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Filmmaker Tyler Christensen's Debut Novel 'As Dead Things Do' Is Out Now

Filmmaker Tyler Christensen’s Debut Novel ‘As Dead Things Do’ Is Out Now

“The land has been in the family for centuries, divided and passed down over generations.” A shadowy figure haunts the pages of screenwriter and director Tyler Christensen’s (House of Purgatory, available now on Prime Video), debut novel As Dead Things Do. In the book, “Caleb knew when he agreed to move to his husband’s family plot in rural North Carolina that it would come with its headaches. What he never imagined, however, is that their efforts to rebuild a marriage torn apart by infidelity would soon take a back seat to the pale, skeletal thing that haunts the basement. The shadowy figure that moves about in the barn. The hateful blackness just below their feet. It rots. It ruins. It fights to be remembered…As dead things do. The novel is available now on Kindle and Paperback on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and wherever books are sold.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 6, 2022
Movie Review: Hulu's 'Prey' Is The Predator Movie We've Been Praying For

Movie Review: Hulu’s ‘Prey’ Is The Predator Movie We’ve Been Praying For

When I first heard that Hulu’s new movie Prey, a new installment of the Predator franchise, would be set in the past I had questions about how that would work and if it would even be worth watching, I mean. Let’s face it, most of the recent Predator movies suck. I got comfy, snuggled up with my dogs (Freyja and Rosie), and settled in. And I hit play on what I was expecting to be hot garbage. But that’s not what I got. Instead, I got a great movie. Prey follows Naru, a fierce and highly skilled warrior, who has been raised in the shadow of some of the most legendary hunters who roam the Great Plains, so when danger threatens her tribe, she sets out to protect her people, stalking and ultimately fighting what turns out to be an alien predator. First, I want to express how grateful I am that the Native American characters are actually played by

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 6, 2022
'Maneater' Is Swimming Your Way This August (Trailer)

‘Maneater’ Is Swimming Your Way This August (Trailer)

This August, dive into Saban Films’ shark thriller Maneater, from writer-director Justin Lee, which follows a group of friends on a getaway faced with a man-eating shark. “What better place to drown your sorrows than an idyllic island paradise? That was the idea when Jesse’s friends convinced her to not let a broken engagement stand in the way of enjoying her prepaid honeymoon. Their sorrows weren’t the only thing going to drown on their trip, especially with a man-eating shark swimming just below the surface.” The action-packed survival film stars Nicky Whelan (Halloween II), musician/actor Trace Adkins (I Can Only Imagine), Jeff Fahey (“Lost”), and Shane West (Escape the Field). Maneater swims into theaters, on to Digital, and On Demand on August 26, 2022, from Saban Films.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 6, 2022
New Clip From True Story Inspired Film 'Thirteen Lives' Comes To The Rescue

New Clip From True Story Inspired Film ‘Thirteen Lives’ Comes To The Rescue

From the brilliant Academy Award-winning director, Ron Howard comes Thirteen Lives which recounts the incredible true story of the rescue of a Thai soccer team trapped in a cave during a rainstorm in 2018, leaving people around the world glued to their TVs as the rescue unfolded. To celebrate its release, we’ve got a new clip in which rescues first locate the missing children. Faced with insurmountable odds, a team of the world’s most skilled and experienced divers – uniquely able to navigate the maze of flooded, narrow cave tunnels – join with Thai forces and more than 10,000 volunteers to attempt a harrowing rescue of the twelve boys and their coach. With impossibly high stakes and the entire world watching, the group embarks on their most challenging dive yet, showcasing the limitlessness of the human spirit in the process. Written by William Nicholson, based on a story by Nicholson and Don Macpherson, the film features an all-star cast that

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 6, 2022
IDW Teams Up With Anima For Series Based On Comic 'Brutal Nature'

IDW Teams Up With Anima For Series Based On Comic ‘Brutal Nature’

IDW (NYSE American: IDW), a leading media company providing uniquely compelling stories and characters in various genres for global audiences across all entertainment platforms, announced today it is teaming up with Ánima (Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires, Legend Quest, Space Chickens in Space), the leading animation studio in Latin America, to develop and produce an adult animated television series based on IDW Publishing’s Brutal Nature comic books. Created by Saracino and Olivetti and produced by Fernando De Fuentes S and José C. García de Letona, alongside the IDW team, Brutal Nature is about a collection of masks that transforms a young man into innumerable beasts and monsters. The Brutal Nature comic, first published in 2016, is a twist on the Spanish conquest of South America in which a young man is in possession of a set of masks that transform him into great beasts and monsters which he becomes in order to keep the Spanish from wiping out villages. With

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 6, 2022
Actor Turned Writer-Director Bret Lada Discusses 'The Andy Baker Tape' In Our Interview

