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Dissonance plus Melodywhore for new track

It is as if I were getting a lap dance by a cyborg stripper in a vampire nightclub at the end of the world. These are my first thoughts after pressing play and letting the industrial bass of the new collaboration from Dissonance and Melodywhore take me away. They call the new single, Damage 1st Assault. Haunting from the very beginning. Damage 1st Assault delivers complex waves of deep synth that is sure to fuel your darkest nature. Cat Hall of Dissonance first met Melodywhore after being a guest on his radio show. STORY OF DAMAGE: “I Met MELODYWHORE when I was featured on his radio show RADIO DARK TUNNEL SITUATION 47 (co-hosted by the incredible SAPPHIRA VEE). I mentioned I had been pining to work on some more aggressive tracks and this was the result. We liked the original- “Damage 1st Assault” so much that we did a second version. Damage 2nd Assault will be released by MELODYWHORE a

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Guest Writer
Feb 3, 2021
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“The Alienist Season 2: Angel Of Darkness” Hunts A Killer This May On Blu-Ray And DVD

Witness the second season of TNT’s award-winning series “The Alienist: Angel of Darkness,” on Blu-ray and DVD this May. Featuring eight shocking episodes filled with dread, drama, and tension, the series will leave you on the edge of your seat and your mouth gaped open. “It is June 1897. A year has passed since Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a pioneer in forensic psychiatry, tracked down the brutal serial killer John Beecham with the help of a team of trusted companions and a revolutionary application of the principles of his discipline. Kreizler and his friends–high-living crime reporter John Schuyler Moore; indomitable, derringer-toting Sara Howard; the brilliant (and bickering) detective brothers Marcus and Lucius Isaacson; powerful and compassionate Cyrus Montrose; and Stevie Taggert, the boy Kreizler saved from a life of street crime–have returned to their former pursuits and tried to forget the horror of the Beecham case. But when the distraught wife of a Spanish diplomat begs Sara’s aid, the team reunites

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 3, 2021
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Arrow Announces February Releases

Arrow Video has now announced the first wave of releases for February. Arrow puts subscribers in the mood for romance with Adam Stovall’s A Ghost Waits (review), the writer-director’s feature film debut which is a haunting love story that is a unique combination of horror and heart. February will also see the release of Dave Made A Maze, the Slamdance Audience Award winner starring Nick Thune (Mr. Roosevelt). Bill Watterson’s offbeat comedy centers on an artist who builds a fort in his living room out of pure frustration, only to wind up trapped by the fantastical pitfalls, booby traps, and creatures of his own creation. A Ghost Waits and Dave Made a Maze joins the lineup of available titles that includes the music documentary The El Duce Tapes and new genre standouts The Bloodhound and After Midnight. Upcoming months will see the exclusive premiere of Jill Gevargizian’s festival favorite The Stylist in March, and Justin’s McConnell’s must-see indie filmmaking documentary

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 2, 2021
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Heather Langenkamp Joins Mike Flanagan’s Netflix Series “The Midnight Club”

Mike Flanagan‘s upcoming Netflix series “The Midnight Club” continues to add to the cast that now includes Nightmare on Elm Street star Heather Langenkamp as an enigmatic doctor who runs this hospice for young adults. Langenkamp joins the cast that also stars Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, William Chris Sumpter, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard, Sauriyan Sapkota, Zach Gilford, Samantha Sloyan, and Matt Biedel. Flagman shared the casting news via Twitter. As we barrel toward the start of production on @intrepid‘s new @netflix series THE MIDNIGHT CLUB, based on the work of Christopher Pike, I’m honored and thrilled to announce our cast: Portraying the titular club of terminally ill young adults is an amazing group of young actors. The Midnight Club is made up of Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, William Chris Sumpter, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard and Sauriyan Sapkota. And joining them… I’m thrilled to welcome back some familiar faces as Zach Gilford, Samantha Sloyan, and Matt Biedel join the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 2, 2021
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From The Director Of ‘Escape Room’ Comes The Pandemic Horror ‘Safer At Home’ (Trailer)

