A Grab Bag of Horror News, 29 Jun to 5 Jul 2025

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• Condolences to family, friends, and fans of actor Michael Madsen. Madsen’s horror movie roles included Species II, Scary Movie 4, Hoboken Hollow, Terror Trap, and Lumberjack Man. RIP.
• Condolences to family, friends, and fans of actor Julian McMahon. McMahon played half-human, half-demon Cole in 3 seasons of Charmed. RIP.
• Condolences to family, friends, and fans of actor/stuntman Bob Elmore. Elmore played Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 and performed stunts in The Monster Squad and Giggles. RIP.

Horror Book Bits

• L. Stine will be making a rare public appearance for a limited autograph session and photo opportunity on 14 Sep 2025 at Creep It Real, Heritage Museum of Orange County.
• Tickets are on sale for Killer Pride: A Scares That Care Charity Event. The event is on from 26 to 28 Sep 2025 in Williamsburg, Virginia. If you can’t make it, you can still make a donation, with all $30 donations entering a prize draw to win autographed photos of the film and TV celebrities in attendance.

Horror Movie Morsels

• Elle Fanning will play 2 roles in Predator: Badlands, one as android Thia and the other yet to be revealed.
• The new I Know What You Did Last Summer movie has been given an ‘R’ rating for “bloody horror violence, language throughout, some sexual content and brief drug use”.
• The Horror Section is taking their upcoming splatter horror movie Jimmy and Stiggs on the road with free screenings from 3 Jul to 4 Aug, before its official 15 Aug 2025 release.
• Cinespia is running their Full Moon Slumber Party event at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery on 9 Aug 2025. The event includes screenings of The Lost Boys and An American Werewolf in London. Cinespia invites everyone to “Picnic all day and slumber party ’til the creatures come out – because it’s a full moon, a blue moon, and a supermoon all rolled into one wild night with giveaways, surprises, dance parties, and photo moments.”

Horror TV Treats

• Final Transmissions, a 6-episode found footage horror series, has launched an Indiegogo fundraising campaign. Each episode will be framed as a lost 1999 broadcast.
• Neil Druckmann, the creator of The Last of Us video game, is stepping away from his creative involvement in the TV series, so he won’t be involved in Season 3.
• Resurrection 4: A Biohazard Story reached its fundraising goal which will bring this Resident Evil fan web series into production. The series will air for free on the Residence of Evil YouTube channel in 2026.
• Junji Ito Crimson is the name of an upcoming TV adaptation of a number of Ito’s new and old horror manga stories with the concept of “monsters”.
• Japanese found footage horror anthology series Yamidouga (Tokyo Videos of Horror) is coming to FOUND TV on 17 Jul 2025 and includes new English subtitles.

Horror Podcast Pieces

• Season 3 of David Dastmalchian’s Grave Conversations begins streaming on YouTube on 7 Jul 2025.

Horror Game Goodies

• If you have a spare $9,699 lying around, you can get rid of it by buying a Jaws 50th Anniversary Premium Edition pinball machine.

Horror Festival Fare

• Fantasia International Film Festival released its final wave of programming, bringing the numbers to more than 125 movies and 200 shorts. Awards will be presented to Genndy Tartakovsky, Danny Elfman, Sheila McCarthy, Anne-Marie Gélinas, and Lloyd Kaufman. The festival runs from 16 Jul to 3 Aug 2025 in Montreal, Quebec.