In 2 days, fans of Ice Nine Kills and the Terrifier film franchise will be ripping open an early blood-soaked Christmas gift. On October 10only, the band’s highly anticipated new Terrifier 3 short film / music video will debut nationwide in over 300 AMC and Marcus theaters!
Be one of the first psychos to witness “A Work of Art,” featuring franchise star David Howard Thornton as Art the Clown, following the credits exclusively at select Thursday night double feature showings of Damien Leone’s Terrifier 3 + Terrifier 2 on October 10, 2024.
And while you wait, check out the music video’s bloody disgusting trailer below…
“The Terrifier franchise gave us Art the Clown, the greatest new horror icon in decades,” says Spencer Charnas. “We are beyond honored by the invitation to play within the viciously delightful universe Damien Leone and his incredible team have created. The Art and INK fanbases are one and the same, and we heard the screams for this collaboration loud and clear.”
“A Work of Art” is directed by longtime INK collaborator Jensen Noen and stars Catherine Corcoran (Terrifier), Leah Voysey (Terrifier 2), Sirius XM’s Jose Mangin and Vincent Rockwell, Richard Christy (Drummer for Death, Control Denied, and Charred Walls of the Damned), and System of a Down’s Shavo Odadjian.
The 7-minute long video features special FX by Emmy Award-winning effects artist Christopher Nelson (“American Horror Story,” Suicide Squad, Halloween Ends). The video is written by Spencer Charnas, Andrew Justin Smith, and Paul Soter, with music by Ice Nine Kills, WZRD BLD, Paul Wiley, and Francesco Ferrini. Lyrics by Spencer Charnas and Steve Sopchak, based on characters created by Damien Leone. Art the Clown make-up effects provided by Heather Albert. Executive Produced by Spencer Charnas, Mike Mowery, Chris Nilsson, Eric German, Phoenix Vaughn, Damien Leone, Phil Falcone, and Ruth Deveraux. Casting provided by Cast A Spell Casting.
On the strength of their 2021 billboard-topping album, “Welcome To Horrorwood,” Ice Nine Kills recently wrapped up their world tour with Metallica and successfully hosted their third annual fan convention, Silver Scream Con.
Terrifier 3, written and directed by Damien Leone (Terrifier, Terrifier 2) and produced by Phil Falcone, stars David Howard Thornton, Lauren LaVera, Krsy Fox, Jason Patric, Chris Jericho, and Daniel Roebuck as Santa Claus. It arrives in theaters everywhere on October 11.
While you wait for Terrifier 3to bring Art the Clown and his over-the-top mayhem back to theaters on October 11, seven other brand new horror movies have released at home today.
Here’s all the new horror released on Tuesday, October 8, 2024!
Tim Burton and Michael Keaton reunite for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and the long-awaited sequel is now available on Digital at home after releasing in theaters last month.
You can rent the film for $19.99 or purchase it for $24.99.
On November 19, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice will be available to own on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD from online and physical retailers. It will also continue to be available to own in high definition and standard definition from participating digital retailers.
Keaton returns to his iconic role alongside Oscar nominee Winona Ryder (Stranger Things, Little Women) as Lydia Deetz and two-time Emmy winner Catherine O’Hara (Schitt’s Creek, The Nightmare Before Christmas) as Delia Deetz, with new cast members Justin Theroux (Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi, The Leftovers), Monica Bellucci (Spectre, The Matrix films), Arthur Conti (House of the Dragon) in his feature film debut, with Emmy nominee Jenna Ortega (Wednesday, Scream VI) as Lydia’s daughter, Astrid, and Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe (Poor Things, At Eternity’s Gate).
Burton, a genre unto himself, directs from a screenplay by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar (Wednesday), story by Gough & Millar and Seth Grahame-Smith (The LEGO® Batman Movie), based on characters created by Michael McDowell & Larry Wilson.
Here’s the official plot synopsis: “After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia’s life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic and the portal to the Afterlife is accidentally opened. With trouble brewing in both realms, it’s only a matter of time until someone says Beetlejuice’s name three times and the mischievous demon returns to unleash his very own brand of mayhem.”
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.
You can digitally purchase the new movie for $19.99 on Amazon right now.
Hellboy: The Crooked Man 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.”
Mike Mignola co-wrote the new Hellboy film with Christopher Golden.
