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If you’re a fan of classic horror, you’re in luck! The iconic silent film Nosferatu (1922) is available to watch for free on platforms like Kanopy, Fawesome, Hoopla, Plex, Darkroom, and JustWatch. And if you’re a subscriber to Prime Video, AMC+, Vudu, or Tubi, you can stream it there too. It’s never been easier to revisit this masterpiece that has influenced nearly every vampire story since its release over a century ago.

Whether you’ve been meaning to check it off your “classic films” list or want to see how it compares to today’s horror movies, now’s the perfect time to dive in.

Why Nosferatu Is Making Headlines Again

So, why is everyone suddenly talking about Nosferatu again? Well, it’s all thanks to Robert Eggers’ 2024 remake of the film. If you’re into movies like The Witch or The Lighthouse, you already know Eggers...

After premiering at Panic Fest in 2023 where it won Best Indie Feature and Best Actress (Agnes Albright), and also earning a nomination for Best Film for Total Film’s FrightFest 2023 Awards, the indie horror movie Black Mold is now streaming on Tubi as a Tubi Original.

Additionally, the horror film’s original score has been released on vinyl this week.

Composer Nicholas Elert and writer-director John Pata have teamed up to release Elert’s original score to Black Mold on vinyl from Exploding Head Audio, and it’s available now.

Pre-orders are shipping immediately and two tracks, Test Cells and Black Mold, are available to listen to now through Elert’s Bandcamp. You can also listen to an additional track, titled Dark Room, exclusively here on Bloody Disgusting in the embedded player down below.

The limited edition record comes in two vinyl options: standard black and a “mold” color variant.

Globetrotting festival, markets, film development and training veteran Marten Rabarts is joining the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) team to lead its industry activities as Head Of IFFR Pro.

The New Zealand-born film professional already has strong connections with the Netherlands. He was artistic director of development hub the Binger Filmlab in Amsterdam for 12 years, followed by a four-year stint as Head of Eye International (now SeeNL), promoting Dutch film and film culture worldwide.

Rabarts left the latter position in 2019 to take on the role of festival director at the Whanau Marama – New Zealand International Film Festival for two years. Most recently he worked as a script mentor on the inaugural edition of Jane Campion’s A Wave In The Ocean Lab, among other activities on the international film circuit.

In his new role, Rabarts will work closely with IFFR’s Festival Director, Vanja Kaludjercic, and report into Chief of Content,...

International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has named Marten Rabarts as head of its industry strand IFFR Pro, effective immediately.

He replaces Inke Van Loocke, who announced her departure from the festival in August.

Rabarts was festival director of the New Zealand International Film Festival from 2019-21.

More recently, New Zealand-born Rabarts worked as a script mentor on the inaugural edition of Jane Campion’s A Wave In The Ocean Lab.

Rabarts also has strong connections to the Dutch industry: he is a former head of Dutch film promotion organisation Eye International, now SeeNL, and was artistic director of the development...

Exclusive: Upcoming Filipino crime drama series Sellblock has wrapped principal photography and is headed for MIPTV. You can see four first-look images above.

Slated as a three-season series, Sellblock chronicles the activities of one of Asia’s biggest drug empires operating from inside a Philippines maximum-security prison. LA’s Blue Fox Entertainment has boarded the show and will launch it at the final ever MIPTV next week in Cannes, France.

The series is produced by Manilla-based BlackOps Studios Asia, headed by Pedring Lopez, who is known for Netflix’s Maria, Darkroom and Geisha of Death and also leads Psyops8. Lopez directs all eight episodes of the first season.

Blue Fox is handling sales, including the Philippines, and will be screening the pilot episode for buyers at MIPTV as it moves into TV distribution. Filipino producer Abs-cbn was initially attached to the show, but we hear it is no longer involved.

