Production has wrapped on The Running Man from director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World).
“That’s a picture wrap on The Running Man. All my love and appreciation goes out to our incredible cast and crew, who have worked tirelessly on it,” Wright wrote on Instagram. “Can’t wait for you to see what we’ve been shooting… Much more coming soon!”
Based on Stephen King‘s 1982 novel of the same name, the dystopian action thriller is due out on November 7 from Paramount.
Glen Powell stars as Ben Richards, a desperate man who participates in violent reality show in which hunters try to kill him in order to win enough money to save his gravely ill daughter.
The cast also includes Katy O’Brian, Daniel Ezra, Karl Glusman, Josh Brolin, Lee Pace, Jayme Lawson, Michael Cera, Emilia Jones, William H. Macy, David Zayas, Sean Hayes, and Colman Domingo.
Wright wrote the script with Michael Bacall (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, 21 Jump Street). Chung-hoon Chung (Oldboy, It, Last Night in Soho) serves as cinematographer.
The Running Man was previously adapted into the 1987 film of the same name starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
It had been announced back in June of 2023 that a new Leprechaun movie was in the works at Lionsgate, with Felipe Vargas (Milk Teeth) being hired to “reimagine” the franchise.
But it’s been over a year since we’ve heard a peep about the project, with Felipe Vargas’ new horror movie Rosario more recently being announced for release on May 2. What’s the status on Vargas’ Leprechaun movie, you ask? Well, Bloody Disgusting’s sources have learned that Felipe Vargas is no longer directing the new Leprechaun movie for Lionsgate.
Whoever ends up taking over as director, the next Leprechaun movie will be the ninth installment in the franchise. Mike Van Waes wrote the screenplay, with Roy Lee producing.
Stay tuned for more updates as we continue looking into this developing story.
The Leprechaun franchise kicked off with Mark Jones’s original horror-comedy in 1993, which was followed by five Warwick Davis-starring sequels, a reboot, and later Leprechaun Returns in 2018. Even though Leprechaun Returns was a sequel to the original movie, Linden Porco took over the role of the title character, played by Dylan Postl for Leprechaun Origins.
Vargas had told Splattercast ahead of St. Patrick’s Day last year that he was aiming for his movie to be “scary as hell and also hilarious,” described as a “reinvention” of the franchise.
While Vargas’ Leprechaun movie may not be happening, you can watch the Milk Teeth director’s feature debut Rosario beginning May 2. Emeraude Toubia (“Shadowhunters”) confronts a curse with the help of David Dastmalchian (Late Night with the Devil) in the film.
Watch the trailer for Rosario below and expect more on Leprechaun soon.
The duo behind Sinister, Doctor Strange and The Black Phone, Scott Derrickson and his frequent partner C. Robert Cargill, are keeping busy in horror. THR reports that Sony Pictures’ Screen Gems has enlisted the pair to adapt Road of Bones, a horror novel by best-selling author Christopher Golden.
Cargill will pen the script and Derrickson will direct, with both producing via their Crooked Highway production banner.
Christopher Golden’s page-turning 2022 horror novel introduces an intense road trip set in Siberia. It follows an American documentarian, Felix “Teig” Teigland, who drives Siberia’s dangerous Kolyma Highway, collecting legends and ghost stories along the way for a planned new series. Teig and his team don’t realize until too late that they’ve embarked on a harrowing journey where supernatural threats are as likely to kill them as the unforgiving terrain.
The supernatural thriller is set around a real highway with grim history: “Siberia along the Kolyma Highway, a real highway that was built in Stalinist Soviet Union using the labor of prisoners from the region’s gulags. Lore has it that hundreds of thousands of inmates perished during the construction of the 2000 km road and due to the permafrost, it was judged easier to just built atop of the bodies.” Golden’s novel emphasizes the icy chill of this eerie stretch of road, blending folk horror and survival thrills.
The announcement arrives on the heel’s of Derrickson and Cargill’s most recent feature, The Gorge, which became Apple TV+’s biggest film premiere since the streaming service launched in 2019. Up next from the duo is The Black Phone 2, set to release on October 17, 2025, from Blumhouse and Universal.
Golden is a New York Times best-selling author known for horror novels like Ararat and All Hallows. The author recently co-wrote the screenplay for Hellboy: The Crooked Man with his frequently collaborator, Hellboy creator Mike Mignola.
Road of Bones marks the first feature born of Screen Gems first look deal with Crooked Highway. Golden, Vince Cheng and Pete Donaldson will serve as executive producers on the project.
Get your parkas ready for the the chilling ride ahead, and stay tuned for additional news.
Scott Derrickson, the director of Sinister, The Black Phone, The Gorge, and the upcoming The Black Phone 2, is sticking with horror for his newest movie.
