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DVD Review: The Robot Chicken Walking Dead Special is Frightfully Funny!

Robot Chicken, those pop culture skewering puppets turn their goofy gaze upon gut munching soap opera The Walking Dead in the appropriately titled The Robot Chicken Walking Dead Special: Look Who’s Walking. Over the course we learn the true story of The Walking Dead as visitors to a TWD themed museum in the future are set straight by someone who knows the tale best (though they may want to do a special edition to change said character for…reasons). Anyway, when I say true-story I mean a series of short skits of varying levels of offensiveness (speaking of which, all of the F-bombs hat would be censored on Adult Swim are front and center here) and stupidity (the good kind, not the unbearable, obnoxious variety)…where most of the major storylines (as of October 2017) and characters are lampooned to admittedly hilarious effect…and there’s also a musical number or two as one does. Along with the twenty two minutes of non-stop laughs

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DanXIII
Mar 12, 2018
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Punk Rockers Flee ‘The Ranger’ In New Trailer

Like Me, Most Beautiful Island, and Psychopaths‘ producer Jenn Wexler makes her directorial debut with The Ranger, which premieres Monday, March 12 in the Midnight Section at SXSW. Today the trailer has arrived giving a PSA turned nightmare feel. In the film, after “Chelsea and her friends get in trouble with the cops, they flee the city and go on the run. Fueled by a hallucinogenic drug called Echo, they hope to lay low-and get high-in an old family hideout in the woods. But Chelsea’s got reservations about going back to nature and secrets she’s not sharing with her friends. When a shot rings out, her past comes crashing back, and the punks find themselves pitted against the local authority- an unhinged park ranger with an axe to grind.” Jeremy Holm (Mr Robot), Chloe Levine (The OA), Amanda Grace Benitez (All Cheerleaders Die) co-star alongside Granit Lahu, Jeremy Pope, and Bubba Weiler. Novelist Ed Kurtz provided the film’s voiceover and

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 11, 2018
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DVD Art Teases The Terror In ‘Stephanie’ – Starring Frank Grillo

Blumhouse’s supernatural genre film Stephanie, from director Akiva Goldsman, is set to arrive this May and stars The Purge franchise’s Frank Grillo. Today, we get a first look at the art featured on the DVD (below). The film Siren as well as The Orchard’s Super Dark Times. Anna Torv (Fringe), and Shree Crooks (American Horror Story) co-star. The film centers on, “a young girl named Stephanie (Shree Crooks) who is abandoned by her parents, forced to survive on peanut butter and conversations with her toy turtle. When her parents return to claim their daughter, they find dark supernatural forces are wreaking havoc, with Stephanie at the center of the turmoil.” Stephanie arrives on DVD on May 1, 2018, from Universal Pictures.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 11, 2018
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Nick Antosca Talks ‘Channel Zero: Butcher’s Block’ Ahead of Finale

This Wednesday, we will witness the season finale of “Channel Zero: Butcher’s Block”, which has turned out to be the best season so far. Last week’s episode ended with Zoe (Holland Roden) eating her sister’s centipede after rescuing Izzy, before escaping into the park, leaving Alice behind. I asked the series’ creator Nick Antosca about what that meant. I don’t explain too didactically, but Zoe is struggling with we she is versus who she wants to be. She’s been given the opportunity to become someone else, which I think is attractive to all of us in some ways. Once she takes that leap, she realizes ‘Shit, maybe I shouldn’t have done this. Maybe it was better, all though scarier, to deal with the challenges I was facing throughout my life.’ That scene is a representation of Zoe realizing that she needs to go back and face the things that she’s been afraid of.” So far, each season has featured one

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 11, 2018
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Move Review: The ‘Burbs is a Perfect Dark Satire of Suburbia!

Poor Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks), all he wants is a nice relaxing staycation but that just isn’t to be as a reclusive family named the Klopeks have moved into the dilapidated abode next door. This of course arouses the suspicions of his neighbors; mooching busy body Art Weingartner (Rick Ducommun), paramilitary nut Mark Rumsfield (Bruce Dern), and teenage smart ass Ricky Butler (Corey Feldman), whom all become convinced the Klopeks are members of a Satanic murder cult. Much to the chagrin of Ray’s long suffering wife Carol (Carrie Fisher), the gang of goofs (with reluctant Ray in tow) actually begin to turn up evidence (nocturnal digging of what appears to be graves, skeletal remains) that the new neighbors may indeed be up to something sinister, and after a visit to their abode Ray becomes convinced as well. Before long all hell breaks loose as Ray and company go completely off the rails trying to prove their crackpot theories! Filled with

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DanXIII
Mar 11, 2018
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Netflix Unveils Trailer For New Series ‘Requiem’

