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One of the most fun indie horror concepts we’ve seen this year is The Hoodoos, which mixes the tension of a heist thriller with Southern Gothic supernatural horror. The film is already available to rent or purchase on VOD, and the trailer gives viewers a taste of the nightmare waiting in the Louisiana bayou. Check it out in the embed above!

Directed by Jonathan Walter (who has worked as a composer on several Full Moon projects, including Bring Her to Me, Death Streamer, and Prompt) from a screenplay by Sean-Michael Argo (Jeepers Creepers: Reborn), The Hoodoos has the following synopsis:

A crime lord known only as the Captain has a job for the best heist crew in Louisiana: break into the long-abandoned Fontenot plantation deep in the Teche bayou and walk out with five thousand Confederate gold coins. The catch is they’ll need a sorcerer to get past the spells protecting the treasure, and it is a job no self-respecting Vodoun practitioner would ever take. Hatch is a low-rent voodoo influencer running a one-man hustle out of a beat-up camper van and is just the sort of loser they need. The heist crew, with Hatch dragged along at gunpoint, hit the plantation with speed and skill. What they find waiting for them is more than a chest of gold. Seven hand-made dolls filled with dark power wake up thirsty for blood, one for each of the crew.

Who will survive the night?

The Hoodoos delivers a fresh, terrifying twist on the crime genre by trading standard heist complications for ancient, vengeful magic. Filmed on location to capture the suffocating atmosphere of the deep Southern wetlands, the movie promises relentless pacing, shocking practical effects, and a haunting exploration of greed and folklore.

The cast includes Ashton Leigh, B. Dave Walters, Celeste Blandon, Sean-Michael Argo, and Garrett Andrew Ahrens.

While the movie is already available to rent or buy across major VOD platforms, including Amazon, Fandango at Home (formerly Vudu), Google TV, and other digital services, the filmmakers will also celebrate the film with an official red-carpet premiere on August 14 at 7:30 PM at the Historic Manship Theatre inside the Shaw Center for the Arts in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. For more details regarding the event, head over to Hoodoosmovie.com.

What do you think of the trailer for The Hoodoos? Does this supernatural heist movie look like something you’ll be checking out? It looks like fun to me, so I will be checking it out for sure. Let us know in the comments below.

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Charles Band has spent decades becoming one of independent cinema’s most prolific producers, launching cult favorites like Puppet Master, Subspecies, Castle Freak, and hundreds of other genre films through Full Moon Features. Now his remarkable career is being chronicled in the documentary Full Moon Rising: The Charles Band Story, and the first trailer has arrived via Fangoria. You can watch it in the embed above.

The documentary will make its world premiere at London FrightFest on August 31, giving horror fans their first chance to see an in-depth look at one of independent filmmaking’s most influential figures.

Directed by Sarah Appleton (The Found Footage Phenomenon, J-Horror Virus) and produced by Band’s frequent collaborator Chris Alexander, Full Moon Rising examines Band’s five-decade career in the film industry, from growing up around movie sets with his father, filmmaker Albert Band, through the rise of Empire Pictures and the creation of Full Moon Features.

The documentary features interviews with many of Band’s collaborators, including Barbara Crampton, John Carpenter, William Butler, Ted Nicolaou, and numerous actors, filmmakers, and industry veterans who reflect on the producer’s unique impact on horror and independent cinema.

The official synopsis reads:

“A documentary charting the rise of the eccentric legendary B-movie producer/director Charles Band and his company Full Moon Features. Framed as a character study—through looking at his work and talking to the people around him—this film considers how an individual entrepreneur can successfully survive over 50 years making movies in Hollywood, on his own terms.”

Band’s résumé includes more than 400 producing credits and over 100 directing credits, spanning everything from Tourist Trap and Trancers to Puppet Master, Subspecies, and countless other cult favorites that helped define the direct-to-video horror boom of the late 1980s and 1990s.

For longtime Full Moon devotees and newcomers alike, Full Moon Rising looks set to provide an interesting exploration of the life, career, and lasting legacy of one of horror’s most enduring creators. Are you looking forward to this documentary? Check out the trailer, then let us know by leaving a comment below.

I’m a longtime Full Moon fan who’s currently making my way through all 400+ of Band’s movies, so I will be watching Full Moon Rising for sure.

