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Edwin’s off for a few days – something to do with the thesis that he’s recently started using to make us call him “Dr Edwin” in meetings, turning his camera off and muting himself if we forget. So, for this week’s rundown of new PC game releases, you’ve got me, fresh from my recent encroachments into WAWAPW and the Sunday …

Seventeen third graders vanish into the night in the new horror movie Weapons. Warner Bros. Pictures hide caption toggle caption Warner Bros. Pictures In the prologue of the 1983 film adaptation of The Twilight Zone, two men, played by Albert Brooks and Dan Aykroyd, are driving along a highway at night. They talk about The Twilight Zone and which episodes …

This week kicked off with the at-home premiere of Jurassic World Rebirth and the return of Jenna Ortega in “Wednesday” Season 2, and eight more new releases have arrived today. Here’s all the new horror unleashed on Friday, August 8, 2025! For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar. First up, Zach Cregger’s (Barbarian) new horror movie Weapons …

Bilhal Kone’s rookie season with the Baltimore Ravens is over after one quarter of preseason action. The cornerback, a sixth-round product out of Western Michigan, tore a ligament in his knee against the Indianapolis Colts on Thursday. 6 Rookie Kone was carted off in the first quarter of Thursday’s preseason gameCredit: Getty Kone made a play battling a wide receiver …

Zach Cregger’s first major film Barbarian was tense and frightening, but it was also infused with a healthy dose of absurdity. The movie’s twisted sense of humor made it easier to stomach its grotesque violence and a bit more difficult to anticipate how its unhinged story would unfold. But Barbarian also worked surprisingly well as a commentary on who really …

We told you Tuesday that New Line’s Weapons could tip the scales at the box office past Disney’s Freakier Friday with a mid-$30M-to-$40M take. Further proof of the Zach Cregger-directed/written/produced title’s heat: Fandango is reporting that the movie is the second-best horror ticket pre-seller of 2025 behind Sinners at the same point in its sales cycle, and it’s ahead of …

Horror game Vile: Exhumed, which sees you delving into a 90s computer to uncover a man’s obsession with an adult film actress, has launched as a free download after being “wrongly banned” from Steam over sexual content, according to developer Cara Cadaver of Final Girl Games. Initially released via Itch.io (where that version remains live), the game was set to …

Focusing on the aftermath of the mysterious disappearance of 17 children from the same third-grade class, comic turned horror auteur Zach Cregger’s Weapons has the same blend of horror and comedy that made the filmmaker’s Barbarian such a breakout success. Here, Cregger mines even more frightful suspense out of dark spaces and the supernaturally deteriorating bodies that linger within them. …

An enduring image from the new movie “Weapons” comes early: The sight of elementary school students running out of their homes and onto the suburban grass, moving like flying birds with their arms out, to a song by George Harrison. Except this is happening at night — at 2:17 a.m., to be precise — and there’s no glee from the …

If Sam Raimi was an obvious influence on Zach Cregger’s head-turning 2022 horror breakthrough, Barbarian, Stephen King’s imprint seems to be all over the writer-director’s more ambitious follow-up, Weapons. Framed as a true story, it measures the shockwaves in a community when almost an entire class of elementary school children vanishes at the same time one night. It’s even more …