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James McAvoy (X-Men: Days of Future Past) plays the role of Victor Frankenstein, in the upcoming film by the same name. McAvoy stars along side Daniel Radcliffe (Horns) cast in the role of Igor, Victor’s best friend. In ‘Victor Frankenstein’ the two friends set out to do something never done before, spark new life in dead flesh. Max Landis wrote the script for ‘Victor Frankenstein’, which is being directed by Paul McGuigan. McGuigan also directed the ‘Sherlock’ series. ‘Victor Frankenstein’ stars Radcliffe, McAvoy, Jessica Brown Findlay of ‘Downtown Abbey’, Andrew Scott (Pride), Mark Gatiss (Sherlock), Freddie Fox (Freeze-Frame), and many other talented actors.’Victor Frankenstein’ premieres in theaters on November 25th. 20th Century Fox has just released the latest clip from ‘Victor Frankenstein’. The clip give us a sneak peak of the scene where Victor and Igor are questioned in a murder investigation. In the ‘Of Monsters And Men’ featurette we get a behind scenes look at ‘Victor Frankenstein’. In this
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Principle photography has begun on James Wan’s ‘The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist’, in Los Angeles.Wan penned the script for the film, along with Carey and Chad Hayes, who also wrote the script for first film. New Line Cinema has set the release date as June 10, 2016. The film is based on Ed and Loraine Warren’s investigation that took place in the 1970’s, in England, when a single mother and her children were plagued by intense paranormal activity. The incident is referred to as “The Enfield Haunting’ or “The Enfield Poltergeist”. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga will be reprising their roles as the famous paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, who carried out many real paranormal and supernatural investigations. The film’s cast also includes Lauren Esposito, Frances O’Connor, Simon McBurney, Franka Potente, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Simon Delaney, Patrick McAuley, Benjamin Haigh and Madison Wolfe.
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A rookie cop’s first shift happens to be on the last night of operation of the old police department. Officer Jessica Loren (Juliana Harkavy) is all alone, or is she? Her first shift is about to turn into a nightmare. When a 911 call comes in from a girl being held captive, the officer is unaware that the voice on the other line is much more than that of a woman in need. The Officer’s shift is filled with horrifying sites and visitations from those who passed. The question is, will she make it out alive? Director Anthony DiBlasi also wrote the film along with Scott Poiley and did a fantastic job. It’s creepy and leaves you guessing and questioning what actually happened. Juliana Harkavy really got into her role as Officer Loren, who is trying to be brave but comes across as somewhat delicate and terrified. The film is fast-paced, and the back story ties everything together nicely. As
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Director Lawrie Brewster’s latest film, ‘The Unkindness of Ravens’, was inspired by Norse and Celtic mythology surrounding Raven Warriors. Brewster describes the film as “Apocalypse Now meets The Evil Dead’. The film stars Scott Gordon, in the role of Andrew, a homeless Army veteran suffering from PTSD. Andrew, battling with his inner demons, goes on a retreat in the Scottish Highlands to cope with his flash backs and his overwhelming fear of Ravens, which plague his visions and nightmares, as well as his life. In the remote wilderness Andrew’s nightmares manifest in to an enemy that he must battle to regain his sanity. ‘The Unkindness of Ravens’ is in the final stages of filming and there is currently a Kickstarter campaign to help raise funds for post-production. ‘The Unkindness of Ravens’ will arrive on DVD in the summer of 2016.
