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Have you ever wanted to revisit RoboCop vs. Terminator from the ’90s without digging out a Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis? We’ve got you covered. Not only are we diving into the game, but we’re also breaking down the full story behind it – because yes, the game was based on a four-issue comic book series written by Frank Miller. And if you didn’t know, the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis versions were wildly different experiences.

Let’s go back to a time when plastic cartridges, comic books, and R-rated sci-fi crossovers ruled everything. Because honestly, the concept was simple: take two of the most iconic sci-fi action characters ever created… and make them fight.

This is RoboCop vs. Terminator, the game and comic that defined a generation.

The Origins: Frank Miller and the Comic That Started It All

In the early ’90s, crossover culture felt limitless, even before Freddy vs. Jason or Alien vs. Predator hit screens. Kids were already imagining dream matchups, fueled by comics, cartoons, and action movies. The idea of RoboCop fighting Terminators? It just made sense.

But the real origin traces back to RoboCop 2. After the success of RoboCop (1987), Orion Pictures brought in Frank Miller, fresh off The Dark Knight Returns, to write the sequel. His vision was darker, more violent, and more satirical than the studio expected. Too dark, in fact.

The studio heavily rewrote his script, and Miller walked away from Hollywood frustrated. But he didn’t abandon his ideas: he repurposed them into RoboCop vs. Terminator, published by Dark Horse Comics in 1992, with art by Walt Simonson.

The Comic Story (Quick Breakdown)

The story opens in a bleak future where Skynet is on the verge of wiping out humanity. A resistance fighter named Flo discovers the truth: RoboCop’s technology led to Skynet’s creation. His fusion of human consciousness and machine inspired the rise of sentient AI. So she does what any time-traveling soldier would do: goes back to kill Alex Murphy before it all begins.

Of course, Skynet sends Terminators back to stop her.

Meanwhile, RoboCop is… not doing great. He’s emotionally broken, clinging to duty while mourning his lost humanity. When Flo confronts him, he eventually believes her and even agrees to sacrifice himself to prevent the future.

He dies. The future heals. But Skynet isn’t done.

It sends another Terminator back, alters the timeline again, and traps Murphy’s consciousness inside its system, forcing him to witness humanity’s destruction. That’s when things get wild.

Murphy turns himself into a self-replicating virus, overwhelms Skynet, takes control of its factories, rebuilds his body using Terminator tech, and launches a full-scale counterattack. He even creates an army of RoboCops.

Skynet tries to bargain, offering power, godhood, even… questionable incentives. Murphy’s response? “Shut up and die.”

He destroys everything, including himself, resetting the timeline once again. And yes, the comic ends with a Terminator getting crushed by a dinosaur.

From Comic to Cartridge: The Game Is Born

By 1993, publishers saw the potential. Virgin Interactive and Interplay paid around $2 million in licensing fees to bring RoboCop vs. Terminator to life across:

• Super Nintendo
• Sega Genesis (Mega Drive)
• Game Gear
• Game Boy

Lead designers John Botti and Tim Williams drew inspiration from Contra III, which shows in the game’s fast-paced, side-scrolling chaos.

SNES vs. Genesis: What’s the Difference?

Both versions follow the same core premise: RoboCop’s existence leads to Skynet and now he has to stop it. But the execution differs significantly.

Sega Genesis Version

• More violent (enemies explode in blood)
• Simpler storytelling
• Faster, more arcade-style pacing
• Ends with a quick victory message

Super Nintendo Version

• Closer to the comic storyline
• Presented in comic panel format
• Less graphic violence
• Includes a final escape sequence after defeating Skynet

The SNES ending adds tension: after defeating the boss, you must escape before the facility explodes, something the Genesis version skips entirely.

Gameplay: Brutal, Frustrating, and Addictive

You start on one of three difficulty levels:

• Wimpy
• Normal
• Killer

And “Killer” lives up to its name. Enemies attack from every direction – not just left and right, but diagonally and vertically. You’ll constantly adjust your aim while navigating rooftops, hazards, and tight platforming sections. Ammo bursts, Terminator enemies, robotic dogs, and flying Hunter-Killers make every level feel overwhelming.

