Just when you thought it was safe to take out the trash, the SCREAMBOX Original horror-comedy Crackcoon is being unleashed in time for Halloween, and we’ve got a bloody exclusive clip this afternoon to whet your appetite. Watch it below and find the trailer underneath!

Crackcoon takes a bite out of SCREAMBOX beginning on October 1, 2024.

The film has been fittingly described as “Rocket Raccoon meets Cocaine Bear” by Total Film, and you can watch the official trailer for Crackcoon below to begin the bloody madness.

“When a synthetically-altered street drug is discarded in the woods by a drug dealer during a car chase with police, the fallout proves nothing less than horrific as an innocent raccoon eats it, transforming it into a nightmarish killing machine straight from the bowels of Hell. With unsuspecting campers, tourists, and residents of a mountain community all in close proximity to the epicenter, no one is safe from the monster’s unrelenting rampage.”

Night of the Living Dead co-creator John A. Russo appears in the film alongside Rosaria Eraso, Justin P. Martin, Gary Lee Vincent, Jessa Flux, Chris O’Brocki, Angel Bradford, Hunter Redfern, Tim Hale, Morrigan Thompson, and Tom Hoover. Brad Twigg directs from a script he co-wrote with Gary Lee Vincent and Todd Martin.

Crackcoon joins SCREAMBOX’s extensive library of unique horror content, including Terrifier 2, RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop, Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls, We Are Zombies, Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story, The Outwaters, Living with Chucky, Creepypasta, Frogman, and Pennywise: The Story of IT.

Start screaming now with SCREAMBOX on iOS, Android, Apple TV, Prime Video, Roku, Fire TV, YouTube TV, Samsung, Comcast, Cox, and Screambox.com.

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After earning rave reviews on the festival scene from many including Bloody Disgusting’s Meagan Navarro and Matt Donato, gaming horror movie Livescreamers was released today.

Michelle Iannantuono’s Livescreamers is now available on Blu-ray and VOD outlets.

This timely take on screenlife found footage follows an ensemble of video gamers led by Michael Smallwood (Halloween Kills, The Righteous Gemstones), Christopher Trindade (Worst Laid Plans), and Ryan LaPlante (Holy Hell). After taking home the George A. Romero Fellowship at Salem Horror, and touring festivals including Panic Fest, Unnamed Footage, and Nevermore, the film currently sits at a fresh 89% on Rotten Tomatoes.

In Livescreamers, a group of content creators are pitted against each other by a gruesome video game with lethal stakes.

In addition to taking audiences on a thrilling ride, the horror film tackles issues of parasocial relationships, corporate greed, and the crushing unsustainability of online creation.

A Region Free Blu-ray is available directly from Octopunk Media’s store page, as well as Amazon. The Blu-ray features a cast and crew commentary track, a gag reel, and a feature-length behind the scenes documentary entitled Boundary Breakers. You can catch up on the first film in the series, Livescream, for free on Octopunk Media’s Youtube channel, or it can be purchased in a discounted Blu-ray combo with Livescreamers on The Octopunk Store!

Livescreamers is also available on VOD for rental and purchase at the following:

• Amazon VOD US
• Amazon VOD UK
• Vimeo VOD Worldwide

Michelle Iannantuono is an award-winning queer filmmaker from Charleston, SC. Her features include 2018’s Livescream, which was nominated for a Rondo Award and won Best Director at Nightmares Film Festival; 2020’s Detroit Evolution, a queer transformative fan film in the Detroit Become Human video game universe that has surpassed 2 million views on YouTube; and 2023’s Livescreamers. She is currently in post-production on a new short Lazzo, which utilizes motion capture and is fully animated in Unreal Engine 5.

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From vampires to exorcisms, devil worship, and supernatural hauntings, Scream Queen Linnea Quigley (The Return of the Living Dead, Night of the Demons) investigates the supernatural with Linnea Quigley’s Paranormal Truth.

Quigley will take you behind the myths and realities of these subjects in the 10-episode docuseries that has just arrived on SCREAMBOX.

September was jam-packed on SCREAMBOX with several new films joining the horror streaming service, including Creeping Death, #AMFAD: All My Friends Are Dead, and Best Worst Movie! Get all the deets here.

Start screaming now with SCREAMBOX on iOS, Android, Apple TV, Prime Video, Roku, Fire TV, YouTube TV, Samsung, Comcast, Cox, and Screambox.com.

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The Halloween season is in full swing and October is right around the corner. What does that mean? Well, it means we’re about to be hit with an absolute deluge of new horror movies.

