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New ‘Last Look’ Trailer Teases a Found Footage Nightmare and a Deadly Game

If you think losing a game of Uno destroys friendships, wait until you see what happens when the deck plays back. Floating Rock Productions has officially unleashed the final trailer for its highly anticipated indie horror-thriller, Last Look. Pitching itself as a wicked, claustrophobic hybrid of “Jumanji meets Paranormal Activity,” the found-footage film drags the cozy, aesthetic world of cafe culture straight into a reality-bending tabletop nightmare. The Lore: A Livestream from Hell The movie centers on Jason (known to his digital followers as “Java”), a popular social media influencer and coffee shop owner who makes the ultimate mistake for online validation. Looking to spice up a livestream, Jason unboxes a mysterious, vintage tabletop card game. What starts as innocent unboxing content quickly turns into a desperate fight for survival. Trapped inside his own shuttered cafe, Jason realizes that the game’s five sinister cards impose cursed, literal “gifts” on the player. Every single card drawn summons terrifying, hyper-realistic creatures directly

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jul 18, 2026

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Black Madala Unveils the Trailer for the Folk Horror ‘The Shug’

Get ready for some deep-rooted, atmospheric dread, because the British countryside is about to get a whole lot meaner. Genre powerhouse Black Mandala has officially unveiled The Shug, an award-winning, haunting new folk-horror film from director Martin J. Pickering (The Only One). Blending supernatural terror with grounded emotional realism, the movie plunges viewers into a chilling modern mythos set against the fractured, bleak landscape of post-Brexit Britain. The most unsettling part? It’s not entirely fiction. The project draws its inspiration from alleged real-life sightings and a recorded interview with a woman who claims to have encountered the legendary “Shug Monkey”—a bizarre cryptid fixture of English folklore. Cryptids, Coors, and Deeply Buried Trauma The Shug delivers on the monster front. However, it uses its creature feature elements to dig into heavy thematic territory, exploring alcoholism, generational trauma, and family breakdown. The film stars Nicholas Clarke, Alice Henley, Mae Sutton, and Dean Kilby. Jack Armstrong, Jason Hall, and Funso Foluso-Henry round out

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jul 16, 2026

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Tubi FrightFest 2026 Unleashes Its Mind-Blowing Fear Fare Lineup

London’s Tubi FrightFest is always a top-notch film festival destination for scare fare devotees, and this year the fest presents its biggest lineup ever! The event takes place Thursday August 27–Monday 31 August. Get your drool cups ready and have a gander at the official press announcement. Be prepared for a terrifying, record-breaking selection of World, International, and UK premieres as Tubi FrightFest 2026, the UK’s No.1 horror & fantasy film festival, returns to the Odeon LUXE Leicester Square and the ODEON Luxe West End for its annual five-day celebration of nerve-jangling eeriness, hair-raising shock, and epic scares. This year’s line-up highlights the genre’s transforming landscape and reflects the amazing span of progressive global genre filmmaking. Running from Thursday August 27 – Monday 31 August, Tubi FrightFest will showcase a record-breaking eighty-two features across five screens, including the popular ‘First Blood’, Documentary, and Retrospective strands. This year there are twenty-four world premieres, with sixteen countries represented, spanning four continents. The

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Joseph Perry

Jul 16, 2026

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Trevor Henderson’s Creepy ‘Cartoon Cat’ is Getting a Feature Adaptation

The Backrooms proved that internet-spawned creepypastas are absolute box-office gold. Legendary horror illustrator Trevor Henderson is having a massive Hollywood moment. Warner Bros. is already hard at work adapting his Siren Head for theaters. Now, Sony’s TriStar Pictures has officially gotten its claws on Henderson’s other viral nightmare: Cartoon Cat. TriStar has secured the feature film rights and is actively hunting for a director to bring the horror to life. The Lore: Not Your Average Saturday Morning Cartoon If you’re expecting a friendly, sweet feline, you are in for a terrible, bloody surprise. In Henderson’s chilling mythology, Cartoon Cat isn’t just a drawing—it’s an “ancient hollow rot.” This malevolent entity feeds on our collective nostalgia, using human awareness and memories of vintage, golden-age animation as a physical passageway to manifest in our reality and wreak absolute, violent havoc. Needless to say, this is not a family friendly flick. A Purr-fect Production Team To ensure this internet legend gets the prestige

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jul 14, 2026

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The Housemaid’s Director, Paul Feig, signs on to Direct the Horror Movie ‘Detention’

It looks like director Paul Feig is trading in his signature sharp suits and maids for a one-way ticket to the dark side. Hot on the heels of directing the global smash-hit thriller The Housemaid last Christmas—and with its highly anticipated sequel, The Housemaid’s Secret, already on his plate—Feig is diving headfirst into pure terror. Deadline reports that he has officially signed on to direct Detention, a brand-new horror-thriller from genre titans Blumhouse, Atomic Monster, and Platinum Dunes. Daniel Gold penned the spec screenplay, and while the exact plot details are currently locked away in a high-security locker, insiders say the project is exactly the kind of sinister material Feig was hunting for. After dipping his toes into the thriller pool with The Housemaid, the director reportedly wanted to try his hand at something significantly darker. A Heavyweight Horror Coalition While the movie doesn’t have an official studio home just yet, industry insiders note that Universal Pictures will almost certainly