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh)

There are many films about the devastating effects of the AIDS crisis, but very few that grapple with the loneliness of those left behind or came of age as it began to make headlines. Through supernatural metaphor, Andrew Haigh’s latest––and best––film tackles the existential displacement of a gay man (Andrew Scott) fast approaching middle age, his isolation only underlined by the near-abandoned tower block in which he lives. His friends have long moved out of the city, he has to maneuver a generational divide with a new, younger romantic partner (Paul Mescal) whose adolescence was far different to his, and he feels a longing to return to his childhood and come out to...

Barbara Rupik’s “Cherub” was awarded the Eurimages New Lab Awards for Innovation at CineMart, the co-production market arm of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, with Lilian Hess’ “Duchampiana” taking home the Eurimart New Lab Award for Outreach.

Rupik’s project follows the titular creatures, shape-shifting angelic beings with human heads and birdlike wings, as they descend to a forgotten village to claim the soul of a dying girl. The director’s statement says that “Cherub” will blend “elements that are grotesque, musical, dramatic and horror in the genre, woven out of folklore and rural traditions.” Rubik, the author of the puppet animation in Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s “Silent Twins,” and whose shorts have been awarded at Cannes and Dok Leipzig, also took home the Wouter Barendrecht Award worth €5,000.

“Duchampiana” is an artistic VR experience focused on body politics and inspired by Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase.” The installation will...

Polish animation project Cherub won two of the seven prizes of the CineMart co-production market of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).

The winners were selected from 20 projects in development presented at CineMart and six projects nearing completion taking part in the Darkroom work-in-progress programme.

Cherub, by debut feature director Barbara Rupik and produced through Madants, won the Eurimages New Lab Award for Innovation, worth €20,000, and the Wouter Barendrecht Award, worth €5,000.

The Polish animation tells of shape-shifting angelic beings who descend from the sky to a small, forgotten village to claim the soul of a dying girl.

The CineMart jury hailed...

Polish animation project Cherub won two of the seven prizes handed out tonight (January 30) at CineMart, the co-production market of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).

The winners were selected from 20 projects in development presented at CineMart and six projects nearing completion taking part in the Darkroom work-in-progress programme.

Cherub, by debut feature director Barbara Rupik and produced through Madants, won the Eurimages New Lab Award for Innovation, worth €20,000, and the Wouter Barendrecht Award, worth €5,000.

The Polish animation tells of shape-shifting angelic beings who descend from the sky to a small, forgotten village to claim the soul of a dying girl.

After a bumper 40th anniversary edition of IFFR Pro last year, there’s a sense that Rotterdam’s industry strand has fined tuned things rather than introduced major changes for 2024.

IFFR Pro centres around key initiatives including co-production market CineMart, talent development programme Rotterdam Lab, works in progress section Dark Room and financial support for filmmakers through the festival’s Hubert Bals Fund.

Head of IFFR Pro a.i. Alessia Acone, who is overseeing the industry strand while IFFR Pro head Inke Van Loocke is on maternity leave, says one of the main differences about CineMart this year is that...

Selection includes new projects by Aisling Walsh, Ena Sendijarević, Andreas Fontana and Beatrice Gibson

Projects by directors including Aisling Walsh, Ena Sendijarević, Andreas Fontana and Beatrice Gibson are among the 2024 line-up for CineMart, the co-production market of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).

CineMart has revealed 16 feature film projects and four immersive projects for its upcoming 41st edition, which runs from January 28-31. Cinemart is also presenting six works-in-progress, of which four are features and two immersive, as part of its Darkroom strand.

The project selection includes Lucia from Irish filmmaker Aisling Walsh whose Maudie (2016), starring Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke,...

Stars: Angela Cela, Charles Chudabala, Nicole Cinaglia , Sheri Davis, Marcella Di Pasquale, Jessica Cameron, Felissa Rose, Jennifer Nangle, Sadie Katz, Alan Maxson, Dave Sheridan, Vernon Wells, Noel Jason Scott, Maria Shapley | Written and Directed by Michael Hurst

Directed by Michael J. Hurst, who has vast genre experience – helming films such as House of the Dead 2, Pumpkinhead 4 and 2006’s Darkroom, as well as writing the demented Mansquito (aka Mosquito Man), and both of Scott Adkins’ Ninja movies (personal favourites of mine) – Transmission is a dark, twisted film that feels akin to Peter Hyams’s comedy Stay Tuned, which starred John Ritter and Pam Dawber as a couple trapped in an ever-changing TV or the comedy anthology Amazon Women on the Moon that flicked between 90s TV, poking fun at the tropes of that era.

