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Hit Game 'The Mortuary Assistant' Being Adapted For Film

Hit Game ‘The Mortuary Assistant’ Being Adapted For Film

Since its launch in early August 2022, The Mortuary Assistant has become an internet phenomenon — achieving a top 10 streamed games spot on Twitch, becoming a Top Seller on Steam, and taking gaming TikTok by storm. It has been played by top gaming YouTubers such as Markiplier and Jacksepticeye, garnering over tens of millions of views. So it’s not a huge surprise that it’s being adapted for a feature film. The feature film adaptation will be written and directed by Jeremiah Kipp, whose credits include Slapface, Draw Up and Stare, starring Academy Award winner Melissa Leo, the Chinese-American co-production Broken Badges, the HP Lovecraft inspired Black Wake (writer/director) and The Sadist (director) starring Tom Savini. He is currently in post productionon his latest feature, The Boo Hag, filmed earlier this year in Savannah, Georgia. The game tasks players with performing routine mortician tasks while enduring increasingly bizarre and horrifying encounters with demonic entities. To survive, players must identify the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 2, 2022
Supernatural Horror 'The Harbinger' Is Out Today In Theaters And On Demand

Supernatural Horror ‘The Harbinger’ Is Out Today In Theaters And On Demand

Screen Media’s new supernatural horror The Harbinger is out today in theaters and available on Demand! In the film, “Hoping to escape their past, Daniel and Theresa Snyder move their troubled young daughter Rosalie to a quaint Midwestern town, but they are followed by the evil they tried to leave behind. When locals begin to die, the Snyders turns to a Native American seer and uncover a legend that may be the key to saving their family or a path to a grisly end for them and all they hold dear.” Irene Bedard (Pocahontas), Madeleine McGraw (The Black Phone), Will Klipstine, Amanda MacDonald, and Steve Monroe star. The film is directed by Will Klipstine who co-wrote the script with Amy Willis. It is produced by Will Klipstine, Steven Reed C., and Amy Mills.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 2, 2022
Chevy Chase & Dan Aykroyd Head To 'Zombie Town' In R.L. Stein Adaptation

Chevy Chase & Dan Aykroyd Head To ‘Zombie Town’ In R.L. Stein Adaptation

Comedy icons Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd are headed to Zombie Town, the upcoming movie based on R.L. Steins’ book of the same name. The two haven’t acted in a film together in over 30 years, with the last being Nothing But Trouble. Chase and Aykroyd also starred together in Spies Like Us, Caddyshack 2, and more. “The pair is joining the ensemble cast led by young actors Marlon Kazadi and Madi Monroe. The story follows Mike (Kazadi), a projectionist at his local movie theater in Carverville. He’s terrified of zombie movies, but his best friend and crush, Amy (Monroe), just loves them. So when the new zombie flick from Amy’s favorite director is set to premiere on Halloween at his cinema, Mike decides to show her the film early. The two find out the reel is cursed, transforming everyone in town, except for them, into the undead.” THR reports. Peter Lepeniotis is in the director’s chair for the movie

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 2, 2022
Dark Family Secrets Surface In Blumhouse's 'The Visitor' (Trailer)

Dark Family Secrets Surface In Blumhouse’s ‘The Visitor’ (Trailer)

When a man returns to his childhood home dark family secrets begin to surface in Paramount’s The Visitor, directed by Justin P. Lange. Starring Finn Jones, Jessica McNamee, Dane Rhodes, and Donna Biscoe, the film was written by Adam Mason and Simon Boyes. In The Visitor, “When Robert and his wife Maia move to her childhood home, he discovers an old portrait of his likeness in the attic – a man referred to only as ‘The Visitor’. Soon he finds himself descending down a frightening rabbit hole in an attempt to discover the true identity of his mysterious doppelgänger, only to realize that every family has its own terrifying secrets.” Blumhouse and Epix produce with Bradley Pilz, Greg Gilreath, Adam Hendricks, Jeremy Gold, Chris McCumber, David Grove Churchill Viste, and Jason Blum executive produce. The Visitor premieres on Digital and On Demand on October 7, 2022, followed by its arrival on Epix this December.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 2, 2022
We Have Such Sights To Show You: First Images From 'Hellraiser'

We Have Such Sights To Show You: First Images From ‘Hellraiser’

