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At some point in the late 20th or early 21st century, some poor creature died and fell into wet concrete in Chicago. The impression left behind, worthy of a Looney Tunes cartoon, was dubbed the "Chicago rat hole" or "Splatatouille." The perfectly preserved silhouette went viral after a January 2024 tweet, and residents began leaving offerings of cheese, coins, and candles. — Read the rest

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Of course, IGN wasn’t just going to reveal trailers for upcoming films during IGN Fan Fest yesterday. A bunch of accolade, gameplay and reveal trailers were also dropped for several new and upcoming horror titles. Here’s a rundown of the goods:

Selecta Play and Broken Bird Games’ psychological horror game Luto got some love with a new accolades trailer three months after the game’s launch. Luto is available now on the PlayStation 5, the Xbox Series, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store, with a physical Special Edition available for the PlayStation 5.

Despite the delay to the first half of 2026, Supermassive and Bandai Namco still had time to drop a new trailer showing off some of the gameplay for The Dark Pictures: Directive 8020, which is currently in development for PC via Steam, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series.

Living up to the trailer’s name, players on repeat playthroughs in Terminator 2D: NO FATE will be able to alter the events of the classic sci-fi action film, which will ripple throughout the rest of your playthrough. Look for the game on November 26 for PC via Steam and the Epic Games StorePlayStation 5, Xbox Series and the Nintendo Switch.

With Steam Next Fest in full swing, Brigada Games and Devolver Digital have released a new demo for their upcoming strategy survival sim Quarantine Zone: The Last Check. You man a checkpoint during a zombie outbreak, where your job is to screen incoming survivors, manage scarce resources, and hold back the undead. The game is expected next month on Steam.

The release of Frontier Developments’ Jurassic World Evolution 3 is right around the corner, and the devteam has released another trailer highlighting another dinosaur — in this case, the Therizinosaurus — that you’ll be able to incorporate into your park. Look for Jurassic World Evolution 3 on October 21 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store.

Yes, despite science showing that sharks regrow their teeth, there’s just something creepy about leaning into a shark’s mouth for dentistry. That’s exactly what you get with the latest gameplay trailer for Alice Games’ Shark Dentist, which will be heading to Steam.

Daedalic Entertainment and developer DALOAR’s The Occultist will be seeing a release in the new year. But until then, the devs offer up a taste of just what you’ll be doing with the power of your pendulum to navigate the foggy streets and eerie buildings of Godstone. The Occultist is currently in development for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and PC via Steam.

Fireshine Games and Pulsatrix Studios’ A.I.L.A is still scheduled to arrive on Steam later this year (with a future release on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series). In the meantime, the devs are showing fans what to expect with the latest gameplay trailer for their upcoming first-person horror game set in a near-future filled with immersive technology.

The long wait for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is almost over. In this new trailer, The Chinese Room delves into the Clan of Divas with the Toreador characters of Seattle, their “Celerity” and “Presence” clan affinities, and the “Cat’s Grace” passive ability that allows for faster movement after feeding. Bloodlines 2 will hit October 21 for SteamGOGEpic Games StoreXbox Series, and PlayStation 5.

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Meet Ben, the family pet turned rabid killer in the new trailer for Paramount’s Primate from director Johannes Roberts (47 Meters DownThe Strangers: Prey at Night, Welcome to Raccoon City).

First, you’ll fall in love with him. Then he’ll tear your heart right out of your chest.

Here’s the plot synopsis for Primate: “Home from college, Lucy reunites with family, including pet chimp Ben. Ben contracts rabies during a pool party and turns aggressive. Lucy and friends barricade in the pool, devising ways to survive the vicious chimp.”

Primate releases in theaters January 9, 2026.

Johannes Roberts co-wrote the screenplay for Primate with Ernest Riera. The horror movie stars Johnny Sequoyah and Oscar®-winning Troy Kotsur (CODA) in his first horror role. Walter Hamada is producing Primate, part of a new horror pact with Paramount.

