Anna Faris and Regina Hall are the latest of the original cast to confirm they’ll return for the Scary Movie reboot that is releasing next year. Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans and Keenen Ivory Wayans co-penned the script with Rick Alvarez for director Michael Tiddes’ newest offering.
“We can’t wait to bring Brenda and Cindy back to life and be reunited with our great friends Keenen, Shawn and Marlon — three men we’d literally die for (in Brenda’s case, again),” Faris and Hall said in a joint statement about their characters, via Deadline.
Shawn and Marlon Wayans, and Dave Sheridan are also expected to reprise their roles as Ray, Shorty, and Doofy, respectively.
Known for its spoofing of horror flicks, the Scary Movie films began with the first title in 2000, followed by four sequels. Director Tiddes is a longtime Wayans brothers collaborator, having started as an assistant on another of their projects,the comedy White Chicks. He also directed three Wayans films: the satirical horror comedy A Haunted House, and the Netflix films Naked and Sextuplets.
Filming on the Scary Movie reboot is expected to begin in October. The sixth film in the horror-comedy series is due to release in cinemas on June 12th, 2026.
Step inside the official BLACK MIRROR graphic novels, brought to you by indie publisher Twisted Comics. Discover humanity’s worst traits, greatest innovations, and more waiting within these mind-bending tales, adapting the work of one of the most groundbreaking television shows of the 21st century. The flagship series will take flight in this first episode-to-graphic novel adaptation, USS Callister, with Neil Gibson as writer, Silvano Beltramo as artist, and Butcher Billy providing the series covers.
USS Callister depicts Robert Daly (played by Jesse Plemons in the series), a programmer who creates a virtual reality game called Infinity. Dissatisfied with his day-to-day, Daly clones his real-life coworkers using stolen DNA within a modded version of Infinity, casting himself as the heroic Captain Daly of the USS Callister, a Star Trek-inspired spaceship. He forces his digital coworkers to participate in his fantasy, mistreating them as he feels mistreated in reality. When a new employee, Nanette Cole (Cristin Milioti), joins the game, however, she rebels against Daly’s tyranny and rallies the crew to fight for their freedom. The episode was so well-received that it led to a sequel in Black Mirror season 7, titled USS Callister: Into Infinity.
Willem Dafoe is lurking in Corey Hawkins‘ basement in the aptly titled The Man in My Basement, for which the trailer has just been released.
The psychological thriller will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next month, before opening in select cinemas on September 12th. It will then land on Hulu and Disney+ later this autumn.
In the neighbourhood of Sag Harbor, New York, Charles Blakey (Hawkins) is unemployed, down on his luck, and on the verge of foreclosure on his ancestral home. A knock on the door from a mysterious businessman, Anniston Bennet (Dafoe), brings a strange yet lucrative proposition: rent out his unused basement for the summer and receive a payment large enough to wipe out his debts.
Accepting the deal, Charles soon finds himself on a terrifying path that confronts his family’s ghosts, locking the two men in a dreadful game that reaches to the very root of evil.
Nadia Latif makes her feature directorial debut from a script she co-wrote with Walter Mosley, itself based on Mosley’s 2004 novel of the same name. Also starring in The Man in My Basement are Anna Diop, Jonathan Ajayi, Gershwyn Eustache Jnr., Pamela Nomvete, and Tamara Lawrance.
After its fantastic reception at last year’s FrightFest, Jonathan Zaurin’s Derelict is hitting Blu-ray on September 22nd, following its digital release on September 1st.
Featuring powerhouse performances from Suzanne Fulton (MUM SAID), Michael Coombes (Blood Tales), Pete Bird (Wyvern Hill), Ayvianna Snow (How to Kill Monsters) and Nick Cornwall (How to Train Your Dragon), Derelict explores the aftermath of a gruelling murder and the intersection of two lives who are forever scarred by the events.
Through fragmented timelines carefully woven together and a striking blend of black and white and colour cinematography, the film captures a world where justice, memory and morality blur into one. This gritty, award-winning drama garnered extensive acclaim from critics and audiences alike on its premiere at FrightFest and now is set to arrive on Blu-ray and digital this September. The Blu-ray release via 101 Films features a slew of special features and a stunning reversible sleeve, please see full details below.