Actor Turned Writer-Director Bret Lada Discusses ‘The Andy Baker Tape’ In Our Interview

Ahead of its premiere this month, actor-writer-director Bret Lada sat down with us to discuss his found footage film. The Andy Baker Tape, reveals the last known footage of a food blogger and his brother. The film, which took home 26 awards at film festivals, premieres on the Terror Films Channel on August 5, 2022, before a wide digital on August 12th followed by its arrival on Kings of Horror on August 19th. Kelli: “So tell me about this film, The Andy baker tape?” Bret: “It was a project of love that I created with my writing partner, Dustin during the pandemic. I worked mostly as an actor, and Dustin was a “Blue Man.” He was with a blue man in Boston. I was working in the film a lot right before the lockdown I ended up, I was in a short film that won the academy award that helped me get a little brand through sag. And then I

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 6, 2022
Movie Review: Answer The Call And Watch The Must See Horror 'The Black Phone'

‘The Black Phone’ Collector’s Edition Comes Home This August

Scott Derrickson‘s The Black Phone, which recently opened in theaters on June 24th, bringing in $100,000,000 worldwide, is out next week on home release! The movie centers on “Finney Shaw, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney. Starring four-time Oscar® nominee Ethan Hawke appears in the terrifying role of his career and Mason Thames in his film debut, The Black Phone is produced, directed, and co-written by Scott Derrickson who wrote and directed Sinister, which also starred Hawke. He’s also behind The Exorcism of Emily Rose and Marvel’s Doctor Strange. Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies, and James Ransone also star. The film’s screenplay is by

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 5, 2022
Camp Counselors Are Hunted In The Sequel, 'Don't F*ck In The Woods 2'

Camp Counselors Are Hunted In The Sequel, ‘Don’t F*ck In The Woods 2’

Camp counselors are hunted in the long-awaited sequel to cult slasher, Don’t F*ck in the Woods, which comes home this October. Following the arrival of a mysterious woman, a group of camp counselors partying before the summer season begins must face off against parasitic monsters that are attracted to sexual activity. The long-awaited sequel to Shawn Burkett’s 2016 cult hit film stars Brittany Blanton, Cheyenne Gordon, Julie Anne Prescott, Kaylee Williams, Mark Justice, and Jason Crowe. Don’t F*ck in the Woods 2 slashes its way onto Digital on October 11, 2022, with a Blu-ray release to follow in December from Wild Eye Releasing.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 5, 2022
Horror 'The Retaliators' Scores New Trailer And A Killer Music Video

Horror ‘The Retaliators’ Scores New Trailer And A Killer Music Video

Better Noise Music has just released the theme song, “21 Bullets” as well as the new trailer for the horror film The Retaliators, directed by Bridget Smith and Samuel Gonzalez Jr. In anticipation of the forthcoming cinematic release of BETTER NOISE FILMS’ new horror-thriller, they have released the movie’s theme song along with a music video featuring clips from the film. “The Retaliators Theme Song (21 Bullets)”, co-written by Nikki Sixx and James Michael of Sixx: A.M., features Mötley Crüe, Asking Alexandria, Ice Nine Kills, From Ashes To New and is featured on The Retaliators Original Motion Picture Soundtrack due out September 16, 2022. “Writing a new theme song for a horror flick was inspiring,” says Sixx. “This was my first time writing for a horror-thriller film, and it took me in a different direction from the first theme song I wrote – ‘The Dirt (1981)’ by Mötley Crüe. I worked with some great new artists to create a new

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 5, 2022
Orlando Rodriguez Joins Bonnie Aarons For Horror 'Camp Pleasant Lake'

Orlando Rodriguez Joins Bonnie Aarons For Horror ‘Camp Pleasant Lake’

Orlando Rodriguez (13 Fanboy) joins Bonnie Aarons (The Nun, Conjuring 2), Mike Ferguson (Amityville Uprising), and Devanny Pinn (House of Manson) in the new horror film, Camp Pleasant Lake. Set “on Halloween weekend, 20 years ago at Camp Pleasant Lake, little Echo Meadows was kidnapped, and her parents were brutally murdered. In the aftermath, the camp was shut down and left abandoned. Now 20 years later, an enterprising couple, the Rutherford’s, have purchased the property and turned it into a horror camp. The theme for their grand opening is “CAMP OF TERROR”, where with the help of the counselors, who were the little campers 20 years earlier, they will be retelling and reliving the brutal murders. For an exorbitant sum, adults can come and witness the events that unfolded that fateful night. To lure in the new clientele, the Rutherford’s have been spreading a rumor that Echo comes back every year to get her revenge, and anyone who gets in