The film unfolds on a television screen as we, seeing things from the perspective of an old man,...

Eight feature documentaries and eight short docs have been selected as finalists for the 16th Doc Alliance Awards, presented by the Doc Alliance – the association of European documentary festivals.

The announcement of nominees was made today during Doc Day at the Marché du Film in Cannes. Each member festival chooses one feature and one short as its nominees, selected from among the program of their most recent events. The winners will be revealed at DokuFest in Prizren, Kosovo in August, where all the nominated films will screen. A three-person jury will choose the winners: Anna Berthollet, journalist and programmer Arnaud Hée (La Cinémathèque du Documentaire) and festival programmer Jonathan Ali.

The winning feature will earn a €5,000 prize, while the winning short will receive €3,000. Members of the Doc Alliance include Cph:Dox; Docslisboa; Dok Leipzig; FIDMarseille; Ji.hlava Idff; Millennium Docs Against Gravity Ff, Visions du Réel, and this year’s guest festival, DokuFest in Prizren, Kosovo.

Full list of Best Feature nominees:

a-b-c-d-e-f-g-h-i-jonestown, Czech Republic, director: Jan Bušta, nominated

by Ji.hlava Idff

Christina (Kristina), Serbia, director: Nikola Spasic, nominated by FIDMarseille

Death of a City (A Morte de uma Cidade), Portugal, director: João Rosas, nominated

by Doclisboa

Disturbed Earth, Bosnia and Herzegovina/ North Macedonia/ Spain, directors:

Kumjana Novakova and Guillermo Carreras-Candi, nominated by DokuFest

Nights Gone By (Antier noche), Switzerland/ Spain, director: Alberto Martín

Menacho, nominated by Visions du Réel

Polish Prayers, Poland/ Switzerland, director: Hanka Nobis, nominated by Millenium

Docs Against Gravity

Silent Sun of Russia (Vi er Rusland), Denmark, director: Sybilla Tuxen, nominated

by Cph:dox

Three Women (Drei Frauen), Germany, director: Maksym Melnyk, nominated by

Dok Leipzig

Full list of Best Short nominees:

07:15 – Blackbird, France, director: Judith Auffray, nominated by Ji.hlava Idff

Adjusting (Prilagodjeni), Serbia, director: Dejan Petrović, nominated by DokuFest

Darkroom, Turkey, director: Asli Baykal, nominated by Visions du Réel

May the Earth Become the Sky (Face-s-ar pământul cer), Belgium/ Hungary/

Portugal/ Romania, director: Ana Vîjdea, nominated by Doclisboa

Nothing Runs Like a Deere, Sweden, director: Max Göran, nominated by Cph:dox

The cervix pass (Le passage du col), France, director: Marie Bottois, nominated by

FIDMarseille

waking up in silence, Germany/ Ukraine, directors: Mila Zhluktenko and

Daniel Asadi Faezi, nominated by Millenium Docs Against Gravity

Why my mum loves Russel Crowe, Netherlands, director: Emma van den Berg,

nominated by Dok Leipzig...

The temptation radiates from the town of Riverdale. It might be time for some characters to take a cold shower, Riverdale fans.

Passion and romance were in the air on Riverdale Season 7 Episode 3.

If you have a favorite 'ship, this was the chapter for you. Like, forget about teasing; Riverdale went for the explosive bang (both metaphorical and literal).

"Chapter One Hundred Twenty: Sex Education" might be the steamiest and sexiest chapter Riverdale has ever done. Has anything else even come close?

Between the sex dreams and Toni's sexy spoken word show, sensuality was dripping from mostly everything. Sure, there's a new murder mystery plot in the mix, but the teens (and some adults) had their sights set elsewhere.

