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‘Twin Peaks’ Actress Grace Victoria Cox Joins Ted Bundy Film

Filming has begun for Joe Belinger’s Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile. We reported back in May that Zac Efron had signed on to star in the film as notorious serial killer Ted Bundy and last week we showed you the first image. Now, we have more casting news to share. Deadline is reporting that Grace Victoria Cox has joined the cast. The ‘Twin Peaks’ actress will be playing the role of Carol Daronch, a young woman who survived an encounter with Bundy and later IDs him in court. Told from the perspective of Bundy’s ex-girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer (Lily Collins), the film covers a several year span of their relationship while Bundy was hiding stalking and killing young women. Angela Sarafyan will co-star as Joanna, Elizabeth’s close friend. Oscar nominee John Malkovich is set to play Edward Cowart, the judge who presided over the killer’s trial and sentencing. Michael Werwie penned the screenplay which took home the prestigious Nicholl Fellowship

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jan 26, 2018

From the Crypt

From The Writer Of ‘Insidious’ Comes ‘Upgrade’ – Out This Summer

Leigh Whannell’s name should sound familiar, he’s the writer behind Saw and Dead Silence. He also wrote and co-starred in the Insidious franchise. Now, Whannell’s latest film, titled Upgrade, which he both wrote and directed, has a release date. Upgrade “centers on Grey Trace, a technophobe in a utopian near-future when computers control nearly everything – from cars to crime-surveillance – who is paralyzed in a freak mugging. But when a billionaire technologist offers him an experimental paralysis cure – an implanted computer chip called STEM – Grey finds that the chip has a voice and a mind of its own.” Logan Marshall-Green (Prometheus), Betty Gabriel (Get Out), Harrison Gilbertson (Hounds of Love), Simon Maiden (Killer Elite), and Benedict Hardie (Hacksaw Ridge) star. Jason Blum, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Kylie du Fresne, Goalpost Pictures, and Automatik Entertainment are producing. Charles Layton, Rosemary Blight, and Ben Grant serve as executive producers. Upgrade, from Blumhouse Productions and NEON, will be out on June 1,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jan 25, 2018

Trailers

Pull Up A Seat For The Supernatural Film ‘Dinner With The Alchemist’ This February

Pull up a seat for Dinner with the Alchemist, the supernatural drama based on the true events surrounding a series of murders in turn-of-the-century New Orleans. Starring Dan Istrate as Jacques St. Germaine, the wealthy Alchemist (Alias, 96 Souls, Drakul), Dionne Audain as voodoo priestess Marie Laveu ( I Love Dick, Lemon, How To Get Away With Murder ), and Megan Graves as Mary, the orphan (House of Cards, All Our Yesterdays: Past Is Prologue, Chris and Carol), and with an original musical score by composer John Pscitello (Becoming Bond, The Short Game, Unseen Enemy ), Dinner with the Alchemist weaves a tale filled with “historical facts and imaginative storytelling into a salacious, mysterious supernatural drama of murder and mayhem in the French Quarter.” The film hails from the husband and wife team of Kevin Good (director) and Jenna St. John’s (writer/producer/actress) and is set to be released on Video On Demand and Digital on February 13, 2018. https://vimeo.com/168549828

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jan 25, 2018

True Story

Hilary Duff To Star In Her First Horror Film, As Sharon Tate

It appears Lizzie McGuire actress Hilary Duff is starring in her first horror film. Duff has been hinting through social media posts that she is set to play murdered actress Sharon Tate, who was killed along with several friends by the Mason Family. In one photo Duff is sporting a fake pregnancy belly and a pink gown just like Tate was wearing when she was killed. https://www.instagram.com/p/BeTo5rGH0yc/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_ufi Now, there is more evidence. Tonight, a Twitter account by the name of “Hilary Duff News” shared more photos and confirmed that Duff is indeed playing Tate in The Haunting of Sharon Tate, based on a popular theory that Tate’s ghost haunts the home where she died. The tweet also mentions that Daniel Farrands is involved and that filming has already begun. https://twitter.com/HilaryNews/status/956219664304099328 Farrands produced Amityville: the Awakening, The Haunting in Connecticut, along with several other films and several genre documentaries, which he also wrote and directed. The Haunting of Sharon Tate is

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jan 25, 2018

Streaming TV

Tears Will Flow In The Extended Mid-Season Premiere Of ‘The Walking Dead’

The mid-season premiere of ‘The Walking Dead’ is a month away and fans already know they’re in for heartache. News has come today that the premiere is going to be extended to 82 minutes. Director Greg Nicotero has recently promised that the mid-season premiere of ‘The Walking Dead’ is “one of the most powerful episodes we’ve ever produced,” He also admitted that he broke down while watching the first cut of the premiere. If you’re living on planet Earth you already know that it was revealed in the mid-season finale that Carl has been bitten by a walker so if you’re a fan, have the tissues ready because odds are that it will be Carl’s (Chandler Riggs) last episode. Tears will flow and anger will be expressed on social media, so if you can’t watch the episode the night it airs I recommend taking a vacation from Twitter and Facebook because spoilers will be everywhere! Don’t say we didn’t warn

