Author: Jacob Dressler

Micro-budget filmmaker and lover of all things horror.

While Nerf guns continue to be a popular toy of choice amidst young kids, one such child – only 10 years old – was arrested on July 24, 2019, along with his friend of the same age for playing with said toys. As the story reportedly goes, Gavin, age 10, had been wielding a broken Nerf crossbow that was unable to fire with his friend who had a similarly broken toy rifle. The two were pretending they were firing their bright orange toy weapons at passing vehicles while imitating Fortnite characters. One driver, however, felt threatened enough to stop driving…

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As horror fans know, James Wan’s 2013 horror film The Conjuring is very much based on a true story. As not only were Ed and Lorraine Warren real life paranormal investigators, but the family depicted in the incredibly popular horror movie was based on a real group of people that claimed to be haunted. As The Conjuring goes, it follows a family in 1971 that wind up moving into a Rhode Island farmhouse – Roger and Carolyn Perron, and their children Andrea, Nancy, Christine, Cindy, and April. Unfortunately for the family, they were ultimately haunted by a spirit in the…

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It’s not even October yet and it’s already a great time to be a fan of American Horror Story. In an exciting bit of news, fans of the current nine seasons of American Horror Story will be able to revisit the series in its entirety on Hulu streaming. Thanks to a new update on the streaming platform, Hulu now includes an entire hub dedicated to shows from FX and FXX. In fact, Hulu will begin streaming upcoming seasons of American Horror Story after their initial premieres on FX as well. The new hub will also include shows like It’s Always…

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It appears things are positively moving forward for Disney’s upcoming Hocus Pocus sequel. In fact, a director is already attached for the project – Hairspray director Adam Shankman will be directing Hocus Pocus 2 as an original project for Disney’s popular streaming service Disney Plus. Many fans have been desperate for a Hocus Pocus continuation, especially as the cult classic status of the original movie has grown over the years. Of course, one of the main reasons for justifying such a sequel would be to have the original cast back – and, although they aren’t confirmed, it does appear that…

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The Halloween franchise is one of varying tones, to say the least. While the first two original installments in the long running horror series strictly followed Jamie Lee Curtis’ character Laurie Strode as she was mercilessly stalked by serial killer Michael Myers on Halloween night, the films afterward began changing things up in many unexpected ways. For example, Halloween III: Season of the Witch introduced an unrelated storyline regarding a modern day cult of witches and their conspiracy to fry children’s brains on Halloween with the power of magical computer chips and killer androids. Granted, while it is a completely underrated…

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Although it hasn’t been exactly clear what Disney’s upcoming Disney Plus series WandaVision will consist of story wise, it’s still been an incredibly anticipated show for Marvel fans and audiences have been eager to find out what surprises are in store. While we still have awhile to wait before the series actually finally premieres on the streaming platform, it has now been confirmed that production on all six episodes of WandaVision has wrapped. As you can see below, crew member Taylor Grabowsky posted an image declaring that the series’ production had wrapped and that those involved would be celebrating with…

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Although the popular streaming platform Netflix is known for producing some incredibly high quality original content, especially these days, it’s not uncommon for the streaming service to simply cancel projects despite their critical successes. Now one more popular Netflix series has been announced for such a fate – the original show Marianne. As it turns out, fans of Marianne must now deal with the series’ cancelation and that we will not be getting a second season. Marianne creator, writer, as well as director Samuel Bodin revealed the sad news via his Instagram account. He explained to fans that Marianne would…

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Actor Ryan Reynolds has continued to grow in popularity as a major celebrity following his successful portrayal of Deadpool in the X-Men film spin off franchise. He proved everyone wrong that didn’t believe he could pull off the role after his first appearance as the character failed to do the Deadpool comics justice, and now he gets to reap the benefits of his success. But he wasn’t always the best at playing a superhero – and no, I’m not referring to his stint as the Green Lantern in DC’s failed adaptation of that particular comic franchise. He actually played Hannibal…

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The Coronavirus has been making rounds all over the place, both in person it seems and especially across the viral network of the Internet. As is the case with such things, people will tend to panic, and it appears that it has so far resulted in one particular incident in which a Lithuanian man went as far as locking his wife in a bathroom. As reported by DailyMail, the man began suspecting that his wife had acquired the Coronavirus after she fell into contact with a Chinese woman that arrived in Italy. Apparently her husband freaked out and contacted doctors…

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At a moment in history when the popularity for comic book movies are at an all time high, it seems almost impossible that Spawn still has yet to be rebooted since the first adaptation was released back in the 1990’s. Of course, as many Spawn fans know, that doesn’t mean there haven’t been attempts at another movie. In fact, Spawn creator Todd McFarlane has been struggling to see his intended Spawn reboot get produced. He is only shopping the project around if he’s given the chance to direct it, along with an R rating, and it just seemed to be…

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