** FINAL DESTINATION BLOODLINES: Here's a new poster for the upcoming film.
** THE SHALLOWS remake: Here's the trailer for the upcoming Chinese remake.
** THE HOUSE OF LAST RESORT: Michael B. Jordan's Outlier Society production company optioned the screen rights to Christopher Golden's 2024 horror novel THE HOUSE OF LAST RESORT. Golden will adapt the book and produce alongside Jordan, Elizabeth Raposo and Pete Donaldson.
The story follows a young American couple who relocate to a Sicilian hill town, where the mayor is selling abandoned homes to foreigners for a single Euro in an effort to revitalize the community. Soon they learn their new home has walled-up catacombs beneath it, whispers in its walls, and a dark history. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** Untitled Rob Savage film: Jessica Chastain has signed on to star in a new horror film from director Rob Savage at Atomic Monster, Blumhouse, and Universal Pictures. The project will be based on the novel INCIDENTS AROUND THE HOUSE by Josh Malerman. The story revolves around a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled family is targeted by an entity she calls 'Other Mommy.' James Wan is producing. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** YETI: Director Michael Chaves has found his next directorial project in the form of the Yeti movie. The project has no target release date of official cast yet. The film was originally set up at Sony Pictures. However, producer Jon Silk moved the survival thriller movie to Netflix after joining the streamer as one of its film executives. Prior to moving to Netflix, Sony Pictures and Picturestart had teamed up to acquire the rights to Peter Gaffney's movie spec script. At the moment, it's unknown if Picturestart would still be producing the project.
"The movie takes place deep in the mountains, where an avalanche unleashes something primeval from the glacial ice. The story follows a father and his daughter who must fight to survive a merciless predator that blends in with the snow," reads the synopsis. (thanks to ComingSoon.net)
----- April 17, 2025 -----
** 28 YEARS LATER: Danny Boyle and Alex Garland reunite for 28 YEARS LATER – exclusively in movie theatres 6.20.
** CARRIE TV series: Amazon Prime Video has officially ordered Mike Flanagan's Stephen King adaptation CARRIE to series with the season to consist of eight episodes. Trevor Macy will executive produce alongside Flanagan, while Summer H. Howell is nearing a deal to star.
The project is dubbed a bold and timely reimagining of the story of Carrie White who finds herself contending with the alien landscape of public high school, a bullying scandal that shatters her community and the emergence of mysterious telekinetic powers. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** SILENT NIGHT: Rohan Campbell (HALLOWEEN ENDS and THE MONKEY) keeps racking up horror films, the Canadian actor has landed the lead role of Billy Chapman in a new take on slasher classic SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT. The film hit U.S. cinemas in the holiday season.
The original follows a young man left traumatized a decade earlier after seeing his parents killed by a man dressed as Santa Claus. Ten years later, a psychotic Billy puts on a Santa suit himself and gets bloody revenge. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** FEAR BELOW: When a gang of ruthless criminals loses their stolen gold in a river, they turn to a team of desperate, down-on-their-luck divers to retrieve it. What begins as a high-stakes recovery mission quickly spirals when the divers soon find themselves in the company of a vicious bull shark, but the dangers in the water are only a fraction of the dangers that wait for them above.
** HOLY NIGHT DEMON HUNTERS: Here's the trailer for the upcoming film.
----- April 16, 2025 -----
** KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE remake: Ryan Gosling will produce a film remake of KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPAC at Amazon MGM Studios. The 1988 cult classic sci-fi horror comedy received positive reviews at the time and follows a clan of evil extraterrestrials who resemble clowns.
Attempts have been made over the years to either make a sequel or remake the property as a film or TV series, all have stalled over the years. Back in 2023, the original film's director Stephen Chiodo had hopes for an eight-episode limited series that would end up on the clown planet at one point. The one successful revival of the property in recent years came in the form of an asymmetrical survival horror video game released last year to mixed/positive reviews. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** WEAPONS and BARBARIAN linked: One of the most raved-about reveals at CinemaCon this year was the first footage from BARBARIAN breakout director Zach Cregger's new film WEAPONS which opens in August.