And just when you survive it all? Boss fight. Every time. And they do not go down easily.

Weapons, Levels, and Atmosphere

Despite the difficulty, the game nails its atmosphere. You’ll fight through:

• Detroit streets
• Toxic waste zones
• Delta City construction sites
• OCP labs
• Skynet facilities

Weapons include upgrades like the ED-209 arm cannon, giving you moments of absolute power amid the chaos.

The real magic, though, is how seamlessly the worlds of RoboCop and The Terminator blend together. Even when both characters aren’t on screen, it feels like they belong in the same universe.

Soundtrack and Presentation

Both versions feature strong but very different soundtracks.

• Genesis: Edgy, electronic, occasionally bizarre (yes, it literally says “Terminator” out loud)
• SNES: More subdued, but still catchy and effective

Neither is definitive, they just hit differently.

Final Verdict: A Flawed Classic That Still Hits

RoboCop vs. Terminator wasn’t perfect. It was difficult. Sometimes unfair. Occasionally frustrating. But none of that really mattered. Because at the end of the day, it delivered exactly what ’90s kids wanted: a brutal, over-the-top crossover between two iconic franchises.

Would it have worked without RoboCop and Terminator? Not even close. But with them? It became unforgettable. Like peanut butter and jelly. Or Ecto Cooler and Bagel Bites.

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In the build-up to the release of Evil Dead Rise (read our review right HERE) in 2023, Evil Dead franchise rights holders Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, and Rob Tapert let it be known that they were already looking forward to producing more entries in the series, with Campbell revealing they were hoping to make a new sequel / spin-off every two or three years. Last year, they proved their commitment to this idea by hiring Sébastien Vaniček, who made his feature directorial debut on the French horror film Vermin, a.k.a. Infested, to write and direct a new installment in the franchise, which is going by the title Evil Dead Burn. Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema had been planning to give the film a theatrical release on July 24th – but now, the release has shifted forward two weeks, to July 10th!

It’s also being reported that a teaser trailer (different from the one shown at CinemaCon earlier this week) is attached to this weekend’s release of Lee Cronin’s The Mummy. Unfortunately, that teaser hasn’t made its way online yet.

What do we know about Evil Dead Burn?

New Line Cinema and Sony Pictures are co-financing the film, which Vaniček is directing from a screenplay he wrote with Florent Bernard. Sony will distribute internationally, with Canal Plus distributing in the UK and Metropolitan distributing in France.

Details on the story Vaniček will be telling in Evil Dead Burn have been kept under wraps up to this point, but he has said that he has complete creative control on his Evil Dead movie, and intends to give it a French twist. 

Sam Raimi made his feature directorial debut with the original The Evil Dead, which introduced Campbell as iconic hero Ash Williams. Ash returned for Evil Dead II, Army of Darkness, and the Ash vs. Evil Dead TV series, with Raimi directing the films and the first episode of the show. After seeing a short film directed by Fede Alvarez, the Evil Dead rights holders gave him the chance to make his feature directorial debut with the Ash-less 2013 Evil Dead. Then Lee Cronin was hired to make the Ash-less Evil Dead Rise based on the strength of his own feature debut, the 2019 film The Hole in the Ground. So Sébastien Vaniček being hired to make the next Evil Dead movie right after entering the feature world with Vermin / Infested is very on brand for this franchise.

Vaniček’s Evil Dead Burn isn’t the only Evil Dead movie on the way. Two months after he was hired to make his movie, the rights holders also hired Francis Galluppi, who just made his feature directorial debut with the crime thriller The Last Stop in Yuma County, to write and direct his own Evil Dead flick, which is called Evil Dead Wrath. An animated series follow-up to Ash vs. Evil Dead is also in the works.

Who’s in the Evil Dead Burn cast?

