The MadHouse

Week 5 has come and gone with a first international game of the season. Thursday night featured the Dallas Cowboys hosting the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Sunday night saw Atlanta Falcons taking on the Baltimore Ravens, Monday night was a showdown in Los Angeles as the Rams battled the Buffalo Bills and the first game of the Sunday afternoon was held in London, England. Other Sunday afternoon games featured a few rivalry games such as Texans / Titans, 49ers / Seahawks, Chargers / Broncos and the NFL oldest rivalry, the Bears and the Packers.

This year’s PLE was held in New Orleans, Louisiana and saw 5 matches, 2 of which were the premier event matches as well as 2 championship matches. “The Tribal Chief” Roman Reigns defends the World Heavyweight Championship against “The Megastar” LA Knight, the women’s Money in the Bank ladder match featured former winner, Tiffany Stratton, Lash Legend, Jacy Jayne, Lola Vice, Roxanne Perez & Sol Ruca. “The Ruler”, Obi Femi battles “Big” Bronson Reed, the Women’s World Championship is on the line in a triple threat match as Stephanie Vaquer defends against Liv Morgan & Becky Lynch and then the men’s Money in the Bank ladder match featured former winner, CM Punk, the reigning United States Champion, Trick Williams, “The Prize Fighter” Kevin Owens, one half of the World Tag Team Champions, “The Mad Dog”, Bron Breakker, Je’Von Evans & Penta.

This American horror film was directed by Daniel Goldhaber and stars Barbie Ferreira, Darce Montgomery, Jermaine Fowler & Charlie XCX and is based on the 1978 film of the same name. In this film, a social media moderator comes across a few videos that seem a bit too real when it comes to “role playing horror shorts” but quickly goes down this rabbit hole into a world of pure horror and torture that becomes too much for her to handle. The film was shot and completed around the end of 2023 going into 2024 but due to the North American films being acquired by IFC & Shudder, it wasn’t set for a theatrical release until April of 2026. It premiered at Beyond Fest on April 5th, 2026 before its national release on April 10th.

With almost a quarter of the way through the season things are looking up for some teams while others are in an early stages of a slump. Thursday night’s game saw an AFC North rivalry as the Cleveland Browns hosted the Pittsburgh Steelers, Sunday night saw the Detroit Lions taking on the Carolina Panthers and the Monday night game was the 20th anniversary celebration in New Orleans from their return following Hurricane Katrina. The Saints would go on and host against their divisional rivals, the Atlanta Falcons. Sunday afternoon games featured a Texas sized showdown between the Texans & Cowboys, Patriots / Bills, Broncos / 49ers, Rams / Eagles & Chiefs / Raiders.

This horror comedy film was directed and produced by Sam Raimi and stars Rachel McAdams & Dylan O’Brien. In this film, a financial company’s business trip goes horribly wrong after their plane crashes on a remote island in the middle of nowhere leaving only 2 survivors, the CEO and the lead strategist, who are not fond of each other but must stick together in order to survive. The film hit theaters on January 30th, 2026 and landing on the streaming service, Hulu, in March of 2026.

This horror film was written and directed by Lee Cronin, produced by James Wan & Jason Blum and despite the title of the film, there was no connection or correlation to Universal’s iconic monster film series. The film stars Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, Natalie Grace & May Calamawy. In this film, after 8 years since their daughter went missing in Egypt, the family, now living in the dessert in New Mexico, are relieved when she is found however, things take a dark and terrifying turn when they realize something else was found alongside their daughter. New Line Cinema want to reimagine the story and separate their film from Universal’s and after the success of 2023’s Evil Dead Rise, they zeroed in on Lee Cronin to write and direct the project. The film hit theaters on April 7th, 2026 and then landed on HBO Max on May 19th.

This horror film was co-written, produced and directed by Eli Roth and stars Ari Millen, Benjamin Byron Davis, Charlie Zelter, Shiloh O’Reilly, Kiori Mirza Waldman & Sarah Abbott. In this film, a small suburban town is enjoying a normal day until the Ice Cream Man comes along to sell his treats for kids in the area but things take a dark and twisted turn when, the next day, all the kids who had a frozen become possessed and go a violent rampage. This film was the first Eli Roth’s new horror label, The Horror Section, and it would hit theaters on August 7th, 2026.

This film was directed and co scored by Kane Parsons, who also wrote and directed the web series of the same name. The film stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Lukita Maxwell, Finn Bennett & Mark Duplass. In this film, a man, who runs a struggling furniture store, discovers a mysterious opening in his store that leads to an endless corridor of empty rooms and hallways with no end in sight and quickly gets consumed by his own curiosity. The film hit theaters on May 29th, 2026 before landing on streaming services on July 14th. It went on become the second highest grossing horror film of the year and the 5th highest grossing indie film of all time.

Week 3 of the NFL season and we already have teams losing players to injury or just not getting the job done in general. Thursday night’s game saw the Atlanta Falcons going to the Green Bay Packers, Sunday night saw the Denver Broncos hosting the LA Rams and Monday night featured the Chicago Bears taking on the Philadelphia Eagles. Other games included Texans / Colts, Ravens / Cowboys, Cardinals / 49ers & Commanders / Seahawks.

This Netflix film was directed by Janus Metz Pederson and stars Russell Crowe, Jacob Tremblay, Annabelle Wallis & Shailene Woodley. This film depicts the origins and crimes of Ted Kaczynski, also known as “The Unabomber”. In this film, when a young mathematic prodigy is asked be apart of an “experiment”, it becomes much more difficult than anything he has ever done which leads down a much darker path than anyone at Harvard University could have predicted. This was released on Netflix on September 25th, 2026.