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‘Army of the Dead’ Cast Returning For the Animated Series

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4 years ago

July 29, 2022

Whether you liked Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead or not, it was still a wild ride. Thanks mostly to the cast and SFX, the Netflix movie was a success and spawned a prequel, an upcoming sequel, and the animated series, Lost Vegas.

If there aren’t any delays, the animated show will hit Netflix sometime this year. This is the second prequel set in Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead universe and will span six episodes. Snyder is busy with other projects at the moment so it’s being developed by Jay Olivia who has done a lot of animated stuff for television.

Snyder is still following the project and released a first image capture (see below) from his Twitch stream.

Just because Snyder isn’t attached doesn’t mean some of his original cast isn’t.

The actors below will be returning to their original roles, voicing their respective characters. Some of these actors have been very busy over the past year. So we have included a few of the other projects they are working on in case you’re interested. Some projects are in production. Some are “in the can” as they say, but all are working and that’s great news in this post-pandemic world.

Who is Returning for Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas

Dave Bautista (Scott Ward)

If there’s anyone on this list working harder than Bautista this year, let us know in the comments. This hulking celebrity is keeping it sci-fi in 2023 with Guardians of the Galaxy 3, Dune, but also dipping his toe into the horror genre for 2022.

Although his fate in Army of the Dead is sealed, we are curious to see his backstory.

**Dave Bautista (Scott Ward)** **Army of the Dead**

Coming Up for Bautista:

Army of the dead: Lost Vegas (2022)
Dune: Part 2 (2023)
Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 (2023)
Knock at the Cabin (2023)

Ella Purnell (Kate Ward)

Kate Ward wasn’t exactly a favorite among some fans of the series. They claim that through her actions, the heist in the film was ruined. Purnell even had to go online to defend her character almost making a string chart as to why it wasn’t her fault.

Even so, and since it’s a prequel, Kate is returning to the animated series and perhaps we will find out a little more backstory about Kate and Scott’s relationship.

**Ella Purnell (Kate Ward)** **Army of the Dead**

Coming Up for Purnell:

Fallout TV series
Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas (2022)

Omari Hardwick (Vanderohe)

Vanderohe gives us the “twist” at the end of the first film and Snyder will probably use that as a jumping-off point in the proper sequel. Hopefully, the animated series will delve into some of his past. Like how he decided to major in philosophy in college and what went down with Scott Ward during the Las Vengeance operation; a rescue collective that helped zombie apocalypse survivors. Or what it was like working in a convalescent home after Las Vengeance disbanded.

Coming up for Hardwick:

Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas (2022)
The Mother (2022)
The Mothership (2022)

Ana de la Requera (Maria Cruz)

Speaking of Los Vengeance, Ana as Maria was one of its founding members. Before that, she was a successful Vegas businesswoman with her own repair shop. Once Vegas was completely quarantined and walled up, Ana moved to Southern California. She was then approached to do the Vegas heist.

Maybe Lost Vegas will go into her time in Victorville and the secret behind the key she wears around her neck.

Coming up for Ana de la Requera:

Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas (2022)
Lupe (2023)
Leopard Skin (TV series)

Tig Notaro (Marianne Peters)

Perhaps one of the biggest surprise casting decisions of Army of the Dead was the last-minute digital casting of Tig Notaro as Marianne Peters. Not to say that it wasn’t warranted, but Tig is usually more of a comedy brand. She is still funny in Army of the Dead but has a badass edge that we haven’t really seen before.

Peters’ participation in Las Vengence earned her a spot in the Vegas heist where her piloting skills came into use. Also a Victorville transplant, Marianne and Ana probably have some stories to tell.

**Tig Notaro (Marianne Peters)** ***Army of the Dead***

Coming up for Tig:

Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas (2022)

Get to know the Army of the Dead Cast as a Primer

That’s all we really know about who is returning for the animated series. As a prequel, we are excited to see some of the origin stories about the main characters. It might behoove you, dear readers, to revisit both Army of the Dead and Army of Thieves ahead of Lost Vegas. They are available on Netflix.

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Shudder’s May Is the Best Month They’ve Had in a While.

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8 hours ago

April 27, 2026

Luna Gray

Shudder dropped their May 2026 programming slate and it is heavier than most months. The lead is The Terror: Devil in Silver, the long-awaited third installment of AMC’s horror anthology, premiering May 7 with new episodes weekly through June 11. Next up, Tales from the Crypt, all seven seasons, begins streaming May 1 after years off the market. Four new exclusive films fill out the rest of the month.

The Terror: Devil in Silver

The first two seasons of The Terror stand as some of the best horror television of the past decade. Season one sent the crew of HMS Terror on a doomed Arctic voyage in 1845. Season two, Infamy, placed its story inside a Japanese American internment camp during World War II. Neither shared a cast nor a plot with the other. Both were exceptional. Season three takes Victor LaValle’s novel and builds it into a six-episode limited series. Dan Stevens plays Pepper, a working-class moving man who lands in a psychiatric hospital through bad luck and a worse temper. What he finds inside is not treatment.

Karyn Kusama, who directed the Yellowjackets pilot and earned an Emmy nomination for it, directs the opening two episodes and serves as co-executive producer. LaValle and Chris Cantwell co-wrote the scripts. Ridley Scott executive produces. The ensemble behind Stevens includes Judith Light, CCH Pounder, Aasif Mandvi, Stephen Root, and Marin Ireland. This is the kind of combination that earns attention before a single frame has aired.

New episodes premiere weekly after May 7.

