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Psychedelic Thriller ‘To The Moon’ Reveals It's Stunning But Creepy Poster

Psychedelic Thriller ‘To The Moon’ Reveals It’s Stunning But Creepy Poster

1091 Pictures has announced the acquisition of English-speaking territories for To The Moon, the directorial debut from actor-turned-director Scott Friend (The Dark End of the Street), from Yellow Veil Pictures. The poster has just been unveiled and it’s stunning. The film, which is written, directed, and starring Friend, premiered in 2021 at NIGHTSTREAM and was in selection at the 2020 US in Progress industry showcase organized by Wroclaw’s American Film Festival, which later hosted the film’s international premiere. To The Moon follows Dennis and Mia, a young couple who find their weekend retreat becomes a hallucinatory nightmare when Dennis’ estranged brother Roger arrives and begins to distort their senses. Friend and Madeleine Morgenweck star as the young couple at the center of the film. Friend can notably be seen in Dan Sallitt’s Gotham Independent Film award-winning feature Fourteen and the two appeared together in Kevin Tran’s acclaimed indie mystery thriller The Dark End of the Street. Will Brill, best known

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 13, 2022
The New 'Nope' Poster Features A Horse Floating Midair

The Official Trailer For Jordan Peele’s ‘Nope’ Asks “What’s A Bad Miracle?”

Oscar® winner Jordan Peele, who helped redefine modern horror with Get Out and then Us, is back with a new tale of terror, the horror epic, Nope, whose official trailer has finally just premiered! The film reunites Peele with Oscar® winner Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out, Judas and the Black Messiah), who is joined by Keke Palmer (Hustlers, Alice) and Oscar® nominee Steven Yeun (Minari, Okja, “The Walking Dead”) as residents in a lonely gulch of inland California who bears witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.” Aliens? Nope, which co-stars Michael Wincott (Hitchcock, “Westworld”) and Brandon Perea (“The OA,” American Insurrection), is written and directed by Jordan Peele and is produced by Ian Cooper (Us, Candyman) and Jordan Peele for Monkeypaw Productions. Nope will be released by Universal Pictures worldwide in theaters on July 22, 2022.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 13, 2022
'The Last American Horror Show Vol. 2' Wants To Tell You A Scary Story (Trailer)

‘The Last American Horror Show Vol. 2’ Wants To Tell You A Scary Story (Trailer)

From directors, Michael S Rodriguez, Montgomery Dodson, and Rick Vasquez comes The Last American Horror Show Vol. 2, set to debut this March. The new trailer is here and takes to a penitentiary where a man on death row wants to hear a scary story. Mike Ferguson (Amityville Uprising/ Death Squad) stars alongside Mel Novak, Maria Olsen, Donna Hamblin, Helene Udy, and Timothy Patrick Quill. In the film, “Double the tales and double the fright as Horror Show returns with tales to keep you up at night; “Killer” Callahan sits on death row wishing to escape when a trustee offers him some escapism through a book filled with disturbing stories.” The Last American Horror Show Vol. 2 is out on March 4, 2022, from Midnight Releasing.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 12, 2022
Something Is Very Wrong With A Kid Brought Back To Life In The J-Horror 'Bloat'

Something Is Very Wrong With A Kid Brought Back To Life In The J-Horror ‘Bloat’

“Gotham” star Ben McKenzie (pictured) and Beyond Skyline’s Bojana Novakovic are set to star in the upcoming J-horror film Bloat, Variety reports. “Bloat stars McKenzie as a military officer stationed in Turkey while his wife (Novakovic) is vacationing in Japan with their kids. During the stay, their younger son almost drowns in a lake. Soon after the accident, the parents realize that something is wrong with their boy.” Written and directed by Pablo Absento, Bloat is produced by Bazelevs’ Timur Bekmambetov (Unfriended, Searching, Profile) and is co-production of Pulsar Content, which recently released the fantastic aquatic horror The Deep House. McKenzie and Absent are producing alongside Bekmambetov, Anna Shalashina from Bazelevs, Maria Zatulovskaya, Gilles Sousa, and Marie Garrett of Pulsar Content, Hiroko Oda from flag Co., Ltd, and Dzhanik Fayziev from Okko. The Fantasia Film Festival’s artistic directors Mitch Davis and Aleksandr Fomin are serving as associate producers. Filming has already begun for Bloat in New York and will continue

