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‘Castle Freak’ Reboot Will Debut On Shudder

The “reimagining” of Dennis Paoli and Stuart Gordon’s 1995 Full Moon horror cult classic will debut this December Shudder ahead of its arrival on Digital and VOD. The film marks the directorial debut of award-winning special effects artist Tate Steinsiek (“Face-Off”, Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich) In the film, after she is permanently blinded in a tragic car accident, Rebecca receives some bizarre news: her long-lost-mother has recently passed away, leaving her their family’s ancestral castle. Traveling to the estate with a group of friends, Rebecca hopes it will be an opportunity for her to reconnect with a past she never knew—and a mother who seemingly left her behind. When mysterious happenings begin to occur and her friends begin to die, Rebecca must unravel her family’s mysterious history. Clair Catherine, Jake Horowitz (The Vast of Night), Chris Galust (Give Me Liberty), Kika Magalhaes (The Eyes of My Mother), Emily Sweet (Syn), Elisha Pratt (“True Detective”), and Omar Brunson (Shadow Fighter)

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 18, 2020
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From The Director Of ‘Baskin’ Comes ‘Girl With No Mouth’

Baskin director Can Evrenol’s post-apocalyptic adventure Girl With No Mouth is due to release on Blu-Ray, DVD, and VOD across North America this December from Indiecan Entertainment. Check out the new trailer (below) In Girl With No Mouth, starring Denizhan Akbaba, Elif Sevinç, and Özgür Civeleka, a group of children who suffer from deformities due to a toxic explosion, embark on an adventure in a war-torn post-apocalyptic region. The Turkish production comes from Can Evrenol, director of the successful TIFF Midnight Madness selection Baskin, and the horror film Housewife (currently available on Shudder). Girl with No Mouth Arrives on Blu-ray, DVD, and VOD on December 8, 2020.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 18, 2020
Horror Fuel

Meet The Staff Of HorrorFuel.com!

  I would like to introduce you to the staff and the heart of HorrorFuel.com. Our staff works so very hard to make sure we supply horror news, reviews, interviews, and more every single day. We would be lost without them!   Meet Dan VIII (Dan Wilder), reviewer, writer, director, and actor. Originally setting out to become a comic book illustrator, ol’ Dan “XIII” Wilder realized that wasn’t the revoltin’ road he was destined to tread… rather his putrid path led to a career writing fright flick reviews for Famous Monsters of Filmland, the Retroist, That’s Not Current, and now Horror Fuel! Additionally, Dan has written Ouija Room for ITN Releasing (available on Tubi), and four episodes of Fred Olen Ray’s Boggy Creek: The Bigfoot Series (now available on Amazon), is the lead writer for Occult Press‘ upcoming stable of horror comics, provided voices for three films from Necrostorm, is the voice of Shoshem in the feature Sister Tempest, plus a whole slew of other nonsense including producing

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 18, 2020
Horror Fuel

Movie Review: ‘Werewolf’ Is Dark, Gripping, And Simply Brilliant

I watch and report on a lot of movies, horrors, and thrillers, but it’s not often that I come across one that truly affects me. That’s exactly what the Polish film Werewolf did. Let’s start with the trailer and the film’s synopsis which gave away some detail but was able to keep much of the film’s events secret and I really appreciate that. I get so sick of seeing movie trailers that basically give the whole film away. Don’t you? There are many things that I find much more terrifying than some fictitious monsters lurking about in movies, for example, films that center on real events such as wars and their atrocities. Those always seem to get under my skin. That is the case with this WWII set horror-thriller. We are introduced to a group of children and teens liberated from a concentration camp by Soviet soldiers. The group is left in a crumbling country manner where their will to

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 18, 2020
Horror Fuel

Gore-Filled Film ‘ROT’ Coming Exclusively To Amazon

Genre distributor The Horror Collective has announced that it will be distributing Andrew Merrill’s nightmarish horror-thriller Rot. In the film, “When Madison’s ex-boyfriend goes missing, his friends expect her to lead the search to find him. But something vile has taken over his body, and what they find is worse than any of them could have imagined.” The film stars Kris Alexandrea (Gothic Springs), Johnny Kostrey (Kidding, Aquarius, The Good Place), McKale Jude Bingham (Betrayed), Adam Burch (Nazis at the Center of the Earth), and Eileen Dietz (The Exorcist, 100 Acres of Hell, Halloween 2). Writer-director Andrew Merrill says of the experience of making ROT that “I’m incredibly proud of what our team pulled off, and so grateful that everybody stuck with me through all the late nights, cramped apartments, and general craziness of independent filmmaking. I’m excited for ROT to find it’s audience, and I hope it will resonate with them as much as it has with me.” The

