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‘Upgrade’ Director To Remake ‘Escape From New York’

Genre fans should be very familiar with filmmaker Leigh Whannell, who is behind the Insidious franchise, Saw and Upgrade. He continues to add to his long list of horror hits. Not only was it just announced that Whannell will be in the director’s chair for Universal’s reboot of The Invisible Man, we’ve just learned that he will also be directing the remake of John Carpenter’s classic Escape from New York. THR is reporting that while no deal is in place at the moment their sources are saying he’s the one. “Whannell is kickstarting Escape from New York with a new vision for the project that sources say will retain elements of the original but bring new ideas to the table. One of Whannell’s goals is to avoid the bloated tentpole remake path that afflicted the reboots of the other 1980s-era movies such as Robocop and Total Recall.” Kurt Russell starred in the 1981 original as Snake Plissken, a convicted bank

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 2, 2019
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Filmmaker Conrad Faraj Fills Us In On His New Sci-Fi Horror Film ‘Fighting The Sky’

Conrad Faraj‘s (The Shadow People, The Candyman Conspiracy) latest film Fighting the Sky is rapidly approaching its February release date. Ahead of the film’s arrival, I sat down with Conrad to ask a few questions about the alien invasion film and the many movies he has coming out soon. Horror Fuel: “How did you get into the film industry?” Conrad Faraj: “I’ve always wanted to be a filmmaker since I was very, very young. I remember writing a lot of fan fiction. As I started writing more and more, I decided to make them into movies. I turned short stories into short movies. Ever since then, I’ve been making bigger and bigger movies. Here I am now.” Horror Fuel: “How would describe your latest film, Fighting the Sky?” Conrad Faraj: “Fighting the Sky is a science fiction adventure film with horror elements. It is a film that I’ve been dreaming of doing for a very long time. It’s a film

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 2, 2019
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‘The Ghost Survivors’ DLC Coming To ‘Resident Evil 2’ UPDATE

If you have not got a copy of the horror game of the year, Resident Evil 2, then this news of an upcoming free Downloadable Content (DLC) should entice you. In the upcoming mode The Ghost Survivors, players will turn back the clocks during the zombie outbreak in Raccoon City and see the nightmare from three new angels. In this “what if” scenario, you take on the roles of three individuals who have not survived the outbreak. In the segment titled, “No time to mourn”, follows gun shop owner Robert Kendo whose appearance in the Resident Evil 2 remake is more tragic than in the original where he was just a cannon fodder character. In “Runaway” players for the first time can see Katherine Warren, daughter of Raccoon City’s mayor like never before…alive. Finally in “Forgotten Soldier” you get to see through the eyes of another surviving Umbrella Special Ops soldier, teasing that legendary Hunk was not the only survivor

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Capt McNeely
Feb 1, 2019
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Stephen King’s New Novel ‘The Institute’ Coming This September

We’ve been talking a lot about Stephen King lately, what can we say, the man popular. This time we have news on the master or horror’s latest novel, The Institute. This September the novel will take readers to a dark place, where children with special gifts are kidnapped and imprisoned by the evil Mrs. Sigsby. The synopsis goes like this: “In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 1, 2019
Horror Fuel

CBS Orders Pilot For New “Frankenstein” Series

What do you get when you combine horror and a police drama? You get CBS’ new series adaptation of Mary Shelly’s classic novel Frankenstein. The network has just ordered the pilot for their series simply titled “Frankenstein.” The series centers on “a San Francisco homicide detective who is mysteriously brought back to life after being killed in the line of duty. But as he resumes his old life he and his wife they realize he isn’t the same person he used to be and the couple zero in on the strange man behind his resurrection, Dr. Frankenstein.” The series will be aiming for a premiere next season and hails from writer Jason Tracey (Burn Notice). If you think the plot sounds familiar, you’ve probably seen or heard about Fox’s “The Frankenstein Code” which has been retitled several times as “Lookinglass” and “Second Chance”, and was originally titled “Frankenstein”. It followed a cop who gets a second chance after being brought

