Sydney Sweeney will star in HOLLOW, a new version of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow for Sony Pictures.
Lindsey Anderson Beer directs..
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Blends gothic atmosphere, psychological intrigue & erotic thriller elements into a contemporary reinvention.
Sweeney plays Katrina Van Tassel…
Rarely does a movie come around with nearly 100% scores for both critics and audiences on rotten tomatoes.com but we have our film doing that. The Odyssey is being already called the potential movie of the year and all eyes will now be on how much money it makes.
Critics are already calling it the best film of 2026…
It is directed by Christopher Nolan, and based on Homer’s epic poem, starring Matt Damon as Odysseus and Anne Hathaway as Penelope, with an ensemble cast including Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, and Zendaya. It’s a mythic action epic shot entirely on IMAX film..
It’s also meant to be seen on an IMAX screen this weekend…
Netflix did us dirty !? Or the Duffers .. either way as Stranger Things reaches a decade in age, there’s no hidden season or episode.. instead we are getting a book and a grainy edition of the original show..
So now you can watch grainy footage that we would have hated in 1983..
Now streaming only on Netflix, the “Stranger Things: VHS Special Edition” puts a retro style VHS filter atop the entire first season of Netflix’s pop culture sensation!
Netflix previews, “Rewind and relive the first season with a video store vibe that’s glitchy, grainy and gloriously vintage — just like you’d have rented it in 1983.”
A new release from the Duffer Brothers has been announced, and it will be a 392-page hardcover featuring never-before-seen film stills, behind-the-scenes photos, concept art, and person images captured on the set of Stranger Things across all five seasons. The book is written by Matt and Ross Duffer with an introduction from filmmaker Frank Darabont, who was a guest director for season 5.
Stranger Things‘ new photo book is priced at $195 and is part of Assouline’s Legends Collection. The new release will be available from September 8 at assouline.com. An excerpt from Darabont states, “This book shares with my fellow fans images of a time and a place and an effort that will never be repeated.”
So there you go folks…. Conform away!!
Conformity Gators are having a field day as we now sit just hours away from the 10th anniversary of Stranger Things premiering on Netflix.
For a long time, there has been an overwhelming theory among a fringe group of fans that “Conformity Gate” is happening. A lot of dates have been shared, and a lot of misses have happened. It’s almost like when psychics predict something that doesn’t occur and simply move on to the next date.
Now, however, Matthew Modine is adding to the mystery.
Whether he’s trolling, having fun, or subtly hinting that Conformity Gate could actually be real, fans are paying attention. And listen, we’re not saying Conformity Gate is real… though we still kind of, sort of, hope it would be.
Modine has been busy posting strange little snippets related to Stranger Things, and in at least one comment to a fan asking whether he liked the ending of the series, he either jokingly or factually? wrote back inferring may not be over..
The dedicated group of Conformity Gators isn’t giving up, and honestly, I’m here for the ride. There’s still a small part of me that’s hopeful that maybe, just maybe, they could end up being right.
That said, after many months of rumors about new projects, spin-offs, or a movie that never materialized, it’s probably time to admit that the Duffer Brothers may have missed the mark on whatever expectations fans had built up in their minds, and perhaps we all need to move on.
But those Matthew Modine messages…
Hmmmm.
For better or worse…. The Hollywood Reporter writes that a new Nightmare on Elm Street movie is in the works, with Paramount Pictures having earned the rights to the franchise in order to bring the world of the horror classic to a modern audience.
The new film will be the first under the studio’s new label, Paramount Primal, which will “partner with up-and-coming storytellers as well as established filmmakers to produce smartly budgeted films across a variety of genres, including horror, comedy, action, and grounded science fiction.” (Read: low-budget filmmaking!) This initiative is led by J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules, who produced Zach Cregger’s breakout film Barbarian.
There are no details right now so don’t get fooled by internet memes saying that Robert Englund is coming back because we have no idea who will be involved in and what fashion.
But hear us out, if they want to make this successful just hire on Michael Flanagan..
We already know that YouTubers have been a big splash in the horror world this year . Executives noticed too because it seems to be the best way to make money with the least amount of their work possible…
The latest millionaire appears to be the maker of Siren Head, as the Wall Street Journal reports…
But much more appears to be coming.. from the Journal:
Producer Aaron Koontz made another movie with a YouTube creator two years ago, called “Shelby Oaks,” for which he raised the budget on Kickstarter because no one in Hollywood was interested. He was planning to sell “Mandela” earlier this year, then found out about “Backrooms” and decided to wait until the week that movie came out. As the bidding war escalated, Koontz and his partners started eliminating studios that didn’t seem to be as familiar with the material.
“They basically went into ChatGPT and said, ‘What’s the next ‘Backrooms?’” he said.
Numerous agents and producers are preparing pitches based on internet horror concepts that they plan to try to sell to studios in the coming weeks, people familiar with the matter said.
Welcome to a real horror: Modern decor may be causing more harm than good!
