Watch the new trailer for The First Omen, only in theaters April 5.
When a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she encounters a darkness that causes her to question her own faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate. “The First Omen” stars Nell Tiger Free (“Servant”), Tawkeef Barhom (“Mary Magdalene”), Sonia Braga (“Kiss of the Spider Woman”), Ralph Ineson (“The Northman”), and Bill Nighy (“Living”). The film is directed by Arkasha Stevenson (“Legion”), based on characters created by David Seltzer (“The Omen”), with a story by Ben Jacoby (“Bleed”) and a screenplay by Tim Smith & Arkasha Stevenson and Keith Thomas (“Firestarter”). The producers are David S. Goyer (“Hellraiser”) and Keith Levine (“The Night House”) and the executive producers are Tim Smith, Whitney Brown (“Rosaline”), and Gracie Wheelan.
Check out this trailer for the upcoming horror movie ABIGAIL which will be released only In Theaters April 19.
Children can be such monsters.
After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by one, and they discover, to their mounting horror, that they’re locked inside with no normal little girl.
From Noodles author Jay Gould, a horror adventure that brings the monstrous madness of DOOM to JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH; in which after an explosion destroys a drilling rig, an expert drill engineer joins an expedition down the hole the rig has opened up: a tunnel to a demon-infested world that clearly influenced ancient art and may be literal Hell.
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is pleased to announce the Final Ballot for the 2022 Bram Stoker Awards®. The HWA is the premier writers organization in the horror and dark fiction genre, with more than 1,800 members. HWA has presented the Bram Stoker Awards in various categories since 1987. Works appearing on this Ballot are Bram Stoker Award® Nominees for Superior Achievement in their Category, e.g., Novel, and may be referred to as Nominees.
James Chambers, Administrative Co-Chair of the Bram Stoker Awards® Committee, said, on behalf of the Committee and the HWA Board, “We are thrilled to continue the HWA’s annual tradition of recognizing excellence in dark literature and congratulate all the authors, editors, publishers, artists, and others whose work appears on the Final Ballot.”
The 2022 Bram Stoker Awards® Preliminary Ballot
Superior Achievement in a Novel
Iglesias, Gabino – The Devil Takes You Home (Mulholland Press) Katsu, Alma – The Fervor (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) Kiste, Gwendolyn – Reluctant Immortals (Saga Press) Malerman, Josh – Daphne (Del Rey) Ward, Catriona – Sundial (Tor Nightfire)
Superior Achievement in a First Novel
Adams, Erin – Jackal (Bantam Books) Cañas, Isabel – The Hacienda (Berkley) Jones, KC – Black Tide (Tor Nightfire) Nogle, Christi – Beulah (Cemetery Gates Media) Wilkes, Ally – All the White Spaces (Emily Bestler Books/Atria/Titan Books)
Superior Achievement in a Middle Grade Novel
Dawson, Delilah S. – Camp Scare (Delacorte Press) Kraus, Daniel – They Stole Our Hearts (Henry Holt and Co.) Malinenko, Ally – This Appearing House (Katherine Tegen Books) Senf, Lora – The Clackity (Atheneum Books for Young Readers) Stringfellow, Lisa – A Comb of Wishes (Quill Tree Books)
Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel
Aquilone, James (editor) – Kolchak: The Night Stalker: 50th Anniversary (Moonstone Books) Gailey, Sarah (author) and Bak, Pius (artist) – Eat the Rich (Boom! Studios) Manzetti, Alessandro (author) and Cardoselli, Stefano (artist/author) – Kraken Inferno: The Last Hunt (Independent Legions Publishing) Tynion IV, James (author) and Dell’Edera, Werther (artist) – Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 4 (Boom! Studios) Young, Skottie (author) and Corona, Jorge (artist) – The Me You Love in the Dark (Image Comics)
Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel
Fraistat, Ann – What We Harvest (Delacorte Press) Jackson, Tiffany D. – The Weight of Blood (Katherine Tegen Books) Marshall, Kate Alice – These Fleeting Shadows (Viking) Ottone, Robert P. – The Triangle (Raven Tale Publishing) Schwab, V.E. – Gallant (Greenwillow Books) Tirado, Vincent – Burn Down, Rise Up (Sourcebooks Fire)
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
Allred, Rebecca J. and White, Gordon B. – And in Her Smile, the World (Trepidatio Publishing) Carmen, Christa – “Through the Looking Glass and Straight into Hell” (Orphans of Bliss: Tales of Addiction Horror) (Wicked Run Press) Hightower, Laurel – Below (Ghoulish Books) Katsu, Alma – The Wehrwolf (Amazon Original Stories) Knight, EV – Three Days in the Pink Tower (Creature Publishing)
