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Ghosts, hauntings, possession and poltergeist cases on screen — paranormal horror films, series and the stories behind them.
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Ghosts are classic horror movie characters; we come to expect them in haunted mansions and the like, but what about when they appear in places that we might not expect? There are some directors that introduce ghosts in strange places, totally different from the horror tropes that we are used to. If you like your horror films to be a little out of the ordinary, then you’ll love these movies with ghosts in unexpected places. Dead Man’s Hand (2007) Dead Man’s Hand, also sometimes known as The Haunted Casino, tells the tale of a man called Matthew who inherits a run-down casino on the outskirts of Vegas. He brings a group of friends together, and they set off to renovate the place and play a few games along the way. What ensues is nothing like when the group play roulette online, or indeed any game online or in person. Instead, they’re greeted with a seriously creepy casino teeming with ghosts
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Alone in the Dark gets a new teaser trailer showing a little more of the horrors that await players in Derceto Manor, a home for the mentally ill in the deep south in the 1920s. Alone in the Dark features a noir setting with classical Lovecraftian horror elements, where the familiar meets the surreal. Return to the roots of psychological horror and experience an atmospheric journey worthy of the game that started the genre. Dive into a world full of sounds that make your skin crawl with a haunting, yet mesmerizing doom jazz soundtrack. Enjoy the thrill of desperate survival in a world where reality starts to crumble, evil lurks in every shadow and ammunition is scarce. Experience this nightmare from either Emily Hartwood’s or Edward Carnby’s perspective and unearth the dark secrets of a gothic mansion. Immerse yourself in a deep psychological story that goes beyond the realms of the imaginable, by Mikael Hedberg, cult horror writer of SOMA
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NACON announced today that the first-person psychological horror set in the German trenches of WWI Ad Infinitum has a release date as well as information about pre-orders and their bonuses! Along with the news comes a new trailer that will fill you with hopeless dread! In Ad Infinitum players will take on the role of a German soldier in WWI who begins to suffer from horrific hallucinations that take him to different locations between the thin lines of real and imaginative where he faces many terrors in the forms of monsters and creatures as well as his own personal demons where players will have to make choices that will affect the outcome of the game. Pre-orders for Ad Infinitum are open now and players can also pre-order the Nightmare Edition where they can get a 10% discount, the game 48 hours early, the soundtrack, and digital artbook. The monsters of Ad Infinitum will be coming for you on September 14th
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Chuck Russell surprised horror fans with his appearance at the Bold Voices of Horror Panel at San Diego Comic-Con where he announced his return to the horror genre with the remake of the 1986 film Witchboard. Along with the news comes the shocking trailer! Witchboard will star Madison Iseman who plays Emily, a young woman who along with her fiance opens a coffee shop in New Orleans. While renovating their house they uncover a Witchboard (Ouija board) which unleashes dark forces that want Emily’s soul and drags the couple into the world of witchcraft and old beliefs start to play a horrifying role in Emily’s fate. Witchboard also stars Jamie Campbell Bower, Aaron Dominguez, Antonia Desplat, and Charlie Tahan. The film is set to be released in 2024.