Dune: Part Two‘s Souheila Yacoub, a Swiss former rhythmic gymnast who won the Miss Suisse Romande beauty pageant before getting her acting career started, landed the lead role and has been joined in the cast by Hunter Doohan (Your Honor), Luciane Buchanan (The Night Agent), and Tandi Wright (Pearl).

Are you excited for Evil Dead Burn, and are you glad to hear that the release date has moved forward two weeks? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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Almost two years have passed since the Chucky TV series, which aired on both Syfy and USA Network in addition to streaming on the Peacock service, was cancelled after three seasons (even though series creator Don Mancini had already pitched his idea for season 4 to the networks). The show is over, but Mancini was quick to promise that Chucky will return, and we’ve known for a while that he was planning another movie. Now, our friends at Bloody Disgusting have confirmed that Mancini is writing the script for the next film and plans to direct. He’s also hoping that this will pull the franchise out of the direct-to-video / TV world and get it back into theatres!

What was Chucky about?

A follow-up to all of the Child’s Play movies (remake excluded), Chucky picked up where Cult of Chucky left off. Don Mancini, who has written every film in the franchise (except that remake) and directed a few of them, developed Chucky with producer David Kirschner. Mancini and Kirschner executive produced Chucky with Harley Peyton, Alex Hedlund, and Nick Antosca. The first season had Chucky terrorizing Hackensack, New Jersey, then he was sent off to a Catholic boarding school for season 2. With season 3, it was D.C.’s turn to experience some Chucky trouble.

Will the new movie be connected to the TV show?

Bloody Disgusting reports that Mancini gave a status update on the new movie during an appearance at Steel City Con in Pennsylvania. He said he’s taking a Curse of Chucky approach to this one – and if you recall, that one was an attempt to get back to a more grounded, scary tone after the franchise had gone way over-the-top with Seed of Chucky.

“His next Chucky movie will not only throw back to those Curse of Chucky franchise reset vibes, but the plan is for the movie to also connect itself to the events of the television series and previous movies. Mancini is big on continuity, with all of his movies and the show existing in an impressively connected single timeline.”

Mancini wants this one to be scary, along the lines of Curse of Chucky and the first two Child’s Play movies. And, as mentioned, he wants it to be a theatrical release.

Jennifer Tilly, who played Tiffany Valentine, the love of Chucky’s life (whether he likes it or not), in Bride of Chucky, Seed of Chucky (where she also played herself), Curse of Chucky, Cult of Chucky, and the TV series, recently confirmed there is “more Chucky and Tiffany in the works.”

Brad Dourif has said that he’s retired from acting, but will come back to voice Chucky for as long as his services are needed.

Are you glad to hear that Don Mancini is working on the next Chucky movie, with the goal being to get it into theatres? Share your thoughts on this one by leaving a comment below.

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Production is underway on Dexter: Resurrection season 2, and Variety has just broken the news that Bookem Woodbine (Fargo) and Nona Parker Johnson (Mayor of Kingstown) have joined the cast! Johnson will be playing Fiona Mixon, “a training officer in the Homicide unit, a nepo-baby in the police world, and Harrison’s (Jack Alcott) new love interest.” Woodbine takes on the role of Captain Mixon, “a bulldog of a homicide captain and Fiona’s father.” These are both series regular roles.

Last time we saw Harrison, he had a girlfriend named Gigi. There’s no word on what happened with that character, but moving on from Gigi to someone who’s training in the Homicide unit and has a police Captain father sounds like a very bad move for a guy who’s the son of a serial killer and has a kill count of his own. (Current kill count: 1.)

What we know about Dexter: Resurrection Season 2:

• New cast: Dan Stevens, Brian Cox, Bokeem Woodbine, Nona Parker Johnson
• Returning: Michael C. Hall, Jack Alcott, James Remar, Uma Thurman
• Filming: Began April 2026
• Expected release: Late 2026
• Setting: Continues post–New York storyline

What is Dexter?

