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Today marks the launch of No Sleep October, a month-long celebration for Halloween and horror fans alike. Max’s brand new exclusive films, horror library, imaginative curations, designs, and specially designed art featuring iconic stars from fans’ favorite scary movies will haunt viewers and keep them up all night with fear.

No Sleep October brings horror fans three films only available to stream on Max, including Salem’s Lot on October 3. In the film, author Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot in search of inspiration for his next book, only to discover his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire.

The new Max Original film Caddo Lake debuts on October 10. When an eight-year-old girl mysteriously vanishes, a series of past deaths and disappearances start to link together, forever altering a broken family’s history. And in Trap, debuting October 25, a father and teen daughter attend a pop concert,...

October is here! Which means peak Halloween season is now underway, and that includes the launch of “No Sleep October,” a month-long celebration for Halloween and horror fans alike at Max. Max’s brand new exclusive films, a best-in-class horror library, imaginative curations, and specially designed art featuring iconic stars will keep you busy all month long.

Look for new Max Original Film, Salem’s Lot on October 3. In the film, “Author Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot in search of inspiration for his next book only to discover his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire.”

Max Original Film Caddo Lake arrives on October 10. “When an eight-year-old girl mysteriously vanishes, a series of past deaths and disappearances start to link together, forever altering a broken family’s history.” Celine Held & Logan George (Topside) wrote and directed for New Line Cinema, and the film...

Ready for Halloween? So is Max. The streamer just debuted their month-long Halloween and horror movie celebration, dubbed “No Sleep October,” and we’ve got the full list for your perusal.

There’s a batch of A24 horror movies that includes favorites like “Bodies Bodies Bodies” and “Midsommar” alongside new releases “MaXXXine” and “I Saw the TV Glow.”

Timed to the release of Max’s “Salem’s Lot” adaptation from “Anabelle Comes Home” director Gary Dauberman, which debuts on Oct. 3, Max also has a collection of Stephen King movies, including Tobe Hooper’s 1979 mini-series adaptation, “It” and “It: Chapter Two,” “The Shining” and “Doctor Sleep.”

And with the streaming debut of “Trap” landing on Max on Oct. 25, M. Night Shyamalan is also getting the spotlight with a collection that includes “Unbreakable,” “The Sixth Sense” and “The Visit.”

Finally, there are of course plenty of horror and Halloween classics, including “A Nightmare on Elm Street,...

One of the most acclaimed horror movies of all time is an unassuming little Australian film called The Babadook. The film is top-notch, but it still incorporates one of the worst cliches in modern movies. Maybe it couldn’t do any better in that regard.

‘The Babadook’ showed that it was a low-budget movie in the worst way

The Babadook is from 2014 and it’s set in the modern day. At multiple points in the film, the protagonist, Amelia Vanek, watches television. She sees a lot of silent films on TV. At one point, she views the famous unmasking scene from The Phantom of the Opera starring Lon Chaney Sr. The film’s titular monster inserts himself into some of the clips to scare her.

This is part of a big movie cliche sometimes called “the public domain channel.” Low-budget movies can’t always afford the rights to clips from other films.

The Babadook is one of the most acclaimed horror movies of the 21st century. While The Babadook is a great film, it’s not totally original, as it cribs elements from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. If you analyze the similarities between the two, you’ll see why those movies get under viewers’ skin much more than your average scary movie.

‘The Babadook’ and ‘The Shining’ both take relatable emotions in an extreme direction

The Shining has a lot of unsettling elements, including creepy twins, an elevator full of blood, and an early depiction of a furry. But the real reason why the film is terrifying is very simple. We all want to have loving parents, so the idea of a father trying to kill his own son is deeply upsetting. It goes against our collective desire to protect children.

Of course, The Shining goes out of its way to...

A 30-minute filmed conversation between Mexican auteur Alfonso Cuarón and Australian writer-director Jennifer Kent will follow each screening of the 10th anniversary re-release of the latter’s cult, modern horror classic “The Babadook.”