Warner Bros. Pictures has started the marketing campaign for the movie and while there aren't yet any official stills with cast, or any trailers for that matter, the studio has launched a website named MaybrookMissing.net disclosing some more information about the film's story.
Written like a newspaper article, a description goes into the film's central mystery in which seventeen children wake up and voluntarily walk out the front door of their homes at 2:17am one morning – inexplicably disappearing without a trace. The site also includes a text link to another article headlined "Underground Prison Discovered in Rental Home" which goes into an article going into the events of 2022's BARBARIAN.
This has led to plenty of speculation that the films are connected with WEAPONS set in the same universe as BARBARIAN, and could even potentially tie-in to that film somehow. Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich and Benedict Wong star in WEAPONS which opens in cinemas on August 8th. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** TERRIFIER 3 4K UHD: Coming to 4K UHD Steelbook on 7/7.
** STRANGE HARVEST: Saban Films announced the acquisition of North American rights to the critically acclaimed horror film STRANGE HARVEST, written and directed by Stuart Ortiz. The film will be released theatrically this summer.
A routine welfare check in the San Bernardino suburbs leads to a gruesome discovery - a family of three has been bound, bled, and posed below a strange symbol written in blood on the ceiling. Detective Joe Kirby and Lexi Taylor recognize the symbol as the calling card of a killer from 15 years earlier calling himself Mr. Shiny who has seemingly returned to continue his murder spree. (thanks to ScreenAnarchy.com)
** VULCANIZADORA: Two friends trudge through a Michigan forest with the intention of following through on a disturbing pact. Once their plan goes shockingly awry, the haunting consequences of their failure can't stay hidden for long.
----- April 15, 2025 -----
** UNDER PARIS sequel: Filmmaker Xavier Gens has confirmed that the sequel to the French action-horror film UNDER PARIS, about giant sharks in the Seine, is still only in the script stage. The new title is expected to open with Paris "entirely submerged under water".
Gens is busy prepping a nine-week shoot for Thailand-set thriller LADY CHANG and will have to finish that first before turning attention towards the shark film sequel. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** POLTERGEIST 4K UHD: Coming soon as a Film Vault Range 4K UHD/Blu-ray Steelbook edition.
** THE SHINING 4K UHD: Coming soon as a Film Vault Range 4K UHD/Blu-ray Steelbook edition.
** THE MUMMY: Veronica Falcon, May Calamawy, and May Elghety are set to join Jack Reynor and Laia Costa in director Lee Cronin's new take on THE MUMMY at Blumhouse and Atomic Monster. Filming is now underway on Ireland and Spain on the project which involves a mummy but has no link to the Brendan Fraser-led franchise or the Tom Cruise-led 2017 film. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** Blumhouse's 2025 Halfway to Halloween: Three Blumhouse films returns to cinema.
----- April 14, 2025 -----
** I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER: Here's the first photos from the upcoming sequel.
** LONGLEGS 4K UHD: Coming to 4K UHD Steelbook on 6/24 from Decal Releasing.
** THE WOMAN IN THE YARD: Coming to Blu-ray in June from Universal.
** The Firefly Trilogy: Coming to Blu-ray on 4/15 from RJ Entertainment in Germany.
** THE EIBON PHENOMENA: A television reporter and her cameraman investigate a mysterious research institute and are trapped only to discover that the building is one of the seven gates of hell. THE EIBON PHENOMENA is a ten part online found footage/analog horror series that pays homage to Lucio Fulci's THE BEYOND (1981), the second part in the legendary "Gates of Hell" trilogy and a big dose of H.P. LOVECRAFT. Check it out on YouTube!
----- April 10, 2025 -----
** TALK TO ME 4K UHD: Coming to 4K UHD on 6/16 from Second Sight Film.
** NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS 4K UHD: Coming out on 5/12 from 88 Films.
** WHEN EVIL LURKS 4K UHD: Coming out on 6/3.
** NSM Records update: Coming to Blu-ray Mediabook on 30.05.2025 from NSM Records.
----- April 9, 2025 -----
** HAPPY DEATH DAY 3: Actress Jessica Rothe has confirmed that the long-awaited third installment in the HAPPY DEATH DAY horror-comedy franchise is 'moving forward'. Rothe confirmed the news while appearing on stage at the American Cinematheque alongside director Christopher Landon to host a double feature screening of the first two movies. Landon then himself added: "It is moving forward".
