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bloodydisgustingrss_feedTwo new clips from from the time loop anime feature All You Need Is Kill are playing below.
The first video shows the deadly impact of the alien invasion, but our hero Rita fights back against the monstrous creatures in the second clip.
Based on Hiroshi Sakurazaka‘s 2004 Japanese light novel, the film opens in theaters tomorrow, January 16, via GKIDS.
It follows Rita, a resourceful but isolated young woman volunteering to help rebuild Japan after the mysterious appearance of a massive alien flower known as Darol.
When Darol unexpectedly erupts in a deadly event, unleashing monstrous creatures that decimate the population, Rita is caught in the destruction — and killed. But then she wakes up again. And again.
Caught in an endless time loop, Rita must navigate the trauma and repetition of death until she crosses paths with Keiji, a shy young man trapped in the same cycle. Together, they fight to break free from the loop and find meaning in the chaos around them.
Ken’ichirô Akimoto directs with Yukinori Nakamura serving as co-director from a script by Yûichirô Kido (“Star Wars: Visions”).
Studio 4°C (The Animatrix, Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox) is the animation studio behind the project, with Warner Bros. Japan producing.
All You Need Is Kill is rated R for “some violence/bloody images.”
Sakurazaka’s book was previously adapted into the 2014 Tom Cruise vehicle Edge of Tomorrow.
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bloodydisgustingrss_feedAn interesting twist on the summer camp slasher, last year’s Marshmallow felt like if R.L. Stine had written a Friday the 13th movie.
Get ready to go back into the woods, because Variety reports Hemlock Circle Productions is developing a sequel to their indie horror film.
Director Daniel DelPurgatorio, writer Andy Greskoviak (Black Friday), and cast members Kue Lawrence, Kai Cech, Dylan Friedman, and Max Malas will all return.
Set years after the events of the first film, the sequel follows the lingering damage left behind — not just to the world, but to those who survived it. The story descends into far darker territory, expanding the mythology while erasing any remaining sense of safety as the consequences finally come due.
“Marshmallow opened the door to a world that still has a lot of dark corners left to explore,” said Hemlock Circle co-founder Todd Friedman. “We’ve always believed there was more story to tell, and the response from audiences has only reinforced that.”
In the first Marshmallow, 12-year-old Morgan Kim is terrified of summer camp. But when a masked figure from legend comes to life, he must conquer his fears, protect his friends, and uncover Camp Almar’s dark secret before it’s too late.
It’s currently streaming on Shudder, AMC+, and Hoopla.
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bloodydisgustingrss_feedSuffice to say, Devolver Digital has a hit on their hands with Quarantine Zone: The Last Check. Launching earlier this week, Devolver Digital has announced that Brigada Games’ apocalyptic admin simulator has already cleared more than 300,000 copies sold. Not only that, but the game has received a free update that brings in some unexpected visitors: four Survivors from Behaviour Interactive’s Dead by Daylight!
Dead by Daylight‘s Dwight Fairfield, Meg Thomas, Claudette Morel and Jake Park will be mixed into the game’s pool of survivors. But will they make it through alive? That’s up to you.
Just to be clear, the Dead by Daylight survivors can only be encountered by starting a new game. Players continuing existing saves will not encounter these characters. Not to fret, as an update to introduce these characters to existing saves is coming soon.
And to celebrate even more, Devolver Digital and Behaviour Interactive have put together a Dead by Daylight x Quarantine Zone Steam bundle, giving those a chance who still haven’t picked up either game to get them on discount. And, for existing Dead by Daylight owners who haven’t picked up Quarantine Zone: The Last Check, you can save an additional 10% off the latter, on top of the existing 10% launch discount!
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bloodydisgustingrss_feedVampires of the Velvet Lounge will sink its fangs into select theaters on March 20 via Strand Releasing, Variety has learned.
Inspired by the legend of Elizabeth Báthory, the horror-comedy follows a glamorous coven of vampires in the deep south who prey on lonely singles found through dating apps, seducing and slaughtering them to preserve their youth.
But when they swipe right on the wrong profiles — a cunning undercover vampire hunter and a band of emotionally stunted bros — the hunt spirals into hilariously horrifying chaos.
