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Horror Grows As Tree Monster Is Unleashed This June In 'Pollen'

Horror Grows As Tree Monster Is Unleashed This June In ‘Pollen’

As if the yellow substance that covers the south from spring through summer wasn’t enough of a nightmare, they’ve gone and made a horror film, simply titled Pollen. From writer-director D.W. Medoff comes the horror film in which “After a senior coworker assaults a bright-eyed young woman, her dream job becomes a living nightmare as she tries to keep her career together while being tormented at work, at home, and in her dreams by a mysterious tree monster.” The cast includes Ava Rose Kinard, Tyler Buckingham, Ashley Ames, and Bennett Welch. Pollen arrives in select theatres from Gravitas Ventures on June 6, 2023.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 8, 2023
Streaming Services Dust & Alter Double Down On Horror

Streaming Services Dust & Alter Double Down On Horror

Gunpowder & Sky is doubling down on its ever-growing library of horror and sci-fi offerings on its channels DUST & ALTER. It was announced today that DUST & ALTER are set to release more than 30 new films and TV series. New films include: Train to Busan; Creep; Hounds of Love; Summer of ‘84; The “Masters of Horror” series, with episodes directed by John Carpenter (The Thing, Halloween), Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), Joe Dante (Gremlins) and John Landis (An American Werewolf in London); “Fear Itself,” starring Elisabeth Moss, Anna Kendrick, and Jesse Plemons; Elvira’s “Movie Macabre” (1980s); Mark Hamill’s “Pop Culture Quest”; “Weird or What?” with William Shatner; and “Encounter: UFO.” Franchise marathons include Phantasm, Phantasm 3: Lord of the Dead, Phantasm 4: Oblivion, Phantasm 5: Ravager; Grave Encounters 1 & 2; The Stepfather 1 – 3; Waxwork 1 & 2; Wishmaster, Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies, Wishmaster 3, Sword of Justice, Wishmaster 4: The Prophecy Fulfilled;

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 8, 2023
Movie Review: No Sympathy For 'Sympathy For The Devil'

New ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ Trailer Reveals An Unhinged Nicolas Cage

The action-packed trailer has just arrived for the balls-to-the-walls thriller Sympathy For the Devil, out this July, from RLJE Films. Nicolas Cage stars as an unhinged psychopath (the type of role he’s born to play), who kidnaps a man (Joel Kinnaman) at gunpoint, taking viewers on a wild ride during a thrilling night filled with action and insanity. “After being forced to drive a mysterious passenger at gunpoint, a man finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where it becomes clear that not everything is as it seems.” Written and directed by Luke Paradise, Sympathy For the Devil, opens in theaters on July 28, 2023.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 7, 2023
MGM+ Announces True Crime Docuseries 'Psycho: The Lost Tapes Of Ed Gein'

MGM+ Announces True Crime Docuseries ‘Psycho: The Lost Tapes Of Ed Gein’

MGM+ announced today that it has picked up the four-episode true-crime docuseries Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein, directed and executive produced by James Buddy Day (Blumhouse’s Compendium of Horror, Fall River). This MGM+ original docuseries follows the horrifying grave robber and serial killer Ed Gein, otherwise known as “The Plainfield Ghoul” and “The Mad Butcher,” whose crimes inspired such iconic films as Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs. For years, filmmakers, journalists, and scholars have tried to unravel the mind of this notorious killer, and with new reveals and never-before-heard recordings, viewers will be transported to late-1950s Middle America and submerged in Gein’s perverse mind. The series explores Gein’s upbringing and twisted relationship with his mother (which famously inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho), his early grave robbing, the murders leading up to his arrest, and the police’s discovery of his terrifying house of horrors—all accompanied by the brand-new revelations revealed in the recordings. “This

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 7, 2023
New Doc 'King On Screen' Explores Stephen King's Legacy Of Terror

New Doc ‘King On Screen’ Explores Stephen King’s Legacy Of Terror

When it comes to authors, no one is more prolific than Stephen King, whose writings have been adapted again and again for film, including The Boogeyman, which has just premiered in theaters. A new documentary, King of Screen, from director Daphné Baiwir will explore King’s legacy of terror and the films we all love to fear. “In 1976, Brian de Palma directed Carrie, the first novel by Stephen King. Since then, more than 50 directors have adapted the master of horror’s books in more than 80 films and series, making him the most adapted author alive. What’s so fascinating about him that filmmakers cannot stop adapting his works? King on Screen reunites the filmmakers that have adapted Stephen King’s books for cinema and TV, including Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Walking Dead), Tom Holland (The Langoliers, Chucky), Mick Garris (The Stand, Sleepwalkers) and Taylor Hackford (Dolores Claiborne, Ray). It is a movie made for the fans. The

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 7, 2023
Ari Aster's 'Beau Is Afraid' Coming To Blu-ray And Digital

Ari Aster’s ‘Beau Is Afraid’ Coming To Blu-ray And Digital

A24 and writer-director Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar) have teamed up again for the unnerving film Beau Is Afraid. Originally titled Disappointment Blvd., the movie stars Academy Award-winner Joaquin Phoenix as a mild-mannered anxiety-ridden man who following the sudden death of his mother, confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic, Kafkaesque odyssey back home. The film co-stars Parker Posey (“Lost in Space”), Stephen McKinley Henderson (Dune), Denis Ménochet (The French Dispatch), Michael Gandolfini (The Many Saints of Newark), Hayley Squires (In the Earth), and Zoe Lister-Jones (the director of The Craft: Legacy). Nathan Lane (“Penny Dreadful: City of Angels”), Patti LuPone (“Hollywood”), Amy Ryan (Only Murders in the Building), and Kylie Rogers (“Yellowstone”) also star. Aster and Lars Knudsen are producing for Square Peg. Beau Is Afraid arrives on Blu-ray™, DVD, and Digital on July 11, 2023, from A24 and Lionsgate.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 7, 2023
Disney Is Conjures 'Hocus Pocus 3'

Disney Is Conjures ‘Hocus Pocus 3’

There’s no way around it; when a movie becomes a classic, studios aim to milk it for all its worth. A prime example is the Halloween-centered franchise Hocus Pocus. Last year we got a sequel (meh), and now Disney is ready to conjure a third movie. Sean Bailey, the Disney exec who is in charge of Disney’s live-action studio, is responsible for movies like The Little Mermaid and Hocus Pocus 2. Told the New York Times that several movies are headed our way, including Hocus Pocus 3. At the moment, no details have been revealed for Hocus Pocus 3. If the franchise’s stars, Bette Miller, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, and Doug Jones, it hasn’t been announced. In Hocus Pocus 2 (review), It’s been 29 years since someone lit the Black Flame Candle and resurrected the 17th-century Sanderson sisters, and they are looking for revenge. Now it is up to three high-school students to stop the wicked witches from wreaking

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 7, 2023
A Cult Stalks Their Next Victim In 'The Devil Comes At Night' - Out Today

A Cult Stalks Their Next Victim In ‘The Devil Comes At Night’ – Out Today

“American Gods” actress Adrienne Kress and Ryan Allen (In the Shadow of the Moon) star in the cult horror-thriller The Devil Comes At Night. “Ben, a washed-up boxer searching for his inheritance, must fight for his life when he is trapped in his deceased father’s farmhouse by a cannibal cult. With the help of Amy, the local librarian, he discovers the cult’s leader, Mason, has been hunting down his family for generations. And now his sights are set on Ben. Together, Ben and Amy come up with a plan to defeat the cult once and for all.” The film also stars Jason Martorino, Elias Zarou, Shawn Ahmed, Todd Campbell, Dana Fradkin, Ty Andrassy, DL Macdonald, Jeremiah Sparks, and Julie Cohn. The Devil Comes At Night will be released on Digital and DVD on June 6, 2023, from Uncork’d Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 6, 2023
'Insidious: The Red Door' Coming To Blu-Ray

Witness The Final Trailer For ‘Insidious 5: The Red Door’

The final creepy AF trailer is here for Insidious 5: The Red Door, taking us back into “The Further” for the final time. Patrick Wilson, who starred in the first two films, is returning to the franchise, not just to star as Josh Lambert, but will also make his directorial debut with the fifth installment. He will star alongside returning cast members Ty Simpkins, who will reprise his role as Dalton Lambert, Josh’s son, and Rose Byrne, who played Josh’s wife, Renai Lambert. The new movie is set ten years after the events of the second film. “Josh Lambert (Wilson) heads east to drop his son Dalton (Simpkins) off at an idyllic, ivy-covered university. However, Dalton’s college dream becomes a nightmare when the repressed demons of his past suddenly return to haunt them both.” Scott Teems (Halloween Kills) penned the script based on a story by franchise co-creator Leigh Whannell (The Invisible Man). The first two Insidious movies were directed

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 6, 2023
Sci-Fi Creature Feature Makes 'First Contact' Today

Sci-Fi Creature Feature Makes ‘First Contact’ Today

Bruce Wemple‘s sci-fi creature feature, First Contact, which features strong practical effects and an outstanding performance by Wemple film-staple Anna Shields, premiered to raves at Panic Fest in April and comes home today. First Contact “tells of two estranged adult siblings, Casey and Dan, who travel to their late scientist father’s farmhouse to make sense of his incomplete work. They soon learn that their father’s work was far more dangerous than they could ever imagine: An evil entity, buried in time and space for millions of years, has been released and has begun wreaking havoc on the locals. One by one, the bodies start to pile up. Now, Dan and Casey must figure out the secrets of this extra–dimensional monster before it’s too late.” Watch First Contact today (6/6) on Digital or DVD from Uncork’d Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 6, 2023

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Horror Grows As Tree Monster Is Unleashed This June In 'Pollen'

Horror Grows As Tree Monster Is Unleashed This June In ‘Pollen’

As if the yellow substance that covers the south from spring through summer wasn’t enough of a nightmare, they’ve gone and made a horror film, simply titled Pollen. From writer-director D.W. Medoff comes the horror film in which “After a senior coworker assaults a bright-eyed young woman, her dream job becomes a living nightmare as she tries to keep her career together while being tormented at work, at home, and in her dreams by a mysterious tree monster.” The cast includes Ava Rose Kinard, Tyler Buckingham, Ashley Ames, and Bennett Welch. Pollen arrives in select theatres from Gravitas Ventures on June 6, 2023.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 8, 2023
Streaming Services Dust & Alter Double Down On Horror

Streaming Services Dust & Alter Double Down On Horror

Gunpowder & Sky is doubling down on its ever-growing library of horror and sci-fi offerings on its channels DUST & ALTER. It was announced today that DUST & ALTER are set to release more than 30 new films and TV series. New films include: Train to Busan; Creep; Hounds of Love; Summer of ‘84; The “Masters of Horror” series, with episodes directed by John Carpenter (The Thing, Halloween), Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), Joe Dante (Gremlins) and John Landis (An American Werewolf in London); “Fear Itself,” starring Elisabeth Moss, Anna Kendrick, and Jesse Plemons; Elvira’s “Movie Macabre” (1980s); Mark Hamill’s “Pop Culture Quest”; “Weird or What?” with William Shatner; and “Encounter: UFO.” Franchise marathons include Phantasm, Phantasm 3: Lord of the Dead, Phantasm 4: Oblivion, Phantasm 5: Ravager; Grave Encounters 1 & 2; The Stepfather 1 – 3; Waxwork 1 & 2; Wishmaster, Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies, Wishmaster 3, Sword of Justice, Wishmaster 4: The Prophecy Fulfilled;

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 8, 2023
Movie Review: No Sympathy For 'Sympathy For The Devil'

New ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ Trailer Reveals An Unhinged Nicolas Cage

The action-packed trailer has just arrived for the balls-to-the-walls thriller Sympathy For the Devil, out this July, from RLJE Films. Nicolas Cage stars as an unhinged psychopath (the type of role he’s born to play), who kidnaps a man (Joel Kinnaman) at gunpoint, taking viewers on a wild ride during a thrilling night filled with action and insanity. “After being forced to drive a mysterious passenger at gunpoint, a man finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where it becomes clear that not everything is as it seems.” Written and directed by Luke Paradise, Sympathy For the Devil, opens in theaters on July 28, 2023.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 7, 2023
MGM+ Announces True Crime Docuseries 'Psycho: The Lost Tapes Of Ed Gein'

MGM+ Announces True Crime Docuseries ‘Psycho: The Lost Tapes Of Ed Gein’

MGM+ announced today that it has picked up the four-episode true-crime docuseries Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein, directed and executive produced by James Buddy Day (Blumhouse’s Compendium of Horror, Fall River). This MGM+ original docuseries follows the horrifying grave robber and serial killer Ed Gein, otherwise known as “The Plainfield Ghoul” and “The Mad Butcher,” whose crimes inspired such iconic films as Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs. For years, filmmakers, journalists, and scholars have tried to unravel the mind of this notorious killer, and with new reveals and never-before-heard recordings, viewers will be transported to late-1950s Middle America and submerged in Gein’s perverse mind. The series explores Gein’s upbringing and twisted relationship with his mother (which famously inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho), his early grave robbing, the murders leading up to his arrest, and the police’s discovery of his terrifying house of horrors—all accompanied by the brand-new revelations revealed in the recordings. “This

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 7, 2023
New Doc 'King On Screen' Explores Stephen King's Legacy Of Terror

New Doc ‘King On Screen’ Explores Stephen King’s Legacy Of Terror

When it comes to authors, no one is more prolific than Stephen King, whose writings have been adapted again and again for film, including The Boogeyman, which has just premiered in theaters. A new documentary, King of Screen, from director Daphné Baiwir will explore King’s legacy of terror and the films we all love to fear. “In 1976, Brian de Palma directed Carrie, the first novel by Stephen King. Since then, more than 50 directors have adapted the master of horror’s books in more than 80 films and series, making him the most adapted author alive. What’s so fascinating about him that filmmakers cannot stop adapting his works? King on Screen reunites the filmmakers that have adapted Stephen King’s books for cinema and TV, including Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Walking Dead), Tom Holland (The Langoliers, Chucky), Mick Garris (The Stand, Sleepwalkers) and Taylor Hackford (Dolores Claiborne, Ray). It is a movie made for the fans. The

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 7, 2023
Ari Aster's 'Beau Is Afraid' Coming To Blu-ray And Digital

Ari Aster’s ‘Beau Is Afraid’ Coming To Blu-ray And Digital

A24 and writer-director Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar) have teamed up again for the unnerving film Beau Is Afraid. Originally titled Disappointment Blvd., the movie stars Academy Award-winner Joaquin Phoenix as a mild-mannered anxiety-ridden man who following the sudden death of his mother, confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic, Kafkaesque odyssey back home. The film co-stars Parker Posey (“Lost in Space”), Stephen McKinley Henderson (Dune), Denis Ménochet (The French Dispatch), Michael Gandolfini (The Many Saints of Newark), Hayley Squires (In the Earth), and Zoe Lister-Jones (the director of The Craft: Legacy). Nathan Lane (“Penny Dreadful: City of Angels”), Patti LuPone (“Hollywood”), Amy Ryan (Only Murders in the Building), and Kylie Rogers (“Yellowstone”) also star. Aster and Lars Knudsen are producing for Square Peg. Beau Is Afraid arrives on Blu-ray™, DVD, and Digital on July 11, 2023, from A24 and Lionsgate.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 7, 2023
Disney Is Conjures 'Hocus Pocus 3'

