John Squires 🎃

If you're looking for new horror movies to watch, follow @HorrorCalendar and click that "turn on notifications" bell. Every single week I tweet out each day's new horror releases, with trailers and how/where to watch. New ORIGINAL HORROR every week. Spread the word!

READY OR NOT 2: HERE I COME starring Samara Weaving & Kathryn Newton is now playing in theaters. Moments after the attack from the Le Domas family, Grace discovers she’s reached the next level of the nightmarish game — and this time with her estranged sister Faith at her side.

@PNemiroff Incredible words from Jamie Lee Curtis. And she's right. At a time when journalists are being replaced by influencers and the field is giving itself a pretty poor reputation, your work has really been standing out. And I see people enjoying it all the time. So bravo for that.

Had to give this its own post. Excuse me while I ramble … Been thinking a lot about what Jamie Lee Curtis asked - what does it mean to me to be respected in my line of work? Honestly? I’m shocked I was able to keep it together on the spot to give a coherent response that I actually feel pretty good about but now that I’ve had more time to sit with it - being respected means everything because I know the work I’m putting out is truly me. It took me time to find my voice in this space and to pinpoint what I wanted to bring to it. When I found it, I didn’t let it go. There’s endless pressure nudging journalists in one direction or another, and yes, we all have to evolve and adapt a bit, but when I figured out the key values that were guiding my compass most, those became a non-negotiable guiding light. So the idea of being respected really does mean the world because I’m just being myself, doing work I genuinely love and take great pride in.

@AndrewGrevas Have to agree with that.

Nobody comes close to Laurie Strode & her impact on the genre. Nobody.

@JeffWhitmire1 These things must happen for a reason!!

@FreddyInSpace Okay....how weird is it that I was JUST listening to "Two Steps Behind" by Def Leppard when I saw this tweet and that song is on the soundtrack. 🤣🤣

Related Fun Fact: LAST ACTION HERO was the first movie to be advertised on a rocket shot into space. The rocket was allegedly going to orbit the earth for two years, "conducting microgravity experiments." The movie flopped. The rocket ended up launching after it came out.

Yes I’m sure Val Kilmer would be so honored to be the forebearer of destruction of his art form. This is gross and everyone knows it.

@Spongey445 RIGHT?!

@FreddyInSpace 2019 was clearly just 3 years ago you can't cool me

I had the thought that it's cool we're getting a sequel to Ready or Not so soon after the first one but then I looked it up and realized Ready or Not came out SEVEN YEARS AGO. Pre-pandemic! The temporal disintegration is real.

@CapitalF I think usually in most cases 10 things are true at once but social media only allows for one thing to be true at once and that's why we're always fighting all the time.

@FreddyInSpace I think a lot of posters take a side when both sides can be right. The execs can be idiots but the pilot may not have been that good and didn’t test well to the point where it’d cost too much money to keep working it. Better to shelve it than put out a bad reboot

We'll clearly be conspiracy theorizing about the failure of Buffy reboot for many years but the very likely reality is they made a not-great pilot (happens all the time) and it wasn't worth spending & taking forever to try to salvage it. Not uncommon. Rarely this high profile.

@BlackMajikMan90 Why is it sad that one of the biggest properties on the planet is breaking trailer viewership records, lol. Of course it is!

@FreddyInSpace One more random stat: only three of those are *actually* horror films.

Random stats on the only 8 horror performances to win Oscars: - 5 women, 3 men - 5 villain performances, 3 hero - 5 of 8 winners were previous Oscar nominees - Silence of Lambs = only horror film to win 2 acting Oscars - 2026 = 1st year 2 different horror films got acting wins

"It's the wrong business if you don't like taking risk." I think once Hollywood moves beyond this current stage, we'll see a new boom for smaller, original movies & attendance will skyrocket. "I'd love to see people under 30 get to have a camera in their hand & be left alone."

Reading Ashley Cullins' book Your Favorite Scary Movie and everyone that shares memories of working with Wes Craven imparts some version of "he was the most kind, thoughtful, wonderful person." It's all I've ever heard about Craven. Hard to believe he's been gone 11 years now.

@halloween I have to imagine they will eventually try again. Seems like a no brainer to bring back Buffy in some capacity.

@FreddyInSpace And, if we've learned anything, we also know it doesn't necessarily mean it's the end of the line. Might come back with a different showrunner and funding at some point.

@BronxLaugher An actual horror movie has never been made, I'm told.

@FreddyInSpace Why is "Black Swan" considered a horror movie? Even "Misery" being called horror is a bit of a stretch. Those are more "psychological thrillers."

@richardmorpeth @BDisgusting Right. Definitely not.

@FreddyInSpace @BDisgusting "Silence of the Lambs" is NOT a horror film.

@EuphemiaBruce yawn, not doing that again

@FreddyInSpace Note: Silence of the Lambs is not a horror movie