At last report several years ago, Christopher Landon had revealed that the working title for the third installment was HAPPY DEATH DAY TO US with a tone different than the other two films. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** ANGST 4K UHD: Coming soon to 4K UHD from Umbrella Entertainment.
** LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL 4K UHD: Coming soon to 4K UHD from Shudder/RLJE.
** HIM: The new Jordan Peele-produced psychological horror film HIM has set a September 19th release date. The story is set in the world of college football and follows a young player (Tyriq Withers) mentored by a legendary quarterback (Marlon Wayans). The former finds himself drawn into a sinister world of occultists and asks what he will sacrifice for fame. Justin Tipping will direct the film which opens September 19th. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH: When Simon (Jack Quaid) thinks he witnesses an abduction and the police refuse to believe him, he reluctantly turns to his next-door neighbor Ed (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) - a bitter, retired security guard - to help him find the missing woman.
----- April 8, 2025 -----
** A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET PART 2: From Jack Sholder: "I just spent last week on the Warners lot working on the restoration of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2. The remastered 4K picture off the original 35mm negative looks fantastic, and I was able to make adjustments and corrections only possible thanks to the incredible digital tools now available. The original mono mix from 42 years ago(!) was brought into Dolby Atmos and blew me out of my seat. I heard things in Chris Young's score I never knew were there and that, combined with some added sound fx work, really lift the film into another dimension.
We were careful not to change the look and feel of the film, but even the rather lame scene with the exploding parakeet felt like THE BIRDS. The whole experience was like someone restoring an old Renaissance painting and finally seeing the amazing blue that the painter had used, or the cat now seen hiding behind the table, although in this case, those colors and sounds had never fully been seen before but were implicit in the material and now are explicit. Warners also shot some interviews for the new release and I got to see my old buddy Robert Englund whose performance now jumps off the screen. Keep an eye out for announcements of the release from WB. The new version really needs to be experienced by new fans and re-experienced by old ones"
** AMERICAN PSYCHO remake: Filmmaker Luca Guadagnino appeared on screen during Lionsgate's presentation at CinemaCon on Tuesday and teased his new adaptation of author Bret Easton Ellis' AMERICAN PSYCHO. In a video speech to the crowd, the director said: "We are really working hard to bring to the screen a new adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' AMERICAN PSYCHO, a book that I deeply love that is something that influenced me so much."
He then confirmed that Scott Z. Burns, the film's writer, is "doing an incredible job" and that "the script is coming out very handsomely." He also confirmed that conversations are underway with "very exciting performers to play the leads."
Frenesy Films is backing the project which is expected to be a whole new take on the novel, as opposed to a remake of director Mary Herron's previous film adaptation in 2000 starring Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** CARRIE TV series: Milly Shapiro, who had a memorable role as the younger sister in HEREDITARY, has reportedly scored the title role in filmmaker Mike Flanagan's upcoming TV series based on Stephen King's CARRIE. In addition, Flanagan regular Samantha Sloyan (HUSH) is also in talks to star as Carrie's mother Margaret. A writer's room for the series is set to open soon with the title being produced by Amazon MGM Studios for its Prime Video service.
King's first novel and published in 1974, the story follows a shy girl, tormented by an abusive mother and bullies at school, who develops telekinetic powers and takes revenge on her tormentors. The property was adapted into the famed 1976 Brian DePalma film which scored a widely panned 1999 sequel, and was followed by a mixed-reviewed remake of the original in 2013. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** ABRAHAM'S BOYS: RLJE Films and Shudder, AMC Networks' premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, announced that they have acquired the worldwide rights to writer and director Natasha Kermani's (LUCKY, IMITATION GIRL) ABRAHAM'S BOYS, based on the short story of the same name by Joe Hill (NOS4A2), which serves as a continuation to Bram Stoker's Dracula. The film stars Titus Welliver, Jocelin Donahue, Judah Mackey, Aurora Perrineau, and Brady Hepner. ABRAHAM'S BOYS will be released in theaters later this year following its world premiere at the 2025 Overlook Film Festival on Saturday, April 5.
