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Russian Horror ‘The Envelope’ Delivers A Curse

Vladimir Markov’s Rusian supernatural thriller The Envelope is ready to open in theaters. Yuliya Peresild, Igor Lizengevich, Olga Medynich, Igor Khripunov, and Diana Enakaeva star. In the film, “a strange envelope is delivered to an architect bureau by mistake. Igor, a driver, gets the task to bring it to the right address. From that moment his life becomes a string of paranormal events. The cursed letter invades Igor’s life and leads him to a mysterious addressee.” The Envelope opens in theaters in Russia on November 30th and is from the same people who delivered The Bride which is getting a US remake.

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Oct 29, 2017
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Max Landis Wants To Make A Movie Featuring Horror’s Most Iconic Killers

For years horror fans have been talking about how awesome it would be to see a movie featuring all our favorite genre icons, Freddy, Jason, Michael, ect… Max Landis, son of the legendary An American in Werewolf filmmaker John Landis, has dreamed up a mind-blowing film and recently shared his idea, which has been brewing for the past 6 years, with the Nerdist’s Writers Panel podcast. The basic idea is that a 17-year-old kid in the foster system gets placed with a family living on Elm Street, the family of Glen Lantz (Johnny Depp’s character in the original Nightmare on Elm Street movie. On his first night, he is drugged at dinner and encounters Freddy Krueger. Freddy stalks the kid…pops out…claws to the face…dead instantly. Except he’s not and Freddy can’t get his claws out of the kid’s face. All of a sudden, chains, like the movie Hellraiser, go all around Freddy…pull him up and lock him…like he’s a scarecrow.”

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Oct 28, 2017
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Dylan Sprouse Stars As A Psychopath In The Trailer For The Thriller ‘Dismissed’

You might remember the Sprouse twins from ‘The Suite Life’. The two have grown into young men, both with promising careers. While Cole Sprouse plays the role of “Jughead” on The CW’s series ‘Riverdale’, his brother Dylan is starring in the upcoming thriller Dismissed whose trailer has just arrived. In the film, transfer student Lucas Ward seems like an exemplary student with a love of English, going above and beyond for the perfect grade. He’s certainly the favorite of high school teacher Mr. Butler. Then again, all rising serial killers seem that way. The signs start to show when Lucas gets a B+, bringing out his need to be the best at everything. He also doesn’t mind harming his classmates. Directed by Benjamin Arfmann, the film was co-stars Kent Osborne, Randall Park, Chris Bauer, Alycia Delmore, and Rae Gray, and was written by Brian McAuley. Dismissed will arrive on Video On Demand and Digital on November 21, 2017.

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Oct 27, 2017
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A Serial Killer Speaks Through Best Selling Audiobooks

Everyone has listened to at least one audiobook in their life. But what you may have been unaware of while listening to the story in your car or at the gym, is that there is a chance that you may have been hearing the voice of a serial killer. Run by serial killer Edmund Kemper III, there was a program at the California Medical Facility State Prison called Volunteers of Vacaville aka the “Blind Project”. The inmates in the program recorded thousands of books, novels, textbooks, and even cookbooks on tape. Some of those recordings have been transferred to digital copies. From 1977 to 1987 alone, Kemper spent over 5,000 hours recording more than four million feet of tape. The project is still alive and well today and continues to operate at the prison. I can’t begin to tell you what this has meant to me, to be able to do something constructive for someone else, to be appreciated by

Continue reading →
Oct 27, 2017
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’47 Meters Down’ Sequel Sinks Its Teeth Into A Release Date

Johannes Robert’s shark thriller 47 Meters Down made quite a splash with movie watchers, grossing $44 million at the box office domestically this summer. It’s no surprise that a sequel is coming our way. And there’s great news, Roberts will be returning to direct the sequel as well as to write the script with Ernest Riera. 48 Meters down, set in Brazil, centers on five young women from different backgrounds and countries united by their lust for life and desire for adventure in the coastal metropolis of Recife. In an attempt to get off the tourist trail, they decided to explore a hidden underwater ruin but the caves where the forgotten city lies are inhabited by the deadliest shark species in the ocean.” James Harris, Wayne Marc Godfrey, Mark Lane, and Robert Jones of Fyzz Facility will be producing. Altitude Film Sales will be executive producing. 48 Meters Down will swim into theaters on June 28, 2019.

