Can you feel it? There’s a chill in the air, the sun is retiring early, and the leaves are starting to change color (at least in my midwestern city). We’re about to enter that time of year when everyone starts posting Kermit the Vampire the Frog memes to show that they’re ready for Halloween. I even started paying attention to the Shudder resubscribe button.
October has its own atmosphere at the cinema, and movies released this month include Blood Hunt, a film about Special Forces fighting werewolves in the Pacific Theater in 1944, and Seven Cemeteryis a film starring Danny Trejo about a man who hires a witch to resurrect his team to save a woman’s ranch. let us not forget rumor, I’m very excited about this.
So below I’ve prepared a few of this week’s horror movie trailers as well as two streaming series for you to check out. enjoy!
1922 Nosferatu: Symphony of Horror is a Dracula The movie has nothing but its name. So much so that Bram Stoker’s heirs received a court order to destroy copies of the film, but a few copies have survived. Now, more than 100 years after its release, Nosferatu There’s an upcoming remake starring Bill Skarsgård as the vampire Count Orlok, aka Nosferatu. Lily Rose-Depp and Willem Dafoe also star.
The latest trailer does a good job of setting up the atmosphere of the townspeople’s horror at Count Orlok, but Spotlight Movies hasn’t shown us Orlok himself just yet. Nosferatu Releases December 25th.
companion
I don’t know what happened to Warner Bros. companion. The trailer for the film, directed by Drew Hancock, begins with a fake headshot that makes you think it’s a love story. Then it quickly turns into a thriller about a woman (Sophie Thatcher) being held captive by a man (Jack Quaid).
I think this is also a fake head. There’s a strange moment at the end of the trailer where Thatcher’s character holds a hand firmly on a candle until her arm is on fire. She’s crying, so she’s obviously in pain, but the film’s classification—it’s a sci-fi thriller—made me wonder what’s going on underneath.
I’m hoping I can gather more information by sending a text message to the number in the trailer’s YouTube page description. It involved a “Find your partner today” questionnaire, which included a request for a selfie. I ended up with this:
This doesn’t answer any of my questions, but at least I will now receive marketing newsletters. Anyway, companion It will be released on January 10 next year.
Three years after the first season hit squid game The Netflix show, which has ended and spawned a reality spin-off, will return for a second season on December 26. This week’s new trailer shows Gong Yoo’s salesman getting ready for work (and possibly getting slapped). Finally he asked directly into the camera: “Sir, do you want to play games with me?”
franchise, HBO’s new series follows a fictional comic book-style movie and looks like a delightful subversion of Hollywood’s ongoing superhero obsession. It was written by Jon Brown, who also wrote successionHimish Patel and Lori Adefope play Daniel and Dag, two of the film’s production staff. Daniel Brühl is also included – a bit of interesting casting considering he’s played Zemo in multiple Marvel properties. franchise It starts live tonight at 10pm ET on Max.