The power of social media is mighty. The filmmakers behind the Hell House LLC franchise have announced the mega-viral property is preparing to release its fifth film, Hell House LLC: Lineage. Not only did the filmmakers announce the existence of the film, but they also revealed the first teaser to it as well as its release window. First shared by Bloody Disgusting, Hell House LLC: Lineage will see release on Shudder next October.

In the teaser, Lineage appears that it may both a prequel and sequel, much like the previous entry in the franchise--Hell House LLC: The Carmichael Manor. Invoking the writings of Robert Frost, the minute-long snippet teases a new haunted house with a new family. See the teaser for yourself below.

How many more Hell House LLC movies will there be?

When we spoke with Hell House LLC helmer Stephen Cognetti last fall, he teased future entries in the franchise despite not thinking of them ahead of the time.

"No, I don't think that far ahead. I write movie-to-movie," Cognetti told ComicBook."I shot a film in 2021 that has not come out yet, which is just a good old fashioned haunted house story. That has been in post-production for two years, and in that time waiting for that film to get completed, I brought back the Hell House idea and wrote Hell House LLC: The Carmichael Manor."

"If I do another Hell House film, I know where I want to go and I kind of tease that at the end of the credits," the director added. "I just don't know if that's what's going to be next. It could be something Hell House, or it could be something completely separate. I don't know yet."

The first three Hell House LLC movies can be seen streaming on Tubi while the fourth, Hell House LLC: The Carmichael Manor is now streaming on Shudder. Though the exact date has yet to be set, Hell House LLC: Lineage will hit Shudder sometime October 2025.

Landing in theaters this weekend from filmmaker Oz Perkins is Longlegs, the terrifying horror experience featuring Nicolas Cage as the titular serial killer. The film currently sits at 91% positive on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with a number of elements coming together to craft the frightening experience. One key component of the film's effectiveness is the music by Zilgi, which is set to be coming to vinyl through Mutant. Much like the film's visuals, the music is evocative and unconventional, delivering audiences a frightening experience that delivers an experimental atmosphere. You can pre-order the Longlegs Original Soundtrack now before it hits shelves on September 28th.

Mutant describes the release, "Mutant, in conjunction with Milan Records and NEON, is proud to release the premiere physical release of Longlegs (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) with music by ZILGI. The album features an original score written by Zilgi for director Osgood Perkins' horrifying new thriller following an FBI agent searching for a deranged serial killer."

"As disturbing and all-consuming as a nightmare, Longlegs required a soundscape as gripping as its onscreen story, prompting Zilgi to craft a palette of dark, foreboding synth work, warped instrumentation, and subliminal sound design elements. Working closely with sound designer and editor Eugenio Battaglia, who contributes two tracks to the album, the resulting soundtrack is unsettling, uncomfortable, and utterly riveting. Zigli has crafted a genuinely terrifying listen that mixes soundscapes, electronics, and discordant rock to create a portal to hell that will stay with you long after the needle leaves the record. Hail Satan. Featuring package design by Greg Ruth and Spencer Hickman."

The movie is described, "FBI Agent Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer (Nicolas Cage). As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop him before he claims the lives of another innocent family."

Now that the movie is in theaters, fans will be able to witness Cage's intense transformation into the character, which the marketing campaign has cleverly avoided revealing in full. Perkins and Cage previously expressed the approach to keeping audiences in the dark.

"It's driving people towards a freak show at a circus tent," Perkins confirmed with Entertainment Weekly last month. "We've got the thing behind the curtain, and when there's enough people gathered 'round, we're going to pull the curtain."

Cage continued, "It's the equivalent of putting a warning label on a jar of nitroglycerin ... The monster is a highly, highly dangerous substance. The way it's moved, unveiled, deployed has to be treated very carefully. Forget about the movie theater blowing up; the whole city could blow up, nay the country, maybe even the world. He is going to change your reality. Your doors of perception are going to open, and your life is not going to be the same."

Longlegs is in theaters now. You can pre-order the Longlegs Original Soundtrack now before it hits shelves on September 28th.

Will you be adding the album to your collection? Contact Patrick Cavanaugh directly on Twitter or on Instagram to talk all things Star Wars and horror!

It's been seven years since Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant was released in theaters, and this summer will finally see the long-awaited next installment to the franchise. Alien: Romulus is being produced by Scott and directed by Fede ?lvarez, who is best known for helming Evil Dead (2013). The new movie promises to bring the franchise back to its horror roots that began with Alien in 1979. If you're excited about the film and headed to San Diego Comic-Con this month, 20th Century Studios promises a fun Hall H panel. In fact, they shared the details with members of the press by sending a VHS tape featuring a sneak peek.

The VHS kicks off with a news clip from 1979 that shows a regretful dad taking his son to see Alien, which proved to be incredibly scary. The old footage was followed by a trailer, and the new featurette that dropped online yesterday, which saw ?lvarez saying, "The whole idea behind this film was to really take it back to basics and make it a pure horror movie again." The tape also featured a scene that sees the main characters setting off into space, presumably before the Xenomorphs start attacking. Most importantly, the tape reveals that Alien: Romulus' Hall H panel will be kicking off in San Diego on Friday, July, 26th at 5 PM PT.

Thankfully, the Alien: Romulus tape was sent to a ComicBook staff writer with a VCR. You can watch the full sneak peek, recorded off of an old TV, below:

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What Is Alien: Romulus About?

Alien: Romulus is being billed as more of a spinoff rather than a direct continuation of the Alien franchise and will see a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe. ?lvarez has previously opened up about how a deleted scene from James Cameron's Aliens featuring young colonists inspired Romulus' story.

"My first instinct, just to try something different that hasn't been seen before, was to approach it form the angle of characters who are not professionals or scientists; they're not even adults," he said. "I liked this concept of putting people in the front seat of the story who are closer to what the audience is -- not that the audience is young, more that the audience is completely virgin to the realities of space. When the characters are professionals, they know more than you do. But when they're still in their early 20s, they don't know how to operate the f-cking airlock."

He continued, "All their parents probably worked on the same ship when they were kids, and that's how they got to know each other ... There's a lot of history between them because they're the only family they have. They truly act more like surrogate siblings; some of them even lived under the same roof. A lot of the big themes of the movie are about siblinghood and what does that mean? The Romulus of it all, and the bigger plot with Weyland-Yutani, is actually connected to that as well."

Alien: Romulus stars Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla), David Jonsson (Agatha Christie's Murder is Easy), Archie Renaux (Shadow and Bone), Isabela Merced (The Last of Us), Spike Fearn (Aftersun), Aileen Wu. Fede ?lvarez (Evil Dead, Don't Breathe) directs from a screenplay he wrote with frequent collaborator Rodo Sayagues (Don't Breathe 2) based on characters created by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett.

Alien: Romulus hits theaters on August 16th.

Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is one of the most iconic tales of terror in literary history and it's been brought to life in countless ways since 1820. One of the most seminal adaptations of the material is Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, which not only captured all of the spooky atmosphere of the source material, but also injected buckets of blood to take the horror to new heights. In honor of that film's achievements, Waxwork Records is bringing the original score to vinyl for the first time, which features music composed by Burton's frequent collaborator Danny Elfman. You can pre-order Sleepy Hollow Music From The Motion Picture by Danny Elfman now before it hits shelves in August.

Waxworks Records describes the release, "Waxwork Records, in conjunction with Hollywood Records and Paramount Pictures, is thrilled to present Sleepy Hollow Music From The Motion Picture by Danny Elfman for the very first time on vinyl! Sleepy Hollow is a 1999 gothic supernatural horror film directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, and Christopher Walken. It is based loosely on Washington Irving's 1820 short story 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.' The plot follows police constable Ichabod Crane (Depp) sent from New York City to investigate a series of murders in the village of Sleepy Hollow by a mysterious Headless Horseman."

"Danny Elfman is an award-winning American film composer, singer, and songwriter. He has garnered international recognition for composing over 100 feature film scores. Elfman is a longtime collaborator of director Tim Burton having scored such films as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas.

"Sleepy Hollow stands as one of Elfman's largest orchestral scores and utilizes weighty brass, eerie choral pieces, and unnerving strings. His use of romantic themes cut a calming tone throughout the dark and mysterious gothic fairytale.

"Waxwork Records is proud to present the debut vinyl release of Sleepy Hollow Music From The Motion Picture by Danny Elfman as a deluxe double-LP album. Album features include 180-gram 'Headless Horseman Splatter'-colored vinyl (Translucent Black with Silver Burst and Blood Red & Black Splatter), new artwork by Steven Reeves, heavyweight gatefold jackets with matte-satin coating, and blood red spot UV gloss varnish, and a 12"x12" art print."

The new album features:

• The original score by Danny Elfman
• Available for the first time on vinyl
• 180-gram "Headless Horseman Splatter"-colored vinyl
• Heavyweight gatefold jackets with matte-satin coating & blood-red spot UV gloss varnish
• New artwork by Steven Reeves
• 12"x12" art print
  

You can pre-order Sleepy Hollow Music From The Motion Picture by Danny Elfman now before it hits shelves in August.

Will you be adding the album to your collection? Contact Patrick Cavanaugh directly on Twitter or on Instagram to talk all things Star Wars and horror!

Filmmaker Oz Perkins might not be a household name, but among genre fans, it's a bit of a different story. Making his directorial debut with The Blackcoat's Daughter, which he then followed with I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House and Gretel & Hansel, each of his films up to this point have delivered different flavors of terror. With his new film Longlegs, Perkins explores a new type of narrative for his career, though he has described it as bringing together all of your favorite genre elements into one horrifying ordeal, featuring serial killers, the supernatural, and Satan. To help find a method to the madness, editors Greg Ng and Graham Fortin worked with Perkins to create one of the year's most unnerving horror experiences.

Longlegs is described, "FBI Agent Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer (Nicolas Cage). As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop him before he claims the lives of another innocent family."

ComicBook caught up with Ng and Fortin to talk about collaborating with Perkins, their approach to the disturbing story, and how to handle Cage's terrifying killer.

ComicBook: Greg, one thing that I noticed in the production notes is that you described editing a movie as playing with LEGO to a degree. For someone who either is a young family member or is an audience member who doesn't necessarily understand the similarities, could you elaborate on what is so similar about those two activities?

Greg Ng: Editing is playing LEGO with videos and emotions and story. So it's like the director and the production team go out to the LEGO store and they buy a couple of red bricks and find some yellow heads, and then eventually you get this bag of LEGO in which you construct something that the director had set out to do, and you help the director build that LEGO thing.

There's another analogy that we like to talk about, which is editing is like cooking, maybe that's a better analogy. There's the director who wrote up this recipe and goes out there to buy all the ingredients with the crew, and we set out to make beef pot pie, and you get the beef and then you get the thing and then you realize, "Oh, this beef pot pie is turning into a beef Wellington." Or maybe in some cases it might turn into maybe something, just a stew and there's no crust and you're like, "Well, it's still pretty good stew."

I do like that analogy because it's also like you when you're cooking and you're like, "Wow, I forgot that I don't have this ingredient," or, "I went to the store and I forgot the garlic, but I've got garlic powder. Can we use that instead of having to go to this store and put Nicolas Cage in these prosthetics for this one pickup shot?" How did this collaboration with Oz come about? Were you in from early on? Was it a scheduling thing?

Graham Fortin: It came to be basically through the producer Chris Ferguson and Brian Kavanaugh Jones. Both Greg and I have worked with those two for almost 15, no, 10, 12 years now.

Ng: A long time.

Fortin: A long time, which we don't really want to put on paper, though, that number, but it came through them and I've been fortunate enough to work on other projects with Chris Ferguson and Brian. They called me up and they said, "Would you be interested in working on this?" And it went from there. Obviously, being familiar with Oz's work, it was a dream come true to be able to work with him. He's such a big fan of movies. One of the highlights of working with him was just nerding out about old movies in the edit room when we finally got to that stage with him.

What makes working with Oz Perkins as opposed to some of the other collaborators you've worked with, what makes working with him so unique and also along those lines, what even makes Longlegs such a unique project?

Ng: We've been just trying to figure out, what is it? Working with Oz is a pleasurable experience. He's a hilarious guy. I don't know if you've seen any of his interviews elsewhere on the Internet or from before or if you've seen Legally Blonde, but he is a hilarious guy to work around, and he has an extreme depth of knowledge about cinema. I feel like coming in to work with him, I'm always learning something new about, especially old classic cinema and stuff like that.

I feel like his knowledge of cinema and what to expect, he's constantly trying to push the envelope, try something new, collaborate with the whole team, and bring something new to the table. So when we think about Longlegs, it's not necessarily a lot of original ideas in terms of what is it; it's a serial killer. There's satanic elements. It's like Silence of the Lambs and all those things. But what makes it unique is the flavor that the movie has managed to come together when we're following that recipe. There is a beef Wellington or whatever, a pot pie there that is not quite your standard movie.

We used to say it in the edit suite, it's like, what did we call it? We made up a fake French word like "nouveau amour." It has an artistic vibe throughout it, which is, I think, unique to Oz, that it has this Perkins-ism in the tone of the movie. And certainly obviously the cinematography from Andreas Roche and the sound design and everybody's efforts, the production design. They all culminate to give this very unique take on a horror movie. Obviously the performances are amazing as well.

One of the things that I know Oz has specifically talked about and just my initial reaction is the staging of every single frame, the composition of every single frame, the way that the camera moves, the stilted dialogue and performances, everything feels like trying to remember a nightmare. Afterwards, I read that Oz wanted to get that across, and he absolutely got it across. So in the edit, how do you get that across? Do you feel your job as an editor is, "I'm just going to do what Oz tells me to do?" Or is it almost the DNA of how shots come together, do you feel like you can amplify that dreamlike detachment?

Fortin: That's a great question, and I think as you're editing something or anything, it's one day at a time, one scene at a time, one shot at a time, and it goes through you as an editor. You review it and it becomes a part of you, and you build each of these scenes individually each day. It comes together and then, all of a sudden, you have this massive timeline of scenes that are strung together. And it's a horrific, awful process to watch that first assembly edit of it because it's so painful, because it is so not the movie that this eventually becomes. But as a result of processing all that footage day by day, you start to remember certain visuals of it randomly.

When I'm out of the office, I can be shopping for my groceries and then I'll have a shot of Longlegs pop in my head, which is similar to perhaps the way that some of the scenes play out here where Lee Harker's out in her world and all of a sudden, whoa, there's a shot. And that's one of the joys of editing is you're working on a scene and then something will come in from the subconscious and it will connect to whatever scene you're working on right now is, and then you're putting these two things together. And then this third thing comes up and you're like, "What was that?" Or, "Should we try this?" And that's one of the joys is to come up with an idea or Oz will have an idea and we'll try it out, and, "Does that feel good?" "I don't know. I don't know." Well, it feels good to me.