October is always loaded up on fresh frights on the small screen and big screen, and that’s why we’ve put together the ultimate Halloween Movie Guide with a spotlight on 31 NEW HORROR MOVIES releasing throughout October. 31 days… 31 new movies… it seems only right.

Read on for Bloody Disgusting’s Halloween 2024 Movie Guide!

Bloody Disgusting’s Halloween Movie Guide is presented by Apartment 7A starring Julia Garner. Add the new psychological thriller to your Halloween watch list.

CRACKCOON – OCTOBER 1 – SCREAMBOX

Just when you thought it was safe to take out the trash… The SCREAMBOX Original horror-comedy Crackcoon has been fittingly described as “Rocket Raccoon meets Cocaine Bear.” In the film directed by Brad Twigg, “When a synthetically-altered street drug is discarded in the woods by a drug dealer during a car chase with police, the fallout proves nothing less than horrific as an innocent raccoon eats it, transforming it into a nightmarish killing machine straight from the bowels of Hell.”

THE CURSE OF THE NECKLACE – OCTOBER 1 – VOD

Sisters Madeleine McGraw (The Black Phone) and Violet McGraw (M3GAN) star in The Curse of the Necklace from Warner Bros. In the supernatural horror movie, “An antique necklace becomes a conduit for the tormented soul of an evil boy.” Henry Thomas also stars.

HOUSE OF SPOILS – OCTOBER 3 – PRIME VIDEO

This Blumhouse horror movie follows an ambitious chef (Ariana DeBose) as she opens a restaurant on a remote estate where she battles kitchen chaos, crushing self doubts… and a haunting presence who threatens to sabotage her at every turn. Barbie Ferreira co-stars in the film, written and directed by Bridget Savage Cole & Danielle Krudy.

HOLD YOUR BREATH – OCTOBER 3 – HULU

Sarah Paulson, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Amiah Miller and Annaleigh Ashford lead the cast of this Hulu horror-thriller from directors Karrie Crouse and William Joines. “The film takes place amid the horrific dust storms of 1930s Oklahoma, watching as a woman (Paulson) is convinced that a sinister presence is threatening her family.”

SALEM’S LOT – OCTOBER 3 – MAX

The long-awaited adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot from director Gary Dauberman (Annabelle Comes Home) is finally seeing release after a lengthy delay. The plot sees an author return to his hometown, only to find it under the sway of a bloodthirsty vampire. The new take on the vampire classic gets a straight-to-streaming release on the road to Halloween.

THE FOREST HILLS – OCTOBER 4 – SELECT THEATERS

Scott Goldberg‘s The Forest Hills brings together Edward Furlong (Terminator 2), Dee Wallace (The Howling), and Shelley Duvall (The Shining), with the film notably marking the late Shelley Duvall’s final movie appearance – and first in two decades. Chiko Mendez plays a man tormented by nightmarish visions after enduring head trauma while hiking in the Catskills.

SPIN THE BOTTLE – OCTOBER 4 – VOD

A party game turns into a supernatural nightmare in Spin the Bottle, featuring Justin Long (Barbarian) as the local authority savvy to the paranormal. “When a group of friends plays spin the bottle in a house marked by a brutal massacre, they unknowingly unleash an evil spirit and start dying in terrifying ways.”

MONSTER SUMMER – OCTOBER 4 – IN THEATERS

The Black Phone star Mason Thames is gearing up for a Monster Summer, a spooky family adventure from director David Henrie (“Wizards of Waverly Place”). In the film, “When a mysterious force begins to disrupt their big summer fun, Noah and his friends team up with a retired police detective to embark on a monstrous adventure to save their island.”

LITTLE BITES – OCTOBER 4 – THEATERS & VOD

Spider One (Allegoria, Bury the Bride) is back in the director’s chair with Little Bites, a horror movie being produced by mother-and-son duo Cher and Chaz Bono. Heather Langenkamp, Barbara Crampton, Bonnie Aarons (The Nun), and Krsy Fox (Allegoria, Bury the Bride) star. The film follows a young widow and mother who desperately tries to protect her daughter from the grips of a fiendish, flesh eating monster named Agyar.

V/H/S/BEYOND – OCTOBER 4 – SHUDDER

The V/H/S franchise returns to Shudder with the seventh installment of the series, this one drawing inspiration from sci-fi horror. Expect six blood curdling tapes of terror, with an exciting lineup of filmmakers that includes Justin Long, Mike Flanagan, Kate Siegel and more.