The spoken word show in the Dark Room was the initial spark. The flow of the plots could be traced back to that moment.

I loved how all the characters reacted...

Three months ago, we heard that James Wan is developing a series adaptation of the 1988 bestseller Stinger, written by Robert R. McCammon, for the Peacock streaming service. Now The Hollywood Reporter has broken the news that Patrick Brice, whose credits include Creep, Creep 2, and There’s Someone Inside Your House, is set to direct another McCammon adaptation for Paramount Pictures and Temple Hill Entertainment producers Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey, who were behind last year’s genre hit Smile. The adaptation they’re working on is called He’ll Come Knocking.

Jordan Goldberg and Alex Paraskevas have written the He’ll Come Knocking screenplay adaptation, telling the story of an ex-con who gets a new job in a revitalized factory town in the hopes of turning around his family’s life, only to soon discover that their idyllic suburban dream requires a terrible sacrifice.

This seems to be based on...

Last month, we heard that a supernatural horror movie called From Black, starring Anna Camp of the Pitch Perfect films, the HBO television series True Blood, and A Creepshow Holiday Special, would be available to watch on the Shudder streaming service on April 13th. Now it’s being reported that Shudder has pushed the release of From Black back a couple weeks to April 28th – and along with the new release date news, a batch of images from the film have also arrived online! Our friends at Bloody Disgusting got their hands on several From Black images, and a select few of them can be seen at the bottom of this article.

The narrative feature debut of Thomas Marchese, who previously directed the documentary Fallen, From Black will tell the story of what happens when a young mother, crushed by guilt and shame after the disappearance of her young son five years previously,...

Philippines star Jericho Rosales has been announced as headlining the cast of “Sellblock” an upcoming scripted TV prison series. The show is hatched by Manila-based Abs-cbn and its production partner BlackOps Studios Asia.

It was first announced last month as part of BlackOps’ genre slate of projects with its creative partner Psyops8, and its coproduction partners Story Arch Pictures and Agog Film Productions. The Film Development Council of the Philippines has also voiced its support for this project.

BlackOps also announced that Hong Kong-based New Asia Ferrell Asset Management Limited is joining as a financial partner.

Other actors joining the cast of “Sellblock” include Tirso Cruz III, Cherry Pie Picache, Ronnie Lazaro, Rosanna Roces, Mon Confiado and Rk Bagatsing. Further acting leads will be announced in the coming weeks.

Former broadcast giant, Abs-cbn is the largest media and entertainment group in the Philippines and is now increasing its focus on content production for global audiences.

Jan DeWitt, who produced over 500 hours of television and features, including many episodes of Bones and Judging Amy, died as a result of Covid on the morning of January 29 at his home in Santa Barbara. His friend and partner, Charlene, was by his side and his daughter, Anika, was on the phone from Colorado when he passed. He was 75.

DeWitt worked all over the world in various capacities. He earned his National Maritime Union seamanship papers and traveled up the Mekong River with a boat full of ammunition when he was 18; then studied agriculture in college and found himself working on a farm in Australia before he was 21. Finally, he landed in Spain as assistant to the prop master on a feature film written by his father, Jack DeWitt, called A Man in the Wilderness. He never looked back.

In Hollywood, the Santa Barbara native worked his way up from...

BlackOps Studios Asia from the Philippines, Story Arch Pictures from the U.S. and Agog Film from Hong Kong have joined forces to develop, produce and finance a slate of genre movies that target the streaming marketplace.

The 16-title slate comprises nine films and seven series in the action, horror and sci-fi genres, with 11 flowing from BlackOps, two from Story Arch and three from Agog. The lineup is being unveiled this week at the European Film Market, the online companion to the in-person Berlin Film Festival.

The slate has development support from the Philippines-based creative agency Psyops8 and is expected to tap into incentives and location support from the Film Development Council of the Philippines (Fdcp). Leading Philippines media group Abs-cbn has already come on board “Sellblock,” a prison-set action drama that is one of the first titles to emerge from BlackOps stable and is now in pre-production.