ABRAHAM'S BOYS follows Max and Rudy Van Helsing, who have spent their lives under the strict and overprotective rule of their father, Abraham. Unaware of his dark past, they struggle to understand his paranoia and increasingly erratic behavior. But when they begin to uncover the violent truths behind their father's history with Dracula, their world unravels, forcing them to confront the terrifying legacy they were never meant to inherit.
Writer-Director Natasha Kermani commented, "It was a joy to bring Joe Hill's dark, gothic story to the screen on location in California, with a fantastic Los Angeles cast and crew, and I'm so excited to now be able to share the film with audiences all over the world alongside my friends at RLJE Films and Shudder."
** PSYCHO THERAPY THE SHALLOW TALE OF A WRITER WHO DECIDED TO WRITE ABOUT A SERIAL KILLER: In Theaters & On Demand April 11th. Starring Steve Buscemi, John Magaro, Britt Lower. A writer befriends a retired serial killer in a desperate attempt to find inspiration for his next novel and save his marriage. Covering as his marriage counselor, the killer teaches him his methods as reality becomes deadlier than fiction.
----- April 7, 2025 -----
** M3GAN 2.0: Oops! She did it again! M3GAN 2.0 is only in theaters June 27.
** INSIDIOUS CHAPTER 6: COME PLAY director Jacob Chase has entered negotiations to helm INSIDIOUS 6 for Blumhouse and Screen Gems. Further details about the project's plot and characters are being kept under wraps. (thanks to ComingSoon.net)
** WEAPONS: Warner Bros. Pictures held its CinemaCon presentation with a lot of footage shown and none of it going online – everything kept for the room itself. Scenes were shown from BARBARIAN director Zach Cregger's new film which will be set in a town where an entire classroom of children disappears one night without a trace, and the town reacts with understandable shock and anger. Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, June Diane Raphael, Austin Abrams, Benedict Wong, Alden Ehrenreich and Amy Madigan co-star. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** THE BRIDE: Filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal and actress Jessie Buckley appeared at Warner Bros' CinemaCon presentation to offer the first look at this new spin on Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN with THE BRIDE. Footage was screened, confirming it is set in 1930s Chicago and sees the two monsters journeying through wild landscapes and committing various crimes.
The story follows a lonesome Frankenstein monster who enlists the help of Dr. Euphronios to create a companion for himself from the remains of a murdered woman. Christian Bale, Penelope Cruz, Annette Bening, John Magaro and Julianne Hough co-star while Jake Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard will appear. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER 4K UHD: Coming to 4K UHD on June 24th.
----- April 4, 2025 -----
** FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S 2: Welcome back! Are you ready to start the show? FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S 2 only in theaters this December.
** M3GAN 2.0: Universal Pictures had its big day at CinemaCon. A full trailer for the M3GAN sequel aired in which Cady (Violet McGraw) and her aunt (Alison Williams) must face next-gen AI tech doll named Emilia who seeks to relentlessly improve herself. M3GAN meanwhile, who had become a Siri-esque voice in a box, is enlisted to help stop Emilia – including uttering the already immortal line "Hang on to your vaginas". Tonally it's much wilder than the original and even has M3GAN in a wingsuit hurtling down a canyon. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** THE BLACK PHONE sequel: Universal Pictures had its big day at CinemaCon where footage screened of the follow-up to the supernatural kidnap thriller. Mason Thames returns, his character Finney having survived to his teenage years and is now visiting a summer camp in the middle of winter. Ethan Hawke's Grabber returns as a now undead serial killer and is seen on ice skates in one scene as he seems to be targeting Finney's sister Gwen (Madeleine McGraw). (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** ABIGAIL 4K UHD: Coming to 4K UHD 4/10 from Imprint Films.
