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While many films have conjured terrifying physical manifestations of grief, one that set a notably high bar for hand-crafted horror exploring that fecund strand was Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook. The specter of that brutally effective 2014 shocker proves inescapable for writer-director Dylan Southern in The Thing With Feathers, right down to a malevolent figure haunting the main characters that looks like something out of Edward Gorey. The main salvation is the staggering commitment of Benedict Cumberbatch, hurling himself into the role of a bereaved husband in a performance touched by madness that holds nothing back. His wounds are gashes continually being reopened.

The source material is Max Porter’s prize-winning 2015 novella Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, which yielded a solo stage piece three years later seen on both sides of the Atlantic, adapted and directed by Irish playwright Enda Walsh and starring a protean Cillian Murphy. The book is...

Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of the classic gothic romance “Wuthering Heights” is coming to the big screen just in time for Valentine’s Day. Warner Bros. will release the film from MRC on Feb. 13, 2026.

Fennell serves as writer, director and producer on the project based on Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel, which stars Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi, Hong Chau, Alison Oliver and Shazad Latif. MRC and Robbie’s LuckyChap also produce.

“Wuthering Heights” marks the second collaboration between MRC, LuckyChap and Fennell after the breakout hit “Saltburn,” and the third collaboration with LuckyChap and Fennell (“Promising Young Woman”).

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The project sparked a bidding war, with Netflix offering a staggering $150 million for the film. However, the “Wuthering Heights” filmmakers accepted Warner Bros.’ $80 million bid, opting for Warners film chiefs Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy’s pitch for a wide theatrical release and a full marketing campaign.

Arguably, the biggest problem with Shadows of the Damned back when it was originally released in 2011 was its profound unseriousness—when gray-brown, war-torn, and taciturn were the de rigueur trends in gaming. It probably didn’t help that the game was still a far cry from whatever high-level terror was originally planned by co-creator Mikami Shinji (much of which wound up in the Evil Within games later down the road). But resuscitating this deeply unserious third-person horror shooter in 2024, when big and obnoxiously self-serious games are absolutely dooming studios, feels like the most wonderful breath of fresh air.

Shadows of the Damned is, in a nutshell, a dumber and weirder version of Resident Evil 4—and that’s said with nothing but love. There isn’t anything particularly poignant about booze-swilling badass Garcia Hotspur’s quest to save his lingerie-loving girlfriend Paula from the clutches of the big-headed demon Fleming. And...

Winona Ryder is looking back at how her parents tried to protect her from Hollywood as a child actor.

The actress, who made her feature-film debut in 1986’s Lucas at just 15 years old, shared in a recent interview with AnOther Magazine that instead of relocating to Los Angles, her parents chose to drive seven hours from San Francisco to L.A. each time she got an audition.

She added that school was also a priority in her family, which meant she “had to keep up my grades” to be allowed to go on auditions.

“I couldn’t work if it coincided with school,” Ryder explained. “My parents — who are just my best friends — were very wary of Hollywood. They associated it with Judy Garland’s tragedy, and we never relocated there. That turned out to be such a gift, because I knew a lot of kids who did bear that.

Adam Elliot’s animated feature “Memoir of a Snail” from IFC Films shows off sibling love with a snail’s quirky, whimsical nature in the first trailer ahead of its North American premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, which was announced in today’s lineup.

The stop-motion adult drama took nearly a decade to create and follows the life of Grace Puddle, a lonely misfit with a passion for collecting ornamental snails and a deep love for romance novels. Her life takes a downward turn when she’s separated from her twin brother at a young age. Despite ongoing hardships, Grace perseveres and finds inspiration through a friendship with Pinky, an elderly eccentric woman, as she slowly learns to find confidence and love.

The sweet trailer follows the twins as they grow from babies to teenagers, encountering bullies, rollercoasters, and old ladies in bikinis. With a swell of dramatic music...

IFC Films has announced the U.S. release date for the animated feature “Memoir of a Snail,” directed by Academy Award winner Adam Elliot. This charming stop-motion adult drama took nearly a decade to create and will open in limited release on Oct. 25, with a wider expansion throughout November.

The film follows the life of Grace Puddle, a lonely misfit with a passion for collecting ornamental snails and a deep love for romance novels. Her life takes a downward turn when she’s separated from her twin brother at a young age. Despite ongoing hardships, Grace perseveres and finds inspiration through a friendship with Pinky, an elderly eccentric woman, as she slowly learns to find confidence and love.

“Memoir of a Snail” is Elliot’s second stop-motion feature, following his critically acclaimed “Mary and Max” (2009), which opened at Sundance. An Oscar winner for best animated short for “Harvie Krumpet” (2003), Elliot...

The Yorkshire Moors are about to get freaky.

