John Carpenter’s Cathedral[2026]

Director John Carpenter returns with a new album written alongside the creation of his new graphic novel, Cathedral.

John Carpenter is having something of a creative renaissance as he gets older, penning new music and a new graphic novel when most people would be putting their feet up and looking back at their career. Enter, Cathedral, a new heavy metal opus and musical collaboration with his son, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies to soundtrack the graphic novel of the same name.

https://bleep.com/release/596487-john-carpenter-cody-carpenter-daniel-davies-cathedral

The Cathedral LP is available now.

The Cathedral graphic novel press release reads like a great idea for a long lost Carpenter film and reminds me of Prince Of Darkness. “In the middle of downtown Los Angeles, an abandoned cathedral stands, fenced in and ignored by the world around it. The preoccupied passers-by have long since ceased to notice the dilapidated church in their midst, never mind sensing the danger and centuries old evil trapped inside its walls. A gruesome murder one late night pulls the structure into the spotlight, triggering a police investigation into the loss of one of their own. Lieutenant Christine Marks, along with detectives Paul Hernandez and Steve Mayfield, must enter the church in search of the monster that murdered her father.”

Fans of Carpenter can also enjoy a new interview with him in the latest issue of Rolling Stone, assuming you can somehow circumvent the online paywall or maybe just buy the magazine:

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/john-carpenter-cathedral-interview-1235575006/

The graphic novel is released by Storm King on September 8th 2026.

Neuromancer [2027]

Finally.

After years stuck in development hell, William Gibson’s classic Neuromancer novel has made it to the small screen. Plug in, baby.

Arriving in your brain on January 22nd, 2027.

Watch the Neuromancer trailer below:

Werewulf [2026]

Stay on the path and beware of the moon because director Robert Eggers’s returns with his latest horror offering, Werewulf, an original tale exploring another mythological monster after the excellent Nosferatu [2024].

Set in medieval Britain, Werewulf stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson as a cursed man, born or sacrificed to carry the transformative werewolf gene of the title. True to other werewolf films such as An American Werewolf In London, the film adopts the perspective of the predator, not his victims, as he struggles with the affliction and is hunted down…I mean, I lost count of the number of times they said the word 'cursed' in the trailer which labours the point that he's probably a nice guy, really.

Werewolves have long been overlooked in horror mythology, and I've always been a huge fan, so I'm really excited to watch Eggers’s take on the genre in an olde world British setting, filmed on Dartmoor, Devon. Surely this dark interpretation can best the recent Universal Studio’s Wolf Man [2025] depressing and bloodless effort, which used the analogy of mental health and disease. Hopefully it's more similar to the classic Hammer Horror The Curse Of The Werewolf [1961] which is well worth seeking out while you wait.

The film also stars Bodhi Rae Breathnach and long time Eggers collaborator, William Dafoe.

Werewulf is available in cinemas from December 2026.

Watch the Werewulf trailer below:

Widows Bay TV Series [2026]

Widows Bay has it all. Folk Horror, Haunted Houses, Medieval Horror, Slasher Horror, Magic Mushrooms. It’s the perfect place to visit.

This new deceptive Apple TV series took me by complete surprise and has quickly become my favourite TV show. Much like the ridiculous faux marketing poster of a happy couple rowing around Widows Bay island, this really is a tour de force that plays with horror tropes featuring a dark comedic edge and great characters.

The slow burning series begins like a quirky Parks and Recreation comedy when chirpy town mayor (Matthew Rhys) is determined to put the island on the tourist map. But the locals have other ideas and local legends surface when the local eccentric loner (Stephen Root) recounts tales of the cursed island’s history of lost sailors, sea hags, and cult founders.

And before you can say Boo! Strange things start happening on the island.

With the finale right around the corner, you should book yourself a summer holiday in Widows Bay, immediately. But don't say I didn't warn you.

Watch the Widows Bay teaser trailer below:

Boards Of Canada New Single and Inferno LP [2026]

Boards Of Canada officially return with new single ‘Introit / Prophecy At 1420 MHz’ from their upcoming ‘Inferno’ LP.