Vertical Entertainment has announced the February release date for the pandemic horror film Safer at Home whose trailer teases that isolation can be deadly. Set two years into the pandemic, a group of friends decides to throw an online party with a night of games, drinking, and drugs. But after taking ecstasy, things go terribly wrong and the safety of their homes become more terrifying than the raging chaos outside. Directed by Will Wernick (Escape Room) who co-wrote the film with Lia Bozonelis, the film stars Jocelyn Hudon, Emma Lahana, Adwin Brown, Alisa Allapach, Michael Kupisk, Daniel Robaire, and Dan J. Johnson. Safer at Home opens in select theaters and arrives on VOD and Digital on February 26, 2021, from Vertical Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 2, 2021
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Two New Clips Take Us Into ‘The Night’ – Out Now On VOD And Digital

To celebrate the release of the award-winning Iranian horror film The Night, which HorrorFuel’s Joseph Perry calls “a gripping chiller” in his review, we’ve got two brand new clips to share with you. Directed and co-written by Kourosh Ahari, the film follows an Iranian couple, Babak and Neda, and their one-year-old daughter, Shabnam. Returning home from a friend’s gathering, Babak drives drunkenly, too stubborn to let Neda drive with a suspended license. When Babak’s driving threatens the safety of the family, Neda insists they stay the night at a hotel. Once they check-in, Babak and Neda find themselves imprisoned, forced to face the secrets they’ve kept from each other. And though the clock moves forward, “the night” never ends. The film features a diverse cast and crew made up of predominantly Iranian immigrants or US-born Iranian-Americans, including Shahab Hosseini, Niousha Jafarian, Leah Oganyan, and George Maguire. Shot on location in the US, The Night recently received a license for theatrical

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 2, 2021
Horror Fuel

Your February 15th-28th Guide To All Things Paranormal On Discovery+

This February discovery+ will be unleashing a horde of new series premieres, new episodes, and much more. The spooky action never stops. One of the new series making its premiere this month is “Aliens in Alaska” which delves into the last frontier’s reputation as a hotbed for extraterrestrial encounters. Fan favorite “Mountain Monsters: By the Fire also makes its debut. EXCLUSIVE PREMIERES NOSTRADAMUS: END OF DAYS NEW SERIES – Begins Streaming Tuesday, February 16 on discovery+ This all-new eight-episode series reveals exactly how the world will end, and what will be behind it, as predicted by history’s greatest prophet, Nostradamus. Combining the infamous seer’s ancient words with paintings from a mysterious lost book bearing his name, the series decodes new prophecies and causes of the world’s demise. Nostradamus saw the impending apocalypse 500 years ago, and now it’s up to experts to reveal the terrifying truth his visions can prepare us for. These groundbreaking interpretations uncover the destruction soon to

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 2, 2021
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A Kidnapped Woman Discovers Hidden Powers In The ‘Ascendant’ Trailer

120 FLOORS. 4 WALLS. 1 SECRET TRAPPED INSIDE… Aussie director Antaine Furlong‘s exciting new film Ascendant is set to be released this April. Ahead of its arrival, we’ve got the new trailer. The film tells the story of “young environmentalist Aria Wolf (Charlotte Best) who finds herself kidnapped and held hostage in a high-speed elevator in a 120-floor building in Shanghai. Aria holds a secret that makes her a valuable asset to many. However, she has no memory of her past, who her captors are, or what they want from her. While being pushed to her physical and psychological limits, she begins to discover that what has been hidden within her for so long is what will ultimately be her salvation.” Filmed at Sydney’s Fox Studios and on the Northern Beaches during the pandemic, Ascendant stars Australian actress Charlotte Best (“Tidelands”), Jonny Pasvolsky (“Westworld”), and Susan Prior (The Commons). In addition, to help create the amazing world and compelling production

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 1, 2021
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New Blood-Drenched Images From ‘Wrong Turn’ Surface