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After becoming the highest-grossing film in A24 history with an incredible $367 million worldwide box office haul, Backrooms has officially arrived on Digital. The hit horror film from first-time feature director Kane Parsons became available to rent or buy at home earlier this week (on July 14), giving audiences their first chance to watch the viral creepypasta adaptation without heading to a theatre.

Now, A24 has also revealed that Backrooms is getting an A24 Shop Exclusive Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD release, complete with nearly three hours of bonus features, including the “Everything Must Go” footage that had previously been promoted as a theatrical exclusive. For fans who skipped the recent re-release or wanted to revisit those extra scenes, the footage won’t remain exclusive to theatres after all.

When is Backrooms coming to Blu-ray and 4K?

A24 has opened pre-orders for exclusive Blu-ray and 4K editions through the A24 Shop. The studio expects to begin shipping copies in late August.

Each edition includes collectible packaging and six exclusive postcards alongside an extensive collection of behind-the-scenes material.

Backrooms Blu-ray bonus features

The physical release includes nearly three hours of extras:

• Everything Must Go bonus footage (16 minutes)
• Audio commentary with director Kane Parsons, VFX supervisor Edward J. Douglas, sound designer Eugenio Battaglia, and composer Edo Van Breemen
• Building the Backrooms featurette (26 minutes)
• Visual effects and scene breakdown with Kane Parsons
• Prop walkthrough
• Two additional VFX breakdowns with optional commentary
• Six collectible postcards

What is Backrooms about?

Based on Kane Parsons’ massively popular Kane Pixels YouTube series, Backrooms follows the owner of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, a furniture showroom hiding a doorway to an endless labyrinth of unsettling liminal spaces. Once inside, he finds himself trapped in a surreal nightmare where every hallway leads deeper into an impossible world.

The film stars:

• Chiwetel Ejiofor
• Renate Reinsve

From YouTube phenomenon to box office sensation

Few horror films have enjoyed a rise quite like Backrooms. Parsons’ original YouTube series debuted in 2022 and has accumulated more than 190 million views, helping transform the internet’s most famous creepypasta into one of 2026’s biggest theatrical success stories.

Produced for a modest budget, the film has now earned approximately $367 million worldwide, making it not only one of the year’s biggest horror hits but also the highest-grossing release in A24’s history.

Everything we know about Backrooms

Director

• Kane Parsons

Writer

• Will Soodik

Stars

• Chiwetel Ejiofor
• Renate Reinsve

Based on

• Kane Parsons’ Kane Pixels YouTube series

Genre

• Horror
• Psychological horror
• Found-footage
• Survival

Worldwide box office

• $364 million (and counting)

Now available

• Digital (released July 14)

Coming soon

• A24 Shop exclusive Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD editions shipping in late August

What do you think?

Did you catch Backrooms in theaters, or are you planning to watch it now that it’s available on Digital? And will you be picking up the Blu-ray for the expanded bonus features?

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Julius Avery (Overlord, The Pope’s Exorcist) has signed on to direct Crush, the snake-themed survival thriller that 20th Century Studios acquired after an intense bidding war last year.

The project generated a lot buzz when it was revealed that the screenplay had been written by John Fischer, Executive Vice President of Development and Production at Temple Hill Entertainment. Fischer originally wrote the script under the pseudonym J.W. Archer, posting it anonymously to the Black List before the screenplay attracted attention from representatives and multiple studios.

What is Crush about?

According to Deadline, Crush follows:

A woman hiking alone in the Everglades who wakes to find herself trapped inside the crushing coils of a massive python, fighting to stay alive as every breath brings her closer to death.

The thriller is said to be inspired by true events and unfolds primarily in real time.

While the specifics are under wraps, the premise is straightforward:

• A lone woman becomes trapped inside the coils of a gigantic python.
• The story takes place in the Florida Everglades.
• Every passing minute makes breathing more difficult.
• The film unfolds primarily in real time.
• The screenplay is inspired by true events.

The survival-focused setup is expected to place nearly all of its emphasis on a single protagonist battling impossible odds.

Julius Avery adds more thrills to his filmography

Avery first gained attention with the crime thriller Son of a Gun before directing the World War II action-horror film Overlord for Paramount and Bad Robot. Since then, he has directed Samaritan, starring Sylvester Stallone, and Sony’s supernatural horror hit The Pope’s Exorcist, starring Russell Crowe.

