Zazie Beetz tries to survive despite a whole Satanic cult out to get her in the trailer for horror-comedy They Will Kill You. Warner Bros. will release director Kirill Sokolov’s feature on March 27th, 2026.
From New Line Cinema and Nocturna, They Will Kill You follows a newly hired housekeeper (Beetz) at a mysterious New York City hotel known as The Virgil. She soon learns that the building is actually the headquarters for a demonic cult, with the members having selected her as a religious sacrifice. She must outsmart and out-fight the many Satanic followers to make it through the night in their death-trap of a lair, or else lose her life. As the trailer puts it simply, “This building is a temple to Satan. Each month, we must pay with a human sacrifice. Tonight, you are the offering.”
The project has also been described as a tonal mix of Radio Silence’s Ready or Not and The Raid. In any case, it looks like a gory fun time.
Also starring in the very bloody, upcoming feature are Myha’la, Paterson Joseph, Tom Felton, Heather Graham, and Patricia Arquette.
Sokolov directs the film from a script he co-wrote with Alex Litvak. Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, and Dan Kagan are aboard as producers. Litvak and Sokolov executive produce the project alongside Russell Ackerman, John Schoenfelder, and Carl Hampe.
Steve Rogers is a dad, Thor is tired, and octogenarians Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are still locked into Marvel contracts: welcome to Avengers: Doomsday. The latest of three teaser trailers has been released, this time confirming the return of the X-Men to fight Phase 6’s Big Bad. It follows confirmation that Chris Evans would unexpectedly return as Steve Rogers/Captain America (formerly), and another teaser in which Chris Hemsworth’s Thor prays to Odin for the strength to defeat one more enemy.
In this X-Men teaser, we see the return of Stewart as Charles Xavier/Professor X, McKellen as Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto, and James Marsden in a comic-accurate suit as Scott Summers/Cyclops.
While Patrick Stewart made a cameo appearance as a multiversal variant of Professor X in Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness, it’s been over a decade since fans last properly saw these X-Men incarnations. Marsden and McKellen last played these roles in 2014’sX-Men: Days of Future Past. And while they don’t appear in this particular teaser trailer, we also know that franchise OGs Alan Cumming will return to Avengers: Doomsday as Nightcrawler, alongside Rebecca Romijn as Mystique and Kelsey Grammer as Beast.
Avengers: Doomsday releases December 18th, 2026. Before then, there’ll be Spider-Man: Brand New Dayon July 31st, 2026.
James Gunn has ended weeks of speculation as to who would play the villain opposite David Corenswet’s Superman in Man of Tomorrow, confirming that Lars Eidinger would step into the role of Brainiac. The German actor is known for the acclaimed series Babylon Berlin and worked on the Shawn Levy miniseries All the Light We Cannot See, as well as Noah Baumbach’s White Noise.
Brainiac is a classic Superman villain, having debuted in Action Comics No. 242 in 1958. Hailing from writer Otto Binder and artist Al Plastino, the issue introduced Brainiac as a hyper-intelligent alien who uses a shrink ray to shrink Metropolis and place the city amongst his collection of alien cities he keeps in bottles.
Corenswet returns to Man of Tomorrow as Clark Kent/Superman, and Nicholas Hoult reprises his role as Lex Luthor. Rachel Brosnahan, Frank Grillo, and Isabela Merced are also expected to return. Sources state the sequel will see Superman and Lex Luthor form an uneasy alliance to take down Brainiac. James Gunn will also return to both write and direct the feature.
Man of Tomorrow is set to release on July 9th, 2027. Before that, there’ll be the releases of Supergirl this summer, and Clayface shortly after.
The British Horror Studio has announced the winners of its inaugural awards season, celebrating outstanding achievement across British independent horror filmmaking and signalling a major step forward in the organisation’s cultural reach.
The awards, spanning Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and the newly introduced British Indie Horror Artist of the Year, were decided through a combination of public voting and an independent jury selection. More than 5,000 votes were cast by film industry peers and horror fans worldwide.
The milestone reflects the British Horror Studio’s evolution from a production label into a broader genre institution within the UK. The organisation now encompasses the revived Amicus Productions, Hex Studios, The B-Team, and the registered charity Fife Creative Studios, with a growing emphasis on grassroots participation and artistic development.
In the public vote, the Best Director award resulted in a rare tie, with Sean Cronin (Bogieville) and Warren Dudley (Fright) named joint winners. Best Actor was awarded to Stephen Corrall (Shiver Me Timbers), following a contest that attracted over 1,000 voters.