Abigail (Fulton), a young woman consumed by the brutal murder of her father, spirals into a world of seclusion, obsession and revenge. 10 years have passed since her father’s death, and she is hell-bent on punishing those who have caused her immense pain.
Through a compelling non-liner structure, Abigail’s world collides with Matt’s (Coombes), a young man whose already turbulent life is upended by the return of his estranged brother, Ewan (Bird), from prison. Matt’s sensitive nature contrasts that of his intimidating criminal brother, who pulls Matt into the dangerous and toxic world he inhabits.
Morals will be questioned and sympathies tested in this powerful and complex exploration of loss, upheaval, revenge, and isolation.
The Blu-ray special features include:
• Invisible Basketball – The making of Derelict
• The Petting Zoo – A short film by Virginie Sélavy
• No Easy Answer – video essay by George Daniel Lea
• Shadow of My Bones by Mike Hoskins original song music video
• Deleted scenes
• Trailers
• Reversible sleeve featuring alternate poster art
Derelict is on digtial platforms from September 1st and Blu-ray on September 22nd . Read our review of the film here.
Noah Centineo, best known for his roles in Black Adamand the To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before trilogy, is attached to star in the titular role in John Rambo, a prequel to the First Blood franchise, Deadline reports.
The film hails from Millennium Media, the studio behind Rambo: Last Blood and The Expendables. Original star Sylvester Stallone is not currently involved in the project.
The origin story will follow a young John Rambo during the Vietnam War. Jalmari Helander is set to direct from a script by writing duo Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani, the pair of whom worked on Black Adam and The Mauritanian. Filming is expected to begin early next year in Thailand. Producers on the latest instalment are Kevin King-Templeton on behalf of Templeton Media, Les Weldon, Jonathan Yunger and Avi Lerner. Executive producers include Trevor Short and Bonfire Legends’ Dallas Sonnier and Amanda Presmyk.
The Rambo franchise launched in 1982 with First Blood, based on a novel by David Morrell. It was followed by Rambo: First Blood Part II, Rambo III, Rambo and lastly, 2019’s Rambo: Last Blood. All titles starred Stallone. There was also an animated series.
Max Minghella, best known for starring in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale and in the horror franchise instalment Spiral: From the Book of Saw, is in final negotiations to join the cast of DC Studios’ Clayface.
Minghella joins Tom Rhys Harries and Naomi Ackie in the body-horror thriller, which is being directed by Speak No Evil director James Watkins. It is the next DC movie to head into production, with a start date expected this autumn.
Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass, Doctor Sleep, and the upcoming Life of Chuck) wrote the script for Clayface, about a Batman villain known for his ability to alter his appearance. According to THR, the story centres on a rising actor (Harries) who is disfigured by a gangster. As a last resort, the actor turns to a fringe scientist (Ackie) for help. Max Minghella will play a Gotham City police detective who is dating the scientist.
Writer Hossein Amini (best known for Drive) is also on board the project to revise the script. The Batman helmer Matt Reeves and Lynn Harris serve as producers, alongside James Gunn and Peter Safran.
The movie is set to release in cinemas on September 11th, 2026.
Lori Evans Taylor is killing it in the horror sphere, as the Final Destination: Bloodlines co-writer has been tapped to pen the next instalment in the New Line franchise.
Bloodlines, the sixth entry in the series and the first since 2011, became the most successful outing of the movie franchise, grossing over $286 million at the global box office. Taylor co-wrote the script with Guy Busick (Ready or Not), from a story by Taylor, Busick, and Jon Watts, the director of Spider-Man: Homecoming. Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein directed the film.
Destination franchise helmer Craig Perry and franchise veteran Sheila Hanahan Taylor are back producing, as are Watts and his wife, Dianne McGunigle, along with Toby Emmerich, THR reports. Warren Zide will executive produce.
Each Final Destination film centres on a character who has a premonition of a horrific, deadly event, which allows them to cheat their own death and save several other lives in the process. But escaping their fate is not so easy, and Death, personified as a targeted and unstoppable force, soon comes for each of the survivors.