In a recent masterclass at the Locarno Film Festival Cuarón had expressed his interest in exploring the horror genre and name-checked “The Babadook,” praising how the film is grounded in reality and character. Following this, IFC Films – which released Cuarón’s “Y Tu Mamá También” in 2002 – reached out to Cuarón to moderate an in-theaters-only Q&a with Kent, and their filmed 30-minute conversation will play in theaters following every screening across the U.S.

During the conversation, which is a cinephile’s delight, Cuarón says that when he watched the film for the first time, he was “absolutely impressed by the thematic approach,” and was also “impressed by how cinematically it was assured. It was like it was a very confident film.

The vampire subgenre has been at the forefront of horror for over 100 years, and the myths of undead creatures living off of human blood go back countless years further. The best vampire movies ever made are, mostly, incredibly varied. There’s a whole lot of great “Dracula” movies out there, sure, but also art-house nightmares, mainstream action movies, silly comedies, Neo-westerns, heartwarming romances and more. And if you ask us, these are the very, very best.

(Film Arts Guild) “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror” (1922)

F.W. Murnau’s eerie silent classic is 100 years old, and it still has the power to shock and horrify. Telling an extremely plagiarized version of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” – Stoker’s estate successfully sued, and nearly had every single copy of “Nosferatu” destroyed – the film stars Max Schreck as the verminous Count Orlok, who moves from his haunted castle to Germany, and brings a supernatural plague along with him.

Actor and filmmaker Asia Argento will be guest of honor at this year’s Neuchatel Int’l Fantastic Film Festival (Nifff), a choice the Nifff director sees as emblematic of the festival’s own self-image.

“Asia is an icon,” says Nifff chief Pierre-Yves Walder. “She’s someone we ourselves have grown up with, and whom we watched grow up. She’s established herself as artist who makes few concessions, who practices her profession with absolute freedom and who is always ready to take big risks. She has a punk side and never hesitates, and because of her career – which stretches back to the foundational horror films of her father [Dario Argento] towards something more contemporary – she also bridges versions of Nifff past and present.”

“She also helped spearhead the MeToo movement,” Walder continues, “which led to some very difficult moments. She has had some shadows on her journey, and those are important as well.

The long wait to play Don’T Nod’s narrative Action-rpg Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is over. The game arrives today on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam, accompanied by the customary launch trailer that hits on the necessary notes to get prospective players interested, including the relationship between the game’s protagonist ghost hunters, Antea Duarte and Red Mac Raith.

From the developer behind Life is Strange and Vampyr, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden was initially revealed during The Game Awards 2022, and is set in 1695 in New Eden, where communities of settlers are plagued by a curse. As Banishers, Antea and Red are trained spirit-hunters, protecting people from lingering specters. But when tragedy strikes and Antea herself becomes a ghost, Red struggles between honoring his Banisher oath, and sacrificing the living in a desperate bid to bring Antea back.

As Banishers, you will enter the lives of...

According to the Banishers handbook featured in Don’T Nod’s latest, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, the goal of ghost-hunting is to be “Efficient. Adaptive. Versatile.” That skillset is what’s made Antea Duarte and her apprentice (and lover) Red mac Raith so renowned, so much so that they’ve been summoned to the fictional town of New Eden, located not far from Boston in the Puritan territories of Massachusetts, to break a powerful spirit’s curse. These two characters are vividly rendered, and their loss is heartbreakingly portrayed, but Ghosts of New Eden itself only partly lives up to their guiding principles.

The story, set in 1695, is indeed efficient, with believable, tragic characters and hauntings that will have you grappling with a morality that’s far from cut and dry, but the way in which Red and Antea go about investigating ghostly occurrences involves a lot of tedious trudging...