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 5, 2022

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Filmmaker Tyler Christensen's Debut Novel 'As Dead Things Do' Is Out Now

Filmmaker Tyler Christensen’s Debut Novel ‘As Dead Things Do’ Is Out Now

“The land has been in the family for centuries, divided and passed down over generations.” A shadowy figure haunts the pages of screenwriter and director Tyler Christensen’s (House of Purgatory, available now on Prime Video), debut novel As Dead Things Do. In the book, “Caleb knew when he agreed to move to his husband’s family plot in rural North Carolina that it would come with its headaches. What he never imagined, however, is that their efforts to rebuild a marriage torn apart by infidelity would soon take a back seat to the pale, skeletal thing that haunts the basement. The shadowy figure that moves about in the barn. The hateful blackness just below their feet. It rots. It ruins. It fights to be remembered…As dead things do. The novel is available now on Kindle and Paperback on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and wherever books are sold.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 6, 2022
Movie Review: Hulu's 'Prey' Is The Predator Movie We've Been Praying For

Movie Review: Hulu’s ‘Prey’ Is The Predator Movie We’ve Been Praying For

When I first heard that Hulu’s new movie Prey, a new installment of the Predator franchise, would be set in the past I had questions about how that would work and if it would even be worth watching, I mean. Let’s face it, most of the recent Predator movies suck. I got comfy, snuggled up with my dogs (Freyja and Rosie), and settled in. And I hit play on what I was expecting to be hot garbage. But that’s not what I got. Instead, I got a great movie. Prey follows Naru, a fierce and highly skilled warrior, who has been raised in the shadow of some of the most legendary hunters who roam the Great Plains, so when danger threatens her tribe, she sets out to protect her people, stalking and ultimately fighting what turns out to be an alien predator. First, I want to express how grateful I am that the Native American characters are actually played by

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 6, 2022
'Maneater' Is Swimming Your Way This August (Trailer)

‘Maneater’ Is Swimming Your Way This August (Trailer)

This August, dive into Saban Films’ shark thriller Maneater, from writer-director Justin Lee, which follows a group of friends on a getaway faced with a man-eating shark. “What better place to drown your sorrows than an idyllic island paradise? That was the idea when Jesse’s friends convinced her to not let a broken engagement stand in the way of enjoying her prepaid honeymoon. Their sorrows weren’t the only thing going to drown on their trip, especially with a man-eating shark swimming just below the surface.” The action-packed survival film stars Nicky Whelan (Halloween II), musician/actor Trace Adkins (I Can Only Imagine), Jeff Fahey (“Lost”), and Shane West (Escape the Field). Maneater swims into theaters, on to Digital, and On Demand on August 26, 2022, from Saban Films.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 6, 2022
New Clip From True Story Inspired Film 'Thirteen Lives' Comes To The Rescue

New Clip From True Story Inspired Film ‘Thirteen Lives’ Comes To The Rescue

From the brilliant Academy Award-winning director, Ron Howard comes Thirteen Lives which recounts the incredible true story of the rescue of a Thai soccer team trapped in a cave during a rainstorm in 2018, leaving people around the world glued to their TVs as the rescue unfolded. To celebrate its release, we’ve got a new clip in which rescues first locate the missing children. Faced with insurmountable odds, a team of the world’s most skilled and experienced divers – uniquely able to navigate the maze of flooded, narrow cave tunnels – join with Thai forces and more than 10,000 volunteers to attempt a harrowing rescue of the twelve boys and their coach. With impossibly high stakes and the entire world watching, the group embarks on their most challenging dive yet, showcasing the limitlessness of the human spirit in the process. Written by William Nicholson, based on a story by Nicholson and Don Macpherson, the film features an all-star cast that

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 6, 2022
IDW Teams Up With Anima For Series Based On Comic 'Brutal Nature'

IDW Teams Up With Anima For Series Based On Comic ‘Brutal Nature’

IDW (NYSE American: IDW), a leading media company providing uniquely compelling stories and characters in various genres for global audiences across all entertainment platforms, announced today it is teaming up with Ánima (Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires, Legend Quest, Space Chickens in Space), the leading animation studio in Latin America, to develop and produce an adult animated television series based on IDW Publishing’s Brutal Nature comic books. Created by Saracino and Olivetti and produced by Fernando De Fuentes S and José C. García de Letona, alongside the IDW team, Brutal Nature is about a collection of masks that transforms a young man into innumerable beasts and monsters. The Brutal Nature comic, first published in 2016, is a twist on the Spanish conquest of South America in which a young man is in possession of a set of masks that transform him into great beasts and monsters which he becomes in order to keep the Spanish from wiping out villages. With

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 6, 2022
Actor Turned Writer-Director Bret Lada Discusses 'The Andy Baker Tape' In Our Interview