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 12, 2022
Norman Reedus Teaming Up With The Jim Henson Co. For A New Fantasy Series

Norman Reedus Teaming Up With The Jim Henson Co. For A New Fantasy Series

“Walking Dead” star Norman Reedus is teaming up with the Jim Henson Co. for a new live-action fantasy series. Variety reports that the project is still in early development and is “creating an entirely new universe of characters by teaming up with Brian and Wendy Froud (“The Dark Crystal”) for a project in the works for Henson. The primetime adventure series, intended for a family audience, will feature an entirely new universe of creatures created by the Frouds.” “Norman Reedus, the Frouds, and the Jim Henson Company coming together to create a show is the mashup of my dreams,” Halle Stanford, president of the TV at The Jim Henson Company said in a statement. “Norman is an artist, and when I suggested to him, what if we create a series with the Frounds together that explores his love of magical creatures, he was so excited.” “They are masters in the fantasy world-building space. I mean, a show about goblins, trolls,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 12, 2022
Keke Palmer Is On A Mission For Revenge In The True Story Inspired Thriller 'Alice' (Trailer)

Keke Palmer Is On A Mission For Revenge In The True Story Inspired Thriller ‘Alice’ (Trailer)

Keke Palmer (“Scream” series) stars in Alice, a post-Civil Rights tale of modern empowerment inspired by true events, directed by Van Linden. In the thriller, “Alice (Keke Palmer) yearns for freedom as an enslaved person on a rural Georgia plantation under its brutal and disturbed owner Paul (Jonny Lee Miller). After a violent clash with Paul, she flees through the neighboring woods and stumbles onto the unfamiliar sight of a highway, soon discovering the year is 1973. Rescued on the roadside by a disillusioned political activist named Frank (Common), Alice quickly comprehends the lies that have kept her in bondage and the promise of Black liberation.” Palmer is also set to star in Jordan Peele’s upcoming mysterious film Nope and will lend her voice to the new animated spin-off of “Big Mouth”, titled “Human Resources.” Vertical Entertainment is set to release Alice on March 18, 2022.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 12, 2022
First Image Surfaces From The Shark Survival Thriller 'The Black Demon'

First Image Surfaces From The Shark Survival Thriller ‘The Black Demon’

Principle photography has now officially wrapped in the Dominican Republic on the survival thriller The Black Demon, starring Josh Lucas (Ford v Ferrari, Sweet Home Alabama) who is featured in the first image from the film (below). Directed by Adrian Grünberg (Rambo: Last Blood, Get the Gringo), the film is based on a Mexican legend. While on a trip to Baja, an oilman finds himself and his family stranded on a rig where the sins of his past have put him and all he holds dear in the crosshairs of a sinister force. Fernanda Urrejola (Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho, Netflix’s “Narcos: Mexico”), and Julio Cesar Cedillo (Netflix’s The Harder They Fall and “Narcos: Mexico,” Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario), also star in The Black Demon, written by Boise Esquerra (Austin Film Festival nominated “Blackwater”). Producers include Mucho Mas’ Javier Chapa and Silk Mass’ Jon Silk, alongside R.U. and Robot’s Petr Jákl with Mucho Mas’ Phillip Braun, Simon Wise, Bruce Barshop, Vincent Cordero,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 11, 2022
Guillermo Del Toro's Award-Winning Thriller 'Nightmare Alley' Is Coming To 4K Ultra

Guillermo Del Toro’s Award-Winning Thriller ‘Nightmare Alley’ Is Coming To 4K Ultra

Nominated for best picture, Gullermo del Toro‘s beautifully twisted film Nightmare Alley is getting a home release this March after premiering on HBO Max and Hulu earlier this month. Starring Bradley Cooper, Toni Collette, Cate Blanchett, and Rooney Mara, the suspenseful psychological thriller has been nominated for four Academy Awards® including Best Picture, 8 Critics’ Choice Awards, a Screen Actors’ Guild Award for Supporting Actress for Cate Blanchett, and BAFTA, SDSA, MPSE, ADG, CDG, VES, and WGA Awards. In Nightmare Alley, “When charismatic but down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) endears himself to clairvoyant Zeena (Toni Collette) and her has-been mentalist husband Pete (David Strathairn) at a traveling carnival, he crafts a golden ticket to success, using this newly acquired knowledge to grift the wealthy elite of 1940s New York society. With the virtuous Molly (Rooney Mara) loyally by his side, Stanton plots to con a dangerous tycoon (Richard Jenkins) with the aid of a mysterious psychiatrist (Cate Blanchett) who might