Disney Is Conjures ‘Hocus Pocus 3’

There’s no way around it; when a movie becomes a classic, studios aim to milk it for all its worth. A prime example is the Halloween-centered franchise Hocus Pocus. Last year we got a sequel (meh), and now Disney is ready to conjure a third movie. Sean Bailey, the Disney exec who is in charge of Disney’s live-action studio, is responsible for movies like The Little Mermaid and Hocus Pocus 2. Told the New York Times that several movies are headed our way, including Hocus Pocus 3. At the moment, no details have been revealed for Hocus Pocus 3. If the franchise’s stars, Bette Miller, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, and Doug Jones, it hasn’t been announced. In Hocus Pocus 2 (review), It’s been 29 years since someone lit the Black Flame Candle and resurrected the 17th-century Sanderson sisters, and they are looking for revenge. Now it is up to three high-school students to stop the wicked witches from wreaking

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 7, 2023
A Cult Stalks Their Next Victim In 'The Devil Comes At Night' - Out Today

A Cult Stalks Their Next Victim In ‘The Devil Comes At Night’ – Out Today

“American Gods” actress Adrienne Kress and Ryan Allen (In the Shadow of the Moon) star in the cult horror-thriller The Devil Comes At Night. “Ben, a washed-up boxer searching for his inheritance, must fight for his life when he is trapped in his deceased father’s farmhouse by a cannibal cult. With the help of Amy, the local librarian, he discovers the cult’s leader, Mason, has been hunting down his family for generations. And now his sights are set on Ben. Together, Ben and Amy come up with a plan to defeat the cult once and for all.” The film also stars Jason Martorino, Elias Zarou, Shawn Ahmed, Todd Campbell, Dana Fradkin, Ty Andrassy, DL Macdonald, Jeremiah Sparks, and Julie Cohn. The Devil Comes At Night will be released on Digital and DVD on June 6, 2023, from Uncork’d Entertainment.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 6, 2023
'Insidious: The Red Door' Coming To Blu-Ray

Witness The Final Trailer For ‘Insidious 5: The Red Door’

The final creepy AF trailer is here for Insidious 5: The Red Door, taking us back into “The Further” for the final time. Patrick Wilson, who starred in the first two films, is returning to the franchise, not just to star as Josh Lambert, but will also make his directorial debut with the fifth installment. He will star alongside returning cast members Ty Simpkins, who will reprise his role as Dalton Lambert, Josh’s son, and Rose Byrne, who played Josh’s wife, Renai Lambert. The new movie is set ten years after the events of the second film. “Josh Lambert (Wilson) heads east to drop his son Dalton (Simpkins) off at an idyllic, ivy-covered university. However, Dalton’s college dream becomes a nightmare when the repressed demons of his past suddenly return to haunt them both.” Scott Teems (Halloween Kills) penned the script based on a story by franchise co-creator Leigh Whannell (The Invisible Man). The first two Insidious movies were directed

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 6, 2023
Sci-Fi Creature Feature Makes 'First Contact' Today

Sci-Fi Creature Feature Makes ‘First Contact’ Today

Bruce Wemple‘s sci-fi creature feature, First Contact, which features strong practical effects and an outstanding performance by Wemple film-staple Anna Shields, premiered to raves at Panic Fest in April and comes home today. First Contact “tells of two estranged adult siblings, Casey and Dan, who travel to their late scientist father’s farmhouse to make sense of his incomplete work. They soon learn that their father’s work was far more dangerous than they could ever imagine: An evil entity, buried in time and space for millions of years, has been released and has begun wreaking havoc on the locals. One by one, the bodies start to pile up. Now, Dan and Casey must figure out the secrets of this extra–dimensional monster before it’s too late.” Watch First Contact today (6/6) on Digital or DVD from Uncork’d Entertainment.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 6, 2023
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