We have such sights to show you. The first images have surfaced from David Bruckner‘s upcoming remaining of Hellraiser, via EW. Not only do we get our first glimpse at Jamie Clayton as Pinhead, but also a look at a new cenobite, known as “The Mask.” In the new Hellraiser: “A young woman struggling with addiction comes into possession of an ancient puzzle box, unaware that its purpose is to summon the Cenobites, a group of sadistic supernatural beings from another dimension.” Odessa A’Zion, Goran Visnjic, Adam Faison, Drew Starkey, Brandon Flynn, Aoife Hinds, Jason Liles, Yinka Olorunnife, Selina Lo, Zachary Hing, Kit Clarke, and Hiam Abbass star in the film set to premiere exclusively on Hulu on October 7, 2022. Jamie Clayton as Pinhead in ‘Hellraiser’ (2022) CREDIT: SPYGLASS MEDIA GROUP ‘The Mask’ (2020) CREDIT: SPYGLASS MEDIA GROUP Odessa A’zion in ‘Hellraiser’ (2022) CREDIT: SPYGLASS MEDIA GROUP

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 1, 2022
Sink Your Teeth Into The New Clip From 'Bones And All" From The Director Of Suspiria

Teaser For Cannibal Horror ‘Bones And All’ Finds Timothée Chalamet & Taylor Russell In Love

Luca Guadagnino‘s (Suspiria) next horror film, Bones and All, stars Timothée Chalamet (Dune) and Taylor Russell (Escape Room) in what is being described as a cannibal horror love story. Reportedly the film centers on “two outsiders who embark on a 1,000-mile odyssey through Ronald Reagan’s America. When they discover they cannot outrun their terrifying pasts the pair take a final stand to determine whether their love can survive their otherness.” David Kajganich, who also wrote Guadagnino’s Suspiria, penned the script based on the novel penned by Camille DeAngelis. Mark Rylance, André Holland, Jessica Harper, Michael Stuhlbarg, David Gordon-Green, Francesca Scorsese, and Chloë Sevigny round out the cast. Bones and All has been acquired by MGM, and will debut in theaters on November 23, 2022.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 1, 2022
The Zombie Apocalypse Rages This October In Issue 'Year Zero VOL. 0'

The Zombie Apocalypse Rages This October In Issue ‘Year Zero VOL. 0’

AWA Studios, the independent developer of bold and relevant stories from the world’s most outstanding artists, writers, and artisans, announced today the highly anticipated return of the hit series Year Zero when YEAR ZERO VOL. 0 is unleashed this October. Following the successful two-volume series from original writer Benjamin Percy and artists Ramon Rosanas and Juan Jose Ryp, New York Times best-selling horror writer Daniel Kraus (George Romero’s The Living Dead, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch) and award-winning artist and illustrator Goran Sudžuka (Hellblazer, Wonder Woman) team up for an origin anthology series that takes readers to the beginning of a deadly zombie pandemic that plunged the world into chaos. A crime story, a medical drama, a war story, and a mid-air thriller are all set against the backdrop of the zombie apocalypse. Featuring a diverse cast and a wide range of settings in the Year Zero tradition, this volume takes the chaotic early days of a pandemic,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 1, 2022
Supernatural Horror 'Don't Look At The Demon' Opens In Theaters This Friday

‘Don’t Look At The Demon’ Trailer Features Fiona Dourif As A Medium

“Chucky” star Fiona Dourif (Tenet, The Blacklist) leads the cast of director Brando Lee‘s intense new horror film Don’t Look at the Demon, out this Halloween season. In the film, “A troubled medium Jules (Dourif) and an American team of paranormal TV investigators, played by Harris Dickinson (Where the Crawdads Sing, Triangle of Sadness, The King’s Man), Jordon Belfi (Entourage), and Randy Wayne (Dukes of Hazard: The Beginning), go to the home of a couple who claim to have experienced inexplicable, threatening disturbances. Delving into the mystery, they encounter possessions and apparitions more terrifying than any they’d witnessed before – actual contact with the other side. As the cameras roll and bodies are possessed, they’re inevitably overwhelmed by this violent supernatural force. Their only hope? Jules. She refuses to face what really happened when her first supernatural encounter left her sister dead. But her dark past, if she can unlock it, maybe their only hope of stopping the demon before