Emerald Fennell is teasing her own film adaptation of “Wuthering Heights,” the famed 1847 gothic novel by Emily Brontë about two families living in northern England.

The “Saltburn” filmmaker posted about the project on social media, sharing a graphic that reads, “Be with me always – Take any form – Drive me mad,” a line from the novel. Insiders tell Variety that the filmmaker will reteam with MRC, the studio behind her hit “Saltburn.”

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— Emerald Fennell (@emeraldfennell) July 12, 2024

There have been a handful of screen adaptations of “Wuthering Heights” throughout the years, including William Wyler’s 1939 film starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon; Robert Fuest’s 1970 movie with Timothy Dalton and Anna Calder-Marshall; and Peter Kosminsky’s 1992 film led by Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche. There have been two TV movies — in 2009 with Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley, and in...

Calling all amateur malacologists: With “Memoir of a Snail,” stop-motion director Adam Elliot (an Oscar winner for “Harvie Krumpet”) invites us to study snails of every shape and size, starting with a gastropod-hoarding outcast named Gracie Pudel (pronounced “puddle”), who withdrew from the world after an unhappy childhood in which she was bullied and orphaned and shipped off to Canberra to be raised by a pair of negligent swingers.

Fitting squarely on the shelf of grown-up films about misfit kids, Elliot’s latest — which comes 15 years after Sundance opener “Mary and Max” — finds the Australian auteur deeply committed to his dark and surprisingly moving brand of storytelling. Like Edward Gorey’s, his palette is nearly monochromatic; his characters tend to face the camera, à la Wes Anderson, as if posing for gloomy school photos; and his John Waters-esque humor is irreverent enough to encompass everything from disabilities to weird...

If your idea of a laugh riot is a high-school dreamboat being separated from his penis by an axe while treacly ‘80s classic “On the Wings of Love” soars on the soundtrack, then Lisa Frankenstein might be for you. So long as your frame of reference doesn’t go as far back as Edward Scissorhands. Diablo Cody’s screenplay about a maladjusted teen who finds a sense of purpose by bonding with a reanimated corpse delivers enough funny lines to make you want to cut it some slack for a minute. But Zelda Williams’ clunky direction soon stifles that good will as this retro-minded horror-comedy-romance lurches from scene to scene without ever building much steam.

Focus is positioning the release as a Valentine’s Day date movie for young audiences who like a touch of graveyard humor and gore with their canoodling. Maybe they’ll get a kick out of its garish candy colors,...

Tracy Hurley Martin, who worked as a comedy booking agent, film producer and publicist for such artists as Prince, George Michael, Depeche Mode, Bush and The Cure, among many others, has died after a two-year cancer battle. She was 53.

She also represented Goosebumps and the Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen brand – two of the biggest children’s properties of all-time. Several films she produced were accepted into and screened at the Tribeca and Edinborough film festivals and aired on PBS and the IFC channel.

In addition to her 30 years in the entertainment industry, she was a cofounder and CEO of the Morbid Anatomy Museum and a leading advocate for the Death Positive movement.

She organized and hosted lectures, workshops, exhibitions and seminars at the Museum, from taxidermy to sword swallowing and beyond.

Survivors include her husband of twenty years, Depeche Mode, Yaz and Erasure founder Vince Clarke; a son, Oscar; a niece,...

Tim Burton loves to make things spooky and morbid, but his favorite holiday might well be Christmas. Look at how many of his films take place during the Yuletide season: "Batman Returns," "Edward Scissorhands," etc. He also conceived of "The Nightmare Before Christmas," which is all about Halloween Town's top ghoul, Jack Skellington (Chris Sarandon), getting Christmas fever. While Burton handed off directing duties of the stop-motion picture to Henry Selick, it's easy to see his fingerprints and why he would empathize with Jack.

David A. Bossert's "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas Visual Companion" was released this year for the film's 30th anniversary. The book features interviews with the film's crew, from Selick to Art Director Kelly Asbury, where they describe forming the film's distinct visual style — since there were multiple holiday-themed dimensions, they couldn't stick to just one aesthetic.

For Halloween Town, though, they took after Burton's...

The House With a Clock in Its Walls is a lighthearted horror film that leaves viewers questioning its origins and whether it's based on a book. The movie, directed by Eli Roth, follows a 10-year-old boy named Lewis who discovers his uncle and neighbor have magical powers and lives in a haunted house with a ticking clock in the walls. The film is based on a 1973 children's mystery novel by John Bellairs, who drew inspiration from Victorian mansions in his hometown of Marshall, Michigan, particularly the Cronin House.

The House With a Clock in Its Walls is a fun comedy horror film that will leave viewers wondering about the origins of its story — specifically, whether it's based on a book. The film came out in 2018 and was directed by Eli Roth, who is known for his work on horror films like The Green Inferno, Knock Knock, and Hostel: Part II.