Next month, you can bring home director Mike P. Nelson‘s (The Domestics) Wrong Turn, a new take on the hillbilly cannibal slasher released in 2003. Ahead of the release, we’ve gotten our hands on a new batch of blood-drenched images (originally shared by Bloody-Disgusting). In the film, “Backwoods terror and never-jangling suspense meet when Jen (Charlotte Vega) and a group of friends set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers stray off course—and cross onto land inhabited by The Foundation, a hidden community of mountain dwellers who use deadly means to protect their way of life. Suddenly under siege, Jen and her friends seem headed to the point of no return— unless Jen’s father (Golden Globe nominee Matthew Modine) can reach them in time.” Damian Maffei (The Strangers: Prey at Night, Haunt), Bill Sage (“Hap and Leonard”), Emma Dumont (“The Gifted”), Chaney Morrow (Haunt), Valerie Jane Parker (“Greenleaf”), and David Hutchinson (“American

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 1, 2021
Charlotte Kirk Set to Star in Neil Marshall's Cat-and-Mouse Horror-Thriller 'The Spiral Down'

Movie Review: Neil Marshall’s ‘The Reckoning’ Will Cast A Spell On You

Neil Marshall is a name you should be very familiar with. He’s the director behind movies such as The Descent, Dog Soldiers, and Tales of Halloween. He’s back with a new film, The Reckoning. Set in England in the late 17th century, the Great Plague is raging as the witch trials cause hysteria, people begin to fear their friends, neighbors, and family, may be witches. During this time in history in real life, over 1,000 innocent people were imprisoned, tortured, and killed with ninety percent of the victims being women. All it took was a whisper for these people to be condemned. This is a key element in The Reckoning. In the opening scene, we see Grace (Charlotte Kirk), an exhausted mother kiss her baby before retrieving a sword from a chest. Struggling, she drags the Scottish Claymore through the mud as she stumbles across her yard. That’s when we see him, her dear husband hanging from a tree. Clawing

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 1, 2021

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Dissonance plus Melodywhore for new track

It is as if I were getting a lap dance by a cyborg stripper in a vampire nightclub at the end of the world. These are my first thoughts after pressing play and letting the industrial bass of the new collaboration from Dissonance and Melodywhore take me away. They call the new single, Damage 1st Assault. Haunting from the very beginning. Damage 1st Assault delivers complex waves of deep synth that is sure to fuel your darkest nature. Cat Hall of Dissonance first met Melodywhore after being a guest on his radio show. STORY OF DAMAGE: “I Met MELODYWHORE when I was featured on his radio show RADIO DARK TUNNEL SITUATION 47 (co-hosted by the incredible SAPPHIRA VEE). I mentioned I had been pining to work on some more aggressive tracks and this was the result. We liked the original- “Damage 1st Assault” so much that we did a second version. Damage 2nd Assault will be released by MELODYWHORE a

Continue reading →
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Feb 3, 2021
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“The Alienist Season 2: Angel Of Darkness” Hunts A Killer This May On Blu-Ray And DVD

Witness the second season of TNT’s award-winning series “The Alienist: Angel of Darkness,” on Blu-ray and DVD this May. Featuring eight shocking episodes filled with dread, drama, and tension, the series will leave you on the edge of your seat and your mouth gaped open. “It is June 1897. A year has passed since Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a pioneer in forensic psychiatry, tracked down the brutal serial killer John Beecham with the help of a team of trusted companions and a revolutionary application of the principles of his discipline. Kreizler and his friends–high-living crime reporter John Schuyler Moore; indomitable, derringer-toting Sara Howard; the brilliant (and bickering) detective brothers Marcus and Lucius Isaacson; powerful and compassionate Cyrus Montrose; and Stevie Taggert, the boy Kreizler saved from a life of street crime–have returned to their former pursuits and tried to forget the horror of the Beecham case. But when the distraught wife of a Spanish diplomat begs Sara’s aid, the team reunites

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 3, 2021
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Arrow Announces February Releases