THE PLATFORM 2 – OCTOBER 4 – NETFLIX

Director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s 2020 film The Platform introduced a vertical prison system, where inmates are assigned to a level and forced to ration food from a platform that moves between the floors. Inmates on high floors eat better than those below, and one man tries to effect change so everyone gets enough. A mysterious figure has managed to establish a new law in the sequel, and we can likely expect things to get ultra violent and extremely grim.

IT’S WHAT’S INSIDE – OCTOBER 4 – NETFLIX

The feature directorial debut of writer/director Greg Jardin aims to bring the fun this Halloween season with a twisty sci-fi romp. Chaos ensues at a lavish weekend pre-wedding party when an old friend arrives with a mysterious suitcase and proposes a unique party game. The gathering descends into an existential nightmare that awakens long-hidden secrets, desires, and grudges. Netflix paid a whopping $17 million to acquire It’s What’s Inside out of Sundance.

KRAZY HOUSE – OCTOBER 4 – VOD

Dutch directorial duo Steffan Haars and Flip Van Der Kuil’s English-language debut, Krazy House polarized Sundance audiences this year with its over-the-top lampooning of the ’90s sitcom era. Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead) stars as a father who has to man up and save his ’90s sitcom family from Russian home invaders. Alicia Silverstone also stars.

FRANKIE FREAKO – OCTOBER 4 – IN THEATERS

Director Steven Kostanski (The Void, Psycho Goreman) is back with another genre rewind to the ’90s, this time to pay tribute to the puppet horror of yesteryear. After calling a late-night party hotline that promises out-of-this-world fun, uptight yuppie Conor must battle the pint-sized forces of evil unleashed through his phone line, led by a maniacal rock n’ roll goblin.

HELLBOY: THE CROOKED MAN – OCTOBER 8 – VOD

Ketchup Entertainment’s Hellboy: The Crooked Man hits the reboot button on the comic book franchise, with Jack Kesy (12 Strong) taking over the title role this time around. This Hellboy horror movie is set in the 1950s and costars Adeline Rudolph (Resident Evil) as a rookie agent of the BPRD who teams up with Hellboy to protect the residents of Appalachia from the creepy Crooked Man, who is collecting souls for the devil.

CADDO LAKE – OCTOBER 10 – MAX

M. Night Shyamalan is the producer for upcoming thriller Caddo Lake, formerly titled The Vanishings At Caddo Lake. In the film from directors Celine Held & Logan George (Topside), when an 8-year-old girl mysteriously vanishes on Caddo Lake, a series of past deaths and disappearances begin to link together, forever altering a broken family’s history.

MR. CROCKET – OCTOBER 11 – HULU

Director Brandon Espy’s feature debut is based on his popular short featured in Hulu’s Bite Size Halloween series. It stars Elvis Nolasco as a diabolical children’s TV show host and Jerrika Hinton as a mother who will stop at nothing to protect her son. Expect nostalgic terror in Mr. Crocket, which looks to put a horror twist on classic childhood entertainment.

DADDY’S HEAD – OCTOBER 11 – SHUDDER

Director Benjamin Barfoot’s horror movie follows a boy and his young, recently widowed stepmother who find themselves in fear for their lives after they are visited by a strange and unexplainable creature – something that appears to mimic a horrifying version of the boy’s recently deceased father. Based on the image above, the creature might prove to be one of the more unnerving designs to come along this Halloween season.

SE7EN CEMETERIES – OCTOBER 11 – VOD

The director of the Feast trilogy as well as Piranha 3DD, John Gulager is back with Se7en Cemeteries. Danny Trejo stars as a recent parolee who gets a Mexican witch to resurrect his old posse so that they can help him save a woman’s ranch from a ruthless drug lord.

TERRIFIER 3 – OCTOBER 11 – IN THEATERS

Only writer/director Damien Leone and Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton) could get horror fans excited about Christmas in October. The horror icon is back in theaters just in time for Halloween, set to unleash another round of chaos on the unsuspecting residents of Miles County as they peacefully drift off to sleep on Christmas Eve. Returning cast includes Lauren LaVera (Sienna), Samantha Scaffidi (Victoria Heyes), Elliot Fullam (Jonathan Shaw) and AEW superstar Chris Jericho (Burke), with Daniel Roebuck set to debut as Santa Claus.

ALL YOU NEED IS BLOOD – OCTOBER 12 – KINO STUDIO APP

Grammy®-nominated music video director Cooper Roberts makes his feature directorial debut with horror-comedy All You Need Is Blood, exclusively debuting on the Kino Studio App before releasing across traditional VOD outlets. The film follows Bucky, a 16-year-old aspiring director. After a strange meteor crash lands in his backyard and turns his deadbeat father into a brain-eating zombie, Bucky and his friends seize the opportunity to create the ultimate horror flick, starring his undead dad. The cast includes Mena Suvari and Eddie Griffin.

