Crumb Catcher is now available on Blu-ray from Arrow Video, and we have an exclusive clip to share!
Synopsis:
Two married couples collide in Chris Skotchdopole’s beautifully shot and wonderfully wild Crumb Catcher, a truly unique and darkly funny home invasion thriller from the stable of Larry Fessenden’s Glass Eye Pix (The House of the Devil, The Ranger, Depraved).
After blacking out during his wedding night, Shane (Rigo Garay) and his new wife Leah (Ella Rae Peck) head to a remote house for their honeymoon. Their plans to find wedded bliss are hampered when there is a knock at their door. It’s the waiter, John (John Speredakos), and the bartender, Rose (Lorraine Farris), from the reception, blackmailing Shane for something he can’t remember doing. As tensions escalate, it soon emerges that the blackmailers don’t just want money. They’re after business partners for their invention, a revolutionary device called… The Crumb Catcher.
And here’s the trailer to whet your appetite even more:
Crumb Catcher is out now on Blu-ray. You can order your copy here.Read our review here.
Director Rob Savage is adapting Bird Box author Josh Malerman’s horror novel Incidents Around the House. The title and its young lead star have now been announced via Deadline.
Eight-year-old Arabella Olivia Clark, who previously appeared in The Housemaid andSpringsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, will lead Other Mommy, the new supernatural horror film from Universal and Atomic Monster.
Clark joins previously announced stars Jessica Chastain (IT: Chapter Two, Crimson Peak), Jay Duplass (The Creep Tapes), and Dichen Lachman (Severance, Altered Carbon, Jurassic World: Dominion). Succession writer Nathan Elston penned the screenplay.
While details of the film’s plot are unknown, the novel’s synopsis is as follows: “To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There’s Mommy, Daddo, and Grandma Ruth. But there is also Other Mommy, a malevolent entity who asks her every day: “Can I go inside your heart?” When horrifying incidents around the house signal that Other Mommy is growing tired of asking Bela the question over and over, Bela understands that unless she says yes, her family will soon pay.
“Other Mommy is getting restless, stronger, bolder. Only the bonds of family can keep Bela safe, but other incidents show cracks in her parents’ marriage. The safety Bela relies on is about to unravel. But Other Mommy needs an answer…”
James Wan is producing, with Michael Clear, Judson Scott, Macdara Kelleher, Savage, Malerman and Ryan Lewis executive producing. Alayna Glasthal is the executive overseeing the film for Atomic Monster. Rob Savage is best known for directing the horror films Host, Dashcam, and The Boogeyman.
Warner Bros. Pictures Animation has announced that Ariana Grande and Josh Gad will lead the voice cast for directors Jon M. Chu and Jill Culton’s upcoming animated adaptation of the Dr. Seuss book Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
The musical film is currently set to release on March 17th, 2028. Rob Lieber wrote the script based on the acclaimed children’s book. It’s Dr. Seuss’ last book published in his lifetime, released in 1990, and centred on a young adventurer navigating the ups and downs of life.
Exact plot points are yet to be announced, and who Grande and Gad might be portraying is also a mystery.
The animated film will feature original music by Oscar-winning song-writing duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, as confirmed by Warner Bros. via their social media accounts.
The project will mark a reunion for Chu and Grande, who collaborated on the Oscar-winning adaptation of Wicked, in which the actress-singer stars as Glinda. Wicked: For Good, the second film in the two-part release, will land in cinemas this November.
Grande is also set to appear in the next film in the Meet the Parents franchise, opposite returning actors Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro. Gad’s future projects, meanwhile, include producing and starring in the forthcoming Spaceballs sequel.
Die’ced: Reloaded, a feature reimagining of a viral short film, has landed a theatrical release and has just shared its first trailer. Writer-director Jeremy Rudd’s slasher expands upon the story that began with Rudd’s 2023 viral short, Die’ced.
