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The Anne Rice Immortal Universe Returns to SDCC 2025 — Here’s What to Expect

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For the fourth year in a row, AMC’s Anne Rice Immortal Universe will be returning to San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC). 

Building wraps for Interview with the Vampire’s third season (2026) and Talamasca: The Secret Order’s premiere season (October 2025) are currently being installed in the Hilton Gaslamp in San Diego, and on Saturday, July 26th, a panel will be held in Ballroom 20 featuring both shows. 

Work-in-progress building wrap for Interview with the Vampire Season 3 at Hilton Gaslamp, via OutsideComicCon

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Interview with the Vampire stars Bailey Bass, Sam Reid, and Jacob Anderson at SDCC 2022

The Anne Rice Immortal Universe made its SDCC debut back in 2022 with Interview with the Vampire showing up ahead of its October 2022 premiere season. Season 1 stars Jacob Anderson (Louis), Sam Reid (Lestat), Bailey Bass (Claudia), and Eric Bogosian (Daniel) were all in appearance alongside showrunner Rolin Jones, executive producer Mark Johnson, and production designer Mara LePere-Schloop.  

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The Streets of Immortality off-site event for SDCC 2023

2023 proved to be different than intended when the SAG strike prevented actors and creatives from attending, but the Universe’s presence wasn’t nonexistent. Teaming up with Campfire and 3CS, AMC put on an immersive experience at the Hilton Gaslamp called “The Streets of Immortality” that transformed San Diego into New Orleans full of decor, musicians, dancers, and everything to bring its vampires and witches from Interview with the Vampire and Mayfair Witches to the people of comic-con.  

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Mayfair Witches stars Tongayi Chirisa, Ben Feldman, Alyssa Jirrels, Alexandra Daddario, and Harry Hamlin at SDCC 2024

Then, last year, both Interview with the Vampire and Mayfair Witches had a panel in Ballroom 20. Interview with the Vampire had stars Sam Reid (Lestat), Delainey Hayles (Claudia), and Assad Zaman (Armand) in attendance alongside showrunner Rolin Jones, executive producer Mark Johnson, and production designer Mara Le-Pere-Schloop as they showed the first The Vampire Lestat teaser leading into Season 3 production. Meanwhile Mayfair Witches saw stars Alexandra Daddario (Rowan), Harry Hamlin (Cortland), Tongayi Chirisa (Ciprien), Ben Feldman (Sam), Jack Huston (Lasher), and Alyssa Jirrels (Moira) alongside showrunner Esta Spalding for a panel to excite fans for its then-upcoming Season 2.

This Year, SDCC 2025:

This year, Mayfair Witches will be absent from AMC’s Anne Rice Immortal Universe panel, but Interview with the Vampire returns and the newest show to join the expanding universe, Talamasca: The Secret Order, will also be in attendance.

Here is the description of the shared panel from the official San Diego Comic-Con 2025 schedule:

Anne Rice Immortal Universe: Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire and Anne Rice’s Talamasca (AMC/AMC+), Saturday July 26, 2025 4:30pm – 6:00pm PDT, Ballroom 20

The cast and executive producers of the Anne Rice Immortal Universe discuss the upcoming third season of Interview with the Vampire, featuring vampire Lestat’s long-awaited rock-and-roll tour, and the highly anticipated new series Anne Rice’s Talamasca, focused on the secretive society responsible for tracking and containing the witches, vampires, and other creatures scattered around the globe, ahead of its October premiere on AMC and AMC+, alongside the debut of new teases from both series.

Per the Anne Rice Immortal Universe official social media accounts, fans can look forward to seeing stars Jacob Anderson (Louis), Sam Reid (Lestat), and Eric Bogosian (Daniel) with showrunner Rolin Jones, executive producer Mark Johnson, and composer Daniel Hart for the Interview with the Vampire portion of the panel. Stars Nicholas Denton (Guy), William Fichtner (Jasper), Maisie Richardson-Sellers (Olive), and Celine Buckens (Doris) will be present with executive producer Mark Johnson and co-showrunners Mark Lafferty and John Lee Hancock for the Talamasca portion. 

Official announcement image posted on AMC’s social media accounts.
Official announcement image posted on AMC’s social media accounts.

So whether you’re a die-hard Louis and Lestat devotee or intrigued by the shadowy mysteries of the Talamasca, AMC’s presence at SDCC 2025 promises plenty of excitement. With new footage, cast appearances, and a deeper glimpse into what’s next for the Immortal Universe, fans won’t want to miss this. Be sure to mark your calendars for Saturday, July 26th — Ballroom 20 is calling.

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

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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.

‘From the Beyond: High Strangeness in the Bennington Triangle’

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.

‘From the Beyond: High Strangeness in the Bennington Triangle’

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’

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.

‘From the Beyond: High Strangeness in the Bennington Triangle’

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?

‘From the Beyond: High Strangeness in the Bennington Triangle’

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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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

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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: Bone temple

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.

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Astrolatry Built a Ten-Foot Practical Penis Scorpion

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A sentient severed penis grows into a ten-foot creature with spiky teeth. Genre cinema is doing fine.

Astrolatry follows Elliot, played by Ethan Daniel Corbett, who is every ingredient for quiet catastrophe assembled in one man. Socially isolated. Physically isolated. Craving dopamine and finding it in the wrong places. The romance guru pipeline, followed to its logical conclusion. Elliot does not just spiral. He loses a piece of himself, literally, and that piece does not cooperate.

Corbett described it as “a horror satire, a trippy mind-fuck roller coaster” and “a modern retelling of Maniac,” both of which are accurate and neither of which adequately prepares you. Director David Gordon is making his feature debut after shooting 14 films as a cinematographer and he is swinging for the fences.

The Creature

The effects company behind the creature has festival circuit work Corbett had already seen before signing on. He knew what they could do but he was not ready. “When I saw it in person it was kind of mind-blowing,” he said. “Everything that you see in this movie is practical. Very, very little else. It was genuinely terrifying to have a ten-foot creature coming at you with a big mouth and spiky teeth.”

A CG creature asks an actor to imagine something. A ten-foot physical creature on a set asks nothing. It just arrives. The fear on Corbett’s face in those scenes is not a performance. It is the normal reaction to a scorpion dick with sharp teeth.

Elliot

Corbett went into the character through the body. “I mainly focus on the physicality of it. Who this character is and who he is wholly. I strive in those kinds of moments as an actor.”

Gordon was explicit about the concept, the “nice guy” archetype and the overtly toxic one are the same problem, both aimed at the same object. That reading lands because Corbett does not play it as a reading. Elliot is not a symbol. He is a person.

Where It Is Going

Astrolatry is heading to the Frontières Buyers Showcase at Cannes on May 16-17. “To be able to get into that kind of room on David’s first feature is incredible,” Corbett said. “To be in front of buyers and to showcase the film and potentially get distribution through that.” Frontières is the correct room. It is full of people who understand that the most extreme premise, executed with precision, is not a punchline. It is an argument.

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