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jan 24, 2018

Trailers

Award-Winning Sci-fi Thriller ‘Diverge’ Coming To VOD And iTunes

James Morrison’s award-winning sci-fi thriller Diverge. about a solitary survivor of a deadly virus who is given the chance to reclaim his life by altering his past is heading towards its February release date. Diverge stars Ivan Sandomire (Fluidic), Jamie Jackson (The Greatest Showman), Andrew Sensing (Upstream Color, We Are Still Here), and features a hypnotic new score by the Blair Brothers (Green Room, Hold the Dark). Ivan Sandomire, Jamie Jackson, and Andrew Sensenig produced. In the film, set in the aftermath of a mysterious pandemic that’s turned cities into wastelands, a man desperately searches for a way to cure his ailing wife as she battles a deadly virus. When he is captured by a cryptic stranger, he is offered the chance to save not only his wife but the world. “Equal parts science fiction and morality tale, Diverge tells the story of how the choices of one can have dire consequences for all. “ Following a year-long festival tour

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jan 24, 2018

News

Horror Racks Up Nominations At The Oscars

After years of being ignored, the horror genre is finally getting the recognition it deserves and racking up nominations at the 2018 Academy Awards with The Shape of Water and Get Out leading the way. Jordan Peele’s socially conscious genre thriller Get Out is nominated for Best Director, Best Picture, Lead Actor (Daniel Ksluuya), and Best Original Screenplay. When Peele heard the news he tweeted, “I just spoke to Daniel. You know when you’re on the phone trying to disguise the sound of an ugly cry? I failed at that.” Who can blame him? Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water is also in the running for Best Picture and Original Screenplay, as well as a horde of other awards including Lead Actress (Sally Hawkins), Supporting Actor (Richard Jenkins), Supporting Actress (Octavia Spencer), Best Director, Cinematography, Film Editing (Sidney Wolinsky), Sound Editing (Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira), Sound Mixing (Glen Gauthier, Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern), Production Design (Paul D. Austerberry, Jeffrey

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jan 24, 2018

Trailers

‘Children Of The Corn: Runaway’ Arriving On DVD This March

Just when you thought it was safe to go into the fields, you find out “He who walks behind the rows” is back. The tenth film of the Children of the Corn franchise is coming your way this March. The latest installment franchise based on the story by Stephen King, Children of the Corn: Runaway, from Feast director John Gulager, “tells the story of young, pregnant Ruth, who escapes a murderous child cult in a small Midwestern town. She spends the next decade living anonymously in an attempt to spare her son the horrors that she experienced as a child. Ruth and her son end up in a small Oklahoma town, but something is following her. Now, she must confront this evil or lose her child.” Written by Joel Soisson (Children of the Corn: Genesis), the film stars Marci Miller, Lynn Andrews, Mary Kathryn Bryant, Lynn Andrews, Blaine Maye, and Jake Ryan Scott. Children of the Corn: Runaway arrives on

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jan 24, 2018

Trailers

Fans Are Putting Themselves Into ‘The Strangers: Prey At Night’ – Standees Popping Up At Theaters

The Strangers: Prey At Night standees are popping up at theaters across the nation, giving moviegoers a chance to insert themselves directly in a horror scene straight from the upcoming film. Fans have the opportunity to pose for photos on a couch while Dollface, Pin-Up Girl and Man in the Mask prey from windows in the back, or insert their face into a dangerous scene with the three masked maniacs. Check out some fan photos below and find more on the film’s official social channels: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Strangers: Prey at Night, the long-awaited sequel to 2008’s home invasion hit The Strangers from Bryan Bertino, will soon be in theaters. Directed by Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down), the film centers on a family whose road trip takes a dangerous turn when they arrive at a secluded mobile home park to stay with some relatives and find it mysteriously deserted. Under the cover of darkness, three masked psychopaths pay them

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jan 24, 2018

Trailers

New Poster For ‘The School’ Teaches A Lesson In Terror

New artwork (above) has arrived for award-winning writer-director Storm Ashwood’s supernatural genre thriller The School. The film centers on Amy, a doctor who struggles to cope with her emergency room duties while her son is in a coma. After being reprimanded by her boss for obsessively believing her son can still wake up, she becomes trapped in a coma/purgatory of her own in a school where children from her past emerge to taunt and test her to her core, putting in doubt if she will be able to save her son and escape The School. Nicholas Hope, Megan Drury, Texas Watterston, William Charles McDonald, Milly Alcock, Sassy Soupidis, Christian Willis, Leah Ashwood, and Jack Ruwald co-star in this unnerving tale. Jim Robinson and Blake Northfield produced with Phil Hunt and Compton Ross serving as executive producers for the Australian film. The School was filmed at the oldest mental institute in Australia, the Gladesville Mental Asylum. Founded in the 1830’s, the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jan 23, 2018

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