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Dave Franco, Bill Murray & Pete Davidson Star In Roku's New Dark Comedy Series "The Now"

Dave Franco, Bill Murray & Pete Davidson Star In Roku’s New Dark Comedy Series “The Now”

The new dark comedy series “The Now” from Academy Award Winners Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly, has just premiered exclusively on Roku. The 14-episode series examines what exactly makes life worth living through the eyes of Ed Poole (Dave Franco). For Ed, life isn’t going as he planned. However, a tragic event causes him to rethink his outlook, forcing him to go after what he loves, cherish the people closest to him and live in The Now. Peter Farrelly stated, “I wanted to make a show about living in the present because I personally have lived too much in the future and the past and I think a lot of people do. We worry about the future, and we have regrets about the past, yet we are only ever living in the now. The future and the past are just concepts, but all life takes place in the present. If you want to make changes in your life you have

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 11, 2021
Uncork'd Entertainment Gives Birth To 'Breeder' - Out Today

Danish Horror ‘Breeder’ Sees Women Forced Into Horrible Experiments

Uncork’d Entertainment has acquired the Danish horror, Breeder, from Jens Dahl, a television showrunner-turned-film director who made his directorial debut with 3 Things, featuring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, in 2017. Produced by Maria Møller Christoffersen (Koko-Di Koko-Da), Breeder sees women being abducted for bio-hacking experiments. One of the women, Mia, begins to work out the truth – can she escape from this nightmare? Written by Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen, the film stars Sara Hjort Ditlevsen, Signe Egholm Olsen, Anders Heinrichsen, and Morten Holst. BREEDER is a superbly crafted horror film with a real-world reminder that we live in a world measured by youth and beauty. This is a film about the effects of ageing, how the world looks upon you once you do, and a miraculous cure- at a cost”, said Keith Leopard, President Uncork’d Entertainment. “I’m excited for audiences to experience the film in January”. Breeder screened at a number of leading film festivals including Sitges in Catalonia, Fantastic Zagreb Film Festival

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 11, 2021
Kane Hodder Captures Paranormal Activity In The New Clip From 'Balsam: A Paranormal Investigation'

Kane Hodder Captures Paranormal Activity In The New Clip From ‘Balsam: A Paranormal Investigation’

Horror icon Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th VII, VIII, IX, X, Hatchet) leads a team of paranormal investigators as they explore the 112-year-old Grand Old Lady Hotel in Balsam, North Carolina in Balsam: A Paranormal Investigation. Ahead of its release, we’ve got a new clip that captures possible paranormal activity on camera. Watch as Hodder and his team investigate the 40,000 square foot hotel, called “The south’s Stanley Hotel,” with a disturbing past, nestled in the Appalachian Mountains. While Hodder is known for his many roles in the horror genre, he is an experienced paranormal investigator and a founding member of the Hollywood Ghost Hunters and has appeared on “Ghost Adventures”. Director Tony H. Cadwell stated, “This is a paranormal investigation like no other. You have an experienced team led by a horror icon. We had this amazing 40,000 square foot hotel all to ourselves to investigate. Nothing was scripted. We just went in and tried to document any paranormal

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 11, 2021
AMC Streaming Networks January 2023 Premieres

AMC Networks’ January Highlights

This January, AMC Networks is adding a ton of new series and films to its many streaming services and we’ve got the highlights. On ACORN TV: Queens of Mystery, Season 2 (Acorn TV Original) Three 2-Part Mysteries Premiere Mondays Beginning January 10 Through January 24 Queens of Mystery follows the adventures of three crime-writing sisters, Beth (Sarah Woodward, The Pale Horse), Cat (Julie Graham, The Bletchley Circle, Shetland, Penance), and Jane (Siobhan Redmond, Unforgotten) Stone, and their 28-year-old niece, Detective Sergeant Mattie Stone (Florence Hall for S2, The Princess Switch: Switched Again). Using their knowledge of crime – both real-world and fictional – together they solve murders in the picturesque English region of Wildemarsh. But no matter how many cases they are able to crack, the unsolved mystery that haunts all the characters is that of Mattie’s mother’s disappearance 25 years ago. Help (Acorn TV Exclusive) Film Premieres Monday, January 31 In the Rose d’Or Award-winning film Help, young care