His focus on suspense, action, and horror makes him a natural choice for a project like Crush, which appears to rely on sustained tension rather than large-scale spectacle.

The screenplay sparked a Hollywood bidding war

When Fischer posted the screenplay anonymously on the Black List, he reportedly wasn’t sure anyone would ever read it. Instead, the script quickly attracted attention from agents and producers before becoming the subject of a competitive bidding war among multiple studios.

20th Century Studios ultimately landed the project in a deal reportedly worth the mid-to-high six figures, with Temple Hill Entertainment producing alongside Scott Glassgold’s 12:01 Films.

The studio has already been moving the film quickly toward production, and Avery’s hiring marks the biggest creative step forward since the screenplay was acquired.

Everything we know about Crush

Director

• Julius Avery

Writer

• John Fischer (writing as J.W. Archer)

Studio

• 20th Century Studios

Producers

• Temple Hill Entertainment
• 12:01 Films

Genre

• Survival thriller
• Creature thriller

Setting

• Florida Everglades

Status

• In development

Casting has not yet been announced.

What do you think?

Does Crush sound like the kind of survival thriller you’d want to see? Are you glad to hear that Julius Avery will be directing? Let us know in the comments.

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Rob Zombie has said that for every one film project of his that moves forward, there are five potential projects that fall by the wayside. We haven’t heard of quite that many unmade Rob Zombie movies and projects, but we have heard of several over the years that never got off the ground… and unfortunately, most of them sounded pretty interesting.

Over the course of his career, Zombie has been attached to abandoned original films, unrealized franchise entries, horror remakes, comic book adaptations, and even projects outside the horror genre. Some made it deep into development before stalling while others never progressed beyond the concept stage, but all of them leave us wondering what might have been. While we wait to see what Rob Zombie’s next movie will be, we’re taking a look back at the unmade movies and projects we still wish had reached the screen.

Projects Covered

• Tyrannosaurus Rex
• Broad Street Bullies
• Raised Eyebrows
• The Punisher
• The Crow: 2037
• The Blob
• Dr. Satan
• Werewolf Women of the SS
• The Nail
• Bigfoot
• Manson Murders Project
• C.H.U.D.

Abandoned Original Rob Zombie Films

These are original feature films Rob Zombie actively developed that never made it into production.

TYRANNOSAURUS REX

Zombie had no intention of making Halloween II. He was going to hand that sequel over to Inside directors Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury while he made a different project for Dimension: Tyrannosaurus Rex, which was even given a 2009 release date. He started promoting the project with posters and concept art… but then Bustillo and Maury left Halloween II and Dimension roped Zombie into doing that movie for 2009 instead of Tyrannosaurus Rex. There was some hope that he would make the original film after Halloween II, but by the time he was done with his second Michael Myers movie his working relationship with Dimension had been damaged beyond repair.

Zombie revealed very little about what Tyrannosaurus Rex would have been, but he did say it wasn’t a horror movie. Comparing it to Straight Time, Raging Bull, and a serious version of Every Which Way But Loose, he said the movie would be “about this washed-up prizefighter who’s got this self-destructive tendency, and he comes out of prison and the only way he knows how to survive is by fighting. But his boxing career is over so he gets caught up in this sort of underground fight ring.” Concept art revealed that, like Clint Eastwood in Every Which Way But Loose, this prizefighter would also end up running into trouble with a biker gang.

All these years later we’re still hoping to see Tyrannosaurus Rex somehow, because Zombie making a “incredibly violent ’70s action movie” about a washed-up prizefighter sounds like a whole lot of fun.

BROAD STREET BULLIES

In 2012, we heard that Zombie would be branching out of the horror genre with Broad Street Bullies, which would tell the story of “the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team that evolved from a cellar-dwelling expansion team into a team that racked up victories and penalty minutes in equal measure during the 1970s.” Zombie initially said he had secured the rights to the team’s story, had the full support of the Flyers organization, and was ready to make a movie that was like “Rocky meets Boogie Nights on ice.” But Broad Street Bullies never made it into production, and Zombie would later say that it was a nightmare trying to get all the necessary rights together.

