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January 2026

January 2 – We Bury The Dead (Theaters)

January 6 – Will Trent (ABC, Next day Hulu)

January 8 – The Traitors (Peacock)

January 8 – His & Hers (Netflix)

January 9 – People We Meet On Vacation (Netflix)

January 9 – Sleepwalker (Theaters)

January 9 – Primate (Theaters)

January 16 – Night Patrol (Theaters)

January 16 – 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (Theaters)

January 21 – The Beauty (FX, Next day Hulu)

January 21 – Queer Eye (Netflix)

January 22 – Finding Her Edge (Netflix)

January 23 – Return to Silent Hill (Theaters)

January 28 – School Spirits (Paramount+)

January 28 – Shrinking (Apple TV+)

January 30 – Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (Theaters)

January 30 – Iron Lung (Theaters)

January 30 – Send Help (Theaters)

February 2026

February 6 – The Strangers: Chapter 3 (Theaters)

February 6 – Dracula (Theaters)

February 6 – Pillion (Theaters)

February 6 – Whistle (Theaters)

February 8 – The ‘Burbs (Peacock)

February 13 – “Wuthering Heights” (Theaters)

February 13 – GOAT (Theaters)

February 13 – Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Theaters)

February 18 – 56 Days (Prime)

February 20 – This is Not a Test (Theaters)

February 25 – Scrubs (ABC, next day Hulu)

February 27 – Scream 7 (Theaters)

March 2026

March 5 – Ted (Peacock)

March 6 – The Bride (Theaters)

March 6 – Peaky Blinders: The Eternal Man (Theaters, Netflix on March 20)

March 11 – Scarpetta (Prime)

March 18 – Imperfect Women (Apple TV+)

March 20 – Project Hail Mary (Theaters)

March 27 – Ready or Not: Here I Come (Theaters)

March 27 – Fantasy Life (Theaters)

March 27 – They Will Kill You (Theaters)

April 2026

April 3 – The Drama (Theaters)

April 8 – The Boys (Prime)

April 10 – Malcolm in the Middle (Hulu)

April 15 – Margo’s Got Money Troubles (Apple TV+)

April 17 – The Mummy (Theaters)

April 17 – Normal (Theaters)

May 2026

May 1 – The Devil Wears Prada 2 (Theaters)

May 1 – Hokum (Theaters)

May 15 – Obsession (Theaters)

May 22 – I Love Boosters (Theaters)

June 2026

June 12 – Scary Movie 6 (Theaters)

June 19 – Toy Story 5 (Theaters)

July 2026

July 12 – Disclosure Day (Theaters)

July 17 – The Odyssey (Theaters)

August 2026

August 21 – Insidious: The Bleeding World (Theaters)

August 28 – The Dog Star (Theaters)

August 28 – Coyote vs. ACME (Theaters)

September 2026

September 11 – Sense and Sensibility (Theaters)

September 18 – Practical Magic 2 (Theaters)

September 18 – Play House (Theaters)

September 18 – Resident Evil (Theaters)

October 2026

October 1 – Terrifier 4 (Theaters)

October 2 – Digger (Theaters)

October 9 – Other Mommy (Theaters)

October 16 – Street Fighter (Theaters)

October 23 – Remain (Theaters)

November 2026

November 20 – The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (Theaters)

December 2026

December 18 – Avengers: Doomsday (Theaters)

December 18 – Dune: Part Three (Theaters)

December 25 – Werewulf (Theaters)

Hello, Movie Mavens! Welcome back to the B Movies Blog. Today, we’re popping Fear Itself into the ol’ VCR. 

Me? Writing about a horror anthology series from 2008 that only ran for one season? Never. 

I’m just a sucker for a good anthology series. I even watch AHS every season, even though I’ve lost all faith in it. 

That being said, it should come as no surprise that I love Fear Itself. If you aren’t familiar with this gem, it originated from Mick Garris’s Masters of Horror, and the format was just slightly reworked to take the concept from Showtime to NBC. 

“No, the Barbie movie isn’t anti-man.” 

Each episode features a different horror director, and both series include everyone from Stuart Gordon to John Landis. Additionally, each episode features some sort of twist, a la The Twilight Zone. 

Despite being well-executed (sometimes literally) and including up and comers like Elisabeth Moss, Jesse Plemons, and Anna Kendrick, Fear Itself was canceled, leaving us with 13 episodes to binge, over and over again. 

Since we’re in the midst of the spooky times, I thought I would give Fear Itself a well-deserved spotlight because it’s the perfect addition to your wicked watches. 

If I haven’t sold you on Fear Itself, this title card should. 