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 11, 2021
Casting News For Mike Flanagan's New Series "The Fall of the House of Usher"

Casting News For Mike Flanagan’s New Series “The Fall of the House of Usher”

Master of Horror Mike Flanagan is returning with a new miniseries based on Edgar Allen Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher. According to Flanagan, the “miniseries is a modern remix of some of the most iconic works of Edgar Allan Poe. To tell this epic tale of greed, horror, and tragedy, we have assembled the largest ensemble cast in the history of Intrepid Pictures.” The first casting news has come via the “Midnight Mass” director’s Twitter account. Headlining this incredible ensemble, leading this extraordinary cast as Roderick Usher, the towering patriarch of the Usher dynasty… the legendary FRANK LANGELLA. Also front and center, reuniting with Intrepid for our fourth project together, my dear friend and invaluable collaborator, the one and only… CARLA GUGINO. As Madeline Usher, Roderick’s sister and the hidden hand of the Usher dynasty, we are thrilled to welcome the graceful, powerful, incomparable… MARY MCDONNELL. As Poe’s legendary investigator C. Auguste Dupin, we are so honored

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 10, 2021
Horror Comedy 'Werewolves Within' Is Out On Blu-Ray Just In Time For Christmas

Horror Comedy ‘Werewolves Within’ Is Out On Blu-Ray Just In Time For Christmas

Looking for a great Christmas gift for the horror fan in your life or a great flick to add to your collection? Werewolves Within, which is “Certified Fresh”, is out just in time for the holiday season! “After a proposed pipeline creates divisions within the small town of Beaverfield, and a snowstorm traps its residents together inside the local inn, newly arrived forest ranger Finn (Sam Richardson) and postal worker Cecily (Milana Vayntrub) must try to keep the peace and uncover the truth behind a mysterious creature that has begun terrorizing the community in Werewolves Within. Directed by Josh Ruben and written by Mishna Wolff, Werewolves Within stars Richardson, Vayntrub, George Basil, Sarah Burns, Michael Chernus, Catherine Curtain, Wayne Duvall, Harvey Guillén, Rebecca Henderson, Cheyenne Jackson, Michaela Watkins, and Glenn Fleshler. Werewolves Within, which we called “laugh-out-loud funny,” “a quick classic,” and “the best horror-comedy of the year,” in our review, has just been released on Blu-ray and DVD from

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 10, 2021
Sam Raimi's Next Film, 'You're Dead Helene' Is A Paranormal Rom Com

Sam Raimi’s Next Film, ‘You’re Dead Helene’ Is A Paranormal Rom Com

Any time we hear that Sam Raimi is producing a project we get excited, the man knows what he’s doing. From Evil Dead to Crawl, to Don’t Breathe, and Spider-Man, Raimi never fails to impress. Now, news has come that his next project is You’re Dead Helene, a paranormal rom-com. You’re Dead Helene is from writer-director Michael Blanchart who also directed the short film of the same name that won the Oscar-qualifying Grand Prize at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. In the film, “Maxime lives with the ghost of his girlfriend Hélène. Wishing to put an end to this frankly unbearable situation, Maxime finally decides to break up with her. Hélène doesn’t seem ready to accept this decision.” We’ll keep you posted as we learn more. In the meantime, head over to Roku and watch Raimi’s “50 States of Fright” which is a horror anthology series that explores stories based on urban legends from every state, taking viewers deeper

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 10, 2021
'Hallween Kills' Slashes Its Way Onto Digital, 4K Ultra, Blu-ray, And More

‘Hallween Kills’ Slashes Its Way Onto Digital, 4K Ultra, Blu-ray, And More

Halloween Kills premiered in October on Peacock, much to the excitement of fans. If you didn’t see it, we have good news, there is a variety of ways to watch it this month. Come December 13th it arrives on Amazon and Steelbook, and on December 14th it will be available on Digital, before heading to 4K Ultra, Blu-ray, and DVD this January. The second installment of director David Gordon Green‘s Halloween trilogy, Halloween Kills (review), sees Michael escape the raging fire after Laurie locked him in the basement of her home in the previous film. This time a mob is gathered to put an end to Michael once and for all after he racks up a huge body count, but nothing in the movie goes as planned. Halloween Kills has a huge returning cast that includes Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Robert Longstreet, and original Halloween actor Charles Cyphers who will be reprising his roles as Sheriff Leigh