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 1, 2019
Horror Fuel

Movie Review: Hunter (2019)

Our hero, the eponymous Hunter (Jason Kellerman…who also penned this flick) spends his days livin’ the dream; homeless, pan-handling for roughly 32 cents in lose change, dreaming of his days as a successful MMA fighter, and freaking the fuck out over the constant blood drenched images that haunt his every waking moment…good times one and all…oh, he also sees a vision of a strawberry in a vice (something we can all relate to in our human adventure, amirite my loyal fiends?)…if that isn’t a life every one of you boils n’ ghouls can aspire to I don’t know what is! How did ol’ H-dawg end up on the mean streets? Well, his mother and sister were killed by some weird ass mother fuckers…which sent Hunter spiraling into the depths of despair…and they are still very much lurking around, much to his chagrin. Soon Hunter is confronting his personal demons with the help of comely counselor Danni (Rachel Cerda) while hunting

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DanXIII
Feb 1, 2019
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‘The Shining’ Sequel ‘Doctor Sleep’ Coming To Theaters Early

Fans of Stephen King, we have great news! Mike Flanagan‘s adaptation of Doctor Sleep, the sequel to King’s The Shining, is coming to theaters early! Originally set to open in theaters next year, Doctor Sleep will instead arrive on November 8, 2019, from Warner Bros. Ewan McGregor stars as adult Danny Torrance with Alex Essoe playing the role of Wendy Torrance. Carl Lumby, Kyliegh Curran, Bruce Greenwood, Rebecca Ferguson, Alyn Lind, and Jocelin Donahue also star. Jacob Tremblay plays the role of young Danny. Flanagan rewrote Akiva Goldsman’s adaptation of King’s 2013 novel which picks up with Danny in his 40s who is struggling with the same demons of anger and alcoholism that plagued his father. In the film, “On highways across America, a tribe of people called the True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless—mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone learns, the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 1, 2019

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‘Upgrade’ Director To Remake ‘Escape From New York’

Genre fans should be very familiar with filmmaker Leigh Whannell, who is behind the Insidious franchise, Saw and Upgrade. He continues to add to his long list of horror hits. Not only was it just announced that Whannell will be in the director’s chair for Universal’s reboot of The Invisible Man, we’ve just learned that he will also be directing the remake of John Carpenter’s classic Escape from New York. THR is reporting that while no deal is in place at the moment their sources are saying he’s the one. “Whannell is kickstarting Escape from New York with a new vision for the project that sources say will retain elements of the original but bring new ideas to the table. One of Whannell’s goals is to avoid the bloated tentpole remake path that afflicted the reboots of the other 1980s-era movies such as Robocop and Total Recall.” Kurt Russell starred in the 1981 original as Snake Plissken, a convicted bank

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 2, 2019
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Filmmaker Conrad Faraj Fills Us In On His New Sci-Fi Horror Film ‘Fighting The Sky’

Conrad Faraj‘s (The Shadow People, The Candyman Conspiracy) latest film Fighting the Sky is rapidly approaching its February release date. Ahead of the film’s arrival, I sat down with Conrad to ask a few questions about the alien invasion film and the many movies he has coming out soon. Horror Fuel: “How did you get into the film industry?” Conrad Faraj: “I’ve always wanted to be a filmmaker since I was very, very young. I remember writing a lot of fan fiction. As I started writing more and more, I decided to make them into movies. I turned short stories into short movies. Ever since then, I’ve been making bigger and bigger movies. Here I am now.” Horror Fuel: “How would describe your latest film, Fighting the Sky?” Conrad Faraj: “Fighting the Sky is a science fiction adventure film with horror elements. It is a film that I’ve been dreaming of doing for a very long time. It’s a film