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Lovely, Dark, and Deep (2023) Followers of Fortean phenomena and aficionados of surreal and sylvan horror should find plenty to admire in writer/director Teresa Sutherland’s slow-burn creeper Lovely, Dark, and Deep. Ranger Lennon (Georgina Campbell [Barbarian] in an engaging lead performance) has finally been assigned a job she has long waited for: being in charge, for 90 days, of a backcountry area that requires being taken there by helicopter and that leaves her virtually cut off from civilization except for communication by walkie-talkie and contact with hikers, campers, and fellow rangers. Riffing on what is discussed in David Paulides’ Missing 411 books and videos, the forest in which Lennon works is the site of many missing-person disappearances and occasional solved cases. Lennon’s backstory and motivation for being assigned to the remote spot she has requested involves that scenario, and giving away anything more about the plot would be traversing into spoiler territory. Sutherland, who wrote the screenplay for The Wind,
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Vertical welcomes you aboard The Queen Mary (aka The Haunting of the Queen Mary) this summer for the supernatural horror mystery from Dracula Untold director Gary Shore. The psychological horror film, whose trailer has now arrived, explores the mysterious and violent events surrounding one family’s voyage on Halloween night,1938, and their interwoven destiny with another family onboard the infamous ocean liner present day. Filming took place aboard the real Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. A luxury ocean-liner graced by generations of the rich and famous, HMS Queen Mary is now celebrated – and feared – as “One of the World’s Most Haunted Places” (Time Magazine), welcomes visitors aboard for its haunted attractions. The film stars Alice Eve (Star Trek Into Darkness, Belgravia), Joel Fry (Game of Thrones), Nell Hudson (Texas Chainsaw Massacre), William Shockley (Death in Texas), BAFTA award-winner Lenny Rush (Am I Being Unreasonable?), and more. In the early twentieth century, shipping lines competed to be the fastest
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Step into ten of the most terrifying locations in the world, ranging from haunted castles to abandoned islands, in the documentary The Scariest Places in the World, certain to send chills down your spine. From haunted locations to places of murder and mayhem, The Scariest Places in the World takes you inside the walls and tours the grounds of the world’s most infamous and terrifying places while going into detail about its history and revealing the paranormal events that still plague them. Uncover the terrifying truth in The Scariest Places in the World, now streaming exclusively on Tubi.
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Back in 2001, we reported on BuzzFeed artist Adam Ellis‘ social media posts labeled Dear David that went viral. The posts/updates told about the paranormal activity in his home and the sightings of a child’s ghost. We reported the same year that a movie was in the works. After two years, we finally have not only an update but also the film’s release date and the first trailer! In the movie, “Shortly after comic artist Adam (Augustus Prew) responds to Internet trolls, he begins experiencing sleep paralysis — while an empty rocking chair moves in the corner of his apartment. As he chronicles increasingly malevolent occurrences in a series of tweets, Adam begins to believe he is being haunted by the ghost of a dead child named David. Encouraged by his boss to continue the “Dear David” thread, Adam starts to lose his grip on what is online…and what is real. Based on the viral Twitter thread by BuzzFeed comic
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Shudder’s “Certified Fresh” horror-comedy Deadstream is out today on Steelbook and Blu-ray exclusively at Walmart. The film marks the feature directorial debut of husband-and-wife filmmaking duo Vanessa and Joseph Winter, who also share writing co-credits. It premiered earlier this year at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival in the Midnight section and went on to score acclaim from both audiences and critics alike (review). Joseph Winter also stars in the film alongside Melanie Stone and Jason K. Wixom. Deadstream follows a disgraced internet personality who attempts to win back his followers by live-streaming one night alone in a haunted house. But when he accidentally pisses off a vengeful spirit, his big comeback event becomes a real-time fight for his life. The film is produced by Joseph and Vanessa Winters, alongside cinematographer Jared Cook and actress Melanie Stone, who also star in the film. The Winters co-edited the film, with Joseph contributing to music for the project as well. The Steelbook comes
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Today Focus Entertainment and DON’T NOD have announced the release date for their upcoming Narrative Action RPG Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden. Along with the release date news comes a new trailer of the heartrending journey that will await players. Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden follows Antea Duarte and Red mac Raith, lovers, and Banishers, literal ghost hunters who travel around and fight otherworldly entities that torment the living. Things become complicated when Red tragically becomes a ghost herself leading Antea to make a hard choice to keep his oath as a Banisher or to fight to bring Red back to life in a world where every choice the players make has a dramatic consequence. Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden will be coming out on November 7th, 2023 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S, with both standard and collector’s editions available for pre-orders along with pre-orders available on STEAM.