I wrote in my Fantastic Fest review, “Roberts’ latest is a lean, mean horror throwback, wearing its influences on its sleeves while managing to inject enough freshness into the familiar concept through slick technical precision and a constant mounting of dread and death. It’s also not without humor. Primate may take its crazed beast with utmost seriousness, but it’s not afraid to get playful with its concept either.”

Watch the new trailer now, which sets the stage for the white-knuckle suspense and jaw-dropping practical effects that bring this killer chimp to life on screen.

Ben is practical, courtesy of Millennium FX, and played by movement specialist Miguel Torres Umba. The chimp’s transformation from sweet pet to terrifying monster is the film’s strongest asset, enhanced by Roberts’ suspense precision.

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Paramount’s killer chimp movie Primate is gearing up to kick off 2026 with a crowd-pleasing adrenaline rush at the box office, an even bigger thrill considering its concept was a risky one.

The latest by director Johannes Roberts (47 Meters DownThe Strangers: Prey at Night) turns a family’s beloved and adorable pet into a vicious monster thanks to a cruel disease, presenting clear challenges when it comes to getting audiences on board.

It was a huge concern at the beginning and was a real issue in green-lighting the movie,” Roberts tells Bloody Disgusting ahead of the trailer launch. “Because it was like, are the audience going to turn against us? Are they going to feel sorry for Ben? We got the green light and we went ahead and did it.”

Ben, the sweet chimp turned rabid killer at the center of Primate, impresses. Roberts employed old-school practical effects to bring his killer chimp to life on screen, to awe-inspiring effect.

Roberts explains, “When I first met Walter Hamada, the producer, and we talked about it, he asked, ‘How are we going to do the chimp?’ I showed him some behind-the-scenes producer footage of the 47 Meters Down movies. His good friend, James Harris, had just done this movie called He Went That Way, with Zachary Quinto and Jacob Elordi with a chimpanzee, He’d shown me some of the R&D stuff that they’d done to create the chimp, which had been a little girl who was the daughter of Terry Notary, the big chimp guy who does all the chimp stuff. So, I’d shown it to Walter and he was really keen to go practical.”

Johnny Sequoyah as “Lucy” and Director Johannes Roberts in Primate from Paramount Pictures.

It was sold all the way from the beginning to make a practical movie,” Roberts continues. “We did a little test to show the studio, and they loved it. Then we just had to find the right person, because you needed someone as small as a child but with the physicality of a chimpanzee who could be vicious and aggressive and be able to overpower anyone or people, more than one person. So we had to find that person.

This movie comes from Cujo, it wears its influences on its sleeve, and that is the ultimate practical movie because of the different ways that they do Cujo with the dogs; different dog suits, guys in suits, animatronics, all that kind of stuff. We really followed that path.”

While it was an easy choice to go practical for the chimp effects, it took a lot longer to land on Ben’s design and find the right balance between pet and villain.

The tricky thing was to create a chimpanzee that you don’t go, ‘Oh my God, these people are insane to have this monster in their house. That was probably my biggest worry of the whole movie, which was that when we tested it that first time, the audience would go, ‘Yeah, this is scary. Yeah, this is great, but why the fuck do these people have a chimpanzee in their house? And they didn’t,” Roberts explains. “Because once that goes into people’s minds, then it’s very hard to follow the rest of the movie. You needed to fall in love with Ben to a certain degree and then be terrified of him. So we really had to hit that sweet spot of how old he was, how scary-looking he was, and all that. An awful lot of thought process and design went into Millennium FX‘s side to create that ideal chimpanzee.

Ben’s design and execution go far in immersing you in the horror, but it’s Roberts’ signature suspense that frequently leaves you on the edge of your seat when Ben begins his descent into terrifying madness.

“Do you know what? I think it’s gut instinct, Roberts reflects on his ability to wring tension from just about any sequence. “It’s funny, I was thinking the other day, I have a six and a half year old daughter, and I’m constantly playing pranks on her, and she does the same to me. It occurred to me, because I have two younger sisters as well, that it comes from your upbringing in terms of constantly wanting to make people jump and get a reaction. I love it when I watch a movie and I am completely manipulated by the filmmaker. It’s a great feeling to feel the suspense, to feel dread, to be scared; it’s such a wonderful feeling. It was what I first felt when I watched Cujo, it’s so clever in the way it manipulates the audience.”

