Cinema’s premiere Count Dracula will be donning his opera cape again. Bela Lugosi had a love-hate relationship with the bloodsucking role that made him an icon. He occasionally felt straitjacketed by the horrific typecasting, but he loved the cape so much he wore it in several films including Plan 9 from Outer Space, and was
Month: October 2019
While watching your favorite horror movies, you may have missed one of the gaming industry’s favorite pastimes: adapting great scary films into games. From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween to Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street, all of these franchises have been adapted into video games at one or another. Many
This Walking Dead article comes from Den of Geek UK. Before you saw the girl, you saw the sword on her back and the gun in her hand. Even before that, you’d witnessed what she was capable of. Five clean headshots felling five snapping zombies, creating an escape route for a group of overwhelmed strangers.
Tochi Onyebuchi brings a keen eye for world-building and momentum-filled action scenes to his young adult novels. From the Pokémon-like Beasts Made of Night duology to the upcoming fantasy novella Riot Baby, he’s making waves. At NYCC 2019, we sat down to talk to him about pop culture influences, the process of building a novel,
A Washington man has been accused of robbing video game developer and publisher Valve and stealing roughly $40,000 worth of equipment and goods from their office. This strange story involves a man named Shawn Shaputis who is currently named on several arrest warrants and is due to appear in court soon. While one of his previous
Viewers of Impulse on YouTube Premium have figured out by now that the television adaptation of the Stephen Gould Jumper novels is more true to the themes of personal trauma from the first book than it is to the high octane action film from 2008. As a result, the pacing of the first season is
The Joker is the most recognizable villain in all of comics, and as such, there are as many takes on him as there are creators who have worked on a Batman comic. Fortunately for us, for every Jared Leto out there, there are fifteen awesome comic stories. So if you’re coming out of the Joker
Horror has long been somewhat free from the contempt that familiarity brings. At worst, the genre’s oldest trappings (dark and stormy nights, pearl white ghosts, bats, witches, and vampires) usually put a smile on your face as you recall your earliest memories of not only being scared, but being treated as if you were old
Dane DeHaan (Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets) is planning to extend his stay on TV for a while (well, streaming) as he’ll be following up his forthcoming series ZeroZeroZero, which debuted last month at the Venice Film Festival to a positive reception, with another show for streamer Quibi. DeHaan will star opposite
It is Harley Quinn’s mad, mad, mad, mad world, and now the Birds of Prey are just living in it. Such is the case with Harley Quinn And The Birds of Prey, the four-issue DC miniseries launching in Feb. 2020 from the creative team of writer/artist Amanda Conner and writer Jimmy Palmiotti. Announced last week
More than 20 years after its release, Symphony of the Night is still fondly remembered as the best game in the Castlevania series. To some fans, it might even be the greatest game of all time. And its tight controls, CD soundtrack, and impeccably-designed labyrinthine castle still hold up incredibly well today. However, Symphony of the Night
This The Flash review contains spoilers. The Flash Season 6 Episode 1 “Meet the new Flash. Same as the old Flash.” OK, so I’m paraphrasing The Who, certainly not the classic rock band of the hour (we’ll get to them soon enough), but trust me when I say that I mean this in the best
There are big changes coming to the DC Universe. That shouldn’t come as a surprise, as DC continuity is always in flux, something recently illustrated in the pages of Doomsday Clock, which introduced the concept of a “metaverse” that allows for events of the past to shift as new stories are told. But still, superhero
Doom 64, an infamous part of the Doom legacy, is coming to the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PS4, and PC. Following the releases of Doom, Doom II, and Doom 3 on Nintendo’s hybrid platform, id has confirmed that they are also bringing Doom 64 to the Nintendo Switch. If you’re suddenly wondering why they are
This The Terror review contains spoilers. The Terror Season 2 Episode 9 The Terror: Infamy is in a race to the finish line, throwing every horror cliche it can at its audience on its way there, as Chester gathers Luz and his parents for one final showdown with Yuko. “Come and Get Me,” which kicks
Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series is more than just one of the most popular fantasy stories of the literary world, it has influenced an entire generation of fantasy authors to tell stories of their own. With Amazon starting production on a Wheel of Time series adaptation and Tor poised to release Warrior of the
Sony is preparing to unveil its next-generation console. The PlayStation 5, as it it’s officially called, will be Sony’s latest foray into gaming after dominating the current generation of consoles with the PS4. The real question is how the new console will perform against its immediate competitor, Xbox Scarlett, Microsoft’s own next-gen machine, which boasts powerful
While much is being kept under wraps concerning the details of Star Trek: Picard, we know that Romulans will be part of the main plot, with the destruction of the Romulan homeworld in 2387 (as first mentioned in the 2009 Star Trek film) playing a factor in the series’ narrative and with two Romulan characters featured in
When it was announced that writer Tom King would be ending his Batman run a bit earlier than originally intended, it didn’t take long for the internet to start speculating about King’s sudden departure. After all, the award-winning Batman and Mister Miracle scribe was well on his way to his planned 106 issues when his
Major new additions to World of Warcraft Classic and World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth have been confirmed by Blizzard. For WoW Classic fans, the big news is that the Dire Maul dungeon will be added to the game on October 15. Previously, Dire Maul was supposed to be added to WoW Classic during the
In fictional worlds where heroes and villains who can shrug off bullets like they were nothing, there exists “plot armor” for the more ordinary folks. Plot armor is the reason why the Punisher can mosey through a room with an uzi in each hand and somehow kill every single enemy while somehow never getting shot
In July, readers of The Walking Dead comics got their final surprise from creator Robert Kirkman when it was announced that issue #193 was to be the series’ last installment. Kirkman had reached an endpoint with the story and didn’t want to go on just for the sake of going on. Presumably the makers of the TV
For many, Kevin Conroy is the definitive voice of Batman and Bruce Wayne, with his performances in Batman: The Animated Series and Rocksteady’s Batman Arkham games earning him legions of adoring fans. However, it sounds like WB Montreal has not recruited the actor to reprise his role in the studio’s upcoming Batman game. Little is
This article contains nothing but spoilers through the most recent episode of Batwoman. We have a spoiler free review here. With her new show, Batwoman steps into not only the CW’s Arrowverse legacy, but the decades-long cross-media Batman franchise that has touched just about every aspect of American pop culture, and the show knows it. Kate Kane has only
Marvel has been going through a bit of a deck-clearing with its Star Wars comics of late, leading many to wonder what the company was setting up. Now we know: announced at NYCC, 2020 will see a relaunch of the main Star Wars title, which will now be set between The Empire Strikes Back and Return
Netflix has officially renewed its Castlevania animated series for a third season. Season 3 will be the show’s longest yet, with 10 episodes of vampire-killing action (and maybe a little more Emo Dracula). Castlevania has turned out to be the shining light of video game adaptations. While the history of bad video game movies and
This Walking Dead review does not contain spoilers. The Walking Dead Season 10 Episode 1 The Walking Dead season 10 kicks off with the most audacious opening scene in the show’s history. It’s the kind of risk you don’t normally see on a series going into its 10th season, but it’s just what The Walking
The X-Men books are in the midst of a critical and creative reinvigoration, and at New York Comic Con, Marvel announced the first new book after the initial relaunch: Wolverine, by Ben Percy and Adam Kubert. Kubert is one of the definitive Wolverine artists. He drew, among other issues: Wolverine #75, the Fatal Attractions issue
This is not a drill: Red Dead Redemption 2 is actually coming to the PC. “Today, we’re proud to announce that Red Dead Redemption 2 is coming to PC on November 5th, with special bonuses available to players who pre-purchase through the Rockstar Games Launcher starting October 9th,” reads a post on the Rockstar Games
Valentine’s Day weekend 2020 just got a little bit better. Outlander Season 5 has an official release date and, you guessed it, it is February 2020. Starz made the announcement that it would be renewing its historical time travel romance based on the bestselling series from Diana Gabaldon for two more seasons in October 2018, taking it