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Oct 27, 2017
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Celebrate Halloween With Special Screening Of ‘The Shinning’ Featuring New Documentary

Park Circus is celebrating Halloween with a one night only special screening of The Shining in over 100 cinemas in the UK. Not only will audiences see the classic Stanley Kubrick film based on the novel by Stephen King, a bonus seven-minute documentary titled Work & Play: A Short Film About the Shining from director Matt Wells will be featured. You can find a Park Circus theater near you hosting the special screening HERE.

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Oct 27, 2017
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Witness True Terror In Real Life Inspired Supernatural Thriller ‘The Child Remains’

There is something about horror films inspired by true stories that make them so much more terrifying. The Child Remains is one of those films. The award-winning film tells the story of an expectant couple whose intimate weekend turns to terror when they discover their secluded country inn is a haunted maternity home where both mothers and unwanted infants and were murdered. Starring Cannes’ Best Actress winner Suzanne Clement (Mommy), Allan Hawco (Hyena Road), Shelley Thompson (Labyrinth) and genre legend Geza Kovacs (Scanners, The Dead Zone), this tense supernatural thriller was written and directed by award-winning filmmaker Michael Melski (The Con Artist). The Child Remains was inspired by the true-life crimes of the infamous “Butterbox Babies” murders. In 1928 in East Chester, Novia Scotia The Ideal Maternity Home, a home for unwed mothers, was opened by William Peach Young, a unordained minister, and his wife Lila. While operating from 1928 to 1945 the unlicensed home gave care to both married

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Oct 26, 2017
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Wild Eye Releasing Unleashes ‘Antihuman’ On Video On Demand

Wild Eye Releasing has unleashed the new horror/sci-fi film Antihuman on Video On Demand. Watch as a young woman returns to the abandoned asylum where her now deceased mother once worked. Together with three friends, she discovers that the ghosts of the past have found their way to the present where the hospital’s legacy of experimentation and madness knows no bounds of time. Directed by Luke Gietzen and Mark Robins, the film gives off an ‘Orphan Black’ meets Resident Evil vibe. Anya Korzun. Andrew Jardine, Danielle Arden, Katie Keight, and Katheryn Goldsmith star

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Oct 26, 2017
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Title And Plot Revealed For Chapter 3 Of ‘Channel Zero’

The second season, ‘No-End House’, of Syfy’s dark hit series ‘Channel Zero’ has ended and the next chapter’s title revealed along with its first teaser which you will find below. ‘Channel Zero: Butcher’s Block’ will premiere in 2018 and was inspired by the creepypasta story “Search and Rescue” by Kerry Hammond. ‘Butcher’s Block’ “tells the story of a young woman named Alice (Olivia Luccardi, “It Follows”) who moves to a new city and learns about a series of disappearances that may be connected to a baffling rumor about mysterious staircases in the city’s worst neighborhoods. With help from her sister, they discover that something is preying on the city’s residents.” Nick Antosca, the series’ creator, executive producer, showrunner, is joined by returning executive producer Max Landis and UCP. The season Arkasha Stevenson will be in the director’s chair. The indie director’s previous projects include 2015’s Vessels, Daisy & D, and Crowns. Antosca had the following to say about Stevenson just

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Oct 26, 2017
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All Puppet Horror Film ‘Frank & Zed’ Seeking Funding

How many times in horror movies have we seen kids on a camping trip gone wrong or zombies out for human flesh? A new upcoming film is looking to put a spin on the genre that we rarely see. In the film Frank & Zed, from Jesse Blanchard, the characters are all puppets. Currently 90% funded on Kickstarter, the film centers on “two classic monsters, Frank & Zed whose powerful master is long defeated. Since his death, they have survived the wrath of the mob by hiding in the ruins of an old castle. But they are soon discovered and their fates, along with those of the village below, will be decided in the prophesied ‘Orgy of Blood’.” The page states that “Frank & Zed is the 100% puppet horror monster movie that lives up to that premise. Done with the attention to detail and world-building of the Dark Crystal and the mad mayhem and glee of Meet the Feebles

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Oct 26, 2017

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Russian Horror ‘The Envelope’ Delivers A Curse

Vladimir Markov’s Rusian supernatural thriller The Envelope is ready to open in theaters. Yuliya Peresild, Igor Lizengevich, Olga Medynich, Igor Khripunov, and Diana Enakaeva star. In the film, “a strange envelope is delivered to an architect bureau by mistake. Igor, a driver, gets the task to bring it to the right address. From that moment his life becomes a string of paranormal events. The cursed letter invades Igor’s life and leads him to a mysterious addressee.” The Envelope opens in theaters in Russia on November 30th and is from the same people who delivered The Bride which is getting a US remake.

