Director Christophe Gans returns to the legendary Silent Hill franchise with brand new movie Return to Silent Hill, and the official trailer ushers you back into town tonight.

Return to Silent Hill releases in theaters January 2026 from Cineverse & Bloody Disgusting.

Watch the teaser trailer below and expect more soon…

Return to Silent Hill brings the iconic horror franchise back to the big screen. When James receives a mysterious letter from his lost love Mary, he is drawn to Silent Hill—a once-familiar town now consumed by darkness. As he searches for her, James faces monstrous creatures and unravels a terrifying truth that will push him to the edge of his sanity.

Jeremy Irvine is James alongside Hannah Emily Anderson as Mary Crane.

Christophe Gans, who also directed the 2006 feature film adaptation of Silent Hill, wrote the script for the new movie alongside Sandra Vo-Anh and William Josef Schneider.

This will be the third official Silent Hill live-action movie, coming in the wake of the Gans-directed Silent Hill in 2006 and 2012 sequel Silent Hill: Revelation, directed by M.J. Bassett. 

“I am delighted to partner with Cineverse, which has shown a genuine understanding of fanship. Return to Silent Hill is an adaptation created out of deep respect for a true masterpiece of a game, Konami’s iconic ‘Silent Hill 2.’ I hope fans will enjoy and be fulfilled with the experience this new film has to offer,” Gans said in a recent statement.

First up from Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting is The Toxic Avenger in theaters on August 29 (that’s this weekend!), followed by Silent Night, Deadly Night in theaters on December 12!

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Damien Leone is still working on the script for the hotly anticipated Terrifier 4, and he’s spilled just a few more little beans in a conversation with Collider this week.

We’ve seen Art the Clown do a whole lot of killing across three movies in Damien Leone’s gory Terrifier franchise, but we still know very little about the character and how he came to be the nightmare he is today. Leone had recently promised that the upcoming Terrifier 4, however, will “finally reveal Art’s origin,” likely “in the first 15 minutes of the movie.”

Leone speaks more on that in his chat with Collider. He explains to the outlet that he’s afraid to peel back the curtain too far, but that we can indeed expect some answers in Terrifier 4.

“I love the mystique,” Leone explains. “That’s the most important part, even if people don’t realize it because they’re just so hungry to know what his deal is. I think a lot of people don’t realize the reason he works so well is because of the mystique. If you pull the curtain back too far, and you lose that mystique, it’s over. You’re not supposed to see the wizard behind the curtain. It’s almost always a disappointment.” The filmmaker continues, however, “I think there’s a way with his origin to have my cake and eat it too, but we’ll find out. I am taking a bit of a risk, but I’m very well aware about losing that mystique at the same time, so we’ll see if it plays out. I think the majority of people are going to be very cool with it.”

At the same time, Leone does promise “a lot of answers… maybe to a fault.”

“The script for Terrifier 4 is under way and it is shaping up to be the most epic, horrifying, thrilling, emotional and satisfying conclusion to the Terrifier saga,” Leone recently teased.

David Howard Thornton and Lauren LaVera are expected to return as iconic villain Art the Clown and beloved final girl Sienna Shaw. Expect more on Terrifier 4 soon.

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We’ve been hearing from some of you guys that you’ve been unable to find The Toxic Avenger playing at a theater near you, and our teams have been hard at work on making sure as many people in as many different locations are able to experience it on the big screen.

Horror fans have been demanding it, and the theaters are listening…

This afternoon we’re excited to let you know that we’ve added hundreds more theaters across North America, with The Toxic Avenger spreading its unique brand of toxic carnage across the country on August 29. Check your local listings and get your tickets now!

We’ve also learned that three of the highest grossing theaters in the country will be showing The Toxic Avenger on 3+ screens simultaneously on Thursday night due to sold out screenings and high number of advance sales, so check to see if it’s playing near you on August 28!

Primetime Emmy-winning actor Peter Dinklage stars as the Toxic Avenger in director Macon Blair’s UNRATED movie, a fresh take on the cult classic franchise from Troma.

“Macon’s beautiful film is a real movie, unlike the first Toxic Avenger. It’s a work of art — and better than the original Toxic Avenger,” Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman declares to Bloody Disgusting. “Troma fans like it, as well as normal people,” he chuckles.

“The main piece of advice Lloyd gave was just to make it entertaining,” Blair adds.

When janitor Winston Gooze is exposed to a catastrophic toxic accident, he’s transformed into a new kind of hero: The Toxic Avenger. Now, Toxie must rise from outcast to savior, taking on ruthless corporate overlords and corrupt forces who threaten his son, his friends, and his community. In a world where greed runs rampant… justice is best served radioactive.

The Toxic Avenger is distributed by Cineverse, produced by Legendary Entertainment.

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WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for the I Know What You Did Last Summer franchise.

