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After a terrible accident, a mother, grieving from the loss of her son, seeks out an ancient ritual that will bring him back so that she can say on last goodbye. She travels to ancient temple, where a door serves as a portal between the two worlds. When she disobeys the rules of the ritual and opens the door that she was warned not to open, she upsets the delicate balance between life and death. Now, she and her family must face the spirits that have been released. The Other Side of the Door stars The Walking Dead’s Sarah Wayne Callies as Maria, the mother. Jeremy Sisto, Javier Botet, Jax Malcolm and Sofia Rosinsky also star in this dark, supernatural film, directed by Johannes Roberts. Roberts co-wrote the film along with Ernest Riera. The Other Side of the Door will arrive in theaters on February 25th, 2016.
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‘The Orphanage’ director J.A. Banyona’s new film, ‘A Monster Calls’, is based on the Youth novel of the same name by Patrick Ness. Ness also penned the screenplay for the film. The story centers on Conor, a 13-year-old boy coping with his mother’s terminal illness. Conor, waking from the same nightmare he’s been experiencing for months, “the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming”, at seven minutes after midnight, hears a voice calling to him from outside his bedroom window, which over looks an old church and a graveyard, sheltered by a yew tree. Walking to the window, Conor meets the monster, a towering mass of branches and leaves in a human shape. The monster insists that Conor summoned it and that it will help him by telling him three short stories, in exchange Conor must tell his own story afterwards. The anthology film will star Liam Neeson, as the voice of the monster. Felicity Jones, Sigourney
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The DVD/VOD release date for Duane Graves and Justin Meeks’ new horror-western, titled Kill or Be Killed, has just been announced as March 1, 2016. Graves and Meeks are the same duo behind 2012’s Butcher Boys. Horror legend Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes) stars along side Justin Meeks, Paul McCarthy-Boyington, Bridger Zadina, Deon Lucas, Greg Kelly, Larry Grant Harbin and Luce Rains. In Kill or Be Killed, Claude Barbee, an outlaw, puts his retirement plan into action, attempting to lead his train-robbing gang across Texas to recover a load of cash hidden after a botched railroad heist, but things don’t go quite as planned.
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Alex Garland’s latest project, titled Annihilation, is now in pre-production. Jane the Virgin actress Gina Rodriguez is eyeing the lead role in the film, and will star along side Natalie Portman. Annihilation is based on the novel by Jeff VanderMeer, by the same name. The film follows a group of women on a dangerous mission, to Area X, where the laws of nature do not apply. The previous teams have suffered severe health problems, suicides and insanity. Garland is best known as the screen writer for 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later. He made his directorial debut with 2014’s sci-fi thriller Ex Machina. He will serve as both writer and director for Annihilation, which will begin filming in the spring of 2016.
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The “Memorex Lives!” online video contest is inviting consumers and zombie fans to create seven 10-20 second clips to “make-a-scenes” along with actor, singer, producer Joey Lawrence, who plays the role of Brock Firestone, leader of “The Resistance” against The Evil Empire. One lucky Grand Prize winner will win a walk-on role in a 2016 production by The Asylum – the creators of Sharknado and ZNation – plus a 55″ 4k UHDTV, an invitation to audition for a speaking role and a screenwriter pitch meeting with The Asylum producers. Here’s how to enter: Visit Memorex Lives website and check out the video clips featuring Joey Lawrence. Film your own hilarious or haunting clips on your iPhone, webcam, or Red camera and upload them into the film editor on the website. Enter now through December 10, 2015 and share with your friends! 10 finalists will be chosen to compete against each other by popular vote starting December 17, 2015. Good Luck!
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After the release of the recent fifth installment to the Tremors‘ Franchise, Tremors 5: Bloodline, Kevin Bacon expressed interest in returning to the world of Graboids once again, as Val. According to Entertainment Weekly, Bacon’s wish has been granted, in the form of a new television series. Bacon will not only star in the series, but serve as Executive Producer, along with Blumhouse Productions’ own Jason Blum and Universal. Andrew Miller will be penning the script. At the moment, all we know is that the series will be returning to the town of Perfection, where the original film (1990) was set. The show is currently being shopped to different networks, with several interested. I’m glad to here that Bacon will be returning to the franchise, but I hope a few of the other original cast members will sign on too. It would be great to see the gang back together, fighting Graboids and Ass-Blasters.