Both BlackOps...

Neil Ferron’s horror script for “Fishmonger” took the Slamdance 2021 screenplay grand prize. “Fishmonger” is described as a supernatural dark comedy in which the titular vendor has to survive a sex pact with an ancient sea creature to save his mother’s soul from hell.

Other winners in the feature film, horror/thriller, TV pilot and shorts film categories were saluted during a livestreamed ceremony today co-presented by Writers Guild of America, West, and hosted by Slamdance alums Daniel Casey and Jessica Sinyard. In all, more than $16,000 was presented to winners across all categories.

“With over 5,000 submissions this year, it was a truly challenging task for our readers to whittle the competition down to these finalists, and our Grand Prize winner. We are not only inspired by our top 12 but also humbled by the many strong entries we received,” said Slamdance festival manager Adele Han Li.

The screenplay Mentorship Award...

Titles include ‘It Is Not The Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But The Society In Which He Lives’.

Berlin-based Missing Films has secured international sales rights and German distribution rights to a brace of seminal LGBTQ features by award-winning German filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim.

They include the landmark drama-documentary It Is Not The Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But The Society In Which He Lives, which debuted at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1971 and triggered the modern gay liberation movement in Germany. The second title is the romantic drama The Bed Sausage, which has never been distributed outside of Germany.

The...

The 64th Annual Grammy Awards will take place in 2022 and award music released during the eligibility period of September 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021. So who are the leading contenders for Record of the Year? See our potential favorites, dark horses, and spoilers below. Check back throughout the season as new singles are announced and released and the race takes shape.

Updated: October 1, 2021

Leading Contenders

“Bad Habits” by Ed Sheeran

Album: “Equals”

Label: Asylum

Release Date: June 25, 2021

Producers: Ed Sheeran, Johnny McDaid, Fred Gibson

“Butter” by BTS

Label: Big Hit/Sony Music

Release Date: May 21, 2021

Producers: Rob Grimaldi, Stephen Kirk, Ron Perry

“Damage” by H.E.R.

Album: “Back of My Mind”

Label: RCA

Release Date: October 21, 2020

Producers: Cardiak, Jeff “Gitty” Gitelman

“Drivers License” by Olivia Rodrigo

Album: “Sour”

Label: Geffen/Interscope

Release Date: January 8, 2021

Producer: Daniel Nigro

“Good Days” by Sza

Label: Top Dawg/RCA

Release Date: December 25, 2020

Producers: Carter Lang, Loshendrix, Nascent

“Happier Than Ever...

The American Music Awards brought the star power to Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater on Sunday night with an A-list roster of performers and plenty of action backstage. Read on for what you didn’t see on TV.

A Posty Afternoon: For Post Malone, the party started during daylight hours as the artist, along with a crew of friends, commandeered a rooftop installation by Dolby to host his own pre-game party complete with Sunday football on multiple screens — with crisp Dolby sound to boot. As for that “I love grapes” line he delivered later in his acceptance speech for favorite rap/hip-hop album, it was apparently an offhand comment he made upon entering his dressing room trailer to find grapes among the catering options — a remark he inexplicably chose to repeat.

The Shawn Mendes Show: Thanks to his multiple appearances during the stage, Shawn Mendes was spotted all over the venue...

Another year, another crop of memorable performances and winners from the MTV Video Music Awards. This year’s ceremony was held at that Prudential Center, in Newark, N.J. on Aug. 26 and hosted for the first time by comedian Sebastian Maniscalco.

But as is often the case, the real stars of the show were, well, the stars. Taylor Swift not only brought home the awards for Video of the Year and Video for Good, but she also got political during her top of the show performance, advocating for the Equality Act, a bill that would add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” as protected classes under federal civil rights law.

The real showstoppers came in the form of Normani and Lizzo, however, with the former taking home the award for R&B Video and pulling off a truly bananas performance of her latest single “Motivation, and the latter mashing up two...

The 2019 MTV Video Music Awards celebrated pop, hip-hop, rock and R&b Monday night — during the first ever VMAs in New Jersey.