Final Girls are the bread and butter of the horror genre. The sole survivors of slasher films, they battle masked killers and bear the trauma of their loved ones’ deaths. The term was codified in 1992 by Carol J. Clover in her seminal Men, Women, and Chainsaws, describing characters dating back to ’70s horror. But the idea of a final girl has evolved over the years as the genre itself has changed. This beloved archetype was reborn in the mid-90s as meta-slashers reinvigorated the format. While Scream’s Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) and Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) rightfully dominate this period of feminist empowerment, one final girl often goes overlooked. 

Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt) stars in Jim Gillespie’s I Know What You Did Last Summer, a slasher released in the wake of Scream’s unprecedented success. Loosely based on a YA mystery by Lois Duncan, the film follows the aftermath of a horrific accident on the 4th of July. Through two films, we watch Julie and her boyfriend Ray (Freddie Prinze Jr.) evade a mysterious man in a black rain slicker intent on making them pay for their secret crime.

While I Know What You Did Last Summer and its over-the-top sequel both have their staunch defenders, Julie James is frequently left out of conversations about the genre’s favorite final girls. But why is she so often forgotten? She’s an empowered heroine with a strong moral compass who survives multiple attacks from a bloodthirsty killer. She’s even got her own iconic catch phrase. However, her story is marred by a frustrating man who repeatedly drags her back into danger. 

When we first meet Julie, she’s a high school graduate looking forward to a bright future. Headed off to college, she plans to maintain a long distance relationship with Ray while her friend Helen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) seeks fame and fortune with her boyfriend Barry (Ryan Phillippe). But a cruel twist of fate derails these plans. While joyriding down a winding, cliff-side road, the reckless teens run over a stranger who stumbles in front of their speeding car. Fearing the consequences of vehicular manslaughter, Barry pressures the group to conceal the accident and go on with their lives as if nothing has happened.

One year later, they are worse for wear. Both couples have split and all four former friends live under a shadow of disappointment and depression. But someone insists they pay for their crimes and bombards the group with ominous notes. Even worse, a mysterious fisherman with a razor-sharp hook proceeds to pick them off one by one.

Determined to survive, Julie begins investigating this man’s identity, but discovers that Ray has secrets of his own. This distrust sends her into the clutches of the actual killer, a local fisherman named Ben Willis (Muse Watson) and the man they hit and left for dead. Julie finds herself trapped on Willis’s boat and frantically tries to stay alive while discovering the frozen bodies of her murdered friends. Ray rushes aboard and manages to save her in the nick of time, sending Willis—minus a hand—flying into the darkened sea.

With the killer and his actions revealed, Ray and Julie again choose not to disclose the earlier accident, claiming they know nothing of the killer’s motives. They rekindle their relationship, but cannot shake the weight of this lie by omission. In the final scene, we cut to a healthier Julie making passionate plans with Ray when she spies a familiar message on a bathroom mirror. The fisherman bursts headfirst through the glass, enveloping us all in his sinister shadow. This impossible stinger harkens back to the jarring final attacks of Friday the 13th (1980) and A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) and should not be taken as a literal plot point. However, it does cast an uncomfortable light on a future romance between Julie and Ray.

Danny Cannon’s 1998 sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer follows Julie further into her college career as she continues to deal with this complex trauma. Her roommate Karla (Brandy Norwood) urges her to rejoin the world and perhaps cozy up with her shy classmate Will (Matthew Settle). But Julie is still committed to Ray despite their increasingly rocky relationship. He still works on the Southport docks, a location Julie finds extremely triggering. Ray grows impatient and asks for space, turning down a romantic weekend in the Bahamas and once again sending Julie into the arms of the killer. 

Despite its flaws, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer is a charming slasher with a stand-out cast and impressive kills. Though it failed to kickstart a larger franchise, Cannon does finally give Julie an empowering turn. Presumably buried at sea, Willis returns to exact his revenge, this time employing a second killer. Will turns out to be the fisherman’s son and Julie finds herself in a stormy cemetery with two dangerous men. Though Ray is instrumental in this climactic fight—causing Willis to kill his own child—it’s Julie who strikes the final blow. She unloads a pistol into the murderous fisherman and sends him into the grave he dug for her. Ray and Julie rekindle their romance but once again, stress darkens their domestic bliss. 

The second film ends with another implausible stinger as Julie senses danger inside her home. She spies Ben hiding under the bed just seconds before he attacks, dragging her backward as the camera fades. Taken symbolically, these imagined attacks reveal the depths of Julie’s lingering trauma and shed uncomfortable light on her relationship with Ray. Both scenes begin with romantic moments: an upcoming weekend visit and a night together in their newly bought love nest. But on both occasions, the specter of what they’ve done hangs in the air, ruining any future intimacy. Though it seems she has moved on with Ray, Julie cannot escape the weight of their collective guilt and it’s him, not Willis, who continues to trigger these frightening visions. Perhaps Julie’s body is telling her not to move forward with a man so closely linked to her unresolved trauma.

