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Asylums and mental health hospitals, for all the good they might do in real life, are often synonymous with horror movies. The setting can lend itself to multiple kinds of horror, from being held prisoner by cruel staff to being unfairly deemed insane, by way of haunted halls and cruel ghosts. However,outside of horror video gameswhich feature this setting regularly, how many horror movies actually take place in asylums? Excluding dramas and thrillers likeGirl, InterruptedandMartin Scorsese’sShutter Island, this list curates the best horror movies set in asylums for your perfect mad-house movie marathon:...

Shudder has debuted the trailer forA Creepshow Animated Special, which will feature two brand new spine-tinglers directed by showrunnerGreg Nicoteroand animated by the Octopie animation studio. Get ready for killer clowns and one extremely fucked up beachfront vacation. The first segment, “Survivor Type”, starsKiefer Sutherlandas a man stranded on a deserted island struggling to survive without resources. It’s also based onStephen King’s short story of the same name, which, in all seriousness, might be the most disturbing King work there is, and that’s saying alot....

It’s no secret that Hollywood has been stuck in a sustained state of anxiety over box office numbers for several years.And the first few months of 2025 haven’t been helping things. Towards the end of March, the domestic box office had only reached atotal of $1.34 billion, down 7% from the same time period in 2024. At last month’s CinemaCon in Las Vegas, thevibes were reportedly tense, as many industry insiders seemedfearful for the future of moviegoingand concerns grew over an increasingly strained relationship between studios and exhibitors....

Alan Ritchsonis charging full speed ahead fromReacherto his next action-packed outing, and it sounds like fans are in for a wild ride. According to co-starDennis Quaid,War Machine—a new Netflix sci-fi thriller directed byThe Expendables 3’sPatrick Hughes—puts Ritchson through the wringer, both figuratively and literally.War Machine, which Hughes co-wrote withJames Beaufort, follows “the final recruits of a grueling special ops boot camp who encounter a deadly force from beyond this world.” The film doesn’t yet have a release date, but it’s expected to arrive on Netflix later this year....

Like almost everyone reading this article, I grew up watching Amblin movies. Founded in 1981 bySteven Spielbergand producersKathleen KennedyandFrank Marshall, the company has brought to life so many amazing stories it’s hard not to have been impacted by them. As you look over their full resume, just some of the highlights includeGremlins,The Goonies,Back to the Future,Empire of the Sun,Who Framed Roger Rabbit,E.T.,Jurassic Park,Men in Black,Saving Private Ryan,Munich,War of the Worlds,Jurassic World, and dozens of other films and TV shows....

The final season ofYoung Sheldonhas come and gone, bringing to a close a brilliant seven-year run that saw the CBS comedy drama bring to life the origin story of Sheldon Cooper. The character was first introduced in the iconic sitcom,The Big Bang Theory, and was portrayed for many seasons byJim Parsons. A man with an extremely intelligent mind, Parsons' Sheldon had other flaws that matched his high intelligence. With his love for science, Parsons' Sheldon had an equally, somewhat unhealthy obsession with comic books and their characters....

There’s a little over three weeks left beforeDoctor Strangehits theaters, bringing on a whole new tonnage of written pieces on how great Marvel is or how awful Marvel is or what DC could learn from Marvel and vice versa. You can also expect a few annual, consistently ridiculous pieces on the death of cinema and superhero movies' role in the perishing of the art form. More important that either, however, is the movie itself and the latest international trailer forScott Derrickson’s Marvel movie certainly amplifies the excitement to see howBenedict Cumberbatchtakes to the role of the titular sorcerer....

From directorBen Hernandez Brayand producerJoe Carnahan(who developed the script together), the indie dramaEl Chicanois a very different kind of superhero story about a masked street legend who fights the evil that lives in the East Los neighborhood that’s stuck in a turf battle. When LAPD Detective Diego Hernandez (Raúl Castillo) is assigned a career-making case investigating a vicious cartel and learns that his brother’s supposed suicide might have actually been a murder, he becomes torn over the best way to seek justice....

Surely one of the most highly anticipated projects in all ofStar Warsright now is the upcomingObi-Wan Kenobiseriesthat’s being made for Disney+. After years of rumors, Lucasfilm finally confirmed thatEwan McGregoris indeed reprising his role from theStar Warsprequels in a six-episode continuation that takes place 10 years after the events ofStar Wars: Revenge of the Sith– the last time McGregor filled the role ofObi-Wan. Moreover, the show will also findHayden Christiansenreprising his role as Darth Vader, forming a pretty significant bridge from the new era of Lucasfilm to theGeorge Lucasera....

In Season 4 of the FX seriesFargo, the year is 1950 and the location is Kansas City. The central struggle? Well, that’s between two crime syndicates who are fighting each other for their own piece of the American dream by any means necessary. In a rather unusual move, Loy Cannon (Chris Rock), the head of the Black crime family at the center of the story, has traded his youngest son, Satchel (Rodney Jones), to Donatello Fadda (Tommaso Ragno), the head of the Italian mafia, who has turned over his youngest son Zero (Jameson Braccioforte), and the two families continue to see how far they can push the other while they fight for power....

Gary Daubermanmay be making his directorial debut withAnnabelle Come Home, but he’s no stranger to theConjuringfranchise. The New Line regular came on board the growing ghoulish universe early, penning the script for 2014 spinoffAnnabelle, returning for the prequelAnnabelle: Creation, and theConjuring 2spinoffThe Nun. WithAnnabellecomes home, Dauberman takes it full circle, bringing us back to the Warren family just after the events ofThe Conjuringwhen Annabelle sets her sights on their daughter Judy (McKenna Grace) once again....

Ghost of Tsushima: Legends, the multiplayer add-on to Sucker Punch’s hit samurai game, will be getting a standalone release on September 3. TheLegendsstandalone will be available on both PS4 and PS5 for $19.99, according to thePlayStation Blogpost announcement. In addition to the standalone launch, Sucker Punch also announced the addition of a gear mastery progression system, and new game modes, including a mode called Rivals where two teams of two will compete against waves of enemies while earning rewards they can use to sabotage their rival team....

It’s hard not to go into a movie likeGiftedwith your mind made up. It’s a film that, for better or worse, has been made in varying forms countless times, with a handful of narrative spit-shines and twists to differentiate each variant from one another. But for all the well-worn emotional territories it walks,Marc Webb’spost-Spidey palate-cleanser manages to spin the formula in some surprisingly satisfying ways. The broad strokes are these: soulful and isolated boat repairman Frank Adler (Chris Evans) lives in a rural Florida town, and has just two friends (three, if you count his one-eyed cat, Frank)....