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‘Annihilation’ Director Back With New Film ‘Men’

Alex Garland has made quite the name for himself in the horror genre with films like 28 Days Later, Ex Machina, the sci-fi horror Annihilation, and Hulu’s series “Devs.” Now he’s back with a new film which he not only wrote but will also direct. Titled Men, the movie is from A24, the same distributor that released Ex Machina in 2014, Deadline reports. Word is, Jessie Buckley (I’m Thinking of Ending Things) and Rory Kinnear (“Penny Dreadful”) are currently in talks to star. All we know about the plot so far is that the film centers on a young woman who goes on a solo vacation to the English countryside after the death of her ex-husband.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 7, 2021
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James Wan’s ‘Malignant’ Scores A Hard “R” Rating

Horror heavy hitter James Wan‘s new horror film Malignant was supposed to hit theaters back in August but found itself another victim of the pandemic like many other films, but it’s on its way and has just scored an “R” rating for “Strong horror violence, gruesome images, and for language.” The plot details for Malignant are still being kept quiet. Wan does have a comic that is titled Malignant Man, but there has been no word if the two are connected. We do however know that the movie is part of the Giallo sub-genre, which usually features scenes of excessive violence and blurs the lines between art and exploitation cinema. Maddie Hasson, Annabelle Wallis, Jake Abel, Ingrid Bisu, George Young, Michole Briana White, and Jacqueline McKenzie star. Wan is directing and producing under his Atomic Monster banner. Akela Cooper and JT Petty penned the script based on a story by Wan and Ingrid Bisu. In Wan’s Malignant Man comic, “granted

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 7, 2021
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Michael Myers Is Ready For More In New ‘Halloween Kills’ Image

We’ve got a treat for fans of David Gordon Green‘s Halloween, a brand new image from the sequel Halloween Kills, which Green has promised will have “twice the thrills and ten times the kills” of 2018’s Halloween. In the image shared by Total Film, Michael Myers looks like has sustained a bit of damage during his battle with Laurie in the 2018 movie, but that won’t stop him from dropping more bodies while hunting her down. Gordon Green recently Total Film, who shared the image in their latest issue, “It’s one thing to be afraid of the Bogey Man, to have someone who might be in the closet, under the bed, creeping around your house. But what we wanted to explore next was confusion, misinformation, and paranoia. What happens when fear goes viral? You can’t just stick your head under the covers anymore.” Green continued, “When we made the last one we wanted to find a way for someone who’s

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 7, 2021
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A Family Finds Themselves Trapped And Terrified In ‘The Night’ Trailer

From director and co-writer, Kourosh Ahari comes the psychological thriller The Night, from the executive producer of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Ahead of its January release, we’ve got the new trailer that teases a dark, unnerving movie. The psychological thriller follows an Iranian couple, Babak and Neda, and their one-year-old daughter, Shabnam. Returning home from a friend’s gathering, Babak drives drunkenly, too stubborn to let Neda drive with a suspended license. When Babak’s driving threatens the safety of the family, Neda insists they stay the night at a hotel. Once they check-in, Babak and Neda find themselves imprisoned, forced to face the secrets they’ve kept from each other. And though the clock moves forward, “the night” never ends. The film features a diverse cast and crew made up of predominantly Iranian immigrants or US-born Iranian-Americans, including Shahab Hosseini, Niousha Jafarian, Leah Oganyan, and George Maguire. Shot on location in the US, The Night recently received a license for theatrical release

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 6, 2021
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Neil Marshall’s ‘The Reckoning’ Conjures A New Trailer

RLJE and Shudder recently nabbed the rights to Master of Horror Neil Marshall‘s new film The Reckoning, set against the backdrop of England at the end of the 17th century as the Great Plague rages. We’ve got the brutal new trailer for the film that looks absolutely amazing. In the film, “After losing her husband during the Great Plague, Grace Haverstock (Charlotte Kirk) is unjustly accused of being a witch and placed in the custody of England’s most ruthless witch-hunter, Judge Moorcroft (Sean Pertwee). Forced to endure physical and emotional torture while steadfastly maintaining her innocence, Grace must face her own inner demons as the Devil himself starts to work his way into her mind.” Joe Anderson and Steven Waddington also star in the film that Marshall wrote with Charlotte Kirk and Edward Evers-Swindell, based on a story by Antony Jones and Nico Evers-Swindell. Marshall has a long list of genre hits including The Descent, Dog Soldiers, and Doomsday, as

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 6, 2021
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Clancy Brown To Play A Major Role In The “Dexter” Series Revival

