Horror Report

Tag: horror

  • We watched Hive on Tubi so you don’t have to

    We watched Hive on Tubi so you don’t have to

    We watched Hive so you don’t have to.
    It’s a Hive original… and boy, is it original.


    Here’s a couple of spoilers, so be careful if you actually want to check out this seemingly low-budget horror oddity.

    Hive a brand new horror-thriller starring Xochitl Gomez as Sasha, a teen babysitter who loses her charge at an idyllic playground. She must navigate a sinister, deceptive world as she confronts an insectoid entity controlling the children and snatching parents, forcing her to fight to escape a soul-crushing hivemind.

    Hive became available to stream on Tubi April 17, 2026. Xochitl Gomez, Aaron Dominguez, and Tanya van Graan star in this horror filled film that is Directed/Written Felipe Vargas.


    At its core, there’s a hive mind made up of rich, affluent kids living in a rich, affluent neighborhood. There’s definitely a cultural message here about how the wealthy may inflict pain on the working class or minorities. Mix that in with squishy, unsettling blood-and-guts moments and a few strange, graphic scenes of people meeting their demise—yes, including playground equipment—and you’ll start to get the picture.


    Listen… we’re not recommending this one, but we’re also not telling you not to watch it.


    Just don’t watch it alone expecting a good time. This is more of a group movie, where half the room is saying, “That was actually kind of a good idea,” and the other half is begging, “Please turn off this nonsense.”

    Seriously, the trailer was good. The bad is the trailer is showing you some of the best material in the movie!


    It’s a low-budget film for a low-budget night.
    But you know what? The acting wasn’t horrible. The plotline wasn’t terrible either—more like a goofy version of the hive mind from Stranger Things. The commitment was there. The cast seemed genuinely inspired to lean into their roles, and that counts for something.


    Still, despite that effort, we’re left with a “hive mind” concept that ends up being more boring than scary.
    2.9 out of 5.


    A bit weak on the dialogue… but kudos for the acting and the creative thought.

  • Art the Clown falls in love

    Art the Clown falls in love

    Sometimes horror gives us nightmares… and sometimes it gives us moments like this.
    David Howard Thornton—the man behind Art the Clown—just pulled off one of the most bizarre and oddly heartwarming proposals you’ll ever see. While fully in character as the silent, sadistic clown, he got down on one knee and proposed to his girlfriend, Jada Christie… and she said yes.
    Yeah… let that sink in for a second.


    There’s something strangely perfect about it. A character known for pure chaos, brutality, and nightmare fuel somehow being part of a real-life moment built on love, commitment, and—believe it or not—joy. It’s the kind of contrast that horror fans live for. Dark meets light. Fear meets happiness.


    Fans of Art the Clown know that David Howard Thornton brings a physicality and personality to the role that makes it unforgettable, even without saying a single word. So of course, if he’s going to propose, it’s not going to be ordinary. It’s going to be theatrical… unsettling… and somehow still incredibly genuine.


    Jada Christie clearly understood the assignment.
    It’s also very understandable if you would have said no!

  • Faces of a box office dud

    Faces of a box office dud

    Faces of Death cost about $7 million dollars to make and made under $2 million dollars in his opening weekend it’s about 1600 theaters. Probably safe to consider the Flop but a modest flop, but with some very bad reviews..

    But thanks to the Super Mario Brothers with some more huge numbers the American box office is rocking and rolling early that year..

    It was never expected to soar high but horror fans not liking it much sure didn’t help.

    It solidifies for good that when people hear about Faces of Death they’ll think about the 1970s and 80s macabre version as opposed to this new incarnation train wreck..

  • Some type of very bad trailer just happened

    Some type of very bad trailer just happened

    The Duffer Brothers, fresh from quickly walking away from Stranger Things and whatever that last season was, is moving on to more bad things..

    The trailer for SOMETHING VERY BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN is now out..

    Created by Haley Z. Boston (Brand New Cherry Flavor, Baby Reindeer), executive produced Matt and Ross Duffer and directed and executive produced by Weronika Tofilska (Baby Reindeer), Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen takes place in the week leading up to a doomed wedding, following the bride and groom. A fuller synopsis reads:

    “If CARRIE is horror’s version of a girl becoming a woman, and ROSEMARY’S BABY is the horrific version of a woman becoming a mother, SOMETHING VERY BAD IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN is horror’s take on a woman becoming a wife. Rachel [Morrone] is getting married in five days. Together with her fiancé, Nicky [DiMarco], she embarks on a road trip to his family’s vacation home, secluded in a snowy forest, for the intimate wedding ceremony of their dreams. Which really would be so lovely, except…prone to superstition and paranoia, Rachel can’t shake the relentless feeling that something bad is going to happen. Her foreboding doubts, coupled with a series of eerie coincidences and dreadful surprises, force her to ask the question: What makes two people soulmates? And worse—what could be scarier than lifelong commitment to the wrong person?”