Thai zombies, werewolves, killer unicorns, and, well, a woman in a yard. This week has a little something for everyone, with TEN brand new horror movies waiting for your eyeballs.
Here’s all the new horror that released March 24– March 28, 2025!
From director Aimee Kuge, the indie horror film Cannibal Mukbangputs a horror movie twist on the mukbang trend, and it’s now available on VOD from Jackrabbit Media.
In the new horror movie, “Shy and looking for love, Mark quickly becomes smitten with the outgoing and mysterious Ash, who somehow, much to his surprise, reciprocates the attraction. But as his feelings for her intensify, so does his unexpected submersion into Ash’s biggest love: the wild world of mukbanging. And with it, lots of bloodshed.”
April Consalo, Nate Wise, and Clay Von Carlowitz star in Cannibal Mukbang.
The film will be getting a Blu-ray release on April 22, 2025.
One Tree Entertainment’s survival thriller To Die Alone also debuted on VOD outlets this past Tuesday. Lisa Jacqueline Starrett and James Tang lead the movie’s cast.
In the film, “After suffering a terrible injury while hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, Irving must find a way to escape the woods alive and confront her inner demons with the help of a stranger.”
Here’s the full official synopsis: “The film tells the story of Irving, a reserved solo hiker, who crosses paths with Ford, a charismatic EMT, while hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. Drawn together by the wilderness, they set off toward a remote lake — but their journey takes a terrifying turn when Irving suffers a catastrophic injury while swimming. Stranded deep in the forest, with the off-season elements closing in and infection looming, the two must navigate the unforgiving terrain in a desperate fight for survival. As nature turns hostile and the odds stack against them, To Die Alone will leave you questioning: how far would you go to stay alive?”
Austin Smagalski wrote and directed this one.
War consumes all in Operation Undead, a Thai horror movie that’s now available on VOD from Well Go USA. The film blends the zombie movie with the war movie.
When a Japanese military experiment that turns men into monsters escapes containment, it’s up to an inexperienced unit of Thai soldiers to save their nation from annihilation.
Kongkiat Komesiri writes and directs Operation Undead. Nonkul, Awat Ratanapintha, Supitcha Sangkhachinda, Ararat Nimtchai, and Seigi Ohzeki star.
Taking inspiration from the classics of the found footage genre and adding in a fresh social media twist, Livestream from director Victor Soares is now available on VOD outlets.
Sarah Moliski, Nika Khitrova, Mao Sun, Anthony Moore, and Nicholas Edmunds star in Livestream. In the film, “As a team of livestreamers embark on a haunted house challenge, they quickly realize that the scares may be more real than they anticipated. With each twist and turn, they must navigate through the terror and fight to survive the night.”
Director Victor Soares previews, “We’re in an era where social media has blurred the lines between reality and entertainment. With Livestream, we take that concept to its terrifying extreme—what if the fear was real? This film taps into modern anxieties about content creation, internet fame, and the unforeseen consequences of always being live.”
Would you willingly allow yourself to be cursed? Filmmaker Liam Le Guillou dares to do this very thing in his thrilling documentary A Cursed Man, now available on VOD.
Le Guillou takes viewers into the mysterious world of dark magic and the occult to test whether the unseen forces shaping belief—and fear—are more real than we think.
The filmmaker enters the world of witchcraft: and the occult, searching for an answer to the question “Is magic real?” Seeking out some of the world’s most powerful dark magic practitioners, Le Guillou will ask the unthinkable – will they put a Curse on him?
Meeting with Witches in California, Voodoo practitioners in New Orleans, Tantrics in India, and even a Satanist Shaman in Mexico, the filmmaker exposes himself to some of the world’s darkest magic. On his Journey, Le Guillou meets with psychologists, and scientists studying the real world effects of magic and the power of belief.
As the consequences of his request begin to hit home, Le Guillou seeks out help from the very witches that warned him of his actions, forcing him to question the nature of reality in this dangerous, never-before-seen, dark social experiment…
Some secrets can unleash a beast. Shadow of the Wolf is now available on VOD.
Highlander star Christopher Lambert and The World Is Not Enough Bond girl Maria Grazia Cucinotta appear in the film with Raniero Monaco Di Lapio, Marianna Di Martino, Elisabetta De Vito, Fabrizio Vona, and Massimiliano Vado.
When Nico returns from overseas to say farewell to his ailing mother, he discovers something monstrous is happening in the small town he once called home.
As the list of grizzly murder victims begins to grow and the authorities fear the killer is a beast unlike anything they have ever seen, Nico senses a savage transformation within himself and uncovers the terrifying secret his family could never reveal.
The film is directed by Alberto Gelpi and written by Alessandro Riccardi.
