Movie News Archives

May 28, 2022

Trailer Alert: Beast (2022)

Lions and lions and lions, oh my! Idris Elba plays a recently widowed doctor who is taking his daughters on a safari. A massive and bloodthirsty lion, bent on revenge for poachers hunting him, has turned his eyes on Elba and his family in the first Lion themed survival Horror movie in many years. Check out the trailer right here!

May 28, 2022

Trailer Alert! Offseason Hits Shudder on June 10

Mickey Keating's OFFSEASON will be available exclusively to stream on the SHUDDER platform starting on Friday, June 10, 2022.

April 27, 2022

Trailer Alert! Watcher (2022)

IFC Midnight has dropped the official trailer and a brand new poster for Chloe Okuno’s debut feature film, Watcher. Watcher...

April 18, 2022

Panic Fest 2022 Preview

Panic Fest is turning TEN, and you can join the celebration this spring!

March 2, 2022

Trailer Alert! The Innocents

Norwegian creepy-kid chiller "The Innocents" receives a May 13 release from IFC Midnight, and The Scariest Things has the new trailer for you!

February 15, 2022

Aliens, Cryptids, and Cults Invade Wisconsin’s MidWest WeirdFest

Wisconsin’s MidWest WeirdFest has announced the full lineup for its March 4-6 run this year, and it’s a doozy! Along...

February 14, 2022

Trailer Alert: Nope (2022)

Yep. I'm in it for Jordan Peele's latest offering: Nope. Check out the trailer here!

February 10, 2022

Trailer and Poster Alert: Argento’s Black Glasses!

Fingers crossed — firmly. We here at the Scariest Things Podcast wish nothing but goodwill towards one of, and possibly, the greatest horror directors of all time. But, sadly, Dario Argento Dario has slipped in recent years. Mother of Tears, Dracula 3D , Giallo, and, well, you get the idea. Contrasted with his earlier work you get the maddening sense that father time has finally caught up with this giallo genius.

February 4, 2022

SXSW 2022 Reminds Us That Everything is Bigger in Texas!

South By Southwest is one of the biggest festivals in the country. It encompasses film, music, comedy, education and technology...

February 2, 2022

Trailer and Poster Alert! Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022

The sequel/re-quel that no one really asked for is right around the corner. This winter we’ll get to see more septuagenarians and/or octogenarians battle it out in a grudge match that began nearly 50 years ago! Why? Who knows. But it sure helped give the Halloween franchise a kick in the pants!

January 20, 2022

MidWest WeirdFest Set to Blow Minds with the Supernatural, Slashers, and Science Fiction

MidWest WeirdFest has a stellar reputation for presenting edgy, provocative cinema fare, and the first wave announcement for this year’s edition of the Eau Claire, Wisconsin-based fest shows that the tradition continues. From paranormal strangeness to creepy creature features, MidWest WeirdFest has it all!

January 12, 2022

Trailer Alert! A24 is dying to show you a good time with Ti West’s “X”

A24 is dying to show you a good time with Ti West's "X"

January 10, 2022

Trailer Alert! “The Long Night” Serves Up Creepy Cult Horror

Here’s a truly promising trailer for Scout Taylor-Compton’s (Rob Zombie’s Halloween and Halloween II) latest fear-fare feature, The Long Night, which...

January 7, 2022

Trailer Alert! Nocturna: Side A – The Great Old Man’s Night and Nocturna: Side B – Where the Elephants Go to Die

Breaking Glass Pictures is set to release Argentine writer-director Gonzalo Calzada's double bill Nocturna: Side A - The Great Old Man's Night and Nocturna: Side B - Where the Elephants Go to Die on DVD and Digital on January 18.

January 3, 2022

Trailer Alert! British Supernatural/Gangster Chiller “The World We Knew”

Independent distributor/sales agency Mutiny Pictures will be releasing the UK horror/thriller THE WORLD WE KNEW on VOD and DVD on January 11th, 2022.

December 3, 2021

Trailer Alert: Studio 666

When we caught wind of this (assuredly) horror comedy last month we weren't entirely clear if we were looking at an elaborate album hype, a hoax, or an actual film.

November 8, 2021

Movie News: Studio 666 Coming Soon!

As ideas slowly become more and more (re) used and reworked filmmaking has progressively embraced the meta. In fact, things have become so meta sometimes it’s difficult to tell when one concept ends and the next begins. Enter the recently announced horror offering featuring…the Foo Fighters?

September 16, 2021

Beyond Fest Returns Indoors with Fear-Fare Premieres and Restored Classics Galore

Los Angeles’ Beyond Fest returns to indoor cinemas this year with a mouth-watering lineup of horror, science fiction, and genre-film fare. From September 29th–October 11th, the festival features cutting edge fear fare including world and west coast premieres, 4K restorations of beloved classics, and much more.

August 2, 2021

Trailer Alert: We Need To Do Something (2021)

Just off of a buzz generating debut at the Tribeca Film Festival, the trailer for Sean King O’Grady’s feature film...

July 27, 2021

Trailer Alert: Lamb (2021)

A24 heads to the farm with the Icelandic folk horror LAMB

July 22, 2021

Movie News! New Jordan Peele Poster, Nope.

If you follow the ol' Scariest Things Podcast you know that we love our posters! No poster is too weird, too gory, too strange, too horrifying, or too vague.

July 21, 2021

Chaos at Cannes! Julia Ducournau’s Controversial Titane wins the Palme D’or!

Things did not go according to plan at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. The director of Raw is back in a big way with her literally auto-erotic thriller Titane. Extreme genre films don't usually win awards, but this film broke the mold, including in how it won the big prize.

July 20, 2021

Movie News! VFX-Heavy Array of Demons And Monsters Abound in “Behemoth”

If you’re as big a creature feature fan as some of us here at The Scariest Things are, you should...

July 7, 2021

Trailer Alert: Night of the Living Dead 2

Well, it's sort of a trailer.

July 6, 2021

Trailer Alert: Hotel Transylvania 4: Transformania (2021)

There are few better on-ramps into the horror landscape for little kids than Hotel Transylvania, and the cast is (mostly) back for more monster wackiness. This time out, the Hotel residents find themselves switched into normal human guise by way of a mad science ray experiment. Madcap hinjinx ensue. This one is for Liz!

July 3, 2021

Trailer Alert: Don’t Breathe 2

When the closing scene concluded in Don't Breathe, it was clear that they intended to do a sequel. And now, Stephen Lang is back, and Sony Pictures has produced a trailer for the upcoming Don't Breathe 2. It appears that this time, the blind man is going to be something of an antihero.

June 25, 2021

Fantasia’s Second Wave Announcement Includes the Supernatural and Supeheroes

The Fantasia International Film Festival has outdone itself with today’s mind-warping second-wave announcement. Featuring horror titles such as #BLUE_WHALE, Ghosting Gloria, and Hellbender (to name but a few) along with a plethora of science fiction, dark comedy, thriller, and other horror-adjacent genres, Montreal’s premiere genre-film fest promises to be a blast, as it is every year.

June 14, 2021

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