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Ghosts are classic horror movie characters; we come to expect them in haunted mansions and the like, but what about when they appear in places that we might not expect? There are some directors that introduce ghosts in strange places, totally different from the horror tropes that we are used to. If you like your horror films to be a little out of the ordinary, then you’ll love these movies with ghosts in unexpected places. Dead Man’s Hand (2007) Dead Man’s Hand, also sometimes known as The Haunted Casino, tells the tale of a man called Matthew who inherits a run-down casino on the outskirts of Vegas. He brings a group of friends together, and they set off to renovate the place and play a few games along the way. What ensues is nothing like when the group play roulette online, or indeed any game online or in person. Instead, they’re greeted with a seriously creepy casino teeming with ghosts
Continue reading →
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Alone in the Dark gets a new teaser trailer showing a little more of the horrors that await players in Derceto Manor, a home for the mentally ill in the deep south in the 1920s. Alone in the Dark features a noir setting with classical Lovecraftian horror elements, where the familiar meets the surreal. Return to the roots of psychological horror and experience an atmospheric journey worthy of the game that started the genre. Dive into a world full of sounds that make your skin crawl with a haunting, yet mesmerizing doom jazz soundtrack. Enjoy the thrill of desperate survival in a world where reality starts to crumble, evil lurks in every shadow and ammunition is scarce. Experience this nightmare from either Emily Hartwood’s or Edward Carnby’s perspective and unearth the dark secrets of a gothic mansion. Immerse yourself in a deep psychological story that goes beyond the realms of the imaginable, by Mikael Hedberg, cult horror writer of SOMA
Continue reading →
GamingNewsParanormalProductTrailers
NACON announced today that the first-person psychological horror set in the German trenches of WWI Ad Infinitum has a release date as well as information about pre-orders and their bonuses! Along with the news comes a new trailer that will fill you with hopeless dread! In Ad Infinitum players will take on the role of a German soldier in WWI who begins to suffer from horrific hallucinations that take him to different locations between the thin lines of real and imaginative where he faces many terrors in the forms of monsters and creatures as well as his own personal demons where players will have to make choices that will affect the outcome of the game. Pre-orders for Ad Infinitum are open now and players can also pre-order the Nightmare Edition where they can get a 10% discount, the game 48 hours early, the soundtrack, and digital artbook. The monsters of Ad Infinitum will be coming for you on September 14th
Continue reading →
EventsNewsParanormalTrailers
Chuck Russell surprised horror fans with his appearance at the Bold Voices of Horror Panel at San Diego Comic-Con where he announced his return to the horror genre with the remake of the 1986 film Witchboard. Along with the news comes the shocking trailer! Witchboard will star Madison Iseman who plays Emily, a young woman who along with her fiance opens a coffee shop in New Orleans. While renovating their house they uncover a Witchboard (Ouija board) which unleashes dark forces that want Emily’s soul and drags the couple into the world of witchcraft and old beliefs start to play a horrifying role in Emily’s fate. Witchboard also stars Jamie Campbell Bower, Aaron Dominguez, Antonia Desplat, and Charlie Tahan. The film is set to be released in 2024.
