Author: Ada Blood

Looks like Lauren LaVera (Terrifier 2) is barreling towards scream queen status and hopping onto another horror film. She’ll star opposite Rory Culkin (Waco) in the upcoming horror-thriller Red Wedding. It’s directed by Josh Stolberg (Skillhouse) from a script he co-wrote with Pete Goldfinger (Saw X).  Red Wedding tells the story of a teenager and their stepmother being kidnapped for ransom. They are taken to a remote location by their captors, where things go from bad to even worse for everyone. When a bride and groom decide to celebrate by trying to take them all out, one by one.  The…

Network television has always been accused of being formulaic, because it often is. Over the weekend, freelance journalist Janet Murray posted on X about how she wasn’t impressed by House’s particular structure. To which the star of the early 2000s’ medical drama, Hugh Laurie, gave a characteristically snappy response.  “Late to the party, but I’ve started watching Season 1 of House,” Murray posted. “Same narrative every episode: Patient has mysterious illness. Hugh Laurie (House) gets diagnosis wrong. Patient nearly dies. Hugh Laurie gets diagnosis wrong again. Gets threatened with being fired. Patient nearly dies again. Hugh Laurie has last minute…

In 2008, Daniel Craig made a comment at the Italian premiere of Quantum of Solace that sparked an over a decade-long rumour. He remarked that Barack Obama’s presidential victory suggested we had reached the time for a Black Bond. Fans took this and decided that he must be referring to a real attempt to cast a black actor in the historically white role. Eventually, the rumor mill settled on Idris Elba as the ideal actor for this theoretical project. Elba is finally speaking up about this persistent gossip.  Elba & Bond “It was never legit. It was always just a…

For fans of the often-maligned horror genre, seeing Backrooms and Obsession overtaking the box office has been a nice treat. Living up to its name, Obsession’s audience even grew in its 2nd and 3rd weekends, a rare feat for any film. Now the Curry Barker-directed hit has raked in $200 million globally, making it Focus Features biggest movie of all time!  It has pulled $151 million domestically, making it the studio’s biggest domestic title as well. Heading into its 4th weekend, it did start slipping to the genre’s newer arrival, Backrooms, but by a mere 7%. And that’s after growing…

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…