If you’re watching this series for the first time, never fear. I’ve curated a recommended watch order, so you can get the most out of your viewing experience. 

• “Eater”
• “Community”
• “New Year’s Eve” 
• “Family Man” 
• “Skin and Bones” 
• “In Sickness and in Health” 
• “Something with Bite” 
• “Echoes”
• “The Sacrifice”
• “Chance” 
• “Spooked” 
• “The Circle” 
• “The Spirit Box”

Hello, Movie Mavens! Welcome back to the B Movies Blog. Today, we’re popping a dedication to KP (my mom) and Matt (my brother-in-law) into the ol’ VCR. 

Well, friends, it’s been a few weeks since I’ve done a cheesy post, so it’s time for my next one. 

You see, KP is the one who introduced me to horror, and Matt has been my horror partner-in-crime for over half of my life. Not only were the two of them born during spooky season, but they were born on the same day. Today, in fact. 

I know this is a pop culture blog, but without the two of them, I wouldn’t have been exposed to a lot of horror movies I’ve grown to love. 

Me calling my brother-in-law and telling him to watch a deranged movie. 

KP showed me all the classics like Carrie and Halloween, while Matt brought me modern gems like Slither and The Descent. 

Growing up, KP and I would binge movies on Sundays, as well as when I caught Swine Flu my senior year of high school. And, y’all, they weren’t all winners. 

However, we always had a good time, and I would give ANYTHING to have one more movie day with her. 

When Matt came into our family, he gained a movie buddy in me. My sister won’t touch most horror movies (except for Midsommar, which is truly baffling), so Matt and I would catch matinees and trade DVDs (by trade, I mean I would mostly steal and/or borrow his DVDs). 

KP whenever an explicit sex scene popped up in a horror movie. 

I still send Matt trailers, analog horror series, and everything in-between. 

Matt and KP also had a tradition of going to see the rebooted Halloween series together, and it broke his heart that she passed before Halloween Ends was released. 

I want to thank them both because they’re both very important people to me. 

KP, thank you for being my biggest fan for your entire life and beyond. 

Matt, thank you for being such a welcome addition to our family.  

I love you both very, very much. 

For KP, For Always

Hello, Movie Mavens! Welcome back to the B Movies Blog. Today, we’re popping the V/H/S movies into the ol’ VCR. 

Now, I’m not totally sure how to categorize these movies. I’m hesitant to label them a franchise because each film has its own wraparound and anthology entries, but the overarching theme is the same. Either way, I really dig them, with one exception. 

We won’t be talking about V/H/S: Viral. I’ve seen it exactly once, and I think it’s one of my least favorite movies of all time. However, the rest of the V/H/S movies are so good that they shouldn’t suffer for its mistakes. I digress. 

I also won’t be focusing on the individual directors for each segment. Don’t worry, several of these directors, including Adam Wingard and Ti West, will be getting their own, individual spotlights in the future. 

The one thing I would love to bring to your attention that blew my mind is that “10/31/98” from the first V/H/S film is directed by Radio Silence, aka Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, Justin Martinez, and Chad Villella, who you might know from little movies such as Scream (2022), Scream VI, and Ready or Not. Yeah, THAT Radio Silence. Shoutout to Random Number Generator Horror Podcast No. 9 for bringing that to my attention. 

Me to my dogs when I’m trying to get through a single Zoom meeting without them barking.

Before we dive into my rankings, there are a couple of things I want to talk about. First and foremost, to fully understand the V/H/S movies, we have to talk about this weird little pocket of 2012-2015 horror. During these years, we saw the likes of The Guest, It Follows, and other little gems including the first two V/H/S movies. 

Good horror comes in ebbs and flows (fortunately for us, we’ve been on the upswing for the past couple of years), and for some reason, this three or four year pocket gave us several of my favorite horror movies of all time. 

Secondly, I’m not going to rank the wraparound segments. I don’t think the wraparound segments of the V/H/S movies are bad by any means, but they tend to be the weakest entries of each film. 

I feel like “Storm Drain” is just a metaphor for how it felt to sell LuLaRoe. 

Alrighty. I’ve made you all wait long enough. I went through each of the four V/H/S movies (I meant what I said about V/H/S Viral) and ranked all of the segments (V/H/S 2 was a doozy to rank, I’ll tell you what). Let’s do this. 

V/H/S 

• “10/31/98”
• “Tuesday the 17th”
• “Amateur Night”*
• “Second Honeymoon”
• “The Sick Thing That Happened To Emily When She Was Younger” 

*This segment was adapted into the movie The Siren. 

