Bloody Disgusting reports today that last October’s Jigsaw officially made enough money to keep the unkillable Saw franchise alive for another year, with Twisted Pictures confirming that the series’ ninth installment has now been put into development. Jigsaw writers Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger will reportedly…
Say this for the Saw series of self-mutilating slasher pictures: They get right to it. Most of them open with a victim or victims waking up in a signature horrifically violent trap—no stalking or backstory until later, if at all—and proceed straight into parallel narratives involving a gauntlet of survival traps set…
As is the case for all sequels, ever, the second season of Stranger Things has been promised as “darker and scarier” by the show’s creators. The newest trailer, based on Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” certainly shows raised stakes and a wider scope. But, here’s a concept: What if it got dark as hell?
Who wants to play a game? Perhaps one where they could sit through an elaborate series of torture scenarios, meant to impart a moral so muddy it may as well be sold as skin-care therapy by Goop? That’s presumably the thinking behind Jigsaw, a movie that looks to be more of a continuation than a reboot of the popular…
As July ends, so does Numbers Month—a month dedicated to movies and TV shows with a number in the title—over at Hulu. Thankfully, we’ve scoured the list of new movies and TV shows coming to Hulu in August, and we’ve once again discovered a very loose, vaguely defined theme that ties some of them together. Apparently,…
It’s been over a year since we reported that there were rumors about a new Saw movie floating around, supposedly with the title Saw: Legacy. Now, Lionsgate has confirmed that it’s making a another Saw (the first one since Saw 3D: The Final Chapter a full seven years ago), and it will officially be called Jigsaw. As…
Parties are hard. You don’t know how many people are coming, how much booze and in what variety to provide, and god forbid you have scheduled some “activities,” which involves corralling people, teaching them something, and gauging their enthusiasm throughout to make sure everyone is properly engaged.
Last year, it was announced that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was the world’s highest paid actor, definitively proving that there is absolutely a place in Hollywood for the charismatic pro wrestler. He’s not alone, either, now that John Cena’s roles in Trainwreck and Sisters have turned him into a comedy commodity.
Darren Lynn Bousman, it’s fair to say, has a spotty track record in horror cinema. The man who made the superlative remake of Mother’s Day is also responsible for the okay Saw II, the not-so-okay Saw III, and the “Oh God, we’re only barely over halfway done?” Saw IV. More recently, he’s been turning to more operatic…
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Charlie Clouser has taken a circuitous route to becoming a composer for television. After helping create some of the most well-known industrial music of the ’90s as a member of Nine Inch Nails, as well as working with Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson, the musician-producer moved into composing for film and TV. In…
When James Wan signed on to direct Furious 7, he brought the Fast And Furious franchise up to the same number of films as Saw, the much different, but no less absurd series he spawned in 2004. And now that the former is officially back for a final trilogy, it seems like Saw‘s producers may not be willing to let a…
Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.
The Halloween season may be over, but that doesn’t necessarily mean an end to thrills, chills, and nightmares. The upcoming holidays bring with them a terror all their own. There are numerous seasonally appropriate horror films, ranging from Black Christmas to Christmas Evil and even, arguably, Gremlins. But in an…
Nigel Tufnel famously said D minor is the saddest of all keys; it can also be the scariest. Most horror movie themes are performed in a minor key to provide creepy tone and a sense of dread. Dangerous Minds reports on a YouTube video of musician, writer, and filmmaker Ian Gordon, who re-recorded versions of some very…
In what could be seen as desecrating a modern horror classic if Rob Zombie hadn’t done a pretty good job of that already, according to The Hollywood Reporter writers Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan have been hired to “recalibrate” the Halloween franchise. That’s “recalibrate,” not “remake,” “reboot,” or “reimagine,”…
These days, it’s de rigueur for just about any movie Hollywood makes to be somehow tied in to a larger cinematic universe. Dracula can’t just be Dracula—he has to be part of a whole Universal monster-movie reality. It seems only natural, in such an environment, that people would begin looking for ways to tie together…
This October, like so many Octobers before it, has seen the release of new horror movies, presumably with the aim of capturing the attention of a pre-Halloween crowd in addition to the usual genre diehards. The Conjuring spin-off Annabelle debuted to bigger-than-expected numbers at the beginning of the month, as did …
“The zombies were having fun. The party had just begun. The guests included Wolf Man, Dracula, and his son.” That optimistic sentiment might have been fine in October 1962, when Bobby “Boris” Pickett And The Crypt Keepers hit the top of the Billboard charts with the cheerfully spooky “Monster Mash,” but it doesn’t…