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For a while now the franchise based on Stephen King’s novels has almost become a movie, a show, and back and forth, with no project actually seeing completion. We reported back in December of 2014 that the first ‘The Dark Tower’ Film was coming, but the cast and director has since changed. Now, once again, a ‘Dark Tower’ film series is in the works. The project is being directed by ‘Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’s’ Nikolaj Arcel, based on a script penned by Akiva Goldsman. The first film of the three film series will focus on King’s first book in the collection, ‘The Gunslinger’. Matthew McConaughey has been offered not one role in the film, but two to pick from. McConaughey has his pick of either playing the role of Roland, the Gunslinger and hero of the novels, or the villain, the Man in Black. Word is he’s leaning more towards the darker role at the moment. ‘The Gunslinger’ is
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We are already three episodes into the first season of ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ and fans are all saying the same thing, the STARZ series is “groovy”. Luckily, ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ has already been renewed for season two. On Saturday’s episode we watched as Ash (Bruce Campbell), Pablo (Ray Santiago) and Kelly (Dana DeLorenzo) arrive at “Books From Beyond”, an occult book store, looking for help to translate the Necronomicon and find a spell to send the deadites back to Hell. Unfortunately, things didn’t go as smoothly as they hoped. They could not locate the spell so they raised a demon, named Eligos, in hopes of finding out how to rid the world of the evil entities. Things are only made worse when Officer Fisher interrupts. At the same time the chaos is taking place at the book store, Ruby (Lucy Lawless) arrives at the Maxwell family farm to find the mess Ash left behind. In episode 4, ‘Brujo’,
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Adam Wingard, director of ‘You’re Next’, ‘The Guest’ and the upcoming Cinemax series ‘Outcast’, is moving forward with his live action adaption of ‘Death Note’, penned by Jeremy Slater (Fantastic Four). The film has now entered the casting phase. Nat Wolff has been cast as the male lead. Wolff will star opposite actress-singer Margaret Qually. “The story follows a student who discovers a mysterious notebook that kills whomever’s name is written in it. When the student meets the notebook’s previous owner, a demon bent on ridding the world of anyone it deems evil or useless, he ends up tracked by an Interpol officer investigating the unexplained death of several criminals.”
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News has finally come regarding Ridley Scott’s newly retitled film ‘Alien: Covenant‘, via Bloody-Disgusting. The website got their hands on not only official logo, but the synopsis as well. The logo looks very similar to the logo of the original ‘Alien’ and ‘Aliens’ films. “Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created in ‘Alien’ with ‘Alien: Covenant’, the second chapter in a prequel trilogy that began with ‘Prometheus’-and conects directly to Scott’s 1979 seminal work of science-fiction. Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship Covenant discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world – whose sole inhabitant is the “synthetic” David (Fassbender), survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.” Scott has hinted towards a new origin story for the Alien Xenomorphs as well as a new group of travelers. It will be a while before we see the film, Twentieth Century Fox has
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With Bruce Campbell returning to his role as Ash Williams in the new STARZ series ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’, fans of the of the original 1980 film have been ecstatic. Now, a documentary, ‘Hail to the Deadites’, from Digger Films and directed by Steve Villeneuve, will celebrate the fans of the franchise and series that have spawned toys, games, comics, a remake and host of merchandise. The documentary will share interviews with cast, crew and the fans themselves. Stars interviewed in the film includes Ash himself, Bruce Campbell along with Ted Raimi, Betsy Baker, Ellen Sandweiss, Theresa Tilly, Richard DeManincor, Tom Sullivan and many more. The release date has not been announced, but several clips have been made public.
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Each week on the Game Show Network’s new horror game show ‘Hellevator’, three team members board a haunted elevator that descends into an abandoned warehouse. One player must get out on each floor and complete a frightening challenge, while facing horrifying entities, to earn a cash prize for their team. But if they don’t make it back in time the elevator moves on, leaving them stranded with what ever is lurking there in the dark. Horror icons Jen and Sylvia Soska, aka “The Twisted Twins”, are behind the scenes pulling the strings and enjoying watching the contestants squirm. The gore filled game show is produced by Jason Blum, the same producer that bought us ‘Paranormal Activity’. On this week’s episode of ‘Hellevator’, titled “Triplets”, a group of three friends must face the Triplets, each twisted in their own unique way. The team is pushed to their limits as they try to escape a straight jacket, chains and being trapped in
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James McAvoy (X-Men: Days of Future Past) plays the role of Victor Frankenstein, in the upcoming film by the same name. McAvoy stars along side Daniel Radcliffe (Horns) cast in the role of Igor, Victor’s best friend. In ‘Victor Frankenstein’ the two friends set out to do something never done before, spark new life in dead flesh. Max Landis wrote the script for ‘Victor Frankenstein’, which is being directed by Paul McGuigan. McGuigan also directed the ‘Sherlock’ series. ‘Victor Frankenstein’ stars Radcliffe, McAvoy, Jessica Brown Findlay of ‘Downtown Abbey’, Andrew Scott (Pride), Mark Gatiss (Sherlock), Freddie Fox (Freeze-Frame), and many other talented actors.’Victor Frankenstein’ premieres in theaters on November 25th. 20th Century Fox has just released the latest clip from ‘Victor Frankenstein’. The clip give us a sneak peak of the scene where Victor and Igor are questioned in a murder investigation. In the ‘Of Monsters And Men’ featurette we get a behind scenes look at ‘Victor Frankenstein’. In this
Continue reading →
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Principle photography has begun on James Wan’s ‘The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist’, in Los Angeles.Wan penned the script for the film, along with Carey and Chad Hayes, who also wrote the script for first film. New Line Cinema has set the release date as June 10, 2016. The film is based on Ed and Loraine Warren’s investigation that took place in the 1970’s, in England, when a single mother and her children were plagued by intense paranormal activity. The incident is referred to as “The Enfield Haunting’ or “The Enfield Poltergeist”. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga will be reprising their roles as the famous paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, who carried out many real paranormal and supernatural investigations. The film’s cast also includes Lauren Esposito, Frances O’Connor, Simon McBurney, Franka Potente, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Simon Delaney, Patrick McAuley, Benjamin Haigh and Madison Wolfe.
Continue reading →
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A rookie cop’s first shift happens to be on the last night of operation of the old police department. Officer Jessica Loren (Juliana Harkavy) is all alone, or is she? Her first shift is about to turn into a nightmare. When a 911 call comes in from a girl being held captive, the officer is unaware that the voice on the other line is much more than that of a woman in need. The Officer’s shift is filled with horrifying sites and visitations from those who passed. The question is, will she make it out alive? Director Anthony DiBlasi also wrote the film along with Scott Poiley and did a fantastic job. It’s creepy and leaves you guessing and questioning what actually happened. Juliana Harkavy really got into her role as Officer Loren, who is trying to be brave but comes across as somewhat delicate and terrified. The film is fast-paced, and the back story ties everything together nicely. As
Continue reading →
Holiday HorrorReviewsTrailers
Director Lawrie Brewster’s latest film, ‘The Unkindness of Ravens’, was inspired by Norse and Celtic mythology surrounding Raven Warriors. Brewster describes the film as “Apocalypse Now meets The Evil Dead’. The film stars Scott Gordon, in the role of Andrew, a homeless Army veteran suffering from PTSD. Andrew, battling with his inner demons, goes on a retreat in the Scottish Highlands to cope with his flash backs and his overwhelming fear of Ravens, which plague his visions and nightmares, as well as his life. In the remote wilderness Andrew’s nightmares manifest in to an enemy that he must battle to regain his sanity. ‘The Unkindness of Ravens’ is in the final stages of filming and there is currently a Kickstarter campaign to help raise funds for post-production. ‘The Unkindness of Ravens’ will arrive on DVD in the summer of 2016.