Continue reading →
Oct 29, 2017
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Max Landis Wants To Make A Movie Featuring Horror’s Most Iconic Killers

For years horror fans have been talking about how awesome it would be to see a movie featuring all our favorite genre icons, Freddy, Jason, Michael, ect… Max Landis, son of the legendary An American in Werewolf filmmaker John Landis, has dreamed up a mind-blowing film and recently shared his idea, which has been brewing for the past 6 years, with the Nerdist’s Writers Panel podcast. The basic idea is that a 17-year-old kid in the foster system gets placed with a family living on Elm Street, the family of Glen Lantz (Johnny Depp’s character in the original Nightmare on Elm Street movie. On his first night, he is drugged at dinner and encounters Freddy Krueger. Freddy stalks the kid…pops out…claws to the face…dead instantly. Except he’s not and Freddy can’t get his claws out of the kid’s face. All of a sudden, chains, like the movie Hellraiser, go all around Freddy…pull him up and lock him…like he’s a scarecrow.”

Continue reading →
Oct 28, 2017
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Dylan Sprouse Stars As A Psychopath In The Trailer For The Thriller ‘Dismissed’

You might remember the Sprouse twins from ‘The Suite Life’. The two have grown into young men, both with promising careers. While Cole Sprouse plays the role of “Jughead” on The CW’s series ‘Riverdale’, his brother Dylan is starring in the upcoming thriller Dismissed whose trailer has just arrived. In the film, transfer student Lucas Ward seems like an exemplary student with a love of English, going above and beyond for the perfect grade. He’s certainly the favorite of high school teacher Mr. Butler. Then again, all rising serial killers seem that way. The signs start to show when Lucas gets a B+, bringing out his need to be the best at everything. He also doesn’t mind harming his classmates. Directed by Benjamin Arfmann, the film was co-stars Kent Osborne, Randall Park, Chris Bauer, Alycia Delmore, and Rae Gray, and was written by Brian McAuley. Dismissed will arrive on Video On Demand and Digital on November 21, 2017.

Continue reading →
Oct 27, 2017
Horror Fuel

A Serial Killer Speaks Through Best Selling Audiobooks

Everyone has listened to at least one audiobook in their life. But what you may have been unaware of while listening to the story in your car or at the gym, is that there is a chance that you may have been hearing the voice of a serial killer. Run by serial killer Edmund Kemper III, there was a program at the California Medical Facility State Prison called Volunteers of Vacaville aka the “Blind Project”. The inmates in the program recorded thousands of books, novels, textbooks, and even cookbooks on tape. Some of those recordings have been transferred to digital copies. From 1977 to 1987 alone, Kemper spent over 5,000 hours recording more than four million feet of tape. The project is still alive and well today and continues to operate at the prison. I can’t begin to tell you what this has meant to me, to be able to do something constructive for someone else, to be appreciated by

Continue reading →
Oct 27, 2017
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’47 Meters Down’ Sequel Sinks Its Teeth Into A Release Date

Johannes Robert’s shark thriller 47 Meters Down made quite a splash with movie watchers, grossing $44 million at the box office domestically this summer. It’s no surprise that a sequel is coming our way. And there’s great news, Roberts will be returning to direct the sequel as well as to write the script with Ernest Riera. 48 Meters down, set in Brazil, centers on five young women from different backgrounds and countries united by their lust for life and desire for adventure in the coastal metropolis of Recife. In an attempt to get off the tourist trail, they decided to explore a hidden underwater ruin but the caves where the forgotten city lies are inhabited by the deadliest shark species in the ocean.” James Harris, Wayne Marc Godfrey, Mark Lane, and Robert Jones of Fyzz Facility will be producing. Altitude Film Sales will be executive producing. 48 Meters Down will swim into theaters on June 28, 2019.

