A Grab Bag of Horror News, 20 to 26 Apr 2025

A selection of things that caught our attention in the world of horror this week

Bite-Sized Horror News

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Condolences to family, friends, and fans of actress Lar Park Lincoln. Her horror roles included Friday the 13th: The New Blood (1988), Freddy’s Nightmares (1 episode in the 1988 TV series), 13 Fanboy (2021), and Rose Blood: A Friday the 13th Fan Film (2021). RIP.

Horror Book Bits

Watch Stephen King read an excerpt from his upcoming book, Never Flinch, and discuss his love for Holly and how this new ‘whodunnit’ came to be. The book releases on 27 May 2025.
P. Lovecraft’s short story Herbert West: Reanimator is getting a “contemporary reimagining” movie adaptation.
World Builder Publishing will focus on developing books that expand the King Kong of Skull Island universe. They’ll offer authors a fast track to market, while exploring film and television adaptation potential.
The plot of Remain, the novel and screenplay being written by Nicholas Sparks and M. Night Shyamalan, has been revealed, along with the cover design of the novel. The release date for the novel is 7 Oct 2025. The release date of the movie is unknown.
Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses: The Making of a Cult Classic releases on 16 Sep 2025. It will include film stills, rare artwork, concept sketches, and the original script.
Josh Malerman’s Audible Original novella, Decorum at the Deathbed, is getting a movie adaptation.

Horror Movie Morsels

An Urban Legends reboot is in the works and might be “an examination of what an urban legend looks like in a post-digital world”.
Martha’s Vineyard, where Jaws was filmed, is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the movie over five days, 19 to 23 Jun 2025, with screenings, talks, special guests, live events, and behind-the-scene insights into the making of the movie. The Martha’s Vineyard Museum also has a Jaws exhibition running from 24 May to 7 Sep 2025.
You can watch Clown in a Cornfield at a drive-in a week before its cinema release. The movie will play at several drive-in chains on 2 May 2025 and opens in cinemas on 9 May 2025.
Shudder is streaming Vampire Hunter D on 30 May 2025, celebrating the movie’s 40th anniversary.
Cult classic The Entity (1982) is getting a reinterpretation in a new movie called Entity Within. The movies, and the 1978 book by Frank de Felitta, are based on a supposed true life haunting that happened in California in 1974.

Horror TV Treats

Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 is the name of the upcoming Netflix animated Stranger Things series.
The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula has been renewed for a 7th season on Shudder. The multi-project deal also includes The Boulet Brothers’ Holiday of Horrors.
Looks like the Crystal Lake series might be back on – Brad Caleb Kane shared a picture of the cover of a script on Instagram and says “It’s all happening”.

Horror Game Goodies

Supernatural horror game The Mortuary Assistant is getting a movie adaption that will “expand on the game’s world and mythology”.

Horror Festival Fare

Salem Horror Fest announced its jury prize winners, ahead of the event which takes place from 30 Apr to 4 May 2025. Found footage horror movie The Rebrand won Best Feature. Grief horror movie The Conduit won Best Interlude (movies with a runtime of between 15 minutes and 1 hour). Folk horror movie Bedlamer won Best Short.
The first guests announced for Silver Scream Con 4 are Scream’s Matthew Lillard, Skeet Ulrich, Rose McGowan, and Roger L. Jackson. The con takes place 12 to 14 September 2025 in Worcester, Massachusetts.

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
Lloyd Alexander

Writing Horror

Some places accepting submissions

The First Line
Pays: $25 – $50 fiction, $10 poetry, $25 non-fiction
First line must be: No one really knows why restoration stopped on the abandoned St. Julian hotel, where commoners and kings once came to relax in luxury.
Submissions close: 1 May 2025

The Last Line
Pays: $20 – $40 fiction
Last line must be: I called back a week later and told them we were good to go.
Submissions close: 1 Oct 2025

Samhain Screams anthology (Black Beacon Books)
Pays: $50 + print and digital copy
Looking for: Memorable, character-driven stories set on, or near, the last night of October
Submissions close: 30 May 2025

Upcoming submission calls

100 word drabbles (100-Foot Crow)
Pays: $8 (8 cents per word)
Theme: Train. Must have a sci-fi or fantasy speculative element
Submissions open 15 May and close 15 Jun 2025

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
Robert Frost

Trailer Horror

A taste of things to come.

