The Keeper Trailer 2025]

The horror film director, Osgood Perkins, is building a reputation for writing and directing unhinged and dark humoured low budget modern horror films. His last two films, Longslegs starring Nicholas Cage and The Monkey starring Theo James, were critical and commercial successes, especially with hardcore horror fans. Now Osgood returns with his latest creeping nightmare, The Keeper.

The Keeper’s narrative is somewhat of a mystery but judging by the trailer’s cabin in the woods horror trope backdrop we’re in for an unpleasant surprise when a couple retreat to the forest for a romantic anniversary.

Fun fact: The director, Osgood Perkins, is the son of actor Anthony Perkins from Psycho infamy.

The Keeper is released on November 14th, 2025.

Watch The Keeper trailer below:

Almost Free Audio Plugins - Purafied Audio Everything Bundle

Purafied Audio, founded by producer & mix engineer Sam Pura, are offering their entire catalogue of professional audio plugins for a ridiculously measly retail price. The Everything Bundle has a retail value of $473 but is currently available for £2.00 for a limited time only. Yes, that’s £2.00. Not £200.

I’ll let Purafied Audio explain from here : "A remedy for your well-founded FOMO. Let’s be clear, this is every last plugin we’ve ever made. Not only did we save you the time inevitably adding each one to your cart, but we accidentally made it cheaper too. Our accountant still doesn’t know."

The Everything Bundle includes:

8 hardware compressor models, from invisible to nuclear
50 bowel-shaking room responses with absurd versatility
2 kick-ass amp models from a kick-ass album
the last tone shaper you’ll ever use
500+ explosive snare samples from the plugin that started it all
70+ knobs, if you’re into that
over 25 years of experience making records

https://purafied.com/products/the-everything-bundle

Adam Curtis and Ari Aster Interview [2025]

Read an interview with Adam Curtis, the revered documentary maker of Shifty, HyperNormalisation and Can’t Get You Out Of My Head and Ari Aster, the horror film director of Eddington, Hereditary and Midsommar, in conversation. Both filmmakers attempt to make sense of some of the biggest political and social problems in an age of nostalgia and disconnection.

You can read the recent interview here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/08/adam-curtis-ari-aster-eddington-interview-covid-politics

Dead Talents Society [2025]

Dead Talents Society is a whole lot of spooky fun in the afterlife as dead people compete to scare the living and become urban legends.

This wacky Taiwanese comedy horror riffs on Ringu and Beetlejuice and really should have found a larger audience. It’s dead good so don’t miss it.

Dead Talents Society is available on video on demand now.

Watch the trailer below:

Adam Curtis Gets ‘Shifty’ Documentary [2025]

Adam Curtis returns in 2025 with another mind blowing documentary series called ‘Shifty’.

From what I understand, ‘Shifty’ focuses on the financial decisions that led to the erosion of Truth and belief in authoritarism in our society and media courtesy of Silvio Berlusconi, Boris Johnson and Donald Trump who reeked havoc with lies and propoganda, leaving people with nothing left to believe in except a vacuum where mistrust breeds conspiracy, and ultimately control.

You can read a new Adam Curtis interview about the themes of his new series here:

https://www.frieze.com/article/adam-curtis-interview-2025

Personally, I think we are witnessing the slow painful death of the Fourth Estate in a world where checks and balances are removed and truth is now a subjective digital currency of the disinformation age.

Shifty is available to watch on the BBC iPlayer now.

Watch the Shifty trailer trailer below:

Free Soft Synth - Universal Audio PolyMAX Synth

Universal Audio are offering their PolyMAX synth, which usually retails at $99, as a free download. Although deceptively simple, this free synth is capable of analogue Juno inspired sounds through the use of two oscillators and a variety of tape delay and vintage spring reverb effects.

Check out the press release :

"The PolyMAX is our vintage-inspired synth that gives producers, sound designers, and musicians fat analog tones from the golden age of polysynthesis. PolyMAX's warm, analog-modeled oscillators and filters, professional UA effects, and curated presets easily fit into any genre — with album‑ready sounds instantly."

This download will be available until the end of June so download it while you can.

https://www.uaudio.com/products/polymax-synth

Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke Collaboration - Tall Tales LP [2025]

The new Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke Tall Tales collaboration LP is shaping up to be a glorious demented piece of art and music. The pair have previously worked together on the Beautiful People track together, but Tall Tales marks their first full length LP, which has been years in the making.

The insane music videos by Jonathan Zawada are taken from the upcoming short film and will be screened in independent cinemas across the country on May 8th. Find a participating cinema using the link below.

The Tall Tales LP is be available to buy on May 9th.

http://tall-tales.info/

Messiah Of Evil [1974]

Long considered a cult gem, Messiah Of Evil, is an atmospheric zombie B movie classic that has recently been restored to its former glory with a remaster and inclusion of its original electronic soundtrack.

The story concerns a young girl (Marianna Hill) in search of her missing father in a town at the end of the world where she descended into madness. Or was it an encounter with an evil soon to overcome the world? Although this slow burning classic is bereft of gore and almost entirely bloodless, it's ominous tone, powerful imagery and unique premise make this worth watching in a saturated genre.

Starring Marianna Hill as Arletty and Anitra Ford as the mesmerising Laura, it also features a cameo by Elisha B Cook as a spooky and wise drunken vagrant. It's also worth noting that the appearance of zombie shoppers predates George Romero's Dawn Of The Dead satire on consumerism by at least four years.

