Stars: James Gaudioso, Adam Shippey, Shawnee Smith, Drew Moerlein, Tyrese Gibson, Kresh Novakovic, Taryn Manning, Bruce Dern, Montanna Gillis | Written by James and Anthony Gaudioso | Directed by Ante Novakovic
Bloodline Killer begins on Halloween Eve when Connor sees his father killed by the masked serial killer known as Skulleton. He tries to save him but to no avail, and the only thing that saves him is his mother Moira putting several bullets into the killer. That drops him, but while she isn’t looking, the body vanishes.
At the hospital, Connor and his brother Michael almost get in a fight over Connor not being able to their father. Detective Cypher and his partner Detective Fink find out that someone claiming to be a cop has already interviewed the hospitalized Moira. And we find out that Skulleton is her cousin.
Elsewhere, Samantha, the killer’s sister finds him and drugs him...
Bloodline Killer begins on Halloween Eve when Connor sees his father killed by the masked serial killer known as Skulleton. He tries to save him but to no avail, and the only thing that saves him is his mother Moira putting several bullets into the killer. That drops him, but while she isn’t looking, the body vanishes.
At the hospital, Connor and his brother Michael almost get in a fight over Connor not being able to their father. Detective Cypher and his partner Detective Fink find out that someone claiming to be a cop has already interviewed the hospitalized Moira. And we find out that Skulleton is her cousin.
Elsewhere, Samantha, the killer’s sister finds him and drugs him...
- 5/10/2024
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
The slasher-themed relaunch of “Pretty Little Liars” from series creators/writers/executive producers Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (“Riverdale,” “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”) and Lindsay Calhoon Bring (“Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”) is back with the brand new season “Pretty Little Liars: Summer School,“ plunging the final girls into a summer of horror.
“Summer School“ begins Today (May 9), only on Max.
After surviving last season’s Millwood massacre and unmasking “A,“ Mouse (Malia Pyles), Noa (Maia Reficco), Faran (Zaria), Imogen (Bailee Madison) and Tabby (Chandler Kinney) are back to process their trauma and get on with their lives. Except they’ll be forced to take on summer school. When a mysterious new villain emerges, summer school won’t be the only thing derailing the girls’ plans for summer fun and romance (read our review).
Bloody Disgusting spoke with Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Lindsay Calhoon Bring about the second season, which continues the heavy emphasis on...
“Summer School“ begins Today (May 9), only on Max.
After surviving last season’s Millwood massacre and unmasking “A,“ Mouse (Malia Pyles), Noa (Maia Reficco), Faran (Zaria), Imogen (Bailee Madison) and Tabby (Chandler Kinney) are back to process their trauma and get on with their lives. Except they’ll be forced to take on summer school. When a mysterious new villain emerges, summer school won’t be the only thing derailing the girls’ plans for summer fun and romance (read our review).
Bloody Disgusting spoke with Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Lindsay Calhoon Bring about the second season, which continues the heavy emphasis on...
- 5/9/2024
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
I grew up in the time of the Chuck Norris joke. I didn’t even really know who he was apart from the Walker, Texas Ranger guy who Conan O’Brien would pull a lever to get just the most random, out of context clip. I remember seeing the Chuck Norris joke book in a Barnes and Noble store and leafing through it only to find a bunch of absolutely absurd and comically over the top things that Chuck Norris could and would do to you or what he kept behind his beard. It was enough for me to start looking at his overall contribution to film and much of it was action. I found him teaming up with the likes of Lee Marvin in The Delta Force or going up against the great Christopher Lee in An Eye for an Eye. There’s also a great fight he had with...
- 5/9/2024
- by Andrew Hatfield
- JoBlo.com
Horror films have a well-deserved reputation as predictable spectacles that revolve around simple characters and use straightforward techniques to influence the viewer. The jump scare – the rapid appearance of a monster in the frame, coupled with a sudden change in the soundtrack or a deafening scream from the monster or its victim – is a main symbol of this.