Blood flies, fangs pierce flesh and the bar erupts into a glitter-soaked, green fairy-winged, fang-filled fever dream of grindhouse gore, terrible decisions and fashionably fatal carnage.
Mena Suvari (American Beauty), Dichen Lachman (“Severance”), Stephen Dorff (Blade), India Eisley (Underworld: Awakening), Tom Berenger (Platoon), Rosa Salazar (Alita: Battle Angel), and Tyrese Gibson (Fast & Furious franchise) lead the star-studded cast.
Wristcutters: A Love Story producer Adam Sherman writes and directs.
“This is a vampire story inspired by the chilling, lesser-known legend of Elizabeth Báthory, the 16th-century Hungarian countess rumored to bathe in the blood of virgins to stay young,” said Sherman. “I set out to make the kind of horror film I loved growing up, one that’s wild, disturbing, darkly funny and made for the big screen.”
“Adam Sherman is exactly the kind of filmmaker we love to champion—bold, original and fearless,” added Strand Releasing co-president Marcus Hu. “His ability to fuse horror, satire, black comedy, mystery, with propulsive style and action is truly distinctive.”
Stay tuned for a trailer.
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bloodydisgustingrss_feedThe Bride! won’t just reunite a lonely Frankenstein’s monster with his bride, but it marks the first time writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal has worked with her brother since Donnie Darko.
Gyllenhaal’s punk reimagining releases in theaters and IMAX on March 6 via Warner Bros.
In the upcoming film, “A lonely Frankenstein (Christian Bale) travels to 1930s Chicago to ask groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious (five-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening) to create a companion for him. The two revive a murdered young woman, and The Bride (Jessie Buckley) is born. What ensues is beyond what either of them imagined: Murder! Possession! A wild and radical cultural movement! And outlaw lovers in a wild and combustible romance!”
When speaking to the press for the trailer launch, Gyllenhaal teased more about Jake Gyllenhaal‘s role in the film.
“With my brother, I will say he was one of the very, very last people I asked,” the filmmaker said. “He plays a character who is a matinee idol in movies who is, so in order to create those old movies that he’s in that are sometimes within the movie, it was like a lot of work for him. I asked him at the very last minute because I wanted to make sure it was right for our relationship. I spent a lot of time thinking about it, and I came to realize, no, it absolutely was.”
The last time she worked with her brother on a feature production was back in 2001.
Gyllenhaal notes, “I haven’t worked with him since Donnie Darko, which I was 20 or something. And it was such a pleasure working with my brother. I would find myself laughing so hard that tears were streaming down my face. I loved it. I loved it. It is true for all my actors, but of course, there’s a special something with my own brother.”
In Richard Kelly‘s cult classic, Jake Gyllenhaal starred as the title character Donnie Darko, with Maggie Gyllenhaal playing older sister Elizabeth Darko.
That makes The Bride! a family affair; the director’s real-life spouse, Peter Sarsgaard, also stars.
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bloodydisgustingrss_feedHorror legend John Carpenter turns 78 this Friday, and Halloween Night: John Carpenter Live from Los Angeles is now streaming on Screambox. Bloody Disgusting is celebrating with John Carpenter Week. After celebrating part of Carpenter’s Apocalypse Trilogy, Jenn Adams champions the horror legend’s sci-fi monster mash.
No one blends action and horror quite like John Carpenter.
Following the breakout success of his 1978 masterpiece Halloween, Carpenter would cement his status as a genre icon by directing a series of action horror hybrids, including Escape From New York (1981), Big Trouble in Little China (1986), and They Live (1988). These testosterone-fueled spectacles have become genre-defining classics and fan favorites alike thanks to Carpenter’s deft blend of thrilling action sequences, dark humor, and horrific setups thrust upon uniquely likeable anti-heroes.
While these films, and the majority of Carpenter’s extensive filmography, have proved they can stand the test of time, his 2001 film Ghosts of Mars has been largely forgotten. Featuring the director’s trademark themes of paranoia and isolation, this 2001 Martian showdown shares DNA with many of his most popular genre entries. Ghosts of Mars may be the least successful entry in an impressive career, but this cinematic curiosity has won its share of cult obsessives while veering dangerously close to “so bad it’s good” territory.
