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New Horror Set In A "Spirit Halloween" Store Headed Your Way

New Horror Set In A “Spirit Halloween” Store Headed Your Way

Strike Back Studios and Hideout Pictures have just announced they have wrapped principal photography of Spirit Halloween, inspired by the Halloween store franchise. In the film, which marks David Poag‘s feature directorial debut, “when a new Spirit Halloween store appears in a deserted strip mall, three middle school friends who think they’ve outgrown trick or treating make a dare to spend the night locked inside the store on Halloween night. But they soon find out that the store is haunted by an angry evil spirit who has possessed the creepy animatronic characters. The kids embark on a thrilling and spooky adventure in order to survive the night and avoid becoming possessed themselves.” Rachael Leigh Cook (He’s All That, Love, Guaranteed), Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future trilogy), and Marla Gibbs (El Camino: A Breaking Bad movie) star alongside up and coming young actors Donavan Colan (Zoe, Getaway), Dylan Martin Frankel (Raven’s Home, Life & Beth), Jaiden Smith (“Blue Bloods,” The

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 12, 2022
New Clip From 'Escape The Field' Asks "Where's Denise?"

New Clip From ‘Escape The Field’ Asks “Where’s Denise?”

A group of six strangers must work together to solve a puzzle in order to survive in writer-director Emerson Moore‘s Escape the Field, set to arrive this May. To celebrate the approaching release, Lionsgate has shared a second clip, titled “Where’s Denise?” (watch the first clip here). Joshua Dobkin, and Sean Wathen wrote the film with Moore. It stars Jordan Claire Robbins, Theo Rossi, Tahirah Sharif, Julian Feder, Elena Juatco, and Shane West. Andrew Davies Gans, Michael Philip, Jason Moring, and Emerson Moore serve as producers. “The fear is inescapable and the suspense nonstop in this gripping horror-thriller about six strangers who suddenly awaken in a remote, endless cornfield. Stripped of their possessions, they are left with only six items: a gun with a single bullet, matches, a lantern, a knife, a compass, and a flask of water. As mysterious sirens blare in the distance and traps appear at every turn, the group realizes it’s been plunged into a cat-and-mouse

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 12, 2022
Lionsgate Celebrates The Release Of Ti West's 'X' By Releasing New Clips (Watch)

Ti West’s ‘X’ Comes Home Today

After making a splash at theaters, writer-director Ti West‘s sexy horror X, which has a killer soundtrack available now, is coming home On Demand today. In the film, set in 1979, “a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast soon finds themselves in a desperate fight for their lives.” Jenna Ortega (Scream) and Mia Goth (Suspiria) star along with Scott Mescudi, Kid Cudi (Don’t Look Up, Creepshow), and Brittany Snow (Prom Night, Pitch Perfect) in this nightmare-inducing film. Watch X On Demand on April 12, 2022, and get your copy on Blu-ray (which has some killer bonus features) this May.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 12, 2022
Ridley Scott Adapting Icelandic Horror Novel 'Outside' For A Feature Film

Ridley Scott Adapting Icelandic Horror Novel ‘Outside’ For A Feature Film

Before Icelandic author, Ragnar Jónasson‘s new novel Outside hits the shelves on June 28, a movie adaptation is already in the works, Deadline reports. Ridley Scott has already optioned the story under his Scott Free Productions banner which will produce along with Truenorth. Henrik Hansen is currently in talks to direct the film that tells the story of “four friends seeking shelter in a small abandoned hunting lodge during a deadly Icelandic storm. Miles from help, and knowing they will die outside in the cold, they break open the lock and make their way inside, hoping to wait out the storm until morning. But nothing can prepare them for what they find behind the door.” “Working with Ridley Scott, one of the great visionaries of cinema, is an immense honor,” Jónasson told Deadline. “I am very much looking forward to the adventure of bringing Outside to the screen with the teams at Scott Free and Truenorth.” You can pre-order your

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 11, 2022
First Look: Director Compares New 'Jurassic World: Dominion' Dino To The Joker

First Look: Director Compares New ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ Dino To The Joker

Jurassic World: Dominion is finally headed to the big screen this summer. A new image has surfaced from the movie of a Giganotosaurus, “Giga” for short, standing on top of an overturned SUV. The dino, which makes its franchise debut, is based on a real one. “It just wants to watch the world burn,” according to director Colin Trevorrow, who compares the massive creature to the Joker. “I wanted something that felt like the Joker. It just wants to watch the world burn.” Trevorrow told Empire, who debuted the new image. In real life, the Giganotosaurus lived in what is now Argentina during the early Cenomanian age of the Late Cretaceous period around 97 million years ago and has been described as the largest known terrestrial carnivores, even bigger than a T-Rex, with a massive head measuring over six feet long and a mouth full of razor-sharp teeth that averaged eight inches in length. In other words, this dinosaur was

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 11, 2022
Own The Alternative Ending When You Buy 'Firestarter'

The New ‘Firestarter’ Premieres Exclusively On Peacock This May

In the new adaptation of Stephen King’s classic thriller Firestarter, from the producers of The Invisible Man, a girl with extraordinary pyrokinetic powers fights to protect her family and herself from sinister forces that seek to capture and control her. For more than a decade, parents Andy (Zac Efron; Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile; The Greatest Showman) and Vicky (Sydney Lemmon; Fear the Walking Dead, Succession) have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong; American Horror Story: Double Feature, The Tomorrow War) from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns 11, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident reveals the family’s location, a mysterious operative (Michael Greyeyes; Wild Indian, Rutherford Falls) is deployed to hunt down

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 11, 2022
New Documentary Will Explore The Life And Career Of Horror Icon Robert Englund

New Documentary Will Explore The Life And Career Of Horror Icon Robert Englund

For years, there has been a documentary in the works about Nightmare on Elm Street star and horror icon Robert Englund. Deadline is reporting that it is finally wrapped filming and now has a titled, Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story. . “Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story features a centerpiece interview with American actor Robert Englund, as well as interviews with Lance Henriksen, Eli Roth, Tony Todd, Bill Moseley, Lin Shaye, Heather Langenkamp, Nancy Booth (Englund’s wife of many years) and others.” Deadline states “Since first donning a tattered fedora and a glove of eviscerating blades in 1984, Robert Englund has become one of our generation’s most beloved horror icons. Englund has risen to stand shoulder to shoulder in the pantheon of movie legends alongside such greats as Boris Karloff and Christopher Lee. His portrayal of Freddy Krueger is, without doubt, a moment as visceral to the horror genre as Chaney’s werewolf or Karloff’s ground-breaking

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 11, 2022
Filming Has Begun For Post-Apocalyptic Irish Horror 'Woken'

Filming Has Begun For Post-Apocalyptic Irish Horror ‘Woken’

Production is currently underway for the upcoming horror film Woken, the feature directorial debut of Alan Friel, who was behind the 2017 short film Cake (watch it here). Variety reports that the Irish horror stars Erin Kellyman (Solo: A Star Wars Story, The Green Knight) and Maxine Peake (“Anne,” “Rules of the Game”), and is “set on a remote island in the North Sea.” Woken is set against a post-apocalyptic backdrop in which an island provides a safe haven from a pandemic that has ravaged the earth. Anna (Kellyman) wakes up pregnant, unable to remember her husband. “Disbelief in what she is being told leads to a horrible revelation and Anna having to contend with existential issues brought on by man’s destruction of the planet.” Filming has already begun in Ireland for Woken, which is being produced by Fantastic Films.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 10, 2022
Three New Actors Join The All-Star Cast Of Zack Snyder's 'Rebel Moon'

Three New Actors Join The All-Star Cast Of Zack Snyder’s ‘Rebel Moon’

