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Terror Films and Shudder, the leading streaming service for horror, thriller, and suspense, have teamed up for the release of writer-director Stephen Cognetti‘s highly-anticipated Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel. Following the success of Hell House LLC, released in 2016, Cognetti is giving fans what they’ve been begging for, a sequel, Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel. The sequel picks up eight years since the opening night tragedy of Hell House LLC; s many unanswered questions remain. Thanks to an anonymous tip, an investigative journalist is convinced that key evidence is hidden inside the abandoned Abaddon Hotel. This evidence that will shed light on the hotel’s mysteries, many unsolved deaths, and disappearances. Journalist Jessica Fox (Jillian Geurts) assembles a team to break into the hotel in hopes of discovering the truth. But the source of the tip and the secrets of the Abaddon Hotel are more horrifying than any of them could have imagined. Geurts stars alongside Vasile
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Anna and the Apocalypse is the new holiday treat we didn’t know we needed. Horror fans have just been gifted with the second trailer that’s filled with Christmas cheer and a lot of zombies. Director John McPhail‘s fresh musical twist on the zombie genre is set in the “sleepy town of Little Haven. Anna and her high school pals must fight, sing and slash their way to survival. Teaming with her best friend John, Anna and her crew try to save family and faculty alike as they encounter zombified snowmen, a manic bachelor party, and teenage hormones. But they soon discover that no one is safe in this new world, and the only people they can truly rely on are each other.” Ella Hunt (Our Robot Overlords) stars alongside Mark Benton (The Halcyon) and Paul Kaye (Game Of Thrones). Malcolm Cumming, Sarah Swire, Christopher Leveaux, Ben Wiggins, and Marli Siu co-star. Ryan McHenry, who wrote the 2010 short film Zombie
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James Wan‘s “Swamp Thing” series has begun casting. The first actress to join the cast is “Gotham” star Crystal Reed, who will play Abby Arcane, the love interest of Swamp Thing. The series, based on the DC comic created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson, is penned by “Ash vs. Evil Dead” writer Mark Verheiden and IT co-writer Gary Dauberman. Underworld director Lin Wiseman will direct the pilot episode. “Swamp Thing” centers on CDC researcher Abby Arcane. When she returns to her childhood home of Houma, Louisiana, in order to investigate a deadly swamp-borne virus, she develops a surprising bond with scientist Alec Holland — only to have him tragically taken from her. But as powerful forces descend on Houma, intent on exploiting the swamp’s mysterious properties for their own purposes, Abby will discover that the swamp holds mystical secrets, both horrifying and wondrous — and the potential love of her life may not be dead after all. Verheiden and
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Filmex, the company that brought us the [Rec] franchise, Sleep Tight, and Summer Camp, has unleashed the first international trailer for Animus (aka Souls) co-directed by Laura Alvea and Jose Ortuño. The film centers on Alex, “a confident girl with a strong personality and great tenacity. She’s very close to her best friend Abraham, to whom she provides constant help and support, as Abraham is a shy, withdrawn and insecure boy, mainly due to the complex relationship between he and his parents. But everything changes when Daniel – Abraham’s father – dies in a strange accident, the cause of which is unclear. From this moment on, Alex finds herself on a hallucinatory journey that takes her on a descent into hell, where the line between reality and nightmare becomes blurred to the point that Alex begins to question the foundations of her very existence.” Clare Durant, Ivan Pellicer, and Angela Molina star. Animus arrives overseas on October 5, 2018. We’ll
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One of the most highly-anticipated horror films of the year, The Nun, opened in theaters nationwide yesterday. The film which had a budget of around $22 million, brought in over $5.4 million dollars on its opening night. To celebrate its opening, we have all of the trailers and clips for you to watch. If they don’t make you excited, you’re dead inside. In the film, a priest with a haunted past and woman on the threshold of taking her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate the death of a young nun in Romania. The two are forced to face a dark entity in the form of a nun. The Nun stars Oscar-nominated Demian Bichir (“A Better Life”) as Father Burke, Taissa Farmiga (TV’s “American Horror Story”) as Sister Irene, Charlotte Hope (TV’s “Game of Thrones”) as the abbey’s Sister Victoria and Ingrid Bisu (“Toni Erdmann”) as Sister Oana, Jonas Bloquet (Elle) as local villager Frenchie. Bonnie Aarons
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Starship Troopers‘ Casper Van Dien (interview) sinks his teeth into his latest role, in the werewolf film Alpha Wolf, from director Kevin VanHook. And we have the hair-raising new trailer. When Virginia (Jennifer Wenger) and her husband Jack (Dien) spend a long weekend in the idyllic countryside, they encounter a creature that tears their lives apart. While the attack has an effect on each of them, it brings out the worst in Jack. Written by Wes C. Caefer, Alpha Wolf co-stars Patrick Muldoon, James Preston Rogers, Robert Allen Mukes, Larry Poole, Tyler Gallant, and Shane P. Allen. Wes C. Caefer and Kevin VanHook produced with William Caefer executive producing. Alpha Wolf arrives in theaters on November 13, 2018.
