“Wolf Man” partial poster image. Universal Pictures Wolf Man—a reboot of Universal Pictures’ werewolf franchise starring Julia Garner and Christopher Abbott—is new in theaters. When will you be able to stream the movie at home? Wolf Man is directed by Leigh Whannell, who was at the helm of Universal Pictures’ hit 2020 reboot of The […]
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If screwball comedies provided the comic escape people needed in the Great Depression, these days some Americans want to scream. With a second Trump presidency imminent, a few of the most popular films of the year come in the horror genre — allowing viewers to channel apocalyptic fears into the warm embrace of the movie […]
Welcome to Horror Explorer, a curated column showcasing the month’s best movies, series, books and everything else spooky worth checking out. I’m William Earl, the editor of Variety.com and the publication’s resident horror enthusiast. Please drop me a line at wearl@variety.com if there’s something I should check out for next month’s missive.
2024 has been loaded with horror releases, with scary stories about everything from rampaging spiders to satanic late-night talk shows. This crop is distinctive for its unconventional reworkings of well-worn tropes. There’s a slasher that owes as much to Terrence Malick as to Jason Voorhees; a dystopian-future tale that eschews global destruction to examine the […]
How so? One example is the early vampires from Balkan and Slavic lore very often didn’t drink blood. They would strangle their victims or fornicate with their victims to death. If they did drink blood, very often it was from the chest. It was this tale of obsession and love. It seemed like, OK, well, […]
Some might be put off by the self-consciousness of this low-budget slasher from writer-director Joe Beogs: not just its retro influences (a horror director who fetishizes ‘80s slasher movies?! You don’t say!) but the endless reams of reference-trading, profanity-laced dialogue, particularly between its record-store-clerk leads (Riley Dandy and Sam Delich). But beneath that perhaps-overwritten bravado, […]
Earlier this year, TCL released a trailer for Next Stop Paris — an AI-animated short film that seems like a Lifetime movie on steroids. The trailer had all the hallmarks of AI: characters that don’t move their mouths when they talk, lifeless expressions, and weird animation that makes it look like scenes are constantly vibrating. […]
The Horror Collective, the genre label of boutique distribution company Entertainment Squad, has acquired worldwide rights to the clown-themed horror film Do You See Me? and will release it across English-speaking territories on Jan. 17. Directed by Corbin Timbrook, the movie follows Emily Edwards, portrayed by Rya Meyers (who has appeared in episodes of How […]
On Wednesday, a video from OpenAI’s newly launched Sora AI video generator went viral on social media, featuring a gymnast who sprouts extra limbs and briefly loses her head during what appears to be an Olympic-style floor routine. As it turns out, the nonsensical synthesis errors in the video—what we like to call “jabberwockies”—hint at […]