The episode of Wtf Happened to This Horror Movie? covering The Invisible Man (2020) was Written and Narrated by Adam Walton, Edited by Jaime Vasquez, Produced by Andrew Hatfield and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

One of the most recurring trends in Hollywood right now is the horror remake, and for better, or worse, it isn’t gonna disappear (pun intended) anytime soon. David Gordon Green’s The Exorcist remake may have been met with a geyser of pea soup from the mouths of critics and fans alike, but that isn’t slowing the trend down for the foreseeable future. The Halloween franchise has been picked up by Miramax with the intention of creating a TV series, and a possible cinematic universe, and that’s just hot off the heels of Halloween Ends, erm, ending the recent trilogy with somewhat of a whimper. Another classic horror franchise that...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

’90s Horror, Art-House Horror, and Pre-Code Horror

It’s October, which means you are likely crafting an endless queue of horror films to consume. When it comes to a single streaming service to dedicate your eyes to this month, The Criterion Channel takes the cake with three different series. First up, ’90s horror brings together such films as The Rapture (1991), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), The Addiction (1995), and Ravenous (1999), while Art-House Horror features Häxan (1922), Vampyr (1932), Eyes Without a Face (1960), Carnival of Souls (1962), Onibaba (1964), Night of the Living Dead (1968), Sisters (1973), Eraserhead (1977), House (1977), Suspiria (1977), Arrebato (1979), The Brood (1979), The Vanishing (1988), Cronos (1993), Cure (1997), Donnie Darko (2001), Trouble Every Day (2001), Antichrist (2009), and more. Lastly, Pre-Code horrors brings together ’30s features such as Freaks (1932), Island of Lost Souls (1932), The Old Dark House...

If I were an ambitious producer of horror films, like Jason Blum, the first thing I would do this year is to offer a deal to Kyle Edward Ball, the writer-director of “Skinamarink.” But it would be a special kind of deal — comparable, in its way, to the one Mel Brooks struck with David Lynch to direct “The Elephant Man,” after Brooks had seen and loved “Eraserhead.”

“Skinamarink” isn’t like other horror films. Made for $15,000, it’s a hushed and nearly plotless experimental creep-out — a movie with barely any people in it (though a couple of child actors hover on the margins), one that consists mostly of static images shot inside a nondescript house at what looks like 3:00 a.m. The film will open on Jan. 13 at selected megaplexes, and that’s the right place for it; you want to experience it with an audience, kind of like a séance.

Holdovers account for the top eight places in the charts.

RankFilm (distributor) Three-day gross (May 20-May 22)Total gross to date Week 1. Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness (Disney) £3m £35.3m 3 2. Everything Everywhere All At Once (A24) £839,974 £1.9m 2 3. Downton Abbey: A New Era (Universal) £755,979 £12.3m 4 4. Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Paramount) £424,000 £24.7m 8 5. The Lost City (Paramount) £357,000 £9.8m 6

Disney’s Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness dominated again at the UK-Ireland box office, grossing £3m in its third weekend.

Ticket sales for Multiverse dropped 48, while its box office total now stands at £35.3m.

The sequel has quickly overtaken the £23.2m that...

’Benediction’, ’The Road Dance’ and ’The Innocents’ launch this weekend.

Benediction, The Road Dance and The Innocents are among the independent arthouse titles launching in UK and Ireland cinemas this weekend, with live event screenings, a RoboCop re-release and documentary a-ha: The Movie also looking to attract audiences.

No studio titles are opening this weekend, clearing the way for Disney’s Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness to perform strongly in its third weekend. Studios are also looking to avoid their films being crushed in the wake of Paramount juggernaut Top Gun: Maverick next week.

Terence Davies’ Benediction explores...

Adrien Brody thriller Clean, Keira Knightley comedy horror Silent Night on the roster.

AMC Networks is bulking up its streaming platform and has announced AMC+ will carry weekly streaming premieres of films from sister companies IFC Films, IFC Midnight, Rlje Films and Shudder.

