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First look at The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror IT special

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The Simpsons are getting scary twice this year, and for a treat, we’re finally getting Krusty as Pennywise. The Simpsons will offer two Halloween-inspired episodes this year, with their traditional Treehouse of Horror airing closer to the spooky holiday. In a first for the series, we’ll see them focus an entire episode on a horror […]

It prequel series Welcome to Derry in development at HBO Max

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Get ready for more Pennywise as HBO Max is developing Welcome to Derry, a prequel series to Andy Muschietti’s It and It: Chapter Two. The It films are an adaptation of Stephen King’s iconic horror novel which sees the small town of Derry, Maine plagued by a number of children mysteriously going missing. A group of misfit kids calling themselves […]

Cary Fukunaga on what happened to his adaptation of Stephen King’s IT

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Before Andy Muschietti brought Stephen King’s IT to life with his hugely successful two-part feature adaptation, another director was attached in No Time To Die’s Cary Fukunaga, with Will Poulter set to star in the film as Pennywise, the role that Bill Skarsgård would eventually land. This project ultimately never came to be, and Fukunaga […]

Captivating Origin Stories of Iconic Horror Villains

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Marvelous Videos delves into the captivating origin stories of iconic horror  villains… It’s one thing to create a unique antagonist in a horror film- so many have been brought to the big screen that the sheer creativity is astounding! However, it’s another to give them a proper motivation for doing what they are doing. Often […]

The Best Made-For-TV Horror Movies and Serials

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Marvelous Videos presents the best made-for-TV horror flicks and serials… Just because something was consigned to television back in the day didn’t guarantee that it was bad. Far from it, the lower budget meant less studio heads, meaning more creative freedom for aspiring filmmakers interested in telling a scary story. They may get a bad […]

The Most Powerful Horror Villains Of All Time

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Marvelous Videos on the most powerful horror villains… When your genre is predicated on terrorizing your protagonist, it inherently means giving your antagonist an extra oomph. They need some kind of power or ability that allows them to easily scare a group of humans without succumbing to some mishap like a bullet or fall. Horror […]

Lovecraft Country showrunner would love to do a limited series adaptation of Stephen King’s It

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The first season of Lovecraft Country ended earlier this month, and while the HBO series is still yet to be renewed for a second season, showrunner Misha Green has announced the horror project she would like to work on. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Green discussed that her favourite novel is Stephen King’s It […]

The Ten Best Horror Movies of the 2010s

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EJ Moreno on the best horror films of the last decade… While making this list, it dawned on me just how lucky horror fans were this past decade. Between 2010 and 2019, hundreds of genre films made their mark with viewers and shook the industry up. We saw comedy directors turn into masters of the […]

September: The Movie Dumping Ground

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Tom Jolliffe looks back through the years at the month of September in Hollywood’s release calendar… Pretty much since Star Wars changed the face of film and ushered in the notion of the blockbuster, the cinema calendar has increasingly been segmented into pockets. Studios bet big and look to secure the summer releases. They tended […]

Andy Muschietti teases It with missing poster, producer compares movie to Stranger Things

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Last month we got our first look at Bill Skarsgard’s Pennywise from the upcoming big screen remake of Stephen King’s horror classic It [see here], and now director Andy Muschietti has shared an image of a missing poster featuring Richie Tozier, one of the members of the Loser’s Club, which seems to suggest that the […]