The most closely contested category was Best Actress, where Megan Tremethick (The Reign of Queen Ginnarra) emerged victorious after a dramatic second-round surge. Tremethick, often described by critics and fans as the “Vivien Leigh of indie horror”, overcame strong competition including Ayvianna Snow (Bogieville), widely referred to in the British press as the “Queen of British Horror”. The category alone drew more than 2,500 votes and significant online engagement.
Alongside the public vote, a separate jury selection focused on artistic ambition and creative risk. Led by Prof Peter F Mahoney CBE PhD MBA FRCA, the jury awarded Best Director to Simon Rumley (Crushed), while the Best Actor category resulted in joint winners Chris Black (The Slave and the Sorcerer) and Jonathan Hansler (Bogieville). Best Actress was awarded to Nicolette McKeown (Mercy Falls).
The British Horror Studio also introduced a special honour, British Indie Horror Artist of the Year, recognising individuals making exceptional contributions to the independent sector. The inaugural recipients were Ayvianna Snow, for her advocacy work and artist support; Dorian Todd, for his rapidly emerging career as both performer and filmmaker; and Andrew Gourlay, recognised for his acclaimed performances following recovery from serious illness.
The awards coincided with the British Horror Studio’s explosive growth, expanding its membership by more than 1,200, underscoring the continued rise of grassroots-driven initiatives within UK independent film. The organisation notes a growing concentration of activity and talent in Scotland, positioning the region as an increasingly important centre for British horror production.
For more information about the British Horror Studio and to join, head here.
STARBURST has teamed with Last British Dragon to exclusively reveal the new poster and screenshots of James Crow’s latest feature film, The Wicker Children. A personal independent film that Crow calls a love letter to the pagan horror films he grew up loving. The film will be released next year with a premiere scheduled near Easter, when he will also unveil the trailer for his company’s next film, The 13th Child.
The film is a psychological horror following an undercover investigator, Hazel (Mirabel Stuart), looking into the disappearance of a mother, Willow Downing, in a strange cult in the country. There she befriends three mysterious children who tell her stories of the woods and are watched over by an ominous father.
James Crow, whose 2015 film Curse of the Witching Tree is currently streaming on Netflix and had a rave review from us, said of the new film: “The Wicker Children was a real passion project and work of love. I think we created something really special. I wanted to create something with a feel of something from the sixties and seventies like The Blood on Satan’s Claw. Mirabel Stuart gives an outstanding lead performance, and the three child actors deliver wonderful, natural, and eerie performances. I think the cast is really great and Pete Coleman’s music is outstanding. I can’t wait to finally share it with people”.
Mirabel Stuart, the lead actress, said: “What drew me to playing Hazel was she’s so multifaceted: a policewoman who goes undercover as a live-in nanny which actually gave me the opportunity to play two sides of the character, exposing different layers in how she attempts to solve the case of the disappearance of ‘The Mother’. I think the plot’s clues and twists will really appeal to audiences as they are challenged to piece it all together. Filming in the middle of nowhere in the Welsh countryside and the authentic stately home gave the perfect creepy backdrop to this gripping horror!”
The film was shot on location in wales and co-produced by Benjamin David with Mirabel Stuart also acting as associate producer, alongside Texan Crow Productions, Paul Hughbanks Entertainment and Terrifying Productions.
It’s been a busy year for Last British Dragon and James Crow, as they recently receiving their first government funding to create a short drama From Mariupol to Maidstone, which has been showing at multiple film festivals. Coming next year James has Harbinger, his second film with Shogun films as director, plus The 13 Child starring Peter DeSouza-Feighoney the lead child star of The Pope’s Exorcist and Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare. On what’s coming next, Crow says “I’m working on several new scripts at moment which I’m in exciting talks for but can’t speak about just yet. I am however making a new anthology horror called Urban Monsters, which we’ll be starting soon. It’s a real nod to Creepshow and Tales from the Crypt. We’ve had great fun creating monsters with some terrifying backstories and we’ll be releasing more news soon! The first monster will be played by Les Mills who was the main villain in my film House of Salem plus he delivered a great Krampus in Nightmare on 34th Street. It’s going to be a lot of fun!”
The film will be heading to film festivals in January and is now going to distributors and sales agents for an expected international release early next year. They’ll also be news soon on how to get tickets for the UK premiere of The Wicker Children and also a special screening stateside in Texas with the director. Watch this space!
Shiver Me Timbers, one of several recent low-budget horror movies taking advantage of Popeye’s public domain status, is already getting a sequel film. In this one, Popeye and Olive Oyl will be joined by *checks notes* Tarzan and Betty Boop.
The teaser trailer for Shiver Me Timbers 2: Chainsaws Are for Children, has just been released.