The arrangement starts on May 6 with the streaming premiere of IFC Films’s Adrien Brody thriller Clean. The platform will serve as the exclusive pay 1 partner for AMC Networks Film Group’s stable of IFC Films, IFC Midnight and Rlje Films.

Most of the Friday releases on AMC+ will stream 90 days after their initial theatrical release, with...

Another batch of Scream Factory and Shout! Factory Blu-rays are going out of print real soon, which means remaining stock is being sold off at a discount on the Shout! Factory website. Horror titles up for grabs as part of this latest going out of print sale include: Dance Macabre (1992) Rockula (1990) The Vampire […]

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Eric Bogosian has been cast in the upcoming series Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire, AMC announced March 17. The Succession and Talk Radio actor will play Daniel Molloy, “an investigative journalist nearing the end of his career who’s given a second chance at the interview of a lifetime.” According to AMC, the series based on Anne Rice’s iconic and bestselling novel “follows Louis de Pointe, Lestat De Lioncourt, and Claudia’s epic story of love, blood and the perils of immortality.” Bogosian joins the previously announced Sam Reid (The Newsreader) as Lestat, Jacob Anderson (Game of Thrones) as Louis, Bailey Bass (Avatar 2) as Claudia, and Assad Zaman (Hotel Portofino) as Rashid. Interview With the Vampire Season 1 will consist of seven episodes and debut later this year on AMC and AMC+. “In 1988, I hit my mom up for money three times to see Talk Radio in the movie theaters,...

Somebody get Eric Bogosian a fedora: The Talk Radio alum has been cast in the upcoming series Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire as an investigative journalist.

Bogosian will play Daniel Molloy, a reporter who snags the interview of a lifetime with a charismatic bloodsucker. The series from Mark Johnson (Breaking Bad), Rolin Jones and Christopher Rice is based on Anne Rice’s bestselling novel of the same name.

The author died in December.

“In 1988, I hit my mom up for money three times to see Talk Radio in the movie theaters,” said Jones, who will serve as showrunner and executive producer, in a statement. “I count Eric Bogosian as one of the half dozen artists who made me want to do this for a career. He is, for me, the dented car fender of the American Soul and I can think of no...

Interview with the Vampire, author Anne Rice’s first volume in her Vampire Chronicles, had been among my favorite novels since I first read it in 1977 (I’ve read it many times since). It was imaginative in its construction and narrative voice — the worst that could be said was that it spawned a legion of mediocre vampire volumes (and movies and TV series) that couldn’t match its originality and depth, and those imitators persist to this day — but what I liked best about it was that it was a painful read.

Many of Kirsten Dunst’s most famous roles have been getting remade in the last few years. And Dunst is now commenting on this trend in a new interview. There was Florence Pugh playing Amy March in the Greta Gerwig remake of Little Women (a role which earned Dunst raves), and there is the impending television redo on AMC of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, which will certainly include a new iteration of Claudia, Dunst’s star-making role in 1994. And then there’s Mary Jane Watson. The girl next door in Spider-Man.

While the character of Mary Jane hasn’t technically been recast, Zendaya’s “Mj” sure has figured prominently in the new Marvel Studios take on the Spider-Man comic book mythos. And those Tom Holland-led films themselves constitute the second remake (or “reboot”) cycle at Sony in under a decade, following on the heels of the...

Anne Rice fans have a lot to look forward to in 2022!

AMC Networks today announced it has greenlit Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches, a new series based on the Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy, for AMC+ and AMC.

That means that we'll be treated to both The Vampire Diaries and The Mayfair Witches on the networks, and with their crossover novels, the possibilities are endless!

The second series in an expanding Anne Rice universe, Mayfair will follow Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire with a late 2022 premiere. The first season of eight episodes will be produced by AMC Studios.

Esta Spalding and Michelle Ashford are both executive producers and writers of the series. Spalding, who has an overall deal with AMC Studios, will serve as showrunner.

