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The werewolf horror Bloodthirsty has scored a release date from Brainstorm Media following its world premiere at Fantastic Fest. Check out the new clip below. The female-driven film centers on vegan singer-songwriter Grey (Lauren Beatty) who goes to work on her second album with the notorious music producer Vaughn Daniels (Greg Bryk). As the album progresses, Grey starts to transform into a powerful beast with a thirst for blood, meat, and the hunt. Directed by Amelia Moses (Bleed with Me), the film was written by the mother-daughter duo Wendy Hill-Tout and Lowell, a singer-songwriter whose music is also featured on the film’s soundtrack. Horror veteran Michael Ironside (Scanners, Total Recall) stars alongside Lauren Beatty (Bleed for Me, Jigsaw), Katherine King So (“Transplant”), Judith Buchan (Let Him Go), Greg Bryk (Saw V), and Jayce McKenzie (The Hive). Wendy Hill-Tout and Michael Peterson produced with David Bond and Alan Bacchus executive producing. Brainstorm Media will unleash Bloodthirsty in limited theaters and on
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Shaun of the Dead meets Hot Fuzz in the new horror-comedy Dead Again from writer-director Steven M. Smith, available now from ITN. . In the movie, a virus is suddenly let loose in a rural village where crime is non-existent, and a police sergeant is retiring out of boredom. He is sent a young recruit, fresh out of the police academy. The two must learn to survive their first and last days on the job, in this apocalyptic horror film.” Dead Again stars Tony Fadil (The Doll Master), Mark Wingett (Snow White and the Huntsman), Chris Monk, Will Pryor, and Scare Attraction alum Elliot Cable, Sonera Angel (The Haunting of Borley Rectory), Kit Pascoe (The House on Cemetery Hill), and Anastasia Cane (Doll Cemetary). Watch Dead Again now on Amazon Prime.
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The release date for Netflix’s upcoming series “Shadow and Bone” was revealed today along with the second teaser trailer. The series, an adaptation of the best-selling Grishaverse novels, is set in a war-torn world where Alina Starkov has just discovered a power that could be the key to setting her country free. With the threat of the Shadow Fold looming, Alina is torn from everything she knows to train as part of an elite army of magical soldiers known as Grisha. As she struggles to hone her power, she discovers that allies and enemies can be one and the same and that nothing in this world is what it seems. There are dangerous forces at play, including a crew of charismatic criminals, and it will take more than magic to survive. Lee Toland Krieger directs the series that stars Jessie Mei Li (Alina Starkov) along with Archie Renaux (Malyen Oretsev), Kit Young (Jesper Fahey), Freddy Carter (Kaz Brekker), Amita Suman
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Louis Bayard‘s 2003 novel The Pale Blue Eye is being adapted for the big screen by Antlers director Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Antlers) who also penned the screenplay, according to Deadline. But that’s not all, Cooper will be reuniting with Oscar-winning American Psycho and The Dark Knight actor Christian Bale who is set to star. The two previously worked together on both Out of the Furnace and Hostiles. Deadline reports that “The thriller revolves around the attempt to solve a series of murders that took place in 1830 at the US Military Academy at West Point. Bale will play a veteran detective who investigates the murders, helped by a detail-oriented young cadet who will later become a world-famous author, Edgar Allan Poe.” Even though Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston and died, delirious, in Baltimore, the majority of his life was spent in Virginia, my home state,” Scott Cooper said in a statement. “So I grew up with his
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Freeform is taking us back to high school in the 90s with the new thriller series “Cruel Summer” from Jessica Biel, executive producer of “The Sinner.” The series “takes place over three summers in the ’90s when a beautiful and popular teen goes missing, and a seemingly unrelated girl transforms from a sweet and awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town, eventually becoming the most despised person in America.” Each of the episodes is told from the point of view of the two main characters, Jeanette (Chiara Aurelia) and Kate (Olivia Holt). Michael Landes, Froy Gutierrez, Harley Quinn Smith, Blake Lee, Brooklyn Sudano, Allius Barnes, and Sarah Drew also star. “Cruel Summer” premieres on Freeform on April 20, 2021, followed by its arrival on Hulu the next day. Check out the new teaser trailer below that hints at a mysterious disappearance.