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 17, 2020
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A Soldier Is Out For Revenge In ‘Army Of One’

Rising action star Ellen Hollman, star of the forthcoming The Matrix 4, is an Army of One this December. In this action thriller from director Stephen Durham, “Out hiking, Special Forces Brenner Baker and her husband stumble upon an illegal drug compound. The drug dealers capture them, kill her husband, and leave her for dead. They should have made sure they finished the job. Now, 1st Lieutenant Brenner Baker of the Army’s 75th Ranger Division is on a one-woman killing mission carving up everyone in her path until there is only one person standing, her.” Matt Passmore (“Jigsaw”), Geraldine Singer (“Get Out”), Gary Kasper (“Redwood Massacre: Annihilation”), and Cam Bowen (“Young Justice”) also star. Army of One will be released on iTunes, Vudu, Xbox, Googleplay, Amazon, DirecTV, Dish Network, Fandango Now, iNDEMAND, and DVD on December 15, 2020, from Uncork’d Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 17, 2020
Horror Fuel

‘Black Friday’ Becomes A Nightmare For Bruce Campbell & Devon Sawa In New Movie

The yearly Black Friday sales are only a week away. It’s perfect timing for Deadline to announces that a new sci-fi horror film is aiming to turn the corporate holiday into a nightmare of epic proportions. The first of the cast has been announced for Black Friday including the Evil Dead franchise’s oh so groovy Bruce Campbell and Devon Sawa, who we know from Idle Hands and Final Destination. Spawn‘s Michael Jai White is also starring. Directed by Casey Tebo, Black Friday also features Ivana Baquren, Stephen Peck, and Ryan Lee. The script was penned by Andy Greskoviak. “Set on the busiest shopping night of the year, Black Friday, the story follows a group of disgruntled toy store employees who have to defend themselves from legions of holiday shoppers when a mysterious alien parasite sends them on a murderous rampage.” Production on Black Friday began yesterday in Boston.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 17, 2020
Horror Fuel

Movie Review: ‘Girl’ Starring Bella Thorne Is A Must See

Writer-director Chad Faust’s new thriller Girl is set to arrive later this month. Ahead of the release, I got my hands on a copy and I’d like to share my thoughts with you. Bella Thorne stars as a young woman seeking out the father that assaulted her mother when she was a kid. She’s learned that he’s threatening her mother and she’s begun a journey to put an end to it. But things may not be as they seem. When she arrives she discovers something disturbing and becomes the target of two brothers who desperately want the cash her father has hidden somewhere on his property. WARNING: mild spoilers ahead. Thorne’s character arrives on a bus in the backwater hell hole of a town where her father lives. The town is mostly shuttered. It’s the type of place where people are born into struggle and suffering and rarely are able to escape. A place where everyone is broken and the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 16, 2020
Horror Fuel

Sink You Teeth Into The ‘Monstrum’ Trailer Ahead Of Its Release

A terrifying monster is on the loose and it’s hungry for human flesh in Monstrum – out this November from director Jong-ho Huh (Countdown, The Advocate: A Missing Body) and co-writer  Heo-dam. The film stars Hyeri Lee (“Hyde, Jekyll, Me”), In-kwon Kim (C’est Si Bon), Myung-Min Kim (Closer to Heaven), and Woo-sik Choi (Parasite). RLJE Films will release MONSTRUM on DVD for an SRP of $27.97 and Blu-ray for an SRP of $28.96. In Monstrum, a plague has taken over and fear runs rampant in the streets. When rumors of a vicious monster roaming Mount Inwangsan begin to spread, fear turns into panic. In order to quell the rising hysteria, the King brings his most trusted general out of retirement. Joined by his daughter, his right-hand man, and a royal court officer, the general sets out to find and defeat the mysterious creature. RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, along with Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium service for horror, thriller, and the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 16, 2020
Horror Fuel

Gerard Butler Faces The End Of The World This Week In ‘Greenland’

From the producer of the John Wick franchise and director Ric Roman Waugh comes Greenland, the intense apocalyptic disaster thriller starring Gerard Butler. From STXFilms, Greenland centers on John Garrity (Gerard Butler), his estranged wife Allison (Morena Baccarin), and young son Nathan making a perilous journey to their only hope for sanctuary. Amid terrifying news accounts of cities around the world being leveled by the comet’s fragments, the Garrity’s experience the best and worst in humanity. Starring Butler, Baccarin, Roger Dale Floyd, Scott Glenn, David Denman, Hope Davis, Andrew Bachelor, and Joshua Mikel, this intense thrill ride is produced by Butler, Basil Iwanyk, and Alan Siegal. Greenland premieres on premium VOD platforms on December 18, 2020, followed by its debut on HBO and HBO Max in 2021.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 16, 2020