That is why unique plots are especially appreciated by the viewers today. Every week, either a comic book movie or another part of a famous franchise is released in cinemas. The viewer, tired of the numerous offshoots of such projects, is more likely to go and watch an auteur film, and doing so they will inevitably encounter the horror genre.
Over the past decade, the genre has changed, and perhaps the last time horror was this relevant was a hundred years ago, when German Expressionists experimented with form and film language. The...
That is why unique plots are especially appreciated by the viewers today. Every week, either a comic book movie or another part of a famous franchise is released in cinemas. The viewer, tired of the numerous offshoots of such projects, is more likely to go and watch an auteur film, and doing so they will inevitably encounter the horror genre.
Over the past decade, the genre has changed, and perhaps the last time horror was this relevant was a hundred years ago, when German Expressionists experimented with form and film language. The...
- 5/9/2024
- by zoe-wallace@startefacts.com (Zoe Wallace)
- STartefacts.com
Unlike big-budget blockbusters that often depend on famous faces or explosive (and expensive) set pieces to draw audiences into the theater, the horror genre has been thriving for decades with no-name actors, shoestring budgets, and still pulling in huge profits thanks to a quality idea that audiences want to see. If the characters in the film are more than likely not going to make it to the end credits, there's no need to shell out the dough for a household name when they're just going to be killed off.
Fortunately, horror films also frequently inspire unprovoked reactions from audiences that work better than any marketing campaign ever could. A24 struck gold when audience members were reportedly fainting during preview screenings of "Talk to Me," which certainly helped skyrocket the film's popularity and contributed to it becoming the production company's highest-grossing horror film, ever, even surpassing Ari Aster's "Hereditary."
IFC Films...
Fortunately, horror films also frequently inspire unprovoked reactions from audiences that work better than any marketing campaign ever could. A24 struck gold when audience members were reportedly fainting during preview screenings of "Talk to Me," which certainly helped skyrocket the film's popularity and contributed to it becoming the production company's highest-grossing horror film, ever, even surpassing Ari Aster's "Hereditary."
IFC Films...
- 5/8/2024
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" best handled the topic of choice.
Dark Matter Season 1 Episode 1 and Dark Matter Season 1 Episode 2 are the latest on this topic.
Duplicate characters existing in separate dimensions is hardly a novel concept on television (or almost any creative medium).
The first such episode featuring a parallel universe was, no shock, on the 1963 episode of The Twilight Zone, "The Parallel." An astronaut returns from a lengthy journey to find his world not quite the same as he remembers it.
Another early example came in 1970 on the soap opera Dark Shadows. Vampire Barnabas Collins found a room in his mansion, Collinwood, a portal he used to escape to parallel time.
This concept was most vital in the 1967 Star Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror." It was set in a dimension where evil twins of the Star Trek characters lived.
This mirror universe was revisited on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine...
Dark Matter Season 1 Episode 1 and Dark Matter Season 1 Episode 2 are the latest on this topic.
Duplicate characters existing in separate dimensions is hardly a novel concept on television (or almost any creative medium).
The first such episode featuring a parallel universe was, no shock, on the 1963 episode of The Twilight Zone, "The Parallel." An astronaut returns from a lengthy journey to find his world not quite the same as he remembers it.
Another early example came in 1970 on the soap opera Dark Shadows. Vampire Barnabas Collins found a room in his mansion, Collinwood, a portal he used to escape to parallel time.
This concept was most vital in the 1967 Star Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror." It was set in a dimension where evil twins of the Star Trek characters lived.
This mirror universe was revisited on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine...
- 5/8/2024
- by Dale McGarrigle
- TVfanatic
Not to be confused with the 1986 Gary Paulsen novel that was on your fifth-grade reading list, Adam Green's 2007 slasher "Hatchet" was intended to be an homage to the plentiful stalk-and-kill movies from the 1980s. The first "Hatchet" takes place deep in the swamps of Louisana where feckless city-dwellers get lost while taking a swamp tour. They trade stories of Victor Crowley, a local kid with facial differences who, years ago, was trapped in a burning house set ablaze by prankster teens. Crowley was accidentally killed by his father when he recklessly used a hatchet to free him from the fire. Victor's spirit is now said to haunt the swamp and murder interlopers. Of course, Victor will appear to start the predicted murders.