The series will focus on an intuitive young neurosurgeon who discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches.

There were plenty of treats — and only tricks of the intentionally choreographed variety — in store during Dancing With the Stars‘ Halloween episode on Monday.

Of course, the biggest fright for the Season 30 contestants likely came last week, when Spice Girls alum Mel C was unexpectedly eliminated. But the fear of an untimely exit seemed to work in many couples’ favor on Monday, with season-best performances and perfect scores popping up like that hand at the end of Carrie.

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Nearly two decades before Twilight, Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles had all the makings of the definitive vampire movie franchise.

Interview with the Vampire, a film based on the writer’s first book in the vampire series, starred Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt as stately Louisiana vampires Lestat de Lioncourt and Louis de Pointe du Lac. It was quite well-received. Its follow-up, the 2002 Aaliyah-starring Queen of the Damned…was not. As such, Rice’s 13-book (and counting) series seemed destined to stay on the page for good.

That all changed last year, however, when The Walking Dead network AMC greenlit a series adaptation of Rice’s vampire saga starring Sam Reid (The Astronaut Wives Club) and Jacob Anderson (Game of Thrones) as Lestat and Louis. Now we’re closer than ever to seeing the definitive onscreen version of Rice’s original vision but details as to just what...

AMC is behind a series adaptation of the Anne Rice novel “Interview With The Vampire” that had been previously turned into a feature film from 1994 that starred Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, a young Kirsten Dunst, Christian Slater, and Antonio Banderas. Now, Variety reports that British actor Jacob Anderson has secured the leading role of Louis in the show.

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Game of Thrones alum Jacob Anderson has been tapped to star as Louis opposite Sam Reid’s Lestat in Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire series for AMC and AMC+. The series, based on Rice’s book, is slated to begin production on its eight-episode first season later this year for premiere on AMC and its sister streamer AMC+ in 2022.

The book famously was turned into a 1994 movie, which starred Brad Pitt as Louis and Tom Cruise as Lestat.

Rolin Jones, who co-created and served as showrunner for the first season of HBO’s Perry Mason, is the creator, writer and showrunner of Interview with the Vampire. Jones, who has an overall deal with AMC Studios, will executive produce alongside Mark Johnson, Anne Rice and Christopher Rice.

AMC ordered the series in June after acquiring the rights to 18 of Rice’s books in 2020 to turn them into a TV franchise overseen by Johnson.

Australian actor Sam Reid has been tapped to star as Lestat in Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire series for AMC and AMC+. The series, based on Rice’s book, is slated to begin production on its eight-episode first season later this year for premiere on AMC and its sister streamer AMC+ in 2022.

The book famously was turned into a 1994 movie starring Tom Cruise, who played Lestat, and Brad Pitt as Louis.

Rolin Jones, who co-created and served as showrunner for the first season of HBO’s Perry Mason, is the creator, writer and showrunner of Interview with the Vampire. Jones, who has an overall deal with AMC Studios, will executive produce alongside Mark Johnson, Anne Rice and Christopher Rice.

2020-21 AMC Pilots & Series Orders

AMC ordered the series in June after acquiring the rights to 18 of Rice’s books in 2020 to turn them into a TV franchise overseen by Johnson.

AMC’s Interview with the Vampire reboot has found its immortal vampire Lestat.

Actor Sam Reid (The Astronaut Wives Club, The Newsreader) has been cast in the iconic role made famous by Anne Rice’s series of bestselling novels, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

The book version of Interview with the Vampire focused on two vampires, Louis, who attempted to cling to the remains of his morality, and Lestat, who’s a seductive and manipulative psychopath, and their journey across centuries in America and Europe.

A 1996 feature film version directed by Neil Jordan cast Tom Cruise as Lestat, and many felt the ...