Ng: One thing especially, it's hard to remember because we did work on Longlegs a year ago, but on the more recent projects that we're working on with Oz, and it'll come back to me as we discuss it, but as we're editing the project, there's this talking about remembering a nightmare and stuff like that. It's like, "How can we take a scene that exists in the plane of reality and bring it beyond just a person in a room?" Or, "How can we take something that two people talking isn't just two people talking?" There has to be an atmosphere of something beyond that that is seeping into reality.

And when you can have that happen, it becomes, I guess, the potential for creepiness or the atmosphere becomes more than you're just listening to people discussing or a person driving a car. It's no longer those elements. And when you can modulate the story by having little bumps of subconscious or this kind of energy that you can add into some sort of reality that the whole story starts to go above what is normal.

I know that the marketing has been very intentionally not showing what Longlegs looks like. And the marketing has been so effective that I was prepared for, "If this movie doesn't literally kill me, I'm going to be disappointed." But just literally the opening scene alone, those five minutes of the station wagon, the young Lee Harker, Longlegs standing there, and the reveal of the title, as soon as that happened, I was like, "F-ck, yes. This is what I was looking for." I wondered if you could talk about how you and Oz navigated when and how to reveal Longlegs, because the marketing is obviously going to be completely different from -- you're just trying to make this film so it's, you're not going to pull back a curtain, but how much do we tease? Is it a matter of, were you cutting frame by frame? "Nope, that's too much of him." Is it the shots that you're using?

Ng: That's a good question because that is something that we discussed the whole time. It was like, "How much do we give?" And even beyond that, "How much information do we give about the details?" There's this fine line of you tell enough about something to create intrigue, but not too much that you tip people over and give them too much information and then they see everything coming.

All that was very similar to the way that Longlegs is treated because at one point in time, the intro scene did play out longer and you get a lot more backstory and information about it, but then it's like that thing where you just see enough and you want to see more. So it's like, well, this is the perfect way, and the beginning is just by having the title right there, and then people will be like, "What? What? Where's the rest of it?" Then you get that energy and curiosity to keep people hooked until later.

It's also interesting because the character of Longlegs has a soft intro. When you do finally get to see him, you get pieces of him. It's not like the curtain's open and there's a big fanfare. It happens very slowly in a way, which is his character being kind of bizarre, a little bit older, maybe tired as a character, and washed up. It's like there's this glam rock aspect to him, burnt out idea that his character carries and he's handled in that way.

Fortin: I do remember putting together the titles we're talking about, the opening titles, and I remember Oz had the T-Rex song in mind. And I remember him saying, "We're going to blow everybody's socks off. This is going to be f-cking cool." He's like, "Imagine sitting in the theater and having this..." He knew what it was going to be.

Longlegs is in theaters now. Come back next week for more of our conversation with Greg Ng and Graham Fortin.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity. You can contact Patrick Cavanaugh directly on Twitter.

Fans of the Scream horror franchise have a 7th installment to look forward to, but in the short term there are new Funko Pops to collect. Three new versions of Ghostface were released back in June, and the lineup includes a standard Pop, a 10-inch Pop, and a glow-in-the-dark Amazon exclusive that sold out quickly. A restock for the GITD exclusive might happen on Amazon in the future, for the time being you can grab one here at the Funko Shop while it lasts.

• Scream Ghostface Funko Pop - See at Entertainment Earth / Amazon
• Scream Ghostface Funko Pop (Jumbo) - See at Entertainment Earth / Amazon
• Scream Ghostface Funko Pop (Glow) - Amazon Exclusive / Funko
• Note that US shipping is free at Entertainment Earth on orders $79+
• You can check out more of today's Funko Pop releases right here, including new Chucky, Coraline, and Stranger Things waves (June 5th).

Neve Campbell Returns In Scream 7

While Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega won't appear in the upcoming sequel, it was confirmed back in March that Neve Campbell would be returning a Sidney Prescott after a pay dispute left her on the sidelines for Scream VI.

Neve Campbell officially announced her return for Scream 7 in an Instagram post. "Hi All. I'm so excited to announce this news!!! Sidney Prescott is coming back!!!!" Campbell wrote. "It's always been such a blast and an honor to get to play Sidney in the Scream movies. My appreciation for these films and for what they have meant to me, has never waned. I'm very happy and proud to say I've been asked, in the most respectful way, to bring Sidney back to the screen and I couldn't be more thrilled!!! Well actually I could. While I've been so incredibly lucky to make these films with both the master of horror Wes Craven and the wonderfully talented Matt and Tyler team, I've dreamt for many years of how amazing it would be to make one of these movies with Kevin Williamson at the helm. And now it's happening, Kevin Williamson is going to direct Scream 7! This was his baby and it's his brilliant mind that dreamt up this world. Kevin is not just an inspiration as an artist but has been a dear friend for many years. To the amazing Scream fans, I hope you are as excited as I am. See you on set @kevwilliamson"

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2, the second in a series of public domain horror movies known colloquially as The Poohniverse, is now available to rent or buy on Digital...with a twist. This week, Jagged Edge Productions announced that the film is debuting exclusively on Amazon, and for the first little while, will be available exclusively on Prime Video. The slasher sequel arrives from director Rhys Frake-Waterfield and is produced by and stars Scott Chambers. This film is the sequel to writer/director Frake-Waterfield's hit micro-budget film Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey, which gained viral popularity in 2022. In the dark reimagining of the Winnie-the-Pooh franchise, Christopher Robins has grown up and moved on, while Pooh and Piglet grow lonely and disillusioned - and eventually feral man-eating killers.

"Bigger and Badder. The sequel will feature new creature designs, a new cast, and a high death count," Rhys Frake-Waterfield said when describing the sequel. "However, this time Pooh and friends will be leaving the 100 Acre Wood to take their fight to the quiet community of Ashdown!"

Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 stars acclaimed actor Simon Callow (Shakespeare in Love, The Witcher), Tallulah Evans join the cast and will lead the film, starring alongside Scott Chambers (Doctor Jekyll, Malpractice) as Christopher Robin, Ryan Olivia (Seasoning House) as Winnie-the-Pooh, and Peter DeSouza-Feighoney (The Pope's Exorcist) as Young Winnie-the-Pooh. Callow stars as a character called Cavendish. The screenplay was written by Matt Leslie from a story he co-wrote with Rhys Frake-Waterfield; Shaune Harrison (World War Z, Game of Thrones) will be the creature/gore designer, while Paula Anne Booker will oversee sound effects. Vince Knight returns as cinematographer.

Here's the official synopsis for the movie: Deep within the 100-Acre-Wood, a destructive rage grows as Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Owl, and Tigger find their home and their lives endangered after Christopher Robin revealed their existence. Not wanting to live in the shadows any longer, the group decides to take the fight to the town of Ashdown, home of Christopher Robin, leaving a bloody trail of death and mayhem in their wake. Winnie and his savage friends will soon show everyone that the hunters will soon become the hunted, whilst looking to exact their revenge on Christopher Robin once and for all.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre players can soon expect to see big changes to the way that Grandpa perks work in the game. According to Gun Media, the developers have been looking for ways to make the character a bigger part of each match, and to do that, they've decided to lock Grandpa's perks behind different levels. If Slaughter family players want to unlock these perks, they have to make sure that Grandpa eats enough so that his Family Bond reaches that level. The change will go forward on July 16th, and players can expect the perks to fall into the following categories:

Level One:

• Animal Farm
• Experienced Stalkers
• Well Well Well
• Windoom

Level Two:

• Always in Sync
• Barge to the Point
• Brute Strength
• Suffocating Grip
• Swing for the Fences

Level Three:

• Don't Have All Day
• Excited Grandpa
• Exterior Alarms
• Nobody Escapes Hell
• Well Fed Young'uns

In theory, this change is going to add more strategy, and could have a major impact on each player's build. As Gun Media notes, if every Slaughter family member goes into the match with a Level Three perk, it's going to be a lot more important to make sure that Grandpa is well fed. The goal of this update is to change things up, and hopefully make Grandpa a more vital part of the game. Of course, encouraging the Slaughter family to focus on feeding Grandpa early could also help Victims, giving them more opportunity to escape while the Killers are distracted. That possibility should encourage players to work together as a team and divide up the work.

It remains to be seen whether that will actually happen, but reception to the change has been mostly positive on social media. Some players seem genuinely enthusiastic about these changes, while others are more cautiously optimistic. It's easy to see what the developers are going for with these changes, and Gun Media has already said that it will be listening to player feedback to see how people feel once the new update goes live next week. That's not the only thing players will have to look forward to on July 16th, as that day will also see the release of Sonny's Outfit Pack II.

How do you feel about these changes to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre? Do you think this will make for a better game? Share your thoughts with me directly on Twitter at @Marcdachamp, on Bluesky at @Marcdachamp, or on Instagram at @Dachampgaming!

Actor Winona Ryder was a staple of a number of classic genre films, including Heathers, Edward Scissorhands, and Beetlejuice, but she was introduced to an entirely fresh generation of audiences when she joined Stranger Things. Despite not being entirely aware of what "streaming" meant, Ryder recently recalled how she maintained true to her earliest collaborators, noting that she only agreed to take on the role of Joyce Byers in the Netflix series if creators Matt and Ross Duffer would grant her time away from the project if Tim Burton ever decided to move forward with a Beetlejuice sequel. While it took nearly a decade after that agreement for that sequel to actually happen, the Duffers honored that deal ahead of filming the fifth and final season of Stranger Things.

"At the time, Tim and I were talking about the Beetlejuice sequel," Ryder shared with Harper's Bazaar. "There have been moments over the last 15 years that we thought it was gonna happen but, again, that's a thing that it had to be perfect with everybody in order for it to happen. But I remember, in my first meeting with the Duffer brothers, I said, 'As long as, if Beetlejuice 2 happens, you let me go do that,' and they agreed. Luckily, it worked out. That was my one condition."

When Stranger Things was released, Ryder was easily the most famous name attached to the project, with the merits of the storytelling itself ultimately being what launched the project's popularity into becoming one of the biggest TV shows of the past decade. Ryder understandably couldn't have predicted the project would be such a hit, especially given that she signed on after only reading the first episode.

"She is a character that I'm literally on my tenth year playing her. Absolute first for me, to play a character for that long," the actor confessed. "It was a huge -- to say yes to one episode, they only gave me the pilot episode. I didn't, at the time, know what streaming was. It was terrifying in that regard."

Having starred in projects like Bram Stoker's Dracula, Little Women, and Alien: Resurrection, Ryder is no stranger to taking on high-profile roles in beloved projects, but the upcoming Beetlejuice Beetlejuice will mark the first time she's reviving a character she helped create.

Stay tuned for updates on the final season of Stranger Things. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice lands in theaters on September 6th.

What do you think of the actor's comments? Contact Patrick Cavanaugh directly on Twitter or on Instagram to talk all things Star Wars and horror!

It's a big summer for franchise movies with many new titles like Twisters and Deadpool & Wolverine headed to the big screen this month. However, the fun won't stop here. There are also some exciting titles to look forward to in August, including Alien: Romulus, the latest installment to the beloved franchise that began with Alien back in 1979. If you're looking forward to catching the sci-fi/horror flick on the big screen, you're in luck, because tickets for Alien: Romulus are officially on sale.

"Calling all horror and sci-fi fans! Starting today, tickets are now available on Fandango for Alien: Romulus, premiering in theaters on Friday, August 16," 20th Century Studios shared in a press release. "For fans who can't wait until August, Fandango is giving an exclusive look into the film with a special video featuring Alien director Ridley Scott and Alien: Romulus director Fede ?lvarez. The legendary directors discuss the new film, how it connects to the first movie, and more. Check out the conversation here!"

You can get your Alien: Romulus tickets here.

How To Watch Alien Franchise At Home:

In addition to announcing that Alien: Romulus tickets are on sale, 20th Century Studios wants fans who are "craving a horror fix from the comfort of your couch" to know that Fandango at Home offers an Alien 6-Film Collection and Alien Anthology Bundle, "making a movie marathon easier than ever. " The films are also available to stream on Hulu.

What Is Alien: Romulus About?

Alien: Romulus is being billed as more of a spinoff rather than a direct continuation of the Alien franchise and will see a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.

Alien: Romulus stars Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla), David Jonsson (Agatha Christie's Murder is Easy), Archie Renaux (Shadow and Bone), Isabela Merced (The Last of Us), Spike Fearn (Aftersun), Aileen Wu. Fede ?lvarez (Evil Dead, Don't Breathe) directs from a screenplay he wrote with frequent collaborator Rodo Sayagues (Don't Breathe 2) based on characters created by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett.

According to Fandango's 2024 Summer Movies Survey, Alien: Romulus "was voted the #2 most anticipated summer horror/suspense movie, the #3 most anticipated returning franchise, and the #5 most anticipated movie to see in IMAX."

Alien: Romulus hits theaters on August 16th.

Alien: Romulus is heading the theaters next month, and the new sci-fi/horror-thriller is expected to take the beloved franchise back to its roots. The film stars Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla), David Jonsson (Agatha Christie's Murder is Easy), Archie Renaux (Shadow and Bone), Isabela Merced (The Last of Us), Spike Fearn (Aftersun), and Aileen Wu. Fede ?lvarez (Evil Dead, Don't Breathe) helmed the film from a script he wrote with frequent collaborator Rodo Sayagues (Don't Breathe 2). Today, 20th Century Studios released a new behind-the-scenes look at the film that features Spaeny, ?lvarez, and more teasing what's to come.

"The whole idea behind this film was to really take it back to basics and make it a pure horror movie again," ?lvarez teases in the featurette. It's also confirmed that the film is set between Alien and Aliens. "A horrifying return to the big screen," 20th Century Studios captioned the video. "Experience Alien: Romulus in IMAX. In theaters everywhere August 16." You can check out the behind-the-scenes video below:

What Is Alien: Romulus About?

Alien: Romulus is being billed as more of a spinoff rather than a direct continuation of the Alien franchise and will see a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe. ?lvarez has previously opened up about how a deleted scene from James Cameron's Aliens featuring young colonists inspired Romulus' story.

"My first instinct, just to try something different that hasn't been seen before, was to approach it form the angle of characters who are not professionals or scientists; they're not even adults," he said. "I liked this concept of putting people in the front seat of the story who are closer to what the audience is -- not that the audience is young, more that the audience is completely virgin to the realities of space. When the characters are professionals, they know more than you do. But when they're still in their early 20s, they don't know how to operate the f-cking airlock."

He continued, "All their parents probably worked on the same ship when they were kids, and that's how they got to know each other ... There's a lot of history between them because they're the only family they have. They truly act more like surrogate siblings; some of them even lived under the same roof. A lot of the big themes of the movie are about siblinghood and what does that mean? The Romulus of it all, and the bigger plot with Weyland-Yutani, is actually connected to that as well."