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The award-winning folk horror feature Bella in the Wych Elm, inspired by a true story, has returned in a spanking new remastered definitive cut in this special BLU+DVD set loaded with extras including a reversible sleeve, fold-out poster with brand new artwork commissioned by SLUDGEWORK, liner notes booklet, special silent movie edition with choice of 3 alternate scores and more! Now available for pre-order, the film is an unnerving look at the famous “Who put Bella in the wych elm” mystery which is local to the filmmakers serves as a love letter to Black Country heritage and the power of modern folklore and storytelling. In the real-life mystery, four children discovered the skeletal remains of a woman inside of a wych elm tree in Hagley Wood, Worcestershire, England in 1943. The victim is thought to have been murdered and placed in the tree two years earlier. Not long after the discovery, graffiti began to appear around the town asking the
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This May, RLJE Films and Shudder will invite you to witness Seance, written by Simon Barrett who also brought us You’re Next and The Guest. The film marks Barrett’s directorial debut. In Seance, Camille Meadows (Suki Waterhouse) is the new girl at the prestigious Edelvine Academy for Girls. Soon after her arrival, six girls invite her to join them in a late-night ritual, calling forth the spirit of a dead former student who reportedly haunts their halls. But before morning, one of the girls is dead, leaving the others wondering what they may have awakened. Seance stars Suki Waterhouse (Assassination Nation, The Divergent Series: Insurgent), Madisen Beaty (Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Ella-Rae Smith (”Into the Badlands”, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw), Inanna Sarkis (Boo 2! A Madea Halloween), and Seamus Patterson who reunites with fellow “Channel Zero” star Marina Stephenson-Kerr. We’re so excited to finally be working with the amazingly
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One of the best films to come of the horror genre this year is writer-director Keith Thomas‘ feature film debut, The Vigil, starring Dave Davis. I had the opportunity to speak with both Thomas and Davis, so of course, I jumped at the chance. The Vigil (review), which I am more than a little fond of, centers on Davis’ character Yakov who is in a bad place, he’s struggling after leaving the Jewish Orthodox church and trying to cope with enormous guilt. Broke and desperate, Yokov agrees to sit shiva for a family overnight. As if things weren’t bad enough for the poor guy, an evil entity is lurking inside the house. HorrorFuel: “I’m always fascinated by where the ideas and stories come from for movies. What inspired you to write The Vigil, which is fantastic by the way.” Keith Thomas: “Wow. Well, it’s kind of a two-fold answer. One aspect of it was mercenary, in that I wanted to
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It’s been over a decade since Neill Blomkamp blurred the line between sci-fi and horror with District 9. Now, it appears that the story of the unfortunate government worker Wikus Van De Merwe (Sharlto Copley) turned alien hybrid, will continue in the sequel, District 10. Blomkamp revealed on Twitter that a sequel is indeed finally on its way with Copley returning along with the original’s co-writer Terri Tatchell penning the screenplay. In District 9, an extraterrestrial race is forced to live in refugee camps/slums on Earth. A government agent is exposed to their technology which begins to transform him into one of them. During an interview with Blomkamp, the director talked with us about some of his projects. Since then he has several new films in the works including a Robocop movie and Demonic, a horror film he made in secret that has just been announced. Here’s a look back at the 2009 District 9 trailer.
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Led by a ruthless leader, a group of psychopaths, who look like they stepped right out of The Purge, leave a path of death and destruction in the trailer for Hyde, the directorial debut of Dallas Burgess. The movie stars Avi Lake (“A Series of Unfortunate Events”) as a journalist who wakes up from a coma having lost ten years of her memory. Texas Rangers and a murderous gang of masked psychopaths, led by the criminal HYDE, hound her every step as she struggles to piece together who or what she has become. After relocating to Texas to further his film career, Burgess joined co-writer, Ian Neligh and the two wrote four feature screenplays, one of which, Hyde. Kelsey Pribilski, Diana Rose, and Chip Llorens also star in Hyde that lands on Digital and VOD on March 2, 2021, from High Octane Pictures.
