A Grab Bag of Horror News, 3 to 9 Aug 2025

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• Condolences to family, friends, and fans of actor Kelley Mack. Mack played Addy in Season 9 of The Walking Dead. Other horror movies in her filmography include Broadcast Signal Intrusion (2021), Shot in the Dark (2021), and Delicate Arch (2024). RIP.
• Condolences to family, friends, and fans of musician Terry Reid. Three of Reid’s songs from his 1976 Seed of Memory album were used in Rob Zombie’s The Devil’s Rejects. RIP.

Horror Book Bits

• The novelization of apocalypse horror movie Bio-Dead comes out at the end of this month.
• Author S.A. Cosby’s serial killer novel, All the Sinners Bleed, is getting a TV series adaptation.
• The list of authors who will be at the Merrimack Valley Halloween Book Festival on 18 Oct 2025 looks fantastic.
• Watch author Brian Keene unboxing upcoming anthology The End of the World as We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand. The book is out on 19 Aug 2025.
• Comedy horror comic The Revenants is getting a TV series adaptation.
• Vinegar Syndrome’s screen printing studio VS Press is expanding into books, magazines, and posters.

Horror Movie Morsels

• Direct Chad Ferrin’s next true-crime-based movie will be Sunset Strip Killers, about serial killers Carol Bundy and Doug Clark.
• Congratulations to this year’s Fantasia Film Festival Audience Awards winners.
• The 7th Final Destination movie is happening.
• The Long Walk has been rated R for “strong bloody violence, grisly images, suicide, pervasive language, and sexual references”.
• Black Phone 2 has been rated R for “strong violent content, gore, teen drug use, and language”.
• It seems Ice Cube and Eva Longoria cannot save the new War of the Worlds movie that released last week. It currently has a 4% rating score on Rotten Tomatoes. For a while this week, it sat at 0%.
• Angry Orchard Hard Cider is holding a one-night-only Jason Universe Sweet Revenge Premiere Party in Walden, NY, on Wed, 13 Aug 2025.
• Director JT Mollner says he’s written a horror role for Meryl Streep; she only has to say yes.
• Actor Margot Robbie is in talks to play the lead role in Tim Burton’s reimagining of sci-fi horror movie Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman.
• The Blob remake is still on the cards, but the Blob’s origins will be updated so it’s come from a laboratory, not from space like in the original movie.
• The Poltergeist movie house in Simi Valley, California, is now available for vacation rental. The house was bought in 2024 for $1.28 million and has had another $165,000 spent on remodelling to recreate the interior of the home.
• Comedian Matt Rife and paranormal investigator Elton Castee have bought the rights to operate Ed and Lorraine Warren’s home and Occult Museum (including Annabelle) for five years. They plan to open the house for overnight stays and museum tours.

Horror TV Treats

• Goosebumps is not getting a 3rd season.
• Stranger Things actor Finn Wolfhard speculated about a series spinoff, describing it as “Like David Lynch’s Twin Peaks. Sort of an anthology and different tones but similar universe or same universe.”

Horror Game Goodies

• Following Steam’s banning of horror game VILE: Exhumed, the game has now been released for free on a dedicated website. There’s also optional payment links for anyone who wants to support the developer, and 50% of all profits will be donated to Canada’s Red Door Shelter who provide shelter, support, and guidance to families in need.

Horror Music Moments

• Halloween: The Complete Expanded Edition, containing John Carpenter’s soundtracks for Halloween (2018), Halloween Kills (2021), and Halloween Ends (2022), is up for preorder, with a release date of 3 Oct 2025.

Horror Festival Fare

• The Terror Tram is back this year at Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood, as is the popular Poltergeist haunted house.