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Artsploitation has announced the home video release of Dutch action/Sci-fi thriller Molly. The English-language first feature from co-directors Colinda Bongers and Thijs Meuwese, Molly premiered at the Imagine Film Festival, where Screen Anarchy raved, “like with Turbo Kid two years ago, ingenuity is the name of the game here”. Molly follows the tale of one young woman’s determined struggle to survive in an inhospitable world. In a barren landscape ravished by war, a super-powered young woman roams the violent post-apocalyptic landscape, armed only with a bow and arrow, to confront the dangers around her. When a sadistic ringmaster who runs an underground fight club hears of her supernatural abilities, he sends his sociopathic marauders to capture her and make her a star attraction in his cage fights. Julia Batelaan makes her feature film debut as the titular Molly, the latest addition to the pantheon of teens standing between evil and the end of the world. Molly will be available nationwide
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Painted Creek Productions has released the trailer their upcoming thriller Agramon’s Gate, written, directed, and produced by award-winning filmmaker and actor Harley Wallen (Artificial Loyalty). Starring Laurene Landon (Sky, Maniac Cop 1 & 2) and Yan Birch (Wes Craven’s The People Underneath the Stairs, Death House). When I wrote Agramon’s gate this was one of the scripts that came out really easy. I wanted to make a horror movie with a good storyline that had good plot and great characters. So writing it pretty much poured right out after I figured out the components, characters and story.” Wallen stated. ” I was always a fan of horror movies that offered more than just gore. I love when there is a great story, strong suspense and some mystery along with some jump moments and some gore and frights! I really feel we brought that to life in Agramon’s Gate. “In the story, we follow Richie (Kris Reilly) who at a young
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One of the many great things about Halloween is the movie marathons and specials that fill our televisions. One annual treat is Freeform’s “13 Nights of Halloween”, but this year they are going bigger, renaming the marathon “31 Nights of Halloween“. Awesome right? Check out the schedule that promises lots of thrills and chills. Monday, October 1 5pm/4c ParaNorman 7:10pm/6:10c The Nightmare Before Christmas 8:50pm/7:50c Hocus Pocus 12am/11c ParaNorman Tuesday, October 2 5pm/4c The Nightmare Before Christmas 6:30pm/5:30c Hocus Pocus 8:30pm/7:30c Disney•Pixar’s Monsters University 12am/11c Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) Wednesday, October 3 4pm/3c Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) 6:30pm/5:30c Disney•Pixar’s Monsters University 9pm/8c Monster House 12am/11c The Final Girls Thursday, October 4 5pm/4c ParaNorman 7pm/6c Monster House 9pm/8c The Addams Family (1991) 12am/11c Teen Spirit Friday, October 5 12:30pm/11:30c The Parent Trap (1998) 3:30pm/2:30c Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) 6:10pm/5:10c The Addams Family (1991) 8:20pm/7:20c The Goonies 12am/11c The Breakfast Club Saturday, October 6
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In the mood for a zombie flick, but your better half is demanding a rom-com? We’ve got the solution that will leave you both smiling, Better off Zed. From Butcher Bird Studios and award-winning director Travis Stevens (Linked; Shelf Life), with a script penned by 2015 Nicholl Fellowship-winner Amy Tofte, Better Off Zed stars Christine Woods (HBO’s Hello Ladies; The Walking Dead; About a Boy) and Graham Sibley (Sully; Jane the Virgin; The Affair). The film is executive produced by Linda Morel (Key & Peele; Heathers, Teachers). “For the last decade, Guy (Sibley) has worked a mentally and physically demanding 60-hour week, a soul-crushing daily grind that has frayed his nerves; while his wife Paige (Woods), a free spirit with multiple fine arts degrees to her name, has spent their marriage chasing creative inspiration. When the zombie apocalypse arrives, Guy is ecstatic: no more grueling work, no more monotony, no more hopeless future. He spends his days in idyllic splendor,
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Terror Films and Shudder, the leading streaming service for horror, thriller, and suspense, have teamed up for the release of writer-director Stephen Cognetti‘s highly-anticipated Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel. Following the success of Hell House LLC, released in 2016, Cognetti is giving fans what they’ve been begging for, a sequel, Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel. The sequel picks up eight years since the opening night tragedy of Hell House LLC; s many unanswered questions remain. Thanks to an anonymous tip, an investigative journalist is convinced that key evidence is hidden inside the abandoned Abaddon Hotel. This evidence that will shed light on the hotel’s mysteries, many unsolved deaths, and disappearances. Journalist Jessica Fox (Jillian Geurts) assembles a team to break into the hotel in hopes of discovering the truth. But the source of the tip and the secrets of the Abaddon Hotel are more horrifying than any of them could have imagined. Geurts stars alongside Vasile