Victor Crowley was played by stuntman Kane Hodder, perhaps best known for playing the masked killer Jason Voorhees in "Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood,...
Victor Crowley was played by stuntman Kane Hodder, perhaps best known for playing the masked killer Jason Voorhees in "Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood,...
- 5/7/2024
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
In horror, bodies are usually split into parts, not the movies themselves.
Lots of slasher icons are revived for sequel upon sequel over the years but very few franchises — in any genre — have released a trilogy of movies within one year. Lionsgate’s “The Strangers” is breaking down the door in an ambitious, three-chapter strategy to give horror fans a never-before-seen horror “odyssey.”
This isn’t the first time “The Strangers” has come sneaking into theaters. The original 2008 film, inspired by real-life break-ins and the Charles Manson murders, starred Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman as a not-so-happy couple who get an unwelcome knock at their door in the middle of the night. They turn away a creepy woman asking “Is Tamara home?” but are soon plagued by masked, knife-wielding home invaders. The movie became a sleeper hit, making $82 million off a $9 million budget, and 10 years it later spawned a sequel,...
Lots of slasher icons are revived for sequel upon sequel over the years but very few franchises — in any genre — have released a trilogy of movies within one year. Lionsgate’s “The Strangers” is breaking down the door in an ambitious, three-chapter strategy to give horror fans a never-before-seen horror “odyssey.”
This isn’t the first time “The Strangers” has come sneaking into theaters. The original 2008 film, inspired by real-life break-ins and the Charles Manson murders, starred Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman as a not-so-happy couple who get an unwelcome knock at their door in the middle of the night. They turn away a creepy woman asking “Is Tamara home?” but are soon plagued by masked, knife-wielding home invaders. The movie became a sleeper hit, making $82 million off a $9 million budget, and 10 years it later spawned a sequel,...
- 5/6/2024
- by Jordan Moreau
- Variety Film + TV
Horrors are obviously one of the most demanded movie genres, as people love to get their nerves shaken by the scary tales. However, we’d dare to say you didn’t know these horror gems were so successful at the box office they earned 100 times their budgets.
Here are 5 such hits of the genre, now available online for streaming.
1. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Where to watch: Prime
First comes one of the most influential horror films, as it’s the origin of both modern slashers and found-footage movies. It follows a group of young people, who fall victim to a family of cannibals on their way to visit an old homestead, and was such a banger at the time that it made $30.9 million against a budget estimated between $80K and $140K.
2. Halloween (1978)
Where to watch: Prime, Apple TV+
John Carpenter’s slasher, earning the whole $70 million worldwide, focused on a mental patient,...
Here are 5 such hits of the genre, now available online for streaming.
1. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Where to watch: Prime
First comes one of the most influential horror films, as it’s the origin of both modern slashers and found-footage movies. It follows a group of young people, who fall victim to a family of cannibals on their way to visit an old homestead, and was such a banger at the time that it made $30.9 million against a budget estimated between $80K and $140K.
2. Halloween (1978)
Where to watch: Prime, Apple TV+
John Carpenter’s slasher, earning the whole $70 million worldwide, focused on a mental patient,...
- 5/5/2024
- by info@startefacts.com (Ava Raxa)
- STartefacts.com
Clockwise from bottom left: Halloween (Compass International Pictures); Hellbound: Hellraiser II (New World Pictures); Mandy (XYZ Films); Re-Animator (Empire Pictures); Chopping Mall (Concorde Pictures) (Screenshots: YouTube)Graphic: The A.V. Club
We’re halfway to Halloween, and even though October 31 is still six months away, there’s still one place...
We’re halfway to Halloween, and even though October 31 is still six months away, there’s still one place...
- 5/1/2024
- by Gil Macias
- avclub.com
John Carpenter may not be a real-life carpenter, but he sure has built himself a legacy. It's just one made of movies, not wooden sticks.