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The werewolf horror Bloodthirsty has scored a release date from Brainstorm Media following its world premiere at Fantastic Fest. Check out the new clip below. The female-driven film centers on vegan singer-songwriter Grey (Lauren Beatty) who goes to work on her second album with the notorious music producer Vaughn Daniels (Greg Bryk). As the album progresses, Grey starts to transform into a powerful beast with a thirst for blood, meat, and the hunt. Directed by Amelia Moses (Bleed with Me), the film was written by the mother-daughter duo Wendy Hill-Tout and Lowell, a singer-songwriter whose music is also featured on the film’s soundtrack. Horror veteran Michael Ironside (Scanners, Total Recall) stars alongside Lauren Beatty (Bleed for Me, Jigsaw), Katherine King So (“Transplant”), Judith Buchan (Let Him Go), Greg Bryk (Saw V), and Jayce McKenzie (The Hive). Wendy Hill-Tout and Michael Peterson produced with David Bond and Alan Bacchus executive producing. Brainstorm Media will unleash Bloodthirsty in limited theaters and on
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Shaun of the Dead meets Hot Fuzz in the new horror-comedy Dead Again from writer-director Steven M. Smith, available now from ITN. . In the movie, a virus is suddenly let loose in a rural village where crime is non-existent, and a police sergeant is retiring out of boredom. He is sent a young recruit, fresh out of the police academy. The two must learn to survive their first and last days on the job, in this apocalyptic horror film.” Dead Again stars Tony Fadil (The Doll Master), Mark Wingett (Snow White and the Huntsman), Chris Monk, Will Pryor, and Scare Attraction alum Elliot Cable, Sonera Angel (The Haunting of Borley Rectory), Kit Pascoe (The House on Cemetery Hill), and Anastasia Cane (Doll Cemetary). Watch Dead Again now on Amazon Prime.
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The release date for Netflix’s upcoming series “Shadow and Bone” was revealed today along with the second teaser trailer. The series, an adaptation of the best-selling Grishaverse novels, is set in a war-torn world where Alina Starkov has just discovered a power that could be the key to setting her country free. With the threat of the Shadow Fold looming, Alina is torn from everything she knows to train as part of an elite army of magical soldiers known as Grisha. As she struggles to hone her power, she discovers that allies and enemies can be one and the same and that nothing in this world is what it seems. There are dangerous forces at play, including a crew of charismatic criminals, and it will take more than magic to survive. Lee Toland Krieger directs the series that stars Jessie Mei Li (Alina Starkov) along with Archie Renaux (Malyen Oretsev), Kit Young (Jesper Fahey), Freddy Carter (Kaz Brekker), Amita Suman
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Louis Bayard‘s 2003 novel The Pale Blue Eye is being adapted for the big screen by Antlers director Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Antlers) who also penned the screenplay, according to Deadline. But that’s not all, Cooper will be reuniting with Oscar-winning American Psycho and The Dark Knight actor Christian Bale who is set to star. The two previously worked together on both Out of the Furnace and Hostiles. Deadline reports that “The thriller revolves around the attempt to solve a series of murders that took place in 1830 at the US Military Academy at West Point. Bale will play a veteran detective who investigates the murders, helped by a detail-oriented young cadet who will later become a world-famous author, Edgar Allan Poe.” Even though Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston and died, delirious, in Baltimore, the majority of his life was spent in Virginia, my home state,” Scott Cooper said in a statement. “So I grew up with his
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Freeform is taking us back to high school in the 90s with the new thriller series “Cruel Summer” from Jessica Biel, executive producer of “The Sinner.” The series “takes place over three summers in the ’90s when a beautiful and popular teen goes missing, and a seemingly unrelated girl transforms from a sweet and awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town, eventually becoming the most despised person in America.” Each of the episodes is told from the point of view of the two main characters, Jeanette (Chiara Aurelia) and Kate (Olivia Holt). Michael Landes, Froy Gutierrez, Harley Quinn Smith, Blake Lee, Brooklyn Sudano, Allius Barnes, and Sarah Drew also star. “Cruel Summer” premieres on Freeform on April 20, 2021, followed by its arrival on Hulu the next day. Check out the new teaser trailer below that hints at a mysterious disappearance.
