Orion Pictures returns to bring genre fans a dark, twisted fairy tale: GRETEL & HANSEL. The film arrives on January 31, 2020, from director Oz Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter) and writer Rob Hayes. The cast includes Sophia Lillis, Alice Krige, and Samuel Leakey. Krige makes for an imposing and creepy “witch” while Sophia Lillis takes […]
Happy New Year 2020! Let’s start the year off with the incredible new trailer from Paramount Picture’s A QUIET PLACE PART II. Starting off with a thrilling extended opening sequence, carded “Day 1,” the trailer gives us plenty of the aliens viciously attacking and creating chaos. John Krasinski returns to direct the Abbott family as […]
How many Family Guy fans we got reading this article today? One of my favorite episodes is the one where Peter gets hired by the local news channel to voice his opinion on a nightly editorial piece called What Really Grinds My Gears and if you’re familiar with the episode – then you know what’s […]
Caveat lector: The following list contains my favorite horror movies of 2019. I ended up with 30-or-so titles vying for my top 10, so I came up with the following criteria to cull my list. The horror films I placed in my top 10 are movies I can’t get out of my head; that have […]
This was my first year with the Gruesome Magazine podcast! Horror has always been my favorite genre, but being a part of the podcast has given me so many new movies to watch and love. I’m so thrilled to be involved with such amazingly intelligent horror lovers with different perspectives and preferences. If this is […]
December 2019 draws to a close. The past twelve months were full of twists and turns of every type for me and the Grue-Crew alike. But through it all, we devour horror films with a ferocious passion be they the most memorable or the best forgotten. This week, we take a look at our top […]
The year 2019 continued this decade’s trend of providing top-notch fare for fear-fare and genre cinema fans. From supernatural shockers to arthouse horror to truly hilarious horror comedies and beyond, 2019 offered a wealth of riches, and narrowing my favorites down to 10 was no easy feat, but here we go! (10) Tie: The Lighthouse […]
As I’ve been consumed with the Decades of Horror: The Classic Era podcast, among other life’s happenings, I feel I have missed a good majority of what’s been relevant in horror. But I intend to play catch up! Starting with what I loved to what I essentially enjoyed here are my top five horror films […]
There’s been plenty of creepy morgue inspired horror flicks but I have to say – this new one getting set to roll out from director Yam Laranas – Nightshift – looks to up that creep factor just a bit. Check out the trailer – you’ll see what I mean. So, here’s the thing. Nightshift has […]
I find it rather puzzling why Mike Flanagan’s adaptation of Stephen King’s return to the Overlook Hotel – Doctor Sleep – failed to bring the horror fans out in droves but – it didn’t, and that is a damn shame. I’m betting this upcoming Blu-ray release will hit the fans right between the eyes though […]
As the final few weeks of 2019 slowly siphon away – all of us in the horror world eagerly anticipate the new year as it brings HBO’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Outsider to the pay service. It’s looking to be a good one – and a new featurette was just unleashed featuring none other […]
Old soldiers never retire – they just take on drug dealers and kick some serious ass! That seems to be the basic premise of VFW – coming to us from Voltage Pictures and RLJE – and it looks like things are going to get bloody. Featuring the kick-ass cast of Stephen Lang, William Sadler, Fred […]
Sam Raimi – and his cohorts over at Ghosthouse Pictures are gearing up for the big Jan. 3rd rollout of their latest telling of the classic tale of The Grudge. From the looks of things – they are not going to skimp on the goo…. Have a look: Andrea Riseborough, Lin Shaye, John Cho, and […]
Steeped in nostalgia – and as entertaining as it is emotional – today we get our first look at the official third chapter in the Ghostbusters saga, Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Nothing against the version that rolled out a few years back – I actually enjoy that version for what it is but this – this takes […]
In this Stephen King fans humble opinion – The Outsider is one of his best works of recent memory – and the latest in a series of stories to have more of a crime or investigation based storyline – but not skimping on the horror – and features Holly Gibney, one of the most popular […]