The Vampire Lestat will rise again. AMC has officially given the greenlight to an Interview With the Vampire series based on Anne Rice‘s Vampire Chronicles books. A TV version of Rice’s vampire world has been in the works for a few years now, with Bryan Fuller attached at one point as a writer. Now, Rolin Jones, co-creator and […]

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It’s official: Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire is moving forward at AMC.

The basic cable network has handed out a series order for a scripted series based on the beloved Anne Rice title. The pickup, which follows a years-long development effort that saw the author’s iconic works jump from Hulu, Paramount TV Studios and Anonymous Content, comes after AMC and its in-house studio landed the rights to 18 of her titles in a May 2020 deal.

AMC and its streamer, AMC+, will launch Interview With the Vampire in 2022. Casting for the eight-episode first season has not yet ...

In recent years, we've seen Dark Horse release Mike Mignola's Hellboy comics in trade paperback, and now as an extra collectible treat for readers and their bookshelves, they're bringing together all four of the Hellboy trade paperback omnibuses in one boxed set featuring new slipcase art by Mignola and colorist Dave Stewart.

Dark Horse will release the Hellboy Omnibus Collection Boxed Set in comic shops on September 29th and in bookstores on October 12th.

In addition to the new boxed set, Dark Horse has also announced an Artist Line Art Edition of the Hellboy: His Life and Times Fine Art Print, with pre-orders available through April 1st at 5:00pm Pst.

Below, we have the official press release and a look at both the Hellboy Omnibus Collection Boxed Set and the Hellboy: His Life and Times Fine Art Print Artist Line Art Edition. Keep an eye on Dark Horse...

The imaginative worlds of the Mignolaverse continue to expand with Dark Horse Comics' announcement of the new graphic novel Falconspeare!

Writtten and illustrated by Warwick Johnson-Cadwell, and featuring characters from Mike Mignola and Johnson-Cadwell’s Mr. Higgins Comes Home and Our Encounters with Evil: Adventures of Professor J.T. Meinhardt and His Assistant Mr. Knox, the graphic novel Falconspeare will be released in comic shops on September 29th and in bookstores on October 12th.

We have the official cover art and press release with additional details below, and in case you missed it, check out our Q&a with Jim Demonakos and Kevin Hanna, the filmmakers behind the new documentary Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters, which is now on Kickstarter!

Press Release: This fall, Dark Horse Comics will publish Falconspeare, an original graphic novel featuring Mike Mignola and Warwick Johnson-Cadwell’s characters Professor J.T. Meinhardt, Mr. Knox, and Ms. Mary Van Sloan.

In his latest interview/podcast host and screenwriter Stuart Wright listens to story consultant and blogger Gareth Dimelow talk about 5 Queer Themes in Modern Horror. You’ll find Gareth on twitter at @gdimelow

Films discussed include:

A Nightmare On Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’S Revenge Nightbreed Interview With The Vampire Haute Tension Midnight Kiss

Other key texts referenced:

The Celluloid Closet a book by Vito Russo, made into documentary (1995) of the same name & directed by Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman Monsters In The Closet: Homosexuality And The Horror Film, a book by Harry Benshoff Men, Women and Chainsaws: Gender In The Modern Horror Film, a book by Carol J Glover Scream, Queen! My Nightmare On Elm Street documentary on Shudder directed by Roman Chimienti, Tyler Jensen A Queer Horror Documentary from the Makers of Horror Noire is coming soon to Shudder tbc...

Sf IndieFest is pleased to announce the complete program for the 17th Another Hole In The Head Film Festival which takes place December 11 to 27 via Eventive.org and Zoom.us. The festival will once again bring the freshest new independent genre films from around the world to San Francisco audiences. The festival will include over forty feature films, and over 250 short films – all available on demand through Eventive. Selected content will also screen live on Zoom during special weekend shows, featuring audience Q&As with the filmmakers.

Tickets are $10; a full pass is $125, ten film pass is $75 and five film pass is $40. There are also numerous free programs. For all festival information, visit https://ahith2020.eventive.org/welcome.