Michiel Huisman (“The Haunting of Hill House”), Cary Elwes (Saw), Corey Stoll (“The Strain”), and Alfonso Herrera (“The Exorcist”) have all joined the cast of Zack Snyder‘s upcoming film Rebel Moon, THR reports. The actors join the previously announced cast members Charlie Hunnam (S.O.A.), Djimon Hounsou (Guardians of the Galaxy), Sofia Boutella (The Kingsman), Doona Bae, Ray Fisher, Rupert Friend, Jena Malone, Staz Nair, E. Duffy, Stuart Martin, Sky Yang, and Charlotte Maggi. In the sci-fi thriller, “A peaceful colony on the edge of the galaxy is threatened by the armies of a tyrannical regent named Belisarius. Desperate people dispatch a young woman with a mysterious past to seek out warriors from neighboring planets to help them make a stand.” Snyder is not only directing but co-wrote the script along with Shay Hatten (Army of the Dead) and Kurt Johnstad (300). “This is me growing up as an Akira Kurosawa fan, a Star Wars fan,” Zack Snyder recently told The

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 10, 2022
Watch The First 10 Minutes Of 'Umma' - Out Now On Digital And VOD

Watch The First 10 Minutes Of ‘Umma’ – Out Now On Digital And VOD

The Sam Raimi produced supernatural horror Umma, from writer-director Iris K. Shim opened in theaters in March, now it’s coming to home release. Umma centers on Sandra Oh‘s Amanda and her daughter (Fivel Stewart) who live a quiet life on an American farm, but when the remains of Amanda’s mother arrive from Korea, Amanda becomes unhinged, haunted by her mother. Dermot Mulroney, MeeWha Alana Lee, Odeya Rush, and Tom Yi co-star in the film executive produced by André Øvredal (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark). Umma is out today on Digital and VOD. Check out the trailer and watch the first ten minutes of this frightening flick below.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 10, 2022

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New Horror Set In A "Spirit Halloween" Store Headed Your Way

New Horror Set In A “Spirit Halloween” Store Headed Your Way

Strike Back Studios and Hideout Pictures have just announced they have wrapped principal photography of Spirit Halloween, inspired by the Halloween store franchise. In the film, which marks David Poag‘s feature directorial debut, “when a new Spirit Halloween store appears in a deserted strip mall, three middle school friends who think they’ve outgrown trick or treating make a dare to spend the night locked inside the store on Halloween night. But they soon find out that the store is haunted by an angry evil spirit who has possessed the creepy animatronic characters. The kids embark on a thrilling and spooky adventure in order to survive the night and avoid becoming possessed themselves.” Rachael Leigh Cook (He’s All That, Love, Guaranteed), Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future trilogy), and Marla Gibbs (El Camino: A Breaking Bad movie) star alongside up and coming young actors Donavan Colan (Zoe, Getaway), Dylan Martin Frankel (Raven’s Home, Life & Beth), Jaiden Smith (“Blue Bloods,” The

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 12, 2022
New Clip From 'Escape The Field' Asks "Where's Denise?"

New Clip From ‘Escape The Field’ Asks “Where’s Denise?”

A group of six strangers must work together to solve a puzzle in order to survive in writer-director Emerson Moore‘s Escape the Field, set to arrive this May. To celebrate the approaching release, Lionsgate has shared a second clip, titled “Where’s Denise?” (watch the first clip here). Joshua Dobkin, and Sean Wathen wrote the film with Moore. It stars Jordan Claire Robbins, Theo Rossi, Tahirah Sharif, Julian Feder, Elena Juatco, and Shane West. Andrew Davies Gans, Michael Philip, Jason Moring, and Emerson Moore serve as producers. “The fear is inescapable and the suspense nonstop in this gripping horror-thriller about six strangers who suddenly awaken in a remote, endless cornfield. Stripped of their possessions, they are left with only six items: a gun with a single bullet, matches, a lantern, a knife, a compass, and a flask of water. As mysterious sirens blare in the distance and traps appear at every turn, the group realizes it’s been plunged into a cat-and-mouse

