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Jonah Ray Rodrigues Faces The Neighbor From Hell In Shudder's 'Destroy All Neighbors'

Jonah Ray Rodrigues Faces The Neighbor From Hell In Shudder’s ‘Destroy All Neighbors’

Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural, and RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks announced today that they are teaming up for the newest Shudder Original horror-comedy, Destroy All Neighbors. The film is from music-video and commercial director Josh Forbes (Contracted: Phase II) and stars Jonah Ray Rodrigues (Mystery Science Theater 3000, pictured) and Alex Winter (Bill and Ted franchise) who also produces, Destroy All Neighbors will have a day-and-date release in theaters and on Shudder in 2023. The film, which is also produced by Russell Sanzgiri (Michael Bolton’s Big Sexy Valentine’s Day Special), is from an original script written by Mike Benner, Jared Logan, and Charles Pieper. In Destroy All Neighbors, struggling prog-rock musician William Brown (Rodrigues) finds himself in a living nightmare when he accidentally kills Vlad (Winter), the neighbor from hell. Vlad’s disembodied corpse delights in tormenting William, sending him further into madness and impending doom. Casting for the film has

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 11, 2022
Post-Apocalyptic Action Thriller 'Breathe' Begins Production This Summer With All-Star Cast

Post-Apocalyptic Action Thriller ‘Breathe’ Begins Production This Summer With All-Star Cast

Avatar’s Sam Worthington, Academy Award-winner Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls, Respect), Milla Jovovich (the Resident Evil franchise), Academy Award-nominee Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild, Annie), and Academy Award-winner Common (Wanted, Suicide Squad) are set to star in Indie Spirit Award-winner Stefon Bristol’s (See You Yesterday) new upcoming post-apocalyptic action-thriller Breathe, it was announced today. In Breathe, after Earth is left uninhabitable due to lack of oxygen, a mother Maya (Hudson), and her daughter Zora (Wallis) are forced to live underground, with short trips to the surface only made possible by a state of the art oxygen suit made by Maya’s husband, Darius, whom she presumes to be dead. When a mysterious couple arrives claiming to know Darius and his fate, Maya tentatively agrees to let them into their bunker, but are they all they appear to be? Bristol will direct from the Black List screenplay written by Doug Simon (Dimension’s Demonic). Principal photography on the edge-of-your-seat survival thriller will take

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 11, 2022
Two Brothers Face A Sadistic Cult In The Trailer For 'The Long Dark Trail'

Two Brothers Face A Sadistic Cult In The Trailer For ‘The Long Dark Trail’

Genre specialist Black Mandala presents psychological horror coming of age movie, The Long Dark Trail, from the writing-directing team of Kevin Ignatius and Nick Psinakis. In the film, “Two impoverished teenage brothers flee after finally fighting back against their abusive father. Hoping to find and reunite with their estranged mother, they embark on a dangerous journey to rural Pennsylvania, not knowing that she has become a disciple of a sadistic cult that dwells there.” Carter O’Donnell, Brady O’Donnell, Mick Thyer, Nick Psinakis, Trina Campbell, Paul “Doc” Ignatius, Charlotte Andersen, Willard Foley, and Bryce Cummings star in The Long Dark Trail, whose release date should be announced soon.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 11, 2022
Sci-Fi Thriller 'Zero Contact,' Starring Anthony Hopkins, Comes Home This May

Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Zero Contact,’ Starring Anthony Hopkins, Comes Home This May

Director Rick Dugdale‘s sci-fi thriller Zero Contact is set to be released this May. In the trailer, we are introduced to the film’s incredible cast which includes Academy Award® winner Anthony Hopkins, star of The Silence of the Lambs franchise. Written by Cam Cannon, “this high-tech thriller chillingly reimagines our isolated, virtual world. Hopkins plays Finley Hart, the eccentric genius behind a global data-mining program. Upon his death, five remote agents — including Finley’s son — are contacted by a mysterious A.I. entity to reactivate the initiative, which may enable time travel. As sinister events occur at each of the agents’ homes, they must decide whether entering their passwords will save the world…or destroy it.” Chris Brochu (Recon) and Aleks Paunovic (This Means War) also star in Zero Contact, whose two sequels have already entered production, according to IMDb. Watch Zero Contact in select theaters, on Digital, or On Demand on May 27, 2022.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 11, 2022
A Great White Hunts A Group Of Friends In 'The Reef: Stalked' Trailer