We reported back in October that a series revival of the beloved serial killer series “Dexter” was headed your way with Michael C. Hall reprising his role as the title character. Now, news has come via Variety that Clancy Brown, star of Pet Sematary Two and most recently The Mortuary Collection (now streaming on Shudder) has joined the cast and will play the role of Kurt Caldwell, the primary villain of the series. The 10-episode limited series revival picks up ten years after Dexter Morgan went missing in the chaos of Hurricane Laura. The killer of killers is now living under an assumed name in a world away from Miami. The original series’ showrunner Clyde Phillips is also returning along with Marcos Siega, the director of nine episodes of the original series, who will direct six of the new episodes as well as executive produce.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 6, 2021
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A First Look At The Supernatural Indie Horror ‘Hell Wanted’

Today, we’ve got your first look at Hell Wanted from director Braxton Fannin, a supernatural tale about a man paying for the sins of his youth. In the film, written by Austin Phares and Braxton Fannin, seventeen-year-old Wallace made a blood oath with a demonic text and murdered his competitor in order to land a spot on his high school hockey team. After destroying his victim’s body and the infernal book by fire, he went about his life… but forty years later, working as the high school’s janitor, Wallace is about to come face-to-face with his tortured youth. Students have begun mysteriously disappearing from their after-school jobs and, with history prepped to repeat itself, this seemingly-mild mannered custodian is going to have to battle the demons from his past if he wants a fighting chance at saving the present.” William Balzac, Maite Elias-Nava, Caitlin Dullahan-Bates, Connor Vasile, and Joseph Melendez star in the film produced by Austin Phares. Hell Wanted

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 6, 2021
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“Two Sentence Horror Stories” Returns To The CW This January

CW‘s critically-acclaimed horror series “Two Sentence Horror Stories” is back this January for its second season. Designed to subvert classic horror tropes by centering everyday people and diverse perspectives, the half-hour series taps into universal primal fears while tackling provocative social and cultural issues within our modern society. Created, written and executive produced by Vera Miao, the series is from the six-time EMMY® award-nominated, award-winning studio Stage 13. Season Two of “Two Sentence Horror Stories” premieres on January 12 at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT on The CW Network. The premiere episode features the tale titled “Bag Man” which follows five high school seniors in their first detention who find themselves falling prey to a terrifying monster. The second half is titled “Elliot”. This story follows a transmasculine student who endures merciless bullying in his high school until a mysterious janitor offers the teen a way to take care of his bullies once and for all.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 5, 2021
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Showrunner Won’t Let Threats Stop “The Boys” Or Its Spin-Off

Amazon’s series “The Boys,” shines a light on the dark side of superheroes. It has scored a solid fan base, but not everyone is happy about the action-packed horror-tinged show. Showrunner Eric Kripke has shared that he’s actually receiving threats now. Kripke recently told Consequence of Sound: “[Regarding the threats], it’s only human nature to have to react to anger or hate directed right at you. I’m not gonna lie and say, ‘No, I think it’s funny.’ It affects me. It troubles me and everything. But I think it’s part of my job to not let it affect the work. And not let it force me to second guess myself and what I’m doing here. So, no, I take a moment, feel appropriately horrified, and then process my way past it. And get back to the work of writing.” He went on to say, “And we have a very specific rule that we try to follow, which is, it was

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 5, 2021
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Witness The Trailer For Post Apocalyptic Thriller ‘Go/Don’t Go’ Ahead Of January Release

Kamikaze Dogfight and Gravitas Ventures, a Red Arrow Studios company, have let loose the full trailer for the post-apocalyptic psychological thriller, Go/Don’t Go, ahead of its release this month. Written and directed by first time filmmaker and actor, Alex Knapp, the film in which Knapp also stars, features Olivia Luccardi, Nore Davis, Bettina Skye, Tom Essig, and Zoey Wagner. After an unknown cataclysm, Adam (Alex Knapp) is alone. The sole inhabitant of a vacant, unchanged world, or so he thinks. While attempting to stay grounded in the desolate landscape, visions come to him—the fateful night his best friend Kyle (Nore Davis) introduces him to the love of his life, K (Olivia Luccardi). As Adam’s mental state starts to unravel, he is plagued by lingering questions and uncertain realities about his world. His grip on what’s left starts to slip away—sending him spiraling towards a series of unforeseen consequences and unexpected truths. A combination of “forgotten love story and inescapable paranoia,”

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 5, 2021

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‘Annihilation’ Director Back With New Film ‘Men’

Alex Garland has made quite the name for himself in the horror genre with films like 28 Days Later, Ex Machina, the sci-fi horror Annihilation, and Hulu’s series “Devs.” Now he’s back with a new film which he not only wrote but will also direct. Titled Men, the movie is from A24, the same distributor that released Ex Machina in 2014, Deadline reports. Word is, Jessie Buckley (I’m Thinking of Ending Things) and Rory Kinnear (“Penny Dreadful”) are currently in talks to star. All we know about the plot so far is that the film centers on a young woman who goes on a solo vacation to the English countryside after the death of her ex-husband.