Aside from comedies like Goon, it seems to be very difficult to get a hockey movie into production, as Kevin Smith also ran into trouble when he tried to make his own hockey movie, called Hit Somebody. So we’re left wishing that we had both Hit Somebody and Broad Street Bullies to watch right now. It would have been very interesting to see Zombie make a hockey movie set in the 1970s.

RAISED EYEBROWS

Zombie made it clear in House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects that he had an appreciation for the Marx brothers, so when Broad Street Bullies started looking troublesome in 2015 it wasn’t too surprising that he shifted over to trying to make a film based on the memoir Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho’s House by Steve Stoliar. This would have been “the bizarre story of the last years in the life of Groucho Marx, told by a young Marx Brothers fan who spent those years as his personal secretary and archivist. In addition to getting to know his hero, the author found himself in the orbit of Groucho’s brothers Zeppo and Gummo, Mae West, George Burns, Bob Hope, Jack Lemmon, S.J. Perelman, Steve Allen, and scores of other luminaries of stage, screen, TV and literature. The downside of this dream-come-true was getting close to his idol as the curtain was coming down, and dealing with Erin Fleming – the mercurial woman in charge of Groucho’s personal and professional life.“

For the first time, Zombie hired someone else – Oren Moverman – to write the screenplay for one of his films. He said he saw this story as “Groucho’s Sunset Boulevard,” “a sad, funny and very dark tale of a one of Hollywood’s greatest stars final years.” But once again, he found it too difficult to get a non-horror project into production. It’s a shame, because he chooses terrific material for his attempts to step out of the genre. At least he got to do his version of The Munsters, even if it wasn’t well received.

Studio Projects and Franchise Films That Never Happened

Over the years, Zombie was attached to several high-profile studio and franchise projects that ultimately moved forward without him, or didn’t move forward at all.

THE PUNISHER

A while back, Thomas Jane mentioned that Rob Zombie was in the running to direct The Punisher 2 when the project was set up at Lionsgate and Jane was still attached to star in the follow-up to the 2004 Punisher film. Our minds have been swimming with the possibilities ever since. Jane’s time as the Punisher may be over (although you never know these days, with so many multiverse projects being made), but it could be very interesting to see how Zombie would handle a Punisher story.

We know he can deliver the level of violence the audience wants to see from the heavily armed vigilante, but what sort of style would he bring to the film around the character and the violence? Would it be dark and gritty? Neon-soaked madness? Did Lexi Alexander already give us something along the lines of a Zombie Punisher with her Punisher: War Zone? We’ll probably never find out, but it’s fun to daydream about.

THE CROW: 2037

In 1997, it was announced that musician Rob Zombie would be making his feature writing and directing debut with an addition to the Crow franchise that would have been called The Crow: 2037. The story would begin in “2010, when a young boy and his mother are murdered on Halloween night by a Satanic priest. A year later, the boy is resurrected as the Crow. Twenty-seven years later, and unaware of his past, he has become a bounty hunter on a collision course with his now all-powerful killer.” What that synopsis doesn’t mention is that a plague has knocked the planet back into the Dark Ages by the time 2037 rolls around, so our hero wields a sword and gets around on horseback.

An unexpected mixture of medieval times and influences from the Universal Monsters movies, The Crow: 2037 would have been a very unique entry in the franchise… so unique that the producers seemed to get cold feet and decided to make a more typical Crow movie instead. For a while, Zombie considered turning his script into an original film called Black Rider X, but then moved ahead with House of 1000 Corpses instead. So all we can do now is read the The Crow: 2037 script (which is readily available online) and try to imagine what could have been.

THE BLOB

The week Halloween II was released in 2009, it was announced that Zombie would be writing and directing another remake, this one of the 1958 sci-fi horror classic The Blob, which already received an awesome remake in 1988 and was about a gelatinous creature falling from the sky and consuming everything it came in contact with, growing larger with every meal. Zombie immediately made it sound like he was the wrong choice for the job when he said his movie wouldn’t be about “a red blobby thing,” so not many people minded when he decided to walk away from the project… But years later, concept art from Zombie’s abandoned version of The Blob showed up online and made it look like he had been plotting something fascinating.

