Aug 26, 2026 · 44 min · 12 segments
Ministry of Horror is back! This week I’m catching up on life, diving into the latest news from the world of horror, and reviewing **Passenger (2026)**. Is Passenger one you need to add to your…
But let's start off the horror news with some video game news, why don't we, huh? Why don't we give this a go, yeah? So first up, horror news all comes from bloodydisgusting.com.
Check them out, yada, yada, yada.
You know the drill at this stage.
Mike Wilson writes, "Load up your smart gun as Cold Iron Studios' Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 is out today on PS5, Xbox Series." Now, that's interesting, 'cause I have got, like, 13 pounds or so of credit on Xbox.
I keep meaning to use but there's not been any games where I've thought that's either too too cheap of a game that I'm going to waste my credits because it's going to be rubbish um or too expensive of a game that I'm going to think well I'm getting a discount but I'm still having to spend out the arse on it but the Aliens Fireteam Elite previous game was not a full price game which is great and it was good fun I wasn't very good at it but it's good fun and we love the Aliens universe so anyway it's out today on PS5 Xbox Series and PC via Steam and the Epic Game Store as mentioned previously the game will also be available coming to Switch 2 later this fall once again up to four players in Aliens Fireteam Elite 2 can suit up as members of the Colonial Marines this is not a rescue mission it's a fight for survival Xenomorphs stalk the corridors ambush from the shadows and swarm in overwhelming numbers you must coordinate with your fireteam utilizing each class's unique abilities and adapt on the fly as encounters escalate from tense standoffs to all-out war Fireteam Elite 2 features deeper squad mechanics smarter enemies and a fully customizable specialist class that lets players mix and match major and minor abilities from every available class into one marine build a loadout tailored to your exact play style and fill whatever role your squad needs the game also launches with multiple detected horde maps that will push squads to their limits teams will battle through escalating waves of Xenomorphs and other deadly enemies earning increasingly valuable rewards as they survive deeper into the onslaught now from some of the images I've seen it does look like the Alien Queen features a bit more in this game now I have got Fireteam Elite on Play Station I want to say and it is good but I'm not very good I haven't got past like the first couple of levels the the end of the first the the end section the first major level I think um just kept getting swarmed and murdered it's tough it's tough or I find it tough because I'm not very good um I'm sure there's plenty of people that's just like what it's not that hard but um it's a decent it's decent third person action shooter game I don't really play online very often um I've got a mate who plays uh Alien Fireteam Elite so we've played on that a couple of times but outside of that we haven't you know haven't got like a squad for the the three-man squad but you do play it as well with uh CPU so you don't just have to play it online with complete randoms you can just decide to play it with uh the computer controlling the other two members of your squad it's decent I'm going to keep an eye out for this one because the trailers do look fun I mean graphically it does look more of the same it doesn't look it's sort of you know a bigger budget advancing further but uh you know if it's got new maps if it's got awesome encounters if you got the queen featuring a bit more in this because I know that the queen was more of a quick time event at the end of uh the first game we're always about that we're always about the alien queen featuring gotta give the queen some love Next up, Blumhouse Atomic Monster horror movies have passed $1 billion at the box office this year, John Squires writes.
It was back in the early days of 2024 that a massive horror merger was inked with Jason Blum's Blumhouse and James Wan's Atomic Monster forming a horror superpower.
The joint company Blumhouse Atomic Monster has been dominating the horror space ever since.
Described as a mega house of chills and thrills, Blumhouse and Atomic Monster are now under one roof, with the two brands together able to do more than they could do individually.
And the partnership is proving to be a massive success, with Deadline reporting this week that Blumhouse Atomic Monster releases have passed $1 billion at the box office this year alone.
Deadline additionally notes it's the second time that the combined labels have yielded $1 billion since their 2024 merger after last year.
However, if you were to count the labels grossest combined prior to the merger, this would be the third time in four years that Blumhouse and Atomic Monster titles have grossed over $1 billion in a given year.
And then it kind of breaks down a couple of the other big hits, speaking predominantly of which of Curry Bark's Obsession, which, you know, huge fan of.
It's a great film.
I mean, that is awesome news.
I think with Blumhouse, they have more hits than misses in terms of their releases than all.
Of course, they're not all great.
You know, you get ones that are very much cookie cutter and horror by numbers.
But they do have their fingers in many pies when it comes to a lot of the huge releases.
And, you know, whether that's because then they put the money into the marketing, which then helps spread it.
I mean, Curry Barker, prior to Obsession's release, he was known to an extent in the horror world, probably a little bit more known in like the Instagram comedy world or TikTok comedy world, you know, the social media comedy world, but not like on a name brand basis, right? He wasn't a name.
