Tag: Horror

Lon Chaney’s A Blind Bargain is No Longer Lost. Instead This Movie is Remade!

Crispin Glover delivers the goods in A Blind Bargain, a resurrected piece of lost cinema where Lon Chaney was the star.

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Fans of Lon Chaney will most likely know about A Blind Bargain. It’s a film where the actor played two roles. Not only did he become a mad scientist chasing the fountain of youth, but he also played a hairy man ape! Sadly, no surviving print exists, and film historians must rely on stills and past reviews.

Based on those materials, many critics hail it as brilliant. Not every piece of horror cinema featuring the Man of a Thousand Faces can be deemed truly haunting, and when this work concerns mutating the human genome, anything can happen. Chaney played a “good doctor” whose experiments promised hope but delivered torture. That premise isn’t quite the same in the modern remake written by John Falotico and Bing Bailey and directed by Paul Bunnell, but the DNA is still there.

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Titan Manga’s Release of Toxic Super Beasts is Wild. The Story So Far….

Toxic Super Beasts blends kaiju action, dark science fiction, and mystery as genetically altered humans battle monstrous threats. With Toy(e)’s striking creature designs and Nykken’s growing conspiracy, this manga offers plenty for fans of disaster stories and Attack on Titan.

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Toxic Super Beasts asks just how some giant monsters are born, and when Earth’s original titans were dinosaurs, the kind some geneticists hope to harvest genes from, Jurassic World Rebirth comes to mind. When the harvesting grounds aren’t exactly safe, we need genetically engineered metahumans who can go toe to toe with these kaiju. And that’s what writer Nykken and artist Toy(e) are bringing to the page.

This manga tosses more than a few ideas into the melting pot. It is one part disaster story, another part Frankenstein, with perhaps Attack on Titan as the cherry on top. Kazuki Kisaragi leads a unit tasked with collecting monster DNA alongside Miko Mikoshiba, a woman who may not be what she seems. She’s a hybrid with minimal knowledge of her past.

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With Dark Horse in Charge of D&D Now, It’s Not Just Another Ravenloft Comic

Ravenloft Comic Dark HorseIDW Comics’ run with the Dungeons and Dragons license ended last year, and following the success of Dark Horse Comics’ work with Wizards of the Coast, their releases are doing a touch better and the consensus is that fans like it. Ravenloft is the next release. After the first issue of The Fallbacks and the delayed release of the second, there are a lot of titles being planned getting back on track.

The four-issue miniseries written by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Amy Chu (Red Sonja) examines why this particular world is crumbling. Nobody knows why. Fortunately, monster hunter Ez D’Avenir is on the case. She’s searching the frozen wasteland of Lamordia for an undead creature that may hold the key to this world’s fate. But when Darklord Viktra Mordenheim catches wind of her quest, Ez is suddenly the one being hunted. Just how deep this series will go into the lore depends on Chu’s research. It’s also known as The Mists, a more compelling and scary reference in par with Silent Hill.

The art is provided by Ariela Kristantina (Adora and the Distance), colours by Arif Prianto (Poison Ivy, Green Lantern Corps), and letters by Haley Rose-Lyon (BUMP: A Horror Anthology, Jill and the Killers). Issue #1 will feature cover art by Guillem March, Riley Rossmo, Francesco Francavilla, Todor Hristov, and Angela Wu.

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What Really Spooks Janur Ireng, Sewu Dino the Prequel Isn’t Just a Curse

Kimo Stamboel’s Janur Ireng, Sewu Dino the Prequel sinks its claws into family rot, black magic, and inherited dread, delivering a culturally rich horror film that feels bleak, grotesque, and deeply unsettling.

Janur Ireng Movie PosterIf Kimo Stamboel had approached Janur Ireng, Sewu Dino the Prequel like Poltergeist, it might have lost me. Instead, what we get is something far more rooted in legacy, with a deep dive into a family’s past and the origins of the black magic that poisons it. The plantation setting isn’t just aesthetic; it matters, tying the horror to land, inheritance, and something festering beneath both.

Even without having seen Sewu Dino, this prequel is clearly building the bones of something larger. The film takes its lore seriously, pulling from Javanese beliefs and blending them with Christian imagery, especially through the recurring goat symbolism. Less concerned with explaining every detail, it’s more interested in letting that uneasy fusion of traditions sit under your skin.

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DRAGN Is a Brutal Wake-Up Call About Drone Warfare

Peter Webber’s DRAGN blends slasher structure with modern techno-paranoia, imagining a deadly autonomous drone stalking corporate retreat attendees. While its POV sequences are effective and unsettling, the film never digs deeply enough into the ethical and emotional weight of its own premise.

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Director Peter Webber and his screenwriting team, Barry Hutchison, Alex Lane, and Alexander Gordon Smith, have delivered a work that sits uncomfortably at the intersection of entertainment and contemporary anxiety. The release of DRAGN feels closely tied to the current global climate, where remote and automated warfare has become an increasing part of modern conflict. As these systems filter decision-making through distant interfaces, reducing lives to abstract data, the film’s premise of granting a drone the autonomous “choice” to execute feels less like speculative fiction and more like a reflection of present-day concerns.

In many ways, the bot in question attempts to be a Terminator for the age of algorithmized warfare. It is not a total failure, nor is it a triumph. Rather, it functions as an ontological inquiry: can we ever truly trust a machine programmed to bypass human empathy?

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Top 10 Picks From Discotek Deep Dives 2026 Spring Release Schedule

Discotek Deep Dives 2026 is shaping up to be a strong year for anime collectors, with long-lost favourites and cult classics finally getting the Blu-ray treatment. These ten picks stand out as the most essential upgrades worth adding to your shelf.

DEEP DIVES 2026 DiscoTek Media AnimeDiscotek’s ongoing DEEP DIVES 2026 initiative has a stack of upcoming releases that should make Spring especially exciting for anime fans. Many out-of-print anime titles from the 90s and earlier are getting fresh re-releases, and some are finally arriving on Blu-ray. Fans will want to check back regularly as new titles keep being added. Rather than list everything now available for pre-order through MediaOCD, I’m focusing on my ten must-have picks. Since parts of my own collection are still sitting in the VHS and DVD era, an upgrade feels more than worthwhile.

This partnership also helps ensure that even obscure titles from the 90s receive high-bitrate encodes and carefully prepared subtitles from some of the industry’s most dedicated technical experts. What follows are ten must-have releases, or essential upgrades if you do not already own these editions. The links go to the company site. Some titles are slowly getting listed on Amazon USA and are noted where possible.

  • Captain HarlockCaptain Harlock: Arcadia of My Youth – This 1982 film serves as the definitive origin story for Leiji Matsumoto’s legendary space pirate as he resists an alien occupation of Earth. It remains a sweeping space opera that establishes Harlock’s tragic past and his unbreakable code of honour.

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