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 11, 2022
Shudder Announces Killer March Lineup

Shudder Announces Killer March Lineup

Shudder, the ultimate streaming service for horror and thrillers has a killer lineup this March with a ton of new movies, series, and Originals. To make sure you don’t miss a thing, we’ve got your guide! March 3rd The Scary of Sixty-First Two roommates’ lives are upended after finding out that their new Manhattan apartment harbors a dark secret. Directed by Dasha Nekrasova, The Scary of Sixty-First won the “Best First Feature Award” at the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival. The film stars Madeline Quinn, Betsey Brown, and Dasha Nekrasova, and was written by Quinn and Nekrasova. March 10th The Seed This horror-comedy centers on Deidre (Lucy Martin), Heather (Sophie Vavasseur), and Charlotte (Chelsea Edge), lifelong friends finally getting some time away together, using an upcoming meteor shower to gather more followers for their social media channels. But what starts as a girls’ getaway in the Mojave Desert descends into a battle for survival with the arrival of an alien

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 11, 2022
Horror Fuel

‘Candyman 3: Day Of The Dead’ Is Now Out On Blu-ray

The Collector’s Series of 1999’s Candyman 3: Day of the Dead has just been released. The question is, should you buy it? The film opens with a young woman, Caroline (Donna D’Errico) unhappy with the way a gallery owner is presenting the art by her ancestor, Daniel Robitaille, who became known as the legendary Candyman. His great, great, granddaughter also wants people to see him for who he was, a gifted artist. However, when she is pushed into calling his name by the gallery owner, her romantic notions of the artist give way to the horror of who he has become, a supernatural killer. This all begins just days before the Day of the Dead, the day that is celebrated as a day to honor the dead. While you can tell the movie was made in the ’90s, before special effects and camera quality reached today’s standards, it’s still entertaining. And is still is heavily connected to its predecessors story-wise,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 11, 2022

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Psychedelic Thriller ‘To The Moon’ Reveals It's Stunning But Creepy Poster

Psychedelic Thriller ‘To The Moon’ Reveals It’s Stunning But Creepy Poster

1091 Pictures has announced the acquisition of English-speaking territories for To The Moon, the directorial debut from actor-turned-director Scott Friend (The Dark End of the Street), from Yellow Veil Pictures. The poster has just been unveiled and it’s stunning. The film, which is written, directed, and starring Friend, premiered in 2021 at NIGHTSTREAM and was in selection at the 2020 US in Progress industry showcase organized by Wroclaw’s American Film Festival, which later hosted the film’s international premiere. To The Moon follows Dennis and Mia, a young couple who find their weekend retreat becomes a hallucinatory nightmare when Dennis’ estranged brother Roger arrives and begins to distort their senses. Friend and Madeleine Morgenweck star as the young couple at the center of the film. Friend can notably be seen in Dan Sallitt’s Gotham Independent Film award-winning feature Fourteen and the two appeared together in Kevin Tran’s acclaimed indie mystery thriller The Dark End of the Street. Will Brill, best known

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 13, 2022
The New 'Nope' Poster Features A Horse Floating Midair

The Official Trailer For Jordan Peele’s ‘Nope’ Asks “What’s A Bad Miracle?”

Oscar® winner Jordan Peele, who helped redefine modern horror with Get Out and then Us, is back with a new tale of terror, the horror epic, Nope, whose official trailer has finally just premiered! The film reunites Peele with Oscar® winner Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out, Judas and the Black Messiah), who is joined by Keke Palmer (Hustlers, Alice) and Oscar® nominee Steven Yeun (Minari, Okja, “The Walking Dead”) as residents in a lonely gulch of inland California who bears witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.” Aliens? Nope, which co-stars Michael Wincott (Hitchcock, “Westworld”) and Brandon Perea (“The OA,” American Insurrection), is written and directed by Jordan Peele and is produced by Ian Cooper (Us, Candyman) and Jordan Peele for Monkeypaw Productions. Nope will be released by Universal Pictures worldwide in theaters on July 22, 2022.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 13, 2022
'The Last American Horror Show Vol. 2' Wants To Tell You A Scary Story (Trailer)