V/H/S 2 

• “Safe Haven”
• “Slumber Party Alien Abduction”*
• “A Ride in the Park”
• “Phase I Clinical Trials”

*This segment was adapted into the movie Kids v. Aliens. 

V/H/S/94 

• “The Subject”
• “Storm Drain” 
• “The Wake” 
• “Terror” 

V/H/S/99 

• “To Hell and Back”
• “Shredding”*
• “Ozzy’s Dungeon” 
• “Suicide Bid” 

*I need a full Bitch Cat album

There you have it, friends. I can’t wait for V/H/S/85, and I love how these movies showcase amazingly talented horror directors, writers, etc…  And, tbh, some of these segments are better than full-length horror movies I’ve watched. It’s also one of the only series that I still look forward to new entries of. 

Hail Raatma.

Hello, Movie Mavens! Welcome back to the B Movies Blog. Today, we’re popping Claire C. Holland’s I Am Not Your Final Girl into the ol’ VCR. 

Note: This piece won’t contain my regular photos with jokes in the captions because it didn’t seem appropriate. 

I stumbled upon I Am Not Your Final Girl while scrolling through the internet one day, and I was immediately sold. Published in 2017, Claire C. Holland takes the final girls we’ve come to know and love and examines their trauma through a realistic lens. Sure, we cheer and applaud when our girl finally defeats the big bad, but what happens after the credits roll?

More importantly, Holland strips away the haunting score and special effects, and not only portrays the likes of Laurie and Sally, but more complex female horror leads like May and Carrie. Additionally, the phrase “final girl” doesn’t necessarily apply to all of the women Holland drew inspiration from; some of these characters don’t make it out alive. 

However, I think it makes it all the more powerful. Not to mention this was written during a certain administration with a certain orange man with tiny hands who doesn’t deserve to be named. 

I do want to give some CWs/TWs in advance. This collection is broken into four sections, with the first being Assault. These poems are from the perspective of women who have been r*ped, experienced SA, and/or were brutally attacked. Many of these themes do continue throughout the collection, so I’d recommend reading with caution if any of the things I’ve mentioned are triggering. 

I Am Not Your Final Girl is not only a must-read for horror fans, but for any women, trans women (who are women, thank you), femme-presenting peeps, and/or non-binary peeps (if you aren’t triggered by the things I mentioned earlier). It’s poignant, and the way Holland describes iconic works of horror is truly beautiful. 

I’d also say I Am Not Your Final Girl is a must-read for men. The people in your life who identify in the groups I mentioned above more than likely have a horror story. Whether they’ve been catcalled in the street, groped without permission at a bar, or worse, they have a story.

I’ve personally been groped, gaslit, grabbed, you name it. 

To bring us home, I’ll leave you with an excerpt from the Introduction. 

“Not all the women in this book are survivors, much as I wish they were. They’re final girls in my heart, though, and I hold them the closest. These are the women I feel raging inside me, the women whose pain and fury help me deal with my own darkest moments. They show me I can be stronger. They show me that I’m not alone. I cherish them all for going down fighting, and for taking a piece of their oppressors as they go.”

Claire C. Holland, I Am Not Your Final Girl

Hello, Movie Mavens! Welcome back to the B Movies Blog. Today, we’re popping the Friday the 13th franchise into the ol’ VCR. 

I feel like I’ve made a lot of controversial statements on this blog, and I’m about to make another: the Friday the 13th franchise isn’t my favorite. 

Now, before you run off with another counselor and leave me to drown, hear me out. 

I still enjoy the franchise, and I respect it. Any franchise that has appearances from both Kevin Bacon and Crispin Glover is a-okay in my book. Additionally, I’ve made multiple people watch Jason X with me on dates, and I don’t know what that says about me as a person. 

Who knew Jason was a comedian at heart?

Jason’s just never really done it for me like Michael Myers or Ghostface. He doesn’t have the (metaphorical) camp of Freddy or Chucky. He just does his own thing, unless he’s ripped out of hell and forced to cut down every single popular teen star of the early 2000s. 

However, it felt wrong to not throw him a bone when I was doing pieces about the other franchises, let alone the fact that there’s a Friday the 13th in October this year. 

Jason, I salute you, and I feel like we would be the kind of friends who never hang out and only like each other’s posts on Instagram. 🫡

Hello, Movie Mavens! Welcome back to the B Movies Blog. Today, we’re popping Vintage Eight’s YouTube channel into the ol’ VCR. 

Okay, friends. YouTube is, once again, running the horror game. Instead of a specific series, we’re going to focus on an entire channel, Vintage Eight. 