Continue reading →
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For a while now the franchise based on Stephen King’s novels has almost become a movie, a show, and back and forth, with no project actually seeing completion. We reported back in December of 2014 that the first ‘The Dark Tower’ Film was coming, but the cast and director has since changed. Now, once again, a ‘Dark Tower’ film series is in the works. The project is being directed by ‘Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’s’ Nikolaj Arcel, based on a script penned by Akiva Goldsman. The first film of the three film series will focus on King’s first book in the collection, ‘The Gunslinger’. Matthew McConaughey has been offered not one role in the film, but two to pick from. McConaughey has his pick of either playing the role of Roland, the Gunslinger and hero of the novels, or the villain, the Man in Black. Word is he’s leaning more towards the darker role at the moment. ‘The Gunslinger’ is
Continue reading →
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We are already three episodes into the first season of ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ and fans are all saying the same thing, the STARZ series is “groovy”. Luckily, ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ has already been renewed for season two. On Saturday’s episode we watched as Ash (Bruce Campbell), Pablo (Ray Santiago) and Kelly (Dana DeLorenzo) arrive at “Books From Beyond”, an occult book store, looking for help to translate the Necronomicon and find a spell to send the deadites back to Hell. Unfortunately, things didn’t go as smoothly as they hoped. They could not locate the spell so they raised a demon, named Eligos, in hopes of finding out how to rid the world of the evil entities. Things are only made worse when Officer Fisher interrupts. At the same time the chaos is taking place at the book store, Ruby (Lucy Lawless) arrives at the Maxwell family farm to find the mess Ash left behind. In episode 4, ‘Brujo’,
Continue reading →
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Adam Wingard, director of ‘You’re Next’, ‘The Guest’ and the upcoming Cinemax series ‘Outcast’, is moving forward with his live action adaption of ‘Death Note’, penned by Jeremy Slater (Fantastic Four). The film has now entered the casting phase. Nat Wolff has been cast as the male lead. Wolff will star opposite actress-singer Margaret Qually. “The story follows a student who discovers a mysterious notebook that kills whomever’s name is written in it. When the student meets the notebook’s previous owner, a demon bent on ridding the world of anyone it deems evil or useless, he ends up tracked by an Interpol officer investigating the unexplained death of several criminals.”
Continue reading →
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News has finally come regarding Ridley Scott’s newly retitled film ‘Alien: Covenant‘, via Bloody-Disgusting. The website got their hands on not only official logo, but the synopsis as well. The logo looks very similar to the logo of the original ‘Alien’ and ‘Aliens’ films. “Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created in ‘Alien’ with ‘Alien: Covenant’, the second chapter in a prequel trilogy that began with ‘Prometheus’-and conects directly to Scott’s 1979 seminal work of science-fiction. Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship Covenant discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world – whose sole inhabitant is the “synthetic” David (Fassbender), survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.” Scott has hinted towards a new origin story for the Alien Xenomorphs as well as a new group of travelers. It will be a while before we see the film, Twentieth Century Fox has
Continue reading →
DocumentariesNewsReviewsTrailers
With Bruce Campbell returning to his role as Ash Williams in the new STARZ series ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’, fans of the of the original 1980 film have been ecstatic. Now, a documentary, ‘Hail to the Deadites’, from Digger Films and directed by Steve Villeneuve, will celebrate the fans of the franchise and series that have spawned toys, games, comics, a remake and host of merchandise. The documentary will share interviews with cast, crew and the fans themselves. Stars interviewed in the film includes Ash himself, Bruce Campbell along with Ted Raimi, Betsy Baker, Ellen Sandweiss, Theresa Tilly, Richard DeManincor, Tom Sullivan and many more. The release date has not been announced, but several clips have been made public.
Continue reading →
NewsReviewsStreaming TV
Each week on the Game Show Network’s new horror game show ‘Hellevator’, three team members board a haunted elevator that descends into an abandoned warehouse. One player must get out on each floor and complete a frightening challenge, while facing horrifying entities, to earn a cash prize for their team. But if they don’t make it back in time the elevator moves on, leaving them stranded with what ever is lurking there in the dark. Horror icons Jen and Sylvia Soska, aka “The Twisted Twins”, are behind the scenes pulling the strings and enjoying watching the contestants squirm. The gore filled game show is produced by Jason Blum, the same producer that bought us ‘Paranormal Activity’. On this week’s episode of ‘Hellevator’, titled “Triplets”, a group of three friends must face the Triplets, each twisted in their own unique way. The team is pushed to their limits as they try to escape a straight jacket, chains and being trapped in
Continue reading →