SMILE 2 – OCTOBER 18 – IN THEATERS

Writer/Director Parker Finn’s contagious curse takes aim at a new victim in the upcoming big screen sequel. In Smile 2, “About to embark on a new world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley (Naomi Scott) begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame, Skye is forced to face her dark past to regain control of her life before it spirals out of control.”

RIPPY – OCTOBER 18 – VOD

The zombie kangaroo horror-comedy Rippy (formerly The Red) hops onto VOD in time for Halloween. A feature expansion of Ryan Coonan’s 2014 smash festival short film Waterborne, the creature feature stars Michael Biehn (The Terminator, Aliens). “A young sheriff finds her mettle tested to the limit when locals start getting ripped to shreds.”

WOMAN OF THE HOUR – OCTOBER 18 – NETFLIX

In 1978, a serial killer appeared on live TV as a bachelor on The Dating Game. Director (and star) Anna Kendrick tells the tale in Woman of the Hour. Kendrick stars in her directorial debut, playing an aspiring actress in 1970s Los Angeles whose life intersects with a serial killer in the midst of a yearslong murder spree.

CARVED – OCTOBER 21 – HULU

Carved is based on the 2018 short of the same name, written and directed by Justin Harding for Hulu’s Bite Size Halloween. It follows a heartbroken teenage playwright, her younger brother, and a group of survivors who become trapped in a historical reenactment village on Halloween night and must band together to survive a relentless attack by a sentient and vengeful pumpkin.

GHOST GAME – OCTOBER 22 – VOD

From Epic Pictures’ horror label DREAD and director Jill Gevargizian (The Stylist) comes Ghost Game, which will have a limited theatrical run beginning October 18 before hitting VOD on October 22. In the indie horror film, “After discovering his girlfriend Laura’s involvement in an internet challenge to secretly live alongside unsuspecting residents, Vin persuades her to take him on her next adventure. They target Halton House, a notoriously haunted manor recently purchased by a new family.”

FAMILY PACK – OCTOBER 23 – NETFLIX

In the board game The Werewolves of Millers Hollow, paranoia and mistrust ensue as players seek to uncover the hidden identity of a werewolf in their midst. Coming to Netflix on the road to Halloween, the French comedy feature Family Pack adapts the horror board game. “After discovering a mysterious card game, a family is thrust back in time to a medieval village where they must fend off dangerous werewolves each night.” Jean Reno stars.

AZRAEL – OCTOBER 25 – SHUDDER

After being released in theaters last month, the action-horror movie Azrael starring Samara Weaving comes home to Shudder for Halloween. The film was directed by E.L. Katz (Channel Zero, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Cheap Thrills) from an original script by Simon Barrett (The Guest, You’re Next, Godzilla x Kong). “In a world in which no one speaks, a devout female-led community hunts down a young woman (Weaving) who has escaped her imprisonment.”

YOUR MONSTER – OCTOBER 25 – IN THEATERS

Melissa Barrera (Abigail, Scream VI) stars as soft-spoken actress Laura Franco, who finds her voice again when she meets a gruff but charming monster living in her closet. Caroline Lindy’s feature debut gives a comedic, musical spin on the classic tale of Beauty and the Beast.

DON’T MOVE – OCTOBER 25 – NETFLIX

Up next from producer Sam Raimi‘s Raimi Productions and Hammerstone Studios (Barbarian) is Don’t Move. Adam Schindler and Brian Netto (Quibi’s series “50 States of Fright”) directed the film, wherein a grieving woman hoping to find solace deep in an isolated forest encounters a stranger who injects her with a paralytic agent. As the agent gradually takes over her body, she must run, hide, and fight for her life before her entire nervous system shuts down.

TIME CUT – OCTOBER 30 – NETFLIX

The writer and director of slasher-comedy Freaky reunite for Netflix’s time-traveling slasher movie Time Cut, which has been described as “Back to the Future meets Scream.” In the upcoming slasher, “A teenage girl travels back to the early 2000s to stop a vicious killer from murdering her sister.”

Bloody Disgusting’s Halloween Movie Guide is presented by Apartment 7A starring Julia Garner. Add the new psychological thriller to your Halloween watch list.

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Fans of the Critters franchise probably already own all the movies but Arrow Video is looking to tempt us all with the announce of a brand new 4-movie Blu-ray collection this week.

Critters: A Four Course Feast is a limited edition UK offering, and it features the first four movies in the Critters franchise housed together in a special Blu-ray box set.

The set will be released on December 2, and it’s up for UK pre-order now.