Continue reading →
ForeignIndieMoviesNewsTrailersTrue Crime
The award-winning folk horror feature Bella in the Wych Elm, inspired by a true story, has returned in a spanking new remastered definitive cut in this special BLU+DVD set loaded with extras including a reversible sleeve, fold-out poster with brand new artwork commissioned by SLUDGEWORK, liner notes booklet, special silent movie edition with choice of 3 alternate scores and more! Now available for pre-order, the film is an unnerving look at the famous “Who put Bella in the wych elm” mystery which is local to the filmmakers serves as a love letter to Black Country heritage and the power of modern folklore and storytelling. In the real-life mystery, four children discovered the skeletal remains of a woman inside of a wych elm tree in Hagley Wood, Worcestershire, England in 1943. The victim is thought to have been murdered and placed in the tree two years earlier. Not long after the discovery, graffiti began to appear around the town asking the
Continue reading →
MoviesNewsShudderStreaming TV
This May, RLJE Films and Shudder will invite you to witness Seance, written by Simon Barrett who also brought us You’re Next and The Guest. The film marks Barrett’s directorial debut. In Seance, Camille Meadows (Suki Waterhouse) is the new girl at the prestigious Edelvine Academy for Girls. Soon after her arrival, six girls invite her to join them in a late-night ritual, calling forth the spirit of a dead former student who reportedly haunts their halls. But before morning, one of the girls is dead, leaving the others wondering what they may have awakened. Seance stars Suki Waterhouse (Assassination Nation, The Divergent Series: Insurgent), Madisen Beaty (Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Ella-Rae Smith (”Into the Badlands”, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw), Inanna Sarkis (Boo 2! A Madea Halloween), and Seamus Patterson who reunites with fellow “Channel Zero” star Marina Stephenson-Kerr. We’re so excited to finally be working with the amazingly
Continue reading →
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One of the best films to come of the horror genre this year is writer-director Keith Thomas‘ feature film debut, The Vigil, starring Dave Davis. I had the opportunity to speak with both Thomas and Davis, so of course, I jumped at the chance. The Vigil (review), which I am more than a little fond of, centers on Davis’ character Yakov who is in a bad place, he’s struggling after leaving the Jewish Orthodox church and trying to cope with enormous guilt. Broke and desperate, Yokov agrees to sit shiva for a family overnight. As if things weren’t bad enough for the poor guy, an evil entity is lurking inside the house. HorrorFuel: “I’m always fascinated by where the ideas and stories come from for movies. What inspired you to write The Vigil, which is fantastic by the way.” Keith Thomas: “Wow. Well, it’s kind of a two-fold answer. One aspect of it was mercenary, in that I wanted to
Continue reading →
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It’s been over a decade since Neill Blomkamp blurred the line between sci-fi and horror with District 9. Now, it appears that the story of the unfortunate government worker Wikus Van De Merwe (Sharlto Copley) turned alien hybrid, will continue in the sequel, District 10. Blomkamp revealed on Twitter that a sequel is indeed finally on its way with Copley returning along with the original’s co-writer Terri Tatchell penning the screenplay. In District 9, an extraterrestrial race is forced to live in refugee camps/slums on Earth. A government agent is exposed to their technology which begins to transform him into one of them. During an interview with Blomkamp, the director talked with us about some of his projects. Since then he has several new films in the works including a Robocop movie and Demonic, a horror film he made in secret that has just been announced. Here’s a look back at the 2009 District 9 trailer.
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesNewsTrailers
Led by a ruthless leader, a group of psychopaths, who look like they stepped right out of The Purge, leave a path of death and destruction in the trailer for Hyde, the directorial debut of Dallas Burgess. The movie stars Avi Lake (“A Series of Unfortunate Events”) as a journalist who wakes up from a coma having lost ten years of her memory. Texas Rangers and a murderous gang of masked psychopaths, led by the criminal HYDE, hound her every step as she struggles to piece together who or what she has become. After relocating to Texas to further his film career, Burgess joined co-writer, Ian Neligh and the two wrote four feature screenplays, one of which, Hyde. Kelsey Pribilski, Diana Rose, and Chip Llorens also star in Hyde that lands on Digital and VOD on March 2, 2021, from High Octane Pictures.
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