Arrow Video has now announced the first wave of releases for February. Arrow puts subscribers in the mood for romance with Adam Stovall’s A Ghost Waits (review), the writer-director’s feature film debut which is a haunting love story that is a unique combination of horror and heart. February will also see the release of Dave Made A Maze, the Slamdance Audience Award winner starring Nick Thune (Mr. Roosevelt). Bill Watterson’s offbeat comedy centers on an artist who builds a fort in his living room out of pure frustration, only to wind up trapped by the fantastical pitfalls, booby traps, and creatures of his own creation. A Ghost Waits and Dave Made a Maze joins the lineup of available titles that includes the music documentary The El Duce Tapes and new genre standouts The Bloodhound and After Midnight. Upcoming months will see the exclusive premiere of Jill Gevargizian’s festival favorite The Stylist in March, and Justin’s McConnell’s must-see indie filmmaking documentary

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 2, 2021
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Heather Langenkamp Joins Mike Flanagan’s Netflix Series “The Midnight Club”

Mike Flanagan‘s upcoming Netflix series “The Midnight Club” continues to add to the cast that now includes Nightmare on Elm Street star Heather Langenkamp as an enigmatic doctor who runs this hospice for young adults. Langenkamp joins the cast that also stars Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, William Chris Sumpter, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard, Sauriyan Sapkota, Zach Gilford, Samantha Sloyan, and Matt Biedel. Flagman shared the casting news via Twitter. As we barrel toward the start of production on @intrepid‘s new @netflix series THE MIDNIGHT CLUB, based on the work of Christopher Pike, I’m honored and thrilled to announce our cast: Portraying the titular club of terminally ill young adults is an amazing group of young actors. The Midnight Club is made up of Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, William Chris Sumpter, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard and Sauriyan Sapkota. And joining them… I’m thrilled to welcome back some familiar faces as Zach Gilford, Samantha Sloyan, and Matt Biedel join the

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 2, 2021
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From The Director Of ‘Escape Room’ Comes The Pandemic Horror ‘Safer At Home’ (Trailer)

Vertical Entertainment has announced the February release date for the pandemic horror film Safer at Home whose trailer teases that isolation can be deadly. Set two years into the pandemic, a group of friends decides to throw an online party with a night of games, drinking, and drugs. But after taking ecstasy, things go terribly wrong and the safety of their homes become more terrifying than the raging chaos outside. Directed by Will Wernick (Escape Room) who co-wrote the film with Lia Bozonelis, the film stars Jocelyn Hudon, Emma Lahana, Adwin Brown, Alisa Allapach, Michael Kupisk, Daniel Robaire, and Dan J. Johnson. Safer at Home opens in select theaters and arrives on VOD and Digital on February 26, 2021, from Vertical Entertainment.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 2, 2021
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Two New Clips Take Us Into ‘The Night’ – Out Now On VOD And Digital

To celebrate the release of the award-winning Iranian horror film The Night, which HorrorFuel’s Joseph Perry calls “a gripping chiller” in his review, we’ve got two brand new clips to share with you. Directed and co-written by Kourosh Ahari, the film follows an Iranian couple, Babak and Neda, and their one-year-old daughter, Shabnam. Returning home from a friend’s gathering, Babak drives drunkenly, too stubborn to let Neda drive with a suspended license. When Babak’s driving threatens the safety of the family, Neda insists they stay the night at a hotel. Once they check-in, Babak and Neda find themselves imprisoned, forced to face the secrets they’ve kept from each other. And though the clock moves forward, “the night” never ends. The film features a diverse cast and crew made up of predominantly Iranian immigrants or US-born Iranian-Americans, including Shahab Hosseini, Niousha Jafarian, Leah Oganyan, and George Maguire. Shot on location in the US, The Night recently received a license for theatrical

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 2, 2021
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Your February 15th-28th Guide To All Things Paranormal On Discovery+