Picking up just weeks after the events of the first film, the sequel sees Popeye land in New York for a brutal killing spree in Little Italy. Olive Oyl, now armed with a bionic, super-powered hand, travels to the city to avenge her brother’s death. Her journey leads her straight to the mafia boss’ nightclub, where she bonds with singer Betty Boop.
Meanwhile, the mafia boss learns that his long-lost son, now a grown man, has been found after disappearing as a child during a jungle vacation. However, while attempting to rehabilitate him to civilisation, he escapes, tackling Popeye and taking a puff from his pipe.
As a result, he is transformed into a savage beast man, forging a twisted alliance with Popeye. Olive and Betty, with help from the mafia, must defeat the monstrous duo before it’s too late.
Writer-director Paul Stephen Mann returns, with Tony Greer and Amy Mackie reprising their lead roles as Popeye and Olive.
Alpake Entertainment is launching an Indiegogo campaign on December 20th to fund Shiver Me Timbers 2. Rewards include on-screen victim roles, producer credits, screen-used props, signed merchandise, and more. Check it out here.
Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil, The Fifth Element) and Luke Evans (Dracula Untold, The Hobbit franchise) are fighting to survive against monstrous threats in the trailer for Worldbreaker, from Session 9director Brad Anderson.
The film introduces Breakers, inter-dimensional creatures that infect and gruesomely mutate humans into killers, which were unleashed when ‘The Stitch’ tore open the earth. Men are most vulnerable to the mutation, leaving women to lead the war for humanity’s survival. As such, Willa’s (Billie Boullet) mother (Jovovich) leads on the front lines, while her father (Evans), a battle-scarred veteran, fled the burning cities with their daughter to a remote island. There, he trains her every day, preparing her for the moment the Breakers finally find them.
That moment comes when Willa discovers a lone girl washed ashore from a burning boat. Hiding her from her father, Willa simply dreams of friendship in this lonely world. Yet, when the girl’s infection exposes them, their sanctuary soon comes under siege.
Mila Harris also stars. The screenplay is penned by Infinite Storm’s Joshua Rollins. Martin Brennan, Jib Polhemus, Bradley Gallo, Michael Helfant, and Tracy Mercer produce, with Rollins and Katy Jackson as co-producers.
Worldbreaker releases January 30th, 2026, courtesy of Aura Entertainment. Watch the trailer below:
The thought of a Labubu feature film is perhaps becoming less horror-inspiring with news that Paddington filmmaker Paul King will be helming the pic.
As we reported last month, Sony Pictures picked up the screen rights to the Chinese doll brand with the aim of making a movie, and maybe launch a franchise.
Created in 2015 by artist Kasing Lung, Labubu was born from his The Monsters series, drawing on influences from Nordic mythology. The dolls really exploded in popularity once Pop Mart began selling the figures in blind-box format in 2019, a model that has driven collector frenzy around the world and turned the scruffy plush toys into a fashion statement with Gen Zers.
At this stage, Sony’s Labubu film is still early in development. No writer has yet been attached, and it remains unclear whether the adaptation will be animated or live-action.
Paul King is also set to produce with Department M and Wenxin She. King is best known for directing and co-writing the first two Paddington movies and co-wrote the screenplay for the most recent film, Paddington in Peru. He last directed the not-very-good Wonkastarring Timothée Chalamet, but we’ll forgive him that stumble, considering how excellent the Paddington films were.
The trailer for the next season of cult favourite actual play series, Dimension 20 has just dropped, and it’s a Mad Max / Wasteland Road Warrior parody.
Dimension20 is the flagship show of Dropout, formerly known as College Humor. The new season, Gladlands, is set to premiere January 7th with episodes dropping every Wednesday for six weeks. Each episode will be accompanied by an in-domeAdventuring Partytalkback, released the following day.
Steven Spielberg’s super-secret UFO film now has both a trailer and a title: Disclosure Day. Universal has revealed a first look at the iconic director’s first new film since 2022’s The Fabelmans, and it looks like a gorgeous return to the genre that he helped define with such classics as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, and War of the Worlds.
DisclosureDay stars Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colman Domingo, Colin Firth, Wyatt Russell, and Eve Hewson. It is based on a story by the filmmaker, with a screenplay by long-time collaborator David Koepp, whose previous work with Spielberg includes the scripts for Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Though a synopsis hasn’t been released and the trailer doesn’t show us any aliens, it heavily implies that the film will deal with humans learning of the existence of extra-terrestrials.
“If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you?” speaks the voiceover. “People have a right to know the truth. It belongs to 7 billion people,” O’Connor’s character then says in the footage, while another character reflects: “Why would [God] make such a vast universe, but save it only for us?”
Disclosure Day is scheduled to be released in cinemas on June 12th, 2026. Watch the teaser trailer below:
