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Wes Craven’s ‘My Soul To Take’ Gets Release Date
This is quite a week for Mr. Wes Craven! Not only has been officially attached to Scream IV for Dimension Films, but Rogue Pictures has finally slated his thriller My Soul to Take for release on October 29. In the film a notorious serial killer uses his dying breath to place a deadly curse on a small town. This is a horrible release date in my experience as it’ll be taking on both Saw VII 3D and Paranormal Activity 2 in both their second week of release. Horror overload? Yup. That means lower box office take and a bunch of morons once again dubbing horror as “dead”. This date will change, I’d bet on it.
“From writer/director Wes Craven comes a thriller that warns us evil is working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. And if you have any chance of beating it, you’ll have to fight for your life My Soul to Take (aka 25/8). In the sleepy town of Riverton, legend tells of a serial killer who swore he would return to murder the seven children born the night he died. Now, 16 years later, people are disappearing again. Has the psycopath been reincarnated as one of the seven, or did he survive the night he was left for dead?”
The buried origins of the cinema zombie will be explored in the upcoming documentary Black Zombie, and it’s set to arrive this Halloween season.
From writer and director Maya Annik Bedward, Black Zombie digs beneath the blood-soaked spectacle of modern horror to uncover the zombie’s buried and unsettling origins.
Black Zombie will open in select theaters across the country on September 11 courtesy of Kino Lorber.
The doc traces the origin and evolution of zombies from Haitian spiritual traditions to fixtures of Hollywood horror, examining the cinematic and historical context and reclaiming their deeper cultural significance as powerful symbols of survival and resistance.
In Black Zombie, “Director Maya Annik Bedward traces the evolution of the zombie from colonial Haiti to contemporary Hollywood, reconsidering iconic films like White Zombie, Night of the Living Dead, and The Serpent and the Rainbow alongside archival footage, vérité scenes, and interviews with cultural historians, artists, and genre legends including Yves-Grégory Francois, Mambo Labelle Déesse, Slash, Tom Savini, and Zandashé Brown. Part cultural reckoning, part horror remix, Black Zombie exposes how a figure born from enslavement, spiritual belief, and resistance was transformed into one of pop culture’s most profitable monsters.“
Executive producers for the documentary include music legend Slash.
Black Zombie made its world premiere earlier this year at the 2026 SXSW Film Festival and has continued to garner acclaim as it screens at notable film festivals around the world, including Hot Docs, Blackstar Film Festival, and next at the Fantasia Film Festival.
Stay tuned for more on this doc and our coverage out of Fantasia.