Continue reading →
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Jan 7, 2021
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James Wan’s ‘Malignant’ Scores A Hard “R” Rating

Horror heavy hitter James Wan‘s new horror film Malignant was supposed to hit theaters back in August but found itself another victim of the pandemic like many other films, but it’s on its way and has just scored an “R” rating for “Strong horror violence, gruesome images, and for language.” The plot details for Malignant are still being kept quiet. Wan does have a comic that is titled Malignant Man, but there has been no word if the two are connected. We do however know that the movie is part of the Giallo sub-genre, which usually features scenes of excessive violence and blurs the lines between art and exploitation cinema. Maddie Hasson, Annabelle Wallis, Jake Abel, Ingrid Bisu, George Young, Michole Briana White, and Jacqueline McKenzie star. Wan is directing and producing under his Atomic Monster banner. Akela Cooper and JT Petty penned the script based on a story by Wan and Ingrid Bisu. In Wan’s Malignant Man comic, “granted

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Jan 7, 2021
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Michael Myers Is Ready For More In New ‘Halloween Kills’ Image

We’ve got a treat for fans of David Gordon Green‘s Halloween, a brand new image from the sequel Halloween Kills, which Green has promised will have “twice the thrills and ten times the kills” of 2018’s Halloween. In the image shared by Total Film, Michael Myers looks like has sustained a bit of damage during his battle with Laurie in the 2018 movie, but that won’t stop him from dropping more bodies while hunting her down. Gordon Green recently Total Film, who shared the image in their latest issue, “It’s one thing to be afraid of the Bogey Man, to have someone who might be in the closet, under the bed, creeping around your house. But what we wanted to explore next was confusion, misinformation, and paranoia. What happens when fear goes viral? You can’t just stick your head under the covers anymore.” Green continued, “When we made the last one we wanted to find a way for someone who’s

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 7, 2021
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A Family Finds Themselves Trapped And Terrified In ‘The Night’ Trailer

From director and co-writer, Kourosh Ahari comes the psychological thriller The Night, from the executive producer of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Ahead of its January release, we’ve got the new trailer that teases a dark, unnerving movie. The psychological thriller follows an Iranian couple, Babak and Neda, and their one-year-old daughter, Shabnam. Returning home from a friend’s gathering, Babak drives drunkenly, too stubborn to let Neda drive with a suspended license. When Babak’s driving threatens the safety of the family, Neda insists they stay the night at a hotel. Once they check-in, Babak and Neda find themselves imprisoned, forced to face the secrets they’ve kept from each other. And though the clock moves forward, “the night” never ends. The film features a diverse cast and crew made up of predominantly Iranian immigrants or US-born Iranian-Americans, including Shahab Hosseini, Niousha Jafarian, Leah Oganyan, and George Maguire. Shot on location in the US, The Night recently received a license for theatrical release

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 6, 2021
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Neil Marshall’s ‘The Reckoning’ Conjures A New Trailer

RLJE and Shudder recently nabbed the rights to Master of Horror Neil Marshall‘s new film The Reckoning, set against the backdrop of England at the end of the 17th century as the Great Plague rages. We’ve got the brutal new trailer for the film that looks absolutely amazing. In the film, “After losing her husband during the Great Plague, Grace Haverstock (Charlotte Kirk) is unjustly accused of being a witch and placed in the custody of England’s most ruthless witch-hunter, Judge Moorcroft (Sean Pertwee). Forced to endure physical and emotional torture while steadfastly maintaining her innocence, Grace must face her own inner demons as the Devil himself starts to work his way into her mind.” Joe Anderson and Steven Waddington also star in the film that Marshall wrote with Charlotte Kirk and Edward Evers-Swindell, based on a story by Antony Jones and Nico Evers-Swindell. Marshall has a long list of genre hits including The Descent, Dog Soldiers, and Doomsday, as

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 6, 2021
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Clancy Brown To Play A Major Role In The “Dexter” Series Revival

