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Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, best known for his breakout film 28 Weeks Later, has signed on to direct Haunted, a film inspired by 1898’s gothic ghost story Turn of the Screw, according to Deadline. The script for the film was penned by Chad and Carey Hayes (The Conjuring). Film legend Steven Spielberg will be serving as Producer for the film. Turn of the Screw, written by Henry James, follows a young governess and her two young charges. There are dark entities lurking in the estate the children call home. The spirits want to possess the children and claim their souls. We can expect to see the premiere of Haunted, which serves as both an adaption of the novel and a reboot of the 1992 film Turn of the Screw, some time in 2017. Fresnadillo is also set to direct the upcoming reboot 1989 of the classic horror film Pet Sematary,
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The Walking Dead‘s Lauren Cohan stars as Greta, a nanny, hired to care for a couple’s son in The Boy. After being hired she learns that she will actually be caring for a life-sized doll that the couple is using to cope with the loss of their eight-year-old son who has passed away. After Greta violates several of the rules the couple has issued, she discovers that the doll is unlike any other, it may actually be alive. Jim Norton, Diana Hardcastle, Rupert Evans, Ben Robson, Javier Botet and James Russell co-star along side Cohan. This creepy film was directed by William Brent Bell (The Devil Inside) and was written by Stacey Menear. The Boy arrives on Digital HD April 26th and is now out on DVD, Blu-ray and VOD.
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The first trailer has arrived for The Girl In The Photograph, Wes Craven’s last project. Katharine Isabelle, Christy Carlson Romano, Kenny Wormald, Claudia Lee, Miranda Rae Mayo, Toby Hemingway and Eva Bourne star along side The X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi and Harold and Kumar’s Kal Penn. The director, Nick Simon, co-wrote the film with Osgood Perkins. Wes Craven and Bawaf Alghanium served as executive producers for the film. . A bored young woman, living in a sleepy little town, starts receiving photographs of brutally murdered young women. A celebrity photographer arrives in town after seeing the photographs after seeing the photographs, but are the photos real or is the man behind them simply a great artist faking the brutal scenes? The Girl In The Photograph will arrive on VOD on April 1st, 2016 via Vertical Entertainment.
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Horror icons Robert Englund (A Nightmare of Elm Street) and Lin Shaye (Insidious) will be starring in the indie horror thriller The Midnight Man, from director Travis Z. (Cabin Fever). The Midnight Man is being produced by Gussi Fims and Zeal Media and has already begun filming. The Midnight Man is based on a on an old Pagan ritual known as “The Midnight Game”. The film also serves as a remake of the low budget film by Rob Kennedy. by the same name, released in 2013. The Midnight Man co-stars Grayson Gabriel (Stan Helsing), Keenan Lehmana (Silent Night), Summer Howell (Curse of Chucky), Meredith Rose (Jurassic World), Kyle Strauts (The Cabin in the Woods), Gabrielle Haugh (Headlock) and Michael Sirow (Darkroom). In the film a girl plays a game with her friends that summons a creature known as “The Midnight Man” . The entity uses the friends’ worst fears against them. This is not the first time Englund and Shaye
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Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool), Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler), and Rebecca Ferguson (Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation) are set to star in the sci-fi thriller Life. The film is in the hands of director Daniel Espinosa, with David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Julie Lynn and Bonnie Curtis serving as producers. Deadpool scribes Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese penned the script for Life, according to Variety. Life follows the crew of an International Space Station. After retrieving a sample from Mars, the crew discovers that it not only shows signs of life, it proves to be intelligent,
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In a few days the television adaption of Robert Kirkman’s Outcast will be premiering at the SXSW Film Festival. The Cinemax series stars Patrick Fugit as the main character Kyle Barnes, a young man in search of answers to why he has suffered from demonic possessions all of his life. During his quest to understand what happened to him, he comes in contact with others suffering from the same affliction. Pete Burris (Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2) co-stars along side Lacy Camp (Red Band Society), Julia Crockett (The Absence), Philip Glenister (Demons) Melinda McGraw (Mad Men), David Denman (13 Hours), Grace Zabriskie (The Killing), Cathrine Dent (The Shield), Brent Spiner (Independence Day) and ‘The Americans’ actor Lee Tergesen. The series will be directed by Adam Wingard, the director of ‘You’re Next’, and Julius Ramsey, who directed several episodes of ‘The Walking Dead’. Robert Kirkman will be serving as a writer for the 10 episode series, as well as an
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10 Cloverfield Lane, the sequel to 2008’s found footage movie, is back with a second TV spot that urges viewers to be prepared. In the film a young woman, waking up after an accident, finds herself in the basement of a stranger. He says he’s saved her life from a chemical attack that has left the outside world uninhabitable, but the truth is much stranger. 10 Cloverfield Lane, directed by Dan Trachtenberg, stars John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Gallagher Jr. and is produced by J.J. Abrams. Look for it in theaters on March 11th, 2016.