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 12, 2022
Lionsgate Celebrates The Release Of Ti West's 'X' By Releasing New Clips (Watch)

Ti West’s ‘X’ Comes Home Today

After making a splash at theaters, writer-director Ti West‘s sexy horror X, which has a killer soundtrack available now, is coming home On Demand today. In the film, set in 1979, “a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast soon finds themselves in a desperate fight for their lives.” Jenna Ortega (Scream) and Mia Goth (Suspiria) star along with Scott Mescudi, Kid Cudi (Don’t Look Up, Creepshow), and Brittany Snow (Prom Night, Pitch Perfect) in this nightmare-inducing film. Watch X On Demand on April 12, 2022, and get your copy on Blu-ray (which has some killer bonus features) this May.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 12, 2022
Ridley Scott Adapting Icelandic Horror Novel 'Outside' For A Feature Film

Ridley Scott Adapting Icelandic Horror Novel ‘Outside’ For A Feature Film

Before Icelandic author, Ragnar Jónasson‘s new novel Outside hits the shelves on June 28, a movie adaptation is already in the works, Deadline reports. Ridley Scott has already optioned the story under his Scott Free Productions banner which will produce along with Truenorth. Henrik Hansen is currently in talks to direct the film that tells the story of “four friends seeking shelter in a small abandoned hunting lodge during a deadly Icelandic storm. Miles from help, and knowing they will die outside in the cold, they break open the lock and make their way inside, hoping to wait out the storm until morning. But nothing can prepare them for what they find behind the door.” “Working with Ridley Scott, one of the great visionaries of cinema, is an immense honor,” Jónasson told Deadline. “I am very much looking forward to the adventure of bringing Outside to the screen with the teams at Scott Free and Truenorth.” You can pre-order your

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 11, 2022
First Look: Director Compares New 'Jurassic World: Dominion' Dino To The Joker

First Look: Director Compares New ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ Dino To The Joker

Jurassic World: Dominion is finally headed to the big screen this summer. A new image has surfaced from the movie of a Giganotosaurus, “Giga” for short, standing on top of an overturned SUV. The dino, which makes its franchise debut, is based on a real one. “It just wants to watch the world burn,” according to director Colin Trevorrow, who compares the massive creature to the Joker. “I wanted something that felt like the Joker. It just wants to watch the world burn.” Trevorrow told Empire, who debuted the new image. In real life, the Giganotosaurus lived in what is now Argentina during the early Cenomanian age of the Late Cretaceous period around 97 million years ago and has been described as the largest known terrestrial carnivores, even bigger than a T-Rex, with a massive head measuring over six feet long and a mouth full of razor-sharp teeth that averaged eight inches in length. In other words, this dinosaur was

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 11, 2022
Own The Alternative Ending When You Buy 'Firestarter'

The New ‘Firestarter’ Premieres Exclusively On Peacock This May

In the new adaptation of Stephen King’s classic thriller Firestarter, from the producers of The Invisible Man, a girl with extraordinary pyrokinetic powers fights to protect her family and herself from sinister forces that seek to capture and control her. For more than a decade, parents Andy (Zac Efron; Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile; The Greatest Showman) and Vicky (Sydney Lemmon; Fear the Walking Dead, Succession) have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong; American Horror Story: Double Feature, The Tomorrow War) from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns 11, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident reveals the family’s location, a mysterious operative (Michael Greyeyes; Wild Indian, Rutherford Falls) is deployed to hunt down

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 11, 2022
New Documentary Will Explore The Life And Career Of Horror Icon Robert Englund