“Today’s the day,” The Woman in the Yard sings in the official trailer for Universal & Blumhouse’s horror film, and today is indeed the day. The film is now playing in theaters.
Jaume Collet-Serra (House of Wax, Orphan, The Shallows, Carry-On) directed The Woman in the Yard from a script by first-time feature screenwriter Sam Stefanak.
Danielle Deadwyler stars as Ramona, a woman crippled by grief after she survives a car accident that takes her husband (Russell Hornsby). Seriously injured, Ramona now must care for their 14-year-old son (Peyton Jackson) and 6-year-old-daughter (Estella Kahiha), alone in her rural farmhouse. Then one day the woman takes form in their yard.
Ramona assumes the woman (Okwui Okpokwasili) is lost or demented, but as the woman creeps nearer and nearer to the house, it becomes clear she is no ordinary figure and her intentions are anything but peaceful. Now Ramona must rally to protect herself and her children from the grasp of the woman who simply won’t leave them alone.”
Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd lead the cast of A24’s fantastical nightmare comedy Death of a Unicorn, which is now playing only in theaters. Payback… it’s a beast…
In Death of a Unicorn, “A father (Rudd) and daughter (Ortega) accidentally hit and kill a unicorn while en route to a weekend retreat, where his billionaire boss (Richard Grant) seeks to exploit the creature’s miraculous curative properties.”
The A24 feature is produced by Ari Aster (Beau is Afraid, Midsommar).
Alex Scharfman (Resurrection, Lyle) directed the film, which also stars Téa Leoni (Jurassic Park III, Spanglish), Will Poulter (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3), Anthony Carrigan (Bill & Ted Face the Music, “Barry”), Sunita Mani (“Servant,” “Glow”), Jessica Hynes (Shaun of the Dead, Paddington 2), and Stephen Park (Asteroid City).
Praised by Stephen King as “one of the best movies I’ve seen this year,” The Rule of Jenny Pen was released in theaters earlier this month, and it’s now streaming on Shudder.
Geoffrey Rush stars as a former judge, confined to a secluded rest home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, who must stop an elderly psychopath, played by John Lithgow, who employs a child’s puppet to abuse the home’s residents with deadly consequences.
George Henare, Nathaniel Lees, Thomas Sainbury, and Ian Mune round out the cast.
The New Zealand production was directed by James Ashcroft from a script he co-wrote with Eli Kent, based on the short story of the same name by Owen Marshall. The three creatives previously collaborated on Coming Home in the Dark.
Not to be confused with The Mouse Trap, The Mouse Experiment, I Heart Willie, or Screamboat, Mouseboat Massacre is yet another indie horror movie exploiting the recent public domain status of Mickey Mouse’s debut, Steamboat Willie. It’s now available on VOD.
The film follows a young woman battling a drug addiction who suddenly begins to see a mutated mouse-human hybrid who infests her life as those around her drop like flies.
From Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey producers ITN Studios, Andrea M. Catinella (Piglet) directs from a script by Harry Boxley (Cinderella’s Curse, Popeye’s Revenge).
Jay Robertson (Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2), Kathi DeCouto (Popeye’s Revenge), Atlanta Moreno (Popeye’s Revenge), Lauren Leppard, Victor Rios, and Natasha Tosini (Winnie-the-Pooh: Bloody & Honey) lead the horror movie’s cast.
Until Dawn director David F. Sandberg posted a behind-the-scenes look at “one of the many great practical makeup effects” created for the film by Applied Arts FX Studio (Hereditary, Thanksgiving).
The Instagram video below features the filmmaker’s original storyboards and behind-the-scenes footage of a sequence in which a worm is burrowed in a character’s face, as seen in the trailer.
“Our approach was to take practical FX as far as possible and then use VFX to hide seams, make fixes or comping of practical elements if needed,” Sandberg commented.
Based on Supermassive Games’ survival horror video game, Until Dawn will be released on April 25 from Sony Pictures.
One year after her sister mysteriously disappeared, Clover and her friends head into the remote valley where she vanished in search of answers. Exploring an abandoned visitor center, they find themselves stalked by a masked killer and horrifically murdered one by one…only to wake up and find themselves back at the beginning of the same evening.
Trapped in the valley, they’re forced to relive the nightmare again and again — only each time the killer threat is different, each more terrifying than the last. Hope dwindling, the group soon realizes they have a limited number of deaths left, and the only way to escape is to survive until dawn.
Ella Rubin (The Idea of You), Michael Cimino (Annabelle Comes Home), Odessa A’zion (Hellraiser), Ji-young Yoo (Freaky Tales), Belmont Cameli (“Saved by the Bell”), Maia Mitchell (“The Fosters”), and Peter Stormare (Fargo) star.
Blair Butler (Hell Fest, The Invitation) and Gary Dauberman (It, Annabelle) wrote the script.