Brian Taylor (Crank, Gamer,Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Mom and Dad) directed the movie for Millennium, based on a Hellboy mini-series from 2008. The story is said to “expand Hellboy’s world through one of the most beloved issues of the comic series.”
Jefferson White (Yellowstone) stars alongside Kesy and Rudolph asTom Ferrel, Leah McNamara as Effie Kolb, Joseph Marcell as Reverend Watts, Hannah Margetson as Cora Fisher, and Martin Bassindale as the Crooked Man, among others.
In the tradition of mockumentary horror movies including Ghostwatch, WNUF Halloween Special and Late Night With the Devil comes Haunted Ulster Live, which takes viewers back to Halloween Night 1998, where a live broadcast from a haunted house goes hauntingly wrong.
The Halloween-themed horror movie Haunted Ulster Live released across all on-demand platforms, including Bloody Disgusting’s own SCREAMBOX streaming service, today.
In Haunted Ulster Live, “A Northern Ireland TV veteran teams up with a popular new children’s presenter to investigate poltergeist activity in a reputedly haunted house in Belfast. Light entertainment turns to horror when an unseen terror reveals itself.”
The UK found footage film marks the feature debut of writer-director Dominic O’Neill.
Mark Claney, Aimee Richardson, and Siobhan Kelly star.
A masked maniac targets cast members at a suburban Halloween haunt attraction in Haunt Season, released onto VOD outlets today by Epic Pictures’ horror label DREAD.
Haunt Season was filmed on-location at a working Midwest haunted house during its Halloween season. The film utilizes practical effects and jaw-dropping SFX makeup to achieve its terrifying kills. The film features prominent YouTube stars Rob Scallon and Craig Benzine.
In the film from writer/director Jake Jarvi, “A masked maniac targets cast members at a suburban Halloween haunt attraction, turning their staged injuries into gruesome real-life horrors. As the terror escalates, the lines between performance and reality blur.”
Stephen Kristof, Jeremy Warner (Reporting for Christmas), Katelin Stack (The Evil Three, Evil Lurks, The Natural) and Adam Hinkle (Chicago Fire) also star.
After screening at over 60 film festivals worldwide, the documentary Alien On Stageis now available on VOD outlets in the U.S. and Canada including Fandango at Home.
Alien On Stage is a documentary about a unique crew of Dorset Bus Drivers whose amateur dramatics group decide to ditch doing another pantomime and try something different.
Having never done anything like it before, they spent a year creating a serious adaptation of ALIEN, finding ingenious solutions to pay homemade homage to the original film.
The show is a crushing flop but fate gives them a second chance to find their audience. Whilst still adjusting to the idea that their serious show is actually a comedy, the group find out they’re suddenly being whisked from their village hall to a London West End theatre to perform this accidental masterpiece for one night only.
With wobbly sets, awkward acting and special effects requiring ‘more luck than judgement,’ will their West End debut be alright on the night? Watch the trailer below for a sneak peek.
The latest release from Entertainment Squad’s genre label The Horror Collective, supernatural horror movie The Unravelingwas also released onto VOD outlets today, October 8.
Directed by Kd Amond and starring Sarah Zanotti, The Unraveling follows a woman who, after suffering a traumatic brain injury from a car accident, becomes convinced that her husband has been replaced by an impostor…
Haunted by a gruesome presence and mysterious phone calls from someone claiming to be the “real” husband, she is thrust into a nightmare where she must navigate a labyrinth of fear, deception, and her own fragile sanity.
The film also stars Sam Brooks (Netflix’s Fear Street trilogy, CW’s Stargirl, Malum).
What if Jason Voorhees had a son? That looks to be the general idea behind indie slasher movie Slasher, the final new horror movie released onto VOD outlets at home today.
In the throwback slasher movie, “When a group of unsuspecting travelers crosses his path, the son of an infamous masked slasher faces a harrowing choice: walk away from his family’s violent history or don a new mask and carve his own gruesome legacy.”
Slasher is written and directed by Alberto Armas Díaz.
Sergio Alguacil, Fabiola Munoz, and Mario Gallardo star.
The Retaliators director Samuel Gonzalez Jr. returns to the director’s chair for the indie Stiletto starring Charlotte McKinney.