Set in 1980s Seattle, Die’ced: Reloaded centres on Benny, a notorious serial killer who flees an asylum on Halloween with the help of a scarecrow mask, to begin a trail of carnage. It becomes clear that Benny is hunting a young woman who has unknowingly become his obsession. Th
Eden Campbell (Fear Street: Part Two — 1978), Jason Brooks (The Death of Snow White) and Nigel Vona (The Chronicles of Riddick) star in the feature. Producers on the project include Jeffrey Decker, Chad Ferrin, and Tylor Jones.
“I’m excited to bring audiences back to the gritty nostalgia of classic ’80s and ’90s slasher horror while blending it with modern horror,” says Rudd, via THR. “I can’t wait for everyone to meet our final girl, Cassandra, and our soon-to-be iconic villain, Benny.”
Adds Epic Pictures CEO Patrick Ewald, “When I first saw the original short film by Jeremy Rudd, Die’ced, I knew it had the potential to become something bigger, meaner, bloodier and with an ever more unhinged killer, Benny. Die’ced: Reloaded is exactly that. The team at Epic and Dread are proud to have helped bring this savage vision to life and thrilled to unleash it on horror fans who crave brutal creativity and fearless filmmaking.”
Die’ced: Reloaded will release in cinemas on August 8th, before releasing on VOD on August 12th, via Epic Pictures. Watch the trailer below:
Elysian Film Group will be re-releasing Princess Mononoke in IMAX cinemas across the UK and ROI next month.
Oscar-winning director Hayao Miyazaki’s epic fantasy masterpiece will be shown in a brand new 4K restoration across the biggest cinemas screens. The special programming will be another way for audiences to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Studio Ghibli.
The hand-drawn, animated feature is an original story written and directed by Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki, produced by co-founder Toshio Suzuki, and features a musical score from Miyazaki’s long-time collaborator, the renowned composer Joe Hisaishi. The IMAX version of the film was created from a new 4K restoration directly overseen by Studio Ghibli’s own Atsushi Okui, who has been involved in nearly every major Studio Ghibli project since he first started at the studio in 1993.
Official synopsis is as follows:
From the legendary Studio Ghibli, creators of Spirited Away, and Academy Award®-winning director Hayao Miyazaki, comes an epic masterpiece that has dazzled audiences worldwide with its breathtaking imagination, exhilarating battles, and deep humanity.
Inflicted with a deadly curse, the young warrior Ashitaka heads west in search of a cure. There, he stumbles into a bitter conflict between Lady Eboshi, the proud people of Iron Town, and the enigmatic Princess Mononoke, a young girl raised by wolves, who will stop at nothing to prevent the humans from destroying her home and the forest spirits and animal gods who live there. Featuring the voice talents of Gillian Anderson, Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Billy Bob Thornton.
Humans and nature clash when San, a girl raised by wolves, must defend the forest against the encroaching people of Iron Town.
PRINCESS MONONOKE will be specially re-released in 4K in UK and Irish IMAX cinemas from August 15th, 2025. It will be available in both original Japanese and English language versions. Check out the new poster art below!
A24‘s upcoming horror feature The Backrooms has added Mark Duplass (The Morning Show), Finn Bennett (True Detective), Lukita Maxwell (Shrinking), and Avan Jogia (56 Days) to its cast. Chiwetel Ejiofor (the forthcoming Life of Chuck) and Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person In The World) were previously announced as the stars of the project, which hails from 20-year-old director Kane Parsons, who will become the youngest filmmaker in the studio’s history.
A24 and The North Road Company’s Chernin Entertainment are co-financing the film, which also counts 21 Laps Entertainment and Atomic Monster as producers.
Parsons is making his feature directorial debut from a script by Will Soodik. Plot details have not been revealed for The Backrooms, which is inspired by Parsons’ viral YouTube horror series, itself based on the urban legend and creepypasta of the same name.
Simply explained, The Backrooms are an endless, liminal space accessed by “no-clipping” out of reality. It is characterised by unsettling, empty office-like environments with damp carpets, yellow walls, and buzzing fluorescent lights. They are viewed as as a dimension separate from our own, filled with both mundane and terrifying elements, and potentially inhabited by entities.
A release date for the film has not yet been announced.
Apple TV+ announced that their acclaimed sci-fi comedy Murderbot has been renewed for a second season. The news broke just ahead of the season one finale, which premiered July 11th on the streaming platform.
