Variance Films, the specialty distributor behind the long U.S. tail of S.S. Rajamouli’s Indian crossover sensation RRR, is out with the director's Baahubali: The Epic. This is a 3-hour and 58-minute blended version of Baahubali: The Beginning (2015) and Baahubali: The Conclusion (2017) with Rajamouli…

What better day than Halloween to review a sequel to perhaps the greatest horror film of all time. No, I am not talking about Halloween and its myriad endless follow-ups, but rather 1973’s The Exorcist, which with 10 nominations including Best Picture…

Get ready to scream. The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures announced today that it will debut “The Horror Show,” a groundbreaking and immersive exhibition designed to bridge the gap between cinema and experience, while celebrating horror’s profound cultural impact and enduring popularity.  On…

This weekend, Ryan Coogler's genre-stretching box office smash Sinners, starring not but two Michael B. Jordans, returns to cinemas for a limited engagement, ostensibly for the creepy holiday season — but could Warner Bros. have an ulterior motive for the re-release? Although Coogler's movie debuted…

EXCLUSIVE: The 1962 song “Monster Mash,” which has become an annual Halloween +hit, is becoming an animated movie at Miramax. Miramax CEO Jonathan Glickman, who has been behind such haunted hits as Netflix’s second most watched series Wednesday, and The Addams Family animated movies at MGM, has…

From Bram Stoker’s Dracula directed by Francis Ford Coppola to Twilight, based on the books by Stephanie Meyer, vampires are everywhere in popular culture, and the list of vampire films is endless. The Hotel Transylvania films offer lighter adventures for those not wanting a complete fright fest, but Salem’s Lot…

The Final Girl trope defined characteristics of the last character left alive to confront the killer in horror films, particularly in slasher films. The rise of feminism in the 1970s became a milestone in the genre as the damsel in distress did not need a man to rescue her anymore. Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns)…

Halloween clearly makes for some good TV. The love affair started as far back as 1952, when ABC ran an episode of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet titled “Halloween Party,” possibly the first Halloween-themed tie in for a network show. That show featured the first role for another actor who would be come part…

Nothing is more terrifying than sitting in anticipation in the dark waiting for that unexpected jump scare mastered over the decades by directors who have defined the horror genre since the 1920s with spooky monsters, ghoulish demons and scream queens. Directors like Hitchcock, Craven, and Carpenter have set the…

UDPATE, with additional video: No costumes, but The View didn’t ignore Halloween this year, opening the show with a pre-taped dream sketch in which each of the hosts, bored to tears at a morning staff meeting as producer Brian Teta drones on and on about his podcast, dozes off and has a…

As the final stretch of October sets in, there is still plenty of time to catch favorite flicks, spooky, witchy, scary or cozy in the season of pumpkins, monsters and more. Freeform's 31 Nights of Halloween has several classic films airing all month long such as Casper (1995), Arachnophobia, Goosebump…

Lizzo is getting in on the joke with a new Halloween costume that spoofs a bit from South Park: The End of Obesity, a TV special of the animated Comedy Central sitcom that referenced the musician and the diabetes drug Ozempic used for weight loss. “Ok Halloween… you can start now 😜,” she wrote…