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 10, 2021
HorrorFuel.com Talks With The Director And The Star Of 'The Kindred'

A Woman Uncovers A Dark Family Secret And A Haunting Mystery In ‘The Kindred’ Trailer

Dark family secrets surface in the new psychological horror-thriller The Kindred, directed by Jamie Patterson. We’ve got the new trailer that teases a film filled with heartbreak, horrors, and the haunted. Starring April Pearson, Blake Harrison, and James Cosmo, and written by Christian J. Hearn, The Kindred follows a young mother investigating her father’s suicide. But when she is haunted by spirits and unearths an unsolved mystery from 30 years ago, she discovers a dark family history that could prove deadly for her child. Witness The Kindred, out on January 7, 2022, from Vertical Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 10, 2021
Shark Movie 'The Requin' Swims Onto Blu-ray And Digital This March

Alicia Silverstone & James Tupper Face Great Whites In ‘The Requin’ Trailer

Alicia Silverstone (Clueless) and James Tupper (“Big Little Lies”) fight to survive the open ocean and a school of Great Whites in the thriller The Requin. “There’s terror in paradise when Jaelyn (Alicia Silverstone) and Kyle (James Tupper) arrive at a remote seaside villa in Vietnam for a romantic getaway. A torrential storm descends, reducing the villa to little more than a raft and sweeping the young couple out to sea. Suddenly, another danger appears, a school of great white sharks. With her injured husband watching helplessly, Jaelyn must battle the deadly predators alone in this tense thriller that rides an unrelenting wave of fear.” Written and directed by Le-Van Kiet (Furie), The Requin swims into theaters and arrives On Demand and on Digital on January 28, 2022.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 9, 2021

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Dave Franco, Bill Murray & Pete Davidson Star In Roku's New Dark Comedy Series "The Now"

Dave Franco, Bill Murray & Pete Davidson Star In Roku’s New Dark Comedy Series “The Now”

The new dark comedy series “The Now” from Academy Award Winners Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly, has just premiered exclusively on Roku. The 14-episode series examines what exactly makes life worth living through the eyes of Ed Poole (Dave Franco). For Ed, life isn’t going as he planned. However, a tragic event causes him to rethink his outlook, forcing him to go after what he loves, cherish the people closest to him and live in The Now. Peter Farrelly stated, “I wanted to make a show about living in the present because I personally have lived too much in the future and the past and I think a lot of people do. We worry about the future, and we have regrets about the past, yet we are only ever living in the now. The future and the past are just concepts, but all life takes place in the present. If you want to make changes in your life you have

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 11, 2021
Uncork'd Entertainment Gives Birth To 'Breeder' - Out Today

Danish Horror ‘Breeder’ Sees Women Forced Into Horrible Experiments

Uncork’d Entertainment has acquired the Danish horror, Breeder, from Jens Dahl, a television showrunner-turned-film director who made his directorial debut with 3 Things, featuring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, in 2017. Produced by Maria Møller Christoffersen (Koko-Di Koko-Da), Breeder sees women being abducted for bio-hacking experiments. One of the women, Mia, begins to work out the truth – can she escape from this nightmare? Written by Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen, the film stars Sara Hjort Ditlevsen, Signe Egholm Olsen, Anders Heinrichsen, and Morten Holst. BREEDER is a superbly crafted horror film with a real-world reminder that we live in a world measured by youth and beauty. This is a film about the effects of ageing, how the world looks upon you once you do, and a miraculous cure- at a cost”, said Keith Leopard, President Uncork’d Entertainment. “I’m excited for audiences to experience the film in January”. Breeder screened at a number of leading film festivals including Sitges in Catalonia, Fantastic Zagreb Film Festival

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 11, 2021
Kane Hodder Captures Paranormal Activity In The New Clip From 'Balsam: A Paranormal Investigation'