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction
Dries, Aaron – “Nona Doesn't Dance” (Cut to Care: A Collection of Little Hurts) (IFWG Australia, IFWG International) Gwilym, Douglas – “Poppy’s Poppy” (Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, Vol. V, No. 6) McCarthy, J.A.W. – “The Only Thing Different Will Be the Body” (A Woman Built by Man) (Cemetery Gates Media) Taborska, Anna – “A Song for Barnaby Jones” (Zagava) Taborska, Anna – “The Star” (Great British Horror 7: Major Arcana) (Black Shuck Books) Yardley, Mercedes M. – “Fracture” (Mother: Tales of Love and Terror) (Weird Little Worlds)
Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection
Ashe, Paula D. – We Are Here to Hurt Each Other (Nictitating Books) Joseph, RJ – Hell Hath No Sorrow Like a Woman Haunted (The Seventh Terrace) Khaw, Cassandra – Breakable Things (Undertow Publications) Thomas, Richard – Spontaneous Human Combustion (Keylight Books) Veres, Attila – The Black Maybe (Valancourt Books)
Superior Achievement in a Screenplay
Cooper, Scott – The Pale Blue Eye (Cross Creek Pictures, Grisbi Productions, Streamline Global Group) Derrickson, Scott and Cargill, C. Robert – The Black Phone (Blumhouse Productions, Crooked Highway, Universal Pictures) Duffer Brothers, The – Stranger Things: Episode 04.01 "Chapter One: The Hellfire Club" (21 Laps Entertainment, Monkey Massacre, Netflix, Upside Down Pictures) Garland, Alex - Men (DNA Films) Goth, Mia and West, Ti – Pearl (A24, Bron Creative, Little Lamb, New Zealand Film Commission)
Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection
Bailey, Michael and Simon, Marge – Sifting the Ashes (Crystal Lake Publishing) Lynch, Donna – Girls from the County (Raw Dog Screaming Press) Pelayo, Cynthia – Crime Scene (Raw Dog Screaming Press) Saulson, Sumiko – The Rat King: A Book of Dark Poetry (Dooky Zines) Sng, Christina – The Gravity of Existence (Interstellar Flight Press)
Superior Achievement in an Anthology
Datlow, Ellen – Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous (Tor Nightfire) Hartmann, Sadie and Saywers, Ashley – Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology (Dark Matter Ink) Nogle, Christi and Becker, Willow – Mother: Tales of Love and Terror (Weird Little Worlds) Ryan, Lindy – Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga (Black Spot Books) Tantlinger, Sara – Chromophobia: A Strangehouse Anthology by Women in Horror (Strangehouse Books)
Superior Achievement in Non–Fiction
Cisco, Michael – Weird Fiction: A Genre Study (Palgrave Macmillan) Hieber, Leanna Renee and Janes, Andrea – A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts (Citadel Press) Kröger, Lisa and Anderson, Melanie R. – Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult (Quirk Books) Waggoner, Tim – Writing in the Dark: The Workbook (Guide Dog Books) Wytovich, Stephanie M. – Writing Poetry in the Dark (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
Superior Achievement in Short Non–Fiction
Murray, Lee – “I Don’t Read Horror (& Other Weird Tales)” (Interstellar Flight Magazine) (Interstellar Flight Press) Pelayo, Cynthia – “This is Not a Poem” (Writing Poetry in the Dark) (Raw Dog Screaming Press) Wetmore, Jr., Kevin J. – “A Clown in the Living Room: The Sinister Clown on Television” (The Many Lives of Scary Clowns: Essays on Pennywise, Twisty, the Joker, Krusty and More) (McFarland and Company) Wood, L. Marie – “African American Horror Authors and Their Craft: The Evolution of Horror Fiction from African Folklore” (Conjuring Worlds: An Afrofuturist Textbook for Middle and High School Students) (Conjure World) Wood, L. Marie, “The H Word: The Horror of Hair” (Nightmare Magazine, No. 118) (Adamant Press)
About the Horror Writers Association
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is a nonprofit organization of writers and publishing professionals around the world, dedicated to promoting dark literature and the interests of those who write it. Founded in the late 1980s, it now has more than 1800 members around the world and is the oldest and most respected professional organization for creators of horror fiction. The HWA encourages public interest in and appreciation of horror and dark fantasy literature and hosts an annual professional conference, StokerCon. HWA is also dedicated to recognizing and promoting diversity in the horror genre, and practices a strict anti-harassment policy at all of its events. Please direct any questions regarding the Final Ballot to the Stoker Chair and Vice President of HWA.