Imagine if you will, that your parent passes away and everything that they have ever hold told you about themselves and you is a lie. That’s exactly what happens in Netflix’s upcoming supernatural series “Requiem”. “Requiem“, which will feature six hour-long episodes that center on a young woman (Wilson) who learns the truth about herself, to the point of unraveling her own identity, after her mother passes away. Penned by Kris Mrksa (Glitch), the series will star UK actress Lydia Wilson (pictured above) who also had a role in the hit series Ripper Street. Joel Fry (Plebs), Game of Thrones‘ Tara Fitzgerald, and James Frencheville (Animal Kingdom) co-star. “In 1994, a toddler disappeared from a small village, never to be seen again. 23 years later, in London, the mother of Matilda Gray (Lydia Wilson) commits suicide. As Matilda grapples with her mother’s death, she discovers evidence linking her mother to the girl’s disappearance… uncovering long-buried secrets including one secret more

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 10, 2018
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Blumhouse Announces ‘Unfriended: Dark Web’ At SXSW

Back last October we first reported about Unfriended: Game night, the sequel to 2014’s Unfriended, which Blumhouse somehow filmed in secret. The true title for the film, it was first advertised as an untitled Blumhouse-Bazelevs project then as Unfriended: Game Night, was announced by Blumhouse last night with the new title Unfriended: Dark Web. In the film, “A 20-something finds a cache of hidden files on his new laptop and is thrust into the deep waters of the dark web. From the makers of Unfriended, this thriller unravels in real-time, entirely on a computer screen. A warning for the digital age.” Written and directed by Colin Woodell, Unfriended: Dark Web stars Betty Gabriel, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Andrew Lees, Conor del Rio, Stephanie Nogueras and Savira Windyani.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 10, 2018
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A Cop Seeks Revenge In ‘Corbin Nash’ – Starring Corey Feldman

Corey Feldman has now confirmed that the vampire noir thriller Corbin Nash will be his first film in over a decade to premiere in theaters. Feldman plays the role of Queeny, a cross-dressing vampire in the film, a role that is far different from his iconic character Edgar Frog, the vampire slayer in The Lost Boys franchise. Corbin Nash‘s all-star cast also includes Malcolm McDowell, Rutger Hauer, Richard Wagner, and Bruce Davison, with Dean Jagger starring. The film, set in New York, centers on a rogue cop who is on a mission to hunt down the person responsible for the murders of his parents. Directed by Ben Jagger, Corbin Nash opens in theaters and arrives On Demand on April 20, 2018, from Gravitas Ventures.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 10, 2018
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Puff, Puff, But Don’t Pass On ‘4/20 Massacre’ – On DVD This April

Make a date with death this April. It’s 4/20 somewhere. Suspense, smoke and spine-tingling chill are headed your way with 4/20 Massacre, starring Jamie Bernadette and Justine Wachsberger. The first-ever “stoner slasher” pits hot young stars against cinema’s next iconic monster in this horror-comedy that arrives just in time for the official holiday of weed enthusiasts. From writer-director Dylan Reynolds comes a tale of five women on a camping trip celebrating their friend’s birthday over the 4/20 weekend. When the group accidentally crosses the path of an illegal pot farm they must fight to survive a living nightmare. Jamie Bernadette (I Spit on Your Grave: Déjà Vu, Killing Joan), Vanessa Rose Parker (Samurai Cop 2), Justine Wachsberger (Divergent), Stacey Danger (‘’Jean-Claude Van Johnson’’), Marissa Pistone (Raze), Jim Storm (Dark Shadows), Mark Schroeder (‘’Pretty Little Liars’’) Jim Round, Drew Talbert and James Gregory star. “Inhale. Exhale. Scream.” 4/20 Massacre premieres on VOD and DVD on April 3, 2018, from Film Chest.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 10, 2018
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Movie Review: Hell’s Kitty is a Disappointing Cameo Packed Horror Comedy

Struggling screen writer Nick has got a problem with pussy…namely his cat angel, a demonically possessed feline that attacks any woman that gets within ten feet of our hero. Desperate Nick tries any method possible (including sleeping with her on a bed strewn with rose petals, an exorcism, and a seance…same things really) to try and get his cat to stop maiming and mutilating the female of the species, but with little success…and to complicate matters the nasty hairball’s victims suffer a form of rotting disease. Will Nick ever be able to tame that wild beast and have a normal love life? Let’s start with the positives…I’m glad Hell’s Kitty was an hour and a half and not two hours. Also some of the make-up effects are descent, and the cameos (though forced) were entertaining enough and included the likes of legends such as Doug Jones (Hellboy, The Shape of Water), Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes), Kelli Maroney (Night

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DanXIII
Mar 10, 2018

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DVD Review: The Robot Chicken Walking Dead Special is Frightfully Funny!

