This weekend’s “The Mummy” – excuse us, “Lee Cronin’s The Mummy” – is the latest scary movie to open in 2026. It seems like almost every week there’s a spine-tingling new horror either opening in ...

He’s going back to his roots. A scrappy and territorial cat is stubbornly living in the treetops of Central Park despite numerous rescue attempts to bring him back down to earth. The orange cutie — ...

The Wolf Tree Film Festival is set to return April 11 with a lineup of short films and music videos by Great Lakes filmmakers. The event is slated to begin at 6 p.m. with a pre-show reception at The ...

After more than six decades of cleaning up messes, Mr. Clean is "retiring." In a Thursday, Feb. 18 news conference, Mr. Clean announced that he was "hanging up his whites" and taking some much-needed ...

The owner of a Happy Valley-based company that did tree removal and landscaping was sentenced Wednesday to a year and three months in federal prison for failing to pay more than $3.5 million in taxes ...

Meet the year's buzziest new nightmares, from A24's "The Backrooms" to Neon's "Hokum." In January 2026, American life sometimes resembles an episode of “The Munsters.” The U.S. is a twisted, backwards ...

Back in 1963, “Mr. Willowby’s Christmas tree/Came by special delivery” in the beloved holiday picture book Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree by Robert Barry. Now, 62 years later, Mr. Willowby is again ...

You wouldn’t call 2025 an “off” year for horror — more like an odd one. Both A24 and Neon continued to back several scary-movie auteurs (the prolific Osgood Perkins, the brothers Danny and Michael ...

Mr. Pibb is making a comeback. The Coca-Cola Company announced on Oct. 31 that it is reintroducing Mr. Pibb, 24 years after discontinuing the brand in favor of Pibb Xtra. The revived Mr. Pibb will ...

Bleeding Fingers principal composer Kara Talve and score producer Russell Emanuel were inspired by "Jaws" and more iconic horror influences for latest "Treehouse of Horror." Yes, that was a “Jaws” ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

One of the unfortunate trends of this era of The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror is the fact that many of the stories no longer have a Horror focus. Treehouse of Horror XXI does start out with the ...