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EXCLUSIVE: The Soska Sisters make their return to body horror in Rabid and, for the first time anywhere, the new trailer (above) is available this morning here and only here at Deadline. The film makes its U.S. premiere October 15 at the Screamfest Horror Film Festival and opens in select theaters 12 days before…

When Blumhouse TV approached Hannah Macpherson with the notion of a horror film set in the subculture of purity balls the young filmmaker was more intrigued than informed. “First of all, I had to Google what that was,” the New Mexico native admits. “And then I went down the rabbit hole.” That rabbit hole led…

Taking advantage of Friday the 13th, Netflix has released a sizzle reel for its “Netflix & Chills” horror brand, as well as release dates and first-look images for four original movies. Check out the schedule below for the genre program, which includes original films and series as well as acquired fare like FX’s Americ…

The forest obscures dark deeds and sorcery in the new Orion Pictures teaser trailer for Gretel & Hansel: A Grim Fairy Tale (in theaters Jan. 31, 2020), a new, R-rated reframing of a children’s classic that was already fairly sinister in its storybook form. Hansel & Gretel may date back to the 14th Century but the…

Early this year, Zachary Quinto was hungry for an acting challenge and keen to find it in a television vehicle that would let him roam familiar genre ground after his previous small-screen success with villain roles both in sci-fi (as the diabolical Sylar on NBC’ s Heroes, 2006-2010) and in horror (his Emmy-nominated…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the first trailer for writer-director Issa López’s Tigers Are Not Afraid, a contemporary horror fable set against the despairing backdrop of Mexico’s violent drug wars but presented in a way that manages to be grim and modern but also lyrical, evocative, and eerie. A 10-year-old named Estrella (Paolo…

“You don’t read the book. The book reads you.” The most intriguing line line in the unsettling new trailer for Scary Stories To Tell in The Dark suggests that interactive entertainment has been around longer than we thought — and that it has some dark consequences when Guillermo del Toro is involved. The trailer takes…

EXCLUSIVE: Momo is ready for her close-up. Orion Pictures is partnering with Roy Lee’s Vertigo Entertainment and producer Taka Ichise to develop a horror film based on the creepy sculpture now known globally as Momo thanks to the viral hoax called Momo’s Challenge. The sculpture by Japanese artist Keisuke Aiso was…

A dream apartment in Hollywood feels like a new lease on life for Sarah (Nicole Brydon Bloom) in the feature film 1BR but that changes when the terrified tenant starts to wonder if she’s actually home alone. Writer-director David Marmor’s debut feature 1BR makes its world premiere on July 18th at Montreal’s Fantasia…

The polarizing politics of immigration and the controversies that straddle the border between the U.S. and Mexico are starting to percolate more and more in the genre film sector with compelling projects such as the supernatural horror film Tigers Are Not Afraid, the magic-informed thriller Witch Hunt or the upcoming…

EXCLUSIVE: Today an exclusive first look at the trailer for 8: A South African Horror Story, a nightmarish plunge into the little-known corners of South African folklore from writer-director Harold Hölscher and Rock Salt Releasing. Rock Salt Releasing boarded world sales at the Cannes Film Festival in May and screened…

EXCLUSIVE: Cleopatra Entertainment is set for a Halloween VOD roll-out for Glenn Danzig’s directorial debut Verotika, the horror/thriller anthology that just made its world premiere at Cinepocalypse in Chicago and will follow that up next week (June 25) with a West Coast premiere at the Montalban Theatre in Los…