Some horror short fans would have known of, you know, The Chair, Milk and Cereal and a couple of others.
But he wasn't, you know, he wasn't as big out there.
But let's start off the horror news with some video game news, why don't we, huh? Why don't we give this a go, yeah? So first up, horror news all comes from bloodydisgusting.com.
Check them out, yada, yada, yada.
You know the drill at this stage.
Mike Wilson writes, "Load up your smart gun as Cold Iron Studios' Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 is out today on PS5, Xbox Series." Now, that's interesting, 'cause I have got, like, 13 pounds or so of credit on Xbox.
I keep meaning to use but there's not been any games where I've thought that's either too too cheap of a game that I'm going to waste my credits because it's going to be rubbish um or too expensive of a game that I'm going to think well I'm getting a discount but I'm still having to spend out the arse on it but the Aliens Fireteam Elite previous game was not a full price game which is great and it was good fun I wasn't very good at it but it's good fun and we love the Aliens universe so anyway it's out today on PS5 Xbox Series and PC via Steam and the Epic Game Store as mentioned previously the game will also be available coming to Switch 2 later this fall once again up to four players in Aliens Fireteam Elite 2 can suit up as members of the Colonial Marines this is not a rescue mission it's a fight for survival Xenomorphs stalk the corridors ambush from the shadows and swarm in overwhelming numbers you must coordinate with your fireteam utilizing each class's unique abilities and adapt on the fly as encounters escalate from tense standoffs to all-out war Fireteam Elite 2 features deeper squad mechanics smarter enemies and a fully customizable specialist class that lets players mix and match major and minor abilities from every available class into one marine build a loadout tailored to your exact play style and fill whatever role your squad needs the game also launches with multiple detected horde maps that will push squads to their limits teams will battle through escalating waves of Xenomorphs and other deadly enemies earning increasingly valuable rewards as they survive deeper into the onslaught now from some of the images I've seen it does look like the Alien Queen features a bit more in this game now I have got Fireteam Elite on Play Station I want to say and it is good but I'm not very good I haven't got past like the first couple of levels the the end of the first the the end section the first major level I think um just kept getting swarmed and murdered it's tough it's tough or I find it tough because I'm not very good um I'm sure there's plenty of people that's just like what it's not that hard but um it's a decent it's decent third person action shooter game I don't really play online very often um I've got a mate who plays uh Alien Fireteam Elite so we've played on that a couple of times but outside of that we haven't you know haven't got like a squad for the the three-man squad but you do play it as well with uh CPU so you don't just have to play it online with complete randoms you can just decide to play it with uh the computer controlling the other two members of your squad it's decent I'm going to keep an eye out for this one because the trailers do look fun I mean graphically it does look more of the same it doesn't look it's sort of you know a bigger budget advancing further but uh you know if it's got new maps if it's got awesome encounters if you got the queen featuring a bit more in this because I know that the queen was more of a quick time event at the end of uh the first game we're always about that we're always about the alien queen featuring gotta give the queen some love Next up, Blumhouse Atomic Monster horror movies have passed $1 billion at the box office this year, John Squires writes.
It was back in the early days of 2024 that a massive horror merger was inked with Jason Blum's Blumhouse and James Wan's Atomic Monster forming a horror superpower.
The joint company Blumhouse Atomic Monster has been dominating the horror space ever since.
Described as a mega house of chills and thrills, Blumhouse and Atomic Monster are now under one roof, with the two brands together able to do more than they could do individually.
And the partnership is proving to be a massive success, with Deadline reporting this week that Blumhouse Atomic Monster releases have passed $1 billion at the box office this year alone.
Deadline additionally notes it's the second time that the combined labels have yielded $1 billion since their 2024 merger after last year.
However, if you were to count the labels grossest combined prior to the merger, this would be the third time in four years that Blumhouse and Atomic Monster titles have grossed over $1 billion in a given year.
And then it kind of breaks down a couple of the other big hits, speaking predominantly of which of Curry Bark's Obsession, which, you know, huge fan of.
It's a great film.
I mean, that is awesome news.
I think with Blumhouse, they have more hits than misses in terms of their releases than all.
Of course, they're not all great.
You know, you get ones that are very much cookie cutter and horror by numbers.
But they do have their fingers in many pies when it comes to a lot of the huge releases.
And, you know, whether that's because then they put the money into the marketing, which then helps spread it.
I mean, Curry Barker, prior to Obsession's release, he was known to an extent in the horror world, probably a little bit more known in like the Instagram comedy world or TikTok comedy world, you know, the social media comedy world, but not like on a name brand basis, right? He wasn't a name.
Some horror short fans would have known of, you know, The Chair, Milk and Cereal and a couple of others.
But he wasn't, you know, he wasn't as big out there.
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