Seriously though, any genre movie fan will probably tell you that John Carpenter has made a staggering number of classic motion pictures. "Halloween" may not have invented the slasher genre, but it defined it. "The Thing" may not have invented gory monster effects, but it raised the bar and few films have even nudged it in the decades that followed. "Big Trouble in Little China" is one of the most subversive films of the 1980s, tearing down the whole "badass" genre of cinema by placing a musclebound white American hero in the center stage and then revealing him to be nothing more than a comic relief sidekick in a story about Chinese mythology that he's too damned ignorant to comprehend. And We could go on.
Seriously though, any genre movie fan will probably tell you that John Carpenter has made a staggering number of classic motion pictures. "Halloween" may not have invented the slasher genre, but it defined it. "The Thing" may not have invented gory monster effects, but it raised the bar and few films have even nudged it in the decades that followed. "Big Trouble in Little China" is one of the most subversive films of the 1980s, tearing down the whole "badass" genre of cinema by placing a musclebound white American hero in the center stage and then revealing him to be nothing more than a comic relief sidekick in a story about Chinese mythology that he's too damned ignorant to comprehend. And We could go on.
- 8/17/2023
- by William Bibbiani
- Slash Film
A couple months ago, we heard that Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of the release of the slasher sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer by giving the film a 4K release, just like they did for its predecessor I Know What You Did Last Summer last year. Now we’ve learned that the unpopular trilogy capper I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (watch it Here) will also be getting a new release on the same day I Still Know reaches 4K (September 26th) – but this will be a Blu-ray release instead of 4K.
Directed by Sylvain White (who replaced Damon Santostefano two weeks before filming began) from a screenplay written by Michael D. Weiss, I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer is about a group of small town teens who accidentally kill a fellow friend in a 4th of July prank.
Directed by Sylvain White (who replaced Damon Santostefano two weeks before filming began) from a screenplay written by Michael D. Weiss, I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer is about a group of small town teens who accidentally kill a fellow friend in a 4th of July prank.
- 8/16/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
There have been a lot of strange gaming crossovers over the years. Freddy Krueger was in Mortal Kombat, Michael Myers in Call of Duty: Ghosts, and the Ninja Turtles in Street Fighter 6. But one crossover in particular had me turning my head in disbelief: Nicolas Cage in Dead By Daylight.
For the uninitiated, Dead By Daylight is an asymmetrical horror video game where 4 players take on the role of survivors who are trying to escape the map, and 1 player takes on the role of a killer who’s trying to sacrifice them on meathooks. It’s a simple premise that allows for a great amount of freedom for bringing in crossover characters and killers from franchises such as Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, and Scream. Previous crossovers have always been in the form of fictional characters, however, so it was a bit strange when it was announced that Nicolas Cage...
For the uninitiated, Dead By Daylight is an asymmetrical horror video game where 4 players take on the role of survivors who are trying to escape the map, and 1 player takes on the role of a killer who’s trying to sacrifice them on meathooks. It’s a simple premise that allows for a great amount of freedom for bringing in crossover characters and killers from franchises such as Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, and Scream. Previous crossovers have always been in the form of fictional characters, however, so it was a bit strange when it was announced that Nicolas Cage...
- 8/15/2023
- by Reyna Cervantes
- bloody-disgusting.com
Twenty-seven years ago, Drew Barrymore’s movie night was ruined when she picked up a phone call that should have gone unanswered. The resulting carnage remains one of the most chilling moments in slasher cinema. Thus began Scream, a horror movie that changed the face of the genre and which nearly three decades later is still going strong. In fact, Ghostface—the mysterious and chatty Halloween costume worn by various killers—ranks these days among the movie monsters he once idolized. Freddy, Jason, even Michael Myers have had to make room for a character whose series is arguably just as popular now as it was in 1996.
Through it all, the Scream movies have found surprisingly consistent ways of keeping the formula fresh while maintaining the core concept: a group of young people who consider themselves media savvy find themselves trapped in a retro scary movie that also doubles as a particularly gory whodunit.