FROM will scare up its second season this April, on MGM+ (fka Epix).
The sci-fi horror series will kick off its second season on Sunday April 23, it was announced at the Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena.
Created by John Griffin, who executive-produces alongside Jack Bender (Lost, Game of Thrones) and Jeff Pinkner (Lost, Fringe), FROM unravels the mystery of a nightmarish town that traps all those who enter.
In Season 2, “hidden truths about the nature and terrifying origins of the town begin to emerge, even as life for its residents is plunged into chaos by the arrival of mysterious newcomers” aboard a bus that pulled into town at the very end of Season 1.
Harold Perrineau (Lost) leads an ensemble cast that includes Catalina Sandino Moreno (The Affair), Eion Bailey (Once Upon a Time), Hannah Cheramy (Van Helsing), Simon Webster (Strays), Ricky He (The Good Doctor), Chloe Van Landschoot (Skin), Corteon Moore (Utopia Falls), Pegah Ghafoori (The Perfect Wedding), David Alpay (Castle Rock), Elizabeth Saunders (Clarice), Elizabeth Moy and Avery Konrad.
In American Horror Story: Double Feature a struggling writer, his pregnant wife, and their daughter move to an isolated beach town for the winter. Once they're settled in, the town’s true residents begin to make themselves known.
American Horror Story: Double Feature is the 10th installment of American Horror Story, an anthology horror drama created and produced by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. Since 2011, the creators of the limited series have redefined the horror genre with various installments featuring a creepy asylum, a coven of witches, a traveling freak show, a haunted hotel and the apocalypse itself. The television series sprouted a legion of dedicated fans who anticipate what terrors the next chapter will hold. The franchise is produced by 20th Television.
American Horror Story: Double Feature premieres 8/25, streaming next day on FX on Hulu.
According to box office figures, IFC’s Dave Franco-directed horror feature The Rental is leading at the weekend box office, having logged roughly an estimated $130K yesterday at 251 locations. The movie should rake in north of $400K for the 3-days. The Rental, Franco’s feature directorial debut, is also available in homes to rent this weekend.
A majority of that is from drive-in theaters, which continue to be the leading exhibitors at the weekend box office, despite the fact that they only make up about a third of the current number of theaters open (between 1,2K-1,K).
Franco directed and produced The Rental, and he co-wrote the screenplay with Joe Swanberg. The pic was produced and financed by Black Bear Pictures. The movie stars Franco’s wife Alison Brie. Pic follows two couples who rent a vacation home for what should be a celebratory weekend get-away. Among one of The Rental‘s stunts, the movie had a pop-up drive-in screening in partnership with Arclight Cinemas on June 18 back in Hollywood.
To celebrate Alien's 40th anniversary and in partnership with Tongal, 20th Century Fox is releasing new Alien-universe fan-made short films leading up to Alien Day on April 26th. Directed by Kelsey Taylor, the synopsis for "Specimen" reads: "It's the night shift in a colony greenhouse, and Julie, a botanist, does her best to contain suspicious soil samples that have triggered her sensitive lab dog. Despite her best efforts the lab unexpectedly goes into full shutdown and she is trapped inside. Little does she know, an alien specimen has escaped the mysterious cargo, and a game of cat and mouse ensues as the creature searches for a host."
What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?