----- April 3rd, 2025 -----
** ROAD OF BONES: The SINISTER and THE BLACK PHONE pair of Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill are set to re-team for a film adaptation of Christopher Golden's 2022 horror novel ROAD OF BONES at Sony's Screen Gems and their own Crooked Highway banner.
The supernatural thriller is set along the Kolyma Highway in Siberia. The real highway which was built during the Stalinist Soviet Union with the labor of prisoners from the gulags. Hundreds of thousands of inmates reportedly died during the construction of the 2000 km long road which ended up being built partly atop of the bodies due to the permafrost making burial too difficult.
Blending folk and survival horror, the tale follows an American documentarian exploring the road's history. He ends up fighting for his life in one of Earth's coldest and most remote locations. The pair will produce and co-write the screenplay with Derrickson set to direct the project which falls under their first-look deal with Sony. Golden, Vince Cheng and Pete Donaldson will executive produce. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** THE DEAD ZONE 4K UHD: Coming to 4K UHD Steelbook on 6/10 from Scream Factory.
** THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD 4K UHD: Coming to 4K UHD Steelbook on 6/10 from Scream Factory.
** I, MADMAN: Coming to Blu-ray on 6/17 from Kino Lorber.
----- April 2nd, 2025 -----
** BRING HER BACK: From directors Danny and Michael Philippou and starring Sally Hawkins, Billy Barrat, Sora Wong, Jonah Wren Phillips, Sally-Anne Upton and more. BRING HER BACK – In Theaters May 30.
** THE UGLY STEPSISTER: Here's the poster for the upcoming film.
** DEAD MAIL: An ominous, bloody help note finds its way to the desk of a seasoned dead letter investigator at a 1980's midwestern post office. As he begins to piece together the letter's origins, it leads him down a violent, unforeseen path to a kidnapped keyboard engineer and his eccentric business associate. DEAD MAIL premieres April 18 on Shudder.
** Shaw-Shock: Shaw Brothers Horror Collection – Volume One (1976 – 1984) is coming to Blu-ray in May from Imprint Films.
----- April 1st, 2025 -----
** FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET 4K UHD: Coming to 4K UHD on 4/20 from Shameless Screen Entertainment.
** 28 YEARS LATER: Sony Pictures held its big CinemaCon presentation in Las Vegas with filmmaker Danny Boyle on hand to introduce an intense new trailer for his highly anticipated 28 YEARS LATER film. Speaking on stage, Boyle says each movie in the new trilogy works fine on their own as standalone films but they are linked together as well.
Also confirmed is that Cillian Murphy will be returning to the franchise on screen in the trilogy, but Boyle advises: "You may have to wait a bit to see him though". In terms of returning to the franchise, Boyle says: "I still love an apocalypse, British style. I love killing the infected (zombies if you like). And I still love blowing s— up." (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** RESIDENT EVIL: Filmmaker Zach Cregger was on hand at the Sony CinemaCon presentation in Las Vegas to say his new RESIDENT EVIL film will follow the mould that many of the games follow, but the films have shied away from in favor of ensembles – namely that there is only one main protagonist alone, and the film will follow them on a journey that slowly becomes more and more hellish.
That fits in with a rumored synopsis from the other week in which a courier, tasked with delivering a package to a remote hospital, finds himself caught in the middle of an outbreak and must fight to survive. That film opens September 2026. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** CONFINED (LA CASA ANGOSTA): Psychological horror and gothic suspense blend seamlessly in CONFINED, an unsettling thriller that began filming on March 24 in Asuncion. The film is co-directed by Armando Aquino and Hernan Moyano. This production marks the start of a new wave of genre cinema in Paraguay, featuring notable regional talent.
Based on an original screenplay by Hernan Moyano, CONFINED immerses viewers in an oppressive and unsettling atmosphere. The story follows Salma, a young woman trapped in a toxic relationship who, due to financial necessity, accepts a job caring for a dying elderly man in a baroque mansion. Soon, the house becomes a labyrinth of secrets and supernatural phenomena that push Salma's sanity to its breaking point. (thanks to ScreenAnarchy.com)
