EJ Moreno on the Academy Award nominations… The 2026 Oscars will be remembered as the night horror stopped asking for respect and started receiving it. For decades, horror fans have watched the Oscars with a familiar mix of hope and resignation. Every so often, the Academy would toss the genre a bone: a technical nomination […]
The 2025 Flickering Myth Horror Awards
EJ Moreno and Flickering Myth honor the year in horror… Welcome to the third Flickering Myth Horror Awards, the place to spotlight the best in our beloved spooky genre. From fan-favorite horror outings to prestige heavyweights, this year saw horror go more mainstream than ever, while still keeping its indie roots. With another solid year, […]
2025 in Film: What Did We Learn?
It’s time to take a look back at 2025 in film and ponder what we’ve learned… 2025 is drawing to a close, and we can get a sense of how things have gone and what we’ve learned from cinema this year. It’s fair to say there have been surprises and some trends continuing, with others […]
The Blockbuster Comic Book Movie Problem: The Box Office Cliff Edge
Thunderbolts*, Superman and The Fantastic Four: First Steps did everything right, so what went wrong with this year’s comic book movie blockbusters at the box office? Hollywood has spent the past half a decade in a post-COVID era, facing an exacerbation of a problem that was already well in motion. Fewer people, particularly younger generations, […]
Movie Review – Weapons (2025)
Weapons. 2025. Written and Directed by Zach Cregger. Starring Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich, Benedict Wong, Toby Huss, Austin Abrams, June Diane Raphael, Amy Madigan, Cary Christopher, Clayton Farris, Whitmer Thomas, Callie Schuttera, Luke Speakman, Melissa Ponzio, Sarah Kopkin, and Sergio Duque. SYNOPSIS: When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish […]
Zach Cregger’s Weapons drops another intense teaser and IMAX poster
Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema has released another terrifying teaser for Zach Cregger’s forthcoming horror Weapons. From the mind behind the warped brilliance of Barbarian, Weapons tells the story of a small town community coming to terms with inexplicable disappearance of a class full of children, and the ensuing horror that follows as the […]
There’s something very very wrong going on in the creepy new trailer for Zach Cregger’s Weapons
Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema has dropped a brand new trailer that ups the ante, the horror, and the anticipation for Zach Cregger’s Weapons. Written and directed by the Barbarian filmmaker, Weapons tells the “true story” of a small town community who struggle to deal with the fallout of what happens when all but […]
Zach Cregger’s Weapons delivers chilling trailer
Are any of us ready for the new horror maestro Zach Cregger has cooked up for us? Following his 2022 film Barbarian, the filmmaker is back with what looks to be another terrifying adventure into his twisted mind. Weapons is set for release this upcoming summer, and that gives us just enough time to brace […]
First teaser trailer for Barbarian director Zach Cregger’s new film Weapons
Warner Bros. has shared a first teaser trailer for Weapons, the upcoming horror from writer-director Zach Cregger (Barbarian) which sees a group of children from the same school mysteriously disappear at the same time. The cast of Weapons includes Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan. Watch […]
Alden Ehrenreich joins Zach Cregger horror Weapons
Barbarian director Zach Cregger is assembling quite the cast for his sophomore solo feature Weapons, with the news that Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story) is set to join Julia Garner and Josh Brolin in the ambitious horror flick. According to Deadline Erenreich will follow up his critically acclaimed turn in Fair Play to headline […]
