Good morning,
Spring is in the air. If your allergies haven’t kicked up yet… don’t worry. Mother Nature is just loading the weapon. Soon your eyes will itch, your nose will run, and you’ll question every life decision that led you outside.
🩸TODAY’S TERROR — ARTIFICAL ARTISTS
The #44 artist on Billboard’s Emerging Artists chart is a singer who doesn’t exist. 10 million people fell in love with her despite knowing she isn’t real. Scientists say we’re literally wired to respond to melody and rhythm, and not wired to care so much about who created them. I think Taylor Swift would disagree.
🩸RECENT HORROR NEWS
A new animated spin-off of Stranger Things is creeping onto Netflix, set between Seasons 2 and 3—with mutated plants, zombie pumpkins, and something called a snow shark. Yes… nature is now officially against us.
Monitor gets picked up by Searchlight Pictures – The buzzy SXSW horror film Monitor from Matt Black and Ryan Polly just landed a deal with Searchlight. The film follows a cursed video that spreads from device to device, stalking anyone who watches it… Because apparently doomscrolling wasn’t dangerous enough… now your phone might actually be watching you.
Netflix just dropped a hurricane + shark horror mashup called Thrash that shot to #1… and critics are already circling it like, well, sharks.
Pop star Charli XCX just landed her first real horror film role in Faces of Death—a movie about people who watch violent content for a living. So… basically YouTube comments, but cinematic.
🩸TAKE THE GRUDGE POLL
Which Classic Horror Villain Would You Actually Survive?”
🩸NEWSWORTHY NUMBER
47%
That’s the percentage of Gen Z viewers who say they prefer watching horror alone—in the dark… with headphones.
🩸HORROR MOVIE OR COMEDY — TAKE THE CHALLENGE
We had some fun with this crazy idea a few months ago and are doing it again. If you’re anything like me, sometimes the most horrific movie moments can make you laugh out loud. I created this silly challenge for folks like us. There are six images from horror movies, or comedies. Can you tell which is which? Take the Challenge!
🩸HORROR IN THEATERS.
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy — (April 17th) Lee Cronin’s twisted take turns the classic monster into something far more personal—and apparently far more nightmare-inducing. Trailer
Exit 8 — (April 10th) Japanese horror about The Lost Man who finds himself in a deserted, endlessly looping corridor... Sounds like me in an underground parking garage.
Hunting Mathew Nichols — (April 10th) Blending found footage and true crime.
Faces of Death — (April 10th) A modern reimagining of the infamous shock-horror film—this time tackling internet culture, content moderation, and our collective inability to look away.
Coming Soon
Mother Mary — (April 24th) Anne Hathaway plays a Pop Star facing a personal crisis Trailer
Over Your Dead Body –- (April 24th)
Hokum – (May 1st)
Obsession — (May 15th) — wish fulfillment horror, aka “be careful what you manifest”
Keep an eye out for
Corporate Retreat — (May 22nd) Corporate executives on a team building retreat face a deadly struggle when the team leader turns ugly... When I was a kid we called it sleepaway camp.
Backrooms — (May 29th) Backrooms brings the viral-liminal horror web series to the big screen.
Scary Movie 6 — (June 12th) The Wayans Brothers send-up of recent horror movies Trailer
Alpha — (July 10th) blending body horror and grief.
🩸OUR FIRST VIRTUAL EVENT — HORROR MOVIE TRIVIA NIGHT
The virtual event to DIE for coming to a phone or computer near you. Details coming soon.
🩸HORROR TO WATCH ON STREAMERS
Thrash (Netflix) –- Sharks + hurricane chaos = survival horror comfort food (with questionable seasoning).
Hive (Tubi) — An anxious teenager loses the child she's babysitting must brave a sinister force hiding among the children in a playground... I lost my kid in a playground once. Talk about horror story.
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (Peacock) –- Because one night wasn’t enough trauma.
The Whistler / Undertone –- New indie horror drops hitting VOD this week.
Library additions like A Quiet Place Part II and Scream are also making the rounds again—because we never really escape these things.
🩸FINAL SIP
Horror villains lurk in the shadows. Pollen just floats in through your nose and ruins your life. 🌿
Until next week… if you hear heavy breathing, it’s probably you. 🤧
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