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SyFy has picked up the anthology series Channel Zero and has already green lit the series for two six-episode seasons. The first season of Channel Zero is based on the creepypasta story “Candle Cove” by Kris Straub. It follows someone with obsessive recollections of a mysterious children’s television show from the 1980’s – and the show’s suspected role in a series of murders and deadly events from their childhood. The new ‘Channel Zero’ series will be written by Hannibal’s Nick Antosca. The show will debut in the Fall of 2016, followed by season two in the Fall of 2017. There is no word yet which creepypasta story will be featured in season two. Antosca
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Universal has already begun putting together their shared universe, which includes remaking all of their classic monster films. The revamp began with 2014’s Dracula Untold. Both The Mummy and Creature from the Black Lagoon are already in the early stages of pre-production. News broke earlier today that The Bride of Frankenstein is now too in the works. And Universal is not eyeing just any starlet for the role, they are aiming for Angelina Jolie, according to THR. There is no word yet who will be writing the screenplay or who will be in the director’s chair, but hopefully we will know more about the film soon. The original 1935 film, directed by James Whale, starred Boris Karloff as Frankenstein’s monster, one his most famous roles. Elsa Lanchester played the role of the monster’s bride, who did not appear until the film’s final scenes, but with such a famous star cast in the role I’m sure the Bride will have more
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Zac Bagans, leader of the ‘Ghost Hunters’ paranormal research group, has stated that his documentary film ‘The Demon House’ is now in the last stages of post-production. The Demon House documentary follows “The Ghost Hunters” investigation of the Ammons House, known as “The Demon House”, that Zak Bagans purchased from Latoya Ammons last year for $35,000. The small house on Carolina Street, in Gary, Indiana looks normal from the outside, but there have been over 800 pages of reports of intense paranormal activity and even possession. Even the Captain of the Gary Police Department swears the house is haunted. Various Mediums and Psychics have stated that the house is infested with hundreds of demons and ghosts. Ammons’ children were reportedly possessed while living in the house. The paranormal events include her and her three children being attacked repeatedly by an unseen entity, seeing ghostly figures, her children levitating and walking up walls, the kids speaking in tongues and demonic voices.
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There’s only one thing more disturbing than your creepy uncle on Thanksgiving, that’s Thanksgiving themed horror films. And we just happen to have a list of them for you, so fill up on turkey and settle in for a real family nightmare. Thankskilling The First film up is Thankskilling . The cover of the film advertises “Boobs in the first second” and sure enough, there they are. Any movie that stars a monster, talking, tomahawk wielding turkey must be seen. Just when you think it couldn’t get any better, you learn there are two sequels to Thankskilling. Home Sweet Home An escaped psychopath crashes a Thanksgiving and people are brutally murdered. The film even features a KISS fan killed with an electric guitar. Blood Freak A man is experimented on by a scientist and is transformed into a turkey-headed monster with a thirst for blood. Addams Family Values What’s more adorable than Wednesday Addams in an Indian costume, while trying
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After a terrible accident, a mother, grieving from the loss of her son, seeks out an ancient ritual that will bring him back so that she can say on last goodbye. She travels to ancient temple, where a door serves as a portal between the two worlds. When she disobeys the rules of the ritual and opens the door that she was warned not to open, she upsets the delicate balance between life and death. Now, she and her family must face the spirits that have been released. The Other Side of the Door stars The Walking Dead’s Sarah Wayne Callies as Maria, the mother. Jeremy Sisto, Javier Botet, Jax Malcolm and Sofia Rosinsky also star in this dark, supernatural film, directed by Johannes Roberts. Roberts co-wrote the film along with Ernest Riera. The Other Side of the Door will arrive in theaters on February 25th, 2016.
Continue reading →
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‘The Orphanage’ director J.A. Banyona’s new film, ‘A Monster Calls’, is based on the Youth novel of the same name by Patrick Ness. Ness also penned the screenplay for the film. The story centers on Conor, a 13-year-old boy coping with his mother’s terminal illness. Conor, waking from the same nightmare he’s been experiencing for months, “the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming”, at seven minutes after midnight, hears a voice calling to him from outside his bedroom window, which over looks an old church and a graveyard, sheltered by a yew tree. Walking to the window, Conor meets the monster, a towering mass of branches and leaves in a human shape. The monster insists that Conor summoned it and that it will help him by telling him three short stories, in exchange Conor must tell his own story afterwards. The anthology film will star Liam Neeson, as the voice of the monster. Felicity Jones, Sigourney
Continue reading →
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The DVD/VOD release date for Duane Graves and Justin Meeks’ new horror-western, titled Kill or Be Killed, has just been announced as March 1, 2016. Graves and Meeks are the same duo behind 2012’s Butcher Boys. Horror legend Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes) stars along side Justin Meeks, Paul McCarthy-Boyington, Bridger Zadina, Deon Lucas, Greg Kelly, Larry Grant Harbin and Luce Rains. In Kill or Be Killed, Claude Barbee, an outlaw, puts his retirement plan into action, attempting to lead his train-robbing gang across Texas to recover a load of cash hidden after a botched railroad heist, but things don’t go quite as planned.
Continue reading →
BooksNewsReviews
Alex Garland’s latest project, titled Annihilation, is now in pre-production. Jane the Virgin actress Gina Rodriguez is eyeing the lead role in the film, and will star along side Natalie Portman. Annihilation is based on the novel by Jeff VanderMeer, by the same name. The film follows a group of women on a dangerous mission, to Area X, where the laws of nature do not apply. The previous teams have suffered severe health problems, suicides and insanity. Garland is best known as the screen writer for 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later. He made his directorial debut with 2014’s sci-fi thriller Ex Machina. He will serve as both writer and director for Annihilation, which will begin filming in the spring of 2016.