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A new trailer has just been released for Wolf Creek director Greg McLean’s new supernatural horror film The Darkness. The trailer gives a closer look at the horrors a family will face after a young boy brings home a sacred object from the Grand Canyon. Kevin Bacon (Tremors), Radha Mitchell (Silent Hill), Lucy Fry (Vampire Acadamy), David Mazouz (Gotham), Jennifer Morrison (Once Upon a Time) and Matt Walsh (Ted) star in this intense film. McLean directed and co-wrote The Darkness along with Shayne Armstrong and S.P. Krause. Jason Blum, Bianca Martin and Matt Kaplan serve as producers for the film. The Darkness follows a family returning home from a vacation. Michael has brought home a souvenir after ignoring the warnings that it may be haunted by ancient Native American spirits. The entity attached to the sacred object prays on the family’s fears and vulnerabilities, threatening to destroy the family and everything they hold most dear. The Darkness arrives in theaters
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Alberto Marini’s first full length feature, Summer Camp, is approaching its world wide release. Marini co-wrote the script for Summer Camp along with Danielle Schleif. The fast-paced outbreak thriller was directed by Juame Balaguero. In the film a group of American counselors arrive at a European summer camp and are faced with an outbreak of a rage virus unlike anything any seen before. Summer Camp stars Scream Queens’ actor Diego Boneta, Maiara Walsh (Zombieland series), Andres Velencoso (The End) and Jocelin Donahue of Insidious: Chapter 2. It opens in theaters world wide on March 18th. The brand new trailer kicks off with an infected dog attacking one of the counselors. We then get a glimpse of the fast-spreading virus as a young woman, trying to escape, is infected though an air-born contagion.
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Margin Films has summoned the first trailer for Quentin Lee’s The Unbidden. Lee (White Fog) directed from the script penned by Narhee Ahh (Purity). The Unbidden follows four longtime friends as they come together in hopes that a seance will protect them from a dark entity that will not stop until one of them is dead. Tamlyn Tomita (Teen Wolf), Julia Nickson (Half-Life), Amy Hill (50 First Dates) and Elizaneth Sung (Memoirs of a Geisha) star as the friends desperate to save one of their own. Michelle Krusiec, Akemi Look, Kimberly-Rose Wolter, Karin Anna Cheugn, Hayden Szeto and Jason Yee also star in this supernatural thriller. “If you’re a fan of the horror, psychological thriller, family melodrama or Asian American film genres, you’re in for a treat, not a trick.” Lee expressed. “Our intention was to create a wildly original independent feature with an all Asian-American cast that aims to not only entertain with shocks and thrills, but bring on
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Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, best known for his breakout film 28 Weeks Later, has signed on to direct Haunted, a film inspired by 1898’s gothic ghost story Turn of the Screw, according to Deadline. The script for the film was penned by Chad and Carey Hayes (The Conjuring). Film legend Steven Spielberg will be serving as Producer for the film. Turn of the Screw, written by Henry James, follows a young governess and her two young charges. There are dark entities lurking in the estate the children call home. The spirits want to possess the children and claim their souls. We can expect to see the premiere of Haunted, which serves as both an adaption of the novel and a reboot of the 1992 film Turn of the Screw, some time in 2017. Fresnadillo is also set to direct the upcoming reboot 1989 of the classic horror film Pet Sematary,
Continue reading →
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The Walking Dead‘s Lauren Cohan stars as Greta, a nanny, hired to care for a couple’s son in The Boy. After being hired she learns that she will actually be caring for a life-sized doll that the couple is using to cope with the loss of their eight-year-old son who has passed away. After Greta violates several of the rules the couple has issued, she discovers that the doll is unlike any other, it may actually be alive. Jim Norton, Diana Hardcastle, Rupert Evans, Ben Robson, Javier Botet and James Russell co-star along side Cohan. This creepy film was directed by William Brent Bell (The Devil Inside) and was written by Stacey Menear. The Boy arrives on Digital HD April 26th and is now out on DVD, Blu-ray and VOD.
Continue reading →
Trailers
The first trailer has arrived for The Girl In The Photograph, Wes Craven’s last project. Katharine Isabelle, Christy Carlson Romano, Kenny Wormald, Claudia Lee, Miranda Rae Mayo, Toby Hemingway and Eva Bourne star along side The X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi and Harold and Kumar’s Kal Penn. The director, Nick Simon, co-wrote the film with Osgood Perkins. Wes Craven and Bawaf Alghanium served as executive producers for the film. . A bored young woman, living in a sleepy little town, starts receiving photographs of brutally murdered young women. A celebrity photographer arrives in town after seeing the photographs after seeing the photographs, but are the photos real or is the man behind them simply a great artist faking the brutal scenes? The Girl In The Photograph will arrive on VOD on April 1st, 2016 via Vertical Entertainment.
