Pearl is a candy-coated piece of rotten fruit. The film, which is director Ti West’s prequel to this year’s X, trades in the desaturated look and 1970s seediness of its parent film for a lurid, Douglas Sirk-inspired aesthetic that seems, at first, to exist incongruently with its story of intense violence and horror. But much […]
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The rest of PAX West 2022’s standout indie games: Rhythm madness, bloody combat
Enlarge / The Nintendo corner of PAX West 2022; it’s hard to get a full photo of the entire show floor, especially one that includes all eight games profiled in the article below. (credit: ReedPOP) SEATTLE—In-person video game conventions are back! Kind of! Nerdy conventions and other physical events began reappearing in public halls late […]
9-1-1 Recap: Buck’s Return to the Firehouse Ends With a Bloody Twist
RELATED STORIES Halloween on 9-1-1 is always a scream, and this year was no exception. Monday’s episode found the men and women of the 118 making a number of haunting house calls, from to a twisted hit-and-run to a literal murder… of crows. More importantly, however, the episode marked Buck’s first day back at the […]
AHS: 1984 Wastes No Time Claiming Victims in Bloody, Campy Premiere
There were mullets and midriffs aplenty in Wednesday’s American Horror Story premiere, which took us back to one of the horniest (and stabbiest) eras in pop culture history. AHS: 1984‘s opening hour introduced us to doe-eyed ingenue Brooke Thompson (Emma Roberts), whose plans to study veterinary medicine over the summer were suddenly derailed after a […]
The Banana Splits Are Back With a ‘Horrible, Bloody Vengeance’ in Syfy Horror Movie Trailer
RELATED STORIES One banana, two banana, three banana… gore?! A beloved children’s show is back “with a vengeance, a horrible, bloody vengeance,” in Syfy’s The Banana Splits Movie, which released its first trailer on Thursday. Directed by Danishka Esterhazy (Black Field) and penned by Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas, the telepic follows a family of […]
Game of Thrones Episode 3 Photos: The Bloody Battle of Winterfell Begins
If the army of the dead were on the march toward our location, we’d make like a direwolf and ghost. But the brave/crazy folk of Game of Thrones are hunkering down for a terrible attack in these new photos from this Sunday’s episode (HBO, 9/8c). In the shots, which HBO released Wednesday, we see Daenerys, Jon […]
Police report reveals Brett Kavanaugh allegedly threw ice during bloody bar fight
Andrew Harnik/AP Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump nominee for the Supreme Court, allegedly threw ice on another person “for some unknown reason” at a bar during his junior year at Yale University, according to a New York Times report published Monday. The man reportedly also had a glass thrown at him by Chris Dudley, a […]
‘The sky was falling’: Perth residents shocked by BOOM of ‘bloody huge’ meteor (VIDEO)
A “bloody huge” meteor that sounded like a “plane crashing” and made dogs go “psycho” dazzled onlookers as it streaked across the Perth night sky on Tuesday. Scientists say it most likely hit Earth. Firefighters received numerous calls at around 7:40 pm, on Tuesday, from frantic locals who had caught a glimpse of the fireball. […]
Magicians Stars Tease Bloody Season 4, the Monster's Evil… Tickle Plot?
The Magicians is upping the gore quotient considerably in Season 4: “I spend 50 percent of the time covered in blood,” star Jason Ralph told Kimberly Roots during a visit to TVLine’s San Diego Comic-Con suite. Ralph didn’t spill who or what is responsible for his character Quentin’s bloody state, but the actor did tease […]
Doom Eternal ushers in idTech 7, bloody new powers
id Software Friday’s QuakeCon keynote included a 15-minute Doom Eternal gameplay premiere, showing off the idTech7 engine in action for the first time. As predicted after its E3 tease, this sequel will follow Doom II‘s lead from 1994 and bring the new series’ demons and terrors of Hell to Earth. The gameplay sequence confirms that […]