Continue reading →
Holiday HorrorMoviesNewsTrailers
Anna and the Apocalypse is the new holiday treat we didn’t know we needed. Horror fans have just been gifted with the second trailer that’s filled with Christmas cheer and a lot of zombies. Director John McPhail‘s fresh musical twist on the zombie genre is set in the “sleepy town of Little Haven. Anna and her high school pals must fight, sing and slash their way to survival. Teaming with her best friend John, Anna and her crew try to save family and faculty alike as they encounter zombified snowmen, a manic bachelor party, and teenage hormones. But they soon discover that no one is safe in this new world, and the only people they can truly rely on are each other.” Ella Hunt (Our Robot Overlords) stars alongside Mark Benton (The Halcyon) and Paul Kaye (Game Of Thrones). Malcolm Cumming, Sarah Swire, Christopher Leveaux, Ben Wiggins, and Marli Siu co-star. Ryan McHenry, who wrote the 2010 short film Zombie
Continue reading →
Comic Books/Graphic NovelsStreaming TV
James Wan‘s “Swamp Thing” series has begun casting. The first actress to join the cast is “Gotham” star Crystal Reed, who will play Abby Arcane, the love interest of Swamp Thing. The series, based on the DC comic created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson, is penned by “Ash vs. Evil Dead” writer Mark Verheiden and IT co-writer Gary Dauberman. Underworld director Lin Wiseman will direct the pilot episode. “Swamp Thing” centers on CDC researcher Abby Arcane. When she returns to her childhood home of Houma, Louisiana, in order to investigate a deadly swamp-borne virus, she develops a surprising bond with scientist Alec Holland — only to have him tragically taken from her. But as powerful forces descend on Houma, intent on exploiting the swamp’s mysterious properties for their own purposes, Abby will discover that the swamp holds mystical secrets, both horrifying and wondrous — and the potential love of her life may not be dead after all. Verheiden and
Continue reading →
MoviesTrailers
Filmex, the company that brought us the [Rec] franchise, Sleep Tight, and Summer Camp, has unleashed the first international trailer for Animus (aka Souls) co-directed by Laura Alvea and Jose Ortuño. The film centers on Alex, “a confident girl with a strong personality and great tenacity. She’s very close to her best friend Abraham, to whom she provides constant help and support, as Abraham is a shy, withdrawn and insecure boy, mainly due to the complex relationship between he and his parents. But everything changes when Daniel – Abraham’s father – dies in a strange accident, the cause of which is unclear. From this moment on, Alex finds herself on a hallucinatory journey that takes her on a descent into hell, where the line between reality and nightmare becomes blurred to the point that Alex begins to question the foundations of her very existence.” Clare Durant, Ivan Pellicer, and Angela Molina star. Animus arrives overseas on October 5, 2018. We’ll
Continue reading →
ClipsMoviesNewsTrailers
One of the most highly-anticipated horror films of the year, The Nun, opened in theaters nationwide yesterday. The film which had a budget of around $22 million, brought in over $5.4 million dollars on its opening night. To celebrate its opening, we have all of the trailers and clips for you to watch. If they don’t make you excited, you’re dead inside. In the film, a priest with a haunted past and woman on the threshold of taking her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate the death of a young nun in Romania. The two are forced to face a dark entity in the form of a nun. The Nun stars Oscar-nominated Demian Bichir (“A Better Life”) as Father Burke, Taissa Farmiga (TV’s “American Horror Story”) as Sister Irene, Charlotte Hope (TV’s “Game of Thrones”) as the abbey’s Sister Victoria and Ingrid Bisu (“Toni Erdmann”) as Sister Oana, Jonas Bloquet (Elle) as local villager Frenchie. Bonnie Aarons
Continue reading →
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Starship Troopers‘ Casper Van Dien (interview) sinks his teeth into his latest role, in the werewolf film Alpha Wolf, from director Kevin VanHook. And we have the hair-raising new trailer. When Virginia (Jennifer Wenger) and her husband Jack (Dien) spend a long weekend in the idyllic countryside, they encounter a creature that tears their lives apart. While the attack has an effect on each of them, it brings out the worst in Jack. Written by Wes C. Caefer, Alpha Wolf co-stars Patrick Muldoon, James Preston Rogers, Robert Allen Mukes, Larry Poole, Tyler Gallant, and Shane P. Allen. Wes C. Caefer and Kevin VanHook produced with William Caefer executive producing. Alpha Wolf arrives in theaters on November 13, 2018.