Maybe this is the reason Julie never rises to the ranks of our favorite final girls. In addition to being overshadowed by Helen’s truly spectacular chase/murder sequence in the original film and the real-life marriage of Gellar and Prinze, Julie’s story feels forever linked to Ray. And, while both actors are likeable enough, we rarely see the couple on stable ground. A few short scenes on a moonlit beach are all we get before the accident casts a permanent shadow over their love. Until the first film’s final scene, Julie avoids time alone with her former flame and outright believes he might be the killer. Ray is similarly sidelined in Cannon’s sequel as he rushes to find Julie at an island resort. When they do reunite, it’s only in the shadow of the fisherman’s death, implying that he’s the one poisoning their otherwise healthy relationship and not a shared history of terror and death. We never see a constructive conversation about moving forward on healthy ground nor does Ray apologize to Julie for coercing her silence. The majority of both films see the couple either formally broken up or on the outs, making it difficult to embrace them as a heroic team.

But Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s new I Know What You Did Last Summer finally breaks Julie out of this frustrating cycle. When a new group of teens face a similar threat, Ava (Chase Sui Wonders) reaches out to Julie, who now teaches trauma theory at a nearby university. Catching up with the assertive professor, we learn that Julie did in fact marry Ray, but their relationship has since fallen apart—not surprising given their tense and troubled past. We don’t learn the details of this split except for vague mentions of Ray’s denial, but Julie has vowed to stay away from Southport where Ray now owns a dock-side bar. Ava’s friend Stevie (Sarah Pidgeon) reaches out to the man for similar help and the former spouses have an awkward reunion in Julie’s home. While Ray urges the teens to protect themselves, Julie’s advice is more proactive. Remembering her own climactic moment in the second film, she tells Ava that the only way to survive is to hunt down the fisherman and kill him first. 

Though Julie wants nothing to do with Ray, he once again drags her back into danger. When Stevie turns out to be the killer, we learn that Ray has been helping her exact revenge. It’s a refreshing turn for this troubled franchise and something legacy sequels have long resisted. Though our favorite final girls frequently return, directors seem hesitant to paint them as villains. Here, Robinson builds upon a pattern of distrust first established in Gillespie’s original, breaking Julie and Ray up once and for all. And let’s not forget that Ray was behind the wheel all those years ago and a driving force behind the group’s vow of silence. Though clearly an accident, Ray is directly linked to Julie’s trauma and at least partially responsible for decades of pain. Though far from perfect, Robinson’s I Know What You Did Last Summer sees Ray as an unsupportive boyfriend and husband before transforming him into an outright killer. 

Though Stevie is driven by simple revenge, Ray’s motivation is much more complex. He’s frustrated that Southport has covered up the fisherman’s original killing spree and swept his friends’ deaths under the rug. He may have gotten away with vehicular manslaughter, but he’s been unable to escape the unresolved guilt. When the fisherman murders begin again, Ray barges into a town meeting, insisting they acknowledge the town’s unsavory past. As the undiscovered murderer, he would benefit from this collective denial, but Ray seems to crave justice more than anything else. He can’t forget what he did that long-ago summer and has orchestrated a way to punish himself. Either he will kill an approximation of his younger self by helping Stevie kill her friends, or he’ll die trying to kill Julie, finally atoning for the original accident.

Once again, Julie survives long enough to be saved as Ava shoots Ray in the back with a speargun. Though hardly the most empowering ending, this allows Julie to finally step out of Ray’s shadow. She reconnects with Karla and the former roommates agree to team up and hunt down any remaining threats. To her credit, Julie never blames Ray for the horrific events they’ve both survived, and we should probably follow her lead. When they first reunite in the original film she gives a brutally simple explanation for breaking things off. While standing near the scene of their crime she says, “I don’t hold you responsible. No, I’m responsible for my own actions and I don’t blame you. But I don’t want to know you either.”

Perhaps Julie had it right all along in separating herself from Ray. As a single college professor standing on her own two feet, she finally seems to have found happiness after moving past the mistakes of her troubled youth. Robinson allows the audience to catch up with this empowerment promising an exciting new chapter for the forgotten final girl. 

I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) is now available on Digital at home.

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Between 1972 and 1978, 33 young men were kidnapped, murdered and buried in a crawl space beneath their killer’s house. And no one was the wiser.

Why? He was charming and funny. Had a good, all-American job. Was a community leader. He even volunteered to entertain sick kids… while dressed as a clown.

Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy peels back the twisted layers of Gacy’s life while weaving in heartrending stories of his victims; exploring the grief, guilt, and trauma of their families and friends; and exposing the systemic failures, missed opportunities and societal prejudices that fueled his reign of terror.​

Written by showrunner Patrick Macmanus (“Dr. Death”), the eight-episode limited series streams October 16 on Peacock. Watch the trailer below.

Michael Chernus (“Severance”) stars as the serial killer alongside Gabriel Luna (“The Last of Us”), James Badge Dale (Iron Man 3), Michael Angarano (“The Knick”), Chris Sullivan (“This Is Us”), Marin Ireland (“The Umbrella Academy”).

Directors include Larysa Kondracki (101, 106), Ashley Michel Hoban (102), Maggie Kiley (103, 104), Bille Woodruff (105, 107), and Patrick Macmanus (108).

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