Warner Bros is once again digging into Fortnite as part of a promotion for Ryan Coogler‘s upcoming Sinners. Based on the film starring Michael B. Jordan, the Sawhorse-developed Sinners: Survive the Night has just launched in Fortnite, and pits teams of six players against vampires in a Survival Horror challenge.

Per Variety, Sinners: Survive the Night features likenesses of Jordan and other members of the cast in a custom map based on the film. Gameplay features an albeit expected (but welcome) twist that’s akin to Halo‘s Infection Mode: those players who have been eliminated subsequently become vampires, forcing players to fight against their former teammates.

The main goal for Human players is to survive until daylight, while the Vampires must eliminating all remaining human players before dawn. In-game currency can be collected by recruiting NPC allies and unlocking items within the experience.

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, Sinners centres around twin brothers (played by Jordan) who return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

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”).

Sinners arrives in theatres on April 18.

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It’s now been 15 years since John Carpenter directed his last movie, 2010’s The Ward, but the horror master has been staying busy with music, comic books, and various other projects. Not long after he finally receives his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this April, for starters, Carpenter is playing music live in both LA and NY, and he’s even agreed to score Bong Joon Ho’s new horror movie. But will Carpenter himself ever return to the director’s chair?

It’s a question the director of horror classics including Halloween, The Fog and The Thing has been asked many times over the years, and Variety is the latest outlet to pop the question.

John Carpenter’s response? Well, he’d have to find the right circumstances.

“Plans? I don’t know,” Carpenter answered when specifically asked if he has any plans to return to directing. “I would love to direct again, given the right circumstances. But I’m not the same kid anymore who will do it for any amount of money. I can’t back into a budget anymore. I’m too old. It’s too hard. But directing is the love of my life. I’ll never stop loving that.”

It’s a similar answer to the one Carpenter gave to the very same question back in 2019, when he told Collider that “he’d love to make a little horror film”… but with a catch to the statement.

Carpenter said in 2019, “It would be a project that I like that’s budgeted correctly. Nowadays they make these young directors do movies for $2 million when the movie is written for $10 million. So you have to squeeze it all in there and I don’t want to do that any more.”

John Carpenter actually did return to the director’s chair back in 2023 for the Peacock series “John Carpenter’s Suburban Screams,” directing an episode of the series remotely from home.

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April is right around the corner, marking the halfway point to the best holiday of the year: Halloween. Pluto TV is celebrating accordingly with the return of April Ghouls programming.

Beginning April 1, Pluto TV will be streaming themed programming dedicated to supernatural, thrills, and chills. April Ghouls will also feature stunts and horror film marathons across a number of channels; Pluto TV is making sure everyone is able to get in on the Halfway to Halloween fun.

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Across five films, the Final Destination franchise treated us to some of the most memorable moments of brutality in horror history, from the opening highway disaster in Final Destination 2 to the gruesome destruction of a gymnast’s body in Final Destination 5 that still lives rent-free inside my brain. The franchise made it clear that something horrible can happy to any of us at any time, whether we’re lounging in a tanning bed, swimming in a pool, or taking a shower.

When Death has a desire to take you… well… there’s just no stopping it.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Final Destination franchise, with brand new sixth installment Final Destination Bloodlines bringing the franchise back to theaters this coming May for this first time in fourteen long years. The new movie is guaranteed to give us a whole new batch of terrifying dangers to worry about, and we wouldn’t have it any other way.

But which iconic Final Destination deaths/accidents are most likely to happen in real life? Just a few years back, Downtown LA Law, one of LA’s leading personal injury law firms, analyzed data from more than 300,000 ER visits to answer that very question! 

For starters, “it was discovered that injuries sustained from ladders were the top Final Destination injuries, followed by scaling a fence and weight training.”

Meanwhile, “Tanning bed injuries were named as the least frequent Final Destination injury, with one tanning bed-related injury reported in the United States.”

Here are the 10 most common Final Destination-related injuries, along with the number of real life occurrences from a recently recorded year in the United States*…

1. Ladder-related injury (Final Destination 2 – eye gouged out by a falling fire escape ladder) – 4,162
2. Scaling/moving fences (Final Destination 5 – cut in half by a metal fence) – 2,121
3. Lifting weights (Final Destination 3 – crushed by weights) – 930
4. Scalded with oil – (Final Destination 5 – oil truck spill) – 335
5. Lawn Mower accidents – (The Final Destination – rock shot through eye socket by a lawn mower) – 229
6. Escalator malfunctions/trips (The Final Destination – caught in escalator gears) – 211
7. Shot with a nail gun (Final Destination 3 – shot by a nail gun) – 160
8. Roller coasters accidents (Final Destination 3 – roller coaster crash) – 14
9. Barbecue burns (Final Destination 2 – barbecue explosion) – 10
10. Tanning bed burns (Final Destination 3 – tanning bed set on fire) – 1

Farid Yaghoubtil, Senior Trial Attorney at Downtown L.A Law Group, says, “When looking for film franchises which highlight the wacky and strange ways people can get injured, you don’t need to look any further than Final Destination. Delving into the deaths across the entirety of the franchise though, even I was surprised at just how creative and imaginative the teams working on the films had been. The purpose of the research was to establish how, even though a lot of the casualties in the films are very strange, being injured is something that can happen at any time, and can also happen in extremely unusual circumstances.