A rogue security unit searches for the meaning of life in the show based on the bestselling book series The Murderbot Diaries (which won Best Series at the Hugo Book Awards in 2021) by Martha Wells, who serves as consulting producer. The Apple TV+ and Paramount Television Studios project how was created, written, and directed by Academy Award nominees Chris & Paul Weitz (About a Boy).
The 10-episode series follows a self-hacking security android (Alexander Skarsgård) who is uninterested in and horrified by human emotion yet drawn to its vulnerable “clients.” Murderbot must hide its free will as it reluctantly joins a new mission protecting scientists on a dangerous planet when all it really wants is to be left alone to watch futuristic soap operas and figure out its place in the universe.
“We’re so grateful for the response that Murderbot has received, and delighted that we’re getting to go back to Martha Wells’s world to work with Alexander, Apple, CBS Studios and the rest of the team,” said the Weitz duo.
“Chris, Paul, Alexander and the entire ‘Murderbot’ team have delivered a brilliantly original, addictive, witty and vibrant adaptation that has captured the imagination of audiences everywhere,” said Matt Cherniss, head of programming at Apple TV+. We can’t wait to unveil what’s next for Murderbot and, of course, ‘Sanctuary Moon’ in season two.”
The season one ensemble cast also includes Noma Dumezweni, David Dastmalchian (Late Night with the Devil), Sabrina Wu (Joy Ride), Akshay Khanna, Tattiawna Jones, and Tamara Podemski.
The line-up for FrightFest 2025 has been announced and it’s packed with eagerly awaited shockers and fresh blood.
The peak of every horror fan’s calendar opens with the UK premiere of James DeMonaco’s The Home and closes with the UK premiere of Kurtis David Harder’s Influencers, the sequel to the 2023 Shudder fave Influencer.
The Home
The line-up includes several returning directors, such as Erik Bloomquist with Self-Help, Simon Rumley with Crushed, the Adams family’s spiritual sequel to Hellbender, Mother of Flies, Joe Begos’ Jimmy and Stiggs (which comes from Eli Roth’s distribution company and will be the first screening with additional Roth footage!), and Neil Marshall returns with the world premiere of the 4K restoration of The Descent – with some of the original cast in attendance.
Also hitting the main screen are the UK premiere of The Toxic Avenger, the superb reimagining of the Troma classic, A Serbian Documentary, which focuses on the controversial movie, Toshiaki Toyoda’s Transcending Dimensions, Seth Daly’s The Rows, Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s Bone Lake, Terry Castle (daughter of the legendary William Castle) offers serial killer thriller What She Doesn’t Know, the McManus Brothers’ Redux Redux, Gerard Johnson’s Odyssey, and Bamboo Revenge.
The Toxic Avenger
Also screening are Cognaitive, Hold the Fort, Marshmallow, Night of Violence, and Flush. There are world premieres of Chris Marrs Piliero’s Appofeniacs, Jeffrey Primm’s 213 Bones, Vatanyu Ingkaviat’s Tomb Watcher, and Ritesh Gupta’s The Red Mask.
The Discovery strands feature some excellent titles from both emerging and established artists from around the world. There’s Borderline, starring Samara Weaving, Patrick Rea’s Super Happy Fun Clown, Keith Boynton’s The Haunted Forest, and Andrew Mudge’s The Arborist.
Borderline
More world premieres include Gabriel Carrer’s Death Cycle, Matt Stuertz’s Human, Tim Cruz’s Don’t Let the Cat Out, Pig Hill, Blood Shine, the debut from Raven Carter, Noseeums, James Ross’ Parasomnia, Dani Barker’s Five.
More films from the US include Kombucha, DW Medoff’s Your Host, The Mannequin, In a Cold Vein, Cover, The Only Ones, Paul Bunnell’s A Blind Bargain, The Other People, and Will Canon’s The Confession.
UK entries include Bambi: The Reckoning, and Matt Harlock’s Blockhead.