Many credit Disney’s Haunted Mansion, as well as the mainstreaming of the horror genre and the increasing commodification of Halloween, for creating the modern haunted house industry. And yet, the movies based on the ride will leave you with the same question: Does Disney even understand its most popular attraction?

The Haunted Mansion is essentially a “ghoul tour,” dating back to the 19th century–to Madame Tussaud’s gruesomely guillotined aristocrats and the exaggerated torture porn found onstage in the Grand Guignol. The public has always–and will always–pay good money to be frightened out of their wits. Walt Disney, a consummate showman, knew this from the birth of his career; Mickey Mouse followed his 1928 debut in Steamboat Willie with a trio of horror shorts: the creepy Haunted House, (1929), The Mad Doctor (a Frankenstein spin-off) and The Gorilla Mystery (no less than a Disney Murders of Rue Morgue...

It’s the moment of truth for Emerald Fennell, whose “Promising Young Woman” established the actor-turned-auteur (last seen playing pregnant doll Midge in “Barbie”) as a formidable new filmmaking talent. Building on the barbed sensibility she established with “Killing Eve,” the writer-director’s zeitgeist-throttling feature debut lured audiences like a bright red candy apple, leaving them with plenty to debate after the cyanide-laced sugar high wore off. But what exactly did that pop provocation promise, in terms of where Fennell’s wicked-sinister imagination might go next? Surely something more satisfying than “Saltburn.”

But first the positive, as the shortcomings will swiftly make themselves apparent: A tall drink of Evelyn Waugh spiked with Patricia Highsmith bitters, Fennell’s sophomore feature boasts a distinctive, splashy look for its demented critique of pomp and privilege among England’s elitist upper class. Picture Brideshead reduced to ashes by Tom Ripley (Saltburn is the name...

Emma Stone won an Oscar for singing and dancing her way across Los Angeles in "La La Land," but you haven't truly lived until you've watched her casually threaten to step on rabbits' necks and battle Rachel Weisz for Olivia Colman's favor in "The Favourite." Stone and "The Favourite" director Yorgos Lanthimos have since reunited for a pair of films, the first of which is titled "Poor Things" and will make its way to theaters near the start of this year's awards season. But unlike their first movie, this one sees Stone trading out her usual appearance for raven-colored hair that makes her look more like a Tim Burton heroine (or an Edward Gorey illustration made flesh and blood).

Adapted from Alasdair Gray's 1992 novel of the same name, "Poor Things" weaves a Victorian-era sci-fi yarn that knowingly evokes the work of Mary Shelley (hence the general Gothic chic...

Get on the phone with Ron Bernstein and he’ll happily share his views on who’s up and down at the studios — and inevitably, he’ll talk about his latest deals. On a recent call, he hyped the Redstone family power saga by James Stewart and Rachel Abrams, “Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Hollywood Media Empire”; sure enough, within weeks it sold to producer Steven Paul, who’s developing the juicy Shakespearean drama for television.

Bernstein is Hollywood’s most respected media rights agent. He’s repped the source material for the Coen brothers’ Best Picture winner “No Country for Old Men” (Cormac McCarthy), Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” (Doris Kearns Goodwin), Danny Boyle’s “Jobs” (Walter Isaacson), and Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell” (Marie Brenner).

Now, he has a new job. After a 23-year run at ICM, which CAA bought in 2022, Bernstein recently joined the Agency for the...

Exclusive: Kumail Nanjiani, Patton Oswalt, comedian James Acaster and Emily Alyn Lind have joined the cast of the live-action sequel to Sony Pictures’ hit film, Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Gil Kenan is directing, and the previous pic’s cast including Paul Rudd and Carrie Coon will return as the setting shifts to the original films’ New York City and firehouse.

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Jason Reitman, who directed the 2021 pic, will move into the writer-producer role alongside co-scribe Kenan and Jason Blumenfeld.

Not much is known about the sequel, but sources say the plan is to return to New York City and the iconic firehouse made...

On the first official day of New York Fashion Week, Rodarte already may have scored the season’s best front row, a powerhouse collection of women that included Brie Larson, Natasha Lyonne, Quinta Brunson, Beanie Feldstein, Aurora James, Rowan Blanchard and Molly Ringwald, accompanied by her 19-year-old daughter, Matilda. And for that starry group, Kate and Laura Mulleavy offered something for everyone in a show that blended elements of gothic romance, woodland fairies and ’60s-influenced styling in equal measure.