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 1, 2022
Travel Guide To The Odd, 'Weird NJ' Is Being Adapted For A New TV Series

Travel Guide To The Odd, ‘Weird NJ’ Is Being Adapted For A New TV Series

What started out as a fun newsletter between friends in the 80s, became a magazine in the 1990s. Now, Weird NJ is being adapted for TV series. The live-action horror-comedy series is from Vertigo, “Little Demon” co-creator Kieran Valla, and filmmaker David Kaufmann, who happens to be an NJ native. First published in 1993, Weird NJ, which has just released its 58th issue, is a beloved travel guide to places you won’t find on any map and features locations and stories of weird or unique spots, folklore, and facts. The series will center on an estranged family that is forced by destiny to protect New Jersey from evil, they must temper their resentments and battle a supernatural adversary, who plans to destroy the Garden State and then the world. “Vertigo Entertainment brought the project to the studio alongside a unique story developed by Valla and Kaufmann. The show will utilize the true-life mythology and legends of Weird NJ paired with

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 1, 2022
"Conversations With A Killer" To Explore The Mind & Crimes Of Jeffrey Dahmer This Season

“Conversations With A Killer” To Explore The Mind & Crimes Of Jeffrey Dahmer This Season

Cannibal serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer will be all over your TV in the upcoming months. Not only is Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series “Dahmer,” starring Evan Peters, headed your way, but so is Joe Berlinger‘s hit three-part true crime series “Conversations With A Killer” which is returning for its third season and will spotlight the killer. The official synopsis for “Conversations With A Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes” goes like this: “When Milwaukee police entered the apartment of 31-year-old Jeffrey Dahmer in July of 1991, they uncovered the grisly personal museum of a serial killer: a freezer full of human heads, skulls, bones, and other remains in various states of decomposition and display. Dahmer quickly confessed to 16 murders in Wisconsin over the previous four years, plus one more in Ohio in 1978, as well as unimaginable acts of necrophilia and cannibalism. “The discovery shocked the nation and stunned the local community, who were incensed that such a depraved killer had

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 1, 2022

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Hit Game 'The Mortuary Assistant' Being Adapted For Film

Hit Game ‘The Mortuary Assistant’ Being Adapted For Film

Since its launch in early August 2022, The Mortuary Assistant has become an internet phenomenon — achieving a top 10 streamed games spot on Twitch, becoming a Top Seller on Steam, and taking gaming TikTok by storm. It has been played by top gaming YouTubers such as Markiplier and Jacksepticeye, garnering over tens of millions of views. So it’s not a huge surprise that it’s being adapted for a feature film. The feature film adaptation will be written and directed by Jeremiah Kipp, whose credits include Slapface, Draw Up and Stare, starring Academy Award winner Melissa Leo, the Chinese-American co-production Broken Badges, the HP Lovecraft inspired Black Wake (writer/director) and The Sadist (director) starring Tom Savini. He is currently in post productionon his latest feature, The Boo Hag, filmed earlier this year in Savannah, Georgia. The game tasks players with performing routine mortician tasks while enduring increasingly bizarre and horrifying encounters with demonic entities. To survive, players must identify the

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 2, 2022
Supernatural Horror 'The Harbinger' Is Out Today In Theaters And On Demand

Supernatural Horror ‘The Harbinger’ Is Out Today In Theaters And On Demand

Screen Media’s new supernatural horror The Harbinger is out today in theaters and available on Demand! In the film, “Hoping to escape their past, Daniel and Theresa Snyder move their troubled young daughter Rosalie to a quaint Midwestern town, but they are followed by the evil they tried to leave behind. When locals begin to die, the Snyders turns to a Native American seer and uncover a legend that may be the key to saving their family or a path to a grisly end for them and all they hold dear.” Irene Bedard (Pocahontas), Madeleine McGraw (The Black Phone), Will Klipstine, Amanda MacDonald, and Steve Monroe star. The film is directed by Will Klipstine who co-wrote the script with Amy Willis. It is produced by Will Klipstine, Steven Reed C., and Amy Mills.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 2, 2022
Chevy Chase & Dan Aykroyd Head To 'Zombie Town' In R.L. Stein Adaptation