Alien: Romulus hits theaters on August 16th.

Yesterday, Nintendo got the whole internet talking when it released a brief teaser trailer for a new horror game, which seems to revolve around a character named Emio. At this time, Nintendo has offered no further details about the game, and the trailer gave us nothing in the way of information. However, we now have an indication at some of the subject matter the game will tackle thanks to the Australian version of the game's trailer. In the region, the game has been given a MA 15+/Restricted 13 rating, due to "violence, cruelty, domestic abuse, and suicide themes."

This might sound pretty dark for a Nintendo published game, but it's not totally unheard of. Games like Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem and Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water were published by Nintendo on GameCube and Wii U, and both games touched on similar themes; Maiden of Black Water in particular deals a lot with the topic of suicide. Obviously this doesn't offer us any idea what to expect from Emio's gameplay, but it does give us some clues about the game's narrative.

Unfortunately, Nintendo has given no indication when we'll learn more details about Emio, including when we'll be getting a gameplay reveal or even a release date. The only thing we saw in the teaser trailer is a man standing with a paper bag mask on his head with a changing face drawn on in marker. It's very unlike Nintendo to just drop a random teaser trailer with no information about the game itself, so we're in completely uncharted territory for the publisher!

At this time, it's impossible to say whether Emio will be released this year. Following last month's Nintendo Direct, Switch's first-party line-up has filled up considerably over the next few months. Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition comes out next week, while The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is arriving in September, Super Mario Party Jamboree in October, and Mario & Luigi: Brothership in November. Nintendo already has a few games announced for 2025 as well, including Donkey Kong Country Returns HD, Pokemon Legends: Z-A, and Metroid Prime 4. Hopefully we'll learn soon where Emio slots in with the rest of those plans!

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French director Coralie Fargeat's breakout horror film with American audiences was 2017's Revenge, and now she's back with her first feature since that release with The Substance. Starring Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, and Dennis Quaid, the film already premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, where it scored Best Screenplay, and now the first teaser for the madness and mayhem has been unleashed. Much like Revenge, the film looks to be as gruesome as it is stylish, with this teaser also spotlighting some of the movie's more bombastic reviews. Check out the teaser trailer for The Substance below before it hits theaters on September 20th.

The Cannes Film Festival described the movie, "Have you ever dreamed of a better version of yourself? You should try this new product: The Substance. It changed my life. With The Substance, you can generate another version of yourself, younger, more beautiful, more perfect... Just share the time. One week for one, one week for the other. A perfect balance of seven days. Easy isn't it?If you follow the instructions, what could go wrong?"

In addition to being a body horror movie, this synopsis also teases that it could borrow elements of body-swapping, making for an altogether ambitious outing for the genre.

With 44 reviews, The Substance currently sits at 93% positive on aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes.

Over at The Daily Beast, Esther Zuckerman wrote of The Substance, "When I say The Substance, the Demi Moore-starring movie that rocked Cannes, is bloody that's an understatement. Take the amount of blood you think could be in this movie and double it. No, triple it. At one point during the run time you will think you have seen the bloodiest part, but just you wait. It gets bloodier. And yet the blood isn't even the part of this wonderfully batsh-t body horror spectacular that had me almost throwing up. It's a symphony of lurching flesh that might have you both gagging and cheering. The audience at my press screening of Cannes certainly did. We whooped, we gasped, and we clapped. It's the grossest thing you will see all year."

Meanwhile, David Ehrlich at IndieWire explained, "The Substance is a non-stop, go-until-you-gag epic that builds and builds and builds until it scars everyone in the audience with a deep-seated physiological aversion to the idea that we can ever hope to escape from ourselves. Fargaet's movie escalates with the kind of ultra-confident audacity that leaves you laughing out loud at sights that would otherwise make you shriek instead, and it simply refuses to end until even Harvey himself is sickened by how society pressures women into shaping their bodies."

The Substance hits theaters on September 20th.

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The next film in the Alien franchise is dubbed Alien: Romulus, and the release date is coming up fast on August 16th. Set between the events of the original 1979 Alien and the 1986 Aliens, Alien: Romulus has been pitched as a new direction for the series, though the same team behind the design of James Cameron's film were brought in to ensure that the setting for the new film is authentic. This includes the xenomorph builds, which are a big part of the new Funko Pop figures inspired by the movie.

The collection includes a super-sized xenomorph, a super-sized scorched xenomorph, Andy, and Rain. Pre-orders for these Alien: Romulus Funko Pops are now available here at Entertainment Earth (free U.S. shipping on orders $79+) and here on Amazon. If you want even more, you can check out all of this week's big Funko Pop releases right here.

A Scene From Aliens Inspired the Story for Romulus

Alien: Romulus is being billed as more of a spinoff rather than a direct continuation of the Alien franchise and will see a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe. Director Fede ?lvarez has previously opened up about how a deleted scene from James Cameron's Aliens featuring young colonists inspired Romulus' story.

"My first instinct, just to try something different that hasn't been seen before, was to approach it form the angle of characters who are not professionals or scientists; they're not even adults," he said. "I liked this concept of putting people in the front seat of the story who are closer to what the audience is -- not that the audience is young, more that the audience is completely virgin to the realities of space. When the characters are professionals, they know more than you do. But when they're still in their early 20s, they don't know how to operate the f-cking airlock."

He continued, "All their parents probably worked on the same ship when they were kids, and that's how they got to know each other ... There's a lot of history between them because they're the only family they have. They truly act more like surrogate siblings; some of them even lived under the same roof. A lot of the big themes of the movie are about siblinghood and what does that mean? The Romulus of it all, and the bigger plot with Weyland-Yutani, is actually connected to that as well."

Alien: Romulus stars Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla), David Jonsson (Agatha Christie's Murder is Easy), Archie Renaux (Shadow and Bone), Isabela Merced (The Last of Us), Spike Fearn (Aftersun), Aileen Wu. Fede ?lvarez (Evil Dead, Don't Breathe) directs from a screenplay he wrote with frequent collaborator Rodo Sayagues (Don't Breathe 2) based on characters created by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett.

Back in 2011, director James Wan helped establish himself as one of the most prolific names in contemporary horror when he unleashed Insidious, which has earned four follow-up adventures. Now fans can experience what it would be like to truly head to "The Further," as Halloween Horror Nights at both Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios Hollywood will be unleashing the haunted house "Insidious: The Further" this fall. Given the sprawling nature of the franchise up to this point, fans will likely be able to experience iconic components from a number of the films as opposed to being an adaptation of one specific entry. Halloween Horror Nights kicks off at Universal Orlando Resort starting August 30th and at Universal Studios Hollywood on September 5th.

Per press release, "Produced by Blumhouse Productions in association with Sony Pictures, Insidious tells the disturbing story of the Lamberts, a family haunted by evil supernatural forces after their son slips into an inexplicable comatose state after becoming possessed by a demonic entity. In the all-new Halloween Horror Nights haunted house, guests will follow in the footsteps of the Lamberts, encountering familiar settings and scares as they are transported directly into 'The Further' -- the ethereal place where ghosts and demons lurk. And just like in the films, guests will quickly learn that the paranormal creatures are here to stay..."

"Guests' journey into 'Insidious: The Further' begins as they step through the iconic red door, where many of the tormented spirits and demons from the franchise await -- determined to ensnare humans and steal their souls. Fans will come face-to-face with The Red-Faced Demon, who will attempt to lure them into his lair; the grim KeyFace, hoping to lock his victims in this dark dimension; the ghastly and dangerous Bride in Black; and the vengeful spirit of the Man Who Can't Breathe. As guests make their way through the haunted house, they'll go from red door to red door -- traveling deeper into a dark and timeless astral world where they must evade this collection of sinister creatures at every spine-chilling turn, or their souls will be trapped here...forever."

"Select tickets and special vacation packages for Universal Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights are on sale now, including single-night tickets, Express Passes, the R.I.P Tour, which provides Priority V.I.P. entry to the haunted houses, and the Behind the Screams: Unmasking the Horror Tour that offers a glimpse into how the scares are brought to life via a daytime, lights-on journey through select haunted house. Tickets for Universal Orlando's first-ever Premium Scream Night on Thursday, August 29th -- an unprecedented, limited-capacity event that gives fans access to everything they love about Halloween Horror Nights before the event officially opens -- are also now available. More information about all Universal Orlando's current Halloween Horror Nights offers and entitlements can be found at www.universalorlando.com/halloween.

"A variety of Halloween Horror Nights ticket options for Universal Studios Hollywood are now available, including General Admission, Universal Express, After 2 p.m. Day/Night, the Early Access Ticket, which provides access to select haunted houses beginning at 5:30 p.m. (subject to change), in advance of the scheduled 7 p.m. event opening time, the premium R.I.P. Tour and popular passes, Frequent Fear Pass and Ultimate Fear Pass, which enable guests to experience the scares again and again.

"Additional details, including new haunted houses coming to both Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando Resort, will be revealed soon. For more information and to purchase tickets for Universal Studios Hollywood's event, visit www.UniversalStudiosHollywood.com/Halloween. For more information and to purchase tickets for Universal Orlando's event, visit www.UniversalOrlando.com/Halloween."

Halloween Horror Nights kicks off at Universal Orlando Resort on August 30th and at Universal Studios Hollywood on September 5th.

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Once again, Funko delivered a big slate of new Pop figures this week, but one of the standouts is a wave of figures inspired by the Terrifier series of horror films, which will get a third installment On October 11th. Indeed, the wait for Art the Clown Funko Pops is finally over, and there are several options to choose from. If you're lucky, there's even a chance to score a Chase.

The collection includes a Funko Pop of Art the Clown with a knife, a bloody Art, and Art on a bike in the common lineup. There's also a an Art the Clown wearing sunflower sunglasses exclusive that offers up a chance to randomly score a limited edition bloody Chase figure. Pre-orders are available here at Entertainment Earth (free U.S. shipping on orders $79 or more), and here on Amazon. The Art the Clown With Glasses Pop is a Funko exclusive that you can grab right here while it lasts.

On Instagram, series creator Damien Leone had the following to say about Terrifier being honored with Funko Pops:

"I can honestly say there's nothing cooler than this! I've been dying to share this news for almost a year and now that I see people are pre-ordering, it's time to share! We have an official line of Art the Clown funko pops. As a funko collector, I must say this is one of the biggest honors and a dream come true! Most importantly I'm excited for you guys because I can't tell you how many Terrifier fans have come up to me over the years asking when an official Pop is gonna be released! Well, here they are and I really hope you enjoy them."

What Is Terrifier 3 About?

"Terrifier 2 marked the next horrifying chapter in the Art the Clown saga; in which the demonic killer, portrayed by David Howard Thornton, returns with a vengeance. Lauren LaVera became a breakout star and fans across the world embraced her as the next Final Girl. Terrifier veteran Samantha Scaffidi reprised her role as Victoria Heyes, and horror icon Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp) and professional wrestler Chris Jericho (AEW) made unforgettable cameos that had audiences talking.

"Set one year after its predecessor, Terrifier 2 continued the gruesome story of Art the Clown and his insatiable thirst for murder. When a sinister force resurrects Art, he is once again upon the unsuspecting residents of Miles County. Back for another Halloween, Art sets his sights on a teenage girl and her little brother, portrayed by LaVera and Elliott Fullam, respectively, delivering a chilling and relentless tale of horror. "

Terrifier 3 stars David Howard Thornton, who is once again reprising his role as Art the Clown. Lauren LaVera is reprising her role as Sienna, with co-stars including Samantha Scaffidi, Elliot Fullam, AEW star Chris Jericho and Daniel Roebuck, who is set to debut as Santa Claus. Franchise creator/writer/director/producer Damien Leone is once again at the helm, and series producer Phil Falcone is also back.

Terrifier 3 hits theaters on October 11th. The first two Terrifier films are now streaming on Peacock.

While it took three decades for audiences to finally get a follow-up to Hocus Pocus, star Bette Midler is just as hopeful as fans are that a new entry won't take as long to move forward, as she recently teased that she hopes Disney moves forward on the project while the cast is "still breathing." Unlike the debut movie, which was a relative disappointment when it was first released back in 1993, Hocus Pocus 2 was a hit almost immediately, which resulted in the confirmation that a third film was in the works. Last year's writers' and actors' strikes understandably impacted the development of all movie projects, though with those strikes resolved, fans are hungry for updates.

"I haven't seen the script but I've heard rumblings, but I haven't seen anything," Midler shared with Busy This Week. "But I think if they're gonna [make it], they oughta, because time is not just marching, time is like, barrel-assing to the finish line. Get us while we're still breathing."

During her appearance on the show, Midler also expressed her own desire to return to the role ever since she play Winifred Sanderson back in the early '90s. Given that the Halloween-themed adventure opened not only in the summer, but just weeks after the release of Jurassic Park, it took years of broadcasts on various networks to thrive with younger viewers.

"When it first came out, I don't want to use the word 'dud,' but I will use it in this context because, as the years went on, it cumulatively got more and more and more of an audience until it became a cult classic," the actor recalled. "I think it was about 10 years after it had been released that we started agitating for us to do a sequel and we were just met with absolute disinterest, complete disinterest, and it's my favorite part that I've ever played."

Due to the massive popularity of the Disney+ sequel, it took less than a year for a sequel to officially be announced, with news emerging of a Hocus Pocus 3 back in June of 2023. Hocus Pocus 2 director Anne Fletcher and writer Jen D'Angelo both expected to return.

With Hocus Pocus 2 having wrapped filming in January of 2022 and then going on to premiere later that year, it's possible a Hocus Pocus 3 could film sometime later this year or in early 2025 and still earn a Halloween 2025 release date.

Stay tuned for updates on Hocus Pocus 3.

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It was previously revealed that the next chapter in the V/H/S series would pivot slightly from its predecessors and explore tales of terror set more in a sci-fi world, with Shudder today confirming the next installment, V/H/S/Beyond, would be arriving on the service in October. Much like previous entries, the upcoming project is set to feature a blend of new and established filmmakers, with the roster of Beyond including segments from Drag Me to Hell and Barbarian star Justin Long as well as The Haunting of Hill House creator Mike Flanagan. You can check out the full roster of talent below before V/H/S/Beyond hits Shudder on October 4th.

Per press release, "Shudder, AMC Networks' premium streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural, revealed today the title, release date, and director lineup of the seventh installment of the V/H/S franchise. The Shudder Original Film in association with Studio71, officially titled V/H/S/Beyond, will premiere on the streamer on October 4th and will feature six new bloodcurdling tapes, placing horror at the forefront of a sci-fi-inspired hellscape."