Vintage Eight’s analog horror series are crafted in a way I haven’t seen from other accounts. The basic format of each series is simple, but I think that’s what makes it most effective. 

Vintage Eight relies on the story instead of its accompanying media to make our skin crawl. Through a mix of voice-over and stock photos and images mixed with new and/or altered images and videos, Vintage Eight’s unique storytelling is what really drew me to their channel. 

To no one’s surprise, I first learned of Vintage Eight from Baz’s channel (go like their videos and subscribe to both of their channels, plz) when I watched him cover The Children Under the House. 

I know I’ve said this before, but I would watch the HELL out of a film adaptation of The Children Under the House. I can see how the scenes would potentially play out in my head. Lin Shaye would absolutely be involved. Blumhouse, you know what to do. 

Additionally, I watched Baz’s reaction video for The Tangi Virus and was immediately transported back to watching the likes of Resident Evil for the first time. 

I was most recently smitten with The Oracle Project/The Human Trial series, wherein we see first-hand how dangerous AI can become. 

Another truly impressive component to the Vintage Eight channel is that many of these series are interconnected. Much like Kris Straub’s Ichor Falls, Vintage Eight has created Cate’s Crossing, a fictional mecca for supernatural, paranormal, and uh, all-around super messed up activity. 

Vintage Eight’s channel is a delightful hub of creepy content and diabolical delights. From series to shorts, there’s plenty of content to enjoy until it’s time to turn off the lights. 

Just know you might not be alone once you flip the light switch. 

Hello, Movie Mavens! Welcome back to the B Movies Blog. Today, we’re popping some classic 90s/00s nu metal horror remakes and originals into the ol’ VCR. 

Let me take you on a journey back to the late 90s and early 00s. 

The likes of Korn, Godsmack, and Slipknot grace the airwaves of your favorite alt rock radio station (RIP, 102.1: The Edge). 

Call it coincidence or seeing an opportunity, but a subgenre of horror was (accidentally?) created out of the nu metal craze. 

I was watching this and Interview with the Vampire when my fever spiked with Swine Flu, causing me to hallucinate and think KP was a vampire trying to bite me instead of my mother trying to put me in bed. 

These movies could hang on their own rack at Hot Topic… so you know I ate them UP. 

If you don’t know what I’m referring to, let me share with you the signs that you’re watching a nu metal movie: 

• The CGI effects are over the top 
• The soundtrack includes a nu metal cover and/or multiple nu metal bands 
• The gradient is a little grimy and includes a lot of blacks, grays, and oranges

* Famke Janssen and Ali Larter are preferred but not required

Additionally, the majority of the cast is usually really hot. 

Man, Boy Meets World really played a major part in my childhood. 

Do any movies come to mind (I hope so because if not, I haven’t done my job and need to rethink my entire writing career)? 

Before I list any of these movies, I want to be clear: I LOVE these movies, and I’m not trying to be shady. All of the movies I’m about to list just so happen to all belong to the same subgenre for all of us who wore long-sleeve shirts under band tees, baggy jeans, and Sharpie-graffiti Chucks. 

My favorite nu metal horror movies/the four movies I believe make up the pillars of this subgenre are: 

• Th13teen Ghosts (2001)
• Queen of the Damned
• House on Haunted Hill (1999) 
• Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2

When I think nu metal, I think witches, homicidal ghosts, and unhappy marriages. These four movies walked so that the likes of Freddy vs. Jason and every Rob Zombie movie could run. The next time you listen to “Duality,” be sure to show some respect. 🫡

Protect Matthew Lillard at all costs.

Hello, Movie Mavens! Welcome back to the B Movies Blog. Today, we’re popping some of my favorite animated Halloween specials and episodes into the ol’ VCR. 

Friends, now that the spooky season is FINALLY upon us, it’s time to give you another list of my favorites, this time being my favorite creepy cartoons. 

Quick disclaimer: I’m excluding all of the Tim Burton joints because I feel as though they belong in an entirely different category. The specials I’m throwing out are either a) spooky-themed episodes of an animated series or b) Halloween-specific specials. 

With all of the particulars out of the way, let’s get to it. 

Specials 

• Witch’s Night Out
• Garfield’s Halloween Adventure 
• The Scooby-Doo Project
• It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
• The Halloween Tree

If there’s one fact you should have memorized about me, it’s that watching The Halloween Tree has been a tradition of mine since childhood. 