    That seems to be a very long synopsis that we had to read a few times to really take in.

    But at this point the ultimate viewer reaction to the trailer has been criticism of how DARK the screen was during the entire thing, joking about the camera quality and the Netflix attempt to see how dark peoples’ screens will be during the trailer..

    Something, indeed, is going to be bad. Hopefully not this limited series…

  • Lowkey horror undertone has a quiet box office release

    Lowkey horror undertone has a quiet box office release

    A24’s indie horror movie undertone hit $4.3M on opening day and it’s still gunning for $10M in third place by the conclusion to the weekend box office release..

    The film has had some high praise from several in the horror community.. the movie has a lot more to do with the scariness of sound rather than visual fright..

    Most reviewers however were not kind, with really low ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, while audiences liked it a lot more than the official paid mouthpieces of anti-horror rhetoric in publications..

    We didn’t see undertone yet but are excited too and hope to in a theater with a great sound system.. While it is being criticized in various circles, as always you just need to give movies like this a try.. We spoke before about how PONTYPOOL was a favorite of ours and this one may rank eventually in the same category..

    As far as the box office? Onward to streaming quickly perhaps..

  • BUFFY has been slayed

    BUFFY has been slayed

    All that buildup.. for it all to be called off.

    Hulu has opted not to proceed with its Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot, starring and executive produced by Sarah Michelle Gellar. She broke the news to fans on Instagram Saturday morning.

    About a year ago, fans were excited about the return of BUFFY on the streaming platform.. Hulu ordered a pilot for the project, tentatively titled Buffy: New Sunnydale, with Oscar winner Chloé Zhao, a self-professed lifelong Buffy fan, directing from a script written by Nora and Lilla Zuckerman (Poker Face).

    Sources described the pilot as “not perfect,” noting the Zhao’s sensibility may not have been the perfect match for the reboot.

    The fast changing nature of entertainment hit Gellar on this one, too.. DEADLINE’s Nellie Andreeva reported that she was not aware of this before it was announced.. MORE.. Gellar was notified Friday night of the decision, which came as a surprise to her. She had been in Austin, TX for the SXSW premiere of Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, which took place Friday afternoon.

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    A stroll down amnesia lane.. going WAY BACK in time thanks to the Wayback machine, we had a Buffy the Vampire Slayer dedicated page on the Horror Report in the early 2000s written by a mysterious Mr. Benson.. those archives can be found here https://web.archive.org/web/20040501071558/http://www.horror-report.com/hellmouth/

  • Married to a box office bust! There goes the Bride

    Married to a box office bust! There goes the Bride

    Sometimes a movie just sort of appears out of nowhere and you realize Hollywood expected it to be a big deal, but the audience never really got the memo.


    That seems to be what happened with The Bride!, the new Frankenstein-inspired film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. On paper, the movie had some things going for it. The Gyllenhaal name carries weight in Hollywood, the source material comes from one of the most famous monster stories ever created, and studios have been trying for years to find a way to revive the old Universal-style monster movies for modern audiences. But when the film actually arrived in theaters this weekend, the numbers told a very different story.


    The film opened to roughly $7.3 million domestically, with another $6.3 million internationally, bringing its global opening weekend to around $13.6 million worldwide. That would be fine for a small horror movie, but The Bride! reportedly cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $80 to $90 million to produce, which suddenly makes that opening weekend look extremely rough.


    What makes the situation even more interesting is that many people, including horror fans, seemed genuinely confused about what the movie actually was. The trailers presented it as a strange mix of gothic horror, romance, and what almost looked like an art-house style period piece. That might work for a smaller experimental film, but it is a harder sell when you are spending blockbuster-level money.


    The marketing also did not seem to find its audience. Personally, I only saw a few ads for it, and even then it was not clear what niche the film was trying to target. Was it meant to be a serious monster movie, a dark romantic drama, or a stylized reinterpretation of the classic Bride of Frankenstein story? The messaging never quite landed.