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‘Castle Freak’ Reboot Will Debut On Shudder

The “reimagining” of Dennis Paoli and Stuart Gordon’s 1995 Full Moon horror cult classic will debut this December Shudder ahead of its arrival on Digital and VOD. The film marks the directorial debut of award-winning special effects artist Tate Steinsiek (“Face-Off”, Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich) In the film, after she is permanently blinded in a tragic car accident, Rebecca receives some bizarre news: her long-lost-mother has recently passed away, leaving her their family’s ancestral castle. Traveling to the estate with a group of friends, Rebecca hopes it will be an opportunity for her to reconnect with a past she never knew—and a mother who seemingly left her behind. When mysterious happenings begin to occur and her friends begin to die, Rebecca must unravel her family’s mysterious history. Clair Catherine, Jake Horowitz (The Vast of Night), Chris Galust (Give Me Liberty), Kika Magalhaes (The Eyes of My Mother), Emily Sweet (Syn), Elisha Pratt (“True Detective”), and Omar Brunson (Shadow Fighter)

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 18, 2020
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From The Director Of ‘Baskin’ Comes ‘Girl With No Mouth’

Baskin director Can Evrenol’s post-apocalyptic adventure Girl With No Mouth is due to release on Blu-Ray, DVD, and VOD across North America this December from Indiecan Entertainment. Check out the new trailer (below) In Girl With No Mouth, starring Denizhan Akbaba, Elif Sevinç, and Özgür Civeleka, a group of children who suffer from deformities due to a toxic explosion, embark on an adventure in a war-torn post-apocalyptic region. The Turkish production comes from Can Evrenol, director of the successful TIFF Midnight Madness selection Baskin, and the horror film Housewife (currently available on Shudder). Girl with No Mouth Arrives on Blu-ray, DVD, and VOD on December 8, 2020.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 18, 2020
Horror Fuel

Meet The Staff Of HorrorFuel.com!

  I would like to introduce you to the staff and the heart of HorrorFuel.com. Our staff works so very hard to make sure we supply horror news, reviews, interviews, and more every single day. We would be lost without them!   Meet Dan VIII (Dan Wilder), reviewer, writer, director, and actor. Originally setting out to become a comic book illustrator, ol’ Dan “XIII” Wilder realized that wasn’t the revoltin’ road he was destined to tread… rather his putrid path led to a career writing fright flick reviews for Famous Monsters of Filmland, the Retroist, That’s Not Current, and now Horror Fuel! Additionally, Dan has written Ouija Room for ITN Releasing (available on Tubi), and four episodes of Fred Olen Ray’s Boggy Creek: The Bigfoot Series (now available on Amazon), is the lead writer for Occult Press‘ upcoming stable of horror comics, provided voices for three films from Necrostorm, is the voice of Shoshem in the feature Sister Tempest, plus a whole slew of other nonsense including producing

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 18, 2020
Horror Fuel

Movie Review: ‘Werewolf’ Is Dark, Gripping, And Simply Brilliant

I watch and report on a lot of movies, horrors, and thrillers, but it’s not often that I come across one that truly affects me. That’s exactly what the Polish film Werewolf did. Let’s start with the trailer and the film’s synopsis which gave away some detail but was able to keep much of the film’s events secret and I really appreciate that. I get so sick of seeing movie trailers that basically give the whole film away. Don’t you? There are many things that I find much more terrifying than some fictitious monsters lurking about in movies, for example, films that center on real events such as wars and their atrocities. Those always seem to get under my skin. That is the case with this WWII set horror-thriller. We are introduced to a group of children and teens liberated from a concentration camp by Soviet soldiers. The group is left in a crumbling country manner where their will to

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 18, 2020
Horror Fuel

Gore-Filled Film ‘ROT’ Coming Exclusively To Amazon

Genre distributor The Horror Collective has announced that it will be distributing Andrew Merrill’s nightmarish horror-thriller Rot. In the film, “When Madison’s ex-boyfriend goes missing, his friends expect her to lead the search to find him. But something vile has taken over his body, and what they find is worse than any of them could have imagined.” The film stars Kris Alexandrea (Gothic Springs), Johnny Kostrey (Kidding, Aquarius, The Good Place), McKale Jude Bingham (Betrayed), Adam Burch (Nazis at the Center of the Earth), and Eileen Dietz (The Exorcist, 100 Acres of Hell, Halloween 2). Writer-director Andrew Merrill says of the experience of making ROT that “I’m incredibly proud of what our team pulled off, and so grateful that everybody stuck with me through all the late nights, cramped apartments, and general craziness of independent filmmaking. I’m excited for ROT to find it’s audience, and I hope it will resonate with them as much as it has with me.” The

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 17, 2020
Horror Fuel

A Soldier Is Out For Revenge In ‘Army Of One’