The Mulleavy sisters are often driven by art-inspired influences, and for their Fall/Winter 2023 collection, they turned to the source of that passion: their mother, Victoria, an artist whose maiden name, Rodart, spawned the brand’s appellation. “We asked our mother to create really beautiful fairies for a collection,” Laura told The Hollywood Reporter backstage after the show. “She decided to do one a day and did them all in colored pencil,...

For this month’s installment of “TV Terrors” we revisit “Aaahh!!! Real Monsters,“ the fondly remembered Nickelodeon animated series that aired from 1994 through 1997.

Every Nickelodeon fanatic has their period where they thought the network really hit their stride. For me, 1994 was their real peak of pure kids entertainment. It was a time where they’d tapped into a wonderful momentum with programming blocks like Saturday Night’s Snick, weekday morning’s Nick Jr., and excellent series like “Rugrats,” “All That,” “Legends of the Hidden Temple,” “The Secret World of Alex Mack,” and a whole lot more.

It was also the year that “Aaahh!!! Real Monsters” premiered.

Debuting officially on October 30th, 1994, the program was another of the many Klasky-Csupo produced animated shows that had dominated the airwaves for most of the Nickelodeon golden age. Breaking in to their tendency to spotlight the lesser explored corners of our society, “Aaahh!!! Real...

Stephen King's novella "The Mist" was originally published in 1980 as part of a horror compilation called "Dark Forces." The impressive compilation included stories by Ray Bradbury, Edward Gorey, Joyce Carol Oates, and Robert Bloch, along with several others. "Dark Forces" was notable in the horror community, and it was widely read by other horror authors. In the 1985 interview book "Faces of Fear," Clive Barker noted "Dark Forces" as the push he needed to start writing his own "Books of Blood."

"The Mist" was easily the standout of the compilation, and would eventually be adapted to film in 2007 by Frank Darabont. The film, like the novella, tells the story of a mysterious fog that rolls in across a small, rural community, cutting off all visibility. Hiding in the mist are unseen creatures. Enormous bugs and land octopodes appear from nowhere and attack the locals. The bulk of Darabont's film takes...

The film has been marketed as ‘Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas,’ but you’re the director. What do you think is distinctively yours about the film?

It’s as though he laid the egg, but I sat on it and hatched it, so it came out looking a bit like both of us … It was my job in a way to make it look like ‘a Tim Burton film,’ which is not so different from my own films … But I would wager that in ‘A Nightmare Before Christmas’ most of the lines you laugh at are mine … Every shot of the movie is something I looked at through a camera and composed. I don’t want to take away from Tim, but he was not here in San Francisco when we made it. He came up five times over two years, and spent no more than eight or...

Netflix is acquiring Australian animation studio Animal Logic, which is producing films for the streamer including “The Magician’s Elephant,” directed by Wendy Rogers, and “The Shrinking of the Treehorns,” directed by Ron Howard.

Animal Logic has about 800 employees, mostly based in Sydney and Vancouver. The acquisition “will help us accelerate the development of our animation production capabilities and reinforces our commitment to build a world-class animation studio,” Netflix said in its Q2 letter to shareholders.

The company did not disclose the purchase price for Animal Logic but said it will fund the acquisition from cash on hand. Netflix expects to close the later this year, subject to certain regulatory approvals.

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“Together, we’ll create an animation studio that will produce some of our largest animated feature films,” Netflix said in the shareholder letter.

Ron Howard’s first animated feature, The Shrinking Of Treehorn, has been acquired by Netflix, Deadline can confirm.

The upcoming film, described as a musical set in New York City during the holidays, is based on Florence Parry Heide’s 1971 children’s book of the same, which was illustrated by Edward Gorey. The story centers on Treehorn, a young boy who starts shrinking one day, even if his parents barely seem to notice.

Rob Lieber (Peter Rabbit) adapted the script for the project, which was first set up at Paramount back in 2019. Howard’s Imagine Entertainment is producing alongside Australia’s Animal Logic.

Howard is the two-time Oscar winner behind films including Frost/Nixon and A Beautiful Mind. Also coming soon from the filmmaker is Thirteen Lives, the Thai rescue mission pic he directed for United Artists Releasing, which stars Colin Farrell, Viggo Mortensen, Joel Edgerton and more.

With spooky season just around the corner, everyone's favorite Halloween traditions are coming out in full swing. Costumes are being crafted, lovers of candy corn are defending their favorite treat, and "The Simpsons" are unleashing their annual "Treehouse of Horror" episode for the 32nd consecutive year. This year, for the first time ever, "Treehouse of Horror Xxxii" will feature five segments instead of the usual three, parodying properties like "The Ring," "Guardians of the Galaxy," "Parasite," "Bambi," TikTok, and more. For fans of something a little more old school, the Halloween special will also feature a segment inspired by the...

