Category: Horror
Awoken! (horror movie: trailer)
In horror movie Awoken, a young medical student attempts to cure her brother from a terminal sleep illness called Fatal Familial Insomnia, where you are unable to sleep until you die. On her quest to help him, a far more sinister reason for his condition is revealed.
Lockwood & Co, supernatural action-adventure detective series, heading to Netflix (news).
Complete Fiction, a new media production company, is working with Netflix to develop Lockwood & Co, a supernatural action-adventure detective series, based on the novels by Jonathan Stroud. The series will be helmed and executive-produced by Joe Cornish. In conjunction with Netflix, the company has also optioned the sci-fi horror trilogy, The Murders of Molly […]
Vampire Chronicles and Lives of the Mayfair Witches to be new TV series (news).
Horror author Anne Rice is happy – her Vampire Chronicles novels and Lives of the Mayfair Witches books have both been picked up by AMC Networks for some TV tickling action. About time, too! Read the full story over at https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/vampire-chronicles-series-lives-of-the-mayfair-witches-amc-anne-rice-1234605490/ The Offworld Report – the best content offworld SFcrowsnest
The Twilight Zone 2nd season (trailer).
Here’s the trailer for the 2nd season of the rebooted Twilight Zone TV show. The re-imagining of Rod Serling’s anthology fantasy/scifi/horror/weird TV series is opening June 25th 2020 on CBS All Access with ten new episodes.
The Wretched (horror movie review by Mark Kermode).
Our man-of-many-movies, Mark Kermode, sits down to review the horror film, The Wretched, in which a young teen faces off with an ancient witch who not only devours her victims, but makes everyone else forget that they ever existed. That sounds like quite the quandry, right there. Here’s the movie’s official blurb: A rebellious teenage […]
The Last of Us Part II (zombie game: trailer).
Here’s the first trailer for The Last of Us Part II, the PlayStation 4 horror game developed by Naughty Dog, set five years after the events of The Last of Us, where players must again enter the role of 19-year-old Ellie in a Walking Dead-like zombie horror environment, who comes into conflict with a mysterious […]
Lovecraft Country (horror TV series).
Lovecraft Country is new HBO horror TV series based on Matt Ruff’s horror novel of the same name, arriving late Summer of this year. Atticus Black and his friend Letitia (driven by Uncle George) set off through 1950s Jim Crow America hunting for his missing dad. This begins a struggle to overcome the racist terrors […]
Top horror movies of all time with Mark Kermode (video).
Our man of many movies, Mark Kermode, sits down with Simon Mayo to explore MK’s top ten horror movies, the films that have really terrified Mark the most over the years (at least, the flicks that aren’t The Exorcist).
Floatation Device: A Charity Anthology by Scottish authors (charity ebook review).
Beyond Hadrian’s Wall in the cold, savage windswept north, a group of nice authors in the Glasgow SF Writers Circle have banded together to produce a fantasy anthology in aid of some charities that help the neediest in our current crisis. There’s a variety of jolly good fiction, some very short, so I’ll pick out […]
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (Horror TV series: 2nd trailer).
There’s a second trailer out for the next series of Penny Dreadful, which updates the steampunk Victorian horror vibe to a more Cthulhu-like 1930s America setting … aka, Penny Dreadful: City of Angels! Stars Natalie Dormer as some kind of demonic bringer of death – so not much change from her last role in Game […]