Continue reading →
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The “Memorex Lives!” online video contest is inviting consumers and zombie fans to create seven 10-20 second clips to “make-a-scenes” along with actor, singer, producer Joey Lawrence, who plays the role of Brock Firestone, leader of “The Resistance” against The Evil Empire. One lucky Grand Prize winner will win a walk-on role in a 2016 production by The Asylum – the creators of Sharknado and ZNation – plus a 55″ 4k UHDTV, an invitation to audition for a speaking role and a screenwriter pitch meeting with The Asylum producers. Here’s how to enter: Visit Memorex Lives website and check out the video clips featuring Joey Lawrence. Film your own hilarious or haunting clips on your iPhone, webcam, or Red camera and upload them into the film editor on the website. Enter now through December 10, 2015 and share with your friends! 10 finalists will be chosen to compete against each other by popular vote starting December 17, 2015. Good Luck!
Continue reading →
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After the release of the recent fifth installment to the Tremors‘ Franchise, Tremors 5: Bloodline, Kevin Bacon expressed interest in returning to the world of Graboids once again, as Val. According to Entertainment Weekly, Bacon’s wish has been granted, in the form of a new television series. Bacon will not only star in the series, but serve as Executive Producer, along with Blumhouse Productions’ own Jason Blum and Universal. Andrew Miller will be penning the script. At the moment, all we know is that the series will be returning to the town of Perfection, where the original film (1990) was set. The show is currently being shopped to different networks, with several interested. I’m glad to here that Bacon will be returning to the franchise, but I hope a few of the other original cast members will sign on too. It would be great to see the gang back together, fighting Graboids and Ass-Blasters.
Continue reading →
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SyFy has picked up the anthology series Channel Zero and has already green lit the series for two six-episode seasons. The first season of Channel Zero is based on the creepypasta story “Candle Cove” by Kris Straub. It follows someone with obsessive recollections of a mysterious children’s television show from the 1980’s – and the show’s suspected role in a series of murders and deadly events from their childhood. The new ‘Channel Zero’ series will be written by Hannibal’s Nick Antosca. The show will debut in the Fall of 2016, followed by season two in the Fall of 2017. There is no word yet which creepypasta story will be featured in season two. Antosca
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Universal has already begun putting together their shared universe, which includes remaking all of their classic monster films. The revamp began with 2014’s Dracula Untold. Both The Mummy and Creature from the Black Lagoon are already in the early stages of pre-production. News broke earlier today that The Bride of Frankenstein is now too in the works. And Universal is not eyeing just any starlet for the role, they are aiming for Angelina Jolie, according to THR. There is no word yet who will be writing the screenplay or who will be in the director’s chair, but hopefully we will know more about the film soon. The original 1935 film, directed by James Whale, starred Boris Karloff as Frankenstein’s monster, one his most famous roles. Elsa Lanchester played the role of the monster’s bride, who did not appear until the film’s final scenes, but with such a famous star cast in the role I’m sure the Bride will have more
Continue reading →
DocumentariesNewsParanormalReviews
Zac Bagans, leader of the ‘Ghost Hunters’ paranormal research group, has stated that his documentary film ‘The Demon House’ is now in the last stages of post-production. The Demon House documentary follows “The Ghost Hunters” investigation of the Ammons House, known as “The Demon House”, that Zak Bagans purchased from Latoya Ammons last year for $35,000. The small house on Carolina Street, in Gary, Indiana looks normal from the outside, but there have been over 800 pages of reports of intense paranormal activity and even possession. Even the Captain of the Gary Police Department swears the house is haunted. Various Mediums and Psychics have stated that the house is infested with hundreds of demons and ghosts. Ammons’ children were reportedly possessed while living in the house. The paranormal events include her and her three children being attacked repeatedly by an unseen entity, seeing ghostly figures, her children levitating and walking up walls, the kids speaking in tongues and demonic voices.
Continue reading →
Holiday HorrorNewsReviews
There’s only one thing more disturbing than your creepy uncle on Thanksgiving, that’s Thanksgiving themed horror films. And we just happen to have a list of them for you, so fill up on turkey and settle in for a real family nightmare. Thankskilling The First film up is Thankskilling . The cover of the film advertises “Boobs in the first second” and sure enough, there they are. Any movie that stars a monster, talking, tomahawk wielding turkey must be seen. Just when you think it couldn’t get any better, you learn there are two sequels to Thankskilling. Home Sweet Home An escaped psychopath crashes a Thanksgiving and people are brutally murdered. The film even features a KISS fan killed with an electric guitar. Blood Freak A man is experimented on by a scientist and is transformed into a turkey-headed monster with a thirst for blood. Addams Family Values What’s more adorable than Wednesday Addams in an Indian costume, while trying
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