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Oscar-winning film “Parasite” gets the “Treehouse of Horror” treatment in the Season 33 edition of “The Simpsons'” annual Halloween episode. “Treehouse of Horror Xxxii,” which also parodies “Bambi,” “The Ringer” and more, airs Oct. 10 at 8 p.m. on Fox.

In the segment “Bong Joon Ho’s ‘This Side of Parasite,'” the Simpsons live in a squalid basement apartment, but aim to change their circumstances after Bart is hired as a tutor by wealthy superstar Rainier Wolfcastle.

Eventually, Bart arranges to have Homer hired as Wolfcastle’s new chauffeur, while Marge gets a gig as the house maid, Lisa is hired as art teacher and even baby Maggie lands a job as groundskeeper. But when Wolfcastle goes on vacation and the Simpsons throw a party in the manor, they discover others have been secretly living in the house, too — Kirk and Luann, who are not happy that the Simpsons took their...

Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon are teaming up again after writing their Oscar-nominated romantic comedy The Big Sick. Nanjiani and Gordon are set to write The Doubtful Guest, based on the illustrated book by the late Edward Gorey, with It director Andy Muschietti set to direct. Variety reports that Nanjiani and Gordon are teaming up with sibling duo Andy and Barbara […]

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Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, whose real-life romance inspired their hit romantic comedy “The Big Sick,” are teaming up to write another film.

Nanjiani and Gordon, who are married, will adapt the screenplay for “The Doubtful Guest,” based on the illustrated book by the late Edward Gorey.

The film is being developed by Double Dream, a newly launched production company from siblings Andy and Barbara Muschietti, who are best known for directing and producing “It” and “It: Chapter Two.”

Andy Muschietti is attached to helm “The Doubtful Guest,” with Nanjiani set to star. The story follows a mysterious penguin-like creature; its unannounced and unwelcome arrival at a family’s home stirs up trouble and chaos.

In addition to co-writing the script, Gordon and Nanjiani will serve as executive producers. Andy and Barbara Muschietti will produce the film alongside Dani Bernfeld. Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment is also producing, with...

Andy and Barbara Muschietti’s (It: Chapter Two) newly launched production company Double Dream has set up the feature pitch The Doubtful Guest with Amblin.

The project is being written by Oscar-nominated The Big Sick scribe Emily V. Gordon and has her husband and Big Sick actor/co-writer Kumail Nanjiani attached to star.

Based on Edward Gorey’s book of the same name, It remake filmmaker Andy Muschietti is attached to direct.

The Doubtful Guest, Gorey’s third book, is one of his most distinctive works. Originally published in 1957, the story revolves around a mysterious, mischievous creature whose unannounced and unwelcome arrival at a family’s home brings trouble and chaos.

Siblings Andy and Barbara Muschietti will produce alongside Dani Bernfeld. Oscar nominees and husband and wife team Gordon and Nanjiani will executive-produce.

Jeb Brody and John Buderwitz will oversee for Amblin. Eric D. Sherman and R. Andrew Boose, trustees...

Nanjiani will also star in the film based on the surrealist 1957 book by Edward Gorey

“The Big Sick” and “Little America” writers Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon are pairing again to write a feature adaptation of “The Doubtful Guest,” a 1957 illustrated short story by Edward Gorey. “It” director Andy Muschietti is set to direct.

Nanjiani will also star in “The Doubtful Guest,” which was acquired as a feature pitch by Amblin Partners. Muschietti’s newly launched production company with partner Barbara Muschietti, Double Dream, will produce the film.

“The Doubtful Guest” was Gorey’s third book, and its artwork and story continued the late author’s tradition of surrealist and absurd storytelling combined with nonsense writing and verse. And though the illustrated short contains only 14 pages, each with an image and an odd rhyming couplet, the film is being developed as a live-action feature.

The story of the book...

Andy and Barbara Muschietti and Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani have teamed up to tackle an adaptation of the Edward Gorey book, The Doubtful Guest.

Amblin Partners picked up the project in a competitive situation.

Andy Muschietti, currently shooting The Flash in London, is attached to direct with Nanjiani attached to star. Nanjiani and Gordon, who were nominated for an Oscar for penning 2017’s The Big Sick, will write the script.

Andy and Barbara Muschietti will produce via their newly launched production banner, Double Dream, along with Dani Bernfeld. Gordon and Nanjiani will exec produce.

Guest was published in 1957 and was ...

Andy and Barbara Muschietti and Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani have teamed up to tackle an adaptation of the Edward Gorey book, The Doubtful Guest.

Amblin Partners picked up the project in a competitive situation.

Andy Muschietti, currently shooting The Flash in London, is attached to direct with Nanjiani attached to star. Nanjiani and Gordon, who were nominated for an Oscar for penning 2017’s The Big Sick, will write the script.