Just going by what’s shown in the artwork, it appears that an alien monolith would have shown up in a small town, and this mysterious object would become the centerpiece of an annual rock festival. After five years, some kind of energy starts emanating from the monolith that makes people melt down into hideous, disgusting “blob people.” Some of the imagery is a bit too much like Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse movie Planet Terror, but it still looks like Zombie’s take on The Blob would have been entertaining and delightfully strange. However, we are still supposed to be getting another remake of The Blob, which will be coming from the Hellraiser reboot director David Bruckner.

Spin-Offs and Franchise Expansions We’d Love to See

These aren’t necessarily abandoned productions, but they’re concepts connected to Zombie’s existing work that we’d still love to see him bring to the screen.

DR. SATAN PREQUEL/SEQUEL

Okay, so this flies right in the face of what Zombie has said about not making any more movies in the Firefly franchise. But while we agree that there’s nowhere for the story to go after the events of 3 from Hell, there could be an interesting story that focuses on the bizarre character of Dr. Satan. A prequel set before House of 1000 Corpses could show how Dr. Satan got involved with the Firefly clan and set up his underground lair full of experiment subjects. A sequel could dig into what happened to Dr. Satan after he was taken out of his lair at the start of The Devil’s Rejects. Maybe the best approach would be a sequel that provides some flashbacks to the pre-Corpses days.

Zombie did shoot some Dr. Satan material for The Devil’s Rejects, a scene where the mad doctor attacks a nurse played by Rosario Dawson, but it ended up on the cutting room floor.

WEREWOLF WOMEN OF THE SS

Werewolf Women of the SS is a faux trailer Zombie made for Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s brilliant Grindhouse project, and while all of the faux trailers are a lot of fun in their short form, it would also have been amazing to see them all get expanded into actual features, like Rodriguez’s faux trailer Machete was. Eli Roth made a Thanksgiving feature, Edgar Wright has pondered a Don’t feature, and in the past Zombie has asked fans if they would be interested in seeing a Werewolf Women of the SS feature. We would be!

An homage to movies like Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS, Fraulein Devil, and Love Camp 7, Werewolf Women of the SS is set during World War II and involves Nazi mad scientists, the She-Devils of Belzac, and Fu Manchu working together in an attempt to create an army of werewolves.

Comic Book Adaptations That Deserve the Big Screen

Zombie has written comics with stories that seem perfectly suited for feature-film adaptations.

THE NAIL

Some of the concept art for Tyrannosaurus Rex brought to mind The Nail, a comic book Zombie wrote with Steve Niles in 2004 that happened to center on a character named Rex. So it was erroneously reported that Tyrannosaurus Rex was an adaptation of The Nail and that really caught on, despite Zombie and Niles both saying Tyrannosaurus Rex was a different story. So if they are different stories, that means we need to see both Tyrannosaurus Rex and a cinematic adaptation of The Nail, because The Nail was really cool.

Basically a souped-up version of the 1975 classic horror film Race with the Devil, The Nail had the following synopsis: “Small-time pro-wrestler Rex Hauser (a.k.a. The Nail) makes a living touring the small-town wrestling circuit with his family. It’s business as usual for this close-knit bunch until they unwittingly cross paths with a murderous gang of Satanic bikers. But these aren’t your run-of-the-mill devil worshipers. In fact, Hauser and his family just might be up against the most un-Godly evil ever known to man.” The comic was a fun read, and it would be a blast to see it brought to life on the screen.

BIGFOOT

Speaking of Rob Zombie / Steve Niles comic books that desperately need to be brought to the screen, the pair also made an awesome “cryptid run amok” comic book appropriately called Bigfoot in 2005. The synopsis is simple: “A monstrous ape-man is stomping around the woods of the Pacific Northwest, and he’s not happy with mankind.”

If Bigfoot were ever brought to the screen, it would easily be one of the best Bigfoot movies we’ve ever gotten. The Bigfoot in this story is a terrifying beast that makes a bloody mess of the people who are unlucky enough to cross paths with it, and we’re dying to see this creature splatter blood and guts across the screen in a live-action movie.

Projects Beyond Feature Films

Not every fascinating Rob Zombie project was intended to be a theatrical movie.