Kane Hodder Captures Paranormal Activity In The New Clip From ‘Balsam: A Paranormal Investigation’

Horror icon Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th VII, VIII, IX, X, Hatchet) leads a team of paranormal investigators as they explore the 112-year-old Grand Old Lady Hotel in Balsam, North Carolina in Balsam: A Paranormal Investigation. Ahead of its release, we’ve got a new clip that captures possible paranormal activity on camera. Watch as Hodder and his team investigate the 40,000 square foot hotel, called “The south’s Stanley Hotel,” with a disturbing past, nestled in the Appalachian Mountains. While Hodder is known for his many roles in the horror genre, he is an experienced paranormal investigator and a founding member of the Hollywood Ghost Hunters and has appeared on “Ghost Adventures”. Director Tony H. Cadwell stated, “This is a paranormal investigation like no other. You have an experienced team led by a horror icon. We had this amazing 40,000 square foot hotel all to ourselves to investigate. Nothing was scripted. We just went in and tried to document any paranormal

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 11, 2021
AMC Streaming Networks January 2023 Premieres

AMC Networks’ January Highlights

This January, AMC Networks is adding a ton of new series and films to its many streaming services and we’ve got the highlights. On ACORN TV: Queens of Mystery, Season 2 (Acorn TV Original) Three 2-Part Mysteries Premiere Mondays Beginning January 10 Through January 24 Queens of Mystery follows the adventures of three crime-writing sisters, Beth (Sarah Woodward, The Pale Horse), Cat (Julie Graham, The Bletchley Circle, Shetland, Penance), and Jane (Siobhan Redmond, Unforgotten) Stone, and their 28-year-old niece, Detective Sergeant Mattie Stone (Florence Hall for S2, The Princess Switch: Switched Again). Using their knowledge of crime – both real-world and fictional – together they solve murders in the picturesque English region of Wildemarsh. But no matter how many cases they are able to crack, the unsolved mystery that haunts all the characters is that of Mattie’s mother’s disappearance 25 years ago. Help (Acorn TV Exclusive) Film Premieres Monday, January 31 In the Rose d’Or Award-winning film Help, young care

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 11, 2021
Casting News For Mike Flanagan's New Series "The Fall of the House of Usher"

Casting News For Mike Flanagan’s New Series “The Fall of the House of Usher”

Master of Horror Mike Flanagan is returning with a new miniseries based on Edgar Allen Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher. According to Flanagan, the “miniseries is a modern remix of some of the most iconic works of Edgar Allan Poe. To tell this epic tale of greed, horror, and tragedy, we have assembled the largest ensemble cast in the history of Intrepid Pictures.” The first casting news has come via the “Midnight Mass” director’s Twitter account. Headlining this incredible ensemble, leading this extraordinary cast as Roderick Usher, the towering patriarch of the Usher dynasty… the legendary FRANK LANGELLA. Also front and center, reuniting with Intrepid for our fourth project together, my dear friend and invaluable collaborator, the one and only… CARLA GUGINO. As Madeline Usher, Roderick’s sister and the hidden hand of the Usher dynasty, we are thrilled to welcome the graceful, powerful, incomparable… MARY MCDONNELL. As Poe’s legendary investigator C. Auguste Dupin, we are so honored

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 10, 2021
Horror Comedy 'Werewolves Within' Is Out On Blu-Ray Just In Time For Christmas

Horror Comedy ‘Werewolves Within’ Is Out On Blu-Ray Just In Time For Christmas

Looking for a great Christmas gift for the horror fan in your life or a great flick to add to your collection? Werewolves Within, which is “Certified Fresh”, is out just in time for the holiday season! “After a proposed pipeline creates divisions within the small town of Beaverfield, and a snowstorm traps its residents together inside the local inn, newly arrived forest ranger Finn (Sam Richardson) and postal worker Cecily (Milana Vayntrub) must try to keep the peace and uncover the truth behind a mysterious creature that has begun terrorizing the community in Werewolves Within. Directed by Josh Ruben and written by Mishna Wolff, Werewolves Within stars Richardson, Vayntrub, George Basil, Sarah Burns, Michael Chernus, Catherine Curtain, Wayne Duvall, Harvey Guillén, Rebecca Henderson, Cheyenne Jackson, Michaela Watkins, and Glenn Fleshler. Werewolves Within, which we called “laugh-out-loud funny,” “a quick classic,” and “the best horror-comedy of the year,” in our review, has just been released on Blu-ray and DVD from