Chevy Chase & Dan Aykroyd Head To ‘Zombie Town’ In R.L. Stein Adaptation

Comedy icons Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd are headed to Zombie Town, the upcoming movie based on R.L. Steins’ book of the same name. The two haven’t acted in a film together in over 30 years, with the last being Nothing But Trouble. Chase and Aykroyd also starred together in Spies Like Us, Caddyshack 2, and more. “The pair is joining the ensemble cast led by young actors Marlon Kazadi and Madi Monroe. The story follows Mike (Kazadi), a projectionist at his local movie theater in Carverville. He’s terrified of zombie movies, but his best friend and crush, Amy (Monroe), just loves them. So when the new zombie flick from Amy’s favorite director is set to premiere on Halloween at his cinema, Mike decides to show her the film early. The two find out the reel is cursed, transforming everyone in town, except for them, into the undead.” THR reports. Peter Lepeniotis is in the director’s chair for the movie

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 2, 2022
Dark Family Secrets Surface In Blumhouse's 'The Visitor' (Trailer)

Dark Family Secrets Surface In Blumhouse’s ‘The Visitor’ (Trailer)

When a man returns to his childhood home dark family secrets begin to surface in Paramount’s The Visitor, directed by Justin P. Lange. Starring Finn Jones, Jessica McNamee, Dane Rhodes, and Donna Biscoe, the film was written by Adam Mason and Simon Boyes. In The Visitor, “When Robert and his wife Maia move to her childhood home, he discovers an old portrait of his likeness in the attic – a man referred to only as ‘The Visitor’. Soon he finds himself descending down a frightening rabbit hole in an attempt to discover the true identity of his mysterious doppelgänger, only to realize that every family has its own terrifying secrets.” Blumhouse and Epix produce with Bradley Pilz, Greg Gilreath, Adam Hendricks, Jeremy Gold, Chris McCumber, David Grove Churchill Viste, and Jason Blum executive produce. The Visitor premieres on Digital and On Demand on October 7, 2022, followed by its arrival on Epix this December.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 2, 2022
We Have Such Sights To Show You: First Images From 'Hellraiser'

We Have Such Sights To Show You: First Images From ‘Hellraiser’

We have such sights to show you. The first images have surfaced from David Bruckner‘s upcoming remaining of Hellraiser, via EW. Not only do we get our first glimpse at Jamie Clayton as Pinhead, but also a look at a new cenobite, known as “The Mask.” In the new Hellraiser: “A young woman struggling with addiction comes into possession of an ancient puzzle box, unaware that its purpose is to summon the Cenobites, a group of sadistic supernatural beings from another dimension.” Odessa A’Zion, Goran Visnjic, Adam Faison, Drew Starkey, Brandon Flynn, Aoife Hinds, Jason Liles, Yinka Olorunnife, Selina Lo, Zachary Hing, Kit Clarke, and Hiam Abbass star in the film set to premiere exclusively on Hulu on October 7, 2022. Jamie Clayton as Pinhead in ‘Hellraiser’ (2022) CREDIT: SPYGLASS MEDIA GROUP ‘The Mask’ (2020) CREDIT: SPYGLASS MEDIA GROUP Odessa A’zion in ‘Hellraiser’ (2022) CREDIT: SPYGLASS MEDIA GROUP

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 1, 2022
Sink Your Teeth Into The New Clip From 'Bones And All" From The Director Of Suspiria

Teaser For Cannibal Horror ‘Bones And All’ Finds Timothée Chalamet & Taylor Russell In Love

Luca Guadagnino‘s (Suspiria) next horror film, Bones and All, stars Timothée Chalamet (Dune) and Taylor Russell (Escape Room) in what is being described as a cannibal horror love story. Reportedly the film centers on “two outsiders who embark on a 1,000-mile odyssey through Ronald Reagan’s America. When they discover they cannot outrun their terrifying pasts the pair take a final stand to determine whether their love can survive their otherness.” David Kajganich, who also wrote Guadagnino’s Suspiria, penned the script based on the novel penned by Camille DeAngelis. Mark Rylance, André Holland, Jessica Harper, Michael Stuhlbarg, David Gordon-Green, Francesca Scorsese, and Chloë Sevigny round out the cast. Bones and All has been acquired by MGM, and will debut in theaters on November 23, 2022.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 1, 2022
The Zombie Apocalypse Rages This October In Issue 'Year Zero VOL. 0'