Actor Turned Writer-Director Bret Lada Discusses ‘The Andy Baker Tape’ In Our Interview

Ahead of its premiere this month, actor-writer-director Bret Lada sat down with us to discuss his found footage film. The Andy Baker Tape, reveals the last known footage of a food blogger and his brother. The film, which took home 26 awards at film festivals, premieres on the Terror Films Channel on August 5, 2022, before a wide digital on August 12th followed by its arrival on Kings of Horror on August 19th. Kelli: “So tell me about this film, The Andy baker tape?” Bret: “It was a project of love that I created with my writing partner, Dustin during the pandemic. I worked mostly as an actor, and Dustin was a “Blue Man.” He was with a blue man in Boston. I was working in the film a lot right before the lockdown I ended up, I was in a short film that won the academy award that helped me get a little brand through sag. And then I

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 6, 2022
Movie Review: Answer The Call And Watch The Must See Horror 'The Black Phone'

‘The Black Phone’ Collector’s Edition Comes Home This August

Scott Derrickson‘s The Black Phone, which recently opened in theaters on June 24th, bringing in $100,000,000 worldwide, is out next week on home release! The movie centers on “Finney Shaw, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney. Starring four-time Oscar® nominee Ethan Hawke appears in the terrifying role of his career and Mason Thames in his film debut, The Black Phone is produced, directed, and co-written by Scott Derrickson who wrote and directed Sinister, which also starred Hawke. He’s also behind The Exorcism of Emily Rose and Marvel’s Doctor Strange. Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies, and James Ransone also star. The film’s screenplay is by

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 5, 2022
Camp Counselors Are Hunted In The Sequel, 'Don't F*ck In The Woods 2'

Camp Counselors Are Hunted In The Sequel, ‘Don’t F*ck In The Woods 2’

Camp counselors are hunted in the long-awaited sequel to cult slasher, Don’t F*ck in the Woods, which comes home this October. Following the arrival of a mysterious woman, a group of camp counselors partying before the summer season begins must face off against parasitic monsters that are attracted to sexual activity. The long-awaited sequel to Shawn Burkett’s 2016 cult hit film stars Brittany Blanton, Cheyenne Gordon, Julie Anne Prescott, Kaylee Williams, Mark Justice, and Jason Crowe. Don’t F*ck in the Woods 2 slashes its way onto Digital on October 11, 2022, with a Blu-ray release to follow in December from Wild Eye Releasing.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 5, 2022
Horror 'The Retaliators' Scores New Trailer And A Killer Music Video

Horror ‘The Retaliators’ Scores New Trailer And A Killer Music Video

Better Noise Music has just released the theme song, “21 Bullets” as well as the new trailer for the horror film The Retaliators, directed by Bridget Smith and Samuel Gonzalez Jr. In anticipation of the forthcoming cinematic release of BETTER NOISE FILMS’ new horror-thriller, they have released the movie’s theme song along with a music video featuring clips from the film. “The Retaliators Theme Song (21 Bullets)”, co-written by Nikki Sixx and James Michael of Sixx: A.M., features Mötley Crüe, Asking Alexandria, Ice Nine Kills, From Ashes To New and is featured on The Retaliators Original Motion Picture Soundtrack due out September 16, 2022. “Writing a new theme song for a horror flick was inspiring,” says Sixx. “This was my first time writing for a horror-thriller film, and it took me in a different direction from the first theme song I wrote – ‘The Dirt (1981)’ by Mötley Crüe. I worked with some great new artists to create a new

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 5, 2022
Orlando Rodriguez Joins Bonnie Aarons For Horror 'Camp Pleasant Lake'

Orlando Rodriguez Joins Bonnie Aarons For Horror ‘Camp Pleasant Lake’

Orlando Rodriguez (13 Fanboy) joins Bonnie Aarons (The Nun, Conjuring 2), Mike Ferguson (Amityville Uprising), and Devanny Pinn (House of Manson) in the new horror film, Camp Pleasant Lake. Set “on Halloween weekend, 20 years ago at Camp Pleasant Lake, little Echo Meadows was kidnapped, and her parents were brutally murdered. In the aftermath, the camp was shut down and left abandoned. Now 20 years later, an enterprising couple, the Rutherford’s, have purchased the property and turned it into a horror camp. The theme for their grand opening is “CAMP OF TERROR”, where with the help of the counselors, who were the little campers 20 years earlier, they will be retelling and reliving the brutal murders. For an exorbitant sum, adults can come and witness the events that unfolded that fateful night. To lure in the new clientele, the Rutherford’s have been spreading a rumor that Echo comes back every year to get her revenge, and anyone who gets in

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 5, 2022
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