Wicked: Part One was filled with Easter eggs foreshadowing the events of The Wizard of Oz, including some characters that will eventually join Dorothy.
January 2025
George R.R. Martin has shared his thoughts about HBO’s A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, the upcoming adaptation of his Dunk and Egg novellas.
Young Sheldon star Raegan Revord wishes the show had included one of the staples of sitcom television (though it’s easy to see why the show didn’t).
When Family Guy set its sights on the works of Stephen King for a parody episode, the show actually looked to the film adaptations instead of King’s books.
Mena Suvari (American Beauty), Skeet Ulrich (Scream), and Elizabeth Marvel (“House of Cards”) will star in the upcoming horror film Devoted, Variety reports.
Lin Shaye (Insidious), Alicia Sanz (“From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series”), and Nick Stahl (Sin City) round out the cast.
The plot follows a woman (Suvari) who takes guardianship of her estranged sister (Marvel), the only survivor of a recent mass cult suicide. Yet her happiness at their reunion soon turns to terror as her sister’s influence turns her and her husband’s (Ulrich) life into a savage nightmare.
Fruitvale Station, Black Bear, and The Manor producer Richard J. Bosner writes and directs in his feature debut.
Bosner helmed a proof-of-concept short titled Devotee to generate interest in the feature. It premiered at HollyShorts Film Festival last year.
“Devoted weaves my passion for classic horror and the occult into a suspenseful exploration of fear and the extraordinary lengths one will go to protect those they hold dear,” said Bosner. “This story was brought to life by an exceptional cast, whose talent and dedication add terrifying authenticity.”
Devoted is currently in post-production, so keep an eye out for more details.
Ulrich recently joined The Texas Chain Saw Massacre video game as a new survivor character named Wyatt.
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One of the films that managed to break out at the box office at a time when the major studios weren’t releasing their movies in theaters, IFC Midnight’s creature feature The Wretched made headlines with a $4 million worldwide box office haul back in 2020, with much of the film’s success coming from the drive-in circuit. Now five years later, a sequel is taking shape!
Variety reports this afternoon that directors Brett and Drew Pierce are returning to direct The Wretched 2, with production on the sequel kicking off in September of this year.
The brothers tell Variety, “Independent horror has been staking out its claim at the box office in the last couple of years with films like Terrifier 3 and Late Night With the Devil, and audiences are craving more from these original stories and voices. It just seems like the right time to bring our Witch back as she was born out of us wanting more from our creature features that we just weren’t getting.”
They tease, “We’re going to push this story and the body horror into uncomfortable places.”
In the original movie, a teenage boy, struggling with his parent’s imminent divorce, faces off with a thousand year-old witch who is living beneath the skin of the woman next door.
And in the upcoming sequel The Wretched 2, “a small-town deputy is pulled into a rash of missing children’s cases only to discover that the skin-changing Wretch is back and has been preying upon the families of his community for a century.”
If you missed The Wretched back in 2020, you can stream the film on Shudder now.
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The cast for Scream 7 continues to grow with filming now underway, and Deadline reports this afternoon that Mark Consuelos (“Riverdale”) is the latest actor to come on board.
“Details regarding the film’s plot and who Consuelos will play are under wraps,” Deadline notes.
The seventh installment carves into theaters on February 27, 2026.
Scream 7 marks the return of Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott and Courteney Cox as Gale Weathers, with Jasmin Savoy Brown (“Yellowjackets”) returning as Mindy Meeks-Martin and Mason Gooding also coming back to play Chad Meeks-Martin, Mindy’s twin brother.
The seventh installment is expected to bring the focus back onto Sidney and her family.
The announced cast for Scream 7 also includes Celeste O’Connor (Ghostbusters: Afterlife), Mckenna Grace (Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire), Sam Rechner (The Fabelmans), Asa Germann (“The Boys”), Anna Camp (“Hysteria!), and Isabel May (“1883”). Joel McHale (It’s a Wonderful Knife) has been cast as Sidney’s husband, Mark Evans.
Isabel May is playing Sidney Prescott’s daughter in the upcoming slasher sequel.
Original Scream writer Kevin Williamson is directing Scream 7.
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‘Sinners’ Trailer – Ryan Coogler’s Vampire Movie Inspired by ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ and ‘Salem’s Lot’
The night belongs to sinners in Ryan Coogler’s (Creed, Black Panther) new horror movie Sinners, and Warner Bros. has unleashed the official trailer this afternoon.
Michael B. Jordan stars in dual roles. Sink your teeth into the official trailer for Sinners below, which Warner Bros. is describing as “a new vision of fear from Ryan Coogler.”
You keep dancing with the devil, one day he’s gonna follow you home…
Sinners will be released in theaters on April 18, 2025. Here’s the synopsis:
“Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (Jordan) return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.”
“Sinners is a unique one. It’s genre fluid. There are vampires in the film, but it’s really about a lot more than just that. It’s one of many elements, I’ll say. I think we’re going to surprise people with it,” Coogler told press ahead of the trailer’s launch this week.
Coogler’s influences only further highlight that audiences can expect something more than your typical vampire movie. He teases, “A lot of Coen Brothers’ influence in this. Robert Rodriguez is a big one. On the nose, it’d be very easy to make this From Dusk Till Dawn, but it’s actually quite close to The Faculty.”
“There’s a lot of John Carpenter in the film as well,” Coogler continues. “Truthfully, the biggest influence isn’t cinema. You know the novel Salem’s Lot? That’s a massive influence. Then there’s a real deep cut influence. My favorite thing ever made is The Twilight Zone. My favorite episode is called The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank.”
Above all, Mississippi Blues is at the heart of Sinners, and gives clues to the impending horror. Potentially even clues about the dual characters played by Michael B. Jordan.
Coogler told press, “The film deals with American music, Blues music, which is, if you know the story of Tommy Johnson, Robert Johnson, all of that is there. Hoodoo culture, all of these concepts and ideas. And when you think about the vampire as it exists, it’s got an association and the counterpart in almost every culture. But it is the supernatural creature that’s most associated with seduction, that’s most associated with choice. That aspect is something that’s very present with Blues music, also called the Devil’s music. There was just contrast between the secular lifestyle and that. The film is in conversation with all of those things.”
Michael B. Jordan is joined by Oscar nominee Hailee Steinfeld (“Bumblebee,” “True Grit”), Jack O’Connell (“Ferrari”), Wunmi Mosaku (“Passenger”), Jayme Lawson (“The Woman King”), Omar Benson Miller (“True Lies”) and Delroy Lindo (“Da 5 Bloods”).
Writer and director Ryan Coogler’s behind-the-camera artisans include his Black Panther franchise collaborators: director of photography Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Oscar-winning production designer Hannah Beachler, editor Michael P. Shawver, Oscar-winning composer Ludwig Göransson, and Oscar-winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter.
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Alan Hale Jr. is best remembered for his performance as The Skipper on Gilligan’s Island and his relationship with the show was unlike many of his co-stars.
Let’s all put on our cowboy hats and look back at the some of the worst bits of dialogue from the hit series Yellowstone.