The lineup of filmmakers is as follows:

• "Stork": Directed by Jordan Downey, Screenplay by Downey & Kevin Stewart
• "Fur Babies": Written and Directed by Christian Long & Justin Long
• "Live and Let Dive": Directed by Justin Martinez, Story by Martinez & Ben Turner, Screenplay by Ben Turner
• "Dream Girl": Directed by Virat Pal, Written by Pal and Evan Dickson
• "Stowaway": Directed by Kate Siegel, Written by Mike Flanagan
• And a Special Presentation by Jay Cheel
  

V/H/S/Beyond is produced by Josh Goldbloom, James Harris, and Michael Schreiber, and executive produced by Adam Boorstin. The film follows on the heels of the record-breaking sixth installment in the franchise, V/H/S/85, which debuted Friday, October 6, 2023 and became the most-watched exclusive film premiere of the year for Shudder and AMC+.

The original trilogy of V/H/S films became an unexpected birthplace for filmmakers currently dominating the genre space, with those films featuring segments from Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire's Adam Wingard, MaXXXine's Ti West, Moon Knight's Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, and Dark Side of the Ring's Jason Eisener. After years of the franchise's stagnation, it has been revived in recent years and features a mix of newcomers and genre veterans, which includes V/H/S/85 featuring a segment from The Black Phone's Scott Derrickson.

V/H/S/Beyond hits Shudder on October 4th.

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With the original Rosemary's Baby movie exploring a world of emotional manipulation, sexual assault, and Satan worship, it understandably scored an R rating, despite not being particularly violent or graphic. A prequel to that story, Apartment 7A, is set for release later this year and it is confirmed to also have an R rating, which it earned for "some violent content and drug use." With countless horror movies pushing the boundaries of good taste by delivering brutal violence on screen in creative ways, this rating will likely satisfy fans of the original story in that it seemingly won't hold back on the horror, but also won't pivot into an entirely different tone that would deliver buckets of blood. Apartment 7A is expected to hit Paramount+ this Halloween season.

The logline for Apartment 7A describes the movie, "Set in 1965 New York City, and tells the story prior to the legendary horror classic Rosemary's Baby, exploring what happened in the apartment before Rosemary moved in. When a struggling, young dancer suffers a devastating injury, she finds herself drawn in by dark forces when a peculiar, well-connected, older couple promises her a shot at fame."

The movie stars Julia Garner (Ozark), Dianne Wiest (Mayor of Kingstown), Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe), Kevin McNally (Pirates of the Caribbean film series), Marli Siu (Everything I Know About Love), Andrew Buchan (All the Money in the World), Rosy McEwen (Blue Jean), and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Wonka). Apartment 7A was directed by Natalie Erika James, who previously delivered audiences Relic.

The original Rosemary's Baby was based on the 1967 book of the same name from Ira Levin, which earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay and scored Ruth Gordon an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. In 1974, Levin's sequel novel Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby was adapted into a TV movie, while 2014 saw Zoe Salda?a adapt the original novel into a two-part miniseries for NBC.

"Apartment 7A is the perfect way to kick off the Halloween season," Jeff Grossman, executive vice president of programming at Paramount+, previously shared in a statement about the upcoming prequel. "Director Natalie Erika James and the prodigious creative team have crafted a chilling and clever new entry into the genre."

Stay tuned for updates on Apartment 7A.

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Filmmaker Sam Raimi got his start in the world of horror, and while genre fans will always think of him as a horror filmmaker first and foremost, he would go on to helm massive blockbusters, such as a trilogy of Spider-Man movies starring Tobey Maguire and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. News comes from Deadline today that Raimi has been tapped to direct the horror movie Send Help, which marks his first time directing a horror movie since Drag Me to Hell in 2009. While Raimi has produced horror movies and directed horror TV shows in the last 15 years, this marks his first return to feature-length horror directing in more than a decade.

Deadline describes of the new movie, "According to our sources, the film is described as a two-hander horror thriller set on an island. The story is said to fall somewhere between Rob Reiner's Stephen King adaptation Misery and Robert Zemeckis' classic Castaway."

Send Help was written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, who wrote 2003's Freddy vs. Jason and the 2009 Friday the 13th reboot.

The movie that helped put Raimi on the map was The Evil Dead, which earned a positive endorsement from horror writer Stephen King. Raimi earned enough support from the picture to develop Evil Dead II, which served both as a reboot of the original experience as well as an expansion on the ideas, with he and star Bruce Campbell ultimately concluding the trilogy with Army of Darkness.

Raimi offered up audiences a variety of experiences in the '90s with projects like Darkman, The Quick and the Dead, and The Gift, before entering the world of Marvel with 2002's Spider-Man. DC projects like Superman and Batman dominated the big screen for years, though 2000's X-Men marked a turning point for the Marvel universe. While that movie was a modest hit that generated excitement in other Marvel characters, Raimi's Spider-Man was a massive blockbuster, as were the next two films in the trilogy.

The success of Spider-Man also resulted in a variety of other Marvel figures jumping to the big screen, though Daredevil, Fantastic Four, and Ghost Rider all failed to live up to the critical success of Raimi's films. By the late 2000s, Marvel Studios launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which brought to life characters who weren't owned by Sony or Fox.

While Raimi returned to his horror roots with Drag Me to Hell and also developed the Evil Dead sequel series Ash vs. Evil Dead, he had the full-circle moment of returning to the world of Marvel 20 years after he helped pave the way for the Marvel renaissance when he directed the Doctor Strange sequel in 2022.

Stay tuned for updates on Send Help.

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The Conjuring 4 has finally gotten a release date. Warner Bros. Says that "The Untitled Conjuring Finale" will hit theaters on September 5, 2025. This news comes tethered to an announcement of Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride moving up a month to September 29, 2025 as well. That fall is going to be a busy month for Horror fans. Not only will they be able to see The Bride and another Conjuring movie. But, Universal's Saw XI hits theaters in the later part of the month. As it stands, this is looking like the swan song for James Wan's fan-favorite scary franchise. He's been hinting at this next movie being the end of the road for a while.

In an interview with Collider, the director laid out some thoughts about the final Conjuring film. They're trying to do their best to wrap things up in a satisfying manner. "Yeah, we are working on it right now. With the Conjuring films, we are very precious about [them]," Wan previously said. "And so we kind of want to just take our time to make sure we get it right and to make sure the emotion of the Warren stories that we want to tell, and moving into, and potentially wrapping up, we just want to make sure that it's the right thing, the right story that we're telling."

The Nun II Heralded The End Of The Conjuring

By all indications, this is the final trip to The Conjuring universe. (Barring a potential reboot down the line.) According to our ComicBook critic Kofi Outlaw, the franchises' last experience kind of heralded this development. The Nun II wasn't exactly reinvinteing the wheel during its run. So, our writer argued that it was probably time to close up shop.

"The Nun II is the eighth film in The Conjuring franchise, and it's also the clearest example yet that this franchise is starting to stretch itself thin. The story of the sequel picks up four years after the first film, in 1956," Outlaw says. "Sister Irene (Taissa Farmiga) has been trying to live a quiet life in a convent in Italy. Meanwhile, Frenchie/Maurice (Jonas Bloquet) has been slowly making his way across Europe, still unaware that the dreaded demon Valak attached itself to him when he save Irene from being possessed in the first film."

He adds, "However, as Valak gets closer and closer to a holy artifact that's been missing for years, its evil begins to manifest in stronger and stronger waves at a boarding school in Tarascon, France. Eventually, the church gets wind that the demon is still alive and active, and Irene is recruited to hunt down and battle the evil entity again."

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Longlegs opens with a station wagon pulling up to a snowy farmhouse, with the aspect ratio of the footage replicating that of an 8mm camera. Despite initially seeming like it is a vintage home movie, the camera begins to pan in odd ways, immediately breaking the assumption that we're looking at handheld memories from a bygone era. A young girl exits the farmhouse to meet her guest, though that guest plays an unexpected game of hide and seek. When the young girl does confront this figure, their exchange is clearly nefarious based solely on body language, as this visitor identifies himself as "Longlegs." This opening scene is easily one of the most frightening opening scenes of any horror movie this year, which only sets the stage for the kind of terror writer/director Osgood Perkins is about to unleash on audiences for the next 101 minutes.

A majority of the film unfolds in the early '90s, exploring how FBI agent Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) has an almost-otherwordly ability to track down serial killers. For nearly two decades, Oregon has been the target of bizarre murders that eliminate entire families, yet each of them takes on the appearance of murder-suicides. Similar to the Zodiac Killer, the FBI has been receiving letters full of Satanic codes and taunts from a figure known as Longlegs (an unrecognizable Nicolas Cage), with Agent Carter (Blair Underwood) enlisting Harker to use her abilities to get to the bottom of the mystery.

One thing that has been evident throughout Perkins' entire career is he will entice viewers with an experience that seems familiar on the surface, only to take it in entirely different directions. With the opening scenes of Longlegs, he establishes the film's surreal tone and its approach to fear, serving as a litmus test for whether a viewer will join the ride of the dream-like and disquieting narrative or if the movie won't quite live up to its ominous and effective marketing campaign.

Perkins' ability to draw a viewer's eye with his framing and composition is nearly unmatched in the horror world. Whether it be a farmhouse, a dark hallway, a barn, or a cabin, Perkins manages to keep you both focused on the characters in the frame while your eyes constantly dart to the shadows of a scene to see if they can find clues about what's really going on. He also uses the camera to create a detachment between the audience and the characters, as nearly every shot features a character in the center of the frame, with their bodies either parallel or perpendicular to its lens. While so many other movies attempt to create framing and blocking that immerses an audience in those worlds organically, Perkins keeps you at a distance, almost as if to imply it would be too dangerous for an audience to be fully part of this world as he creates a more dream-like atmosphere.

Echoing the visual detachment of Longlegs is the script itself, which similarly offers stilted and sparse dialogue that makes every character feel uncomfortable in their own skin. Underwood's Carter is easily the most realized character in the movie, while Harker, Longlegs, and Harker's mother Ruth (Alicia Witt) all speak less like actual people and more like trying to remember conversations you had in a dream. While the narrative is assuredly a horror movie, the overall tone feels more in line with surrealist filmmakers like David Lynch, Yorgos Lanthimos, or Lars von Trier.

Thanks to starring in projects like It Follows, The Guest, and Watcher, Monroe has become a favorite in the horror crowd and for good reason. While some of those previous projects have allowed her to fight back against various threats that have targeted her, Longlegs showcases what's easily the most frightened and tortured performance of Monroe's career. Not only is she attempting to cope with the terror this killer is wreaking on the community, but Harker is also attempting to unlock parts of her past that might be the key to finding Longlegs and uncovering the real motivations for his mayhem. It's almost as if it physically pains Harker to interact with anyone around her, as if this would somehow rope her into the nightmare she feels she's been living in. Cage's recognizable face, however, is obscured by facial prosthetics, which allows his performance to speak for itself. Given the heightened tone of the entire experience, some audiences will dismiss Cage's performance as being cartoonish or silly, though in the world that Perkins has created, it feels like just the right balance of unhinged, intimidating, and childlike.

Between the premise and the setting of Longlegs, it's going to be hard for audiences to not draw direct comparisons between the movie and seminal serial-killer stories like The Silence of the Lambs or David Fincher's Seven (with a bit of Zodiac tossed in for good measure). Understandably, seeing a young, female FBI agent being tossed into a case in which she might be over her head, as well as Longlegs' '90s-set storyline, will evoke comparisons to Jodie Foster's Clarice Starling, while the serial killer with biblically motivated attacks who teases authorities with cryptic letters that need to be decoded will feel reminiscent of Fincher's entries in the space. This isn't to say that Longlegs feels derivative of either of those experiences, more that the cultural impact of those movies is still so significant, it'll be hard to shake that familiarity while watching the movie.

Where the experience starts to falter is in the final act, which is when all the puzzle pieces of the narrative start to come together. Anyone who's even seen a trailer or poster for Longlegs has a pretty good idea that the mystery isn't about who is committing these crimes, but both viewers and the characters want to know why he's doing these things and how he's gotten away with it for so many years. Much like how Perkins' dialogue and camera movements keep a viewer at a safe distance, the reveals about what's really going on doesn't feel fully realized. While there's a lot of allure to be found in keeping details vague and ambiguous, Perkins only does the bare minimum to explain the nature of the horrifying ordeal and leaves a lot to the audience to figure out. In this sense, Longlegs will be a frustrating experience for audiences who want the answers explicitly detailed to them, and even those who enjoy the ambiguity of evil might not be entirely satiated with the explanation of "Satanism...?" The broad strokes and ambiguity of the plot motivations do keep in line with the dreamlike nature of the film's aesthetic, keeping the answers to the mysteries just beyond reach.

With Longlegs, Perkins continues his trend of delivering entirely singular visions of terror, which started with The Blackcoat's Daughter and continued with I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House and Gretel & Hansel. The marketing campaign is bolstering that this movie could quite literally kill you with how scary it is, and while most of us will live to see the movie and tell the tale, what you've witnessed isn't something you're likely to shake off anytime soon. Even if the ultimate resolution of the story doesn't fully live up to the breadcrumbs the first two acts of the film set up, knowing that such an unconventional, ambitious, and uncompromising experience that could fall under the umbrella of any generic murder mystery feels like nothing short of a triumph.

Rating: 4 out of 5

Longlegs lands in theaters on July 12th.

Nicolas Cage is in rare form in Longlegs. Back in November 2022, reports emerged that Osgood Perkins (Gretel & Hansel) would be directing a sinister script that he penned himself, one which told the tale of this titular satanic serial killer. Three months later, Cage joined Longlegs as both the film's star and producer. Filming ran for a quick six weeks in Vancouver, leaving many of the specifics about Longlegs' plot to be kept under wraps. This particularly included Cage as Longlegs himself, as zero set photos of him as the nominal antagonist surfaced nor were any freeze-framable glimpses of his face visible in teaser trailers.

Longlegs Stars Reveal First Reactions to Nic Cage's Character

The pulse-pounding terror permeated throughout the Longlegs production when Nic Cage walked on set.

Speaking to ComicBook, Longlegs leading star Maika Monroe revealed that the first time she met Cage was when they shared their first scene together in the film.

"I didn't meet him. I didn't see anything at all of what Longlegs looked like," Monroe recalled. "The first time that I saw him was uh when Oz called action and I walked onto the set. It was incredibly shocking and haunting and exhilarating."

Co-star Blair Underwood had some time to prepare himself but still was left speechless when he encountered the titular terror.

"I'd heard rumblings. I had been working a couple of days before he came on set, but I had heard rumblings of his approach to the character. I wasn't shocked but terrified nonetheless," Underwood said. "So much of this film either stylistically or the content feels familiar, but then it turns into something that you don't expect. It turns into something very different. Then even when I saw what he was doing and how he brought the character to the screen was really some remarkable stuff."

Director Osgood Perkins was the most privy to Longlegs, as he had worked on the character's design from the very beginning.

