Welcome to Critical Hit’s 31 days of horror! It’s the month of spookiness, of frights and jump scares and we’re ready to celebrate! Over the decades, pop culture has managed to create eerie atmospheres, scenes of terror that can’t be contained within a single genre and we’re looking back at the films and the movie maniac moments that had us squirming in our seats. Today, we’re having a look at one of Australia’s finest exports since memes about the correct size of knives, in The Babadook.

Disney has announced yet another big live-action adaptation, as the 2002 animated classic Lilo and Stitch is jumping from two dimensions and into three on the big screen.

Halloween month is kicking off with some scary new releases, from family-friendly horror (that works!), to an anthropomorphic train that will give you nightmares and the horrible mess that is Venom.

In the run-up to the release of Venom, director Ruben Fleischer’s Spider-Man-less live-action feature film adaptation of the Spider-Man comic book anti-hero, there was quite the brouhaha surrounding the news that the Lethal Protector’s first solo film would be a PG-13 affair. Turns out that crimson-free action – and there are a few laughable moments of that as decapitations apparently produce about the same quantity of blood as swatting a moth – is the least of Venom’s problems.

After months and months of nothing but rumours and conjecture, the floodgates of information have officially opened. Just yesterday we learned that Jon Favreau's hotly anticipated live-action Star Wars series was going to be a western flavoured adventure titled The Mandalorian. Today, we get out first look at the titular armour wearing space gunslinger as production officially gets underway on the series.

Following news of Netflix securing the rights to the world of Narnia, Amazon responds with news that they have secured the rights to adapt the popular Wheel of Time book series into a new TV series.

Here is the trailer to the film that has been declared as South Africa's best bet to secure a Best Foreign Language Film nomination at next year's Oscar ceremony.

Netflix have secured the massive rights to The Chronicles of Narnia books which will see the company make a host of new series and movies based on the vast world created by C.S. Lewis