Lori Evans Taylor also recently penned the adaptation of Carla Norton’s serial killer novel, The Edge of Normal, which stars Chloë Grace Moretz. She also adapted I Am Still Alive, with Ben Affleck attached to star and produce.
Dave Bautista is set to play the villain in Amazon MGM’s remake of the 1980s cult classic Highlander, joining Henry Cavill and Russell Crowe in the action fantasy.
The original 1986 film starred Christopher Lambert as Connor MacLeod, a Medieval Scottish Highlander who discovers he is one of a group of immortals destined to fight until only one remains, claiming the “Prize”. The story flashes between MacLeod’s 16th-century Scottish origins and his present-day life in New York City. Guided by the immortal swordsman Ramirez (Sean Connery), MacLeod learns about his immortality and the impending “Gathering” where the final battle will take place.
In this remake, Cavill will play MacLeod and Crowe, Ramirez. Dave Bautista will portray the immortal barbarian The Kurgen, who has been killing other immortals in order to absorb their life force and has been MacLeod’s nemesis across the centuries. Clancy Brown memorably played the character in the original film.
Chad Stahelski is directing the feature from a script by Michael Finch, and principal photography is due to begin this autumn. Though the project does not yet have a confirmed release date, we do know it will get a theatrical release before making its way to Prime Video.
The short films being screened at this year’s FrightFest have been announced. Spread over four showcases, the shorts are a much-loved part of the festival, with screenings being a hot ticket.
Here’s what you can expect:
Friday August 22nd – Short Film Showcase 1 – Odeon Luxe West End Screen Two from 3.45pm
Dead Tooth (London Premiere) Director: Romane Eilahtan. With: Tara Lindström. Tara has a dental appointment to fix a dead tooth. But one unexpected event after another turns this endless day into hell. Will Tara find a way to smile again and at what cost?
Obey! (International Premiere) Director: Jordan Wippell. With: Paige Phillips, OpieQ. After the tragic death of her viral dog, Max, a pet influencer is confronted by a vengeful spirit demanding an apology for a life of exploitation.
Tapestry (World Premiere) Director: Jason Sheedy. With: Erin Ownbey, Sam Jenkins, Clay Randel. A desperate mother performs an occult ritual to resurrect her lost child.
Flowers (World Premiere) Director: Nic McRobbie. With: Mia Fitzgerald, Alex Henderson, David Vikman. A backyard experiment with a mind-altering tea made from Flowers results in a whole lot more than expected…
Pandora, Inc. (International Premiere) Director: Joe Lueben. With: Jacob A. Ware. While his wife and kids are out of town, a stressed-out illustrator risks losing everything when DAWN – an alluring A.I. creation -mysteriously arrives at his home and begins to seduce him.
Vasen (World Premiere) Director: Kristofer Vishnu Kiggs Carlsson. With: Johanna Smitz, Juliette Mayson, Natanael Horner. In a cold 18th-century Sweden, two sisters fight for their survival as they find themselves trapped in a farmhouse by the maleficent Gårdstomten and his army of man-eating Mylings.
Vowels (International Premiere) Director: Rafael De Leon. With: Alexa Smith, Sunny Makwana, Chelsea Carpenter. Ava needs to record a self-tape, but her speech impediment keeps getting in the way.
Five Star (International Premiere) Director: Kai Hamada Hasson. With: Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Tate Hanyok. When late-night locksmith Soung Kang is asked to lock a door forever, he discovers a dark secret that pushes him to extraordinary lengths to secure his five-star Yelp review.
Murderbird (World Premiere) Director: Barrett Lesly Shuler. With: Sophie Isbell, Adam Raickovich, Elly Kouri, Donovan Edelstein. In an attempt to save his relationship, a man buys his girlfriend a rare exotic bird. After the couple develops a deep emotional bond with the bird, its true colours begin to emerge.
Pimple
Saturday August 23rd – Short Film Showcase 2 – Odeon Luxe West End Screen One from 10.40am
Needleteeth (World Premiere) Director: Daniel Lewis Martin. With: Aidan Rivers, Owen Mulhall. In rural Ireland, a reserved farm boy lives under the stern watch of his father. When their sheep are found brutally slaughtered, a creeping suspicion grows alongside a strange hunger…
The Man That I Wave At (London Premiere) Director: Ben Stephen Hyland. With: Sam Pamphilon, Marek Larwood, Rebecca Shorrocks. After a gentle ribbing from his wife, a man experiences an existential crisis trying to work out the identity of the man that he waves at.