Feature Films

An Unquiet Grave – A year after losing his wife in a car crash, Jamie convinces her sister to return with him to the site of the accident and help him perform a strange ritual.

Not that the competition even had a chance in the first place – Microsoft’s latest Games With Gold promotions have been dire, to say the least – but PlayStation Plus subscribers have assuredly hit the jackpot as far as the next selection of free games are concerned. Sony, it seems, is giving the PlayStation 4 one last hurrah ahead of its retirement next month to make way for the PS5, as not only is it giving away an additional third game for free throughout November, but also two others that represent some of the best gaming experiences money can buy.

Due to replace Need for Speed: Payback and Vampyr next week are two titles belonging to the action-adventure genre: Middle-earth: Shadow of War and Hollow Knight: Voidheart Edition. Anyone with even a passing knowledge of fantasy fiction will undoubtedly be familiar with Shadow of War, Monolith Produdctions’ follow-up to Shadow of Mordor.

With 2020 being a disastrous year all around and next-gen consoles releasing in less than a month, you’d be forgiven for acting extra frugal when it comes to purchasing new games. Luckily, there’s usually a handful of free titles available at any given moment – provided you know where to look for them – and this weekend, look you’ll certainly want to, as there are quite a few worthwhile games to pick up right now across multiple platforms.

If you’re subscribed to Xbox Live, you can download this month’s poorly-received Games with Gold titles for your Xbox One, which include Costume Quest, Maid of Sker and Slayaway Camp: Butcher’s Cut. There are also some offerings that are temporarily free to play on the console until October 18th – Warface: Breakout, Ao Tennis 2 and The Escapists 2 – while the Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War beta will be running until October 20th.

In case you missed last week’s memo, today marks the first day of availability for October’s free PlayStation Plus games. From now until November, two fantastic (and wildly different) titles are yours for the low price of absolutely nothing and at least one of them has undoubtedly been chosen by Sony to fit right in with Halloween.

Vampyr, Dontnod Entertainment’s unique and critically well received spin on the vampire mythology, is an action-rpg that puts players in the role of London doctor-turned-bloodsucker Jonathan Reid during the height of the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak. It’s worth noting, of course, that while there’s plenty of meat on the bone here, Vampyr isn’t a triple-a experience funded on a seven figure budget, so wobbly animations and unrefined gameplay are somewhat to be expected. Still, if it’s a solid story set in a time period rarely explored in...

PlayStation Plus subscribers who’ve been tried for time or otherwise preoccupied with other commitments over the last few weeks or so can still take full advantage of September’s free content before the service’s monthly changeover happens.

Starting tomorrow, October 6th, Capcom’s Street Fighter V and Pubg Corp’s PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, both of which have been free on Ps Plus for the last 30 days, will return to their usual asking prices. Considering the age of these titles, we wouldn’t be at all surprised to see them show up in future Ps Store sales, though this is likely your one and only chance to get them without having to spend a penny.

Even if you’re not in the mood to dive into either right now, they’ll remain free-to-play indefinitely as long as you have an active Ps Plus subscription. The only potential hurdle is...

HBO Max is packed with new and classic genre titles this Halloween season. From the new Invisible Man and Doctor Sleep, to The Brood and The Blob, here's a look of what HBO Max is offering as part of their "Halloween is Here" lineup:

Hit horror movies you won’t want to stream alone like The Invisible Man, Us, It: Chapter 2, and Doctor Sleep, creepy cult classics Night of the Living Dead, Eraserhead and Scanners, and psychological thrillers like The Haunting, Glass, and Dolores Claiborne will be available to stream alongside TV series such as Lovecraft Country, True Blood, The Outsider, and Raised by Wolves, and scares for all ages such as Scooby-Doo! Haunted Holidays, Gremlins 2, Spooky Buddies, and Adventure Time.