In the year 2176, Mars has been mostly colonized and is governed by a diplomatic matriarchy. When a rogue train approaches the city of Chryse, a search team finds Police Lieutenant Melanie Ballard (Natasha Henstridge) alone and handcuffed to her bunk. Called before a military tribunal, she’s asked to explain her spectacularly failed mission and the deaths of everyone else on her squad. In a series of overlapping flashbacks, she remembers her mission to a remote mining outpost to retrieve a convicted felon known as Desolation Williams (Ice Cube). But they arrive to find the village deserted and the mess hall filled with decapitated bodies hanging from the ceiling by their feet.
As they search the outpost, Ballard and her team discover a handful of frightened survivors, some of whom have barricaded themselves in jail cells. Science Officer Whitlock (Joanna Cassidy) explains that the mine uncovered a cadre of disembodied spirits determined to possess and destroy what they perceive as a human invasion of their home planet. Thrust together by circumstance, Williams and Ballard must form an uneasy alliance in order to escape the Martian canyon alive.
While based on an exciting premise, Ghosts of Mars is hampered by an admittedly clunky script and a budget woefully unequipped to handle the film’s ambitious effects. Though the red environment is visually stunning, many sets look decidedly cheap, particularly the mine’s exterior shots. The story manages to be simultaneously predictable and outlandish, with jarring moments of stunning violence and gore intermingling with nonsensical narrative beats.
Ballard struggles with an addiction to pills that winds up protecting her from alien possession, but this plot device contradicts everything we know about the straight-laced lieutenant, and we never learn enough to make it make sense. We also learn very little about the notorious Desolation Williams, and it’s nearly impossible to get a read on the character. We’re led to believe he’s been driven to a life of crime by Mars’ exploitative system, but there’s not much in the script to back this up, and he winds up feeling like a by-the-numbers bad guy with a heart of gold.
The film boasts an impressive cast of mostly known actors following recent hits. A former model, Henstridge was riding high off her breakout role as a murderous alien in Roger Donaldson’s sci-fi hit Species and its resulting sequel. Ice Cube had similarly parlayed a successful music career into remarkable performances in John Singleton’s Boyz n the Hood and Higher Learning, followed by F. Gary Gray’s stoner comedy Friday. As rookie cop Bashira Kincaid, Clea DuVall was following recent teen hits The Faculty and Girl, Interrupted, while Jason Statham (playing Sgt Jericho Butler) was best known for Guy Ritchie’s 1998 crime comedy Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Jackie Brown and Bones star Pam Grier plays Commander Helena Braddock.
While this may all look great on paper, the main cast has almost no chemistry with each other and never really seem like they belong on Mars. Henstridge tries to create a female version of Carpenter’s iconic Snake Plisskin (Kurt Russell), but can’t summon the gravitas to pull it off. After an hour of brushing off Butler’s unwanted flirtation, she suddenly agrees to have sex with him, but a distraction interrupts their interlude, and the relationship is never mentioned again.
Despite these glaring flaws, Ghosts of Mars compensates with a lot of heart and a surprising amount of oddball humor. A master of his craft, Carpenter knows how to construct a scene and almost seems to lean into the feeling of artificiality. While not quite the intentional comedy of his fan-favorite Big Trouble in Little China, several bizarre moments spark belly laughs. Just moments after rescuing Williams, his brother Uno (Duane Davis) and a few goons accidentally lock themselves in his cell, immediately handing back hard-won power to Ballard and her team. When an ingenious plan to run for a train fails — because the train simply isn’t there — Williams launches a direct attack on the Ghosts, extending his arms to fire dual machine guns into the night.
While preparing for this ultimately doomed mission, Dos (Lobo Sebastian) gets high and attempts to flirt by opening a can with a machete, only to also chop off his thumb. Williams deems the injury “beautiful” and then laughs as his bleeding friend falls to the floor. And that’s not to mention a jaw-dropping coda in which he and Ballard dismiss dueling suggestions that they should swap allegiances with a simultaneous, “Nah” before they head out to kill more Martian Ghosts with their trusty silver machine guns.
Amidst these moments of surprising humor are extended sequences of impressive action. The Ghosts have built a ferocious army of possessed minors who seem to function as a murderous hive mind. Shortly after infection, the victim exhibits signs of disorientation, which quickly gives way to unbridled aggression. They begin mutilating their bodies with decorative shards of metal and fashioning jewelry out of the dismembered bodies of their victims. Though we never see them feast on human flesh, the Ghosts file their teeth down the cannibal points.
