Another big week for horror, as a beloved franchise entry drops a trailer, a complicated genre grail gets restored, and a classic crime thriller gets an update. Let’s get into it! |
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A new, NEW Cape Fear is coming next month, and it looks compelling as hell. Check out the trailer here. |
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A new era of FANGORIA Comics has arrived with Kickstarter-exclusive Issue #0, created in partnership with PANICK Entertainment. This debut features a powerhouse roster including Tony Fleecs, Amanda Deibert, Catherine Corcoran, Cullen Bunn, and Steve Niles. You have until this Friday, May 8, to back First in Fright: The FANGORIA Compendium and secure this exclusive comic before the campaign closes for good. |
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FANGORIA Vol. 2 Issue 31 features Lee Cronin’s The Mummy alongside Faces Of Death, 30 years of The Craft, festival favorites, a brand-new FX column, and more. Issue 31 is now available. Don't leave it to fate—ensure it arrives at your door by preordering today. |
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Angry Hornet Nest
by Stoney Brooks
There’s not much to do in the dying mining town of Dryton. Especially for outcasts Francis and Bodie. But when a bonfire prank goes too far, humiliation turns into horror. Now, the shadow in Dryton is awake. And it’s hungry.
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The Haunting of Sunshine House
(Ghosts of Los Angeles Book 1)
by Dominika Best
Is the evil lurking in Sunshine House human or something much worse? Once an exclusive Hollywood hotel catering to the likes of Rudolf Valentino and other great stars of the Silent Film Era, the Bockerman Hotel now is the Sunshine House, an assisted living home for seniors. And its residents are dying…in droves.
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Say your prayers: it’s religious horror! |
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The Fango team has what you need. First up is Senior Editor Meredith Borders with an insistence on a physical media purchase… |
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Issue 203 of FANGORIA Volume 1 has an article about Wild Zero, Tetsuro Takeuchi's 1999 horror comedy starring Japanese garage rock power trio Guitar Wolf. The headline and logline are perfect: “Brain-Dead & Proud of It. Tired of Asia’s intellectual approach to genre cinema? Try this rock ’n’ roll zombie opus.” Now, normally we tell you where you can stream our various recommendations here at Get Rec'd, but I'm going to insist you find a DVD, specifically for the bonus track drinking game icon that pops up every time one of the following things happen: fire shoots out of something, somebody says "ROCK AND ROLL!", somebody combs their hair, somebody drinks, something explodes, or a zombie's head pops. I feel I have now given you enough information about Wild Zero; do with it what you will.
Now go and buy that DVD, especially since Wild Zero is not streaming in the States. (Though it IS streaming on the Sooner app in Germany, where Meredith lives. Isn’t that interesting.) Next up is staff writer Amber T with a game recommendation…
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A few Teletypes ago, I mused that us gamers were eating good this year after Resident Evil Requiem, and I’ve recently enjoyed another feast of survival horror goodness in the form of the Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake, which is now available across consoles. Crimson Butterfly Remake is how you do a video game remake, elevating the game mechanics and visuals for a more advanced console while staying true to the original source material. I’ll admit that post-Requiem it took me a while to adjust from blasting zombies as bullet sponge Leon Kennedy to playing as Mio, the tiny teen protagonist of Crimson Butterfly Remake, who weighs 100lbs soaking wet and is armed only with a camera to defeat the terrifying, vengeful spirits after her. But once I got to grips with the Camera Obscura mechanic (something that I always struggled with in the original game), my Mio could’ve taken down even Mr. X himself. Highly recommended even if you have no Fatal Frame background to speak of. Available on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S. |
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This Halloween 4 image goes a little hard on the atmosphere. |
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Are You Excited To Never Watch The Devils?
By Phil Nobile Jr.
Huge, seismic news in the genre world this week, as Warner Brothers’ new Clockwork label announced they’ll be releasing Ken Russell’s long-buried 114-minute version of his controversial 1971 classic The Devils, first at Cannes, then in theaters this October. (To get up to speed on just what’s so exciting about this restoration, and what the controversy was about in the first place, hit this article on Fango dot com.)