For eight seasons and 96 episodes, from 2006 to 2013, the series Dexter ran on Showtime, telling the story of Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department who is also a vigilante serial killer. Clyde Phillips was showrunner on Dexter for the first four seasons, and in 2021 he and Showtime brought us the revival series Dexter: New Blood… which, for a time, also seemed to be the end of it all. But that’s not the case.

Showtime has tasked Phillips with continue to build up the Dexter franchise, first with a season of the prequel series Dexter: Original Sin and then with the New Blood follow-up called Dexter: Resurrection, which premiered last July. (You can read our review HERE.) Now, Dexter: Resurrection season 2 is moving forward.

Phillips had also been expecting to put together another season of Dexter: Original Sin, but Showtime decided to reverse their decision to renew the show and cancelled it.

During an appearance on The Dark Passengers: A Dexter Podcast four months ago, Phillips said that the Dexter: Resurrection season 2 writers’ room opened on October 6th and that it would take around five months to write all of the scripts. Filming will then begin on Monday, April 13, 2026. Like the first season, the new season will be set and shot in New York City.

A Showtime Studios and Counterpart Studios production, Dexter: Resurrection is being executive produced by Clyde Phillips, Michael C. Hall, Scott Reynolds, Tony Hernandez, and Lilly Burns. Marcos Siega is the producing director. The series is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution. 

Who is in the Dexter: Resurrection season 2 cast?

Michael C. Hall, who played Dexter Morgan in the original series and Dexter: New Blood, and also provided the in-character narration for Dexter: Original Sin, is back in the lead for Dexter: Resurrection. Hall is joined in the cast by fellow series regulars Jack Alcott and James Remar, with Alcott reprising his Dexter: New Blood role of Dexter’s son Harrison, and Remar returning as Dexter’s adoptive father Harry Morgan. We’ll probably be seeing the return of some of the new supporting characters that were introduced in the first season as well.

Uma Thurman’s character is Charlotte “Charley” Brown, a former Special Ops operator who worked as Head of Security for serial killer enthusiast billionaire Leon Prater. Charley left New York City with her mother at the end of the first season, going home to Amherst, Pennsylvania… but it looks like she’s still going to be part of Dexter’s life in some way.

Two weeks ago, we learned that Brian Cox (Manhunter) has joined the cast of Dexter: Resurrection season 2 as the New York Ripper, “a serial killer who terrorized the City years ago. Though no longer active as a killer, he’s found a new way to live into his infamy by continuing to taunt the survivors of his long-ago murder spree.“

Earlier this week, it was announced that Dan Stevens (The Guest) will be playing Owen Stark, “the Five Borough Killer, and the second big bad of Season 2. Owen is a serial killer who, much like Zodiac, taunts the police with phone calls threatening the murder of innocent citizens. When he follows through with the awful deeds…the City and the Police are terrorized.“

Are you a Dexter fan, and are you looking forward to Dexter: Resurrection season 2? Let us know what you think of Bokeem Woodbine and Nona Parker Johnson joining the show as series regulars by leaving a comment below.

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PLOT: The young daughter of a journalist disappears into the desert without a trace. Eight years later, the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them, as what should be a joyful reunion turns into a living nightmare.

REVIEW: It feels a bit weird to have a new Mummy movie while a sequel for the Brendan Fraser series is in production, right? Part of me thinks that Blumhouse would have been better off just naming this something else. Maybe, Evil Dead: Egypt, since the film is so obsessed with trying to have the same aesthetic as that series that it loses any sort of originality that it could have had. And sure, this is technically based on a property that’s nearly 100 years old and already has many different interpretations. But that also means it has a lot of baggage.

I should get it out of the way that I wasn’t a fan of Evil Dead Rise. But, despite finding that mediocre, I went into Lee Cronin’s The Mummy with an open mind. I even tried to ignore the fact that this was produced by Blumhouse, who hasn’t delivered anything of the non-mediocre variety in quite a while. And it’s not all bad, as there are some good performances from Jack Reynor, May Calamawy, and Natalie Grace. Unfortunately, it just can’t settle on what it wants to be, and every time it’s on the right track, it makes a massive misstep.