Ordinarily, this would seem like a terrifying cross between the Crawlers of Neil Marshall’s harrowing The Descent or the feral cannibals of Jack Ketchum’s Off Season. But these Ghosts are styled in futuristic black leather infused with heavy Mad Max-style energy. Their leader is a hulking brute cheekily known as Big Daddy Mars (Richard Cetrone), who galvanizes the alien army while decked out in black leather pants and heavy shoulder pads. Like a cross between Kiss’ Gene Simmons and Clive Barker’s Pinhead (Doug Bradley), he roars through the film commanding his ever soldiers with effusive rage and grisly aggression.
In fact, the entire Ghost army feels pulled from an early aughts music video, their battle sequences set to Carpenter’s infectious rock score. With their industrial weapons and converted blades, they descend on the human survivors with murderous glee, seemingly impervious to fear or pain. Along with barbaric blades, they also hurl sharp discs capable of decapitating limbs at the slightest touch. While some one-on-one flights feel noticeably staged, large-scale battle sequences are unabashedly fun.
Well-versed in the art of action cinema, Carpenter treats us to a number of impressive throwdowns, spiraling all over the doomed mining town. The Ghost horde not only storms the mine’s police station, referencing the director’s 1976 Assault on Precinct 13, but they also follow survivors into the open courtyard, a bloody affair made all the more spectacular thanks to omnipresent fire and massive explosions lighting up Mars’ blood-red exterior. A final sequence sees Williams and Ballard fight a hideously burned Big Daddy Mars on the roof of the train as it speeds through the crimson night.
Carpenter’s propulsive score — executed by legendary guitarists Steve Vai, Robin Finck, and Buckethead — adds urgency and excitement to each action set piece. But these sequences can’t quite overcome the decidedly campy atmosphere that harkens back to a bygone era. After all, when compared with The Wachowskis’ The Matrix, released just two years earlier, the film’s special effects and fight sequences leave much to be desired.
While Ghosts of Mars might sit well alongside Carpenter’s earlier films, particularly the genre curio They Live, 21st-century audiences expect more in terms of visual effects, and the film winds up feeling like a trip down memory lane. But there’s an unabashed charm to the experience of watching this bombastic popcorn movie that continues to grow as the years go by.
I’m not claiming Ghosts of Mars is as good as the aforementioned action comedy, and it pales in comparison to Carpenter’s The Thing and Halloween, but if you can survive a strained script, bizarre casting, and plot holes big enough to house a space train, there’s a lot to love in this Martian monster mash.
Follow along all week long as we salute John Carpenter.
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bloodydisgustingrss_feedThe Halloweenies head out to Long Island to explore the strange phenomena dubbed The Amityville Horror.
Specifically, 1979’s The Amityville Horror, the haunted house classic starring James Brolin, Margot Kidder, and Rod Steiger. Is this a true story? Well, let’s just say, the gang is mixed on this mythos. Note: This episode was recorded in July 2024 for the film’s 45th anniversary and is being unlocked from their Patreon.
Stream the episode below. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, and RSS. New to the Halloweenies? Catch up with the gang by revisiting their essential episodes on past franchises such as Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Scream, The Evil Dead, Chucky, Alien, and the Universal Monsters.This year? Hellraiser!
You can also become a member of their Patreon, The Rewind, for hilariously irreverent commentaries (e.g. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Re-Animator, Darkman), one-off deep dives on your favorite rentals (e.g. Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Manhunter), and even spinoffs like their recent run Fortune & Glory: An Indiana Jones Podcast.
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askamanager_feedHere are four updates from past letter-writers.
1. My husband doesn’t want anyone I work with to know we’re married
Thank you for publishing my letter — it was quite reassuring to read that this particular request from my husband was giving others pause as well.
There was a lot of speculation in the comments, which was quite amusing to read, and lots of excellent points being made too! I do want to add that my husband has always been very conscious about sharing “private” info, but to be clear — he’s never hidden the fact that he is a married (straight) man, but he won’t go around telling his coworkers my name or my employer. Like you said, this was more of a husband problem than a work problem.