"Meanwhile, I'd seen it every step of the way. Every little thing is chosen between Nic and myself or costumes and myself. There's a lot of conversations that go to building the thing," Perkins shared. "By the time I see the whole package put together, it's the summation of a bunch of efforts and a bunch of hits and misses. Things that have been shaded and sharpened and dulled and crafted.

"But then having him walk onto the set for the first time, on his first day, we were shooting the snowy exterior at Lee's childhood home, walking alongside him and just watching everybody watching him appear and manifest and roll in, roll up," Perkins continued. "It was really good especially because a lot of the people working on this movie are very young people. There's like this whoa quality. 'Huh?! What?!' Because it was that gnarly. And he's Nicholas Cage too. Geiger counters are going off just by his natural presence."

Longlegs slithers into theaters this Friday, July 12th.

Interview With the Vampire concluded its second season last week on AMC, but the story is just getting started. Ahead of the Season 2 finale, AMC renewed the series based on Anne Rice's novels from The Vampire Chronicles for a third season set to see Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) get to tell his story. With series showrunner Rolin Jones having already said that the novel he wants to dig into next being The Vampire Lestat, fans of Rice's work already have some idea what that might entail but in an interview with The Los Angeles Times, Jones makes it even more clear: they're going for a "little pop masterpiece".

"Lestat becomes a rock star. Let's star there," Jones said when asked what Season 3 of Interview With the Vampire will look like. "We're going to do a lot with that and are excited about potentially working with Daniel Hart who's done the music for the first two seasons. We're going to try to beat Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Rocky Horror. We're about to try to make a little pop masterpiece."

He added, "The deeper I get into [Anne Rice's] books, I'm slowly catching up to the love that the people who really love the show have for these books and clutch them to their hearts. So many of the artists who worked on our show talked about how the tone of the book allowed them to think about coming out. These books are important to people. I feel very privileged and very lucky to be this person who's shepherding that to a new generation at this point."

What Will Season 3 of Interview With the Vampire Be About?

Here's how AMC describes Season 3 of Interview With the Vampire: In season three, resentful of the perfunctory portrayal in the trashy bestseller 'Interview With The Vampire,' the Vampire Lestat sets his story straight in a way only the Vampire Lestat can--by starting a band and going on tour. Gabrielle. Nicholas. Magnus. Marius. Those Who Must Be Kept. They join Louis, Armand, Molloy, Sam, Raglan, Fareed and others we can't tell you about yet on a sexy pilgrimage across space, time and trauma. No Auto-Tuning. No Trigger Warnings. All Feels Amplified.

"When you buy the rights to 18 Anne Rice novels that have sold more than 150 million copies, in your wildest dreams you hope there's a show as good as Interview on the other end," said Dan McDermott, president of entertainment and AMC Studios for AMC Networks. "What Rolin has done with these stories and characters, working so closely with Mark, as the steward of this universe, has exceeded the loftiest version of our expectations. We can't wait to see where this creative team takes the series from here and know we are walking alongside an incredibly loyal and passionate base of fans who feel as strongly about this material as we do."

"Thank you to the brilliant casts and crews of the first two seasons that got us to this day. Thank you to the rabid, beautifully unwell fandom that scaled the castle walls to get us to this day," showrunner Rolin Jones said. "Thank you to Dan McDermott, Ben Davis for the funds and tools to continue the great work of dramatizing Anne Rice's extraordinary novels. And sincere apologies to the family and friends of actor Sam Reid, for the possession that continues to this day. Monsieur L extends his promise to return his body upon cancellation (may that evening never come.)"

The horror comedy Shaun of the Dead put filmmaker Edgar Wright and actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost on the map, and while the following of the film grows with each passing year, a continuation of that world hasn't emerged over the past 20 years. Pegg recently recalled how studio Universal Pictures owns the rights to the property and could reboot it if they wanted, though if they did, he and his collaborators would be "incensed" by the notion, due to how personal the core storyline is to their own lives. Luckily, there have been no substantial talks of ever attempting to replicate the film's successes, so Pegg and company can rest easy for now.

"I mean, Universal owns it. If they choose to reboot it, then they can if they want I guess. Although Edgar and I would be incensed," Pegg revealed to The Hollywood Reporter. "Shaun of the Dead is incredibly personal. There's so much of us in that film. The whole joke of Ed and Shaun not being able to ever come out of The Winchester was real. That was about Nick and I, that was about our decision to just stay in a North London pub. Edgar was always in town. He was always in Soho, and he always wanted us to come into town and hang out at [London private members' club] The Groucho, and we never did. We always wanted to be in The Shepherds [pub]. My girlfriend, now my wife, was the same. She was like, 'Are we going to The Shepherds again?' That inspired that whole storyline."

He continued, "The whole thing with Shaun's mum, the stepdad, I had a problematic relationship with my stepfather. It was Edgar's idea to kill the mum. I couldn't believe it when he said that, but it was the best decision. There's so much of our own heart and soul in that film. If someone was to reboot it, it would be a cynical and exploitative exercise. I would hope that people are in love with our Shaun enough to resist a reboot. Gary King [Pegg's character in The World's End] as well, that was a lot about my own alcoholism. A really personal film."

Pegg's remarks imply he would be upset if a reboot either attempted to replicate the personal elements that were incorporated into the adventure or if a project merely took the title and went in an entirely different direction. The actor went on to cite another project that, while a compelling movie in its own right, cashed in on a more recognizable title.

"I always got annoyed at Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead remake -- it's a great movie. It's really exciting. But I hated the fact they called it Dawn of the Dead, because that was George [Romero]'s film," Pegg pointed out. "They could have called it 'Deadish,' which was a great line in the film that one of the actors used, and it still would have been a great film, but when you just take a title because people recognize it, it's so disrespectful to the original."

Luckily, while there was a brief period in which an American remake as a TV series was considered for a reboot of Shaun of the Dead, no substantial reports have emerged in the 20 years since it was released.

Stay tuned for the potential future of Shaun of the Dead.

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When filmmaker Ti West originally conceived the story of Maxine Minx, he saw the opportunity to make a trilogy of films that explored her quest for fame, so while MaXXXine has been billed as the final chapter in a trilogy, West himself has teased that there could be the possibility of expanding the story at some point in the future. During a recent interview with Variety, West offered an update on his plans, and he did confirm how MaXXXine felt like it was a satisfying way to conclude the story that started with X and continued with Pearl, though once he's able to spend some time where he's not required to think about MaXXXine, he might be inspired to pursue a continuation. MaXXXine is in theaters now.

"Making a movie is, at best, two years of trauma, so we're just figuring out a story worth enduring that. I'm very grateful to A24. I'm very proud of these three movies," West shared with the outlet. "And it feels like a good place to stop, but I do have ideas of how to continue this 'universe,' or whatever you want to call it. But in about two weeks, I will wake up for the very first time not thinking about something related to these movies. Then, the movie is done, it's out, and I'm off to the next thing. And if that brings me back around to X, great. But if it brings me to something else, that's fine too. So, we'll see."

The film series wasn't conceived of as a trilogy at first, with West first wanting to tell the story of X and, due to quarantine protocols of shooting in New Zealand during the pandemic, resulted in not only the expansion of the story with star Mia Goth, but the team even used the same crew from X to secretly make the prequel Pearl. Not only was X a hit with fans, but so was Pearl, and with MaXXXine arriving in theaters this weekend, there's already a proven audience for this series.

If West does realize he wants to return to this world, it likely won't be to follow the trajectory of Maxine. With Pearl serving more as a standalone prequel that connects to X and having little connection to MaXXXine, we wouldn't be surprised to see either a film that explores a supporting character or a story that replicates the spirit of cinema from another decade.

"I'll say that, if there's more to be done in this X franchise, it's certainly not what people are expecting it to be," West shared with Entertainment Weekly this past May. "It's not just picking up again a few years later and whatever. It's different in the way that Pearl was an unexpected departure. It's another unexpected departure."

MaXXXine is in theaters now.

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Wednesday, Netflix's Tim Burton-created spinoff of The Addams Family, is set to become the biggest production ever filmed in Ireland. The first season had filmed in Romania, so the second season moving to Ireland is a boon to the local economy (although, as Variety noted in a recent story, it was hardly a surprise given that the move had already been unofficially known for a while). According to Screen Ireland, the amount spent locally by the production will make Wednesday the "largest production to ever film in Ireland," surpassing Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Per Variety, Irish prime minister Taoiseach Simon Harris visited the set of Wednesday, meeting with Burton, showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, and several of the series' cast and crew.

"I'm delighted to see Ireland continues to be chosen as a location to film series and movies which supports our economy, creates jobs, showcases our creative talents and promotes our country on a global stage," Harris said in a statement.

It's worth noting that Ireland and Northern Ireland are not the same place, so Wednesday sets this record without competing with the likes of Game of Thrones and Krypton, which both filmed in Belfast and had pretty elaborate productions.

The cast of Wednesday Season 2 will include Ortega, Steve Buscemi, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzman, Joanna Lumley, Christopher Lloyd, Emma Myers, Joy Sunday, Hunter Doohan, Fred Armisen, Thandiwe Newton, Victor Dorobantu, Billie Piper, Haley Joel Osment, Heather Matarazzo, Georgie Farmer, Moosa Mostafa, Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo, Isaac Ordonez, Evie Templeton, Owen Painter, Noah Taylor, Frances O'Connor, Joonas Suotamo, Jamie McShane and more. A recent report has indicated that Percy Hynes White, who drew controversy in 2023 after being accused of sexual abuse, will not be returning as Xavier Thorpe.

Per its official synopsis, Wednesday is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams' years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Wednesday's attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago -- all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships at Nevermore.

Series star Ortega -- who is stepping into a producer role this season -- had said that Wednesday season 2 would be backing away from the love story to lean more into horror and macabre elements.

"We've decided we want to lean into the horror aspect of the show a little bit more," Ortega said. "Because it is so lighthearted, and a show like this with vampires and werewolves and superpowers, you don't want to take yourself too seriously."

There are no details about the story for season 2 yet, but fans are waiting for that trailer to drop. Wednesday season 2 is expected on Netflix in 2025.

Audiences first met a mysterious character played by Djimon Hounsou in 2021's A Quiet Place Part II, with Hounsou returning to the franchise for A Quiet Place: Day One. This appearance by the character, who audiences learned was named Henri, sparked speculation among audiences about whether this meant that figures from Day One could have secretly been involved in the events of Part II, though director Michael Sarnoski doesn't think that would be the case. The director didn't, however, rule out the notion entirely, even joking that a future special edition of Part II could confirm such connections.

WARNING: Spoilers below for A Quiet Place: Day One

In addition to Joseph Quinn's Eric surviving the events of Day One, he's also joined by cat Frodo, as they managed to board a boat to get out of New York City, with Henri lending him some assistance. Part II takes place roughly 18 months after the events of Day One, but Sarnoski doesn't picture Eric and Frodo living in the same community as Henri.

When asked by CinemaBlend if he imagined Eric living in the community that aids the Abbott family in Part II, he admitted, "I mean, probably not. But the way that I imagined it was that it's not like we meet every single person on the island. We get a pretty quick glimpse into that society there. I don't think Joe Quinn is secretly in there."

He then joked, "Maybe when we do the George Lucas kind of re-release, we'll just CG a little Joe Quinn just kind of standing in the background. But no. I mean, maybe? Who knows? Maybe there is a cat. Let's say if you see a cat anywhere on that island, that was intended to be Frodo all along."

As it currently stands, the only significant connection between Day One and Part II is the character of Henri and, of course, the otherworldly monsters that hunt by sound. With A Quiet Place Part III on the way, it's unclear if that sequel will establish any further connections to Day One or if the prequel will instead establish the formula that the franchise will continue with a number of spinoff or standalone adventures.

A Quiet Place: Day One is in theaters now. A Quiet Place Part III is expected sometime in 2025.

What do you think of the filmmaker's remarks? Contact Patrick Cavanaugh directly on Twitter or on Instagram to talk all things Star Wars and horror!

Last month, The Thing Remastered was revealed by Nightdive Studios. This marks the first time the horror game has been made available in more than two decades, and players can expect a number of quality of life changes when it releases. In a new interview with Nintendo Life, Nightdive director of business development Larry Kuperman was asked about the types of enhancements players can expect to see. While Kuperman did not go deep into detail, he did tell the outlet that there would be "significant improvements," but that the developer is also intent on sticking closely to the vision of the original team.

"I can't really go into specifics, both because we want fans to be surprised and also because the game is still in development. But fans should expect significant improvements to the quality of gameplay while staying very true to the original vision," Kuperman told Nintendo Life. "As always, our goal is to give fans a remaster that 'plays the way you remember it' only somewhat better."

Interestingly, Kuperman did note that the Nightdive "received an enormous amount of original assets and materials." This is definitely notable, as a lot of developers and publishers were bad at preserving this kind of material for older games. Kuperman says that some of that content will be making its way into the remaster, but Nightdive is also "trying to decide on the best course for preservation." Hopefully this means some kind of gallery will end up in the game, or that we'll see an official art book released alongside The Thing Remastered. However, that's just conjecture at this time.

The Thing was originally released in 2002 on PS2, Xbox, and PC. The game acts as a direct sequel to the original John Carpenter film, putting players in the role of a new character named Captain Blake. Blake and his team arrive at U.S. Outpost 31, as part of an investigation to find out what happened. There have been discussions about a potential sequel to the 1982 film, so it's hard to say whether the events of the game will still be considered canon if that happens. However, it's worth noting that Carpenter was involved with the original version of the game, and anyone that wants to see what happens after that movie might want to check out The Thing Remastered later this year!

Are you excited for The Thing: Remastered? Did you ever play the 2002 game? Share your thoughts with me directly on Twitter at @Marcdachamp, on Bluesky at @Marcdachamp, or on Instagram at @Dachampgaming!

HBO has added Rudy Mancuso to the cast of Welcome to Derry, a prequel series to Stephen King's IT, which will bring back Bill Skarsg?rd as Pennywise. As with the literally ten people who were cast last week, details of Mancuso's character are currently unknown. The star's latest project is M?sica, for which he also served as writer, director and composer. Previously, he appeared in projects like Rim of the World and Drunk History. Last year, he played Albert Desmond in The Flash, which was directed by Welcome to Derry executive producer Andy Muschietti.

Mancuso is also a musician and comedian who got his start on the YouTube channel Awkward Puppets. Deadline first announced his trip to Derry.

Last week, reports emerged that Warner Bros. Discovery will rebrand Welcome to Derry -- as well as DC's Lanterns an a number of other upcoming projects based on popular IP -- from Max originals to HBO Originals, and plans to air them to the beloved cable network. It's the latest in a series of moves by WBD management seemingly aimed at marginalizing the importance of the streaming platform to the company's overall business plan.