“Looking at the NEISS data, this is certainly true – our hope is that the research will remind people to take care of themselves in every situation.”

Head over to Downtown LA Law for a full breakdown of all the data.

*Downtown LA Law’s study was originally published in March 2022, and at the time they had noted that this particular injury data was from “the last recorded year in the U.S.”

‘Final Destination 5’

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The Japanese horror boom of the 1990s wasn’t just limited to film, as most of the classic survival horror franchises that we now know and love came from Japanese developers offering a unique perspective on traditionally western settings. This is how we got iconic yet idiosyncratic locations like Raccoon City and even the cursed town of Silent Hill.

That’s why it makes sense that the latest entry in the Silent Hill series is aiming to return to the franchise’s East-Asian roots by having the game actually take place in 1970s Japan after decades of having western developers in charge of the IP. With that in mind, we’ve decided to come up with a list recommending six underrated Japanese Horror films to get you in the mood for NeoBards’ upcoming Silent Hill f.

As usual, this list is entirely based on personal opinion, but we’ll try to contain entries to Japanese movies that fit both the mood and themes present in the marketing material surrounding the highly anticipated title. That being said, don’t forget to comment below with your own Japanese Horror favorites if you think we missed a particularly underrated one.

With that out of the way, onto the list.

6. Kakashi (2001)

We’ve already covered this underrated Junji Ito adaptation on a previous list highlighting the scariest scarecrows in horror films, but Tsuruta Norio’s atmospheric parable about a rural village haunted by undead effigies is a must-watch for fans of atmospheric terror hidden in seemingly idyllic towns.

Also known as Scarecrow in some countries, the film may take a while to get its deliberately paced story properly kicked into gear, but the unsettling imagery and folk-horror-inspired mythology are sure to keep viewers invested in one of the most memorable experiences on this list.

5. Marebito (2004)

Creator of the Ju-On franchise, Takashi Shimizu was quite the busy filmmaker during the early 2000s. However, not all of the director’s projects were connected to the Saeki family, as one of his scariest features happens to be a little-known experimental genre flick titled Marebito.

A voyeuristic combination of Found Footage and traditional narrative filmmaking, Marebito is a labyrinthian nightmare about a paranoid cameraman who encounters a mysterious woman in the secret underground ruins that lie hidden beneath the streets of Tokyo. What follows is an impressionist series of scares as our protagonist succumbs to his newfound obsession, with the flick’s unreliable narrator and Lynchian “otherworld” making it a perfect midnight movie for Silent Hill fans.

4. Infection (2004)

The first entry in the J-Horror Theater anthology (an attempt by producer Takashige Ichise to capitalize on the worldwide J-Horror craze of the 2000s), Masayuki Ochiai’s Infection follows a group of doctors and nurses struggling to deal with a seemingly supernatural infection during the graveyard shift at a run-down hospital. While that sounds like a simple enough premise on paper, Infection somehow manages to blend the paranoid thrills of films like John Carpenter’s The Thing with classic ghost story tropes as it proceeds to toy with viewers’ minds.

The film’s low budget and obtuse storytelling may bother some viewers, but I’d argue that there are plenty of metaphysical scares to be had here if you allow yourself to be immersed in the flick’s insanely creepy setting – which is precisely why we’re recommending it to fans of Silent Hill.

3. Reincarnation (2005)

Another movie from J-Horror Theater, Takashi Shimizu’s contribution to the anthology is a haunting homage to both Kubrick and Argento. In a refreshingly meta twist, Reincarnation tells the story of an up-and-coming actress who begins to have ghostly visions of the past when she accepts a role in a movie about a real mass-murder that occurred back in the 1970s.

While I won’t spoil any of the flick’s twists and turns, suffice to say that the eerie addition of nostalgic ’70s imagery (including some 8mm Found Footage) combined with a masterful use of dual realities (as the past violently bleeds into the present during filming of the film-within-a-film) make this a perfect choice for Silent Hill fans wanting to prepare themselves for the upcoming game.

2. The Vampire Doll (1970)

Also known as The Night of the Vampire and Legacy of Dracula in some territories, Michio Yamamoto’s The Vampire Doll is one of the most influential films on this list despite its relative obscurity. A supernatural mystery following a young woman and her fiancé as she searches for her brother in a remote country home, this criminally underseen film went on to inspire countless filmmakers due to its haunting visuals and impeccable atmosphere.

And if that’s not enough to reel you in, the movie’s isolated ’70s setting and survival-horror-esque setup will almost certainly place you in the right spooky mindset for Silent Hill f. Just keep in mind that this is not your average vampire movie!

1. Occult (2009)

The Silent Hill series has dabbled in Lovecraftian terror ever since the first game featured a secretive cult attempting to summon their warped vision of God. However, if you’re in the mood for a Japanese perspective on cosmic horror in the world of film, look no further than the work of Koji Shiraishi. The director may be best known for his multi-layered opus Noroi, but today I’d like to recommend his 2009 feature Occult – a criminally underrated Found Footage movie.

Following a documentary crew as they accompany the survivor of a mass stabbing as he slowly spirals into madness, Occult isn’t as narratively dense as Noroi, but it can be just as unsettling if you accept its more grounded approach to incomprehensible scares (as well as that bonkers ending).

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