Author: Neil Mayne
The Thing in deep space, from the creators of Until Dawn. Lashana Lynch leads the crew of the Cassiopeia — and not all of them are coming home on May 12 It has been four years since the last Dark Pictures game. Four years since Supermassive Games — the studio that invented the modern interactive horror genre with Until Dawn — released anything in the anthology that made their name. That wait ends on May 12. Directive 8020 arrives on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC next Tuesday, and everything we’ve seen suggests it is the most ambitious, most polished,…
The Evil Dead director’s long-awaited return to horror hits streaming today, and Rachel McAdams delivers what might be the performance of her career Sam Raimi is back where he belongs — in the dirt, the dark, and the deeply uncomfortable — and as of today, you can watch him work without leaving your sofa. Send Help, Raimi’s first horror film since Drag Me to Hell in 2009, began streaming on Hulu this morning. Seventeen years is a long time to hold your breath. Horror fans have been waiting through two Spider-Man films, a Doctor Strange sequel, and years of development…
Deep Water is in cinemas now — a throwback disaster-horror spectacular that knows exactly what it is and doesn’t apologise for a single blood-soaked second There is a specific and increasingly rare pleasure to be found in a film that knows precisely what it is, commits entirely to that thing, and dares you to have a bad time. Deep Water, which opened in cinemas on May 1 and is still playing now, is that film. It is a plane crash movie and a shark movie in one. It is produced by Gene Simmons of KISS. It is directed by Renny…
The director of Hokum has revealed the original ending — and it would have changed everything about this film Right. So you’ve seen Hokum. You’ve sat through the dread, the dark humour, the witch in the basement, the chains, and the slow awful unravelling of Ohm Bauman’s carefully constructed shell of a life. And you walked out thinking you knew how it ended. Turns out the ending you watched was not the ending Damian McCarthy originally wrote. Not even close. In a week of interviews that have been doing the rounds since Hokum opened on May 1, the Cork-born director…
Joe Dante’s legendary lost assembly cut of Gremlins has been confirmed, digitised and shown to a secret audience. The horror world may never be the same. There are moments in film history that feel genuinely seismic — and last Thursday night in Los Angeles, one of them happened quietly, without a press release, without a red carpet, without a single studio executive signing off on a marketing campaign. A text message went out to a select group of people. It said, essentially: get yourself to this address tonight, you are going to watch a movie no one has ever seen,…
Damian McCarthy’s Irish folk horror masterpiece opens May 1 — and it just became 2026’s most essential horror film Opening May 1 in cinemas nationwide via Neon, Hokum arrives not as a horror film that needs defending, but as one that demands to be reckoned with. Written and directed by Damian McCarthy, it premiered at SXSW on March 14 this year and walked out with a near-perfect critical reception — 98% on Rotten Tomatoes from 43 critics, the consensus declaring McCarthy a modern master of the genre. That isn’t hyperbole. After Caveat and Oddity announced him as a filmmaker worth…
Alien: Isolation 2 Just Broke Cover on Alien Day — And the Wait Is Finally Over Twelve years. Twelve years of silence, of waiting, of fans replaying one of the greatest horror games ever made and wondering if Amanda Ripley would ever get another chance to run, hide and survive. On April 26 — Alien Day — Sega and Creative Assembly answered. Alien: Isolation 2 is real, it is coming, and the first teaser has just dropped. It is called False Sense of Security. That title alone should tell you everything about what Creative Assembly intends to do to you.…
Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil Just Showed Its First Footage — And It Is Nothing Like You Expected The man who made Barbarian and Weapons has just shown the world what he is doing with Resident Evil — and it is smaller, weirder and scarier than anyone anticipated. Zach Cregger took the stage at CinemaCon this week to debut the first footage from his highly anticipated reboot of the most cursed franchise in horror cinema history. The crowd reaction was immediate. This is not the Resident Evil anyone was expecting. This is something genuinely new. And that is exactly the point.…
A24’s Backrooms Trailer Has Arrived — And The Internet’s Greatest Horror Just Got Very Real Everyone who has spent any time in the darker corners of the internet knows what the Backrooms are. The endless yellow rooms. The moist carpet. The hum of fluorescent lights that never switch off. The feeling — the absolute bone deep certainty — that something else is in here with you, somewhere deeper in the maze, and it is getting closer. Now A24 is bringing it to a cinema near you. And the trailer suggests they have done the impossible — taken one of the…
Insidious: Out of the Further — The Franchise Just Changed Everything For sixteen years the rules of the Insidious universe have been clear. The Further is a place you go to — a vast purgatorial darkness inhabited by the tortured souls of the dead, a world you enter at your own peril and pray you can find your way back from. It does not come to you. It does not follow you home. It stays where it belongs — on the other side of the dark. Until now. Insidious: Out of the Further — the sixth chapter in one of…