Friends Are Hunted By A Great White This Summer In Shudder’s ‘The Reef 2: Stalked’

RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, and Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural have acquired the North American rights and set a release date for the horror film, The Reef: Stalked, sequel to the 2010 movie. Written and directed by Andrew Traucki (Black Water) as a follow up to his 2010 film, The Reef, the movie stars Teressa Liane (“The Vampire Diaries”), Ann Truong (“Cowboy Bebop”), Saskia Archer (Boshack), Kate Lister (Clickbait), and Tim Ross (Wonderland). In The Reef: Stalked, Nic, in an effort to heal after witnessing her sister’s horrific murder, travels to a tropical resort with her friends for a kayaking and diving adventure. Only hours into their expedition, the women are stalked and then attacked by a great white shark. To survive they will need to band together and Nic will have to overcome her post-traumatic stress, face her fears and slay the monster. “Audiences have an insatiable appetite for

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 10, 2022
Serial Killer Horror 'Night Caller' Debuts This Week On Digital

Serial Killer Horror ‘Night Caller’ Debuts This Week On Digital

Following a successful run on the genre festival circuit, 123 Go Films has announced the North American VOD premiere of Chad Ferrin’s Night Caller, the latest feature from the director of The Deep Ones, Exorcism at 60,000 Feet, and Someone’s Knocking at the Door. In the film, “telephone psychic Clementine Carter is pulled into a complex web of mystery when she receives a call from a serial killer. Predicting his murders before he commits them puts her into a terrifying game of cat and mouse. Enlisting the aid of her invalid father and clairvoyant co-worker, they must use their unique abilities to stay one step ahead of a maniac whose unspeakable acts in the present are nothing compared to his past and future.” Night Caller stars Susan Priver, Steve Railsback (Lifeforce), Bai Ling (The Crow), Lew Temple (The Devil’s Rejects), Christine Nguyen, Silvia Spross, Kelli Maroney (Night of the Comet), and Robert Miano, as well as Robert “Corpsy” Rhine. The

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 10, 2022
Mysterious Voices Issue A Warning In 'They Talk' - Out Today

Mysterious Voices Issue A Warning In ‘They Talk’ – Out Today

The dead communicate in Giorgio Bruno’s Italian horror-thriller They Talk, out today Digital and DVD, from Uncork’d Entertainment. In the film, sound engineer Alex accidentally records sinister voices while shooting a documentary. The voices do not sound human, and they appear to be trying to warn him about someone, or something. His search for their meaning will bring back mysterious people and events from his past. A threatening, black, and gloomy wave starts to haunt him. Written by Vinicio Canton, Stefano Ceccarelli, and Chiara Barbo, They Talk also stars Rocío Muñoz, Sydney White, and Margaux Billard.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 10, 2022
Filmmaker Joe O'Connell Discusses His Documentary About Rondo Hatton & Bob Burns

New Documentary ‘Rondo And Bob’ Delves Into The Lives Of Two Horror Icons

The award-winning documentary Rondo and Bob, centering on Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) art director Robert Burns and his obsession with cult actor Rondo Hatton, will be released on streaming platforms this June. Robert A. “Bob” Burns is a significant name in horror, known for his work on Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes, Re-Animator, The Howling, and Poltergeist. From a young age he showed signs of being a genius and could create complex designs all in his head, draw detailed cartoons and create outrageous puns. In high school and college he studied drama, which he later utilized in films including Confessions of a Serial Killer. While attending the University of Texas he edited the “Texas Ranger” humor magazine and discovered Rondo Hatton, a former Tampa, Florida, sports reporter, who contracted acromegaly, a condition that caused his face, hands and feet to grow out of proportion to the rest of his body. It caused the former athlete and