MANSON MURDERS PROJECT

This wasn’t going to be a movie and the Manson Family story has gotten too much coverage over the decades, but Zombie has been fascinated by the story since he was a kid and when he started developing a limited series that would “revisit the people and events connected to the Manson Family murder spree in August 1969,” he had an intriguing collaborator: the script was going to be written by American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis. Their aim was to “tell converging stories of people and events leading up to and after the murders, from shifting points of view.“

In general, it would be just fine if we’ve already seen the end of Manson Family stories, but we are left quite curious to find out how Zombie and Ellis would have handled the material. The Manson Murders Project was set up at Fox in 2014, and was scrapped when NBC started airing their own Manson-related series Aquarius in 2015.

Honorable Mention: C.H.U.D.

Some projects Zombie has been said to be involved with over the years were never actually happening. For example: there was a rumor that he was working on an animated adaptation of the comic book The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning. Not true, and we’ve already seen him do the homicidal family thing multiple times. In 2007, a rumor emerged online saying that Zombie would be following his remake of Halloween with a remake of the 1984 film C.H.U.D. It was just a joke… but not such a bad idea. There is something appealing about the thought of Zombie making a movie about creatures called Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers, crawling out of the sewer to consume flesh.

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Netflix is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Stranger Things by launching a VHS-inspired version of Season 1 and releasing a new retrospective featuring the cast. The celebration marks 10 years since the series premiered in July 2016, introducing audiences to Hawkins, Indiana, Eleven, the Upside Down, and a cast of young actors who would become stars. Since then, Stranger Things has grown into one of Netflix’s biggest original franchises, spanning five seasons, stage productions, immersive attractions, and a massive merchandising empire.

The Duffer Brothers thank fans after a decade

A love letter to the ‘80s classic genre films that captivated a generation, Stranger Things is a thrilling drama set in the seemingly normal Midwestern town of Hawkins, Indiana. After a boy vanishes into thin air, his close-knit group of friends and family search for answers and are pulled into a high-stakes and deadly series of events. Beneath the surface of their ordinary town lurks an extraordinary supernatural mystery, along with top-secret government experiments and a dangerous gateway that connects our world to a powerful yet sinister realm. Friendships will be tested and lives will be altered as what they discover will change Hawkins and possibly the world — forever.

Series creators Matt and Ross Duffer reflected on the show’s journey in a message celebrating the anniversary.

“We’re feeling so many emotions today. Nostalgic, proud, and, yeah, a little sad too, that the decade-long journey of making Stranger Things has come to an end. But above all, we feel grateful — for our amazing cast, who we watched grow into wonderful human beings; for the hundreds of brilliant artists who devoted so much of themselves bringing the story to life; and for you, the fans, whose dedication, patience, and passion fueled all of us throughout the years.”

The brothers encouraged fans to revisit the beginning of the series through Netflix’s new VHS Special Edition of Season 1.

“If you want to celebrate, we humbly suggest opening up the curiosity door one more time, grabbing a 3 Musketeers (maybe some chocolate pudding too!), and watching the Season 1 VHS Special Edition. If Stranger Things existed in Hawkins — sitting on a shelf at Family Video — it would look just like this (complete with pan-and-scan)! Is it possible your head will explode from nostalgia overload? Yes. But it’s worth the gamble!”

Shawn Levy reflects on Stranger Things’ legacy

Executive producer and director Shawn Levy also shared his thoughts on the milestone.

“It’s hard to believe it’s been ten years since Stranger Things first turned our world upside down.”

Levy reflected on how the series exceeded everyone’s expectations.

“What began as a brilliant script by the Duffer Brothers… became something far bigger than any of us ever imagined. We didn’t know if anyone would watch our strange little show—we just knew it could be great.”

He concluded by thanking fans who helped turn Hawkins into a worldwide phenomenon.

“None of this phenomenal ride would have been possible without the fans who have been with us from the very beginning… Hawkins forever.”

Netflix launches Stranger Things VHS Special Edition

The centerpiece of the anniversary celebration is the new VHS-themed presentation of Season 1. Designed to recreate the experience of watching a rented videotape in the early 1980s, the special version includes vintage-style video effects, tracking glitches, grain, and pan-and-scan formatting that mimic classic home video releases.

The Duffers said that if the VHS-themed version of Season 1 gets enough views, the following seasons might get the same treatment.

New cast retrospective revisits a decade in Hawkins

Netflix has also released Strange Memories, a retrospective video featuring members of the cast sharing stories from throughout the production. The feature includes:

• Millie Bobby Brown recalling celebrating her birthday while filming Season 1.
• Natalia Dyer and Joe Keery remembering their earliest scenes together.
• Sadie Sink reflecting on filming Season 3 during what she described as the “peak pre-teen awkwardness” of adolescence.