New Documentary Will Explore The Life And Career Of Horror Icon Robert Englund

For years, there has been a documentary in the works about Nightmare on Elm Street star and horror icon Robert Englund. Deadline is reporting that it is finally wrapped filming and now has a titled, Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story. . “Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story features a centerpiece interview with American actor Robert Englund, as well as interviews with Lance Henriksen, Eli Roth, Tony Todd, Bill Moseley, Lin Shaye, Heather Langenkamp, Nancy Booth (Englund’s wife of many years) and others.” Deadline states “Since first donning a tattered fedora and a glove of eviscerating blades in 1984, Robert Englund has become one of our generation’s most beloved horror icons. Englund has risen to stand shoulder to shoulder in the pantheon of movie legends alongside such greats as Boris Karloff and Christopher Lee. His portrayal of Freddy Krueger is, without doubt, a moment as visceral to the horror genre as Chaney’s werewolf or Karloff’s ground-breaking

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 11, 2022
Filming Has Begun For Post-Apocalyptic Irish Horror 'Woken'

Filming Has Begun For Post-Apocalyptic Irish Horror ‘Woken’

Production is currently underway for the upcoming horror film Woken, the feature directorial debut of Alan Friel, who was behind the 2017 short film Cake (watch it here). Variety reports that the Irish horror stars Erin Kellyman (Solo: A Star Wars Story, The Green Knight) and Maxine Peake (“Anne,” “Rules of the Game”), and is “set on a remote island in the North Sea.” Woken is set against a post-apocalyptic backdrop in which an island provides a safe haven from a pandemic that has ravaged the earth. Anna (Kellyman) wakes up pregnant, unable to remember her husband. “Disbelief in what she is being told leads to a horrible revelation and Anna having to contend with existential issues brought on by man’s destruction of the planet.” Filming has already begun in Ireland for Woken, which is being produced by Fantastic Films.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 10, 2022
Three New Actors Join The All-Star Cast Of Zack Snyder's 'Rebel Moon'

Three New Actors Join The All-Star Cast Of Zack Snyder’s ‘Rebel Moon’

Michiel Huisman (“The Haunting of Hill House”), Cary Elwes (Saw), Corey Stoll (“The Strain”), and Alfonso Herrera (“The Exorcist”) have all joined the cast of Zack Snyder‘s upcoming film Rebel Moon, THR reports. The actors join the previously announced cast members Charlie Hunnam (S.O.A.), Djimon Hounsou (Guardians of the Galaxy), Sofia Boutella (The Kingsman), Doona Bae, Ray Fisher, Rupert Friend, Jena Malone, Staz Nair, E. Duffy, Stuart Martin, Sky Yang, and Charlotte Maggi. In the sci-fi thriller, “A peaceful colony on the edge of the galaxy is threatened by the armies of a tyrannical regent named Belisarius. Desperate people dispatch a young woman with a mysterious past to seek out warriors from neighboring planets to help them make a stand.” Snyder is not only directing but co-wrote the script along with Shay Hatten (Army of the Dead) and Kurt Johnstad (300). “This is me growing up as an Akira Kurosawa fan, a Star Wars fan,” Zack Snyder recently told The

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 10, 2022
Watch The First 10 Minutes Of 'Umma' - Out Now On Digital And VOD

Watch The First 10 Minutes Of ‘Umma’ – Out Now On Digital And VOD

The Sam Raimi produced supernatural horror Umma, from writer-director Iris K. Shim opened in theaters in March, now it’s coming to home release. Umma centers on Sandra Oh‘s Amanda and her daughter (Fivel Stewart) who live a quiet life on an American farm, but when the remains of Amanda’s mother arrive from Korea, Amanda becomes unhinged, haunted by her mother. Dermot Mulroney, MeeWha Alana Lee, Odeya Rush, and Tom Yi co-star in the film executive produced by André Øvredal (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark). Umma is out today on Digital and VOD. Check out the trailer and watch the first ten minutes of this frightening flick below.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 10, 2022
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