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 2, 2019
Horror Fuel

‘The Ghost Survivors’ DLC Coming To ‘Resident Evil 2’ UPDATE

If you have not got a copy of the horror game of the year, Resident Evil 2, then this news of an upcoming free Downloadable Content (DLC) should entice you. In the upcoming mode The Ghost Survivors, players will turn back the clocks during the zombie outbreak in Raccoon City and see the nightmare from three new angels. In this “what if” scenario, you take on the roles of three individuals who have not survived the outbreak. In the segment titled, “No time to mourn”, follows gun shop owner Robert Kendo whose appearance in the Resident Evil 2 remake is more tragic than in the original where he was just a cannon fodder character. In “Runaway” players for the first time can see Katherine Warren, daughter of Raccoon City’s mayor like never before…alive. Finally in “Forgotten Soldier” you get to see through the eyes of another surviving Umbrella Special Ops soldier, teasing that legendary Hunk was not the only survivor

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Feb 1, 2019
Horror Fuel

Stephen King’s New Novel ‘The Institute’ Coming This September

We’ve been talking a lot about Stephen King lately, what can we say, the man popular. This time we have news on the master or horror’s latest novel, The Institute. This September the novel will take readers to a dark place, where children with special gifts are kidnapped and imprisoned by the evil Mrs. Sigsby. The synopsis goes like this: “In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 1, 2019
Horror Fuel

CBS Orders Pilot For New “Frankenstein” Series

What do you get when you combine horror and a police drama? You get CBS’ new series adaptation of Mary Shelly’s classic novel Frankenstein. The network has just ordered the pilot for their series simply titled “Frankenstein.” The series centers on “a San Francisco homicide detective who is mysteriously brought back to life after being killed in the line of duty. But as he resumes his old life he and his wife they realize he isn’t the same person he used to be and the couple zero in on the strange man behind his resurrection, Dr. Frankenstein.” The series will be aiming for a premiere next season and hails from writer Jason Tracey (Burn Notice). If you think the plot sounds familiar, you’ve probably seen or heard about Fox’s “The Frankenstein Code” which has been retitled several times as “Lookinglass” and “Second Chance”, and was originally titled “Frankenstein”. It followed a cop who gets a second chance after being brought

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 1, 2019
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Movie Review: Hunter (2019)

Our hero, the eponymous Hunter (Jason Kellerman…who also penned this flick) spends his days livin’ the dream; homeless, pan-handling for roughly 32 cents in lose change, dreaming of his days as a successful MMA fighter, and freaking the fuck out over the constant blood drenched images that haunt his every waking moment…good times one and all…oh, he also sees a vision of a strawberry in a vice (something we can all relate to in our human adventure, amirite my loyal fiends?)…if that isn’t a life every one of you boils n’ ghouls can aspire to I don’t know what is! How did ol’ H-dawg end up on the mean streets? Well, his mother and sister were killed by some weird ass mother fuckers…which sent Hunter spiraling into the depths of despair…and they are still very much lurking around, much to his chagrin. Soon Hunter is confronting his personal demons with the help of comely counselor Danni (Rachel Cerda) while hunting

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Feb 1, 2019
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‘The Shining’ Sequel ‘Doctor Sleep’ Coming To Theaters Early

Fans of Stephen King, we have great news! Mike Flanagan‘s adaptation of Doctor Sleep, the sequel to King’s The Shining, is coming to theaters early! Originally set to open in theaters next year, Doctor Sleep will instead arrive on November 8, 2019, from Warner Bros. Ewan McGregor stars as adult Danny Torrance with Alex Essoe playing the role of Wendy Torrance. Carl Lumby, Kyliegh Curran, Bruce Greenwood, Rebecca Ferguson, Alyn Lind, and Jocelin Donahue also star. Jacob Tremblay plays the role of young Danny. Flanagan rewrote Akiva Goldsman’s adaptation of King’s 2013 novel which picks up with Danny in his 40s who is struggling with the same demons of anger and alcoholism that plagued his father. In the film, “On highways across America, a tribe of people called the True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless—mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone learns, the

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 1, 2019