Andy and Barbara Muschietti will produce via their newly-launched production banner, Double Dream, along with Dani Bernfeld. Gordon and Nanjiani will exec produce.

Guest was published in 1957 and was the ...

Norman Reedus and his production company, bigbaldhead, are developing the live-action AMC series “Neglected Murderesses,” based on the book by Edward Gorey, Variety has learned exclusively.

Reedus will executive produce the project along with bigbaldhead’s JoAnne Colona and Amanda Verdon under the company’s recently announced first-look deal with AMC Studios.

According to an individual with knowledge of the project, the team has been pursuing the rights to “Neglected Murderesses” for several years. It marks the first time the Edward Gorey Estate has allowed for an adaptation of the late author’s work. Furthermore, the Edward Gorey Charitable Trust has pledged that all profits earned from the series will be donated to a number of animal welfare organizations, given Gorey’s fondness for animals. The organizations include The Elephant Sanctuary, The International Fund for Animal Welfare, The National Marine Life Center, and many more.

“Neglected Murderesses” is described as...

Even the supernatural can get the heebie-jeebies, as evidenced in Peter Ricq's new illustrated book Ghosts Are People Too. To celebrate the launch of the book's official Kickstarter campaign, we've been provided with an exclusive excerpt that shows how even the supernatural can get a case of the heebie-jeebies when around the living.

To give you an idea of what to expect in Ghosts Are People Too, here are exclusive comments from Ricq:

I wanted to do something with a positive message and yet still keep that playful fascination with the paranormal, an obsession I've had from a very young age.

The books that inspired the look of Ghosts Are People Too were mostly the images from an old french book called "Les Chefs-d'oeuvre De L'epovante" and the English classic "Gashlycrumb Tinies" from Edward Goey's.

Crowdfunding/self-publishing is important to me because so I can keep full control. The art,...

In today's Horror Highlights: Archie Comics heads to ComiXology Unlimited, a look at the art of Becky Doyon, details on the Nightmares Film Festival, and info on the audio drama At Your Peril:

Archie Comics to Release Day-and-Date on ComiXology Unlimited: "Archie Comics, home to some of pop culture's most beloved characters, is expanding its availability on comiXology, the leading digital comics service. Starting September 23, with the publication of Sabrina: Something Wicked #3, comiXology will release new titles on comiXology Unlimited the same day they are available in print. The new initiative marks the first time a major U.S. publisher has made content available day-and-date with the subscription-based streaming service. ComiXology Unlimited users can now read the full Archie library including the critically acclaimed Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Afterlife With Archie, Jughead’s Time Police, and tie-ins to the smash hit CW series, Riverdale.

Members of comiXology Unlimited can access over 25,000 comics,...

Grégoire Melin’s Paris-based Kinology will sell Sacrebleu’s upcoming animated feature “Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds,” set to host Was an Annecy Works in Progress panel at the upcoming digital version of the world’s largest animation festival and market.

At March’s Cartoon Movie in the French port city of Bordeaux, the films singular visuals and family-friendly story caught the eye of many in attendance, and makes it one of the most anticipated productions set to participate at this year’s Annecy.

Kinology has a strong reputation in dealing with independent arthouse animated features, including the critically acclaimed 2014 Annecy main competition player “Mune: Guardian of the Moon.”

“We’re thrilled to partner with Ron and Benoit on such a unique, poetic and emotional journey; it has everything to become a true future kids’ classic in the line of ‘The King and the Mockingbird’ and ‘Kirikou,’” Kinology CEO Grégoire Melin told Variety.

A former childhood detective returns to her hometown on holiday break only to get wrapped up in a mystery that could make it the literal Christmas from Hell in the new digital comic book series Friday. Written by Ed Brubaker, illustrated by Marcos Martin, and featuring colors by Muntsa Vicente, the first chapter of Friday recently launched on Panel Syndicate (giving readers the chance to name their price for the new comic and enjoy it from the comfort of their own homes). We caught up with Brubaker and Martin in our latest Q&a feature to discuss their new series, and we've also been provided with exclusive designs from the comic as a special treat for Daily Dead readers.

Thanks for taking the time to answer questions for us, Ed and Marcos, and congratulations on your new comic book Friday! How and when did you come up with the idea for this story?...

With readers turning to their home viewing options more than ever, this daily feature provides one new movie each day worth checking out on a major streaming platform.

Among the American filmmakers who came to prominence in the ‘90s, few have experienced the level of diminished returns that has afflicted Tim Burton’s career. Over the past decade, the erstwhile gothic maestro has delivered one disappointment after another, driven in part by the 2010 blockbuster sensation “Alice in Wonderland.” The movie delivered massive box office dollars around the planet, but reduced Burton’s kooky energy to formula readymade to rejuvenate dormant IP, setting unreasonable expectations that did him no favors, and culminated in last year’s dud “Dumbo.” While 2012’s “Frankenweenie” provided a charming callback to the zany aesthetic that put Burton on the map, it hardly achieved more than that.