We reported back in October that a series revival of the beloved serial killer series “Dexter” was headed your way with Michael C. Hall reprising his role as the title character. Now, news has come via Variety that Clancy Brown, star of Pet Sematary Two and most recently The Mortuary Collection (now streaming on Shudder) has joined the cast and will play the role of Kurt Caldwell, the primary villain of the series. The 10-episode limited series revival picks up ten years after Dexter Morgan went missing in the chaos of Hurricane Laura. The killer of killers is now living under an assumed name in a world away from Miami. The original series’ showrunner Clyde Phillips is also returning along with Marcos Siega, the director of nine episodes of the original series, who will direct six of the new episodes as well as executive produce.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 6, 2021
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A First Look At The Supernatural Indie Horror ‘Hell Wanted’

Today, we’ve got your first look at Hell Wanted from director Braxton Fannin, a supernatural tale about a man paying for the sins of his youth. In the film, written by Austin Phares and Braxton Fannin, seventeen-year-old Wallace made a blood oath with a demonic text and murdered his competitor in order to land a spot on his high school hockey team. After destroying his victim’s body and the infernal book by fire, he went about his life… but forty years later, working as the high school’s janitor, Wallace is about to come face-to-face with his tortured youth. Students have begun mysteriously disappearing from their after-school jobs and, with history prepped to repeat itself, this seemingly-mild mannered custodian is going to have to battle the demons from his past if he wants a fighting chance at saving the present.” William Balzac, Maite Elias-Nava, Caitlin Dullahan-Bates, Connor Vasile, and Joseph Melendez star in the film produced by Austin Phares. Hell Wanted

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 6, 2021
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“Two Sentence Horror Stories” Returns To The CW This January

CW‘s critically-acclaimed horror series “Two Sentence Horror Stories” is back this January for its second season. Designed to subvert classic horror tropes by centering everyday people and diverse perspectives, the half-hour series taps into universal primal fears while tackling provocative social and cultural issues within our modern society. Created, written and executive produced by Vera Miao, the series is from the six-time EMMY® award-nominated, award-winning studio Stage 13. Season Two of “Two Sentence Horror Stories” premieres on January 12 at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT on The CW Network. The premiere episode features the tale titled “Bag Man” which follows five high school seniors in their first detention who find themselves falling prey to a terrifying monster. The second half is titled “Elliot”. This story follows a transmasculine student who endures merciless bullying in his high school until a mysterious janitor offers the teen a way to take care of his bullies once and for all.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 5, 2021
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Showrunner Won’t Let Threats Stop “The Boys” Or Its Spin-Off

Amazon’s series “The Boys,” shines a light on the dark side of superheroes. It has scored a solid fan base, but not everyone is happy about the action-packed horror-tinged show. Showrunner Eric Kripke has shared that he’s actually receiving threats now. Kripke recently told Consequence of Sound: “[Regarding the threats], it’s only human nature to have to react to anger or hate directed right at you. I’m not gonna lie and say, ‘No, I think it’s funny.’ It affects me. It troubles me and everything. But I think it’s part of my job to not let it affect the work. And not let it force me to second guess myself and what I’m doing here. So, no, I take a moment, feel appropriately horrified, and then process my way past it. And get back to the work of writing.” He went on to say, “And we have a very specific rule that we try to follow, which is, it was

Continue reading →
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Jan 5, 2021
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Witness The Trailer For Post Apocalyptic Thriller ‘Go/Don’t Go’ Ahead Of January Release

Kamikaze Dogfight and Gravitas Ventures, a Red Arrow Studios company, have let loose the full trailer for the post-apocalyptic psychological thriller, Go/Don’t Go, ahead of its release this month. Written and directed by first time filmmaker and actor, Alex Knapp, the film in which Knapp also stars, features Olivia Luccardi, Nore Davis, Bettina Skye, Tom Essig, and Zoey Wagner. After an unknown cataclysm, Adam (Alex Knapp) is alone. The sole inhabitant of a vacant, unchanged world, or so he thinks. While attempting to stay grounded in the desolate landscape, visions come to him—the fateful night his best friend Kyle (Nore Davis) introduces him to the love of his life, K (Olivia Luccardi). As Adam’s mental state starts to unravel, he is plagued by lingering questions and uncertain realities about his world. His grip on what’s left starts to slip away—sending him spiraling towards a series of unforeseen consequences and unexpected truths. A combination of “forgotten love story and inescapable paranoia,”

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 5, 2021
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