As recommended, I had another sit down with my husband and explained again why the situation made me uncomfortable and how awkward this could be for Jeff, too.
I wish I could tell you that this fixed everything, but it didn’t. The argument actually got a little heated, and we could not get on the same page. This might sound unbelievable, but my man is generally emotionally intelligent (one of the many qualities I adore in him) and yet I could not get him to see things from mine or Jeff’s point of view. I can’t remember there ever being a subject between us where it was so hard to find common ground (and we’ve been a great team through far worse). Disappointing, sure, but it is what is.
I did let him know that I would not be crossing that line of lying — either implicitly (by omission) or explicitly — again with Jeff. He wasn’t happy about it, I wasn’t either, but at least it was clear where we both stood on the matter.
A few weeks after that, Jeff found out anyway (as I always assumed would happen at some point, it’s really hard to keep a mutual connection secret in this day and age!). Jeff asked me about it at a company event, and I kept it very matter-of-fact (“Yup, that’s my husband, he prefers to keep that info private, kinda weird but oh well”) and that was … it? Jeff made no fuss about it, so if he thought it was weird, he kept it to himself. Jeff hasn’t brought it up with my husband either. My husband knows the cat’s out of the bag because I told him, and he got a little huffy at first, then dropped it.
I see Jeff weekly at tennis now, and all is well. I’m a bit more mindful than usual about the things I share but we have plenty of other common interests to talk about so my husband doesn’t really come up as a topic of conversation.
Not the most exciting of updates, sometimes you’re just going to clash with your person.
2. Why does job-searching feel like actual torture?
I wrote in earlier this year about being unhappy in my job but feeling unable to make myself search for a different one. Well, I now have a new job!
I really lucked out because a role opened up at my company in a department I’ve worked with the entire time I have been here. I immediately talked to the decision-makers for that department and accepted the job a few weeks later after the role was reworked specifically for me (!). I’ve been slowly transitioning from the old job to the new one over the past couple months and officially transferred a couple weeks ago. It’s a step down in pay but still a comfortable wage for me, and I’m SO much happier with the work and the team … plus I don’t have to change any of my benefits, learn a new office culture, or kiss my unvested retirement funds goodbye!
This situation made me realize how much anxiety was affecting me and how much extra anxiety my previous job was creating. I knew I had anxiety, but I didn’t realize the full effect until I started feeling like I was on the brink of a panic attack one day at work, which was a new experience. I’ve been on an antidepressant for several years, but after that day, I went to my doctor and added an anti-anxiety medication, which has been incredibly helpful. It’s made a huge difference at work and basically every other part of my life (imagine that)!
My plan now is to stay in my new role for at least three years. I think it’s likely that having this job on my resume will open a lot more doors for me next time I end up job-searching, both because of the skills I’m developing and because it will make sense to employers that I’m applying for jobs that I previously wouldn’t have looked as qualified for. I’m also hopeful that better management of my anxiety will make job-searching feel more doable in the future.
Thank you again for answering my letter!
3. How do I apply for a job internally without my boss knowing?
I did apply to the internal job. I read my employee handbook and it said I need to let my manager know, so I did that and then let the hiring manager know I had applied.
While I tried to play it cool, I pinned a lot of hopes on this new position. Just a couple weeks later, guess what happened? A partner org outside my company contacted me (I do a lot of answering outside partner questions as part of my role) to ask about being put in touch with new hire Samantha. Samantha? Who was that and what role did she get? My dream role, that’s what she got.
I was in shock. I was so upset not only that I didn’t get the job but that this is how I found out. No notice from the hiring manager, who I spoke to on a regular basis, not even a form email from HR. As I sat there in shock, who came around the corner? Samantha herself, being given the tour of the office. It took all my strength to smile and welcome her — it wasn’t her fault, of course.
The most upsetting thing about all this was that the hiring manager, who I thought I had rapport with, never once mentioned this to me. She never again brought up the role or our conversation about it. It was hurtful, not gonna lie.
My own manager had my back and even though I was trying to leave her team, she was furious on my behalf!
While there are good things about working where I do, clearly my workplace has its issues. I’m contemplating what to do from here.