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 10, 2021
Sam Raimi's Next Film, 'You're Dead Helene' Is A Paranormal Rom Com

Sam Raimi’s Next Film, ‘You’re Dead Helene’ Is A Paranormal Rom Com

Any time we hear that Sam Raimi is producing a project we get excited, the man knows what he’s doing. From Evil Dead to Crawl, to Don’t Breathe, and Spider-Man, Raimi never fails to impress. Now, news has come that his next project is You’re Dead Helene, a paranormal rom-com. You’re Dead Helene is from writer-director Michael Blanchart who also directed the short film of the same name that won the Oscar-qualifying Grand Prize at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. In the film, “Maxime lives with the ghost of his girlfriend Hélène. Wishing to put an end to this frankly unbearable situation, Maxime finally decides to break up with her. Hélène doesn’t seem ready to accept this decision.” We’ll keep you posted as we learn more. In the meantime, head over to Roku and watch Raimi’s “50 States of Fright” which is a horror anthology series that explores stories based on urban legends from every state, taking viewers deeper

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 10, 2021
'Hallween Kills' Slashes Its Way Onto Digital, 4K Ultra, Blu-ray, And More

‘Hallween Kills’ Slashes Its Way Onto Digital, 4K Ultra, Blu-ray, And More

Halloween Kills premiered in October on Peacock, much to the excitement of fans. If you didn’t see it, we have good news, there is a variety of ways to watch it this month. Come December 13th it arrives on Amazon and Steelbook, and on December 14th it will be available on Digital, before heading to 4K Ultra, Blu-ray, and DVD this January. The second installment of director David Gordon Green‘s Halloween trilogy, Halloween Kills (review), sees Michael escape the raging fire after Laurie locked him in the basement of her home in the previous film. This time a mob is gathered to put an end to Michael once and for all after he racks up a huge body count, but nothing in the movie goes as planned. Halloween Kills has a huge returning cast that includes Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Robert Longstreet, and original Halloween actor Charles Cyphers who will be reprising his roles as Sheriff Leigh

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 10, 2021
HorrorFuel.com Talks With The Director And The Star Of 'The Kindred'

A Woman Uncovers A Dark Family Secret And A Haunting Mystery In ‘The Kindred’ Trailer

Dark family secrets surface in the new psychological horror-thriller The Kindred, directed by Jamie Patterson. We’ve got the new trailer that teases a film filled with heartbreak, horrors, and the haunted. Starring April Pearson, Blake Harrison, and James Cosmo, and written by Christian J. Hearn, The Kindred follows a young mother investigating her father’s suicide. But when she is haunted by spirits and unearths an unsolved mystery from 30 years ago, she discovers a dark family history that could prove deadly for her child. Witness The Kindred, out on January 7, 2022, from Vertical Entertainment.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 10, 2021
Shark Movie 'The Requin' Swims Onto Blu-ray And Digital This March

Alicia Silverstone & James Tupper Face Great Whites In ‘The Requin’ Trailer

Alicia Silverstone (Clueless) and James Tupper (“Big Little Lies”) fight to survive the open ocean and a school of Great Whites in the thriller The Requin. “There’s terror in paradise when Jaelyn (Alicia Silverstone) and Kyle (James Tupper) arrive at a remote seaside villa in Vietnam for a romantic getaway. A torrential storm descends, reducing the villa to little more than a raft and sweeping the young couple out to sea. Suddenly, another danger appears, a school of great white sharks. With her injured husband watching helplessly, Jaelyn must battle the deadly predators alone in this tense thriller that rides an unrelenting wave of fear.” Written and directed by Le-Van Kiet (Furie), The Requin swims into theaters and arrives On Demand and on Digital on January 28, 2022.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 9, 2021
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