Horror TV Trailers

Love, Death & Robots, Season 4. Anthology horror. Animated short stories that span various genres including science fiction, fantasy, horror and comedy. Netflix, 15 May 2025

Wednesday, Season 2. Supernatural horror. She’s back. Netflix, 6 Aug 2025

Horror Movie Trailers

The Bunker. Alien horror. When alien ships appear in the sky, a micropathogen specialist is sealed in an underground bunker, tasked with developing a biological weapon to combat the extraterrestrial invaders. Release date TBA

Deathwoods. Slasher horror. A weekend of camping turns into a weekend of bloodshed, as people are picked off one by one by the urban legend that haunts the woods surrounding the small town of Old Hickory, Tennessee. Release date TBA

First Moon. Werewolf horror. A religious cult abducts a young waitress, determined to cure her of a werewolf virus. VOD, 6 May 2025

I Know What You Did Last Summer. Slasher horror. When five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident, they cover up their involvement and make a pact to keep it a secret rather than face the consequences. A year later, their past comes back to haunt them. Cinema, 18 Jul 2025

No One Will Hear Your Scream. Argentinian serial killer horror. During the 1990 World Cup, each match brings a new serial killer victim. A young woman working at a record store discovers that the killer is connected to a compilation she created. Release date TBA

Predator: Badlands. Alien horror. A young Predator outcast from his clan finds an unlikely ally on his journey in search of the ultimate adversary. Cinema, 7 Nov 2025

Project MKHEXE. Found footage horror. An amateur filmmaker returns home to film his brother’s funeral, but discovers his brother’s obsession with an Internet urban legend that does not exist about a secret government mind control experiment. Screambox, 29 Apr 2025

Room Six. Psychological horror. A motel clerk, whose curiosity (or paranoia) gets the best of her, decides to investigate the suspicious circumstances surrounding the late-night check in of two brothers. VOD, 2 May 2025

Thorns. Monster horror. An ex-priest working for NASA is sent to investigate a remote observatory that went silent after receiving a radio signal from deep space. He discovers that signal has set in motion the biblical end of times. VOD, 6 May 2025

Weapons. Psychological horror. When all but one child from the same class vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance. Cinema, 8 Aug 2025

Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires. Summer camp comedy horror. Zed and Addison find themselves acting as camp counselors between the two opposing supernatural factions. Disney, 10 Jul 2025

Horror Game Trailers

A.I.L.A. Technology horror. As the sole game tester for a revolutionary new fictional AI, survive intense horror experiences that prey on your deepest fears as the lines between virtual and reality begin to blur. Release date TBA

God Save Birmingham. Medieval zombie apocalypse horror. In 14th century Birmingham, England, a strange plague sweeps the countryside, transforming men into monsters, and cities into slaughterhouses. You are one of the last survivors. Release date TBA

Hunger. Apocalypse horror. In a war-torn Napoleonic Europe, a plague has unleashed monstrous beings. Step into the desolate ruins and embark on a perilous journey solo, or with allies. Release date TBA

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
Anais Nin

A Selection of Horror Books Released this Week

11 horror books this week. Themes: Supernatural, ghost, serial killer, folk, zombie, and cosmic horror

See: A Selection of Horror Books Released, 20 to 26 Apr 2025

“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.”
Dr. Seuss

A Selection of Horror Movies Released this Week

8 horror movies this week. Themes: Supernatural, psychological, killer, and space horror

See: A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 20 to 26 Apr 2025

“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
Muriel Rukeyser

A Selection of Horror TV Shows Released this Week

1 horror TV show this week. Theme: Serial killer horror

See: A Selection of Horror TV Shows Released, 20 to 26 Apr 2025

“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”
Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

What We Were Thinking About this Week

Family Business by Jonathan Sims (novel)

Landline by Kelly Robson (short story, Reactor Magazine)

The Rapture by Liz Vaughan (100-word story, 100-Foot Crow)

“The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”
Henry Green

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