    To make matters worse, the movie opened against more broadly appealing releases, including a major animated film that dominated the weekend box office. That kind of competition is always risky, but it becomes even more dangerous when the film you are releasing already has a somewhat unclear identity.


    In the end, The Bride! might become one of those films that finds a second life later on streaming, where audiences sometimes embrace unusual projects that struggled in theaters. But at least for now, the opening weekend suggests this was a big-budget gamble on a very niche idea, and it is one that did not quite connect with audiences the way the studio probably hoped.

  • Fans shutter at Shudder as Joe Bob Briggs airs his final show

    Fans shutter at Shudder as Joe Bob Briggs airs his final show

    For many horror fans, Shudder and Joe Bob Briggs have almost become synonymous over the past several years. Since “The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs” launched in 2018 as a one-night marathon event, it quickly grew into the platform’s flagship program, hosting hundreds of cult and horror films and building a fiercely loyal fanbase along the way.

    That’s why the recent announcement that the show’s regular run has come to an end caught many viewers completely off guard. While Shudder has confirmed that Joe Bob will return for several special events throughout the year, the traditional season format that fans have grown used to is apparently finished.


    The surprise nature of the announcement has led to some frustration among fans online. Many subscribers have openly admitted that Joe Bob’s show was the primary reason they signed up for Shudder in the first place, and for them the end of the regular series feels like losing the platform’s main attraction. As a result, social media and horror forums have filled with people claiming they plan to cancel their subscriptions, believing that Shudder made the decision to cancel the program rather than simply restructure it.


    At the moment, there’s no official confirmation of any behind-the-scenes conflict or controversy. The most likely explanation appears to be that the show is transitioning into a special-event format, something that would allow Shudder to continue featuring Joe Bob while reducing the cost and complexity of producing full seasons built around licensing dozens of films.

    Still, the lack of a clear explanation has left plenty of room for speculation, and horror fans tend to be very protective of the things they love.
    Joe Bob is one of the most quintessential characters in modern horror and he’s been around for a long time.

    Clearly fans took to him years ago and continue to do so, and if the ship goes down they’ll go with it.

  • SCREAM 7 wins one for the Ghostface

    SCREAM 7 wins one for the Ghostface

    So much for the Rotten Tomatoes.. the bad reviews.. the critics be damned. SCREAM 7 has made enough money that people are now clamoring for a SCREAM 8!

    The film is expected to scare up around $60 million by the end of the weekend, far surpassing Scream VI’s franchise best opening weekend of $44 million.

    Scream 7 also saw the best opening day/previews for the franchise at $28.8M.

    Pre-sale tickets happening before review embargo was lifted most likely helped.

    Pre-sales were heavy with 53% of the audience buying their tickets within the last week or a week ago..

  • Scream 7 weekend

    Scream 7 weekend

    The long-anticipated next installment in the legendary franchise has arrived, and as expected, the reactions are all over the place.


    Critics? Not impressed. Early reviews have been rough — some calling it excessive, others saying it leans too heavily into shock value.
    Fans? A very different story.


    Rotten Tomatoes is hovering around 77% from audience scores, which tells you everything you need to know about the divide. Horror has always been that genre where critics and fans rarely sit at the same lunch table. And honestly… when have they ever fully agreed on Scream?


    Financially, though? This thing came out swinging.
    The film already pulled in $7.8 million, which is reportedly a franchise record for that particular preview window. It’s now poised to land somewhere between $40–50 million by the end of the weekend.


    That’s not nostalgia money.
    That’s “we showed up” money.
    Now here’s the part that matters.
    A big opening doesn’t automatically mean the movie is good. We’ve all seen horror films open hot and disappear faster than a teenager in the third act.


    But it also doesn’t mean it’s bad.
    People have been clamoring for more brutality. More gore. More risk. For years, fans said the franchise was getting too safe, too self-aware, too polished. Well… from what’s being said, they got their wish.


    The question now isn’t whether it delivers blood.
    It’s whether it delivers staying power.
    Will people still be talking about it in three weeks?
    Will it spark debate?
    Will it create a new iconic scene?
    Or will it simply be remembered as “the gory one”?


    Opening weekends are adrenaline.
    Longevity is legacy.
    And that’s something you can’t measure in a Friday night number.


    For now, it’s a Scream 7 weekend.
    And whether you’re going for the kills, the chaos, or just to see if Ghostface still has that magic… the only real verdict comes after the crowd leaves the theater and the conversation begins.
    Let’s see if this one sticks.