After a tense 13 year wait and a low fi marketing campaign that saw VHS tapes of a new teaser track posted to random Bleep members, Boards Of Canada have officially returned with a stunning constantly morphing psychedelic spiritual track accompanied by a hand drawn video. I

The new song opens the Inferno album with its 18 tracks of new material. Fans will no doubt spend hours pouring over their new music and track titles for hidden messages. But it already has me wondering if this is a darkly spiritual flipside to the classic Geogaddi LP about planet earth’s future climate as its central theme?

Inferno tracklisting:

1 Introit 0:36
2 Prophecy At 1420 MHz 5:04
3 Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan 4:44
4 Age Of Capricorn 3:52
5 Father And Son 3:24
6 Somewhere Right Now In The Future 2:26
7 Naraka 5:01
8 Acts Of Magic 1:18
9 Memory Death 2:37
10 The Word Becomes Flesh 5:20
11 Into The Magic Land 4:35
12 Blood In The Labyrinth 4:55
13 Deep Time 3:18
14 All Reason Departs 6:14
15 Arena Americanada 5:22
16 The Process 3:01
17 You Retreat In Time And Space 5:25
18 I Saw Through Platonia 2:39

Inferno is released on May 29th.

Watch and Listen to Introit / Prophecy At 1420 MHz below:

Resident Evil Trailer [2026]

Resident Evil returns and reboots the franchise with director Zach Cregger of Weapons [2025] and Barbarian [2022] at the helm.

I’m a big fan of Weapons [2025] with it’s incredible cinematography, narrative structure and commitment to mystery, dread and horror which made it one of the stand out horror films of last year. It really was a director’s calling card to greatness similar to Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction which made him a household name.

I can’t wait to see how director Zach Cregger approaches the Resident Evil franchise. From the trailer it looks like he’s already taken things back to basics without Alice (Milla Jovovich). There’s also no indication of where this sits in the game lore either without Leon as the protagonist, and seemingly tells an original story that plays like a crossover between Evil Dead and Resident Evil. I can’t wait to see how this folds back into the game’s original umbrella corporation narrative over time.

Resident Evil is released on September 18th 2026.

Watch the teaser trailer below:

Boards Of Canada Return With Tape 05 [2026]

Boards Of Canada have returned after a 13 year absence with a new track called Tape 05.

The band apparently teased its release by physcially posting VHS copies of the new track to the home of random Bleep customers bearing a simple Hexagonal logo from their Geogaddi LP. The low fi marketing campaign continued with the track’s release on Youtube when mysterious posters started appearing across London, USA, and Toyko depicting new album artwork without a band name or album title, and simply bearing the same Hexagonal logo.

The artwork is reminiscent of their debut album’s infamous Music Has The Right To Children art but with a darker horror edge similar to FSOL’s Dead Cities classic album cover.

A new album is imminent much to the joy of hardcore fans everywhere. Good things do happen.

Watch and Listen to Tape 05 below:

Faces Of Death Remake Trailer [2026]

What was once shocking has now become mundane.

In 1978 Faces of Death shocked the world with its release as a fake documentary of real life deaths. But was the original Faces Of Death even a snuff movie? Despite being banned in most of the world, the truth was somewhere inbetween. Most scenes were staged and some were grotesque video cam footage of real life accidents and the aftermath.

So how can Faces Of Death be relevant in a modern age of internet real time streaming of murder, death and mayhem when the future has overtaken the original taboo premise with live streaming and recordings shared on social media platforms? Death is everywhere in a world of social media, post truth and deep fakes.

Well, that's the question the directors of a remake of the Faces Of Death had to ask themselves in 2026. How to stay relevant? This time the premise centres on a video platform content moderator who stumbles across a serial killer re-enacting the original Faces Of Death film.

Is nothing shocking anymore?

You decide.

Watch The Face Of Death trailer below:

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Cold Storage Trailer [2026]

I read Cold Storage during Covid and now I'm stoked to see the film.

