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Sifting decades of horror television down to just a devil’s dozen requires discipline and ruthlessness. There can be no mercy. If a horror TV show once reigned supreme from a throne of grisly guts but now feels about as desirable an experience as a colonoscopy, it didn’t make this list. If another show spooked us

This article contains Last Night in Soho spoilers. Our spoiler-free review is here. It takes less than a minute to realize just how much Thomasin McKenzie’s Eloise adores the ‘60s in Last Night in Soho. Strutting into her childhood bedroom as Peter and Gordon’s “A World Without Love” plays (on vinyl, of course), the star

There’s something special about “that moment” in the horror genre. Whether it’s the scene from that movie that’s been burned into your head since childhood or the passage of that book you’ll always wish you couldn’t recite from heart, there are just times when horror is so perfectly distilled into a single moment that we

This article contains Last Night in Soho spoilers. Thomasin McKenzie’s Eloise Turner is a young woman who’s always been haunted by ghosts. That was true at the beginning of Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho and it proves just as accurate by the end when she smiles at a blonde haired specter in the mirror.

Zack Snyder’s Justice League was the best gift that fans of Snyder’s vision of the DC Universe could have asked for: a four-hour, fully restored version of the film that tragedy (and perhaps a bit of studio politics) had cruelly snatched away from the director before he could complete it the first time. Snyder finally

Recent figures suggest that New World is currently peaking at around 300,000 to 400,000 concurrent players, which represents a significant percentage drop from the game’s all-time concurrent player count peak of over 900,000 players. On top of that, a recent report reveals that only 8% of New World‘s players have reached the game’s level cap.

There’s a moment in Antlers when a character we’ve only met briefly, played by a seasoned actor, goes to a house to check on the welfare of a child. The character opens the door and it’s immediately apparent that the inside of the darkened, scary home smells horrible—the stink of death. So does this character,

The following includes Hypnotic spoilers. Read our spoiler-free review here. Hypnotic, the new Netflix thriller from directors Suzanne Coote and Matt Angel (The Open House), has arrived to scare the streaming service subscribers into a trance right before Halloween hits. Starring Midnight Mass’ Kate Siegel, Hypnotic centers on Jenn, a woman struggling after a miscarriage

Warning: contains spoilers for The Deathly Hallows, One Piece, Game of Thrones, Torchwood, Breaking Bad, Marvel’s Spider-Man (PS4) and House of Cards. As messages to the public go, the one taped to the door of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, next door to Whitby Abbey in the UK, is polite but conveys a

Nintendo finally launched the Expansion Pack upgrade option for Nintendo Switch Online (which includes access to a small collection of Nintendo 64 and Sega Genesis games as well as the upcoming Happy Home Paradise DLC for New Horizons), and the service’s initial struggles remind us why emulators remain an important (if controversial) part of the

Bruce Campbell has been doing cool horror movies before they thought it was cool. And by “they,” we mean the recent spate of social media tastemakers and even some film critics who’ve embraced the horror renaissance of the last decade with the dubious phrase of “elevated horror.” To be sure, the horror genre is having

This article contains Dune spoilers. At a glance it feels like we’ve seen this song and dance before. An army of white-armored soldiers stand in perfect square formations beneath the comings and goings of Offworld spaceships. They’re soldiers; the supposed elite; the Emperor’s very own Sardaukar hit squad. But to anyone who’s watched a Star

If you keep your spooky season watches within the bounds of America and the U.K., then you’re missing out. Some of the scariest horror films are international. Korean pop culture has been in the news lately for the success of social horror Squid Game, but the country’s cinema has been effectively creeping us out for

For considerable swaths of its hefty running time, Marvel Studios’ Eternals doesn’t feel much like the “typical” Marvel movie, whatever that may be. At its best, Eternals attempts to push the Marvel Cinematic Universe forward in new directions, much like Thor, the two Captain America sequels, Avengers: Infinity War and Black Panther did. While it

This article contains major Locke & Key Season 2 spoilers. Netflix‘s fantasy-horror series Locke & Key returned for its second season this month, and managed to genuinely take a big step up in terms of its storytelling and overall quality. There was a lot to love about Season 2, but with a Season 3 already

This article contains spoilers for Dune. Both of them. For miles stretching as far as the eye can see, oceans of sand slumber beneath two moons. In the distance, a pair of figures, a mother and son, cross this vast chasm of dunes on their quest to find those blue-eyed devils they call the Fremen.