In the upcoming exotic horror movie, “A year after the grisly murder of a local exotic dancer, the victim’s sister, Lyric (Gigi Gustin), searches for the serial killer (The Stiletto Killer, AKA Handy Handy) responsible as he stalks and kills his favorite dancers on the night of the anniversary.”
The film stars Gigi Gustin (Night of the Missing) Charlotte McKinney (Fantasy Island) Colleen Camp (Amsterdam, American Hustle) Meghan Carrasquillo (Hider in My House), Swerve “Stephon” Strickland (Night of the Missing), Pancho Moler (3 from Hell), Hannah Hueston (The Pom Pom Murders), Stephen Blackehart (Guardians of the Galaxy), Russell Todd (Friday the 13th Part 2) and Mia Challis (Outer Banks)
The film is also written Gonzalez Jr. with Gustin receiving a story by credit.
Matthew Hersh and Gigi Gustin serve as producers, with Gustin serving as an executive producer as well.
The mask worn by the film’s slasher, dubbed The Stiletto Killer, was created by Jason Baker, who is famous for designing the mask that ‘The Grabber’ (played by Ethan Hawke) wore in The Black Phone. Baker is the owner of Callosum FX Studios, which is the creative brainchild of legendary special effects master Tom Savini and renowned artist and effects creator Jason Baker himself.
Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls’ soundtrack is available on vinyl and cassette from Fortuitous Films, Witter Entertainment, and Broke Horror Fan (that’s me!).
The score is composed by Matt Mahaffey (Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and includes Onyx’s rendition of Meat Loaf’s “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)” plus guest appearances by Kwamé and Jason Threm.
Three vinyl variants are available: glow-in-the-dark with white splatter featuring art by Matt Ryan Tobin (limited to 250), glow-in-the-dark with black and green splatter featuring art by Tobin (limited to 250), and standard black featuring art by Phantom City Creative.
The cassette tape is available in green (limited to 250) and standard black. Both versions feature a six-panel insert with cover art by Lukas Ketner.
The records are housed in gatefold packaging and include a digital download. Autographed vinyl signed by writer-director Andrew Bowser and discounted bundles are also available.
Pre-orders are expected to ship in January.
Based on the viral internet character, the SCREAMBOX Original horror-comedy stars Bowser, Jeffrey Combs, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Rivkah Reyes, Melanie Chandra, T.C. Carson, Arden Myrin, Ralph Ineson, Jason Marsden, and Barbara Crampton.
Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls is now streaming on SCREAMBOX, Prime, Tubi, and Hoopla.
The 1970s saw an explosion of TV-movies, and a number of these small-screen features were based on novels. The two examples here, which are some of the most memorable of their day, sit on opposite ends of the adaptation spectrum. While Bad Ronald (1974) took liberties with its source material, Are You in the House Alone? (1978) stays somewhat true to the spirit of the novel. Both features also teeter on the edge of horror, a recurring genre in the “golden age” of made-for-television movies.
Jack Vance was not a horror-only author, so Bad Ronald (1973) is an anomaly in his overall body of work. ABC quickly acted on the success of the novel, with the network ultimately airing its adaptation a week before Halloween. However, Andrew Peter Marin’s screenplay is different from what Vance had penned. Anyone who has read the original novel would understand — maybe even appreciate — the changes in director Buzz Kulik’s version.
The basic pitch of Bad Ronald is always a profitable one in horror: someone hides in a person’s house without their knowledge. The TV translation of Ronald Wilby’s badness, though, greatly dials back his sociopathy. Yes, Scott Jacoby’s character indeed commits a heinous crime in the beginning of the telefilm, but his literary parallel’s actions are far more contemptible. Vance drummed up a disturbed teen who doesn’t just stop at murder. No, this Ronald is a repeat molester.
Pictured: Print ad for Bad Ronald (1974).
Vance’s novel is not an easy read, despite the author’s talent. The 17-year-old boy depicted here is an irredeemable villain who doesn’t see the wrong in his behaviors. Having a mother like Elaine (played on screen by Kim Hunter) does not help matters; she enables her son, and is partly to blame for what later happens to the new tenants of hers and Ronald’s former home. After Elaine’s sudden passing, Ronald haunts the Wood Family like a ghost. He first steals their food before he steals their daughters. One by one, the Wood girls succumb to a grisly fate before someone figures out Ronald is hiding within the walls of 572 Orchard Street.
