The Friday the 13th series has also had a good relationship with heavy metal and hard rock, with musicians like Alice Cooper and Lion providing songs to entries in the franchise.  For Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Takes Manhattan, the hard rock duo Metropolis provided “The Darkest Side of Night” as the theme song for the movie.

A new Silent Hill movie is in development along with a sequel to Twister, the fourth entry in The Conjuring series is on the way, Chad Stahelski is directing Netflix’s Black Samurai movie and more in this week’s News Shotgun.

This week on the 600th episode of the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris talk about the baffling insanity of Halloween Ends, the first trailer for Creed III, a new Silent Hill movie, a sequel to Twister, For a Few Dollars More, and more.

Huge blockbusters finally return to theaters with the release of Black Adam along with the reuniting of George Clooney and Julia Roberts for Ticket to Paradise, VHS99 on Shudder, Matriarch on Hulu, The Stranger on Netflix, and more in theaters and on streaming.

Originally released as a mini toy line in 1990 by Matchbox, Monster in My Pocket spread out to other media like a cult classic NES game, comic books, and in 1992, an animated special for Halloween called “The Big Scream”.

Born with supernatural powers that can cause animals and people around her to go insane and kill themselves, Samara Morgan was eventually murdered by her adopted parents but came back as a vengeful ghost that unleashed a cursed video on the world that allows her to kill anyone who sees it after 7 days.

After putting their 4v1 spin on franchises like Friday the 13th and Predator, Illfonic brings the next level of ghost combat in Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed. This new asymmetric multiplayer game lets you either bust ghosts as a fresh-faced ghostbuster or be the ghost that terrorizes the night.  Zach and Chris both got to check out the title and share their thoughts below.

After taking on a ghost of Rocky’s past in the form of Ivan Drago’s son Viktor in Creed II, Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) faces his own past when his former friend Damian Anderson (Jonathan Majors) is released from prison and wants to take back what he believes should have been his life in next year’s Creed III.

Bullet Train is out this week on DVD and Blu-ray/4K along with Paws of Fury, Orphan: First Kill, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Season 8 of The Flash, the latest DC animated movie Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons, 4Ks of Tropic Thunder, ET and Return of the Living Dead and more.

The “final” chapter of the new Halloween rebootquel trilogy that began in 2018, Halloween Ends is a bizarre and terrible way to cap off this new series and potentially the eternal battle between Laurie Strode and Michael Myers.