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 10, 2022
Dee Snider Announces He Is Directing A New Horror Film

Dee Snider Announces He Is Directing A New Horror Film

Back in 1998, “Twisted Sister” rocker Dee Snider wrote and starred in the horror movie Strangeland, which has since become something of a cult classic. Now, Snider is back with a new horror project. Snider took to Twitter to announce a new movie that it is greenlit and will kick off pre-production in a month. But that’s not all, he also revealed that he wrote the yet-to-be-named film and will be serving as director. In the past, Snider has teased that he wanted to make a sequel to Strangeland, in which he starred as a sadist obsessed with body modification that lures teens to be his victims via the internet. Could this be it or is it something entirely different? Hopefully, we’ll find out soon enough. Here’s a look back at the trailer for Sniders’ Strangeland.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 10, 2022
Sony's New Series Adaption Of "Beasts and Beauty" Reimagines Fairy Tales With A Horror Twist

Sony’s New Series Adaption Of “Beasts and Beauty” Reimagines Fairy Tales With A Horror Twist

Soman Chainani’s New York Times bestseller “Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales,” released last year, is getting a series adaptation from Sony’s 3000 Pictures, Variety reports. Chainani will be writing the pilot for the new series that features “Twelve tales, twelve dangerous tales of mystery, magic, and rebellious hearts. Each twists like a spindle to reveal truths full of warning and triumph, truths that free hearts long kept tame, truths that explore life . . . and death.” “New York Times bestselling author Soman Chainani turns old stories we were told as children “into fresh fairy tales for a new era and creates a world like no other. These stories know you. They understand you. They reflect you. They are tales for our times. So read on, if you dare.” There is no word yet of when the series will premiere, but we’ll keep you posted. In the meantime, you can get your copy of the book now on Amazon.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 10, 2022

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Jonah Ray Rodrigues Faces The Neighbor From Hell In Shudder's 'Destroy All Neighbors'

Jonah Ray Rodrigues Faces The Neighbor From Hell In Shudder’s ‘Destroy All Neighbors’

Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural, and RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks announced today that they are teaming up for the newest Shudder Original horror-comedy, Destroy All Neighbors. The film is from music-video and commercial director Josh Forbes (Contracted: Phase II) and stars Jonah Ray Rodrigues (Mystery Science Theater 3000, pictured) and Alex Winter (Bill and Ted franchise) who also produces, Destroy All Neighbors will have a day-and-date release in theaters and on Shudder in 2023. The film, which is also produced by Russell Sanzgiri (Michael Bolton’s Big Sexy Valentine’s Day Special), is from an original script written by Mike Benner, Jared Logan, and Charles Pieper. In Destroy All Neighbors, struggling prog-rock musician William Brown (Rodrigues) finds himself in a living nightmare when he accidentally kills Vlad (Winter), the neighbor from hell. Vlad’s disembodied corpse delights in tormenting William, sending him further into madness and impending doom. Casting for the film has

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 11, 2022
Post-Apocalyptic Action Thriller 'Breathe' Begins Production This Summer With All-Star Cast

Post-Apocalyptic Action Thriller ‘Breathe’ Begins Production This Summer With All-Star Cast

Avatar’s Sam Worthington, Academy Award-winner Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls, Respect), Milla Jovovich (the Resident Evil franchise), Academy Award-nominee Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild, Annie), and Academy Award-winner Common (Wanted, Suicide Squad) are set to star in Indie Spirit Award-winner Stefon Bristol’s (See You Yesterday) new upcoming post-apocalyptic action-thriller Breathe, it was announced today. In Breathe, after Earth is left uninhabitable due to lack of oxygen, a mother Maya (Hudson), and her daughter Zora (Wallis) are forced to live underground, with short trips to the surface only made possible by a state of the art oxygen suit made by Maya’s husband, Darius, whom she presumes to be dead. When a mysterious couple arrives claiming to know Darius and his fate, Maya tentatively agrees to let them into their bunker, but are they all they appear to be? Bristol will direct from the Black List screenplay written by Doug Simon (Dimension’s Demonic). Principal photography on the edge-of-your-seat survival thriller will take