Rising action star Ellen Hollman, star of the forthcoming The Matrix 4, is an Army of One this December. In this action thriller from director Stephen Durham, “Out hiking, Special Forces Brenner Baker and her husband stumble upon an illegal drug compound. The drug dealers capture them, kill her husband, and leave her for dead. They should have made sure they finished the job. Now, 1st Lieutenant Brenner Baker of the Army’s 75th Ranger Division is on a one-woman killing mission carving up everyone in her path until there is only one person standing, her.” Matt Passmore (“Jigsaw”), Geraldine Singer (“Get Out”), Gary Kasper (“Redwood Massacre: Annihilation”), and Cam Bowen (“Young Justice”) also star. Army of One will be released on iTunes, Vudu, Xbox, Googleplay, Amazon, DirecTV, Dish Network, Fandango Now, iNDEMAND, and DVD on December 15, 2020, from Uncork’d Entertainment.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 17, 2020
Horror Fuel

‘Black Friday’ Becomes A Nightmare For Bruce Campbell & Devon Sawa In New Movie

The yearly Black Friday sales are only a week away. It’s perfect timing for Deadline to announces that a new sci-fi horror film is aiming to turn the corporate holiday into a nightmare of epic proportions. The first of the cast has been announced for Black Friday including the Evil Dead franchise’s oh so groovy Bruce Campbell and Devon Sawa, who we know from Idle Hands and Final Destination. Spawn‘s Michael Jai White is also starring. Directed by Casey Tebo, Black Friday also features Ivana Baquren, Stephen Peck, and Ryan Lee. The script was penned by Andy Greskoviak. “Set on the busiest shopping night of the year, Black Friday, the story follows a group of disgruntled toy store employees who have to defend themselves from legions of holiday shoppers when a mysterious alien parasite sends them on a murderous rampage.” Production on Black Friday began yesterday in Boston.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 17, 2020
Horror Fuel

Movie Review: ‘Girl’ Starring Bella Thorne Is A Must See

Writer-director Chad Faust’s new thriller Girl is set to arrive later this month. Ahead of the release, I got my hands on a copy and I’d like to share my thoughts with you. Bella Thorne stars as a young woman seeking out the father that assaulted her mother when she was a kid. She’s learned that he’s threatening her mother and she’s begun a journey to put an end to it. But things may not be as they seem. When she arrives she discovers something disturbing and becomes the target of two brothers who desperately want the cash her father has hidden somewhere on his property. WARNING: mild spoilers ahead. Thorne’s character arrives on a bus in the backwater hell hole of a town where her father lives. The town is mostly shuttered. It’s the type of place where people are born into struggle and suffering and rarely are able to escape. A place where everyone is broken and the

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 16, 2020
Horror Fuel

Sink You Teeth Into The ‘Monstrum’ Trailer Ahead Of Its Release

A terrifying monster is on the loose and it’s hungry for human flesh in Monstrum – out this November from director Jong-ho Huh (Countdown, The Advocate: A Missing Body) and co-writer  Heo-dam. The film stars Hyeri Lee (“Hyde, Jekyll, Me”), In-kwon Kim (C’est Si Bon), Myung-Min Kim (Closer to Heaven), and Woo-sik Choi (Parasite). RLJE Films will release MONSTRUM on DVD for an SRP of $27.97 and Blu-ray for an SRP of $28.96. In Monstrum, a plague has taken over and fear runs rampant in the streets. When rumors of a vicious monster roaming Mount Inwangsan begin to spread, fear turns into panic. In order to quell the rising hysteria, the King brings his most trusted general out of retirement. Joined by his daughter, his right-hand man, and a royal court officer, the general sets out to find and defeat the mysterious creature. RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, along with Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium service for horror, thriller, and the

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 16, 2020
Horror Fuel

Gerard Butler Faces The End Of The World This Week In ‘Greenland’

From the producer of the John Wick franchise and director Ric Roman Waugh comes Greenland, the intense apocalyptic disaster thriller starring Gerard Butler. From STXFilms, Greenland centers on John Garrity (Gerard Butler), his estranged wife Allison (Morena Baccarin), and young son Nathan making a perilous journey to their only hope for sanctuary. Amid terrifying news accounts of cities around the world being leveled by the comet’s fragments, the Garrity’s experience the best and worst in humanity. Starring Butler, Baccarin, Roger Dale Floyd, Scott Glenn, David Denman, Hope Davis, Andrew Bachelor, and Joshua Mikel, this intense thrill ride is produced by Butler, Basil Iwanyk, and Alan Siegal. Greenland premieres on premium VOD platforms on December 18, 2020, followed by its debut on HBO and HBO Max in 2021.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 16, 2020
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