My Best Friends (World Premiere) Director: William Willoughby. With: Paul Ginns. An apparent act of kindness – Alex brings home take-away food for his best friends – has horrifying repercussions.
Bloodbuzz (World Premiere) Director: Daisy Bata. With: Beth Taylor, Johnny Vivash, Ed Hartland. Amid a bug-infested heatwave driven by climate breakdown, a troubled, conspiracy-obsessed teen on the run is taken by a reclusive farmer. But when her manipulative stepbrother arrives, it’s not just the mosquitoes she will have to survive.
No One Is Coming To Rescue You (World Premiere) Director: Ruth Platt. With: Ema Cavolli, Arseniy Cassidy, Joseph Pollock, Jasper Jacob. Harry has brought his new girlfriend to meet his family on a beautiful summer’s day. Little does he know she harbours a long-standing, dark revenge against his doctor father, whom he hero worships.
Gilda (World Premiere) Director: Matty Ride-Smith. With: Kylie Ann Ford. An evening unfolds in real time as Gilda, a struggling performer, sets up a kids’ club, finds herself terrorised by an occult presence.
Inebriated (World Premiere) Director: Max R. Lincoln. With: Bethan Cullinane, Sharon Small, Patrick Brennan, Mark Strepan. To rescue her possessed boyfriend, Van must confront her demons, beginning with her parents.
You Look So Beautiful (Special Presentation) Director: Mookie Ma. With: Brendan Howley, Tara-Marie Tigue. A lonely prowler of the night has a chance encounter with the girl of his dreams, but is she his redemption or his doom?
Cruz (The Kook Cook)
Sunday August 24th – Short Film Showcase 3 – Odeon Luxe West End Screen One from 11.00am
The Leopard / Waagh (World Premiere) Director: Mukti Krishan. With: Arjun Amedkar, Sagar Deshmukh, Sharvari Patankar. When a leopard wanders into a redeveloped apartment complex in Mumbai – its natural habitat long since encroached upon – fear quickly spreads.
Whitch (International Premiere) Director: Hoku Uchiyama. With: Rosemary Hochschild, Alicia Blasingame, Nora Harriet. After putting her daughter to bed, Aura discovers an intruder in her house: an elderly lady who acts strangely familiar, and who is hell-bent on performing a bloody ritual before midnight.
Click (European Premiere) Director: Kyle Baughman. With: Jenna Luck, Holden McNeil. A woman becomes increasingly troubled by the mysterious computer programme her boyfriend is developing.
DIY (European Premiere) Director: Tony Gardiner ACS. With: Damon Herriman, Claire Lovering, Alexander England. After a bizarre mishap hanging a picture frame, a young woman stumbles into her neighbour’s secret life, realising her only chance of survival is to commit to an outrageous lie.
Thorns (UK Premiere) Director: Nir Paniry. With: Lestonja Diaz, Jesse Gallagher. When a young college student checks on her married best friend, she unravels a mysterious paranoia that runs much more than skin deep.
Cruz (The Kook Cook) (World Premiere) Director: Cai O’Leary. With: Michael Olavson. Cruz is a disgruntled surfer who hails from Santa Cruz. He lives in the desert during the week and murderously hunts hipsters during the weekend.
Pimple (World Premiere) Director: Fernando Alle. With: Tiago Rodrigues, António Chaves, João Miranda, Dinis Lima, João Vilas. A young boy’s pimple bursts, leading to a bloody disaster.
It Loves Me So (International Premiere) Director: Colin Dean Treneff. With: Jenna Moloney. After a painful breakup, a woman’s heartbreak unwittingly attracts a love-deprived demonic entity determined to claim her soul for a terrifying eternal romance.
Praying Mantis (International Premiere) Director: Mack Breeden. With: Sam Straley, Mack Breeden, Story Slaughter. On the run after abandoning his post, a Confederate soldier takes shelter in the isolated cabin of two women who now find themselves at his mercy.