‘The Last American Horror Show Vol. 2’ Wants To Tell You A Scary Story (Trailer)

From directors, Michael S Rodriguez, Montgomery Dodson, and Rick Vasquez comes The Last American Horror Show Vol. 2, set to debut this March. The new trailer is here and takes to a penitentiary where a man on death row wants to hear a scary story. Mike Ferguson (Amityville Uprising/ Death Squad) stars alongside Mel Novak, Maria Olsen, Donna Hamblin, Helene Udy, and Timothy Patrick Quill. In the film, “Double the tales and double the fright as Horror Show returns with tales to keep you up at night; “Killer” Callahan sits on death row wishing to escape when a trustee offers him some escapism through a book filled with disturbing stories.” The Last American Horror Show Vol. 2 is out on March 4, 2022, from Midnight Releasing.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 12, 2022
Something Is Very Wrong With A Kid Brought Back To Life In The J-Horror 'Bloat'

Something Is Very Wrong With A Kid Brought Back To Life In The J-Horror ‘Bloat’

“Gotham” star Ben McKenzie (pictured) and Beyond Skyline’s Bojana Novakovic are set to star in the upcoming J-horror film Bloat, Variety reports. “Bloat stars McKenzie as a military officer stationed in Turkey while his wife (Novakovic) is vacationing in Japan with their kids. During the stay, their younger son almost drowns in a lake. Soon after the accident, the parents realize that something is wrong with their boy.” Written and directed by Pablo Absento, Bloat is produced by Bazelevs’ Timur Bekmambetov (Unfriended, Searching, Profile) and is co-production of Pulsar Content, which recently released the fantastic aquatic horror The Deep House. McKenzie and Absent are producing alongside Bekmambetov, Anna Shalashina from Bazelevs, Maria Zatulovskaya, Gilles Sousa, and Marie Garrett of Pulsar Content, Hiroko Oda from flag Co., Ltd, and Dzhanik Fayziev from Okko. The Fantasia Film Festival’s artistic directors Mitch Davis and Aleksandr Fomin are serving as associate producers. Filming has already begun for Bloat in New York and will continue

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 12, 2022
Norman Reedus Teaming Up With The Jim Henson Co. For A New Fantasy Series

Norman Reedus Teaming Up With The Jim Henson Co. For A New Fantasy Series

“Walking Dead” star Norman Reedus is teaming up with the Jim Henson Co. for a new live-action fantasy series. Variety reports that the project is still in early development and is “creating an entirely new universe of characters by teaming up with Brian and Wendy Froud (“The Dark Crystal”) for a project in the works for Henson. The primetime adventure series, intended for a family audience, will feature an entirely new universe of creatures created by the Frouds.” “Norman Reedus, the Frouds, and the Jim Henson Company coming together to create a show is the mashup of my dreams,” Halle Stanford, president of the TV at The Jim Henson Company said in a statement. “Norman is an artist, and when I suggested to him, what if we create a series with the Frounds together that explores his love of magical creatures, he was so excited.” “They are masters in the fantasy world-building space. I mean, a show about goblins, trolls,

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 12, 2022
Keke Palmer Is On A Mission For Revenge In The True Story Inspired Thriller 'Alice' (Trailer)

Keke Palmer Is On A Mission For Revenge In The True Story Inspired Thriller ‘Alice’ (Trailer)

Keke Palmer (“Scream” series) stars in Alice, a post-Civil Rights tale of modern empowerment inspired by true events, directed by Van Linden. In the thriller, “Alice (Keke Palmer) yearns for freedom as an enslaved person on a rural Georgia plantation under its brutal and disturbed owner Paul (Jonny Lee Miller). After a violent clash with Paul, she flees through the neighboring woods and stumbles onto the unfamiliar sight of a highway, soon discovering the year is 1973. Rescued on the roadside by a disillusioned political activist named Frank (Common), Alice quickly comprehends the lies that have kept her in bondage and the promise of Black liberation.” Palmer is also set to star in Jordan Peele’s upcoming mysterious film Nope and will lend her voice to the new animated spin-off of “Big Mouth”, titled “Human Resources.” Vertical Entertainment is set to release Alice on March 18, 2022.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 12, 2022
First Image Surfaces From The Shark Survival Thriller 'The Black Demon'