Actor and comedian Sebastian Maniscalco hosted the show at the Prudential Center in Newark, where Moon Persons in 20-plus competitive categories were handed out. The awardsfest opened with a performance by Taylor Swift, whose latest album Lover just hit shelves. Later, Video Vanguard honoree Missy Elliott brought the house down with a futuristic set of new music and throwback classics.

Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello wowed the audience with a performance of their single, “Señorita,” which just booted “Old Town Road” from No. 1 after 19 weeks. Then in a tribute to the Garden State — where the VMAs took place for the first time in 36 years, the show closed with a performance by Queen Latifah, Naughty by Nature, Redman, Fetty Wap and Wyclef Jean — all Jersey natives.

Among the night’s...

Summer loving is the vibe on Gryffin’s new single “Omg,” which features Carly Rae Jepsen on vocals. The glossy synth-pop number, produced by Gryffin, evokes a sultry sensibility as Jepsen croons, “I love it/ When you touch me now/ I go from zero to a million/ When you dim the lights.”

“Gryffin is a kindred spirit in the way he thinks about music,” Jepsen said in a statement. “I’m grateful to be a part of this song.”

The producer added, “’Omg’ was one of the most fun experiences...

Before we bid the month of April farewell, we still have one final batch of Blu-ray and DVD releases coming our way this Tuesday to look forward to. Scream Factory is set to release a double dose of classic horror with The Brain and Tarantula, and Vinegar Syndrome is keeping busy with their terror-inducing trio of titles: The Corruption of Chris Miller, Grandmother’s House, and Darkroom.

Kino Lorber is also giving Hannibal (2001) the 4K treatment this week, and if you happened to miss them during their limited releases, both The Hole in the Ground and Level 16 are very much worth your time.

Other Blu-ray and DVD releases for April 30th include City of the Vampires, Deadly Crush, Emanuelle and Francoise, Death Warmed Up, and Motel Mist.

The Brain

Imagine a pulsating mass of gray matter, expanding in size and strength as it takes control of human minds and devours human bodies.

“Real Life Rock Top Ten” is a monthly column by cultural critic and Rs contributing editor Greil Marcus.

1. “Lana Del Rey and Jack Antonoff Debuting New Country Song at the Ally Coalition Talent Show” (YouTube): From December — and can this performance really have had less than 9,000 views? There’s no title: With Antonoff strumming an acoustic guitar, then hinting at a figure, the song refers to Hank Williams in its first verse, but that’s as close to what’s sold as country as it gets. In the melody as it slowly takes shape,...

Female-centric action pic stars Cristine Reyes as a cartel assassin.

Netflix has picked up worldwide rights to Philippines action film Maria, directed by Pedring Lopez and starring Cristine Reyes.

The female-centric action pic, which starts streaming on Netflix on May 17, follows a cartel assassin (Reyes) who refuses a mission only to find herself the target of the cartel’s merciless retaliation.

Produced by Viva Films, BlackOps Studios Asia and PsyOps8, the film was recently released theatrically in the Philippines where it has been garnering strong reviews for its acting, direction, stunts and cinematography. Reyes is making her action debut in the film,...

Usually it’s a lot easier and quicker for me to review films one by one but I thought for this release from Vinegar Syndrome, it’s only right to review the release as a whole.

In Search of Bigfoot

Stars: Robert Morgan, Rene Dahinden, John Green, Sam Melville | Written and Directed by Lawrence Crowley, William Miller

First up on this Drive-in Collection double feature, we have the 1975 documentary In Search of Bigfoot, directed by Lawrence Crowley (Bigfoot: Man or Beast) and William Miller (Cowboy Spirit, Mysteries From Beyond the Triangle). The documentary focuses on Robert Morgan (Blood Stalkers, Mako: The Jaws of Death) and his team who set out to locate the legendary Bigfoot. While on their expedition they meet loggers and eyewitnesses who all claim to have either witnessed or interacted with the mythical creature. There are highs and lows for Robert and his team and although an...