Tales from the Crypt

Tales from the Crypt ran on HBO from 1989 to 1996. Seven seasons. Ninety-three episodes. Each one a self-contained story hosted by the Crypt Keeper, a wisecracking animated corpse voiced by John Kassir, who closes every episode with a pun only he finds funny.

The show pulled from EC Comics and assembled talent at a level that looks almost unreasonable in retrospect: Brad Pitt, Demi Moore, Christopher Reeve, Catherine O’Hara, and Steve Buscemi in front of the camera. Robert Zemeckis, Tobe Hooper, and William Friedkin behind it. Tom Hanks, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Michael J. Fox also directed episodes.

The series has been effectively unavailable to stream for years, tied up in rights complications. It is now on Shudder. Season one drops May 1. Subsequent seasons premiere weekly on Fridays, with the final season 7 arriving June 12. Watch parties run every Friday at 9pm ET. There is no good reason to wait on this one.

The Exclusives

Whistle arrives May 8 and is the exclusive to prioritize. Directed by Corin Hardy, who made The Nun, and starring Dafne Keen, Sophie Nélisse, Percy Hynes White, and Nick Frost, it follows high school students who find an ancient Aztec Death Whistle and discover that blowing it summons their future deaths to hunt them down. Totally normal thing to happen.

Heresy lands May 1 and is worth knowing about before it arrives. Director Didier Konings is making his feature debut after years as a concept artist on Stranger Things, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

Smothered arrives May 29 as a Shudder Original. It is Indonesian, and it is produced by Joko Anwar, the director behind Satan’s Slaves and Impetigore. That name means something to anyone who has been paying attention to international horror over the past decade. The film follows a micro-painting artist who loses part of his memory in an accident and returns home to find a woman claiming to be his mother.

This Is Not a Test streams May 22. Directed by Adam MacDonald and adapted from Courtney Summers’ 2012 novel, it stars Olivia Holt as a student sheltering in a high school during a zombie outbreak.

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[Exclusive Clip] ‘From the Beyond: High Strangeness in the Bennington Triangle’

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2 days ago

April 26, 2026

Ryan T. Cusick

Audiences are invited to explore one of Vermont’s most mysterious regions in From the Beyond: High Strangeness in the Bennington Triangle, arriving later this month on streaming platforms and DVD.

The documentary will debut on April 28, 2026, on platforms including Apple TV, Prime Video, and Google Play. DVD editions will be available exclusively through the Small Town Monsters online shop.

Directed by Seth Breedlove, the film continues the company’s exploration of folklore, cryptids, and unexplained phenomena. Breedlove’s previous work includes The Mothman of Point Pleasant, On the Trail of Bigfoot, American Werewolves, and more than two dozen feature-length productions. In total, Small Town Monsters has released more than thirty films, along with investigative programs, web series, books, podcasts, and exclusive membership content.

From the Beyond: High Strangeness in the Bennington Triangle was made possible through the support of backers from the company’s 2025 Kickstarter campaign.

Set in rural Vermont, the documentary examines the legend of the Bennington Triangle, an area associated with reports of UFOs, ghosts, phantom lights, mysterious creatures, and a series of unexplained disappearances. At the center of the mystery is Glastenbury Mountain, where decades of unanswered questions continue to inspire speculation.

Going beyond folklore and campfire tales, the film asks a chilling question: Why is Glastenbury Mountain so inexplicable, and what happened to those who went missing?

Check out our exclusive clip below.

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This Week in Horror: DC Goes Full Body Horror, A24 Has Its Chainsaw Man, and The Bone Temple Is Finally Yours

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3 days ago

April 24, 2026

Luna Gray

Good week. The Clayface trailer dropped and made DC relevant to this website for the first time in a while, A24 put a director on the Texas Chainsaw Massacre reimagining, and we got some interviews worth reading. Here is all of it.

Clayface Has a Trailer, and It Is Exactly What You Want

The Clayface trailer landed Wednesday, and it is DC’s first real horror film. Not horror adjacent. Not dark. Horror. Tom Rhys Harries plays Matt Hagen, an actor whose face gets disfigured by a gangster. He turns to a scientist, played by Naomi Ackie, who transforms his body into clay. Then the body horror starts.

James Watkins directed, which is the right choice. He made Speak No Evil and before that The Woman in Black, and he understands how to make dread feel physical. The screenplay is by Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini. That combination should tell you everything about the tone they are going for.

A24 Has a Director for Texas Chainsaw Massacre and His Last Film Cost Under a Million Dollars

Deadline confirmed that Curry Barker is writing and directing A24’s reimagining of the 1974 original. Barker made Obsession for under a million dollars. Focus Features paid north of fifteen million to distribute it. It sits at 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. A24 hired him before it even opens, which opens May 15.

Kim Henkel, who co-created the original with Tobe Hooper, is executive producing his own creation’s reimagining. That is either a blessing or a haunting. Probably both.

Astrolatry Is Going to Cannes and We Talked to the Actor Who Faced the Creature

Astrolatry is heading to the Frontières Buyers Showcase on May 16-17. The film has a sentient severed penis that grows into a ten-foot practical creature with spiky teeth. We interviewed star Ethan Daniel Corbett about what it was actually like to act against it. Short answer: genuinely terrifying. Long answer is on the site.

The Bone Temple Is Home

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple hit 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD on Tuesday. If you held out from the digital release in February, now is the time. The 4K presentation is supposed to be great. Extras include audio commentary and a deleted scene. If your gonna watch The Bone Temple, why not watch it where the snacks are better.