Author: Ada Blood

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…

The horror genre is well known for its love of franchises, but some work out much better than others. Exorcist II: The Heretic, directed by John Boorman, is a notorious, poorly received follow-up to 1973’s The Exorcist. The new documentary Boorman and the Devil, directed and produced by David Kittredge, explores the making of the ill-fated film. And Yellow Veil Pictures has just acquired the North American rights to it. Boorman and the Devil premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2025. Unlike its subject, so far the documentary has been a hit with a 100% critical rating on Rotten…

Zorro is back! First appearing in Johnston McCulley’s 1919 novella, The Curse of Capistrano, the iconic character has captured readers’ imaginations for decades. Filmmaker Joe Begos (Bliss) and WTFilms are teaming up for They Call Him Zorro, a horror reimagining of the legendary character.  “This is not your parents’ Zorro,” said WTFilms co-head and producer Gregory Chambet. “In our iteration, the masked folk hero has more to do with dark and violent characters such as The Punisher or The Crow. What if instead of being a coward by day, sword-yielding funny scoundrel by night, Diego Vega came back for vengeance…

Film Bridge International has acquired the rights to the upcoming horror film The Influencer Project at the Cannes Film Market. It’s produced by Blair Witch Project co-creator Eduardo Sanchez with producer Gregg Hale and stars Chiara King. King is a UK-based beauty and fashion influencer with over 1 million followers on Instagram and 4.2 million on TikTok. While plot details are scarce at this time, The Influencer Project will be based on King’s real-life experience with a stalker. A terrifyingly personal way for anyone to make their film debut. This is also marking Sanchez’s return to the found footage genre…