Either interpretation of Bad Ronald — in addition there is a French movie from 1992 called Méchant garçon — is an effective and fresh take on the haunted house genre. The TV-movie has a visual advantage to consider; the American Gothicness of the story comes out in waves. Although, the TV-movie makes an attempt to humanize Ronald, a boy whose father gave him up legally and a mother who also abandoned him, albeit unintentionally. Through his creepy peephole Ronald spies on the kind of life he could have led had he grown up differently.
Vance’s Bad Ronald makes the skin crawl for a good 200 or so pages before the titular character gets his much deserved comeuppance. What a sight it would have been had the TV-movie allowed the Wood matriarch (Pippa Scott on screen) to light Ronald on fire like in the book. Nevertheless, what Kulik made of Marin’s script remains influential to this day. There is no doubt that movies made since then have been affected, directly or otherwise, by Bad Ronald.
Pictured: Scott Jacoby and Ted Eccles in Bad Ronald (1974).
Richard Peck’s Are You in the House Alone? (1976) was, in those days, a momentous novel in the world of teen fiction. The frankness toward its subject matter and sympathy toward the victim were both appreciated. And in ways, Walter Grauman’s TV-movie does a respectable job of bringing Peck’s story to life without losing the essence. Writer Judith Parker can’t be overlooked either; her script balances the drama and horror elements quite well. Readers and viewers might hesitate to classify the screen version as strictly horror, yet they can agree Gail Osborne’s ordeal is terrifying.
The 16-year-old at the heart of CBS’ Are You in the House Alone? is played by Kathleen Beller, a veteran of retro television. Connoisseurs of classic TV horror would recognize her face from No Place to Hide and Deadly Messages. Here she plays a San Francisco transplant — a former New Yorker in the book — named Gail who has caught the unwanted attention of a peer. First it’s increasingly obscene notes in her locker, then phone calls ranging from uncomfortable silence to deranged threats. Eventually the anonymous stalker shows his face and rapes Gail. The victim’s terror, however, doesn’t end there.
Are You in the House Alone? grasps the basics of Peck’s novel, but it lacks the lengthier discussions of classism and elitism. Gail’s rapist, her best friend Alison’s boyfriend Phil (Dennis Quaidon screen), is the poster boy for rich and white privilege in this fictional Connecticut town; his pull around these parts keeps him safe for too long. That is then combined with straightforward talk of then-current rape culture and legislation. While the TV rendition doesn’t dwell on these topics as much as they could have, it does make for a good conversation starter.
Something else the TV-movie let slide was the characters. Specifically the men, who television historian Amanda Reyes said in her book, Are You in the House Alone?: A TV Movie Compendium 1964–1999, “are given the short end of the stick.” Reyes went on to say most of the men “are either depicted as rapists or sleazebags, or are shown as emasculated by their inabilities to provide for their family.” The women are treated better from a writing standpoint, yet Alison (Robin Mattson) isn’t afforded the same redeeming moment from the novel, and Gail’s mother (Blythe Danner) never seems as enlightened after constantly criticizing her daughter’s townie boyfriend Steve (Scott Colomby).
Pictured: Kathleen Beller in Are You in the House Alone? (1978).
Are You in the House Alone? was billed as a pure chiller back then — one certain print ad reads more like an ad for the forthcoming When a Stranger Calls (1979) — so imagine the audience’s surprise when they tuned in for a drama. A frightening and often realistic one, but a drama nonetheless. The horror labeling was probably based upon the genre’s success on TV; CBS saw how well horror was doing on other networks and wanted to further explore its own opportunities.
To feel more like horror, Grauman and Parker’s Are You in the House Alone? plays up the stranger danger aspect. A male teacher becomes a red herring for the stalker, as does Gail’s ex-boyfriend, and the suspenseful (and rushed) conclusion greatly differs from that of the novel. Whereas Peck ended on a gloomy and imprecise note reflecting the state of the world, the TV-movie instead settles on a more definitive ending that gives Gail as well as viewers a sense of closure.
Going by just their television reworkings, Bad Ronald and Are You in the House Alone? don’t have a great deal in common other than their mostly teenage cast, domestic dread, and suburban backdrops. Their literary bases, on the other hand, bear more obvious similarities. Unpleasant and sad as they may be, both novels are worthwhile reads that supplement — or in some cases, surpass — their screen adaptations.