Continue reading →
Oct 27, 2017
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Celebrate Halloween With Special Screening Of ‘The Shinning’ Featuring New Documentary

Park Circus is celebrating Halloween with a one night only special screening of The Shining in over 100 cinemas in the UK. Not only will audiences see the classic Stanley Kubrick film based on the novel by Stephen King, a bonus seven-minute documentary titled Work & Play: A Short Film About the Shining from director Matt Wells will be featured. You can find a Park Circus theater near you hosting the special screening HERE.

Continue reading →
Oct 27, 2017
Horror Fuel

Witness True Terror In Real Life Inspired Supernatural Thriller ‘The Child Remains’

There is something about horror films inspired by true stories that make them so much more terrifying. The Child Remains is one of those films. The award-winning film tells the story of an expectant couple whose intimate weekend turns to terror when they discover their secluded country inn is a haunted maternity home where both mothers and unwanted infants and were murdered. Starring Cannes’ Best Actress winner Suzanne Clement (Mommy), Allan Hawco (Hyena Road), Shelley Thompson (Labyrinth) and genre legend Geza Kovacs (Scanners, The Dead Zone), this tense supernatural thriller was written and directed by award-winning filmmaker Michael Melski (The Con Artist). The Child Remains was inspired by the true-life crimes of the infamous “Butterbox Babies” murders. In 1928 in East Chester, Novia Scotia The Ideal Maternity Home, a home for unwed mothers, was opened by William Peach Young, a unordained minister, and his wife Lila. While operating from 1928 to 1945 the unlicensed home gave care to both married

Continue reading →
Oct 26, 2017
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Wild Eye Releasing Unleashes ‘Antihuman’ On Video On Demand

Wild Eye Releasing has unleashed the new horror/sci-fi film Antihuman on Video On Demand. Watch as a young woman returns to the abandoned asylum where her now deceased mother once worked. Together with three friends, she discovers that the ghosts of the past have found their way to the present where the hospital’s legacy of experimentation and madness knows no bounds of time. Directed by Luke Gietzen and Mark Robins, the film gives off an ‘Orphan Black’ meets Resident Evil vibe. Anya Korzun. Andrew Jardine, Danielle Arden, Katie Keight, and Katheryn Goldsmith star

Continue reading →
Oct 26, 2017
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Title And Plot Revealed For Chapter 3 Of ‘Channel Zero’

The second season, ‘No-End House’, of Syfy’s dark hit series ‘Channel Zero’ has ended and the next chapter’s title revealed along with its first teaser which you will find below. ‘Channel Zero: Butcher’s Block’ will premiere in 2018 and was inspired by the creepypasta story “Search and Rescue” by Kerry Hammond. ‘Butcher’s Block’ “tells the story of a young woman named Alice (Olivia Luccardi, “It Follows”) who moves to a new city and learns about a series of disappearances that may be connected to a baffling rumor about mysterious staircases in the city’s worst neighborhoods. With help from her sister, they discover that something is preying on the city’s residents.” Nick Antosca, the series’ creator, executive producer, showrunner, is joined by returning executive producer Max Landis and UCP. The season Arkasha Stevenson will be in the director’s chair. The indie director’s previous projects include 2015’s Vessels, Daisy & D, and Crowns. Antosca had the following to say about Stevenson just

Continue reading →
Oct 26, 2017
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All Puppet Horror Film ‘Frank & Zed’ Seeking Funding

How many times in horror movies have we seen kids on a camping trip gone wrong or zombies out for human flesh? A new upcoming film is looking to put a spin on the genre that we rarely see. In the film Frank & Zed, from Jesse Blanchard, the characters are all puppets. Currently 90% funded on Kickstarter, the film centers on “two classic monsters, Frank & Zed whose powerful master is long defeated. Since his death, they have survived the wrath of the mob by hiding in the ruins of an old castle. But they are soon discovered and their fates, along with those of the village below, will be decided in the prophesied ‘Orgy of Blood’.” The page states that “Frank & Zed is the 100% puppet horror monster movie that lives up to that premise. Done with the attention to detail and world-building of the Dark Crystal and the mad mayhem and glee of Meet the Feebles

Continue reading →
Oct 26, 2017