Bambi: The Reckoning
The First Blood strand presents four world premieres: Tom Pickering’s He Kills at Night, Luke Tedder’s The Caretaker, Healing Andy, and Natasha Tosini and Stephen Staley’s The Haunting at Jack the Ripper’s House.
There’s a pair of films from Australia: Alice Maio Mackay’s The Serpent’s Skin, and Parish Malfitano’s Salt Along the Tongue, while from New Zealand there’s Callum Devlin’s The Weed Eaters.
From Canada, there’s the world premiere of Jay Reid’s Sick Puppy and Ava Maria Safai’s Foreigner.
Other European entries are Above the Knee, from Viljar Bøe, who was at FrightFest a few years back with Good Boy, and Juan Alberacin’s El Instinto (Instinct).
FrightFest wouldn’t be the same without some documentaries, and this year there’s Captured Souls: In Conversation with Graham Humphreys from director Chris Collier, Alaric S. Rocha’s mockumentary Where is Juan Moctezuma?The Degenerate: The Life and Films of Andy Milligan, and Andreas Zerr’s Sane Inside Insanity: The Rocky Horror Phenomenon.
Sane Inside Insanity: The Rocky Horror Phenomenon
This year there are also two animated movies: Lauris Abele and Raitis Abele’s Dog of God from Latvia and the Korean film Gill from Jae-huun Ahn.
Co-director Alan Jones comments: “FrightFest in its 26th year remains the UK’s Number One destination for genre fans. The 2025 event will be epic in every sense, celebrating the inventive, transgressive and diverse. So, join us for an event that has consistently remained in the Top Ten of The World’s Best Fantasy Festivals list”.
Influencer
FrightFest takes place at The Odeon LUXE Leicester Square from Thursday, August 21st to Monday, August 25th. Full passes are on sale from noon on Saturday, July 12th. Day passes and single tickets on sale from noon on Saturday, July 19th. Head over to www.frightfest.co.uk for more information.
Night at the Museum is back for another mayhem-filled outing! 20th Century and Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps are reportedly revisiting the franchise, which originally starred Ben Stiller as the overnight security guard at the Natural History Museum where, thanks to an ancient Egyptian artefact, the exhibits come alive at night.
Tripper Clancy, best known for Stuber, will be writing this new entry. Plot details for the reimagining are currently under mummy wraps, though Deadline reports that “the film is said to be a new story set at the museum with all-new characters.”
The original film was released by 20th Century Fox in 2006 and was followed by 2009’s Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian and Secret of the Tombin 2014. Rami Malek, Robin Williams and Owen Wilson were among those starring. Following Disney’s acquisition of Fox in 2019, the studio moved to further expand the franchise with Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again, an animated feature produced by Levy for Disney+, which was released in 2022.
Clancy is also known for having written the Die Hart franchise (not a typo, this is the Kevin Hart-starring series). He also co-created a Varsity Blues reboot for Quibi and has written for Pixar, among others.
Ryan Murphy’s true crime-based Netflix series Monster has previously profiled Jeffrey Dahmer and the Menendez Brothers. Season 3, which releases soon, will centre on Ed Gein. Now, Variety reports that the fourth season will focus on the infamous Lizzie Borden.
The news comes despite the fact that no official Season 4 renewal has been announced yet. Monster Season 3 also hasn’t yet set a premiere date.
Borden lived in Massachusetts in the late 1800s. In 1892, she was accused of mutilating and murdering both her father and her stepmother with an axe at their shared home. Borden was eventually acquitted of the crimes, but the brutal nature of the murders attracted nationwide attention and contributed to Borden’s infamy in popular culture.
The grisly murders also inspired a great many books, both studies and fiction; Fall River Legend (1948), a ballet by Agnes de Mille; an opera titled Lizzie Borden (1965), by Jack Beeson and Kenward Elmslie; and one catchy, if not wholly accurate, nursery rhyme: “Lizzie Borden took an axe/ And gave her mother forty whacks;/ And when she saw what she had done/ She gave her father forty-one.” There were also a number of television and feature film adaptations of Lizzie’s story, includingLizzie Borden Took an Axestarring Christina Ricci, or the 2018 feature Lizzie starring Chloë Sevigny.