This February discovery+ will be unleashing a horde of new series premieres, new episodes, and much more. The spooky action never stops. One of the new series making its premiere this month is “Aliens in Alaska” which delves into the last frontier’s reputation as a hotbed for extraterrestrial encounters. Fan favorite “Mountain Monsters: By the Fire also makes its debut. EXCLUSIVE PREMIERES NOSTRADAMUS: END OF DAYS NEW SERIES – Begins Streaming Tuesday, February 16 on discovery+ This all-new eight-episode series reveals exactly how the world will end, and what will be behind it, as predicted by history’s greatest prophet, Nostradamus. Combining the infamous seer’s ancient words with paintings from a mysterious lost book bearing his name, the series decodes new prophecies and causes of the world’s demise. Nostradamus saw the impending apocalypse 500 years ago, and now it’s up to experts to reveal the terrifying truth his visions can prepare us for. These groundbreaking interpretations uncover the destruction soon to

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 2, 2021
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A Kidnapped Woman Discovers Hidden Powers In The ‘Ascendant’ Trailer

120 FLOORS. 4 WALLS. 1 SECRET TRAPPED INSIDE… Aussie director Antaine Furlong‘s exciting new film Ascendant is set to be released this April. Ahead of its arrival, we’ve got the new trailer. The film tells the story of “young environmentalist Aria Wolf (Charlotte Best) who finds herself kidnapped and held hostage in a high-speed elevator in a 120-floor building in Shanghai. Aria holds a secret that makes her a valuable asset to many. However, she has no memory of her past, who her captors are, or what they want from her. While being pushed to her physical and psychological limits, she begins to discover that what has been hidden within her for so long is what will ultimately be her salvation.” Filmed at Sydney’s Fox Studios and on the Northern Beaches during the pandemic, Ascendant stars Australian actress Charlotte Best (“Tidelands”), Jonny Pasvolsky (“Westworld”), and Susan Prior (The Commons). In addition, to help create the amazing world and compelling production

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 1, 2021
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New Blood-Drenched Images From ‘Wrong Turn’ Surface

Next month, you can bring home director Mike P. Nelson‘s (The Domestics) Wrong Turn, a new take on the hillbilly cannibal slasher released in 2003. Ahead of the release, we’ve gotten our hands on a new batch of blood-drenched images (originally shared by Bloody-Disgusting). In the film, “Backwoods terror and never-jangling suspense meet when Jen (Charlotte Vega) and a group of friends set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers stray off course—and cross onto land inhabited by The Foundation, a hidden community of mountain dwellers who use deadly means to protect their way of life. Suddenly under siege, Jen and her friends seem headed to the point of no return— unless Jen’s father (Golden Globe nominee Matthew Modine) can reach them in time.” Damian Maffei (The Strangers: Prey at Night, Haunt), Bill Sage (“Hap and Leonard”), Emma Dumont (“The Gifted”), Chaney Morrow (Haunt), Valerie Jane Parker (“Greenleaf”), and David Hutchinson (“American

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Charlotte Kirk Set to Star in Neil Marshall's Cat-and-Mouse Horror-Thriller 'The Spiral Down'

Movie Review: Neil Marshall’s ‘The Reckoning’ Will Cast A Spell On You

Neil Marshall is a name you should be very familiar with. He’s the director behind movies such as The Descent, Dog Soldiers, and Tales of Halloween. He’s back with a new film, The Reckoning. Set in England in the late 17th century, the Great Plague is raging as the witch trials cause hysteria, people begin to fear their friends, neighbors, and family, may be witches. During this time in history in real life, over 1,000 innocent people were imprisoned, tortured, and killed with ninety percent of the victims being women. All it took was a whisper for these people to be condemned. This is a key element in The Reckoning. In the opening scene, we see Grace (Charlotte Kirk), an exhausted mother kiss her baby before retrieving a sword from a chest. Struggling, she drags the Scottish Claymore through the mud as she stumbles across her yard. That’s when we see him, her dear husband hanging from a tree. Clawing

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 1, 2021
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