Hammer (English Premiere) Directors: Alejandra Parody, Ben Sottak. With: Ajani Russell, Jessica Pimentel, Ray Acevedo, Magdalena Borlando. 1666, Cartagena, Colombia. An enslaved woman accused of witchcraft comes face to face with evil incarnate.
Monday August 25th – Short Film Showcase 4 – Odeon Luxe West End Screen One from 10.50am
Watch Me Burn (World Premiere) Director: Sofia Spotti. With: Lucy Griffiths. After an accident that left her mostly deaf, Rue moves to a remote village with her parents. Feeling isolated, she befriends a group of girls who convince her to go ahead with an act of cruelty.
The Fairy Moon (UK Premiere) Director: Craig Williams. With: James Swanton, Johnny Vivash, Julia Davis. In a small English town, a man’s life unravels after a troubling roadside encounter with a sinister stranger.
Frame (World Premiere) Directors: Olivia Cordell, Libby Morris. With: Alison Rogers. When mysterious photos begin to appear on her digital picture frame, an isolated woman begins to suspect she’s not really alone.
Ouija Go Out With Me? (World Premiere) Director: James Kennedy. With: Hatty Preston, Leah Brotherhead, Freddy Quinn. Since the death of her boyfriend, Harriet has been traversing the hell that is the online dating scene but to no avail. Then Harriet finds a Ouija board in the basement and an idea forms…
Undertone (UK Premiere) Director: Shaun Munro. With: Shaun Munro, Toby Norton, Eliza Chadwick. A sound recordist captures strange sonic phenomena underneath their house and things…escalate from there.
Homecoming (World Premiere) Director: Troy Alexander. With: Maya-Nika Bewley, Troy Alexander. When Lucy returns from a camping trip, her cruel partner Mark is suspicious. She insists nothing happened, but sometimes coming home is the hardest part…
Don’t Look (UK Premiere) Director: Danny Murphy. With: Olly Rhodes, Danny Murphy, Valor Grey, Morgan Colquhoun, Liam Robertson. A group of friends plays ‘Don’t Look,’ a game where opening your eyes summons deadly spirits. Their thrill turns to terror as they unleash supernatural forces and must confront their worst fears to survive.
Grandma Is Thirsty (UK Premiere) Director: Kris Carr. With: Harris Kiiza, Harrison Little, Jessie Johnson, Dean Kilby, Matt Swift. All George wants is to stop getting pushed around by the local bullies. So, when a pair of weird twins offer to introduce him to their grandma – who can “make him big & strong” – he jumps at the chance.
FrightFest 2025 runs from August 21st – 25th at Odeon LUXE Leicester Sq and Odeon LUXE West End.For full programme details and tickets: http://www.frightfest.co.uk/
In the first trailer for Him, we are asked a seemingly simple question: What would you sacrifice to become the greatest of all time?
From Oscar winner Jordan Peele and his banner, Monkeypaw Productions (the producers behind some of our favourite horror films Get Out, Us, Candyman and Nope, comes a chilling journey into the inner sanctum of fame, idolatry and the pursuit of excellence at any cost.
Starring an electrifying and surprisingly dramatic performance from Marlon Wayans, Him follows Cameron Cade (played by former college wide-receiver Tyriq Withers), a rising-star quaterback who has devoted his life and identity to football. On the eve of professional football’s annual scouting Combine, Cam is attacked by an unhinged fan and suffers a potentially career-ending brain trauma.
Just when all seems lost, Cam receives a lifeline when his hero, Isaiah White (Wayans), a legendary eight-time Championship quarterback and cultural megastar, offers to train Cam at Isaiah’s isolated compound that he shares with his celebrity influencer wife, Elsie White (Julia Fox). But as Cam’s training accelerates, Isaiah’s charisma begins to curdle into something darker, sending his protégé down a disorienting rabbit hole that may cost him more than he ever bargained for.
Him is directed by Justin Tipping from a screenplay by Zack Akers & Skip Bronkie, and Tipping.
Him releases September 19th, 2025 in the US and October 3rd, 2025 in the UK. Watch the trailer below:
