Bee's birthday bash 🥳, Our favorite birthday horror 🎂, & more!

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The Dead Meat Podcast has joined Bloody Disgusting's podcast network, BloodyFM. Read more on BD about it.

Director and composer John Carpenter has a music residency at The Belasco in Los Angeles, California. Tickets are on sale now for the October 2025 shows.

What is going on with the new SCREAM VII film? This week alone, we received news that that THREE new cast members have been announced. First up, Mark Consuelos. That didn’t receive the kind of attention that these next two, Scott Foley (Scream 3) and Matthew Lillard (Scream), did, which is both exciting and confusing for fans. We’ll have to wait and see what comes of this.

Another Resident Evil reboot is heading our way, thanks to Barbarian director Zach Cregger, who's developing it.

Alien: Earth heads to Hulu this summer. The first teaser trailer has been released.

Scary Movie 6 has an official release date: June 12, 2026.

In 2026, The Lost Boys is getting the Broadway show treatment. There had better be a sax solo!

Parasite is heading to IMAX in February for a limited time.

Since it's Bee's birthday week, if you didn't catch the theme of this week's issue (because, obviously, Bee chose it!), they wanted this week's Recommended If You Like to be one of their favorites, Happy Death Day. Since Bee if celebrating all week, find them on social media and wish them a happy birthday, okay? Head over to Letterboxd to check out the list.

Whether it's a birthday party where everyone gets butchered, or a specific event occurs on the birthday (or anniversary) of a tragic accident, it's going to be bloody no matter what! Blow out those candles and watch a few (or all of) of these birthday horror films. Check out our list on Letterboxd.

There are two ways to watch Zombie Strain: High or Sober. I tried both, and the results were the same (not good). It tries to be scary and end on a high note (pun intended), while unsuccessfully picking pieces from other fantastic zombie horror films, but, to be honest, no drugs can save it. [Review by Brett]

I had a conversation recently with some friends on Bluesky about Cherry Falls. With the film (once again) not available anywhere online, I was unsurprised to learn so many people have not seen it yet. It's quite illusive. It streamed on Shudder for a brief time several years ago but has since disappeared. I suggest grabbing a Blu-ray on Amazon (and trust me, it's worth it). It's bizarre, sex-positve, bonkers, and one of the strangers post-Scream slashers ever. I can't recommend it enough. In a previous newsletter, I wrote extensively about the film - check it out here. [written by Bee]

No wonder Jack is stressed and depressed when we’ve got headlines like this referring to older millennials (those apparently born between 1980 and 1985) as “geriatric.” More than a decade ago, we inherited an economic recession from which most of us have never recovered, yet we’re still labeled lazy and entitled. Might as well dig our own graves while we’re at it! In Karl Holt’s Benny Loves You, Jack (Holt) is 35 and lives at home. A creative lead at Toy Box, a toy company eyeing the next big hot ticket item, he’s treading water, stagnant in almost every facet of his life. As he’s vying for that new shiny promotion for creative director, Jack is forced to confront his childhood and what it means to be an “adult” in an ever-changing, forever-broken ecosystem. [Read Bee's review]

Everything that’s living is dying. And yet death somehow remains a taboo discussion topic. “We’re all gonna die. I just think we should be able to talk about it,” Jane Adams says, pointblank. Her character, also named Jane, crashes the birthday party of her sister-in-law Susan (Katie Aselton), wearing her floral pajamas and waving a bloody, bandaged hand. She’s just been confronted with the inevitability of her own demise by close friend Amy (Kate Lyn Sheil), and she is so disheveled that her mind literally can’t focus on anything else. She Dies Tomorrow, written and directed by Amy Seimetz (Sun Don’t Shine), scrawls a poetic and brutal thesis on our collecting dying, evoking a similar emotional response as David Lowery’s A Ghost Story, but squares up harder-coated conversations on death, wasting one’s life, and infectious hysteria. [Read Bee's review]

Arriving in the hey-day of Halloween knock-offs, 1981's Bloody Birthday is not a great movie. It's one of those severely rough around the edges films, and it clearly copies Village of the Damned, but there's a charm to it that I can't ignore. It tells the tale about three kids all born during a solar eclipse who go on to become murderous, blood-thirsty heathens. It's got some tricks up its sleeve, that's for sure. [written by Bee]

Bee Delores founded B-Sides & Badlands in 2017. Initially a music blog, they expanded to cover all things horror in 2018 and has since reviewed everything from ultra-indie gems like Death Trip to such breakout hits as In a Violent Nature. Check out all the fresh and rotten reviews.

For a full list of upcoming films, please visit our Screaming Soon list on Letterboxd