“How it was initially staged was the guy says, ‘Who are you?’ And Batman says, ‘I’m vengeance,’ and then beats everybody up,” reveals a much friendlier Pattinson, who cracks up while explaining how he helped tweak the scene to make it even more horrifying. “I said to Rob [Alonzo, second unit director and supervising stunt coordinator], ‘I really want to say it into the guy’s face when he’s basically dead....

Best Horror Books of 2020 Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic was the buzziest release of the summer – and with good reason. Her lush prose, descriptive settings and disturbing plot combine for one of the most compelling – and likely uncomfortable – reads you’ll experience this year. (If you love mushrooms, I’m really sorry in advance.) Set in 1950s Mexico, the novel follows the story of the vibrant debutante Noemi, who must journey to a remote mountain village to check up on an ailing cousin, whose mysterious husband keeps insisting she’s mad....

Spooky season has to start somewhere, and just like Christmas, it often kicks off with a movie. If you’re looking for suggestions of how to ease into Halloween month, here are the movies Den of Geek writers are drawn to as the nights get shorter and the blankets get snugglier. Let us know in the comments what your Halloween must-watch is… It’s not Halloween until I watch… The Shining There aren’t many of the usual Halloween trappings in The Shining....

In this holy — and many times unholy — time period known as the 21st century, we homo-sapiens tend to use our phones quite a bit. You probably can’t help but use it now as you’re reading this, which is okay! Have fun! But as a result, it’s important to make sure you take advantage of your phone in every possible way. One of those ways, glad you asked, is through this phone holder from Primens....

“We genuinely don’t have conversations about trying to top ourselves,” Kripke tells Den of Geek during the show’s appearance at SXSW 2022. “I think it’s dangerous because if you’re working to go bigger and bigger it’s an unsustainable pattern. Eighty percent of the conversation in the room is ‘how do we go deeper with the characters and how do we put them through existential crises?.’” There’s no reason to doubt Kripke and the writers’ room sincerity....

The Aug. 1, 1971 show, and subsequent record and film, set the standard for musical contributions to charity. Mistakes were made, and Harrison himself paid out to fix them, teaching a valuable lesson for rock benefits to follow. But it all began very personally. “My friend came to me, sadness in his eyes, and told me that he wanted help before his country dies,” Harrison sings on the song “Bangladesh....

The Essex Serpent is the latest in a line of quality Apple TV+ shows (Foundation, Severance, Pachinko) unlikely to get the audience they deserve because they weren’t made for a mainstream broadcaster or streaming service with higher subscriber base. This one has stars, beauty, brains, a transportive atmosphere and a quasi-hypnotic pull, and yet will likely slip quietly under the waterline while lesser shows make a bigger splash. It’s an injustice, but one that does no harm to Apple TV’s developing reputation as the connoisseur’s choice for weird, slow-burn drama....

Based on his 1983 novel Legion, writer-director William Peter Blatty’s Exorcist III arrived 17 years after William Friedkin’s The Exorcist, which itself was based on Blatty’s monstrous 1971 bestseller. (Blatty also won an Oscar for the 1973 movie’s screenplay.) There were a million reasons and one why the threequel should have been a complete train wreck. In the end the theatrical version was only one-third a train wreck, but that wasn’t Blatty’s fault....

The Flash Season 4 Episode 7 You know how for most of the first batch of episodes this season I was asking for a little balance? “Therefore I Am” is what I meant. Now, with the complete understanding that this is, perhaps, an overcorrection from the overcorrection in terms of the sheer lack of humor in this episode, I still feel like “Therefore I Am” was more like what I’ve come to expect from this show in general, and in its better moments, like this show at its best....

At the end of the second episode of the new Marvel streaming series Hawkeye, Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) and Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld) are captured by the Tracksuit Mafia. Clint willingly lets himself be caught and is brought to what looks like some kind of abandoned shopping center, while Kate crashes the party — literally, through a skylight — as the Mafia is trying to interrogate Hawkeye to no avail about the whereabouts of, you guessed it, Kate....