In addition, HBO Max is pulling together a collection of Halloween-themed episodes from fan-favorite series like Friends, Euphoria, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The Big Bang Theory,...

As you prepare to dig out your pumpkin decorations, buy that giant skeleton from Home Depot, and stuff your face with all the candy that won't be going to tiny ghosts and goblins this month, don't forget to treat yourself to a little TV. October has a lot to offer in the way of great television and

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We recently had a chance to catch with legendary wrestler Ian Hodgkinson, otherwise known as Vampiro, and director Michael Paszt to chat about their amazing documentary film “Nail in the Coffin: The Rise and Fall of Vampiro”. You would be hard-pressed to find another individual that has put as much heart and soul into the sport of wrestling than more than 30-year veteran Ian Hodgkinson and it was amazing to take a peek behind the scenes and get to witness how this legendary entertainer better known as Vampiro works. In fact, it seems he truly never stops working! “Nail in the Coffin: The Rise and Fall of Vampiro” shows audiences another side of Vampiro, as we meet the man Ian Hodgkinson, who is so very much more than just a wrestling persona. Hodgkinson is first and foremost a father, however, he also juggles the many duties of constantly being on...

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Some of the best romances ever seen on TV exist in The Vampire Diaries shared universe, and we're not afraid to say it. In fact, we're not sure we properly understood the concept of shipping until this show came along! But which one is actually the best?

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Filming is currently underway for Branko Tomovic’s European European Arthouse Horror film “Vampir”. Gorica Regodic (“Next to Me”), Joakim Tasic (“Santa Maria della Salute”) and Balkan screen legend Eva Ras are starring alongside Tomovic. After witnessing a crime in London and looking for a place …

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Nina Dobrev and Paul Wesley -- who once played angst-riddled human and vampire lovers on the iconic series The Vampire Diaries -- reunited over Labor Day weekend and Instagrammed the quarantine pod of every stan's dreams. 

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Ian Hodgkinson, a.k.a. pro-wrestling’s Vampiro, is still undead — try as he, his opponents and the industry might.

In feature-length documentary “Nail in the Coffin: The Rise and Fall of Vampiro,” the semi-retired Lucha Libre legend “reveals the harsh realities behind the glamour of being in the world of wrestling.” That’s according to the doc’s logline, having seen the film, but we can attest to the harshness of Hodgkinson’s wrestling style — and his lifestyle.

You’ll still have to wait a few days to watch the movie, but readers will immediately see what we mean via the video above. In TheWrap’s exclusive sneak peek, his doctor wonders “How are you even f—ing walking?”

When a medical doctor adopts the “F” word as part of his bedside manner, you know your body is f—ed up. Vamp’s “25 concussions,” 16 broken noses and four broken...

"It's just a matter of time until he gets hurt badly..." Dread has released an official trailer for a documentary film titled Nail in the Coffin: The Fall & Rise of Vampiro, which isn't a cheesy horror film (as the title makes it seem), but rather a biopic doc about a Lucha Libre legend. But it isn't the most triumphant story... Nail in the Coffin offers a rare glimpse into the legendary career of wrestling icon, Vampiro, as he grapples with his demons and life after fame. This film is a candid look beyond the ring... "Unlike many professional wrestling documentaries before, director Michael Paszt has constructed a fascinating and heartfelt look at a wrestler who has overcome and continues to battle with physical injuries, sexual abuse, and drug addiction. Not to mention the wild stories of working for Milli Vanilli, and wrestling alongside the punk rock band The Misfits -...

Featuring: Professional Wrestler Ian Hodgkinson (Vampiro) and Dasha Hodgkinson Semi-retired professional wrestler Ian Hodgkinson reveals the harsh realities behind the glamour of being in the world of wrestling as the infamous ‘Vampiro’. A Lucha Libre legend, Hodgkinson tells the astonishing story about his meteoric rise to fame in the 90’s and how it almost killed …

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