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A24’s Backrooms has completely redefined the boundaries of modern horror . In just six days, the film grossed over $100 million domestically, becoming A24’s highest-grossing domestic release and establishing 20-year-old Kane Parsons as the youngest director to secure a No. 1 debut in North America. source https://www.polygon.com/creepypasta-like-backrooms-internet-memes-horror/

The Xbox Games Showcase 2026 was bursting with bullet shells. So many guns! I don't think I'm a prude — the gory joys of a first-person shooter haven't soured for me, despite America's gun-saturated culture — but after 30 minutes of carnage-filled trailers, it started to feel like roughly 75% of Xbox's upcoming slate involved shooting somebody in the head. Then came Vivarium . source https://www.polygon.com/studio-ghibli-stardew-vivarium-trailer/

Chris Pratt is no stranger to taking on movie roles where picking up a big gun and shooting at massive monsters is just an average Tuesday. While most fans of Pratt will either remember him from his role as Star-Lord, the reluctant and comedic leader of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy , or as dinosaur-handler Owen Grady in the Jurassic World franchise, there’s another underrated sci-fi film where Pratt shone brightly, while also shooting lots of terrifying, otherworldly creatures. And it's free to stream this month. source https://www.polygon.com/chris-pratt-best-films-the-tomorrow-war/

Disney officially de-canonized the Star Wars Expanded Universe when it purchased the franchise from creator George Lucas in 2015, and that actually made sense. The countless Star Wars book, comics, and video games released over the decades had been hit-or-miss at best. A fresh slate was needed. However, Disney's own spin-off material has also uneven . source https://www.polygon.com/jyn-erso-comic-andor/

Have you heard of the 2006 anime anthology, Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales ? It's a collection of three stories that draw from the well of Japanese myth and cultural tradition. The first and second stories, “Yotsuya Kaidan” and “Tenshu Monogatari,” adapt classic kabuki plays about betrayal and forbidden love. The third entry, “Bakeneko” — loosely translated to Demon Cat — is an original tale about a mysterious cat monster with a vendetta. source https://www.polygon.com/eccentric-horror-anime-binge-watch-psychedelic-visuals/

The year 2023 brought us the summer of Barbenheimer , where two entirely different movies went head-to-head at the box office. But 25 years earlier, the summer of 1998 was marked by a very different dynamic when two movies with nearly identical plots battled it out for apocalyptic dominance. source https://www.polygon.com/deep-impact-free-on-streaming/