To truly appreciate Burton at his best, you have to go back 15 years.

Imagine a Roald Dahl-type story of clever children circumventing monstrous adults, wrapped in a gothic tone of morbid absurdism not unlike Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Now add a visual sensibility that lands somewhere between Edward Gorey and Wes Anderson, air-drop the result into the "Sugar Rush" videogame from Wreck-It Ralph and press play. There's a lot going on in The Willoughbys, yet if you can get on board with its manic energy and accelerated plotting, the Netflix animated family comedy-adventure has an oddball charm that works surprisingly well.

Directed by Kris Pearn (Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs ...

Imagine a Roald Dahl-type story of clever children circumventing monstrous adults, wrapped in a gothic tone of morbid absurdism not unlike Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Now add a visual sensibility that lands somewhere between Edward Gorey and Wes Anderson, air-drop the result into the "Sugar Rush" videogame from Wreck-It Ralph and press play. There's a lot going on in The Willoughbys, yet if you can get on board with its manic energy and accelerated plotting, the Netflix animated family comedy-adventure has an oddball charm that works surprisingly well.

Directed by Kris Pearn (Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs ...

A young man haunted by a pervasive boredom that has rendered him dull, chooses one day to skip work and build a ship to sail away from his troubles. This departure marks the beginning of a fantastic voyage that pits the man against pirates, cannibals, human traffickers and a jury of his own peers.

To preface this review and to avoid any further confusion, “Nishioka Kyoudai” is the pseudonym of the siblings Satoru Nishioka, and Chiaki Nishioka. As such, their work is often credited under different names, as well as their given names. This review will refer to the author under their most common credited name ‘Nishioka Kyoudai’, but make reference to them as a ‘duo’ or ‘siblings’.

“Journey to the End of the World” is a hard series to pin down genre wise, with the most base choice being to classify it as horror. Even if this title suites...

There never has been (nor will there ever be) anything quite like Beetlejuice, that inimitable horror comedy concoction hailing from the demented minds of screenwriter Michael McDowell, plus writer/producer Larry Wilson and script doctor extraordinaire Warren Skaaren, filtered through the wacky gothic lens of director Tim Burton.

To celebrate Beetlejuice‘s Los Angeles return to the big screen at the Nuart Theatre at midnight tonight, December 20th, Tfh decided to take a look back at the film’s singular significance 31 years later.

As our tale unfurls, Adam and Barbara Maitland (Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis) are a fairly bland couple in the throes of (bland) domestic bliss. They occupy a pleasant, spacious house in the leafy suburb of Winter River, Connecticut. Adam owns a hardware store up the road, and enjoys whiling away his free time building a remarkably thorough model replica of Winter River while jamming out to Harry Belafonte songs.

Tom Hooper’s 2019 adaptation of “Cats” unfolds as an absurd and frequently nonsensical array of light and color, with actors bathed in ill-conceived CGI fur against a similarly invented London backdrop. Fans of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Broadway blockbuster, and anyone familiar with the movie’s viral trailer that stoked excitement and horror in equal measures, will know that sounds about right.

Hooper’s “Cats” adaptation delivers on those expectations and then some, which makes it a fascinating mess of exuberant musical numbers and scintillating digitized sets. Those human-cat terrors already looked ridiculous slinking about a giant junkyard set in body-suits; who thought that closeups would actually improve the show?

But there’s the rub: The argument against “Cats” also makes the case for its existence, because everything ludicrous about the show has been cranked up to 11, with a restless artificial camera and actors so keen on upstaging one another...

Ron Howard.

Imagine Entertainment co-founder Ron Howard will direct The Shrinking of Treehorn, the first of four live-action animated co-productions between his company and Animal Logic Entertainment.

Paramount Pictures will release the film based on a 1971 children’s book by Florence Parry Heide with illustrations from Edward Gorey.

Rob Lieber is writing the script, which follows Treehorn, a boy who begins shrinking after playing a strange board game, which goes largely unnoticed by his parents. He spends an unhappy day and night until he discovers a magical game that restores him to his natural size.

It will be Howard’s first animated feature as a director, a move suggested by Animal Logic Entertainment CEO Zareh Nalbandian, who signed a co-production agreement with Imagine in 2017.

When the Jv was announced Imagine chairman Brian Grazer said: “The animation space consistently outperforms other genres and we wanted to enter into that space by...

In a prolific career that has yielded numerous iconic movies, Ron Howard is set to direct his first animated film.