In 1979, the Canadian Television Network revived 1960s series The Littlest Hobo, a half-hour family show about a German Shepherd dog who drifts around rural Canada helping folk in need. Don’t worry about why the dog does it. We don’t need to know. The desire to have a psychological origin story for every paper boy or nail technician ever to appear on screen is a 21st century weakness. In the 1970s and 80s, TV audiences enjoyed Zen acceptance of outrageous premises from Manimal to Help!...

The Magicians Season 3 Episode 7 While it’s not always possible to interweave the stories together in The Magicians, it’s magnificent when the characters and their conflicts relate with one another as they did in “Poached Eggs.” Allowing several characters to reflect on the journey so far in heartfelt conversations was a great writing decision especially here at the halfway point of the season. If the fairy takeover, which has recently been the weakest storyline, is truly at a turning point, we could potentially be reaching a pinnacle of greatness for many of the beleaguered magicians and the series as a whole....

Are you still crying? I’m still crying. The Magicians Season 4 made a series-changing move in its season finale. In the episode’s final act, Quentin died sending the second Monster into The Seam and keeping Everett from becoming a god. Let’s break down the ending of The Magicians Season 4… If you can stand to relive this misery. Quentin’s death Quentin’s death happens so fast, as Quentin notes after the fact....

When it comes to immersive, realistic graphics in PC gaming, ray-tracing is the new frontier, and no other tech company is leading that charge like NVIDIA. With its new line of GeForce RTX GPUs, powered by Turing GPU architecture, NVIDIA is bringing players the most advanced, high-end graphics currently on the market. What is ray-tracing and why does it matter? Simply put, graphics cards with ray-tracing capabilities can render life-like lighting, reflections, and shadows like never before....

You think you know Black Adam? The brand new Black Adam series from DC might have something to say about that. Black Adam #1 by Christopher Priest and Rafa Sandoval might very well be the best single issue of superhero comics released so far this year. Focusing less on Black Adam as a cosmic antihero and more on Theo Adam as the head of state of DC’s fictional nation of Khandaq, it’s a moody look at one of the most fascinating characters in the DCU....

This is a long-winded way of saying, no, I didn’t include “Amok Time” or “The Menagerie” on this list because, as great as they are, I don’t think they really represent the greatest hits of the series. Also, if you’ve never watched TOS, I think those two episodes will throw you off cause you’ll assume Spock is always losing his mind or trying to steal the ship. If you’ve never watched TOS, or you feel like rewatching it with fresh eyes, I feel pretty strong that these 10 episodes are not only wonderful, but that they best represent what the entire series is really about....

The Youth International Party, or Yippies, was non-violent, even if one of the co-founders, Abbie Hoffman (played by Sacha Baron Cohen in the movie), wrote his first radical tract, Fuck the System, under the pseudonym George Metesky, a mad bomber from the 1940s. The other, Jerry Rubin (Jeremy Strong on screen), blew bubbles while dressed as George Washington at his HUAC hearing. Rubin would go on to beat bongos as part of John Lennon’s morphing street musician crusaders, playing live at political demonstrations across America, while Hoffman was knocked upside the head with the guitar of The Who’s Pete Townshend when he interrupted the band at Woodstock....

In the greatest jukebox musical ever made, the band has to retrieve an errant band member in time to make a show, and when they make that show, it’s a success. The crowds go wild. Beatlemania is encapsulated for all time. They play all their songs during the long and winding road to the TV station, and during rehearsals. They actually have to escape from prying eyes during rehearsals. We get snippets of old songs, and a full performance of excerpted musical numbers....

What will the extra episodes be about? As we’ve written in our own spoiler-free review of “A Certain Doom,” the finale feels like a true ending to the creepy Whisperer story the show has been telling for the last two years. So where can season 10 go from here? We’ve made our own educated guesses as to what might be in store for The Walking Dead in 2021, but now we’ve had a chance to ask the source....

The White Lotus Season 2 Episode 6 When you have a show with a large ensemble cast like The White Lotus, it can become quite the trial for the writers’ room to decide which characters get what amount of screen time, especially when a season is about to come to a close. It’s a delicate balance to weigh storylines from the beginning of the season with ones that have only just started to really lather up in the waning moments of the year....