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5 days ago | nerdist.com | Kyle Anderson

As a professed horror movie junkie, I’m always chasing the dragon for the new scare fix. I want them spookies so bad I can taste it! It’s not even that I love the feeling of scared. I just want to know a movie is capable of doing it! Also the creepy shit is fun. At any rate, I have no way of knowing whether or not Zach Cregger’s new movie Weapons will be this kind of horror movie, but each and every new piece of marketing has me more and more intrigued.

1 week ago | nerdist.com | Kyle Anderson

I recently rewatched 28 Days Later for the first time in years. The movie’s innovative handheld digital cameras, MTV-era cutting, and brutal, fast zombie-like creatures still pack a wallop 23 years later. At the same time, other films, TV shows, and comics have cribbed so much from Danny Boyle and Alex Garland that the concept feels exceptionally rote. That’s why the idea of the pair returning to the story with 28 Years Later intrigued me so.

1 week ago | nerdist.com | Michael Walsh

Few video games have ever launched with the hype and anticipation that preceded Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding in 2019. Now six years later the game’s followup, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, is ready to hit stores. It arrives on June 26. But it turns out fans of the franchise have another reason to be excited this month. Not long after the announcement of a live-action adaptation starring the game’s cast comes news of yet another featured film.

1 week ago | nerdist.com | Kyle Anderson

It hasn’t been a full 28 years since 28 Days Later, but it’s getting very close. We almost can’t fully process just how influential and innovative the original movie was in 2002. Not only did it provide a jumpstart to the zombie (or zombie-like creature) genre, it gave the world fast-running hordes. Technologically, the movie’s use of handheld digital cameras proved equally as cutting edge, even if it looks quite rough by today’s standards.

1 week ago | nerdist.com | Michael Walsh

Everyone knows the “E” in Chuck E. Cheese stands for “entertainment,” and this holiday season the arcade-restaurant chain is making good on its star’s name. The company has announced that it will be celebrating the most wonderful time of the year with its first-ever Chuck E. Cheese animated Christmas special. Chuck E. Cheese is partnering with HappyNest Entertainment—a joint venture between UTA and Stampede Ventures—for an original holiday special. The Chuck E.