Watch the full film on Youtube now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkyLGNX-7Rk

Black Mirror Returns [2025]

After a two year wait, Netflix has finally announced the return of Black Mirror in April 2025.

Series seven of Charlie Brooker’s seminal techno horror TV anthology show returns with brand new episodes and hints at revisiting two of its most revered episodes - USS Callister from series four, and the Bandersnatch interactive special featuring Will Poulter.

Series six maintained a meta heavy focus that saw Black Mirror looking inward with horror narratives playing out on the fictional Streamberry TV platform in a parody of Netflix. Although not entirely successful, there were memorable episodes, especially the show’s finale Demon 79 episode which ramped up the horror with a more conventional story as part of Brooker’s Red Mirror flirtation with supernatural storylines.

Whatever happens, Black Mirror Series Seven will be nothing less than shocking, prescient, entertaining and horrorific must watch television. Prepare to see your future on April 10th 2025.

Watch the new Black Mirror trailer below:

Hammer Horror’s Ithaqua [2025]

Hammer Horror are back from the dead. Having released Doctor Jekyll [2023] they have finally announced their latest film production, Ithaqua.

Ithaqua will be directed by Casey Walker who has previous form as director of the excellent The Void [2016] HP Lovecraft inspired tale of cults and inter-dimensional gateways to evil.

I'm a fan of Hammer's classic Abominable Snowman [1957] starring Peter Cushing so I have high hopes for this similar release. According to the Hammer Horror press release : "Set in the brutal wilderness of 1800s Canada, the fur trade is in decline and a remote outpost is starving. A mercenary fights to unite the survivors against the cold, the hunger… and something far worse. A dark force is watching. Waiting. And those who fall into its grasp are cursed with an insatiable hunger for flesh.

Hammer Horror’s legacy continues with Ithaqua, now in production, starring Luke Hemsworth, Kevin Durand, Michael Pitt, Craig Lauzon & Leenah Robinson, and directed by Casey Walker.

This is horror as it was meant to be: terrifying and utterly unforgettable."

Aphex Twin - Music From The Merch Desk (2016 - 2023) LP [2025]

Honestly, you wait nine years for a new Aphex Twin album, then he surprises everyone by dropping a new 38 track LP, Music From The Merch Desk (2016 - 2023) overnight.

Music From The Merch Desk (2016 - 2023) collects rare 12” records sold exclusively at Aphex Twin gigs on the merchandise stall - the only problem was that they sold out before most people could buy one. The compilation is a treasure trove of 38 playful tracks and experiments, classic AFX acid, idiosyncratic beats, and unexpected highlights. My favourite so far is “01-015-Aphex Twin-T165 MADMA with nastya [London 030617]” which echoes classic Selected Ambient Works riffing over Analord beats.

The album has been officially compiled with a truly terrible album cover that pays homage to a meme of an unofficial Aphex Twin t-shirt sold by an enterprising rascal on Bubble or Etsy.

Music From The Merch Desk (2016 - 2023) is available on Warp Records and digital download now.

https://bleep.com

28 Years Later Trailer [2025]

First there was 28 Days Later.

Then there was 28 Weeks Later. Now there is 28 Years Later.

Christmas has come early for horror fans with the release of the new trailer for Danny Boyle’s latest addition to the 28 Days Later zombie trilogy. Some fans were contemptuous of the film’s abandoning of zombie genre tropes which saw the introduction of running zombies, but few could deny the artisty, energy and originality in the low budget english horror classic.

Now director Danny Boyle returns with writing duties from Alex Garland (Ex Machina / Annihilation / Civil War) and starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Jodie Comer as humanity retreats to remote walled communities to prevent extinction.

Watch the 28 Years Later trailer below:

The Substance [2024]

Is The Substance the best mainstream body horror in recent years?

Shocking, grotesque and essentially brilliant feminist body swap nightmare, The Substance stars Hollywood luminary Demi Moore, and Margaret Qualley. Directed by relative newcomer Coralie Fargeat, the simplistic plot follows an aging actor’s experience of aging and self hate in Hollywood, who after receiving a mysterious offer, will stop at nothing to regain her lost beauty and declining career. Even if it means battling herself.

Have you ever thought about creating a newer, better, improved version of yourself? Then stick around for the frankly demented ending(s) which piles on the misery in a similar fashion to Requiem For A Dream. But whatever you do, don't miss it.

It’ll change your life.

The Substance is in cinemas and on video on demand now.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 [2024]

I don’t usually get excited about computer games. But Stalker 2 is something to behold. Despite years of adversity with the advent of the Ukraine war and the pandemic, Ukrainian GSC Game World developers have somehow finally completed the sequel to the award-winning PC game, Stalker.

I was a big fan of the original FPS post apocalyptic game with its dark war expansion of Andrei Tarkovsky’s incredible 1979 film of the same name where you must survive in the mysterious and deadly Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. There you will encounter fellow stalkers, fight mutants and combat soliders in a world of strange anomalies where everything and noone is what they seem.

See you in the Zone.

Stalker 2 is available on Steam and the official GSC Game World site now:

https://store.steampowered.com/

https://www.stalker2.com/en

Watch the Stalker 2 Game play trailer below: