Author: Ada Blood

Each day, we are seeing more and more generative AI-produced slop in our lives. While we’re being told that smaller studios and filmmakers are embracing the technology to cut costs, many are rebelling against it. Backrooms director Kane Parsons recently gave his less-than-favorable opinions on the polarizing technology. “I think I’m in the same boat as most well-adjusted people,” Parsons tells The Australian. “If I could snap my fingers and make generative AI disappear forever, I probably would. Creatively, I get no enjoyment from using those tools. It defeats the purpose entirely for me.” Parsons was a teen who built…

Back when we used to feed large screens big black boxes for entertainment, the term “straight-to-VHS” was an insult. It meant your movie was cheap and didn’t deserve a major theatrical release. While plenty of cinephiles know better, this was the style at the time. Between the stigma and the last VCR being made in 2016, this format seemed relegated to the collectors’ market. South African director Robert dos Santos intends to change that with his VHS-exclusive release, This is How the World Ends. It’s a sci-fi film about a brother who is trying to find his sister at “the…

In horror, killing kids is still considered kind of taboo. But it sure is fun to watch them go on a killing spree, isn’t it? Eli Roth’s upcoming movie, Ice Cream Man, is taking that concept to the extreme in its new red band trailer.  Roth directs from a script he co-wrote with longtime friend Noah Belson. Ice Cream Man is set in an idyllic summer town. Well, that is, until it descends into madness when the local ice cream vendor starts serving sweets with horrifying results. The new trailer shows plenty of ice cream-stained faces, paired up with a…

America has diet culture almost baked in at this point. Making our obsession with weight loss an unfortunate evergreen subject for any artist to comment on. Writer-director Natalie Erika James didn’t necessarily set out to give a take on the rise of GLP-1s in Saccharine, but that’s what it’s become.  Saccharine is about Hana (Midori Francis), a medical student who takes part in the latest diet fad… eating human ashes. She soon becomes terrorized by a sinister force that she cannot seem to shake. Because no matter where you go, there you are.  Saccharine “I always knew I wanted to…

With Obsession still going strong in theaters, everyone is dying to see what Curry Barker’s next movie will look like. The filmmaker’s upcoming Anything But Ghosts has just added Chris Reinacher (Fly Me to the Earth) to the cast! Like Obsession, this project will also be backed by Blumhouse–Atomic Monster and Focus Features. Reinacher joins previously announced cast Barker, Aaron Paul (Ash), Bryce Dallas Howard (Argylle), Violet McGraw (M3GAN 2.0), and Cooper Tomlinson (Obsession). Anything But Ghosts centers around two fake paranormal investigators who end up finding real ghosts. Barker will direct from a script he co-wrote with longtime collaborator and…

People keep saying AI will replace humans, but only if it can figure out how to shut up about goblins. Starting with OpenAI’s ChatGPT‑5.1 model, users began to notice responses mentioning these mythical creatures a lot. So much so that a prompt had to be added to stop it from talking about them and several other real and imagined critters.  On April 27, 2026, a developer under the handle @arb8020 found a snippet from the OpenAI open source Codex GitHub repository, with a file named models.json. “Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures…

We make a lot of jokes about how quickly popular books get turned into movies these days. Well, Sydney Sweeney (The Housemaid) is attached to star in Hollow, a feature film adaptation of a book that won’t hit shelves until fall 2027. The even more interesting part is that the author, Lindsey Anderson Beer, will also be writing and directing the feature film.  While this is Beer’s first novel, she made her directorial debut with 2023’s Pet Sematary: Bloodlines. Hollow is a reimagining of Washington Irving’s 1820 classic short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. It tells the tale of…

Warning! This article will contain major spoilers for the ending of Scream 7. The most recent installment of the Scream franchise resurrected fan-favorite character Stu Macher (Matthew Lillard). Despite having been seemingly killed off in 1996’s Scream after his first attempt to kill Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) alongside friend Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich). In the 7th film, he returns with other casualties via AI technology, through menacing phone calls to Sidney. Lillard has been championing a return to the franchise almost as hard as fans have. During Fan Expo in Denver, he revealed that an alternate ending left the door…

Nothing kills a franchise faster than a bad recasting. Thankfully for fans of the Chucky horror franchise, Academy Award nominee Brad Dourif says he’s sticking to the titular role. He first played the fictitious serial killer Charles Lee Ray in 1988’s Child’s Play.  In the film, his soul possesses a Good Guy doll that Dourif has voiced in every installment of the franchise since. (Sans, the 2019 remake, which had Mark Hamill take over the role, but since that takes place in its own universe, we’ll be forgetting about it for now.) In April, we reported that Chucky mainstay Don…

In the past few weeks, Curry Barker’s Obsession and Kane Parsons’ Backrooms have taken the box office by storm. Of course, producers Jason Blum and James Wan couldn’t be happier about that fact. Not just because of the money they are raking in, but because of what it signals for the industry as a whole. On May 30th, Blum and Wan spoke with PGA President Stephanie Allain at a Produced By Conference at Universal Studios. They spoke about the state of theatrical releases in a post-COVID world and the future of Blumhouse–Atomic Monster. Theatrical Releases “Since COVID, there’s been this…