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jul 12, 2026

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An Interview with Actress Mia Vallet on the Horrors of the Horror Film ‘Recluse’

From psychological thrillers to prestige drama, actor Mia Vallet (Believe) has built a career on bringing depth to complex characters. Now, she’s diving headfirst into the shadows for her latest role in Recluse. It’s a dark, twisted family reunion from hell that just celebrated its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film marks the feature directorial debut of Henry Chaisson. He’s the wonderfully warped mind behind the screenplay for Antlers and Apple TV+’s “Servant.” If that pedigree isn’t enough to get your skin crawling, Steven Schneider (Paranormal Activity, Insidious) is serving as Executive Producer via his genre label, Spooky Pictures. A Psychological Breakdown If you like your family dramas served with a side of generational trauma and black magic, Recluse will be your new obsession. Joan (Sasha Frolova, The Empty Man) is an audio engineer who literally spends her life hiding behind headphones. A sudden phone call from her estranged, ailing father sends her home. He’s a renowned

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jul 3, 2026

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‘The Conjuring: First Communion’ Casts Young Ed and Lorraine Warren

James Wan’s multi-billion-dollar horror universe is stepping back in time. New Line Cinema’s highly anticipated prequel, The Conjuring: First Communion, has officially found the actors to play younger versions of famed paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. Garrett Wareing (Manifest, Pretty Little Liars: Perfectionists) and Amanda Fix (Orphan Black: Echoes, High School) have been cast as the demonologist couple during the earliest days of their supernatural careers, exploring the chilling cases that forged their legacy in the paranormal world. Release Date and Creative Team Behind the Prequel The Conjuring: First Communion is scheduled for a wide theatrical release on September 10, 2027. Rodrigue Huart is making his feature directorial debut in the franchise, based on a screenplay by Richard Naing and Ian Goldberg (The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Fear the Walking Dead). New Line Cinema produces the film alongside James Wan’s Atomic Monster banner, ensuring the franchise’s signature atmospheric dread remains intact. Plot Details: Tracing the Origins of the Demonologists

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 27, 2026

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Insidious: Out of the Further Trailer Reveals a Terrifying New Twist

If you thought the only rule of the Further was “don’t go toward the red light,” Sony Pictures Entertainment just blew up the franchise handbook. The terrifying new trailer for Insidious: Out of the Further has officially dropped, and it confirms that the sixth installment moves past the Lambert family’s trauma to introduce a protagonist with a uniquely dangerous set of skills. Following 2023’s Insidious: The Red Door, which wrapped up the original family’s multi-decade haunting, this next chapter focuses on Gemma, a single mother played by Amelia Eve (The Haunting of Bly Manor). Gemma and her daughter (Island Austin) live a quiet life in Gemma’s childhood home—until a frightening encounter reveals that Gemma can naturally astrally project into the franchise’s infamous, spirit-filled realm. But here is the kicker: unlike Elise Rainier or the Lamberts, who fought tooth and nail to keep the doors shut, Gemma possesses a wild new ability. She can permanently drag spirits out of the Further

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 19, 2026

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From Haddonfield to the Woods: ‘Halloween’ Legend Sandy Johnson Joins’ Witchcraft: The Lanterne of Light’

If you’re building a horror movie cast, you might as well invite the woman who started cinema’s biggest sibling rivalry. Sandy Johnson, the original scream queen who played Judith Myers in John Carpenter’s 1978 masterpiece Halloween, has officially joined the cast of the upcoming found-footage supernatural feature, Witchcraft: The Lanterne of Light. Nearly fifty years after launching one of the biggest franchises in horror history, Halloween’s Johnson is trading the suburbs of Haddonfield for some seriously cursed woods. Don’t Go Into the North Carolina Woods Directed by Carissa Pierson, Witchcraft: The Lanterne of Light blends deep-woods terror and mixes it with found-footage realism. The film follows a paranormal investigation team. They aim to track down the bloody legacy of a centuries-old cult called The Children of the Hollow. However, their search leads them straight to a cursed lantern, an ancient evil, and many regrets. A Seriously Eclectic Cast Johnson isn’t the only familiar face wandering into the occult. The film’s

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 11, 2026

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The First Trailer Conjured for True Story Based Horror ‘The Caged’ (AKA The Coven)

If you thought the team behind The Caged (also known as The Coven) was resting on its laurels after riding the blood-soaked wave of Terrifier 2 and 3, think again. The genre powerhouse is rolling into the Cannes Market with a dual threat. Not only are they shopping the highly anticipated, internet-meme-inspired thriller Man or Bear,they’ve also quietly locked down the global release of a folk-horror nightmare based on one of the most aggressively haunted houses in British history. The Caged, directed by the award-winning Jeffrey Scott Collins, has already conjured up major territory deals ahead of its market debut, and the real-world history behind it is enough to make any physical media collector lock their doors. The Real-World Cellblock from Hell The film draws its terrifying supernatural folklore directly from a very real, very grim piece of UK real estate. It’s known as “The Cage.” Located in St. Osyth, Essex, the medieval structure served as a notorious 16th-century prison.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 10, 2026