Continue reading →
Film FestivalsForeignMoviesParanormalReviewsThriller
Lovely, Dark, and Deep (2023) Followers of Fortean phenomena and aficionados of surreal and sylvan horror should find plenty to admire in writer/director Teresa Sutherland’s slow-burn creeper Lovely, Dark, and Deep. Ranger Lennon (Georgina Campbell [Barbarian] in an engaging lead performance) has finally been assigned a job she has long waited for: being in charge, for 90 days, of a backcountry area that requires being taken there by helicopter and that leaves her virtually cut off from civilization except for communication by walkie-talkie and contact with hikers, campers, and fellow rangers. Riffing on what is discussed in David Paulides’ Missing 411 books and videos, the forest in which Lennon works is the site of many missing-person disappearances and occasional solved cases. Lennon’s backstory and motivation for being assigned to the remote spot she has requested involves that scenario, and giving away anything more about the plot would be traversing into spoiler territory. Sutherland, who wrote the screenplay for The Wind,
Continue reading →
MoviesNewsParanormalTrailersTrue Story
Vertical welcomes you aboard The Queen Mary (aka The Haunting of the Queen Mary) this summer for the supernatural horror mystery from Dracula Untold director Gary Shore. The psychological horror film, whose trailer has now arrived, explores the mysterious and violent events surrounding one family’s voyage on Halloween night,1938, and their interwoven destiny with another family onboard the infamous ocean liner present day. Filming took place aboard the real Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. A luxury ocean-liner graced by generations of the rich and famous, HMS Queen Mary is now celebrated – and feared – as “One of the World’s Most Haunted Places” (Time Magazine), welcomes visitors aboard for its haunted attractions. The film stars Alice Eve (Star Trek Into Darkness, Belgravia), Joel Fry (Game of Thrones), Nell Hudson (Texas Chainsaw Massacre), William Shockley (Death in Texas), BAFTA award-winner Lenny Rush (Am I Being Unreasonable?), and more. In the early twentieth century, shipping lines competed to be the fastest
Continue reading →
DocumentariesMoviesNewsParanormalStreaming TVThrillerTrailersTubi
Step into ten of the most terrifying locations in the world, ranging from haunted castles to abandoned islands, in the documentary The Scariest Places in the World, certain to send chills down your spine. From haunted locations to places of murder and mayhem, The Scariest Places in the World takes you inside the walls and tours the grounds of the world’s most infamous and terrifying places while going into detail about its history and revealing the paranormal events that still plague them. Uncover the terrifying truth in The Scariest Places in the World, now streaming exclusively on Tubi.
Continue reading →
MoviesNewsParanormalTrailersTrue Story
Back in 2001, we reported on BuzzFeed artist Adam Ellis‘ social media posts labeled Dear David that went viral. The posts/updates told about the paranormal activity in his home and the sightings of a child’s ghost. We reported the same year that a movie was in the works. After two years, we finally have not only an update but also the film’s release date and the first trailer! In the movie, “Shortly after comic artist Adam (Augustus Prew) responds to Internet trolls, he begins experiencing sleep paralysis — while an empty rocking chair moves in the corner of his apartment. As he chronicles increasingly malevolent occurrences in a series of tweets, Adam begins to believe he is being haunted by the ghost of a dead child named David. Encouraged by his boss to continue the “Dear David” thread, Adam starts to lose his grip on what is online…and what is real. Based on the viral Twitter thread by BuzzFeed comic
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesNewsParanormalShudderStreaming TVTrailers
Shudder’s “Certified Fresh” horror-comedy Deadstream is out today on Steelbook and Blu-ray exclusively at Walmart. The film marks the feature directorial debut of husband-and-wife filmmaking duo Vanessa and Joseph Winter, who also share writing co-credits. It premiered earlier this year at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival in the Midnight section and went on to score acclaim from both audiences and critics alike (review). Joseph Winter also stars in the film alongside Melanie Stone and Jason K. Wixom. Deadstream follows a disgraced internet personality who attempts to win back his followers by live-streaming one night alone in a haunted house. But when he accidentally pisses off a vengeful spirit, his big comeback event becomes a real-time fight for his life. The film is produced by Joseph and Vanessa Winters, alongside cinematographer Jared Cook and actress Melanie Stone, who also star in the film. The Winters co-edited the film, with Joseph contributing to music for the project as well. The Steelbook comes
Continue reading →
GamingNewsParanormalProductTrailers
Today Focus Entertainment and DON’T NOD have announced the release date for their upcoming Narrative Action RPG Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden. Along with the release date news comes a new trailer of the heartrending journey that will await players. Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden follows Antea Duarte and Red mac Raith, lovers, and Banishers, literal ghost hunters who travel around and fight otherworldly entities that torment the living. Things become complicated when Red tragically becomes a ghost herself leading Antea to make a hard choice to keep his oath as a Banisher or to fight to bring Red back to life in a world where every choice the players make has a dramatic consequence. Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden will be coming out on November 7th, 2023 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S, with both standard and collector’s editions available for pre-orders along with pre-orders available on STEAM.
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