Author: Jacob Dressler

Micro-budget filmmaker and lover of all things horror.

It seems to be a good time for reboots, and the 1990’s slasher flick Urban Legend has been picked for the treatment. The movie has seen varying attempts at sequels in the past, but this will be the first outright reboot under the Urban Legend franchise name. Now, according to Collider, casting is apparently already underway for the new slasher movie. It seems like actress Sydney Chandler is being eyed for the film’s lead, with fellow actress Katherine McNamara also attached. There’s also a chance that Keith Powers will be included in the cast, which is being described as an…

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Fans have been waiting quite awhile for The Haunting of Bly Manor, the followup season to Netflix’s very successful The Haunting of Hill House. Unlike its predecessor, however, this time the story will be an adaptation of Henry James’ story The Turn of the Screw – with elements from many other ghost stories by the same author sprinkled throughout. It’s definitely enough to get many horror fans excited, and now we have our first look at The Haunting of Bly Manor with a variety of new images. As you can see in the below images from Vanity Fair, we have…

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It’s obvious that Margot Robbie’s interpretation of Harley Quinn has become one of the most iconic elements of the entire DCEU. Her popularity quickly led her to return in several more movies, including the recently released Birds of Prey as well as the upcoming film The Suicide Squad. These additional appearances for the beloved character has showed a varied and interesting development for Harley Quinn, and fans are eager to see her go on even more adventures in The Suicide Squad. And, of course, this includes her appearance – because as you can see down below, Harley Quinn will have…

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It goes without saying that everyone was obviously overwhelmed and excited by the surge of trailers and announcements released at this weekend’s DC FanDome. The event dedicated itself to revealing a large portion of DC’s upcoming projects, including movies, video games, and of course comics. The digital panel finally concluded with a trailer for The Batman – Matt Reeves’ upcoming superhero film starring Robert Pattinson in the title role. While the footage revealed The Riddler as the main villain for the movie, it also seems that Colin Farrell as The Penguin might have been spotted in the trailer for The…

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Warner Bros. has been giving out all sorts of exciting new announcements via this weekend’s DC FanDome event. A wide variety of projects have either been announced, discussed, or given trailers and other sneak previews. Now The Batman, the highly anticipated solo film focused on the titular superhero, has finally received its first trailer at the event – and it’s definitely interesting. It’s surprising that we’re being given a trailer at all. As you likely already know, the film won’t be out until a little over a year from now in 2021. But what’s more, the film actually had a…

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For better or worse, it was revealed not too long ago that Morgan Creek was preparing a new film based on The Exorcist for release in 2021. As you can expect from such an announcement, there’s been quite a variety of backlash against the project. In fact, some fans of the original film are outright enraged that a reboot of The Exorcist would even be considered, much less developed. Because of this, some fans have created a petition against the development of Morgan Creek’s reboot of The Exorcist. As of this writing, the petition against the reboot of The Exorcist…

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It wasn’t until the release of The Conjuring and its many continuations that the haunted Annabelle doll became a worldwide pop culture sensation. While the real life doll had always been a popular item for those interested in the paranormal, the movie franchise made entire generations aware of Annabelle and her story. And, as a result, the Internet recently went a bit crazy with Annabelle – and began spreading stories that she had actually managed to escape from the Warren Occult Museum. However, it wasn’t until someone made their way to Wikipedia that the rumors suggesting Annabelle managed to escape…

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It goes without saying that 2020 has been a year where anything could happen, and that seems to extend to October 31, on Halloween. As it turns out, there’s set to be a Blue Moon this Halloween 2020 – and that’s certainly a rare occurrence that will be exciting to admire. Of course, this doesn’t mean the moon will be any kind of special color. Rather, this Blue Moon will be the second full moon in a single calendar month – something that tends to happen very rarely. Hence the saying, “once in a blue moon.” It’s also worth mentioning…

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The Scream franchise is preparing for another massive return, with production on Scream 5 scheduled to begin this year. As the film is being prepped to go in front of cameras, we’re finally starting to see more cast announcements for the upcoming sequel. We already learned that actor David Arquette and Courteney Cox from the original Scream films were attached to return, with Neve Campbell currently undergoing negotiations. It was also revealed that actress Melissa Barrera would be joining the cast as an entirely new character. Now it seems Jenna Ortega is the next newcomer to join the Scream franchise…

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One of the more popular horror movies from the 2000’s has been the horror film Orphan, a movie released in 2009 which has surprisingly remained on everyone’s radar over the last decade. In fact, it’s been recently announced that the popularity of Orphan has led to the development of a prequel titled Esther – and now that Orphan is once again as relevant as ever, it’s a good time to look back at one eerie case that seems like it came straight out of the movie. That’s right, it appears one couple has claimed that their adoptive Ukrainian daughter now…

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