Robot Chicken, those pop culture skewering puppets turn their goofy gaze upon gut munching soap opera The Walking Dead in the appropriately titled The Robot Chicken Walking Dead Special: Look Who’s Walking. Over the course we learn the true story of The Walking Dead as visitors to a TWD themed museum in the future are set straight by someone who knows the tale best (though they may want to do a special edition to change said character for…reasons). Anyway, when I say true-story I mean a series of short skits of varying levels of offensiveness (speaking of which, all of the F-bombs hat would be censored on Adult Swim are front and center here) and stupidity (the good kind, not the unbearable, obnoxious variety)…where most of the major storylines (as of October 2017) and characters are lampooned to admittedly hilarious effect…and there’s also a musical number or two as one does. Along with the twenty two minutes of non-stop laughs

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DanXIII
Mar 12, 2018
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Punk Rockers Flee ‘The Ranger’ In New Trailer

Like Me, Most Beautiful Island, and Psychopaths‘ producer Jenn Wexler makes her directorial debut with The Ranger, which premieres Monday, March 12 in the Midnight Section at SXSW. Today the trailer has arrived giving a PSA turned nightmare feel. In the film, after “Chelsea and her friends get in trouble with the cops, they flee the city and go on the run. Fueled by a hallucinogenic drug called Echo, they hope to lay low-and get high-in an old family hideout in the woods. But Chelsea’s got reservations about going back to nature and secrets she’s not sharing with her friends. When a shot rings out, her past comes crashing back, and the punks find themselves pitted against the local authority- an unhinged park ranger with an axe to grind.” Jeremy Holm (Mr Robot), Chloe Levine (The OA), Amanda Grace Benitez (All Cheerleaders Die) co-star alongside Granit Lahu, Jeremy Pope, and Bubba Weiler. Novelist Ed Kurtz provided the film’s voiceover and

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 11, 2018
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DVD Art Teases The Terror In ‘Stephanie’ – Starring Frank Grillo

Blumhouse’s supernatural genre film Stephanie, from director Akiva Goldsman, is set to arrive this May and stars The Purge franchise’s Frank Grillo. Today, we get a first look at the art featured on the DVD (below). The film Siren as well as The Orchard’s Super Dark Times. Anna Torv (Fringe), and Shree Crooks (American Horror Story) co-star. The film centers on, “a young girl named Stephanie (Shree Crooks) who is abandoned by her parents, forced to survive on peanut butter and conversations with her toy turtle. When her parents return to claim their daughter, they find dark supernatural forces are wreaking havoc, with Stephanie at the center of the turmoil.” Stephanie arrives on DVD on May 1, 2018, from Universal Pictures.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 11, 2018
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Nick Antosca Talks ‘Channel Zero: Butcher’s Block’ Ahead of Finale

This Wednesday, we will witness the season finale of “Channel Zero: Butcher’s Block”, which has turned out to be the best season so far. Last week’s episode ended with Zoe (Holland Roden) eating her sister’s centipede after rescuing Izzy, before escaping into the park, leaving Alice behind. I asked the series’ creator Nick Antosca about what that meant. I don’t explain too didactically, but Zoe is struggling with we she is versus who she wants to be. She’s been given the opportunity to become someone else, which I think is attractive to all of us in some ways. Once she takes that leap, she realizes ‘Shit, maybe I shouldn’t have done this. Maybe it was better, all though scarier, to deal with the challenges I was facing throughout my life.’ That scene is a representation of Zoe realizing that she needs to go back and face the things that she’s been afraid of.” So far, each season has featured one

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 11, 2018
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Move Review: The ‘Burbs is a Perfect Dark Satire of Suburbia!

Poor Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks), all he wants is a nice relaxing staycation but that just isn’t to be as a reclusive family named the Klopeks have moved into the dilapidated abode next door. This of course arouses the suspicions of his neighbors; mooching busy body Art Weingartner (Rick Ducommun), paramilitary nut Mark Rumsfield (Bruce Dern), and teenage smart ass Ricky Butler (Corey Feldman), whom all become convinced the Klopeks are members of a Satanic murder cult. Much to the chagrin of Ray’s long suffering wife Carol (Carrie Fisher), the gang of goofs (with reluctant Ray in tow) actually begin to turn up evidence (nocturnal digging of what appears to be graves, skeletal remains) that the new neighbors may indeed be up to something sinister, and after a visit to their abode Ray becomes convinced as well. Before long all hell breaks loose as Ray and company go completely off the rails trying to prove their crackpot theories! Filled with

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DanXIII
Mar 11, 2018
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Netflix Unveils Trailer For New Series ‘Requiem’