Continue reading →
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Horror icons Robert Englund (A Nightmare of Elm Street) and Lin Shaye (Insidious) will be starring in the indie horror thriller The Midnight Man, from director Travis Z. (Cabin Fever). The Midnight Man is being produced by Gussi Fims and Zeal Media and has already begun filming. The Midnight Man is based on a on an old Pagan ritual known as “The Midnight Game”. The film also serves as a remake of the low budget film by Rob Kennedy. by the same name, released in 2013. The Midnight Man co-stars Grayson Gabriel (Stan Helsing), Keenan Lehmana (Silent Night), Summer Howell (Curse of Chucky), Meredith Rose (Jurassic World), Kyle Strauts (The Cabin in the Woods), Gabrielle Haugh (Headlock) and Michael Sirow (Darkroom). In the film a girl plays a game with her friends that summons a creature known as “The Midnight Man” . The entity uses the friends’ worst fears against them. This is not the first time Englund and Shaye
Continue reading →
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Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool), Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler), and Rebecca Ferguson (Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation) are set to star in the sci-fi thriller Life. The film is in the hands of director Daniel Espinosa, with David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Julie Lynn and Bonnie Curtis serving as producers. Deadpool scribes Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese penned the script for Life, according to Variety. Life follows the crew of an International Space Station. After retrieving a sample from Mars, the crew discovers that it not only shows signs of life, it proves to be intelligent,
Continue reading →
News
In a few days the television adaption of Robert Kirkman’s Outcast will be premiering at the SXSW Film Festival. The Cinemax series stars Patrick Fugit as the main character Kyle Barnes, a young man in search of answers to why he has suffered from demonic possessions all of his life. During his quest to understand what happened to him, he comes in contact with others suffering from the same affliction. Pete Burris (Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2) co-stars along side Lacy Camp (Red Band Society), Julia Crockett (The Absence), Philip Glenister (Demons) Melinda McGraw (Mad Men), David Denman (13 Hours), Grace Zabriskie (The Killing), Cathrine Dent (The Shield), Brent Spiner (Independence Day) and ‘The Americans’ actor Lee Tergesen. The series will be directed by Adam Wingard, the director of ‘You’re Next’, and Julius Ramsey, who directed several episodes of ‘The Walking Dead’. Robert Kirkman will be serving as a writer for the 10 episode series, as well as an
Continue reading →
Trailers
10 Cloverfield Lane, the sequel to 2008’s found footage movie, is back with a second TV spot that urges viewers to be prepared. In the film a young woman, waking up after an accident, finds herself in the basement of a stranger. He says he’s saved her life from a chemical attack that has left the outside world uninhabitable, but the truth is much stranger. 10 Cloverfield Lane, directed by Dan Trachtenberg, stars John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Gallagher Jr. and is produced by J.J. Abrams. Look for it in theaters on March 11th, 2016.
Continue reading →
Movies
A new trailer has just been released for Wolf Creek director Greg McLean’s new supernatural horror film The Darkness. The trailer gives a closer look at the horrors a family will face after a young boy brings home a sacred object from the Grand Canyon. Kevin Bacon (Tremors), Radha Mitchell (Silent Hill), Lucy Fry (Vampire Acadamy), David Mazouz (Gotham), Jennifer Morrison (Once Upon a Time) and Matt Walsh (Ted) star in this intense film. McLean directed and co-wrote The Darkness along with Shayne Armstrong and S.P. Krause. Jason Blum, Bianca Martin and Matt Kaplan serve as producers for the film. The Darkness follows a family returning home from a vacation. Michael has brought home a souvenir after ignoring the warnings that it may be haunted by ancient Native American spirits. The entity attached to the sacred object prays on the family’s fears and vulnerabilities, threatening to destroy the family and everything they hold most dear. The Darkness arrives in theaters
Continue reading →
News
Alberto Marini’s first full length feature, Summer Camp, is approaching its world wide release. Marini co-wrote the script for Summer Camp along with Danielle Schleif. The fast-paced outbreak thriller was directed by Juame Balaguero. In the film a group of American counselors arrive at a European summer camp and are faced with an outbreak of a rage virus unlike anything any seen before. Summer Camp stars Scream Queens’ actor Diego Boneta, Maiara Walsh (Zombieland series), Andres Velencoso (The End) and Jocelin Donahue of Insidious: Chapter 2. It opens in theaters world wide on March 18th. The brand new trailer kicks off with an infected dog attacking one of the counselors. We then get a glimpse of the fast-spreading virus as a young woman, trying to escape, is infected though an air-born contagion.
Continue reading →
Movies
Margin Films has summoned the first trailer for Quentin Lee’s The Unbidden. Lee (White Fog) directed from the script penned by Narhee Ahh (Purity). The Unbidden follows four longtime friends as they come together in hopes that a seance will protect them from a dark entity that will not stop until one of them is dead. Tamlyn Tomita (Teen Wolf), Julia Nickson (Half-Life), Amy Hill (50 First Dates) and Elizaneth Sung (Memoirs of a Geisha) star as the friends desperate to save one of their own. Michelle Krusiec, Akemi Look, Kimberly-Rose Wolter, Karin Anna Cheugn, Hayden Szeto and Jason Yee also star in this supernatural thriller. “If you’re a fan of the horror, psychological thriller, family melodrama or Asian American film genres, you’re in for a treat, not a trick.” Lee expressed. “Our intention was to create a wildly original independent feature with an all Asian-American cast that aims to not only entertain with shocks and thrills, but bring on
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