Special episodes 

• “Summerween” – Gravity Falls
• “Arnold’s Halloween” – Hey Arnold! 
• “Scaredy Pants” and “Graveyard Shift” – SpongeBob SquarePants 
• “Scarily Odd Parents” – Fairly Odd Parents 
• “Candy Bar Creep Show” – Rugrats 
• “Doug’s Halloween Adventure” – Doug 
• “Bravo Dooby-Doo” – Johnny Bravo 

The Nosferatu bit in “Graveyard Shift” is still one of the funniest bits I’ve ever seen and is the peak of comedic genius.

Hello, Movie Mavens! Welcome back to the B Movies Blog. Today, we’re popping the Halloween franchise into the ol’ VCR. 

Well, friends, the time has come to cover my favorite franchise in the horrorsphere. The Halloween franchise is not only special to me because it’s something I shared with KP and still share with my brother-in-law, but also because I think it influenced modern horror in a major way. 

Hell, I’d be so bold as to argue that Halloween ‘78 influenced the likes of Ti West.

Do I think it has the same quality control as the Scream or Evil Dead franchises? Honestly, no. Much like Bruno, we don’t talk about Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers or Halloween Ends. But, I do think Halloween ‘78 is one of the best horror movies of all time, and I have the Laurie Strode tattoo to prove it. 

Me and who?

I’m also a Halloween III: Season of the Witch stan. John Carpenter meant for the franchise to be an anthology, and I think Halloween III is a great example of what could’ve been. 

Additionally, Halloween is one of the biggest physical representations of spooky season for me. I remember watching Halloweens 4 and 5 during AMC’s FearFest when I got home from school in the afternoons. KP and I would watch all of them throughout October. I once had the theme set as a ringtone and accidentally scared the shit out of a friend of mine at a sleepover. 

WHY DID HALLOWEEN ENDS INTRODUCE A FASCINATING CHARACTER IN THE LAST MOVIE OF THE TRILOGY ONLY TO UNCEREMONIOUSLY KILL HIM OFF? 

The Halloween franchise means a lot to me, and I can’t even fully articulate just how important it is. On that note, I’ll leave you with my controversial ranking of the franchise.*

• Halloween
• Halloween III: Season of the Witch 
• Halloween II 
• Halloween 5: Revenge of Michael Myers 
• Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
• Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
• Halloween (2018)
• Halloween Kills
• Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
• Halloween Ends

*Disclaimer: I left out Rob Zombie’s Halloween and Halloween II because I know they’re not technically considered to be part of the larger franchise, but I do enjoy them both and include them in my annual rewatch 

And yes, I truly hated Halloween Ends THAT much.

Hello, Movie Mavens! Welcome back to the B Movies Blog. Today, we’re popping Rob Gavagan’s Greylock into the ol’ VCR. 

[CW/TW: gore, home invasion, infant death, assault, mutilation, and anything else that falls within these categories. Additionally, there are flashing lights and images as well as loud sounds that may be harmful/hurtful to photosensitive viewers]. 

Alrighty, friends, buckle up. I’m coming at you with another wonderful analog horror series to keep you company during the spookiest time of the year. 

I first discovered Greylock through Baz’s channel (shocker), and I was blown away. The best way I can categorize Greylock is by saying it’s like a mix of Local 58, The Mandela Catalogue, and The Monument Mythos, but different. I’ll also say that SimioDyn gives Cyberdyne Systems a run for its money. 

Greylock shows us what happens when government experiments go terribly, terribly wrong. Thoughtforms, the big bad of the series, are generated through person, or persons’, emotions, making Thoughtforms an extension of their creator(s). However, Thoughtforms can also become sentient, and it seems as though they can also become uncontrollable and malicious. 

While some Thoughtforms are similar to spectral beings, others can, uh, become physical manifestations. Which, uh, is very bad. 

There’s also some ancient and sinister entity that lives within the mountains. And, oh yeah, SimioDyn may have been responsible for JFK’s assassination, as he wasn’t down to let them run wild with all of their technology. 

Greylock is EXTREMELY well-executed. There are videos, a la Gemini Home Entertainment, mixed with “real” footage. The distortion isn’t over the top, and there’s a jump scare in TAPE 009 that made my butt physically leave my sectional. And, friends, I’m known for sitting like a rock when watching horror content. 

As of the time of this writing, Greylock sits at nine videos, and each is better than the last (this is saying a lot because each video is fantastic). I’m really excited to see how this series progresses, and I think we have another legendary entry into the YouTube analog horror series vault. 

Also, this should go without saying, but please support all of the horror content creators you love. Subscribe to their channels, share their content, and support them however you can. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: YouTube is going to play a major role in the future of horror. The success of Talk to Me has proven this. 

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to rid myself of all negative emotions to avoid birthing a sentient, nightmarish creature and unleashing it onto our world.