The Mummy (because putting your name in front of it feels very pretentious for such a young career) follows a family after their daughter is abducted in Egypt, and she returns to them eight years later. There are two stories running parallel: the family and their possessed daughter, and the Egyptian detective trying to solve the mystery of what happened to her. I actually enjoyed the moments in Egypt and when the lore is introduced. That all felt very apropos, and I liked what they were setting up with an ancient evil. It’s just too bad they felt they needed to go all Evil Dead with the family stuff.

It really doesn’t help that the mummy constantly acts like a Deadite, going full crude humor and strange twitching. There were times when I was half-expecting Ash Williams to show up with his chainsaw to start laying down the business. The power levels of the mummy are very inconsistent and seem to just flow with what the narrative needs at any moment. It’s never properly defined. The violence is nothing extraordinary and doesn’t take advantage of its setups. Everything happens so quickly, and it would have really benefited from more practical effects. There’s a scorpion gag that is cool in concept but looks really cheap in execution.

There’s been a lot of discussion around the film’s runtime, which clocks in at 2 hours and 13 minutes. There are times when you can certainly feel it, but it’s not nearly as egregious as I was expecting. There’s definitely some stuff that could be cut, and scenes could have been tightened up, but it’s never boring, which is impressive. Though it definitely should have ended a couple of minutes earlier, as it’s practically slapping the audience over the head with the point.

The star of the show is the cinematography, as DP David Garbett gives us some beautiful shots. I loved how the film dealt with darkness, especially in the house, which has an almost haunted house feel to it. I just wish the editing wasn’t so rapid and we got some time to appreciate the beauty. Also, I’m not sure there’s anyone in the world who loves a split diopter shot more than Lee Cronin. I stopped counting somewhere around the dozen mark, and it got to be incredibly distracting. There’s a reason that it’s something that’s usually used sparingly in other films.

Despite enjoying the cinematography and some of the performances, The Mummy just feels too familiar. If it had just gone a more straightforward route rather than trying to make everything Evil Dead-lite, then it could have given something to sink my teeth into. Instead, it can never quite find its footing and feels very “style over substance.” From the generic family to the bad CGI in the third act, this feels too Blumhouse for my liking. By the end, I was quite annoyed, and that carried over to this review.

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is playing in theaters on April 17th, 2026.

Lee Cronin's The Mummy

BELOW AVERAGE

5

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Four years ago, long before she became The Housemaid, it was announced that Sydney Sweeney had signed on to star in an adaptation of Marcus Kliewer’s short story The Caretaker as the title character. Now, that project is finally moving forward, as Deadline reports that David Bruckner has come on board to write the direct the film.

What is The Caretaker about?

Kliewer’s short story is described as being a supernatural horror tale, which makes Bruckner a good choice to bring it to the screen. Bruckner is a genre regular whose credits include The Ritual, The Night House, V/H/S/, V/H/S/85, and the Hellraiser reboot.

The story begins when a troubled young woman takes a caretaking job at an isolated coastal house, only to discover she must follow a series of increasingly disturbing rules to contain a reality-warping force — one that may already be slipping beyond her control.

The Caretaker is set up at Universal. Michael Bay and Brad Fuller will produce the film through their company Platinum Dunes, under their first-look deal with the studio. Scott Glassgold is producing through 12:01 Films, while Sweeney does the same through Fifty-Fifty Films.

Karl Gajdusek and Drew Crevello wrote previous drafts of the script.

Since selling the film rights to the short story version of The Caretaker, Kliewer has fleshed the story out into a full, 320-page novel. Atria/Emily Bestler Books/12:01 Books will be publishing the novel on April 21st, and copies are available for pre-order at THIS LINK.