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 11, 2022
Two Brothers Face A Sadistic Cult In The Trailer For 'The Long Dark Trail'

Two Brothers Face A Sadistic Cult In The Trailer For ‘The Long Dark Trail’

Genre specialist Black Mandala presents psychological horror coming of age movie, The Long Dark Trail, from the writing-directing team of Kevin Ignatius and Nick Psinakis. In the film, “Two impoverished teenage brothers flee after finally fighting back against their abusive father. Hoping to find and reunite with their estranged mother, they embark on a dangerous journey to rural Pennsylvania, not knowing that she has become a disciple of a sadistic cult that dwells there.” Carter O’Donnell, Brady O’Donnell, Mick Thyer, Nick Psinakis, Trina Campbell, Paul “Doc” Ignatius, Charlotte Andersen, Willard Foley, and Bryce Cummings star in The Long Dark Trail, whose release date should be announced soon.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 11, 2022
Sci-Fi Thriller 'Zero Contact,' Starring Anthony Hopkins, Comes Home This May

Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Zero Contact,’ Starring Anthony Hopkins, Comes Home This May

Director Rick Dugdale‘s sci-fi thriller Zero Contact is set to be released this May. In the trailer, we are introduced to the film’s incredible cast which includes Academy Award® winner Anthony Hopkins, star of The Silence of the Lambs franchise. Written by Cam Cannon, “this high-tech thriller chillingly reimagines our isolated, virtual world. Hopkins plays Finley Hart, the eccentric genius behind a global data-mining program. Upon his death, five remote agents — including Finley’s son — are contacted by a mysterious A.I. entity to reactivate the initiative, which may enable time travel. As sinister events occur at each of the agents’ homes, they must decide whether entering their passwords will save the world…or destroy it.” Chris Brochu (Recon) and Aleks Paunovic (This Means War) also star in Zero Contact, whose two sequels have already entered production, according to IMDb. Watch Zero Contact in select theaters, on Digital, or On Demand on May 27, 2022.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 11, 2022
A Great White Hunts A Group Of Friends In 'The Reef: Stalked' Trailer

Friends Are Hunted By A Great White This Summer In Shudder’s ‘The Reef 2: Stalked’

RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, and Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural have acquired the North American rights and set a release date for the horror film, The Reef: Stalked, sequel to the 2010 movie. Written and directed by Andrew Traucki (Black Water) as a follow up to his 2010 film, The Reef, the movie stars Teressa Liane (“The Vampire Diaries”), Ann Truong (“Cowboy Bebop”), Saskia Archer (Boshack), Kate Lister (Clickbait), and Tim Ross (Wonderland). In The Reef: Stalked, Nic, in an effort to heal after witnessing her sister’s horrific murder, travels to a tropical resort with her friends for a kayaking and diving adventure. Only hours into their expedition, the women are stalked and then attacked by a great white shark. To survive they will need to band together and Nic will have to overcome her post-traumatic stress, face her fears and slay the monster. “Audiences have an insatiable appetite for

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 10, 2022
Serial Killer Horror 'Night Caller' Debuts This Week On Digital

Serial Killer Horror ‘Night Caller’ Debuts This Week On Digital

Following a successful run on the genre festival circuit, 123 Go Films has announced the North American VOD premiere of Chad Ferrin’s Night Caller, the latest feature from the director of The Deep Ones, Exorcism at 60,000 Feet, and Someone’s Knocking at the Door. In the film, “telephone psychic Clementine Carter is pulled into a complex web of mystery when she receives a call from a serial killer. Predicting his murders before he commits them puts her into a terrifying game of cat and mouse. Enlisting the aid of her invalid father and clairvoyant co-worker, they must use their unique abilities to stay one step ahead of a maniac whose unspeakable acts in the present are nothing compared to his past and future.” Night Caller stars Susan Priver, Steve Railsback (Lifeforce), Bai Ling (The Crow), Lew Temple (The Devil’s Rejects), Christine Nguyen, Silvia Spross, Kelli Maroney (Night of the Comet), and Robert Miano, as well as Robert “Corpsy” Rhine. The