Continue reading →
MoviesNewsTrailers
Artsploitation has announced the home video release of Dutch action/Sci-fi thriller Molly. The English-language first feature from co-directors Colinda Bongers and Thijs Meuwese, Molly premiered at the Imagine Film Festival, where Screen Anarchy raved, “like with Turbo Kid two years ago, ingenuity is the name of the game here”. Molly follows the tale of one young woman’s determined struggle to survive in an inhospitable world. In a barren landscape ravished by war, a super-powered young woman roams the violent post-apocalyptic landscape, armed only with a bow and arrow, to confront the dangers around her. When a sadistic ringmaster who runs an underground fight club hears of her supernatural abilities, he sends his sociopathic marauders to capture her and make her a star attraction in his cage fights. Julia Batelaan makes her feature film debut as the titular Molly, the latest addition to the pantheon of teens standing between evil and the end of the world. Molly will be available nationwide
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesNewsTrailers
Painted Creek Productions has released the trailer their upcoming thriller Agramon’s Gate, written, directed, and produced by award-winning filmmaker and actor Harley Wallen (Artificial Loyalty). Starring Laurene Landon (Sky, Maniac Cop 1 & 2) and Yan Birch (Wes Craven’s The People Underneath the Stairs, Death House). When I wrote Agramon’s gate this was one of the scripts that came out really easy. I wanted to make a horror movie with a good storyline that had good plot and great characters. So writing it pretty much poured right out after I figured out the components, characters and story.” Wallen stated. ” I was always a fan of horror movies that offered more than just gore. I love when there is a great story, strong suspense and some mystery along with some jump moments and some gore and frights! I really feel we brought that to life in Agramon’s Gate. “In the story, we follow Richie (Kris Reilly) who at a young
Continue reading →
EventsHalloweenHoliday HorrorMoviesNews
One of the many great things about Halloween is the movie marathons and specials that fill our televisions. One annual treat is Freeform’s “13 Nights of Halloween”, but this year they are going bigger, renaming the marathon “31 Nights of Halloween“. Awesome right? Check out the schedule that promises lots of thrills and chills. Monday, October 1 5pm/4c ParaNorman 7:10pm/6:10c The Nightmare Before Christmas 8:50pm/7:50c Hocus Pocus 12am/11c ParaNorman Tuesday, October 2 5pm/4c The Nightmare Before Christmas 6:30pm/5:30c Hocus Pocus 8:30pm/7:30c Disney•Pixar’s Monsters University 12am/11c Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) Wednesday, October 3 4pm/3c Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) 6:30pm/5:30c Disney•Pixar’s Monsters University 9pm/8c Monster House 12am/11c The Final Girls Thursday, October 4 5pm/4c ParaNorman 7pm/6c Monster House 9pm/8c The Addams Family (1991) 12am/11c Teen Spirit Friday, October 5 12:30pm/11:30c The Parent Trap (1998) 3:30pm/2:30c Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) 6:10pm/5:10c The Addams Family (1991) 8:20pm/7:20c The Goonies 12am/11c The Breakfast Club Saturday, October 6
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In the mood for a zombie flick, but your better half is demanding a rom-com? We’ve got the solution that will leave you both smiling, Better off Zed. From Butcher Bird Studios and award-winning director Travis Stevens (Linked; Shelf Life), with a script penned by 2015 Nicholl Fellowship-winner Amy Tofte, Better Off Zed stars Christine Woods (HBO’s Hello Ladies; The Walking Dead; About a Boy) and Graham Sibley (Sully; Jane the Virgin; The Affair). The film is executive produced by Linda Morel (Key & Peele; Heathers, Teachers). “For the last decade, Guy (Sibley) has worked a mentally and physically demanding 60-hour week, a soul-crushing daily grind that has frayed his nerves; while his wife Paige (Woods), a free spirit with multiple fine arts degrees to her name, has spent their marriage chasing creative inspiration. When the zombie apocalypse arrives, Guy is ecstatic: no more grueling work, no more monotony, no more hopeless future. He spends his days in idyllic splendor,
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