaf, teenaged girl, Alice (Cricket Brown), whispering next to a petrified oak tree in the middle of a field. What follows, to his disbelief, is a series of inexplicable events that has the locals convinced Alice can perform miracles.

When word spreads that Alice’s power to heal is attributed to the Virgin Mary, it fans the flames of curiosity from those near and far to witness the miraculous occur firsthand. As the hopeful masses descend upon this off-the-beaten-path town,...

Seems audiences are still hopping to it: Australian-uk co-production Peter Rabbit 2 is now no. 1 at the box office, having knocked off Godzilla vs. Kong as both titles enter their fourth week.

Holding well, PR2 – a hybrid animation from Animal Logic Entertainment and Olive Bridge Entertainment – has a cume $17.6 million after pocketing another $2.8 million.

Australia and New Zealand are the first markets into which the Sony sequel has been released, with the UK to follow in May and the US in June. The film was among the earliest titles worldwide to be delayed due to the coronavirus, originally scheduled for March 19 last year.

The 2018 original, also shot in Sydney, finished on $26.7 million, making it locally the eighth highest grossing Australian film of all time.

Monster hit Godzilla vs. Kong fell 31 per cent with takings of $2.4 million, moving to $24.9 million.

Despite the tumble, the Warner Bros. film, shot in Queensland, is...

Even with its HBO Max debut, Godzilla Vs Kong is proving that a lot of people in North America are now willing to revisit movie theaters. The movie debuted on Wednesday and decimated initial projections with a five-day total of $48.5 million after an $11.6 million Saturday. The three-day weekend total comes to $32.5 million, which was more than enough to destroy the competition. In addition to playing in theaters, Godzilla vs. Kong is also streaming on HBO Max for paid subscribers, which indicates that people have been waiting for the right movie to get back into the theater.

Warner Bros. Domestic Distribution Boss Jeff Goldstein says, "Monstrous results all across the United States. Audiences are excited to see movies in theaters on the big screen with big sound." As of this writing, Godzilla vs. Kong has already earned $190.2 million globally, which has set off brand-new pandemic box office records. While the movie...

“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” This Biblical phrase that closes writer-director Evan Spiliotopoulos’s The Unholy perfectly encapsulates it. A film about how nothing is what it seems in the context of a demonic horror film rooted in Catholicism. The church, a symbol of good, is used as the backdrop, but as in other films like The Nun, what takes place among the pews is wholly evil. And in a sense, by speaking of false prophets and introducing an untrustworthy journalist character, the film speaks of the effects of “fake news” and the consequences that ensue when false narratives are intentionally planted. It’s smart in that respect, but just because a film has a James Wan story credit, or in this case, a Sam Raimi producing credit, it sadly doesn’t spell a good supernatural tale.

For his very first feature film, longtime screenwriter Evan Spiliotopoulos adapted UK writer James Herbert’s novel Shrine into the latest genre offering from Screen Gems. Starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, William Sadler, and newcomer Cricket Brown, The Unholy is centered around a young woman who regains her hearing after a supposed visitation by the Virgin Mary—an event that also leaves her with the ability to heal others. But when a skeptical journalist arrives to investigate, he begins to suspect that these phenomena are actually the work of sinister forces, and it’s up to him to try and stop this insidious evil from claiming the young woman before it’s too late.

During the recent press day for The Unholy, Daily Dead spoke with Spiliotopoulos about transitioning from the world of screenwriting to the world of directing for this project, how integral producer Sam Raimi was in helping him...

“The Unholy” is a good tight scary commercial theological horror film. Its spooks and demons unfurl within a pop version of Christianity, which makes it sound no more exotic than last week’s “Exorcist” knockoff or last year’s helping of the “Conjuring” franchise. But “The Unholy” has a religious plot that actually works for it. It stars an unheralded actress named Cricket Brown — mark my words, she’s going to go on to major things — who plays a deaf-mute young woman named Alice, who has visions of what she thinks is the Virgin Mary. Absorbing Mary’s spirit, Alice can suddenly hear and speak, and she can heal the sick, which attracts crowds of people to her rural town of Banfield, Mass. “The Unholy” is adapted from a 1983 James Herbert novel, and as written and directed by Evan Spiliotopoulos it could almost be a faith-based horror film. Good and...

We’ve spent a year inside watching our televisions and, as the world opens up and the weather warms, most of us are eager to step out a bit. That makes the entertainment industry’s job that much harder. It’s one thing to compete against other shows and movies, but how do you compete with the world at large after a year of isolation?

Fortunately, audiences can’t stay outside all the time. Even more fortunate: this April is bringing a lot of promising offerings to screens small and large,...

The Unholy Trailer — Evan Spiliotopoulos‘ The Unholy (2021) movie trailer has been released by Sony Pictures. The Unholy trailer stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Cricket Brown, Christine Adams, Cary Elwes, Katie Aselton, William Sadler, Diogo Morgado, Gisela Chipe, Kiara Pichardo, Janelle Feigley, Cricket Brown, Celeste Oliva, Danny Corbo, Julia Bechler, and Bates Wilder. Crew Evan [...]

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The Walking Dead star Jeffrey Dean Morgan must once again face his fears in the Sam Raimi-produced horror movie The Unholy. Set to be released on Good Friday next month, the movie is co-produced by Raimi, Rob Tapert, and Evan Spiliotopoulos, with Andra Ajemian and Romel Adam executive producing. Spiliotopoulos wrote and directed the feature. You can watch the official trailer for the movie below.

Per the official logline, The Unholy follows Alice, a "young hearing-impaired girl who, after a supposed visitation from the Virgin Mary, is inexplicably able to hear, speak and heal the sick. As word spreads and people from near and far flock to witness her miracles, a disgraced journalist (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) hoping to revive his career visits the small New England town to investigate. When terrifying events begin to happen all around, he starts to question if these phenomena are the works of the...

Exclusive: Screen Gems has rounded out the cast for its forthcoming supernatural horror, Shrine, as production currently underway in Massachusetts. Joining previously announced star Jeffrey Dean Morgan will be Katie Aselton, William Sadler, Diogo Morgado, Cricket Brown, Marina Mazepa (upcoming Malignant), Christine Adams, Bates Wilde, and Cary Elwes.

Aselton is replacing Jordana Brewster, who was attached to co-lead the film but had to withdraw from the project but due to timing conflicts in production schedules.

Evan Spiliotopoulos is directing the pic with is based on James Herbert’s best-selling novel. It focuses on a disgraced journalist (Morgan) who discovers a series of divine miracles in a small New England town that has been touched by the apparition of the Virgin Mary and uses them to resurrect his career,...