Horror
Tobin Bell to Return for Next Saw Movie
Tobin Bell clearly still wants to play a game, because he’s officially signed on for the next Saw movie. Producers Mark Burg and Oren Koules confirmed Bell’s return to Variety, noting, “What a thrill to be reuniting with Tobin. His performance as John Kramer is part of the magic that made this franchise a phenomenon and his character is an active part of this film.” The Saw franchise began in 2004 and starred Bell as John “Jigsaw” Kramer, a killer who didn’t just murder his victims outright, but put them through games to test their will to live. Jigsaw was killed off in 2006’s Saw III, but Bell has appeared in nearly all of the series’ nine films in live or flashback form. The only film he didn’t appear in was 2021’s Spiral, which focused on a copycat killer. ...
Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities Is a Horror Anthology Haunted By Creative Freedom: Review
The Pitch: A racist scavenger (Tim Blake Nelson) uncovers the ultimate score in the storage locker of a dead Nazi. A desperate grave robber (David Hewlett) gets more than he bargained for on his latest excursion. A medical examiner (F. Murray Abraham) autopsies a dead body from a mine explosion and finds a passenger hiding within the flesh. An awkward, frumpy bank teller (Kate Micucci) is tempted with the secrets of beauty by a mysterious skin cream. An art student in 1909 (Ben Barnes) grows obsessed with the horrific paintings of a strange new colleague (Crispin Glover). A desperate man (Rupert Grint) searches for his dead twin sister through the veil of spiritualism. A reclusive billionaire (Peter Weller) gathers a group of illustrious talents to view his latest otherworldly find. A...
Allison Williams’ AI Experiment Goes Wrong in M3GAN Trailer: Watch
Making new friends is hard, but in the trailer for Universal’s upcoming horror M3GAN, we meet someone who might be able to help. See Allison Williams in the official clip released today ahead of the film’s January 13th release. Gemma (Williams) is a toy-company roboticist who’s suddenly thrown into parenthood when her 8-year-old niece Cady (The Haunting of Hill House‘s Violet McGraw) becomes orphaned. In an effort to curb Cady’s grief, Gemma introduces her to the prototype of M3GAN, a child-size, lifelike doll that uses artificial intelligence to become your new best friend: “Ever since I was little, I dreamed of this perfect toy that would protect a kid from ever feeling lonely or sad,” Gemma says in the clip. This doll’s name is M3GAN, short for Model 3 Generative Android, and its g...
Grinch Horror Movie, The Mean One, Coming This Christmas
There’s another Grinch film in the works, but in this project, the green ghoul’s heart probably won’t grow three sizes. XYZ Films is plotting a horror take on the beloved Dr. Seuss character called The Mean One, with David Howard Thornton (Terrifier 2) set to play the titular character. Directed by Steven LaMorte from a script by Flip and Finn Kobler, The Mean One parodies The Grinch by tweaking many of the story’s key details. Rather than Whoville, the creature lives on a mountain overlooking the town of Frazier Park. Young Cindy You-Know-Who (Krystle Martin) is orphaned after the Grinch kills her parents, and 20 Christmases later, she returns to Frazier Park in search of closure only to learn that the monster’s bloodlust hasn’t faded. The Mean One will stream for...
David Harbour Isn’t Your Typical Mall Santa in Trailer for Violent Night: Watch
Forget The Nightmare Before Christmas — Christmas is the nightmare in the official trailer for Violent Night, Universal Pictures and 87North’s forthcoming holiday-horror-comedy that stars David Harbour as one grisly Saint Nicholas. The film is slated to hit theaters December 2nd. In the latest from director Tommy Wirkola, all is not calm and bright. Santa Claus’ usual holiday routine is thwarted when a team of mercenaries breaks into a wealthy family compound, holding everyone inside hostage. To make matters even less merry, it’s Christmas Eve, and Santa’s in the middle of his grand gift delivery; his naughty list is about to get a lot longer as he begins to avenge the bandits in the name of saving Christmas. We can expect to see a lot of red, and not just in ...
NYFF Review: Noah Baumbach Delightfully Skewers Our Fear of Death in White Noise
This review is part of our coverage of the 2022 New York Film Festival. The Pitch: Dom LeLillo’s White Noise is one of those “great American novels” long thought to be unfilmable, a scattered, acerbic takedown of late American capitalism and its incessant need to distract from the inevitability of death with movies, culture, conversation, stuff. And honestly, it’s oddly fitting that the filmmaker who’d finally tackle it would be Indie Darling Noah Baumbach himself: Like DeLillo, he too is concerned with the fits and foibles of academia, the crumbling nature of the family unit, the ways we cling to ephemera just to keep ourselves from falling apart. And so it is with this three-part tale of the Gladney clan, a nuclear family about to go metaphorically (and in some ways litera...
