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New ‘Amityville Horror’ Movie in the Works at Amazon MGM Studios

New ‘Amityville Horror’ Movie in the Works at Amazon MGM Studios

David F. Sandberg is on board to direct a new The Amityville Horror film for Amazon MGM Studios. The Safran Company’s Peter Safran and John Rickard will produce alongside Sandberg, while The Safran Company’s Natalia Safran and Lotta Losten will executive produce. Ian Goldberg and Richard Naing wrote the screenplay for the reimagining of the original 1979 classic. The film …

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Last Rites Is Biggest Horror Movie Opening With $194 Million

Last Rites Is Biggest Horror Movie Opening With 4 Million

“The Conjuring: Last Rites” had a better-than-expected debut and now ranks as the biggest global start in history for a horror film. The ninth entry in Warner Bros. and New Line’s paranormal franchise collected a sensational $194 million worldwide in its first weekend of release, above Sunday’s already massive estimate of $187 million worldwide. Now, those ticket sales have eclipsed …

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Last Rites Bows To $187M Global & Top Horror Start Ever Overseas

Last Rites Bows To 7M Global & Top Horror Start Ever Overseas

Updated: New Line/Warner Bros’ The Conjuring: Last Rites positively possessed the global and international box office this weekend with a $187M worldwide opening, $104M of the total coming from 66 overseas markets. The Michael Chaves-directed installment has bragging rights to becoming the biggest horror debut of all time internationally (overtaking WB’s own It Chapter 2) and the 2nd biggest ever …

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Second Biggest Global Horror Opening Ever

Second Biggest Global Horror Opening Ever

“The Conjuring: Last Rites” towered over the worldwide box office with $187 million, cementing by far the best start for the occult-titled franchise. It’s also the second-biggest global debut in history for a horror film, behind only 2017’s “It” with $190 million. Ticket sales for “Last Rites,” which put early projections to shame, include a remarkable $104 million internationally and …

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‘Riveting’ US nuclear attack thriller is ‘more terrifying than most horror films’

‘Riveting’ US nuclear attack thriller is ‘more terrifying than most horror films’

The Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow builds “excruciating tension” in a film about a nuclear missile headed for the US. It’s a characteristically authentic, “riveting” and “chilling” new drama. A nuclear missile has been launched. Nobody knows who launched it, or whether any more might follow, but one thing is clear. Unless it is stopped, the missile will obliterate a …

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Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi in Horror Classic

Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi in Horror Classic

Gothic horror influences have rippled through Guillermo del Toro’s incantatory work since the Mexican fantasist burst onto the scene with Cronos, The Devil’s Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth. The writer-director’s encounter with Mary Shelley’s immortal 1818 novel has been a long time coming and after too many screen adaptations to list, it feels like a lightning-charged act of reanimation. The genre-defying …

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One New Yorker’s Real-Life Horror Story: Rat Mites

One New Yorker’s Real-Life Horror Story: Rat Mites

Nathan’s living nightmare started in April, when the middle-aged architect (his name has been changed to protect his privacy) had a sleepover at his Brooklyn apartment with Anna, the woman he was dating at the time. Anna (her name has also been changed) was in the midst of dealing with a rat mite infestation in her apartment, and she had …

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Hellraiser PS5’s Sexual Horror Is Pushing Its M Rating to the Max

Hellraiser PS5’s Sexual Horror Is Pushing Its M Rating to the Max

Within the opening ten minutes of our Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival demo, we’d seen protagonists Aidan and Sunny f*cking while sticking pins in each other and seductively cutting each other with sharp objects. Hellraiser is a franchise known for being horny, and the game is not shying away from that. This is a deeply sexual game in a way that’s …

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