The Zombie Apocalypse Rages This October In Issue ‘Year Zero VOL. 0’

AWA Studios, the independent developer of bold and relevant stories from the world’s most outstanding artists, writers, and artisans, announced today the highly anticipated return of the hit series Year Zero when YEAR ZERO VOL. 0 is unleashed this October. Following the successful two-volume series from original writer Benjamin Percy and artists Ramon Rosanas and Juan Jose Ryp, New York Times best-selling horror writer Daniel Kraus (George Romero’s The Living Dead, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch) and award-winning artist and illustrator Goran Sudžuka (Hellblazer, Wonder Woman) team up for an origin anthology series that takes readers to the beginning of a deadly zombie pandemic that plunged the world into chaos. A crime story, a medical drama, a war story, and a mid-air thriller are all set against the backdrop of the zombie apocalypse. Featuring a diverse cast and a wide range of settings in the Year Zero tradition, this volume takes the chaotic early days of a pandemic,

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 1, 2022
Supernatural Horror 'Don't Look At The Demon' Opens In Theaters This Friday

‘Don’t Look At The Demon’ Trailer Features Fiona Dourif As A Medium

“Chucky” star Fiona Dourif (Tenet, The Blacklist) leads the cast of director Brando Lee‘s intense new horror film Don’t Look at the Demon, out this Halloween season. In the film, “A troubled medium Jules (Dourif) and an American team of paranormal TV investigators, played by Harris Dickinson (Where the Crawdads Sing, Triangle of Sadness, The King’s Man), Jordon Belfi (Entourage), and Randy Wayne (Dukes of Hazard: The Beginning), go to the home of a couple who claim to have experienced inexplicable, threatening disturbances. Delving into the mystery, they encounter possessions and apparitions more terrifying than any they’d witnessed before – actual contact with the other side. As the cameras roll and bodies are possessed, they’re inevitably overwhelmed by this violent supernatural force. Their only hope? Jules. She refuses to face what really happened when her first supernatural encounter left her sister dead. But her dark past, if she can unlock it, maybe their only hope of stopping the demon before

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 1, 2022
Travel Guide To The Odd, 'Weird NJ' Is Being Adapted For A New TV Series

Travel Guide To The Odd, ‘Weird NJ’ Is Being Adapted For A New TV Series

What started out as a fun newsletter between friends in the 80s, became a magazine in the 1990s. Now, Weird NJ is being adapted for TV series. The live-action horror-comedy series is from Vertigo, “Little Demon” co-creator Kieran Valla, and filmmaker David Kaufmann, who happens to be an NJ native. First published in 1993, Weird NJ, which has just released its 58th issue, is a beloved travel guide to places you won’t find on any map and features locations and stories of weird or unique spots, folklore, and facts. The series will center on an estranged family that is forced by destiny to protect New Jersey from evil, they must temper their resentments and battle a supernatural adversary, who plans to destroy the Garden State and then the world. “Vertigo Entertainment brought the project to the studio alongside a unique story developed by Valla and Kaufmann. The show will utilize the true-life mythology and legends of Weird NJ paired with

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 1, 2022
"Conversations With A Killer" To Explore The Mind & Crimes Of Jeffrey Dahmer This Season

“Conversations With A Killer” To Explore The Mind & Crimes Of Jeffrey Dahmer This Season

Cannibal serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer will be all over your TV in the upcoming months. Not only is Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series “Dahmer,” starring Evan Peters, headed your way, but so is Joe Berlinger‘s hit three-part true crime series “Conversations With A Killer” which is returning for its third season and will spotlight the killer. The official synopsis for “Conversations With A Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes” goes like this: “When Milwaukee police entered the apartment of 31-year-old Jeffrey Dahmer in July of 1991, they uncovered the grisly personal museum of a serial killer: a freezer full of human heads, skulls, bones, and other remains in various states of decomposition and display. Dahmer quickly confessed to 16 murders in Wisconsin over the previous four years, plus one more in Ohio in 1978, as well as unimaginable acts of necrophilia and cannibalism. “The discovery shocked the nation and stunned the local community, who were incensed that such a depraved killer had

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 1, 2022
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