With Brightburn, James Gunn the visionary filmmaker of Guardians of the Galaxy and Slither presents a startling, subversive take on a radical new genre: superhero horrorBRIGHTBURN stars Elizabeth Banks, David Denman, Jackson A. Dunn, Matt Jones, and Meredith Hagner. The movie was directed by David Yarovesky and produced by James Gunn and Kenneth Huang.
BRIGHTBURN will be released in theaters on May 24, 2019.
NOS4A2 is a new horror series that will premiere on AMC Sunday, June 2 at 9/8c.
The supernatural horror series NOS4A2, based on Joe Hill's bestselling novel of the same name, tells the story of Charlie Manx, a seductive immortal who feeds off the souls of children, then deposits what remains of them into Christmasland – an icy, twisted Christmas village of Manx's imagination where every day is Christmas Day and unhappiness is against the law. Manx finds his whole world threatened when a young woman in New England discovers she has a dangerous gift.
USA Network's “The Purge” event series premieres on Tuesday, September 4 at 10/9c. A full trailer has been released the San Diego Comic-Con and it looks like it will deliver the violence and mayhem that fans of the Purge film series have come to expect. Check out the trailer below.
Based on the hit movie franchise from Blumhouse Productions, The Purge revolves around a 12-hour period when all crime, including murder, is legal. Set in an altered America ruled by a totalitarian political party, the series follows several seemingly unrelated characters living in a small city. As the clock winds down, each character is forced to reckon with their past as they discover how far they will go to survive the night.
The Purge is written and executive produced by the film franchise creator James DeMonaco and led by Jason Blum. Additionally, the entire team behind the blockbuster franchise are on board to executive produce: Michael Bay with Brad Fuller and Andrew Form under the Platinum Dunes banner and Sebastien K. Lemercier. Thomas Kelly serves as executive producer/showrunner of the series. Emmy® and Golden Globe® award-winner Anthony Hemingway will direct and executive produce the premiere episode.
This October, Michael Myers returns. Watch the #HalloweenMovie trailer now.
Universal Pictures will release Trancas International Films, Blumhouse Productions and Miramax’s Halloween on Friday, October 19, 2018.
Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
The Cured is a 2017 Irish zombie film starring Ellen Page. The Cured ask the question what happens when the undead return to life? The movie is written and directed by David Freyne and will be released in the United States. IFC Films is releasing The Cured in theaters, on demand, and via digital HD, Feb. 23.
SYNOPSIS: What happens when the undead return to life? In a world ravaged for years by a virus that turns the infected into zombie-like cannibals, a cure is at last found and the wrenching process of reintegrating the survivors back into society begins. Among the formerly afflicted is Senan (Sam Keeley), a young man haunted by the horrific acts he committed while infected. Welcomed back into the family of his widowed sister-in-law (Ellen Page), Senan attempts to restart his life—but is society ready to forgive him and those like him? Or will fear and prejudice once again tear the world apart? Pulsing with provocative parallels to our troubled times, The Cured is a smart, scary, and hauntingly human tale of guilt and redemption.
Temple, a new horror flick was released on VOD on September 1. Temple stars Naoto Takenaka, Asahi Uchida, and Logan Huffman. Check out the synopsis and the trailer below:
SYNOPSIS: Three American tourists follow a mysterious map deep into the jungles of Japan searching for an ancient temple. When spirits entrap them, their adventure quickly becomes a horrific nightmare. Temple is directed by Michael Barrett and stars Naoto Takenaka, Asahi Uchida, Logan Huffman.
The Vault, a new horror flick was released on VOD on September 1. The Vault stars James Franco, Taryn Manning, and Francesca Eastwood. Check out the synopsis and the trailer below:
SYNOPSIS: In order to save their brother Michael’s life, the Dillon sisters, Leah and Vee have organized a bank robbery, but when the upstairs vault doesn’t have enough money to cover Michael’s debt, on the advice of Assistant Bank Manager Ed Maas, they drill into the downstairs vault. But the bank’s basement hides a terrible secret and before long, the Dillons have to choose whether to face the police outside or the terrible supernatural forces in the vault below.
Legendary filmmaker George A. Romero, father of the modern movie zombie and creator of the groundbreaking “Night of the Living Dead” franchise, has died at 77, his family said.