Moments like this are few and far between in the horror scene; we’re always on the edge of our seats, ever waiting for a handful of holy grails to be unearthed and unleashed. We’ve gotten a few: If you’re older than dirt like me, your formative memories of the 1931 Frankenstein are missing some rather impactful moments from that film that have since been restored. (Thomas Edison’s 1910 version of the tale was thought completely lost for decades, and only became viewable by the public in the 1990s.) If you’re of a certain age, you will recall the excitement around the 1992 home video release of Universal’s Spanish-language version of Dracula. It’s electrifying when films that were once completely out of reach are suddenly three clicks away, or captured on a piece of physical media that you can own.
Some titles remain MIA. The big one, of course, is Lon Chaney’s London After Midnight, still lost 99 years later. Until or unless that one ever turns up, The Devils is bound to be the noisiest such restoration for some time, and the news of its release absolutely dominated my various social media feeds this week. Since most of us aren’t going to Cannes, we will have to wait patiently until this October — or, if you’re not near where it’s playing, until its eventual physical or streaming release, when the uncut version of The Devils is finally available to all.
At which time, many of us will promptly never watch the thing.
Horror fans, myself included, can be a bit like hoarders or magpies, treating coveted titles like shiny things we must collect and own, and then never get around to viewing. It’s part of our collector DNA; the excitement of acquiring a thing often overshadows experiencing that thing. Buy it, unbox it, post the images online, move on. The coveting of that rare, previously unavailable object is an itch that has been scratched by holding it in our hands or adding it to our queue. For too many fans, that’s enough.
And for another set of fans, that’s probably just as well. Are we prepared to wade through countless 2026 thinkpieces (or worse, Tik Toks) about a provocative piece of art from 1971, ingested by some blogger while scrolling on their phone, refusing to meet the film on its own level? Are we ready for the kneejerk, surface-level takes? Are we, as a culture, prepared for a second (third?) wave “Oliver Reed is zaddy” moment?
Jesus Christ, will there be GIFs?
Saving movies from neglect, ruin, or obscurity is absolutely heroic work, but there’s a “pearls before swine” side to the endeavor that is currently at an all time high (low?). I don’t think I’m being outrageous by saying that the legacy of Żuławski’s Possession was better off before everyone knew about it, meme’d the living shit out of it, and reduced it to a handful of GIFs. I’m also confident ( and on record) in saying that, without that online appropriation, they wouldn’t now be remaking it. I suppose I should think it’s okay if a bunch of people watch a movie “wrong,” but is it okay for us to bear witness to that shit ad nauseam?
So, y’know, a bit of mixed feelings about The Devils being loosed upon horror’s current landscape of thinkers. (Not you, you’re great.) What’s beyond question is the importance of preserving the film for posterity, for the sake of art, and for generations to come. Hopefully among those generations is one whose media literacy goes beyond whether Father Urbain “could get it,” and what does or does not give them “the ick.”
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On May 13, FANGORIA Staff Picks brings the 45th anniversary of An American Werewolf in London back to Regal for one night only. This screening features an exclusive post-show interview with FX legend Rick Baker, where he details the painstaking creation of cinema’s most iconic, bone-crunching transformation. Experience this practical effects masterpiece on the big screen with fellow fans— grab your tickets now via the Regal app or at REGmovies.com. |
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Texas Frightmare Weekend is almost here, and FANGORIA is once again bringing you a must-have con-exclusive issue. Whether you’re looking for the perfect spot for guest autographs or a new addition to your collection, this one’s essential. Pre-orders are live now for $10 (price jumps to $15 on-site), pickup only at the convention, and quantities are limited— reserve yours before pre-orders close on May 4.
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👑 The Kingcast: Joe Hill’s King Sorrow with Jeremy Slater
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💀 Colors of the Dark: 1976 Horror
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🦴 Flesh & Blood & Bone: The Movie That Triggered The FBI — My Dad’s Practical Effects on Three Kings
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😱 Katie Afraidy: The Vanishing (1988) w/ Shane Bianchi
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