Bill Skarsgård and Lily-Rose Depp to Star in Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu
In one of the most perfect casting decisions since, uh, the last time he was picked to play a heavy-lidded horror character, Bill Skarsgård will star as the titular vampire in Robert Eggers’ upcoming Nosferatu retelling. Joining him in Transylvania is Lily-Rose Depp, playing a haunted young woman who becomes Nosferatu’s latest obsession, Deadline reports. There’s not much else we know about Eggers’ follow-up to The Northman, but we do know he’s been wanting to do this for a while. The director almost got his Nosferatu off the ground back in 2019, with Harry Styles and Anya Taylor-Joy attached to the project. Budgeting and schedule conflicts eventually brought the film to a halt, but Eggers made sure to nab Skarsgård — whose portrayal of Pennywis...
Death Comes Clicking in Teaser Trailer for HBO’s The Last of Us: Watch
September 26th is the anniversary of Outbreak Day within the world of The Last of Us, and HBO is celebrating with an official teaser trailer that offers a hint of the upcoming horrors. The television adaptation of the beloved video game franchise stars Pedro Pascal as smuggler Joel, Bella Ramsey as teenage girl Ellie, plus Gabriel Luna, Nick Offerman, and more. It’s due out sometime in 2023, and the new teaser gives just a taste of why this could be one of the most expensive series ever made. As Hank Williams’ “Alone and Forsaken” rattles in the background, the preview shows not just a couple of sets, but an expansive dystopian world as humans struggle to contain a dangerous infection: Makeshift cities, vast explosions, green fields, frozen wastelands, and for a few hai...
Dave Bautista Leads a Home Invasion in Trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin: Watch
Dave Bautista and a gang of home invaders break up an idyllic family vacation in the trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s upcoming apocalyptic thriller Knock at the Cabin, out in theaters on February 3rd, 2023. The clip opens with fathers Andrew (Jonathan Groff) and Eric (Ben Aldridge) singing along to KC and the Sunshine Band’s “Boogie Shoes” with their daughter Wen (Kristen Cui) while driving out to the woods for a break from society. While the couple takes in some sun on their cabin’s deck, however, Bautista’s character Leonard makes an unnerving introduction to Wen. “I suppose I’m here to make friends with you,” Bautista says after the young girl asks why he’s here. “Your dads, too. But my heart is broken… because of what I have to do today.” Soon enough, we find out he’s leading a cultish...
Terminally Ill Teens Summon Ghosts in Trailer for Mike Flanagan’s The Midnight Club: Watch
Netflix has unveiled the official trailer for the upcoming supernatural thriller The Midnight Club, from Mike Flanagan and the creative team behind The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass. The 10-part miniseries premieres on October 7th. The Midnight Club is a long-awaited adaptation of Christopher Pike’s eponymous 1994 young adult novel. It stars Iman Benson (#blackAF, Alexa & Katie) as Ilonka, whose perfectly laid-out life plans are disrupted by a terminal thyroid cancer diagnosis. In a last-ditch effort to save herself, Ilonka checks into the hospice care home Brightcliffe Manor, “where she hopes past cases of miraculous recoveries will help her.” The logline continues, “The eight members of the Midnight Club meet each night at midnight to tell sinister stories — and ...
Pain Has a New Face in Trailer for Hellraiser Reboot: Watch
Ahead of its premiere in October, Hulu has shared the trailer for the Clive Barker-produced Hellraiser reboot starring Jamie Clayton as Pinhead. Watch the full clip below. Hellraiser centers around Riley (Odessa A’zion), a young woman struggling with addiction who comes into possession of an ancient puzzle box called the Lament Configuration. After solving it, she mistakenly summons the Cenobites, a group of sadistic supernatural beings from another dimension led by Pinhead. To open the trailer, a mysterious occultist named Mr. Voight (Goran Visnjic) eggs someone on to solve the Lament Configuration. When asked if there’s a prize, his sharply dressed character lights up with an evil grin and the person gets dragged off by a chain that mysteriously grabs their leg. Advertisement Relate...
Clint Worthington’s Favorite Films of the Last 15 Years
It’s Consequence’s 15th anniversary, and all September long we’ll be publishing a series of retrospective pieces encompassing our publication’s own history — and the entertainment landscape in general. Today, Senior Writer Clint Worthington runs down his favorite movies of the last 15 years. As I write this, it’s the day after my seven-year anniversary of writing for Consequence. That’s nearly half of its 15-year existence, spanning hundreds of reviews, interviews, features, news items, listicles, rankings, and scores of other pieces. Film critics age in dog years; every year feels like seven. There’s always more to watch — something new to evaluate, something old to celebrate. I have a great deal of affection for this place, even as editors, managers, and fellow writers come and go w...