Primate traps characters in a pool

Victoria Wyant as “Kate”, Jessica Alexander as “Hannah”, Gia Hunter as “Erin”, and Johnny Sequoyah as “Lucy” in Primate from Paramount Pictures.

Fans of Roberts’ work will notice straightaway a key fixture of the trailer and the film itself is that a swimming pool serves as a central set piece; rabies causes, among many things, hydrophobia. 

“I love water, obviously, Roberts confirms. “Everything I do has water in it. I love the idea of this aqua blue pool, the cliffside, and the endless ocean, and just this idyllic location that then becomes your worst nightmare. It was just this wonderful visual of the greens of the forest, and just never finding a way out of this nightmare. A beautiful set. Simon Bowles, the production designer, did amazing, amazing work.”

As suspenseful and intense as Primate can be, it’s never without a sense of humor. Roberts understands how absurd this premise can be and leans into it in the most entertaining ways. For the horror director, comedy and horror make perfect bedfellows.

“I’ve always felt the two things go hand in hand. I don’t like comedy horror at all. It’s a genre that I really don’t get,” he details. “But I love horror that has humor. I’m an unashamed John Carpenter fan, and one of my favorite things about his work is that there is always a real humor in everything. You watch Assault in Precinct 13, and it is just so wonderfully funny as well as being a super-tense siege movie. The preposterousness of the whole scenario, the pressure cooker thing, brings in humor and the madness of it all. Weirdly, I feel that with Primate, it is quite a playful movie. Although it’s very extreme, it is quite playful, and I watch it and never think it’s particularly nasty. I always think it’s just mental.

Primate releases in theaters January 9, 2026.

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Ruby Modine (Happy Death Day) and Mikaela Hoover (Superman) uncover a bloody corpse in our exclusive clip from Dead Giveaway.

The horror-comedy will have its world premiere at the Philadelphia Film Festival tomorrow, October 17, followed by an encore screening on October 26.

After waking up hungry, with a hangover and a murdered stranger in her bed, Jill’s day spirals into chaos as she navigates a tied-up man in her closet, an unconscious roommate, and a knife to her best friend’s neck. The goal? To get to brunch by 3:00pm.

Writer-director Ian Kimble makes his feature debut on the film, based on his 2015 short of the same name.

Scout Taylor-Compton (Halloween) also stars alongside Suzann Toni Petrongolo, Buddy Caine, Jeremy Feight, Jessie Allen Hitner, and Andrew Vogel.

Modine can next be seen in opposite Rohan Campbell in our Silent Night, Deadly Night reboot, in theaters nationwide December 12.

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Turn Back, a reverse-narrative folk horror movie rooted in the Black Shuck mythology, has officially entered production in Surrey, England.

Raising over £470,000 (approximately $631,000), the project is said to be the most funded narrative film in UK crowdfunding history.

It tells the story of an American artist who returns to his ancestral Norfolk village, only to be drawn into its sinister cult and the haunting legend of Black Shuck. As the story unfolds backwards, Paul’s grip on reality is tested in ways audiences have never experienced before.

Drawing comparisons to The Wicker Man and Memento, the film is directed by Riyad Barmania from a script he co-wrote with Stuart Ashen.

Parker Sawyers (The Autopsy of Jane Doe), Lucy Robinson (Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason), Clare-Hope Ashitey (Children of Men), Tom Stourton (Barbie) and Marina Sirtis (“Star Trek: The Next Generation”) star.

“I am beyond thrilled to be turning over on this incredible story,” said Barmania. “Our cast and crew are simply outstanding and it’s wonderful to see years of planning come together. There’s lots to do, and we’re ready to deliver!”

“Telling a story in reverse is such a fresh, exciting and challenging thing to do,” added Ashen. “We’ve spent two years getting it just right. We’re truly doing something that has never been done before, which is something you can’t say very often.”

Produced by Relentless Films, Turn Back is aiming to hit the festival circuit in 2026.