Romero died Sunday in his sleep following a “brief but aggressive battle with lung cancer,” according to a statement to The Times provided by his longtime producing partner, Peter Grunwald. Romero died while listening to the score of one his favorite films, 1952’s “The Quiet Man,” with his wife, Suzanne Desrocher Romero, and daughter, Tina Romero, at his side, the family said.
Romero jump-started the zombie genre as the co-writer (with John A. Russo) and director of the 1968 movie “Night of the Living Dead,” which went to show future generations of filmmakers such as Tobe Hooper and John Carpenter that generating big scares didn’t require big budgets. “Living Dead” spawned an entire school of zombie knockoffs, and Romero’s sequels included 1978’s “Dawn of the Dead,” 1985’s “Day of the Dead,” 2005’s “Land of the Dead,” 2007’s “Diary of the Dead” and 2009’s “George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead.”
Check out this creepy new trailer for the horror movie, Awaken the Shadowman. The movie will be relaesed in select theaters on July 21, and on VOD on July 25.
Synopsis: After the mysterious disappearance of their mother, estranged brothers reunite and discover an unknown supernatural force.
Check out this trailer for A24's new horror film It Comes at Night which is set for a June 9, 2017 release.
Film Synopsis:
"Imagine the end of the world— Now imagine something worse.
Award-winning filmmaker Trey Edward Shults follows his incredible debut feature Krisha with It Comes At Night, a horror film following a man (Joel Edgerton) as he is learns that the evil stalking his family home may be only a prelude to horrors that come from within.
Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, the tenuous domestic order he has established with his wife and son is put to the ultimate test with the arrival of a desperate young family seeking refuge.
Despite the best intentions of both families, paranoia and mistrust boil over as the horrors outside creep ever-closer, awakening something hidden and monstrous within him as he learns that the protection of his family comes at the cost of his soul."
I'm posting two books and asking readers which book they would rather read based on the book's blurbs. Here are this weeks two contestants, Dead Haven and OutBreak: The Brother's Creed. Which would you rather read?
Book 1 Dead Haven: A Zombie Novel by Flint Maxwell.
Jack Jupiter knows zombies. He's written about them for years. So when Jack's mother passes away in a freak car accident involving a half-eaten deer and a pack of cigarettes, he also knows something's up. Now, Jack and his fiancé, Darlene, are forced to go back to the dreadful town of Woodhaven, Ohio for his mom's funeral.
But what he doesn't know is it might be their funeral, too.
A few months before Jack and Darlene's arrival, a mysterious flu-like virus swept through the town, infecting nearly every citizen. Now, like ticking time-bombs ready to explode, everyone is dropping dead. But they aren't staying dead. No, they're coming back as flesh-eating zombies.
Not only will Jack Jupiter have to bury his mother, confront high school bullies, and save Darlene, but he'll have to fight the dead in order to stay alive. And these aren't like the zombies from his books.
These walking corpses are real.
Book 2 Outbreak (The Brother's Creed Book 1) by Joshua C. Chadd
Two brothers learn of the apocalypse after being out of touch for a few days. Returning to town, they learn first-hand, the dead are coming back to life with a taste for flesh. With their parents in Nebraska, they must embark on a journey to rescue them as they set into motion their zombie apocalypse plan. But they'll see not all is fun and games as they realize it is nothing like they imagined it would be.
Can they make it in time to save their parents from a fate worse than death?
Emmett Wolfe has been preparing for this day for years, but still, cannot believe it is happening. An infection unlike any other has begun to spread across America and the world as he knows it is coming to an end. He must rescue his daughter and ex-wife and transport them to a safe location.
Let's be honest, it's hard out here for an indie author. For every reader that delights in discovering a new author there are five who have no love for indies. So I have started these weekly posting to spotlight an indie author and hopefully so that they can be shown some love. This weeks the spotlight shines on author Aurelio Rico Lopez Iii and his book Raising Hell. Please show this author some love! George L. Cook III HorrorBookaAndMovies.Com
Raising Hell is a dark, humorous tale of a man who wakes up on a rickety boat, captained by a monster from Hell. Throw in a demon with a peculiar affliction, a feisty demon mother, a case of mistaken identity, and a mission against impossible odds, and you've got yourself a roller coaster ride bound for Hell.