Arrow Video previews, “The Krites have landed! Carnivorous creatures from outer space! Vicious vermin with very sharp teeth! The beloved sci-fi/comedy-horror franchise makes its UK Blu-ray debut in this special edition box set from Arrow Video. A four course feast of fun, fur, fear and fangs, served with a platter of new and archive extras to whet your appetite!”

The 4-disc limited edition contents include…

– High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentations of all four films

– Original lossless stereo 2.0 and 5.1 audio options

– Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

– 60-page hardbound collectors book featuring new writing on the films by screenwriter Shane Bitterling and film critics Meagan Navarro and Heather Wixson plus select archival material

– Double-sided fold out posters for all four films

– Limited edition packaging with newly commissioned artwork by Pye Parr

– Reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Pye Parr

DISC 1 – CRITTERS

– Brand new audio commentary by film critics Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain with screenwriter Shane Bitterling

– Archive audio commentary with producer Barry Opper and star Don Opper

– Archive audio commentary with Critter designers Charles Chiodo, Edward Chiodo and Stephen Chiodo

– They Bite!: The Making of Critters documentary

– For Brian: A Tribute to Screenwriter Brian Domonic Muir featurette

– Behind-the-Scenes Footage

– Alternate Ending

– Theatrical Trailer

– TV Spots

– Image Gallery

DISC 2 – CRITTERS 2: THE MAIN COURSE

– Brand new audio commentary by film critics Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain

– Archive audio commentary with director Mick Garris

– Archive audio commentary with Critters designers Charles Chiodo, Edward Chiodo and Stephen Chiodo

– The Main Course: The Making of Critters 2 archive documentary

– Behind the Scenes Footage

– Additional TV Scenes

– Theatrical Trailer

– TV Spot

– Image Gallery

DISC 3 – CRITTERS 3

– Brand new audio commentary by film critics Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain

– Archive audio commentary with producer Barry Opper and star Don Opper

– You Are What They Eat: The Making of Critters 3, archive featurette

– Trailer

– Promo

– Image Gallery

DISC 4 – CRITTERS 4

– Brand new audio commentary by film critics Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain

– Archive audio commentary with producer director Rupert Harvey

– Space Madness: The Making of Critters 4 archive featurette

– Trailer

– Image Gallery

A smart homage to 1950’s B-movies, Critters sees a group of small but toothy extra terrestrials escape from an alien prison and land in small-town America with two shape-shifting bounty hunters in hot pursuit. Directed by Stephen Herek (Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure) and starring genre stalwarts Dee Wallace (The Howling) and M. Emmet Walsh (Blood Simple), the film was a smash-hit on home video, launching a franchise for the ravenous furry fiends. Two years later, Critters 2: The Main Course sees the Krites come back for seconds as leftover eggs hatch and attack the rural town of Grover’s Bend. Directed by Mick Garris (Sleepwalkers) with a script co-written by David Twohy (Pitch Black), Critters 2 is one big ball of toothy delight.

Celebrated horror author and screenwriter David J. Schow (The Crow) comes aboard for Critters 3, bringing the Krites to the big city. Marking the feature film debut of none other than Leonardo DiCaprio (Django Unchained), it was shot simultaneously with the darker, less comedic Critters 4, in which the ferocious furballs battle series stalwart Charlie (Don Opper, Android) in outer space, featuring a cast that includes Angela Bassett (Strange Days) and Brad Dourif (Child’s Play).

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This year marks the 50th anniversary of Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and Dark Sky Films is bringing the film back to theaters for the Halloween season.

Restored in terrifying 4K (supervised by the late Tobe Hooper), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre will be re-released back on the big screen in select theaters throughout October.

Dark Sky Films has also released a new 50th anniversary trailer, which was created by the renowned Mark Woollen. Check out the new trailer and the 50th anniversary poster below.

Check local listings and grab your tickets now!

Dark Sky previews, “50 years ago, five youths on a weekend getaway in the Texas countryside fell prey to a butcher in a mask made of human skin and his cannibalistic family, and horror cinema would never be the same. Violent, confrontational, and shockingly realistic, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre terrified audiences in a way never thought possible when it was unleashed on a politically and socially tumultuous America in 1974. Facing a storm of controversy, censorship, and outcry throughout its troubled release, this masterpiece of horror has stood the test of time to become a landmark motion picture and cultural milestone.”

The company is also bringing the original horror classic back to physical media with a special “50th Anniversary Chainsaw Edition” set, which includes the film on 4K Ultra HD and even a brand new VHS tape. It’s all housed inside collectible chainsaw-shaped packaging.

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