A large team of researchers from institutions across the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, and Canada has published a detailed review arguing that visual discomfort, the headaches, eye strain, nausea, and perceptual distortions that some people experience in response to certain visual stimuli, has a measurable, physical basis in the brain. The paper, published in the journal Vision, pulls together decades of research across neuroscience, architecture, lighting design, and psychology to build a unified theory of why some things are so hard to look at, and what can be done about it.
It argues that the human brain evolved to process the natural world efficiently. When it’s forced to handle the highly repetitive, artificially sharp, and often flickering patterns that dominate modern urban environments — think fluorescent-lit offices, car headlights, striped acoustic panels, or the dense text of a printed page — the researchers argue it may drive greater neural activity than it should, potentially placing excessive demands on the visual cortex.
That metabolic overload, they hypothesize, may be what triggers discomfort, and in people with pattern-sensitive epilepsy, it can provoke seizures.
Read more about the study here..
Maybe next we can discover how modern building design, all being gray and boring, can lead to the same reaction..
The live action MOANA movie this week is getting really awful reviews.. Some of the worst of the year, even.. even worse than Masters of the Universe and Supergirl.. But with those movies, at least we saw some real people–not just the paid pros–liking it.
This time ROTTEN TOMATOES is simply *at this is written* showing off the critic score but has yet to publish a rating when compiling the audience score..
Here we are… almost half the weekend into the debut of the live action film, and we have yet to get a compiled score of the audience reviews..
Meanwhile EVIL DEAD seems to be doing strong among audiences..
While insiders are reporting that the film is gaining an A- score among the under 18 crowd, the movie is not expected to impact theaters very well financially..
The bigger controversy about the film seems to be whether Dwayne Johnson has nipples or not..
EVIL DEAD meanwhile is expected to just be a blip on the horror radar, most likely coming in fourth place with around $15 mil for the weekend ..
DEVELOPING..
Dr. Phil released a video expressing anger over what he believes has been a 79-year UFO cover-up. He also made a distinction between claims of alien abduction, which he suggested are often difficult to verify and somewhat mocked them, and military reports and scientific testimony, which he said deserve serious attention.
He pointed to the repeated reports of UFO activity near nuclear sites and suggested that aspect of the mystery should concern all of us.
Dr. Phil!!?
The newest trove of UFO documents does not appear to contain anything overly alarming compared to previous document dumps. They always seem to happen on a Friday, and they always bring out the regular suspects proclaiming that what we are seeing is revolutionary and earth-shattering.
Yet for people who have been in UFO circles and researching this topic for years, there doesn’t seem to be much that is truly new or different.
Instead, it feels like more of the same. More grainy photos. More black-and-white military videos. More old memos that seem to confirm what many researchers have believed for decades: unidentified objects have repeatedly been reported around nuclear facilities.
This is disclosure at a snail’s pace for people who wanted answers quickly.
What is genuinely intriguing, however, is the emergence of Dr. Phil as a major voice in the conversation.
But perhaps the biggest question is this: how did Dr. Phil suddenly become one of the most visible faces of disclosure?
There is no evidence that the White House officially chose him for such a role, but his involvement is hard to ignore. He had exclusive access to these newest files before the public. He has also been given extraordinary access in other areas, including spending time with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and documenting their operations.
Now it appears that Dr. Phil is among the first people getting a look at government UFO files before the rest of us.
That raises a fascinating question. If some form of disclosure is eventually coming, is Dr. Phil being positioned as one of the messengers because he has an enormous mainstream audience that extends far beyond the traditional UFO community?
And if we ever do reach the day when aliens finally land on the White House lawn, will Dr. Phil be the one conducting the first interview?
More importantly, if that happens, just how jealous will Oprah be?
The next V/H/S installment is diving headfirst into the world of the SCP Foundation, and that should have horror fans paying attention. According to Bloody Disgusting, the upcoming film will bring the internet’s legendary catalog of mysterious anomalies and secret containment files to one of horror’s most successful anthology franchises. It’s another sign that SCP is continuing its journey from an online phenomenon into mainstream horror.
Personally, I think this is incredibly exciting.
There are already people complaining that Hollywood has run out of original ideas, but maybe that’s looking at it the wrong way. Some of the most creative horror concepts in the world aren’t coming from traditional studios anymore. They’re coming from YouTube creators, independent filmmakers, collaborative writing communities, and passionate fans who have been building incredible worlds for years.
If Hollywood wants to stay relevant, it should absolutely be looking at these creators and giving their ideas a bigger stage.
This is what horror has always done best. It evolves. Every generation finds its own monsters, its own storytelling style, and its own way to scare us. We’ve had slashers. We’ve had supernatural hauntings. We’ve had found footage. Now we’re seeing internet horror, analog horror, liminal spaces, Backrooms, and SCP stepping into the spotlight.
Enough with the same old slashers and bashers. Horror needs a new kind of monster to shake things up, and the SCP universe might be exactly the kind of fresh imagination the genre has been waiting for.