Author: Ada Blood

On May 18th 2013, the metalcore band Live Without set up inside a Denny’s to play an (unauthorized) show. When the group uploaded a 4-minute video of their hijinks to YouTube the next day, it went viral. Giving millennials the battle cry we all needed, “What the fuck is up, Denny’s?” In honor of the 13th anniversary of this historic bit of internet history, Live Without played another live show inside one of the restaurants in an ad for the new Mozz Pit Burger. The video’s description even teases a possible full-on live performance. “after 13 long years, @dennysdiner x…

In 2015, Adam Cesare (Clown in a Cornfield) released the ebook Mercy House. Now this Halloweeen season, it will be getting a brand-new revised edition avaible in both print and audiobook! This spiffy new release will hit shelves on October 20, 2026. The novel takes place inside the titular retirement home. While the facility looks clean and state-of-the-art, it’s harboring a horrible secret, something inside is turning residents into monsters. “Harriet Laurel notices the odor the moment she steps inside Mercy House, brought to the retirement home against her will by her son and his wife. In the early stages…

In 2017, J.D. Barker’s The Fourth Monkey hit shelves, quickly becoming a hit with readers, and kicked off his 4MK series. Sylvester Stallone‘s Balboa Productions is now working with Tales of the Walking Dead’s Channing Powell on a series adaptation. Barker’s 4MK trilogy follows Chicago Detective Sam Porter as he seeks out the Four Monkey Killer. This serial killer has a terrifyingly strict moral code. Taking the saying “hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil” a bit too seriously… Since they remove the eyes, ears, and tongue of their victims.  However, this guy decides to add a new…

Horror movies and urban legends are the peanut butter and jelly of genre films. The anthology movie The Summoning sees one of these old-school tales spring to life.  The upcoming film tells the story of 3 teen girls stuck in a nightmarish babysitting gig when they summon Baby Blue. Their survival depends on uncovering the past to escape a mother’s wrath from beyond the grave. It is directed by Felipe Vargas (Hive), Corey Benson Powers (Dead Talk Tales: Volume I), Brian Sepanzyk (Bloody Bites), Sergio Gonzalez, and Brandon Piskorik. From a script by Camilo Zaffora (Play Dead). Valeria San Martín…

Are you in the mood for some hay rolling? FX has placed a series order for the upcoming comedy Very Young Frankenstein, based on Mel Brooks’ 1974 comedy Young Frankenstein. The project has had a pilot order since last September, but has been in development for close to a year. Plot details are still under wraps, but the name heavily implies it takes place before the events of Brooks’ film.  Young Frankenstein centers around Frederick Frankenstein, pronounced Fronk-en-steen, who treks back to Transylvania to pick up his grandfather Victor’s experiments. The problem is that they mainly involve reanimating the dead.…

Chilean filmmaker Patricio Valladares (Invoking Scream) is breaking into the world of video games. He is working on a currently untitled game that is said to blend interactive gaming with analog filmmaking. “In terms of format, the project is being designed as a microdrama-style FMV experience: a shorter interactive horror title, approximately two to three hours in length, with multiple endings and branching narrative paths,” Valladares tells Variety. The project centers around a silent, masked killer who is trapped in a loop of death and resurrection. Players will interact through the killer’s perspective. Each new resurrection cycle will reveal alternate…

As the buzz around Curry Barker’s Obsession grows, all eyes are on a potential follow-up. Despite Barker working on his paranormal movie Anything But Ghosts and the next installment of the long-running Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise, he is still interested in more of the One Wish Willow. Obsession centers around a mysterious toy called One Wish Willow, which makes the user’s wildest dreams come true. The film mostly revolves around a man who wishes the girl he loves would love him more than anyone else in the world. But we also see another person wish for a billion dollars.  Given…

Over the weekend, Na Hong-jin (The Wailing) screened his latest sci-fi thriller, Hope, at Cannes. Earlier this morning, distributor Neon released the first action-packed teaser trailer. Hope stars Hwang Jung-min (Mission: Cross), Zo In-sung (Moving), Hoyeon (Squid Game), Taylor Russell (Bones and All), Cameron Britton (The Umbrella Academy), Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina), and Michael Fassbender (Prometheus). The film takes place in Hope Harbor, a remote village in South Korea. Police chief Bum-seok (Hwang) and officer Sung-ae (Hoyeon) receive a call about a mysterious creature running amok. At the same time, Sung-ki (Zo) hunts with a group in the nearby woods, only…

Late last year, Sam Raimi signed on to produce a modern version of the 1978 film Magic for Lionsgate. It’s now been confirmed that we will also direct from a script by Send Help scribes, Mark Swift and Damian Shannon. Magic is based on a novel by William Goldman, who also wrote the script for the first film adaptation. The story centers around Corky (Sir Anthony Hopkins), a magician/ventriloquist suffering from some serious mental illness. He starts to believe that his ventriloquist’s dummy, Fats, is speaking to him. When Corky is made an offer for his own network show, he…

In 2003, Uwe Boll’s adaptation of the Sega video game House of the Dead hit theaters. Despite the film being a huge bomb with critics and fans alike, Boll says he is working on an “unofficial sequel,” 23 Years Later — The Castle of the Dead. And yes, its unoffical because he does not have the rights from Sega. Not to mention that the film already has an official follow-up with Michael Hurst’s 2005 straight-to-video House of the Dead 2. Principal photography for The Castle of the Dead is slated to start on September 5th in Germany. House of the…