The project is one of four ambitious, original animated and live-action hybrid films he and Brian Grazer have set up through their company Imagine Entertainment, in a joint venture with Australian production engine Animal Logic.

Howard is attached to direct “The Shrinking of Treehorn,” a children’s book by Florence Parry Heide with illustrations from Edward Gorey, originally published in 1971. Paramount Pictures will release the film.

“I’ve long had this passionate point of view that Ron Howard should make a tentpole animated movie. That’s how this started,” said Zareh Nalbandian, Animal Logic’s entertainment CEO.

“It was serendipitous that Imagine was sort of evolving and growing, and Animal Logic was more and more committed to the development and production of our own intellectual property. We have a shared...

The casting for the upcoming Amazon/BBC series “Good Omens” just keeps getting better and better. As revealed at the Television Critics Association press tour, Benedict Cumberbatch will play a small role in the final episode — as Satan.

Showrunner Neil Gaiman, who adapted the novel he co-wrote with Terry Pratchett for the screen, built up the announcement with the note that the previously announced Frances McDormand will be playing the role of God, and thus “we needed someone who could give Frances McDormand a run for their money.” But it was also news that was in line with how “Good Omens” has managed to attract an extraordinary cast, including David Tennant, Michael Sheen, Anna Maxwell Martin, Jon Hamm, Josie Lawrence, Adria Arjona, Michael McKean, Miranda Richardson, Jack Whitehall, and Nick Offerman.

The six-episode miniseries, which it was announced will premiere on May 31 on Amazon, covers the events surrounding the onset of Armageddon,...

The 19th Annual Edwardian Ball kicks off this Friday in San Francisco with a World’s Faire event before culminating in an elaborate and unique party this Saturday (the titular Ball). For the uninitiated, the name of the event is something of a double entendre: It pays tribute to the macabre mind of writer/illustrator Edward Gorey; […] The post Here’s Why San Francisco Bay Area Horror Fans Should Be Excited for The Edwardian Ball This Weekend appeared first on Dread Central.

It’s fitting that Globalfest — a highly curated showcase for international roots-music acts seeking a foothold in the U.S. — was held this year at New York’s Copacabana nightclub. A fabled mob joint in the Forties, it has a history as a talent crucible. It showcased mambo in the Fifties, R&B in the Sixties (Sam Cooke and the Supremes both cut live albums there), disco in the Seventies (becoming a meme, thanks to Barry Manilow’s tribute song), and salsa in the Eighties. Last Sunday, in the shadow...

If you missed Eli Roth's adaptation of John Bellairs' The House with a Clock in Its Walls in theaters (read Heather Wixson's review here) or you want to experience its magical adventures again and again, you can now watch it on digital and look forward to its 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD on December 18th. To celebrate the film's digital release today, a new Blu-ray/DVD/digital bonus feature clip has been unveiled by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, in which director Eli Roth gives a tour of the strange and wonderful house where much of the movie's charm (and creepiness) takes place.

Check out the new behind-the-scenes clip below, and in case you missed it, read Heather Wixson's interview with screenwriter Eric Kripke.

From the Press Release: "Universal City, Calif. -- Enjoy the delightfully thrilling tale of a mysterious house where things, including the inhabitants, are...

If you missed Eli Roth's adaptation of John Bellairs' The House with a Clock in Its Walls in theaters (read Heather Wixson's review here) or you want to experience its magical adventure again and again, you can look forward to seeing it on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD on December 18th, along with an extensive list of special features that include deleted scenes and an alternate opening and ending:

From the Press Release: "Universal City, Calif. -- Enjoy the delightfully thrilling tale of a mysterious house where things, including the inhabitants, are not what they seem to be. The House With a Clock in its Walls arrives on Digital and via the digital movie app Movies Anywhere on November 27, 2018, as well as on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray™, DVD and On Demand on December 18, 2018. Based on the classic children's book and praised as "creaky, freaky haunted-mansion fun...

Universal City, California, October 30, 2018 – Enjoy the delightfully thrilling tale of a mysterious house where things, including the inhabitants, are not what they seem to be. The House With a Clock in its Walls arrives on Digital and via the digital movie app Movies Anywhere on November 27, 2018, as well as on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-rayTM, DVD and On Demand on December 18, 2018. Based on the classic children’s book and praised as “creaky, freaky haunted-mansion fun” (La Times), The House With a Clock in its Walls features over 60 minutes of bonus content including an alternate beginning and ending, stunning featurettes, deleted scenes, a hilarious gag reel, and feature commentary. Enchanting from start to finish, it’s the perfect adventure for families during the holidays.

Full of wonder and adventure, The House With a Clock in its Walls mesmerizes audiences of all ages and keeps the magic alive when stars Jack Black, Cate Blanchett...