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 10, 2022
Mysterious Voices Issue A Warning In 'They Talk' - Out Today

Mysterious Voices Issue A Warning In ‘They Talk’ – Out Today

The dead communicate in Giorgio Bruno’s Italian horror-thriller They Talk, out today Digital and DVD, from Uncork’d Entertainment. In the film, sound engineer Alex accidentally records sinister voices while shooting a documentary. The voices do not sound human, and they appear to be trying to warn him about someone, or something. His search for their meaning will bring back mysterious people and events from his past. A threatening, black, and gloomy wave starts to haunt him. Written by Vinicio Canton, Stefano Ceccarelli, and Chiara Barbo, They Talk also stars Rocío Muñoz, Sydney White, and Margaux Billard.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 10, 2022
Filmmaker Joe O'Connell Discusses His Documentary About Rondo Hatton & Bob Burns

New Documentary ‘Rondo And Bob’ Delves Into The Lives Of Two Horror Icons

The award-winning documentary Rondo and Bob, centering on Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) art director Robert Burns and his obsession with cult actor Rondo Hatton, will be released on streaming platforms this June. Robert A. “Bob” Burns is a significant name in horror, known for his work on Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes, Re-Animator, The Howling, and Poltergeist. From a young age he showed signs of being a genius and could create complex designs all in his head, draw detailed cartoons and create outrageous puns. In high school and college he studied drama, which he later utilized in films including Confessions of a Serial Killer. While attending the University of Texas he edited the “Texas Ranger” humor magazine and discovered Rondo Hatton, a former Tampa, Florida, sports reporter, who contracted acromegaly, a condition that caused his face, hands and feet to grow out of proportion to the rest of his body. It caused the former athlete and

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 10, 2022
Dee Snider Announces He Is Directing A New Horror Film

Dee Snider Announces He Is Directing A New Horror Film

Back in 1998, “Twisted Sister” rocker Dee Snider wrote and starred in the horror movie Strangeland, which has since become something of a cult classic. Now, Snider is back with a new horror project. Snider took to Twitter to announce a new movie that it is greenlit and will kick off pre-production in a month. But that’s not all, he also revealed that he wrote the yet-to-be-named film and will be serving as director. In the past, Snider has teased that he wanted to make a sequel to Strangeland, in which he starred as a sadist obsessed with body modification that lures teens to be his victims via the internet. Could this be it or is it something entirely different? Hopefully, we’ll find out soon enough. Here’s a look back at the trailer for Sniders’ Strangeland.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 10, 2022
Sony's New Series Adaption Of "Beasts and Beauty" Reimagines Fairy Tales With A Horror Twist

Sony’s New Series Adaption Of “Beasts and Beauty” Reimagines Fairy Tales With A Horror Twist

Soman Chainani’s New York Times bestseller “Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales,” released last year, is getting a series adaptation from Sony’s 3000 Pictures, Variety reports. Chainani will be writing the pilot for the new series that features “Twelve tales, twelve dangerous tales of mystery, magic, and rebellious hearts. Each twists like a spindle to reveal truths full of warning and triumph, truths that free hearts long kept tame, truths that explore life . . . and death.” “New York Times bestselling author Soman Chainani turns old stories we were told as children “into fresh fairy tales for a new era and creates a world like no other. These stories know you. They understand you. They reflect you. They are tales for our times. So read on, if you dare.” There is no word yet of when the series will premiere, but we’ll keep you posted. In the meantime, you can get your copy of the book now on Amazon.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 10, 2022
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