Here’s the book description: EXCITING OPPORTUNITY: Caretaker urgently needed. Three days of work. Competitive pay. Serious applicants ONLY.

Macy Mullins can’t say why the job posting grabbed her attention—it had the pull of a fisherman’s lure, barbed hook and all—vaguely ominous. But after an endless string of failed job interviews, she’s not exactly in the position to be picky. She has rent to pay, groceries to buy, and a younger sister to provide for. Besides, it’s only three days’ work… Three days, cooped up in a stranger’s house, surrounded by Oregon Coast wilderness.

What starts as a peculiar side gig soon becomes a waking nightmare. An incomprehensible evil may dwell on this property—and Macy Mullins might just be the only thing standing between it, and the rest of humanity. Follow the Rites… Follow the Rites… Follow the Rites…

So, Sweeney is going from playing a housemaid named Millie to playing a caretaker named Macy.

Does The Caretaker sound interesting to you? Share your thoughts on this Sydney Sweeney / David Bruckner collaboration by leaving a comment below.

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The Universal panel is underway at this year’s CinemaCon event in Las Vegas, and among the many films promoted during the panel were the ones in the Focus Features lineup – with the most hyped of the bunch being Robert Eggers‘ Werwulf, which is said to be Eggers’ “most terrifying vision yet.”

Beyond Werwulf, Focus Features took the opportunity to draw attention to

• Georgia Oakley’s “fresh, utterly irresistible take” on Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility
• Obsession, hailed by audiences as “pure nightmare fuel,” from rising horror auteur Curry Barker
• The Uprising, which sees Paul Greengrass direct Andrew Garfield as the legendary leader of a ferocious rebellion against the tyranny of King Richard II
• Pressure, from the producers of Darkest Hour, directed by Anthony Maras, follows the untold true story of the fateful 72 hours before D-Day, where one wrong move – and the threat of mother nature’s wrath – could ruin everything, featuring an all-star cast including Andrew Scott, Brendan Fraser, Kerry Condon, Chris Messina, and Damian Lewis
• Pop sensation Hayley Kiyoko makes her feature debut with the coming-of-age film Girls Like Girls, based on her hit song and #1 NYT Bestseller

What is Werwulf about?

Eggers has written the screenplay for Werwulf with Sjón, his co-writer on the Viking saga The Northman. Details are being kept under wraps, but The Hollywood Reporter’s sources told them “the story is set in 13th century England. The script also features dialogue that was true to the time period and has translations and annotations for those uninitiated to Old English. Initially, Eggers was planning on shooting the feature in black and white, but that is no longer the case. Suffice to say that considering the setting and the dialect, Eggers is promising another deep dive into a muddy, costumed, and violent time period consistent with his oeuvre which has earned him a loyal film following.“ Screen Daily adds that the story centers on a mysterious creature who stalks a foggy countryside as local folklore becomes a terrifying reality for the villagers.

Werwulf is a Nosferatu reunion, as the film stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Lily-Rose Depp, Ralph Ineson, and Willem Dafoe. Teen actress Bodhi Rae Breathnach, who just made her feature debut in Hamnet, is also in there.

The film is aiming for a Christmas Day 2026 theatrical release.

What was shown at CinemaCon?

JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray is at CinemaCon and provided the following report:

Sense and Sensibility is very much the elevated arthouse version of that story compared to the Emma Thompson one from the ’90s. It has a muted color palette, natural lighting, shot in 1:33:1. Looks fairly good, but I’m not sure it’s really needed.

Werwulf is shot super narrow, like Nosferatu. It’s not olde English as has been reported. It’s normal dialogue. Aaron Taylor Johnson is the werewolf and it looks like it might be the greatest werewolf movie since An American Werewolf in London. Trailer ended with a glimpse of the transformation. As expected, this trailer got “Holy shit” reactions from those in the room.

Bumbray already had the chance to watch Focus Features’ Obsession last month; you can read his 8/10 review HERE.

Are you looking forward to any of the films in the Focus Features lineup? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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