First Image Surfaces From The Shark Survival Thriller ‘The Black Demon’

Principle photography has now officially wrapped in the Dominican Republic on the survival thriller The Black Demon, starring Josh Lucas (Ford v Ferrari, Sweet Home Alabama) who is featured in the first image from the film (below). Directed by Adrian Grünberg (Rambo: Last Blood, Get the Gringo), the film is based on a Mexican legend. While on a trip to Baja, an oilman finds himself and his family stranded on a rig where the sins of his past have put him and all he holds dear in the crosshairs of a sinister force. Fernanda Urrejola (Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho, Netflix’s “Narcos: Mexico”), and Julio Cesar Cedillo (Netflix’s The Harder They Fall and “Narcos: Mexico,” Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario), also star in The Black Demon, written by Boise Esquerra (Austin Film Festival nominated “Blackwater”). Producers include Mucho Mas’ Javier Chapa and Silk Mass’ Jon Silk, alongside R.U. and Robot’s Petr Jákl with Mucho Mas’ Phillip Braun, Simon Wise, Bruce Barshop, Vincent Cordero,

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 11, 2022
Guillermo Del Toro's Award-Winning Thriller 'Nightmare Alley' Is Coming To 4K Ultra

Guillermo Del Toro’s Award-Winning Thriller ‘Nightmare Alley’ Is Coming To 4K Ultra

Nominated for best picture, Gullermo del Toro‘s beautifully twisted film Nightmare Alley is getting a home release this March after premiering on HBO Max and Hulu earlier this month. Starring Bradley Cooper, Toni Collette, Cate Blanchett, and Rooney Mara, the suspenseful psychological thriller has been nominated for four Academy Awards® including Best Picture, 8 Critics’ Choice Awards, a Screen Actors’ Guild Award for Supporting Actress for Cate Blanchett, and BAFTA, SDSA, MPSE, ADG, CDG, VES, and WGA Awards. In Nightmare Alley, “When charismatic but down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) endears himself to clairvoyant Zeena (Toni Collette) and her has-been mentalist husband Pete (David Strathairn) at a traveling carnival, he crafts a golden ticket to success, using this newly acquired knowledge to grift the wealthy elite of 1940s New York society. With the virtuous Molly (Rooney Mara) loyally by his side, Stanton plots to con a dangerous tycoon (Richard Jenkins) with the aid of a mysterious psychiatrist (Cate Blanchett) who might

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 11, 2022
Shudder Announces Killer March Lineup

Shudder Announces Killer March Lineup

Shudder, the ultimate streaming service for horror and thrillers has a killer lineup this March with a ton of new movies, series, and Originals. To make sure you don’t miss a thing, we’ve got your guide! March 3rd The Scary of Sixty-First Two roommates’ lives are upended after finding out that their new Manhattan apartment harbors a dark secret. Directed by Dasha Nekrasova, The Scary of Sixty-First won the “Best First Feature Award” at the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival. The film stars Madeline Quinn, Betsey Brown, and Dasha Nekrasova, and was written by Quinn and Nekrasova. March 10th The Seed This horror-comedy centers on Deidre (Lucy Martin), Heather (Sophie Vavasseur), and Charlotte (Chelsea Edge), lifelong friends finally getting some time away together, using an upcoming meteor shower to gather more followers for their social media channels. But what starts as a girls’ getaway in the Mojave Desert descends into a battle for survival with the arrival of an alien

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 11, 2022
Horror Fuel

‘Candyman 3: Day Of The Dead’ Is Now Out On Blu-ray

The Collector’s Series of 1999’s Candyman 3: Day of the Dead has just been released. The question is, should you buy it? The film opens with a young woman, Caroline (Donna D’Errico) unhappy with the way a gallery owner is presenting the art by her ancestor, Daniel Robitaille, who became known as the legendary Candyman. His great, great, granddaughter also wants people to see him for who he was, a gifted artist. However, when she is pushed into calling his name by the gallery owner, her romantic notions of the artist give way to the horror of who he has become, a supernatural killer. This all begins just days before the Day of the Dead, the day that is celebrated as a day to honor the dead. While you can tell the movie was made in the ’90s, before special effects and camera quality reached today’s standards, it’s still entertaining. And is still is heavily connected to its predecessors story-wise,

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 11, 2022
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