Stranger Things‘ impact on pop culture

Over the past decade, Stranger Things has become one of Netflix’s defining franchises. According to Netflix, the series has generated 1.5 billion views through March 2026, while Seasons 4 and 5 rank among the service’s most-watched television seasons.

The show’s influence has extended well beyond television. Among its biggest cultural effects:

• Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” returned to worldwide charts after Season 4.
• Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” reached a new generation of listeners.
• Dungeons & Dragons experienced a major resurgence in mainstream popularity.
• Eggo waffles became permanently associated with Eleven after the show’s debut.

Netflix also says the production created more than 8,000 jobs across the United States and contributed more than $1.4 billion to the U.S. economy during its five-season run.

Stranger Things: The First Shadow continues celebration

The anniversary also highlights the success of Stranger Things: The First Shadow, the stage prequel currently running on Broadway and previously in London’s West End. The production became the most Tony Award-winning play of 2025 and has sold nearly 1.6 million tickets across more than 1,500 performances.

To commemorate the anniversary, Broadway is offering 11 pairs of tickets for $11 to the evening performance on the anniversary date.

Merchandise, experiences, and Halloween Horror Nights

Netflix’s anniversary celebration also includes new limited-edition collectibles and continued expansion of the franchise’s live experiences. Fans can visit Stranger Things attractions at Netflix House locations, attend Stranger Things: The Experience in select cities, and look forward to a new Season 5-inspired haunted house at Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights later this summer.

The franchise continues to partner with brands including LEGO, Funko, Nike, Converse, Doritos, Eggo, Gatorade, Wrangler, GAP, and others as part of its anniversary merchandise campaign.

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Directed by Adam Wingard and said to be in the vein of his cult classics The Guest and You’re Next, the “gonzo action horror thriller” Onslaught is set to reach theatres on September 4th. The trailer (you can watch it in the embed above) dropped online a few weeks ago, and now the Motion Picture Association ratings board has had the chance to watch the film. The result: Onslaught has been given a rating that makes it sound like it’s going to be a really good time.

Onslaught is officially rated R for strong bloody violence, some gore, sexual material/nudity, and language.

Who stars in Onslaught?

Adria Arjona (Hit Man); Dan Stevens, who worked with Wingard on The Guest and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire; Drew Starkey (Outer Banks), Michael Biehn (The Terminator), Reginald VelJohnson (Die Hard), comedian Eric Wareheim (Tim & Eric), and Rebecca Hall (who previously worked with Wingard on Godzilla vs. Kong and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire) star in the film alongside UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Alex “Poatan” Pereira.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Pereira will be able to “bring his set of skills to the role — including anaconda chokes and roundhouse kicks.” They also note that “Pereira is a former kickboxer and Brazilian mixed martial artist who currently competes in the Light Heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He is one of a handful of fighters to become a champion in two different weight divisions.”

What is Onslaught about?

Speaking of skillsets, sources say that Arjona’s character is “a mother living in a trailer who falls back on a particular set of skills in order to protect her loved ones after she runs afoul of a threat that has escaped a secret military base.” 

Here’s the official synopsis: When a rogue squad of genetically engineered super soldiers break loose in the desert, a badass Army sniper must unleash hell to protect her young daughter.

Stevens plays a German scientist who is working on the experiments that escape, and Hall’s character works with him. Biehn plays the leader of an elite group of mercenaries who try to reign in the threat. VelJohnson’s character is a member of the mother’s trailer park community, and so is Wareheim’s character.

The screenplay for Onslaught was written by Simon Barrett, who collaborated with Wingard on The Guest, You’re Next, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, A Horrible Way to Die, and Blair Witch, among other projects.

Lyrical Media and A24 are co-financing Onslaught and A24 will handle worldwide distribution. Aaron Ryder and Andrew Swett are producing the film under their Ryder Picture Company banner, alongside A24. Alexander Black is producing for Lyrical Media. Wingard and his manager Jeremy Platt are also producing, through their new shingle Breakaway Civilization, along with Barrett. Lyrical’s Jon Rosenberg and Natalie Sellers serve as executive producers.

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