Author: Michael Joy

“WITHIN” is a new horror comic from Brian Cochran. A crowd funding campaign recently launched on Kickstarter. Imagine the occult elegance of Rosemary’s Baby colliding with the raw, transformative nightmares of Clive Barker. Within is a tribute to the shadows of yesteryear—Argento, Phantasm, and occult classics from the 80s —built to ask the question that haunts us all: What would you do?” “After a night of seemingly endless horror, Wayne Suffolk found a loophole to cheat his way out of a demonic bargain—but no one outsmarts the Devil for long. Now his daughter carries the redirected debt: an unborn entity…

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Long associated with pop culture and comedic television, Kato Kaelin takes a markedly different turn with his role in the upcoming psychological horror film A Soldier’s Descent — a grounded, emotionally serious project that places him in unfamiliar dramatic territory. Directed by Carissa Pierson, A Soldier’s Descent uses psychological horror to explore trauma, memory, and the long shadow of war. The film follows a combat veteran whose internal struggles begin to reshape his perception of reality, creating a tense, character-driven descent rather than a traditional effects-heavy horror experience. Kaelin’s involvement signals a clear shift away from comedy. Rather than playing…

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New England filmmaker, Geno McGahee, returns to his horror roots with the Satanic cult film, DARK PLACES. Bodies are piling up, college professors are being butchered and it’s up to a couple of students to figure out what is going on. The Xposse Production will be distributed by Cinema Epoch and Cineridge Entertainment and will hit most streaming platforms in mid 2026. The film is very inspired by the Satanic horror films of the 1970s such as THE DEVIL’S RAIN and RACE WITH THE DEVIL but also brings a modern approach. The film promises to keep the viewer guessing until…

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Robert Allen Mukes, who starred as Rufus in Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses, and August Kyss who starred as Siren in the indie hit Only Fangs, have joined the cast of the action film Death Bitch 2. Death Bitch 2 is a sequel to the action packed thriller Death Bitch which won ‘Best indie made under $100 k of 2024’ at Film Threat’s Award This! Film Festival. Award winning filmmaker Ken Brewer, who previously wrote and directed ‘Death Bitch,’ is once again directing with a story by Brewer & Meri Gyetvay (Zombie Rage), produced by Joseph Williamson, in conjunction…

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Crawl inside an abandoned gold mine in Wilderness Tapes: Volume One, a claustrophobic horror film from Ghost Machine Pictures. Described as “The Descent meets The Twilight Zone,” this subterranean thriller explores a gold rush era catastrophe never fully explained. Does a malevolent presence still lurk deep inside the mountain? Written and directed by Emmy Award-winner Brandon Walker, the film stars Thomas Burke (Alone in the After), ELIOT (Dhar Mann) and Nathan Church (Ghosts of Hiroshima). Synopsis: Nearly a million smartphones and cameras are lost in the wilderness each year. For the first time in history, recovered footage from such devices…

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