David Koep, the screenwriter of countless Hollywood blockbusters such as Jurassic Park and Spiderman, took time out a few years ago to pen his debut novel, Cold Storage. The book was a fun horror comedy riff on the zombie virus outbreak trope with a hilarious drug addled protagonist called Teacake who accidentally discovers a disused military facility beneath the self storage company where he works. Cue zombies, killer rats, biker gangs and deranged deer.

Cold Storage has now received the screenwriting treatment from Koep himself and stars Georgina Campbell (Barbarian), Joe Keery (Stranger Things) and Liam Neeson (Naked Gun) in a film which could hit that sweet spot between Evil Dead II, Shaun Of The Dead and John Dies At The End. Watch it or read the book.

Cold Storage is out now.

Watch the trailer and an extended scene below:

Ben Wheatley’s Bulk Trailer [2026]

Film director Ben Wheatley returns with psychedelic black and white science fiction B-movie, Bulk.

Bulk stars Sam Riley as Corey Harlan who is sent to investigate a brain colliding machine and is tasked with finding its insane inventor Anton Chambers through multiple dimensions.

Bulk looks like a lot of fun and is threaded with black humour and model making, riffing on classic science fiction such Quatermass, Alphaville and Primer, and maybe even Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. I’m a big fan of Wheatley’s early work such as A Field In England, High Rise, Sightseers, Kill List, and Bulk marks Wheatley’s return to more personalised low budget film making following his foray into Hollywood big budget productions with his Jaws baiting The Meg 2 sequel starring Jason Statham.

Bulk is currently on a UK tour with a director Q&A so catch it at your local cinema or arts centre if you can.

Bulk is released in cinemas from January 15th 2026.

Watch The Bulk trailer below:

Non Festive Films For Christmas : The Visitor [1979]

Confused about what festive film you should be watching? The Visitor is an obscure oddball Italian science fiction horror film that will liven up any Christmas.

The cult film follows the battle between two extraterrestrial races competing for the soul of a gifted telekenetic eight year old girl. And if that premise isn’t weird enough for you, then be assured the film just gets weirder and weirder after the first astounding 10 minutes.

Oh and it has nothing to do with Christmas. Ho Ho Horror Sci Fi.

Watch The Visitor Trailer below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qw_g2qG38s

Watch the FREE full movie on Youtube below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXaMFFi8zpI

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Trailer [2026]

Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s 28 Years Later was a divisive affair. Some fans praised its originality in an oversaturated zombie genre while others found it an unsatisfying update on the franchise. But whatever your opinion, the film franchise refuses to die and a sequel is imminent.

Christmas has come early again for horror fans as director Nia DaCosta (Candyman 2021) takes over directorial duties while Alex Garland continues his writing credit in the upcoming sequel, 28 Years Later : The Bone Temple. The new trailer teases the return of Ralph Fiennes with new co stars Jack O'Connell, Emma Laird and Alfie Williams.

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is released on January 14th 2026.

Watch the trailer below:

Dave Ball R.I.P. [1959 - 2025]

Dave Ball, legendary keyboard player and producer of Soft Cell has died at the age of 66.

His fellow band member, Marc Almond paid tribute: “He was a wonderfully brilliant musical genius … Thank you Dave for being an immense part of my life and for the music you gave me. I wouldn’t be where I am without you”.

Soft Cell’s debut album Non Stop Erotic Cabaret was a favourite of mine for many, many years. I must have devoured every song, album, 12” remix and remix collection a dozen times and never tired of their sleazy, dark and emotional synth pop music. They were pioneers in so many ways and to say they were an influence on both members of Freudstein would be an understatement. While Marc Almond may have been the front man, Dave Ball’s songwriting, production and analogue synthesis skills meant than no one else sounded like Soft Cell. And they never will.

In a strange twist of fate, the duo recently completed a new Soft Cell album entitled Danceteria days before Ball’s death, and is due for release in 2026.

Rest In Peace and thanks for all the music.