Through it all, the Scream movies have found surprisingly consistent ways of keeping the formula fresh while maintaining the core concept: a group of young people who consider themselves media savvy find themselves trapped in a retro scary movie that also doubles as a particularly gory whodunit.
- 4/29/2023
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
In early 2022, a reoccurring, annoying discourse was circulating Horror Twitter: “There are no original horror icons anymore.” In particular, these people were discussing slashers, and how bored they were of the just-about-to-be-released Scream and Ghostface, as well as Michael Myers, off the heels of Halloween Kills, released a few months prior. Fast forward to just over a year later, and this writer is hoping those Tweeters have since eaten their words.
According to the elementary description for slasher movies spoken by Samara Weaving’s doomed Film Studies-teaching character in Scream VI, slashers are indicative of the era in which they are made, which is also true of any horror subgenre, to be fair. The Golden Age of Slashers of the ’80s are a product of its Reagan-era conservative values to which they either mocked or preached. The jaded, postmodern slashers of the late ’90s knew they needed a bit...
According to the elementary description for slasher movies spoken by Samara Weaving’s doomed Film Studies-teaching character in Scream VI, slashers are indicative of the era in which they are made, which is also true of any horror subgenre, to be fair. The Golden Age of Slashers of the ’80s are a product of its Reagan-era conservative values to which they either mocked or preached. The jaded, postmodern slashers of the late ’90s knew they needed a bit...
- 4/28/2023
- by Julieann Stipidis
- bloody-disgusting.com
Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.
Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!
Halloween Action Figures from Fright-Rags
Fright-Rags has released three new Halloween retro-style action figures: Dr. Loomis (with removable coat), Sheriff Brackett (with pistol and flashlight), and Annie (with school books). They join the previously released Michael Myers, Laurie, and Lynda, which back in stock.
Sculpted by Plastic Meatball, each toy stands 3.75″ tall and has five points of articulation. They’re packaged on backer cards with art by Justin Osbourn. Priced at $20, they’re expected to ship in July.
City of the Living Dead 4K Uhd from Cauldron Films
City of the Living Dead will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on August 15 via Cauldron Films. It has been restored in 4K with Dolby...
Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!
Halloween Action Figures from Fright-Rags
Fright-Rags has released three new Halloween retro-style action figures: Dr. Loomis (with removable coat), Sheriff Brackett (with pistol and flashlight), and Annie (with school books). They join the previously released Michael Myers, Laurie, and Lynda, which back in stock.
Sculpted by Plastic Meatball, each toy stands 3.75″ tall and has five points of articulation. They’re packaged on backer cards with art by Justin Osbourn. Priced at $20, they’re expected to ship in July.
City of the Living Dead 4K Uhd from Cauldron Films
City of the Living Dead will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on August 15 via Cauldron Films. It has been restored in 4K with Dolby...
- 4/28/2023
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- bloody-disgusting.com
Universal has mostly been on a roll with horror movies of all shapes and sizes, from killer dolls (“M3GAN”) to killer bears (“Cocaine Bear”) to killer boogeymen (“Halloween Ends”), and now they are making a go of bringing one of the most iconic horror franchises of all time into the Universal/Blumhouse umbrella. “The Exorcist: Believer” a legacy sequel to William Freidkin’s 1973 horror classic, will debut theatrically on October 13.
That’s the same general weekend where David Gordon Green’s previous three “Halloween” movies opened in 2018, 2021 and 2022. The filmmaker helming this presumed trilogy of demon possession melodramas will be doing the “three new films that serve as a direct sequel only to the first one in the franchise” thing for a little while longer.
Universal brought the intense and frantic first look to CinemaCon and scared the hell out of those in attendance.
The footage centers on two missing...
That’s the same general weekend where David Gordon Green’s previous three “Halloween” movies opened in 2018, 2021 and 2022. The filmmaker helming this presumed trilogy of demon possession melodramas will be doing the “three new films that serve as a direct sequel only to the first one in the franchise” thing for a little while longer.
Universal brought the intense and frantic first look to CinemaCon and scared the hell out of those in attendance.
The footage centers on two missing...
- 4/27/2023
- by Scott Mendelson
- The Wrap
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