HBO Max was the brainchild of the previous ownership, and since Discovery bought Warner Bros., it seems like they have been chipping away at the platform slowly. Adding Discovery content drowned out some of the more popular WB stuff, and rebranding to "Max," removing any ties to the wildly popular HBO, was widely mocked. Along the way, WBD removed or cancelled a number of digital-only projects, most notably the nearly-completed Batgirl and Scoob!: Holiday Haunt.

In addition to reprising his role from the movies, Skarsg?rd will reunite with filmmakers Andy and Barbara Muschietti and producers Jason Fuchs, Roy Lee and Dan Lin. They and Skarsg?rd will all serve as producers on the series, which was developed for television by Skarsg?rd, the Muschiettis, and Fuchs. Andy Muschietti, who directed the two IT movies, will helm four of the series' nine episodes.

Welcome to Derry is set in King's fictional town of Derry, Maine that Pennywise terrorized for generations. It will take place decades before the events of IT. In the novel and original TV adaptation, the earliest events of the story unfold in the late '50s, though in the two-part film adaptation of the story, the timeline shifted to the '80s and 2010s. With Welcome to Derry set to be an extension of those films, the new series looks to take place in the '50s to explore bizarre events in the town that pre-dated the story we already know.

There is no known release window for Welcome to Derry yet, and in fact it's possible the show's title could change before the trailer drops, as every report has referred to Welcome to Derry as a working title.

The fifth and final season of Stranger Things is currently in production, and fans are eager to see how the hit show will wrap up when the final episodes finally hit Netflix next year. Ever since the production for the upcoming season began, series creators Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer have shared some fun teases and behind-the-scenes content. Today, Ross took to social media to share an image of the entire cast and crew of Stranger Things to celebrate being halfway through production. The post also includes a video of Finn Wolfhard (Mike Wheeler) dropping a symbolic marble into a bowl to commemorate the occasion.

"Week 24. Happy halfway to the best cast and crew ever," Duffer captioned the post.

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Finn Wolfhard Guesses Stranger Things Spin-Off Premise:

The Duffer Brothers previously confirmed that they plan to start developing a spinoff of the series. In a funny turn of events, Finn Wolfhard is the only actor from the series who knows what the new show will be about. Apparently, the young star guessed the premise and he shared with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show that he's been sworn to secrecy.

"We were on set filming Stranger Things 4 and we were all talking about if there's going to be, like joking, 'Oh they're all going to have us back in 20 years and we're all going to fat and old,' that kind of thing," Wolfhard shared. "And then I was like, 'But if you guys are actually going to do a spin-off, it should be this...' And then I said it, and the Duffers looked at each other and looked at me and they were like, 'Could we talk to you for a second?' And then they pulled me off and they were like, 'That is the idea. Who told you?' and I was like, 'No one,' and they were like 'What do you mean? You just came up with it?' and I was like, 'Well, no, I just thought that that would be a cool way to expand.' It was really funny and they were like 'Okay, well... don't tell anyone.'"

How Will Stranger Things End?

The Duffer Brothers recently revealed that their pitch for the fifth season was a tear-jerker.

"Listen. It's our process but it's just like, we really just try to focus on one season at a time," Ross Duffer previously told The Wrap. "We do have an outline for season 5 and we pitched it to Netflix and they really responded well to it. I mean, it was hard. It's the end of the story. I saw executives crying who I've never seen cry before and it was wild. And it's not just to do with the story, just the fact that it's like, Oh my God, this thing that has defined so many of our lives, these Netflix people who has been with us from the beginning, seven years now, and it's hard to imagine the journey coming to an end."

Stranger Things is expected to return for its final season next year.

When it comes to reviving beloved properties, some storytellers aim to take core concepts of a franchise and reimagine them in entirely unconventional ways, but with the upcoming Alien TV series from creator Noah Hawley, star Sandra Yi Sencindiver claims fans of the debut entries in the saga will appreciate the experience. Whether this means that the new series will narratively, thematically, or tonally fall more in line with Alien and Aliens as compared to other entries in the saga is yet to be revealed, but given how wildly different some of the subsequent installments are from the source, this update will alleviate fans' fears.

"I think that especially the fans who love [Ridley Scott's Alien] and [James Cameron's Aliens] will be very pleased with the universe and the world-building in this reimagining," Sencindiver detailed to Variety. "A lot of brilliant people, a lot of very interesting character actors [who are] very dedicated and, of course, Noah Hawley is just a brilliant storyteller."

She continued, "I can't say anything more than that, other than it's been very exciting and interesting to play this character ... And I also think it's a pleasure that nobody has played that character before. That's also great for me, that I get to set the bar for what this character is. We'll be pleased -- the old fans of the original movies."

Heading to theaters later this year is Alien: Romulus, an adventure that takes place between the events of Alien and Aliens. The cast and crew of that project have teased that it serves more as a standalone spinoff that takes place at a specific point in time as opposed to being a continuation of established mythology. Hawley's Alien TV series, on the other hand, has been shrouded in much more secrecy. Given how he managed to take the core concept of the Coen brothers' Fargo to tell an entirely original story that channeled the spirit of the source material, we can likely expect an experience that picks and chooses what elements from the franchise it incorporates.

In the earliest entries into the series, audiences largely saw a variety of characters facing off against both the horrifying xenomorph creature but also being wary of the intentions of synthetic characters. As the series continued, other thematic elements started to be incorporated, so it's possible that Secindiver's comments could confirm a return to the franchise's narrative roots.

Stay tuned for updates on the Alien TV series.

What do you think of the actor's remarks? Contact Patrick Cavanaugh directly on Twitter or on Instagram to talk all things Star Wars and horror!

Return of the Living Dead 3, the 1993 horror-comedy starring soap opera mainstay Melinda Clarke, is getting a new, extended release more than 30 years after it hit theaters. Filmmaker Dustin Ferguson (Big Freakin' Snake) announced on social media that he and producer Chris MacGibbon had acquired an old master tape that included a previously-lost cut of the movie. He plans for a physical and/or digital release soon, but the cut presumably will need a little restoration since it was stored on commercial-grade VHS. When it comes out, it will mark the third distinct version of the movie to get an official release, as the movie originally came to VHS in an "unrated" cut that had to be trimmed down to get a theatrical release with an R rating.

Per Bloody Disgusting, who first picked up on Ferguson's Facebook post, the new cut will contain about eight minutes of never-before-seen footage from the movie.

"We have aquired the 'lost' 1st cut of Return of The Living Dead 3!" Ferguson posted to Facebook. "It features almost 8 minutes of additional, never before seen footage not in the Unrated version! No information exists anywhere about this! More details soon!"

Return of the Living Dead 3 got a much warmer reception from critics than the second film in the franchise, but made just over $50,000 at the box office against a reported $2 million budget. Given that it was designed to be profitable on VHS, that wasn't a huge problem, but the lack of fan enthusiasm seemingly cooled the studio's interest.

After three Return of the Living Dead movies made between 1985 and 1993, there wouldn't be another one until the straight-to-DVD Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis and Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave, which were released back to back in 2005. Those movies were not received well by the cult fan base that the original trilogy had built up, and no further Return of the Living Dead movies have been made since. A reboot is supposedly in the works.

Humorously, the timing of the announcement comes 40 years to the day after the first Return of the Living Dead movie was set; the movie features a title card noting that it's July 3, 1984.

In Return of the Living Dead 3, "A teen (J. Trevor Edmond) uses an Army chemical to revive his dead girlfriend (Mindy Clarke) after a motorcycle accident," per the official synopsis.

Return of the Living Dead 3 was written by John Penney and directed by Brian Yuzna. It also stars Kent McCord, Basil Wallace, James T. Callahan, and Sarah Douglas.

You can buy Return of the Living Dead 3 on disc or digital, or stream it free on Freevee,Tubi, and The Roku Channel.

Since releasing last summer, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre has seen a lot of paid content added, from new Victims and Killers, to Execution and Outfit Packs. If you've been holding off on buying any of that content, or the game itself, there's no better time than right now, as a huge sale has kicked off on the Xbox Store and on Steam. Some of the prices and deals will vary, but a lot of these bargains remain the same across both platforms. Notably, a lot of the DLC has been chopped down to 50% off, or more. Some of these discounts include:

• Nancy- $4.99 (50% off)
• Danny- $4.99 (50% off)
• Virginia- $4.99 (50% off)
• Nicotero Leatherface- $4.79 (70% off)
• Execution Pack II- $3.49 (50% off)

Those are the big highlights, but several Outfit Packs, individual Outfits, and Weapon Skins have also been discounted. There are substantial deals to be found, and a lot of this content has been added to the game fairly recently; Virginia just joined the game in late March, so it's been just over three months. The rest of these additions are a bit older, but the price drops might be enough to get players to try out a new main. For those that don't have the base game yet, it's been discounted to $9.99 on Steam and $13.99 on Xbox.

While most of the game's DLC has gotten temporary price drops, there are some notable exceptions, including the Hitchhiker Claymoore Outfit, which remains full price on all platforms. In terms of playable characters, there's also Hands and Maria; the two characters were just added to the game a few weeks ago, so it's not too surprising that Gun Media excluded them from the deal. However, players that don't want to pay full price can always grab the bundle, which offers both characters for a couple dollars less.

These discounts will be available on Xbox through July 8th and on Steam through the 11th. Unfortunately, there is a bit of a catch, as none of these deals for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre are currently available on PlayStation.

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An adaptation of the cult-classic book series Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark landed in theaters back in 2019, and despite there being a wealth of source material to inspire follow-up films, writers Dan and Kevin Hageman have confirmed that the project is seemingly "stalled" and that they're just as "in the dark" as audiences are. A sequel was originally announced back in 2020, with the coronavirus pandemic understandably causing roadblocks on the project's development, while last year's writers' and actors' strikes also took a toll on the project. Given how few updates have emerged since the announcement of a sequel, it seems unclear if the project will ever move forward.

"I don't know. I think we're in the dark," Dan Hageman shared with Collider when asked for updates about the project, while Kevin added, "It's stalled right now. We actually don't know. We wrote a draft, Guillermo [del Toro] had a story direction of where to take it..."

Kevin continued, "No, we can't get into it, but we wrote something, and that's the last we know. We know a lot of people liked it, but we also know that nothing's happening right now. We're in the dark with you guys."

The original trilogy of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books were hits with young readers in the '80s and '90s, and while similarly popular series like R.L. Stine's Goosebumps books were adapted into TV series and ultimately movies, Scary Stories had a longer journey to live-action. Despite the built-in following of the franchise, the original movie didn't make a major impact on audiences or critics, which has likely impacted the delays in development.

While horror director Guillermo del Toro had been attached to the project for years, it was ultimately director Andr? ?vredal who brought the movie to life. ?vredal shared last year that he's still interested in moving forward with a sequel, despite the lengthy wait.

"We have a story. We have a script. We've been working on the script as late as last year and even slightly into this year," ?vredal detailed to IGN back in 2023. "The process obviously stopped with the strike -- but it's alive, for sure. COVID and then [The Last Voyage of the Demeter] eating up two years of my life certainly put a dent in the progress."

Stay tuned for updates on the sequel to Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.

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Lionsgate has released a new photo from The Crow, giving fans a different look at Bill Skarsg?rd's Eric. The character, who rises from the dead to avenge his and his girlfriend's murder, is the central protagonist of the film and was previously brought to the screen by Brandon Lee, the son of Hollywood icon Bruce Lee. Early looks at Skarsg?rd's take on the character have been divisive, with some fans ready to see what a grittier, more comics-accurate take on the story will be like and others mocking his appearance, often drawing comparisons to Jared Leto's Joker from Suicide Squad.

You can see the latest photo below.

"There's nothing to do with Hollywood in this movie at all," director Rupert Sanders told Empire, who debuted the image. "It's a very scrappy indie movie."

"Scrappy" might be a good descriptor for the movie which, despite a familiar IP and lots of famous names attached, seemed like it might never come out.

The Crow has been one of the most troubled productions in recent memory, trading off directors, stars, and even studios numerous times over the life of its development and production. The movie stars Skarsg?rd (IT), singer-songwriter FKA twigs (Honeyboy), and Danny Huston (Succession) and is reportedly a full restart of the story, meaning that it's likely adapting the same set of comics as the first The Crow movie, which was released in 1994.

That film was a huge success, with a hit soundtrack and an aesthetic that was five years ahead of its time. The movie spawned three sequels, The Crow: City of Angels (1996); The Crow: Salvation (2000); and The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005), although it pretty quickly became a direct-to-DVD series.

The revived The Crow has gone through a number of directors, stars, and even studios in the last decade in its long and troubled road to the big screen. Even after news came out that the movie had wrapped production, it didn't seem like a real thing that people would be actually able to watch.

The animating philosophy behind the new movie has always seemingly been to make a movie that closely resembles James O'Barr's original comics -- that's something O'Barr was talking about nearly a decade ago at convention appearances, and something Sanders is boasting about in the Empire interview.

The Crow is directed by Rupert Sanders (Foundation, Ghost in the Shell, Snow White and The Huntsman) and written by Zach Baylin (King Richard, upcoming Creed III). Producers are Molly Hassell (Braven, Terminal), Victor Hadida (Resident Evil and Silent Hill franchises), John Jencks (Honest Thief, Guns Akimbo), and Edward R. Pressman (American Psycho, The Crow, Wall Street).

The Crow will be in theaters on August 23rd.

The ComicBook Nation crew reviews the A Quiet Place prequel Day One, and discuss The Acolyte's big reveal of "The Stranger," The Bear Season 3 and Suicide Squad Anime debuts, and some bloody new episodes of The Boys Season 4 and House of the Dragon Season 2.

PLUS: Geek news rundown includes the Batman: Caped Crusader trailer, Warner Bros. changing things up with HBO and Max, the Suicide Squad Isekai anime and what Marvel Studios needs to do in Hall H at SDCC to renew faith in the MCU!

A Quiet Place: Day One Review

Here's what ComicBook Nation Host Kofi Outlaw had to say in his 2.5 (out of 5) star review of A Quiet Place: Day One:

Even by the end, given the story premise and where we know the connective threads (like Djimon Hounsou's Henri) lead, there's little to feel good about or celebrate. It's a bad sign when concern for the animal protagonist is the driving force of a horror movie.

A Quiet Place: Day One would've been a compelling indie horror film about a doomed woman facing an apocalyptic situation, but after the heights the franchise has reached and all the promises that came with the prequel, the end result is a fine film that is comparatively the worst entry in an otherwise excellent horror franchise.

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As confirmed by its title, A Quiet Place: Day One takes place during the initial invasion of otherworldly creatures and, while previous movies took place in rural locales, the events of the film instead unfold in the heart of New York City. While the setting and timeline were the major factors setting this film apart from its predecessors, audiences were also given slight glimpses into the inner workings of the creatures themselves, specifically in one key scene that raised more questions than offered viewers answers. Director Michael Sarnoski recently offered more clarity on the bizarre encounter and what that means for the biology of the monsters.