Imagine if you will, that your parent passes away and everything that they have ever hold told you about themselves and you is a lie. That’s exactly what happens in Netflix’s upcoming supernatural series “Requiem”. “Requiem“, which will feature six hour-long episodes that center on a young woman (Wilson) who learns the truth about herself, to the point of unraveling her own identity, after her mother passes away. Penned by Kris Mrksa (Glitch), the series will star UK actress Lydia Wilson (pictured above) who also had a role in the hit series Ripper Street. Joel Fry (Plebs), Game of Thrones‘ Tara Fitzgerald, and James Frencheville (Animal Kingdom) co-star. “In 1994, a toddler disappeared from a small village, never to be seen again. 23 years later, in London, the mother of Matilda Gray (Lydia Wilson) commits suicide. As Matilda grapples with her mother’s death, she discovers evidence linking her mother to the girl’s disappearance… uncovering long-buried secrets including one secret more

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 10, 2018
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Blumhouse Announces ‘Unfriended: Dark Web’ At SXSW

Back last October we first reported about Unfriended: Game night, the sequel to 2014’s Unfriended, which Blumhouse somehow filmed in secret. The true title for the film, it was first advertised as an untitled Blumhouse-Bazelevs project then as Unfriended: Game Night, was announced by Blumhouse last night with the new title Unfriended: Dark Web. In the film, “A 20-something finds a cache of hidden files on his new laptop and is thrust into the deep waters of the dark web. From the makers of Unfriended, this thriller unravels in real-time, entirely on a computer screen. A warning for the digital age.” Written and directed by Colin Woodell, Unfriended: Dark Web stars Betty Gabriel, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Andrew Lees, Conor del Rio, Stephanie Nogueras and Savira Windyani.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 10, 2018
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A Cop Seeks Revenge In ‘Corbin Nash’ – Starring Corey Feldman

Corey Feldman has now confirmed that the vampire noir thriller Corbin Nash will be his first film in over a decade to premiere in theaters. Feldman plays the role of Queeny, a cross-dressing vampire in the film, a role that is far different from his iconic character Edgar Frog, the vampire slayer in The Lost Boys franchise. Corbin Nash‘s all-star cast also includes Malcolm McDowell, Rutger Hauer, Richard Wagner, and Bruce Davison, with Dean Jagger starring. The film, set in New York, centers on a rogue cop who is on a mission to hunt down the person responsible for the murders of his parents. Directed by Ben Jagger, Corbin Nash opens in theaters and arrives On Demand on April 20, 2018, from Gravitas Ventures.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 10, 2018
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Puff, Puff, But Don’t Pass On ‘4/20 Massacre’ – On DVD This April

Make a date with death this April. It’s 4/20 somewhere. Suspense, smoke and spine-tingling chill are headed your way with 4/20 Massacre, starring Jamie Bernadette and Justine Wachsberger. The first-ever “stoner slasher” pits hot young stars against cinema’s next iconic monster in this horror-comedy that arrives just in time for the official holiday of weed enthusiasts. From writer-director Dylan Reynolds comes a tale of five women on a camping trip celebrating their friend’s birthday over the 4/20 weekend. When the group accidentally crosses the path of an illegal pot farm they must fight to survive a living nightmare. Jamie Bernadette (I Spit on Your Grave: Déjà Vu, Killing Joan), Vanessa Rose Parker (Samurai Cop 2), Justine Wachsberger (Divergent), Stacey Danger (‘’Jean-Claude Van Johnson’’), Marissa Pistone (Raze), Jim Storm (Dark Shadows), Mark Schroeder (‘’Pretty Little Liars’’) Jim Round, Drew Talbert and James Gregory star. “Inhale. Exhale. Scream.” 4/20 Massacre premieres on VOD and DVD on April 3, 2018, from Film Chest.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 10, 2018
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Movie Review: Hell’s Kitty is a Disappointing Cameo Packed Horror Comedy

Struggling screen writer Nick has got a problem with pussy…namely his cat angel, a demonically possessed feline that attacks any woman that gets within ten feet of our hero. Desperate Nick tries any method possible (including sleeping with her on a bed strewn with rose petals, an exorcism, and a seance…same things really) to try and get his cat to stop maiming and mutilating the female of the species, but with little success…and to complicate matters the nasty hairball’s victims suffer a form of rotting disease. Will Nick ever be able to tame that wild beast and have a normal love life? Let’s start with the positives…I’m glad Hell’s Kitty was an hour and a half and not two hours. Also some of the make-up effects are descent, and the cameos (though forced) were entertaining enough and included the likes of legends such as Doug Jones (Hellboy, The Shape of Water), Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes), Kelli Maroney (Night

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DanXIII
Mar 10, 2018
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