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Silver Snoopy award pin (NASA)

When NASA astronauts want to honor someone who helped keep them alive, they hand out a silver pin depicting Snoopy in a spacesuit. The Silver Snoopy Award is one of the space agency's highest honors, and each sterling silver pin has flown in space before being presented. — Read the rest

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The American orbital transfer station offers employment to Byron McDougall, a chance for Charlie Bond to search for an alternative to MAD, and for Diana Osborne, escape from her violently abusive father.

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speaks on day 1 of the 119th Congress in the house Chamber

In a shameless new low for the Republican led government, House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson is suggesting that President Donald Trump be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for bringing peace between Israel and Palestine after he stopped their “war”. The obnoxious proposition comes weeks after Trump himself started advertising that he is worthy of being conferred the title.

Recently, Speaker Mike Johson addressed the press following a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. While expressing joy over the event, Johnson attributed the outcome to President Donald Trump, highlighting that his achievements in this department were incomparable to those of others before him. Noting that the Israeli Knesset were considering endorsing President Donald Trump for next year’s Nobel Peace Prize, Johson mentioned to those present:

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A woman shopping at her local Walmart noticed two men taking photos of her, setting off alarms in her head. That’s because the men had “ear pieces, no buggy, and no actual items from the store,” letting her know that they were only there for her. 

In a now-removed video with over 491,000 views, Callyn Jo, a mother, explained how she noticed something was off at her local Walmart. Three Sprinter vans were parked together outside, and two men seemed to follow her inside the store. 

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After a Gilmore Girls reunion, is it time for an Elon Musk and Donald Trump reunion? The former best friends have been fighting for months over conflicting opinions. However, it appears they have made up, especially under the pretext of helping each other out (more like saving each other’s backs).

As the United States Government remains in a state of shutdown for a second week, and several workers remain furloughed, some workers in essential departments are still expected to carry out their responsibilities without getting paid. Among them are the military, which Donald Trump has time and again weaponised against the Democrats and the American people.

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When a House Speaker calls peaceful protesting un-American and hateful, you know the democracy alarms are blaring. But this time, Bernie Sanders wasn’t about to let it slide.

As the No Kings protests (a.k.a the No Dictators or No Tyrants protests) prepare to sweep across U.S. cities on Oct. 18, rebuking Donald Trump‘s creeping authoritarianism and the broader decay of democratic norms, Speaker Mike Johnson chose to smear them as a “hate America” rally. The Louisiana Republican, a loyal Trump ally and culture-war mainstay, told reporters on day ten of the ongoing government shutdown that the protests are “outrageous”:

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The Trump administration is preparing changes at the IRS that would allow the agency to pursue criminal investigations of left-leaning groups more easily, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Gary Shapley, an adviser to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, has drawn up a list of potential targets that includes major Democratic donors. — Read the rest

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Sign for Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton on the I5 Freeway (Simone Hogan / Shutterstock.com)

The Trump White House is planning a military celebration at Camp Pendleton that may require closing a chunk of I-5 that carries 80,000 people daily between Orange and San Diego counties. The reason? Navy ships reportedly need to fire live ordnance over the freeway onto the base. — Read the rest

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The U.S. passport dropped out of the top 10 most powerful passports globally for the first time since the Henley Passport Index began tracking rankings 20 years ago, according to data released this week. The passport now sits at No. 12, tied with Malaysia, offering visa-free access to 180 destinations—down from its No. — Read the rest

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Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok

Trump's building a ballroom funded by people who need things from the government, and he threw a party to congratulate himself. The guest list is a who's who of companies currently terrified of regulatory oversight. Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Lockheed Martin all sent representatives to watch Trump brag about his $200,000,000 ballroom. — Read the rest

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Dear Yuletide writer,

Likes: Found family, families of choice, team as family, slice of life, cuddling, friendship, crossovers. Please also feel free to write anything that is a character study or worldbuilding. I'm okay with slash, femslash, het, or poly.

Dislikes: mentor/student pairings, non-con, char bashing. For Star Wars prompts please no background Reylo.

I ticked the my gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags, so please do not feel pressured to include all of the characters I have listed.

Treats are welcome.

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