WARNING: Minor spoilers below for A Quiet Place: Day One

Throughout the franchise, the monsters have been seen attacking and presumably killing humans, though it's never quite been clear if the creatures are using their victims as a resource to consume. In one scene, Eric (Joseph Quinn) aims to rescue the cat Frodo and witnesses strange pools of a pink liquid, as well as sees the creatures breaking apart a strange egg-like object that they then appear to eat.

"For me, the egg thing, and it's very not made a focus -- I didn't want to make that scene like, 'Hey, here's what's going on,' and that's important because it's not important to Eric at that time. He's just trying to save Frodo and you're just kind of getting a hint that there's an ecosystem of these creatures around him," Sarnoski revealed about the scene to /Film. "But yeah, for me, what I was getting at with that was you can see all these sort of pools of this pink, glassy liquid, and if you look closely, you can see that there's bodies in those pools. And the idea is that in the other movies, you kind of get that the creatures take people, and they never really say what they're doing with them. And I think everyone's just like, 'Oh, they're eating the people or something.'"

He continued, "But I like the idea that the creatures are kind of leafcutter ants that are sort of farming, using the organic material of people to grow what is their food source, which is these kind of weird melon-y, egg, mushroom things that they sort of feed the little ones with. So it just kind of is hinting at, at the end of the day, these are farmers and they have a little bit of a family dynamic to them. I liked that idea, especially coming off the first Quiet Place that's about a rural farming family."

A third entry in the proper A Quiet Place franchise is said to be on the way, though it's possible that the series could continue with more spinoffs. As far as how much background information we'll get on the terrifying creatures is yet to be seen.

A Quiet Place: Day One is in theaters now.

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Ridley Scott has had to see his landmark sci-fi films Alien (1979) and Blade Runner (1982) get handled by new visionary directors, with Dune director Denis Villeneuve directing the 2017 sequel film Blade Runner 2049, and director Fede Alvarez bringing Alien: Romulus to theaters this year. Alien: Romulus is a spiritual sequel to Scott's original Alien film, which will see a group of young, would-be space-raiders board a ship that's infested with Xenomorphs. The new Alien film has a lot of fans looking back at the original film again - including Sir Ridley Scott himself.

In a new interview with Vanity Fair about his upcoming sequel to Gladiator (2000), Ridley Scott spoke candidly about his career and the film industry. The acclaimed filmmaker is now willing to admit that shepherding his groundbreaking films into larger franchises was a missed opportunity:

"I was slow out the starting gate," Scott explained. "I mean, I should have done the sequels to Alien and to Blade Runner. You change over the years. At that time, I didn't want to go through it again. So Jim Cameron came in--and then David Fincher--on Alien."

Scott revealed that producers and/or studios like Warner Bros. (Blade Runner) and 20th Century Fox (Alien) didn't give him any choice on what happened with sequels:

"I'm the author of two franchises. Most directors in Hollywood--certainly, let's say, at my level--don't let that stuff go," Scott continued. "But I did Alien as my second movie, so I didn't have much choice. And Blade Runner was my third movie. So, I had no choice because I had very tough partners. It was kind of 'Welcome to Hollywood.'"

Alien proceeded to become a franchise universe with three sequel films and two crossover films (with the Predator films) before Ridley Scott got the reigns back for the 2012 prequel film, Prometheus. It's a part of the business that Ridley Scott is still feeling raw about:

"I was never told or asked," he said, in regards to how sequels to his films were handled. "You can imagine I wasn't happy."

When it came to the subject of Blade Runner 2049, Scott admitted he was happy with the choice of director to carry the franchise, even while he was sad it wasn't him: "I was regretful, although he [Denis Villeneuve] did a good job."

Alien: Romulus has a theatrical release date of August 16th.

NEON has released the final trailer for the upcoming psychological thriller Longlegs. The film from director Oz Perkins appears to take place over a 30-year period from the 1970s until the late 1990s, following FBI Agent Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) who "is assigned to an unsolved serial killer case that takes an unexpected turn, revealing evidence of the occult. Harker discovers a personal connection to the killer and must stop him before he strikes again."

The new trailer doesn't give much away, but there is a first look at Nicolas Cage's character who has been shrouded in mystery for the promotion of the film thus far. The blink-and-you'll-miss-it clips showcase Cage behind the wheel of the car yelling as well as an incredibly brief albeit strange moment where he appears to be sniffing a doll. That's to be determined, but his unnerving appearance was certainly worth the wait.

Early reviews tease it being the "scariest film of the decade" with others calling it a must-see film. One review even likens it to 1991's The Silence of the Lambs, calling it the best serial killer film since the cult classic was released. Longlegs boasts an incredible cast, including Monroe, who has quietly been building her case for the modern-day scream queen. Monroe's horror career kicked off with 2014's It Follows. She has since starred in several critically acclaimed horror projects including Watcher, Significant Other, and Villains. Longlegs also stars Kiernan Shipka (Totally Killer, Twisters), Alicia Witt (Urban Legend, Dune), and Blair Underwood (Dear White People, Quantico).

Thus far, Longlegs has 11 reviews from critics on Rotten Tomatoes and it's currently sitting at 100%. Despite its rave reviews, an early screening at Beyond Fest in Los Angeles left many moviegoers feeling terrified afterward. "I'm somewhat surprised that people are so kind of terrified by it and find it to be so intense and so gnarly and so grotesque and so brutal," Perkins told IndieWire. "I never set out to make anybody feel bad. I don't know that any filmmaker necessarily does, although there's a couple of people who I wonder if their intention is to make people feel bad. I don't like those movies at all. But for me, honestly, I just tried to make something that was good and that people would want to enjoy."

Longlegs releases in theaters on July 12th.

The legal red tape that tied up the Friday the 13th franchise was finally unraveled, and it means fans can expect to see a lot more Jason Vorhees. Back in May, the "Jason Universe" was announced, with lots of new projects coming, including new video games. Horror, Inc. has not offered much information about that just yet, but according to a new rumor, two Friday the 13th games are currently in development. According to CineStealth on X/Twitter, one of these will apparently be a new multiplayer game, while "the other features more linear gameplay," possibly suggesting some kind of single-player game.

As with any rumor, readers should take this with a grain of salt. That said, at least part of this rumor lines up with things that have previously been revealed. During an interview with Rely on Horror last year, Friday the 13th composer Harry Manfredini revealed his involvement with a new video game based on the franchise. At the time, very few details were revealed, but the interview suggested that the game would not replicate the asymmetrical style seen in Friday the 13th: The Game. It's possible that this is the "linear" game mentioned by CineStealth.

Of course, given the popularity of Friday the 13th: The Game, and the number of people still disappointed that it has been delisted, it wouldn't be surprising to see a new multiplayer game announced as well. Jason translated very well to the world of asymmetrical horror, and there are a lot of people that would be happy to see that concept resurrected. In fact, a fan made "resurrected" project was cancelled last year following a copyright infringement claim.

Whatever ends up happening with Jason Vorhees, there are clearly big plans to bring the character to the world of video games. In addition to these rumored Friday the 13th video games, CineStealth also discussed the rumors that Jason will be appearing in Fortnite. The official Jason Universe account follows Fortnite on X/Twitter, and CineStealth claims that the character will be making an appearance in the game next season. Interestingly enough, there will apparently be no references to the Friday the 13th brand. Given the fact that Jason X appeared in MultiVersus, it's possible that skin could appear alongside Jason's traditional appearance, but that's just speculation at this time. For now, fans will have to wait and see how things play out!

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Interview With the Vampire concluded its second season Sunday night on AMC and while in some ways the series drew to a close Louis' chapter of the story, it opened up a brand new one: that of the vampire Lestat. With AMC having already announced that Interview With the Vampire will be back for a third season, the Season 2 finale did quite a bit to set up for what's next for Anne Rice's iconic vampires -- here's how it went. Warning: spoilers for the Season 2 finale of Interview With the Vampire beyond this point. Read on only if you want to know.

The season finale of Interview With the Vampire saw several major events. First, Louis (Jacob Anderson) finished telling his story to Daniel (Eric Bogosian) by revealing what happened in the wake of Claudia's death. Specifically, Louis ended up killing pretty much everyone involved with the Paris coven -- especially Santiago (Ben Daniels) -- leaving only Sam (Christopher Geary) and Armand (Assad Zaman) as survivors. However, it's also revealed that Armand has been lying for seven decades when Daniel exposes to Louis that it was Lestat who actually mind controlled the audience jury and spared his life and that Armand had been an active participant in Claudia's death. It's revealed that Armand directed the "play" and would have let Louis die and the revelation leads to a violent confrontation between the two vampires -- and the end of their relationship. In the aftermath, Louis returns to New Orleans to seek out Lestat while Daniel not only ends up turned into a vampire by Armand but publishes his book -- titled Interview With the Vampire.

The publication of Daniel's book is a major part of the setup for Season 3. As fans of Rice's novels already know, the second book in her The Vampire Chronicles series -- The Vampire Lestat -- saw Lestat awakened from a decades long sleep by a rock band and, through them, discovers the novel Interview With the Vampire. He decides to respond the Louis' account of things with an autobiography of his own (and by also putting out a rock and roll album and going on tour.)

AMC has already somewhat confirmed that aspects of The Vampire Lestat will inspire Season 3. Here's how they describe the new season: "In season three, resentful of the perfunctory portrayal in the trashy bestseller 'Interview With The Vampire,' the Vampire Lestat sets his story straight in a way only the Vampire Lestat can--by starting a band and going on tour. Gabrielle. Nicholas. Magnus. Marius. Those Who Must Be Kept. They join Louis, Armand, Molloy, Sam, Raglan, Fareed and others we can't tell you about yet on a sexy pilgrimage across space, time and trauma. No Auto-Tuning. No Trigger Warnings. All Feels Amplified."

Showrunner Rolin Jones also told TVLine that Season 3 will have a distinct shift in perspective and feel -- it really will be Lestat in the driver's seat now.

"Lestat [will be] front and center, which means the show should feel like it was hijacked by Lestat," Jones said. "Aesthetically, you should be ready for what a Lestat version of the show feels like and looks like."

Last week on Interview With the Vampire, Louis, Claudia, and Madeleine were put on trial for the attempted murder of Lestat and it had devastating results. Claudia and Madeleine were both put to death, but at the last moment, Louis was spared, only to be essentially buried alive in the bowels of the theater. This week, the aftermath of the trial is revealed and the truth about who saved Louis comes to life. Here's everything that happened in the season finale of Interview With the Vampire. Warning: spoilers for "And That's the End of It. There is Nothing Left" beyond this point!

The episode picks up in the wet room of the Theatre where Louis is screaming and moaning inside his crypt. Daniel asks Armand what the consequences of saving Louis were. Armand says he was demoted. Louis said he played "what if" while trapped in his deathbed, trying to figure out if there was a choice he could have made in his life that would have changed his own fate but nothing changes it.

Armand says that Santiago takes over as leader of the coven, but Armand played up his own subjugation. When no one was looking, he swapped out a sacrifice for Louis to help him escape. Louis says that he was dead, but his rage and madness rose. He escapes to the cemetery where he kills the groundskeeper and takes shelter in a crypt. There he begins to plan his revenge like a madman. Telepathically, Armand tells Louis to leave Paris. Armand tells him that he saved him at the trial and helped him escape. Louis warns him to not be at the theater.

While the coven went to sleep, Louis douses the theater in gasoline -- pausing briefly to collection Claudia's things after he sets everyone on fire. Nine die at the theater and four escape, the two who escaped out the front die when their motorcycles explode. Santiago, trying to escape through the sewer, is hunted by Louis.

The two vampires taunt one another with Louis calling Santiago by his real name -- Francis -- and goading him about his mortal life and how underwhelming he was as a mortal man, how embarrassed his maker had been of him. Ultimately, Louis beheads Santiago. He later meets up with Armand when he started lying to him. Armand tells him it was the night of Madeleine's transformation and that he was presented with the play, that he was not part of it but he had chosen his coven and therefore did not tell Louis. Armand tells Louis Lestat is still in Paris.

They find Lestat in Magnus's lair. Lestat says he came there to think about his origins and why he does what he does. Louis confronts him about Claudia's death and says that he has come to kill him, but Lestat says he has not only the blood of Magnus but the blood of Akasha in him which would make burning him impossible. So, instead, Louis kisses Armand in front of him, emotionally wounding him instead. Lestat says to enjoy and tells Armand to see how long it holds. In the present, Louis and Armand give a quick recap of the last several decades of their relationship and how they ended up in Dubai.

With the story told, Daniel says he has some follow up questions and it turns out that tucked into the newspaper Rashid brought him is a document from Raglan. Daniel asks some specific questions, particularly about Lestat's mind control abilities and then points out that Lestat also could have saved Louis that night at the theater. Armand tries to shut it down but Daniel has a script with director's notes and those notes are Armand's, exposing him. He was fully involved with the trial and Claudia's murder. He helped orchestrate it. He also didn't save Louis. It was Lestat. Armand just took credit for it.

Armand and Louis fight. Rashid has already left; Daniel doesn't quite get the chance to before the fight happens. Louis tells Armand he is not to touch Daniel and then prepares to leave. He thanks Daniel and then destroys his laptop before departing. Louis goes back to New Orleans just ahead of a hurricane. He does a walking tour of his old neighborhood and listens to the story of the party that went down at his old townhome. Louis witnesses a vampire collecting vermin and follows him to a rundown home. There he finds a disheveled Lestat "playing" a plank carved to be like a piano keyboard.

Louis asks Lestat if he saved him in Paris and when Lestat confirms and says he knew he'd figure it out. Louis tells Lestat he didn't realize being a vampire was a gift and admits to having been awful but he came to thank him now. Lestat asks about Louis' suicide attempt and reveals he can't stop thinking about Claudia. Louis takes responsibility for Claudia's tragic life and fate. Lestat says she looked at him at the end like a child looking to her father and tries to say he was never a father but Louis just moves to hold him. The two embrace as the storm rages around them.

Daniel appears on a news program to promote his book, Interview With the Vampire. The host treats Daniel like he's a kook, but Daniel pushes back. There's something different about Daniel and it's soon revealed that Daniel is a vampire now, having been turned by Armand who has since vanished. He reaches out to Louis. The Talamasca published Daniel's book. The other vampires want to kill Louis. Daniel wants to write another book with Louis, but Louis still hasn't read the first one. After Daniel goes off to hunt his dinner, Louis telepathically confronts those who want to destroy. He challenges them to come at him telling them that he owns the night.