4. How do I give 360 feedback to my clueless coworker?
Thank you for the advice! I did end up consulting Bob’s boss with similar language to what you suggested and additionally noting that the 360 review was adding stress during a busy period. His boss looked at me and said, “He’s leaving for grad school in three months anyway, so don’t worry about it.” So, I didn’t end up saying anything in his review, and I helped hire and onboard his replacement, who is much better.
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Flamer by Mike Curatosanguinity just read this, which made me want to read it again (third or fourth time through), so I did.)sinesofinsanity posting in fancakebloodydisgustingrss_feedFlesh gives birth to flesh in the trailer for Diabolic, which asks the ominous question: do you feel him?
The religious horror nightmare will possess select theaters and Digital on February 20 via Brainstorm Media.
Elizabeth Cullen (Elvis) stars as a woman who must return to the fundamentalist compound where she was raised after she is haunted by the vengeful spirit of a cursed witch.
The Australian production is directed by Daniel J. Phillips (Awoken) from a script he co-wrote with Mike Harding.
John Kim (“The Librarians”), Mia Challis (“Outer Banks”), Robin Goldsworthy, Genevieve Mooy, Terence Crawford (The Babadook), and Luca Asta Sardelis (“Nowhere Boys”) also star.
Grant Hardie, Vasili Papanicolou, Mark Patterson, Daniel J. Phillips, and Silvio Salom produce.
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bloodydisgustingrss_feedIn a country torn by war, survival comes at all costs… and darkness closes in.
That’s where reuniting “Game of Thrones” stars Sophie Turner and Kit Harington find themselves in The Dreadful. Watch the trailer below.
The unnerving Gothic horror tale will be released in select theaters and on Digital February 20 via Lionsgate.
Set in medieval England, Anne and her domineering mother-in-law Morwen struggle to survive on the outskirts of society. But when a man from Anne’s past returns from war, a curse begins to take shape through a mysterious knight and threatens to destroy them all.
The UK production is written and directed by Natasha Kermani (Abraham’s Boys, V/H/S/85).
Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden (The Mist) co-stars along with Laurence O’Fuarain (“The Sandman”) and Jonathan Howard (Godzilla: King of the Monsters).
Turner and Kermani produce alongside Luke Daniels, Greg Lauritano, Lucas Jarach, Adam G. Simon, Bull Blumenthal, and Patrick Hibler.
The Dreadful is rated R for “violence/bloody images and a sexual reference.”
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otw_news_feedFebruary is approaching with faster-than-light speed, which means it’s nearly time for International Fanworks Day (IFD) once again! On February 15, we’ll gather for our 12th annual observance of IFD to celebrate all aspects of fandom, fan-communities and fanworks—fics, art, podfic, zines, filk, research and more—together!
As we’re gearing up towards IFD, we at the OTW would love to hear from you about what you associate with this year’s theme: Alternate Universes! An Alternate Universe (AU) in fandom can mean a departure from canon, exploring diverging events and character choices, a themed AU like the cozy and popular Coffee Shop AU, or a fundamental change in worldbuilding, like Omegaverse fanworks. We are curious: Which AUs do you like best? Have you encountered an idea for an AU that changed your whole perspective on a piece of canon? What are your most treasured headcanons in your fandom(s)?
We’ll be keeping an eye out for any posts about AUs shared by fans, so tag your posts with #IFD2026, and we’ll signal-boost them on our OTW social media accounts!
In the next couple of weeks we’ll announce what we’re doing to celebrate IFD 2026. But we also want to know how you’ll spend the festivities! Back in December, we asked you to let us know about any events you’ll be running in your community for this IFD. You can still submit those events through our form until January 28.
Also in February, we’ll be running our annual Feedback Fest! Spend the time until February 13 keeping an eye out for any AU-related recs!
We can’t wait to hear from you about your fandom experiences and events for this IFD!
dolorosa_12bloodydisgustingrss_feedAdria Arjona (“Andor”, Blink Twice) and Kingsley Ben-Adir (Bob Marley: One Love, Barbie) have been set to star in Scorn.
Production begins at the end of the month in the United Kingdom for Topic Studios’ erotic thriller from writer and director Sarah-Violet Bliss, co-creator and executive producer of the award-winning series “Search Party.”
The logline for Scorn: “A woman begins a passionate affair with a married man. When he then tries to re-cast their love as just a fling, she refuses to go away quietly.”