The PlayStation 3 ranks below the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 4 in the minds of many fans, but it has to be said that the sometimes maligned console is also the home of some of the most notably difficult video games of the relatively modern era. While I don’t think that Sony and their studio

After ten years Power Rangers has found a new home. Since 2011 the long-running franchise has been on Nickelodeon but, according to Deadline, starting in spring 2022 the second season of Power Rangers Dino Fury will premiere exclusively in the U.S. on Netflix. This is a major shift that could have long reaching impacts for

Much has been said about GTA 3 in the twenty years since the open-world PS2 helped change gaming overnight, but one aspect of the title you won’t always hear people discuss are the times the game’s various myths and urban legends genuinely scared them. In the early internet age, it was easy enough to believe

This article contains major Dune spoilers. Read our spoiler-free review here. Paul Atreides has survived the fall of his father’s house. When you get right down to it, this is very much the central conflict and core narrative arc to writer-director Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, a film which waited until its opening title card to reveal

This article contains spoilers for I Know What You Did Last Summer on Amazon Prime. Replication is the name of the game when it comes to horror.  It’s so hard to scare people…genuinely scare them, that if an idea works once, its creators have little choice but to try it again. That’s how you get

This article contains Night Teeth spoilers. Netflix’s Night Teeth stars Lucy Fry and Debby Ryan as Zoe and Blaire, two vampire enforcers in a battle over the vampire underground in Los Angeles. They work for Victor, played by Game of Thrones’ Alfie Allen, who set the stage for a changing of the guard in one

This article contains spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War Last August, Candyman and Little Woods director Nia DaCosta was tapped by Marvel Studios to helm the sequel to their 2019 Brie Larson-led blockbuster Captain Marvel, becoming the youngest filmmaker to direct a Marvel film. It’s clear that the Brooklyn-born filmmaker is brimming with passion for her

Warning: contains details of returning aliens in Series 13. It’s no coincidence, said BBC Director of Drama Piers Wenger at the Doctor Who: Flux press launch that Series 13 launches on Halloween. “Some extraordinary monsters have been conjured up,” teased Wenger, adding the familiar instruction, “Don’t blink.” Thanks to wily set snoopers and Steven Moffat’s

As the second season of You ended, the series set the show up quite nicely for the third outing. Joe (Penn Badgley) and Love (Victoria Pedretti) were headed to the ‘burbs for a new beginning. Love was pregnant, and Joe was already activating his you-radar, honing in on the hottie next door. You was already

From Software has recently confirmed that they’ve decided to delay Elden Ring‘s release date from January 23, 2022, to February 25, 2022, and, in the process, have thrown an already hectic 2022 release schedule into chaos. First off, the Elden Ring delay itself seems simple enough and probably isn’t enough reason to make fans worry

The new trailer for Disney+ original docuseries The Beatles: Get Back promises “the most intimate and honest glimpse into the creative process and relationship between John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr ever filmed.” From the first looks at all the accoutrements which come along with it, one thing is apparent: Peter Jackson

With a title like Halloween Kills, maybe we shouldn’t be so surprised when the movie slays? Nevertheless, David Gordon Green’s hack and slash follow-up to 2018’s Halloween exceeded all expectations when it grossed an estimated $50.4 million this weekend. That number comes in ahead of even distributor Universal’s projections, which pegged the Michael Myers stabathon

Superman has a brand new mission statement, and it’s one that speaks to the realities of both the 21st century and the history of the character. “We’re excited to announce that to better reflect the storylines that we are telling across DC and to honor Superman’s incredible legacy of over 80 years of building a

The worst kept secret in Hollywood has finally made been confirmed by Warner Bros. Michael Keaton, the legendary actor who played Batman in the late ’80s and early ’90s, has donned the cape and cowl once again for The Flash movie. The first teaser released at DC Fandome 2021 isn’t quite the full-length trailer diehard