Some television shows conclude with a feature-length movie, but Netflix's Stranger Things is ending with eight mini-movies. Series creators Matt and Ross Duffer already revealed that the fifth and final season will span eight episodes, and that the Stranger Things series finale will run "at least two hours" when it finally arrives on Netflix in 2025. (While still feature-length, that's shorter than the season 4 volume 2's "mega-episode" finale, which clocked in at a super-sized two-and-a-half hours.) After the previous installment's two-part, nine-episode, 13-hour season, just how big is Stranger Things season 5?

According to Maya Hawke, who plays Robin, so big that the final season is going to take an entire year to shoot. "We're making, basically, eight movies," Hawke said on the Podcrushed podcast, adding that the final season's episodes are "very long."

"Season 4 and season 5 are very connected," she explained. "Season 4 had a part I and part II because they separated them, so the last two episodes came out at a different time, which is unusual for streaming. But this is its own season. It is a continuation, but it's the finale. And it has been a long time since last season."

In the two years since season 4 -- which paused production in March 2020 due to the pandemic -- Stranger Things 5 weathered the 2023 writers' strike and the actors' strike before filming got underway in January 2024. ("The show has been a little bit cursed," Hawke joked of the delays.)

"Our showrunners, Matt and Ross, take a lot of responsibility. They have an amazing team of writers, but they're very involved," she added. "They write a lot and they are very intense and serious about the quality of the continued writing, and so it takes a long time to write each season, and a long time to shoot them."

As for the shortened episode count -- season 5 will consist of eight episodes, down from season 4's nine episodes -- that's because the final season will hit the ground running. Stranger Things 5 picks up where season 4 volume 2 left off: with the Upside Down turning Hawkins, well, upside down.

"The only reason we don't expect it to be as long is because if you look at it, it's almost a two-hour ramp-up before our kids really get drawn into the supernatural mystery," Matt told the Happy Sad Confused podcast in 2022. "You get to know them, you get to see them in their lives, what they're struggling with, adapting to high school, and so forth. Steve's trying to find a date, all of that. None of that obviously is going to be occurring in the first two episodes of [season 5]."

He continued: "For the first time ever, we don't wrap things up at the end of [season] 4, so it's going to be moving. I don't know that it's going to be going 100 miles an hour at the start of [season] 5, but it's going to be moving pretty fast. Characters are already going to be in action. They're already going to have a goal and a drive, and I think that's going to carve out at least a couple hours and make this season feel really different."

Stranger Things season 5 -- starring Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Sadie Sink, Noah Schnapp, Joe Keery, Maya Hawke, Charlie Heaton, Natalia Dyer, Jamie Campbell Bower, and Linda Hamilton -- is expected to release on Netflix in 2025.

More than two years after the previous game's arrival, it seems that The House of the Dead 2: Remake is finally shambling its way on to Nintendo Switch. While nothing has been announced just yet in terms of a release date, the game has been rated by the ESRB. That submission would seem to suggest the game will be coming to Switch soon, and that's very good news for those passionate about the series. Unfortunately, the listing only mentions a Switch version, so those that played The House of the Dead: Remake on PS5 or Xbox Series X|S shouldn't get too excited just yet.

Leaks from ratings boards often give us a hint about games before an announcement happens, but they don't always pay off right away; a PEGI rating for Hi-Fi Rush on Nintendo Switch also leaked earlier this year, and the game has yet to be announced for the platform, let alone released. As such, House of the Dead fans should take this with a grain of salt, even though it seems like a pretty good sign!

The House of the Dead 2 initially released in arcades in 1998, before coming to Sega Dreamcast one year later. A rail shooter light gun game, House of the Dead 2 tasks players with shooting away at undead enemies as they make their way through various locations around Venice, Italy. At this time, we don't know of any changes or enhancements that can be expected from the remake, but The House of the Dead: Remake included several additions to the original version, including a photo mode, a gallery, and more.

The House of the Dead series has been highly-successful for Sega over the years, and has even resulted in two live-action films. House of the Dead has been largely dormant for a while, but this remake could suggest that Sega is interested in bringing the series back, as it's currently doing with so many of its other franchises. At the very least, it would be nice to see even more House of the Dead games brought to modern systems, including The House of the Dead: Overkill. For now, fans will just have to wait and see how things play out!

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A Quiet Place: Day One is looking at a franchise-best start at the box office. This weekend, the newest A Quiet Place installment is projected to bring home about $53 million. Before this week, the prequel starring Lupita Nyong'o and Joseph Quinn was tabbed at $40 million. Clearly, audiences are not tired of this franchise just yet. Also, it has to be said that Inside Out 2 and Bad Boys: Ride or Die also really opened the floodgates for theaters this summer. Some estimations of A Quiet Place: Day One's potential have the movie possibly hitting $55 million. That would be an absolute victory for Paramount and franchise creator John Krasinski.

A lot of credit is due for Nyong'o and Quinn, but Krasinski also deserves some praise too. Who would have thought his little franchise that could would prove doubters wrong with this third entry. He called in Michael Sarnoski to helm this entry. Speaking to ComicBook, the director shared what advice the Quiet Place architect had for him when they started working on Day One.

"Yeah, I think it was just a lot of conversations. A lot of back and forth. He presented an idea of 'Hey, we want to do a New York, Day One movie.' And then, he really gave me the freedom to be like, 'What does that mean for you? How could that be a Michael movie?' He didn't want to force me to try and emulate the past movies," Sarnoski explained. "So, I just had to think about what kind of characters I wanted to explore. How I wanted to see this world. Then, we had a lot of back and forth about the little things we can do to sort of suggest things about the other movies. And, see some characters. But, it always had to feel in service to Sam's journey and her core emotional story."

A Quiet Place: Day One's Stars Really Shine

A Quiet Place: Day One leans heavily on Lupita Nyong'o and Joseph Quinn as a duo. ComicBook caught up with them to discuss making this blockbuster. One defining characteristic of this franchise is the eerie sense of quiet punctuated by loud abrasive noise. Both actors would reflect on selling moments without dialogue and how different that can be from other roles they've taken on in the past. A Quiet Place: Day One seems to have been transformative for a lot of the people involved.

"That was a very interesting spot to be in, where the dialogue was very effective, and kind of punched through a lot of subtext," Quinn said during our conversation. "It was very communicative in a way that was urgent, I guess, because the only reason you're going to talk in an environment like this, which is perilous if you make any noise, is when it's absolutely urgent. The rest was up to us to kind of fill that in."

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Filmmaker Ti West returned to the horror realm after an extended break back in 2022 with X. While audiences were excited enough by that movie, he surprised fans by revealing that he and star Mia Goth had also developed and filmed the prequel Pearl with the same crew that made X. Given that both films were major hits with audiences and critics, expectations for the final chapter in the trilogy, MaXXXine, were quite high, and while those expectations from audiences might not have impacted the development of the movie's story, West detailed how there was a different type of pressure to honor what came before. MaXXXine lands in theaters on July 5th.

"I wouldn't say the development [was impacted]. Having made the other two movies with nobody knowing they existed, it was a very different experience making the third one with everybody knowing that it was coming," West confirmed to ComicBook of what made bringing MaXXXine to life different from its predecessors. "So everyone was putting out information of who was in the movie, what the movie might be about, and things like that."

He continued, "And then there was just a little bit more pressure. I think the idea that people were actually waiting for this movie, instead of surprising people was certainly a little bit more ... It wasn't a burden, but certainly a weight to carry when writing it, and making it. Whether it tops the other movies or, at the very least, stays at the same level, where people could say and argue which one's their favorite. And the scope of this movie was so much bigger, so I was really trying to deliver on something that the other movies didn't have, so it was hard-earned in that way, but worth it."

MaXXXine is described, "In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past."

While Goth returns to reprise her role, the movie also added a number of new cast members, including performer Moses Sumney making his feature-film debut.

"I've been wanting to get into it and really timid about really pursuing what my first thing would be, because it's so difficult to find rich characters to play, especially as a Black actor," Sumney shared of how he knew MaXXXine was the project he wanted to make his debut with. "And what I loved about this character is that he's a nerd and, truly at heart, I am a loser. You never really stop being the nerdy loser you are as a teenager and, in this business, we're all wearing these masks, and I appreciate it. I felt really seen by the character and I thought that I could connect something and bring something really real to it. I think that Ti's writing was just so excellent across all three films, but especially the character-building in this film is really excellent."

Throughout X, Maxine proclaimed how she deserved to be a star, while MaXXXine explored her first major foray into Hollywood. Giancarlo Esposito plays her agent Teddy, who goes to greater lengths than a normal agent might in order to protect and care for Maxine.

"For Teddy Knight, he certainly sees something special in Maxine. He sees a desire, and he sees a commitment, and he sees someone who really wants to get there," Esposito expressed of his character. "I think he also relates to the demons behind her eyes. He sees her soul, because I think he understands that he has had some demons, and look where he's got to. So I really love the part of the story that is so linked up in how human beings relate to each other and he's someone who believes in her more than anyone and gives her hope when she's in distress in those moments. He says, 'Look, I'm going to take care of it,' because she proved it, right? We're so often asked to prove it, and if you can show it and prove it to someone that you really do want it that badly. And not only do you want it, but you've done the work."

He added, "I love this scene where she's sitting there with the highlighter in bed; that's my life. I fall asleep with paper. And then you cut, and it's the morning and the paper. That's me. Right? So I mean, it really is -- I'm learning three things at one time. I'm on the plane, and that's how you do it. It's that kind of commitment. We can say we want it, but when you prove you want it, and she shows me that she really does want it, I'm all for it. I'll do anything to have that happen for you."

MaXXXine also stars Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth Debicki, Halsey, Lily Collins, and Michelle Monaghan.

MaXXXine lands in theaters on July 5th.

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A Quiet Place: Day One set a new franchise box office record for its preview night. The Lupita Nyong'o and Joseph Quinn thriller saw more than $5 million on Thursday. That would be the series best with some estimates going all the way up to $6 million. Michael Sarnoski's first entry into the A Quiet Place series seems to be going well in the initial stages. First reactions were positive and these box office numbers seem to be bearing it out. Over on Rotten Tomatoes, A Quiet Place: Day One sits at 86% freshness. While that number is lagging slightly behind the first two movies, those premiered in a very different media environment than the one we exist in now. This weekend will be a weird one to handicap for projections.

One massive hurdle stands in the way of A Quiet Place: Day One shattering the existing records for the franchise: Inside Out 2. Pixar and Disney's juggernaut will likely claim the top spot again and will likely cross over $1 billion this weekend. In addition, the animated feature will likely be the first film since Oppenheimer and Barbie to cross that wild number. A lot of viewers will be heaing to theaters to check out what Joy and company are doing. The good thing for A Quiet Place: Day One is that horror audiences are likely to make a trip out to see what the buzz is about. $50 million is the record for this series, $40 is looking a little bit more realistic this time around.

How Good Is A Quiet Place: Day One?

As people are headed out to see A Quiet Place: Day One this weekend, some might be wondering how this entry stacks up to the first two movies. ComicBook's Kofi Outlaw thinks A Quiet Place and A Quiet Place Part II are both better. In his review he explains how some of the reveals about this larger world didn't land for him. However, there's nothing lacking in Nyong'o's performance and that cat is an absolute star. The personal drama at the heart of A Quiet Place: Day One is what movie fans will be most invested in from the moment the film starts. So, if you came for all out carnage for almost two hours, you might be a little bit disappointed. Here's a quick read of the movie from our resident critic.

Outlaw explained, "A Quiet Place: Day One now attempts to move the franchise focus beyond the Abbott Family while advertising big reveals about the larger franchise storyline and the beginnings of the alien invasion of the "Death Angel" monsters. Unfortunately, the prequel's biggest revelation is that this franchise is being approached as more of an anthology than as a shared universe of interconnected stories - and as a standalone chapter, it's hard to see Day One as a compelling horror movie, rather than a well-acted character drama."

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Manifest Media's Table Read podcast recently released their Fright Night episode, which featured most of the original cast from the 1985 horror camp classic. One big change from the film was Star Wars legend Mark Hamill taking over the role of Peter Vincent, the character originated by the late, great Roddy McDowall. Fright Night director Tom Holland was also in attendance during the reading, but this event wasn't the only thing the director has in common with Hamill. Holland also helmed the original Child's Play in 1988 and Hamill voiced Chucky in the 2019 remake. ComicBook was in attendance during the Fright Night reading, and we got the chance to chat with Holland and Hamill together. Turns out, they had never talked about their Chucky connection.

"When they came to me, I said, 'No, you get Brad Dourif. He is Chucky.' And they said, 'Well, this is a reboot that alters the storyline. It's a very different Chucky. I said, 'Okay, I'll read it,'" Hamill explained to ComicBook alongside Holland. "And here's the intriguing part. Instead of the soul of a serial killer being transferred into his body ... This one was an artificial intelligence doll, where a disgruntled employee, angry at the way he was treated, switches off the safety mechanism that controls him for not injuring people or murdering them or anything. And so he's an innocent at the start."

"And then he starts learning, but he learns the wrong things," Hamill continued. "For instance, he sees a group of teenagers all sitting around and laughing their heads off at a slasher movie. So, in his head, slashing people, that's good. It makes people happy. He grows from a complete innocent to a monster by the end of the thing. That's the only reason I did it. I thought I wouldn't be interested in just doing a remake, especially since nobody can be better than Brad. And I loved the original movie."

"They messed with the remake," Holland chimed in. "They made it for Christmas. They set it in Christmas, and then they took Christmas out, but they couldn't take the Christmas lights out in the third act."

"Did you do any of the sequels?" Hamill asked Holland. "Hell no. Just Child's Play," Holland replied.

"Cause there was Child's Play 2, 3, 4," Hamill added. "I'll tell you, once I agreed to do it, I ordered all of them off of Amazon. And of course, the first one is great. By the time they get to Bride and Chucky and stuff. It's pretty silly."

Tom Holland Talks Difficulties of Making Child's Play:

ComicBook also chatted with Holland on his own during the Fright Night table read, and he spoke more about Child's Play, and explained why it was a much more difficult movie to make than Fright Night. In fact, he called Fright Night, "The best experience I've ever had directing a film."

"Yeah, Child's Play was a difficult film, but Child's Play was difficult because nobody had done the killer doll movie, and it asked a puppet to do what I needed that puppet to do. So I mean, there were a lot of shots. I'd say half to three-quarters of the shots were a terrible fight just to get them. That was nobody's fault. That was just that my expectations outpaced the technology at the time. So quite often, I had to figure out how to get the shots in different waves, and I was lucky I got them more often than I didn't, and if I couldn't get them, I figured out another way to stage the scene. So Child's Play turned out terrific, but it was much more difficult and intense."

"Every kid has woken up and looked around his room and at his action toys and his dolls and things and said, 'Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if one of them came alive?' Well, one does. And his name is Chucky. And you're in deep sh*t trouble."

You can listen to the Fright Night episode of the Table Read podcast here.