Topic Studios is fully financing and producing alongside Dylan Clark and Brian Williams for Dylan Clark Productions (“The Penguin,” The Batman: Part I & Part II), as well as Amy Jackson (Aftersun) of Unified.
Arjona is also starring in the upcoming Onslaught, from Adam Wingard.
Stay tuned for more on Scorn.
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bloodydisgustingrss_feedThe Bride of Frankenstein gets to tell her own punk rock story in the new trailer for Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride!, a fresh take on the classic horror story.
The iconoclastic take on the classic horror story hits theaters and IMAX on March 6 via Warner Bros.
It was James Whale‘s classic and Elsa Lanchester‘s iconic portrayal that sparked Gyllenhaal’s interest in reimagining the tale, the filmmaker explained at a press conference ahead of the trailer’s debut, below. But with one caveat: the Bride would be the main character this time.
Moreover, Gyllenhaal’s punk rock vision of Frankenstein and his Bride will turn the lovers into outlaws in a vision of 1930s Chicago.
The style comparisons to Bonne and Clyde are by design, per the director. “I was interested in subverting a classic movie style. So yes, Bonnie and Clyde, Badlands, and even Metropolis. And I think about a movie like Wild at Heart that does subvert those classic movie things in a David Lynch way, which is different than my way.”
The trailer gives a closer look at Jessie Buckley‘s Bride and her resurrection, but Gyllenhaal provides even more insight into her character. “The Bride comes back to life not knowing who she is and without any point of reference, without any compass to figure out who she is. So what does she need? What is her agenda? Part of it is just to figure out who she is now. There have been so many movies, so much literature, so much written, made, and thought about with men in that position. Who am I? Who am I, really? And so that’s another real motivation for her, is who am I?”
The Bride! is, ultimately, a love story, with Christian Bale playing the Bride’s lover, Frankenstein. Gyllenhaal revealed that while Frankenstein’s loneliness from the source novel holds true, Bale’s version will be drastically different.
“I realized Frankenstein’s so lonely, and we hint at this a little bit in the trailer, he doesn’t have anyone to talk to, and his primary relationship, before we meet him, is with a movie star. Because a movie star is someone you can imagine you have a relationship with, and they don’t know you at all. Also, Frankenstein, whose face is so scary and whom people run screaming when they see him, he’s safe in the dark,” Gyllenhaal told the press. She also shared that Bale sent her videos and images of Sid Vicious as a reference point, embracing the film’s punk spirit.
“I really pulled from the book in some ways, in that Frank in the book is like, he’s so feeling, he’s so vulnerable,” she added. “He’s so full of need and hunger, and he’s also so smart. I mean, Frankenstein in the book just hangs out in a barn and listens to people and learns French. That’s hard to do. And so I needed somebody with all of those characteristics, and also tough. Also, he does some fucked up stuff, this monster, as monsters do. As I would say, we all do. So I needed someone who could hold all of that, the same thing, a massive aspect of, and to be able to hold the monstrous in a way that lets us look at it and go, yeah, okay, I don’t bash people’s heads in personally, but there’s parts of me that have that kind of rage.”
Annette Bening, Peter Sarsgaard, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Oscar winner Penélope Cruz also star in The Bride!
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bloodydisgustingrss_feedAmazon has greenlit “Fallout Shelter,” a reality competition series based on Prime Video’s “Fallout,” itself adapted from the dystopian video game of the same name.
Set inside Vault-Tec’s bomb-proof vaults, “Fallout Shelter” sees a group of contestants take part in a series of escalating challenges, strategic dilemmas, and moral crossroads.
Across 10 episodes, the contestants must prove their ingenuity, teamwork, and resilience as they compete for safety, power, and a huge cash prize.
Studio Lambert — who is also behind Netflix’s “Squid Game: The Challenge” — produces with Kilter Films (“Fallout”), in association with Amazon MGM Studios and Bethesda Game Studios.
“Fallout” Season 2 is currently underway, taking viewers along for a journey through the wasteland of the Mojave to the post-apocalyptic city of New Vegas.
Created by showrunners Graham Wagner (“Portlandia”) and Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Captain Marvel), the series stars Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Kyle MacLachlan, Walton Goggins, Moisés Arias, and Xelia Mendes-Jones.
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