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IFC Midnight announced today that their witchy horror film The Wretched‘s release is expanding by adding 45 more Drive-Ins to their list this weekend! We also have a treat, a behind the scene video to share with you that features the cast discussing their roles. The Wretched, which we called “a film that deserves to be seen.” in our review, is from Brett Pierce and Drew Pierce, the writing-directing team behind the zombie cult hit Deadheads. Starring John-Paul Howard (Hell or High Water) and Piper Curda (I Didn’t Do It), the film centers on a rebellious teenage boy, Ben, who is sent to live with his father for the summer and work at the local marina in order to gain some form of discipline. The idyllic tourist town offers little solace for him, however, as he is forced to deal with the local, privileged teens and his father’s new girlfriend. Ben’s problems grow increasingly disturbing when he makes a chilling
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A new teaser trailer has arrived for writer-director Natalie Erika James‘ haunting horror film Relic ahead of its July release. When elderly mother Edna (Robyn Nevin) inexplicably vanishes, her daughter Kay (Emily Mortimer) and granddaughter Sam (Bella Heathcote) rush to their family’s decaying country home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered around the house in her absence. After Edna returns just as mysteriously as she disappeared, Kay’s concern that her mother seems unwilling or unable to say where she clashes with Sam’s unabashed enthusiasm to have her grandma back. As Edna’s behavior turns increasingly volatile, both begin to sense that an insidious presence in the house might be taking control of her. All three generations of women are brought together through trauma and a powerful sense of strength and loyalty to face the ultimate fear together. Co-written by James and Christian White, the film stars Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote, and Robyn Nevin, Relic is produced by Anna McLeish, Sarah
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Writer-director Dave Franco makes his directorial debut with the thriller The Rental, co-written by Joe Swanberg. In the first clip, we witness a conversation between a couple about a crime committed, their regret for not doing something about it, and that the situation will never be over. Starring Alison Brie (GLOW), Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey) Sheila Vand (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night), and Jeremy Allen White (Shameless), the film centers on two couples looking to celebrate their seed money from a new business venture, embark on a weekend getaway to a seemingly perfect house they’ve booked online. But what begins as a festive weekend for the four close friends turns into something far more sinister as secrets they’ve kept from each other are exposed and paranoia grows that they may not be alone. IFC Films will release The Rental in theaters and On Demand July 24th.
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The Fanatic…where do I start? John Travolta stars as “Moose”, an autistic man who collects autographs and movie memorabilia. Obsessed with actor Hunter Dubar (Devon Sawa), “Moose” will stop at nothing to get close to his favorite actor. Travolta, rocking a terrible mullet, mimics what I assume he thinks is the way an autistic man would talk and act. Within the first few minutes I felt gross just for watching it. Now, don’t get me wrong, it’s not the fact that Travolta impersonates an autistic person, it’s the way that he did it. It just feels off and it is extremely one dimensional. For example, Leonardo Di Caprio in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape was brilliant. That’s how that’s done. Written and directed by Fred Durst (yes, that Fred Durst, the one from Limp Bizkit) the movie left me wondering what Durst’s original vision was and if this is close. Maybe he did it all for the nooky. Sorry, that was
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RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, and Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural have acquired US rights to PG: Psycho Goreman with plans to release the film in theaters in late 2020 followed by its arrival on Shudder in early 2021. Written and directed by Steven Kostanski (The Void), PG: Psycho Goreman stars Matthew Ninaber (Transference), Nita-Josee Hanna (Books of Blood), Owen Myre (“NOS4A2”), and Adam Brooks (The Editor). In the film, “siblings Mimi and Luke unwittingly resurrect an ancient alien overlord. Using a magical amulet, they force the monster to obey their childish whims and accidentally attract a rogues’ gallery of intergalactic assassins to small-town suburbia.” PG: PSYCHO GOREMAN is a perfect movie for all of us who grew up in a video store,” said Mark Ward, Chief Acquisitions Officer for RLJE Films. “It has so much heart, thrills and fun that we believe this could be a franchise. We love
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Season 3 of the one of a kind, Emmy® and Peabody Award-winning, LIVE, interactive sci-fi series “Artificial” premieres Thursday, May 21 at 9:00 pm EST / 6:00 pm PST exclusively on Twitch, produced entirely remotely. This is NOT a choose-your-own-adventure. It is not an individual experience – it is an experience shared by the audience as a collective. Everyone watching shares the story and has the opportunity to profoundly influence it by asking questions and voting on polls. Since the audience can chat live with each other on Twitch, this also means they share the experience with each other. The audience is a community. Season 3, “Artificial: Remote Intelligence,” will take a step forward with a bold new sci-fi vision and groundbreaking new interactive methods, including a new polling method, audience-controlled musical score, ability to jump through multiple live sets and revolutionary new interactive Worldbuilding episodes that allow viewers to dictate aspects of the production including the casting of new
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Vertical Entertainment is set to unleash the serial killer thriller, Darkness Falls, on Digital and VOD this June. “After his wife’s suicide, Detective Jeff Anderson (Shawn Ashmore) becomes convinced that she has in fact been murdered. Obsessed with his investigation, Anderson finds out that his wife was the victim of a team of father-and-son serial killers. He’ll have to break all the rules to stop them from killing other women.” Shawn Ashmore (X-Men, Ruins), Gary Cole (“Chicago Fire”, “Veep”), Daniella Alonso (The Collector), Richard Harmon (“The 100”), and genre icon Lin Shaye (The Insidious franchise) star in the film written by Giles Daoust and directed by Julien Seri. Hunt down Darkness Falls on VOD and Digital on June 12th.
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“Game of Thrones” alum Jason Momoa and Peter Dinklage are reuniting for Legendary’s action-horror movie Good Bad & Undead, directed by Max Barbakow (Palm Springs), Deadline reports. The movie is based on an original idea by horror veterans Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, the duo behind Freddy vs. Jason and Friday the 13th (2009). “Dinklage will play Van Helsing, last in a long line of vampire hunters. He develops an uneasy partnership with a vampire (Momoa) who has taken a vow never to kill again. Together they run a scam from town to town, where Van Helsing pretends to anguish the vampire for money. But when a massive bounty is put on the vampire’s head, everything in this dangerous world full of monsters and magic is now after them.” Both Momoa and Dinklage will be producing
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Let’s face it when a movie gets a lot of hype ahead of its release we usually find ourselves left disappointed. That is not the case with writer-director Brandon Christenson and co-writer Colin Minihan’s spooky AF film Z. I was not prepared for this frightening flick. I was expecting a decent movie, but Z is so much more. I’ve been a horror fan for so long that I’ve become pretty jaded, but Z reminded me of why I fell in love with the horror genre in the first place. As horror fans, we are always in search of the next high, that moment when we feel like our heart will jump out of our chest, the times when we flinch in fear and are left with thoughts of a story swimming around in our heads. Z does that. The film follows a family whose son has become dangerous. He blames everything on his invisible friend Z, but it doesn’t take
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Scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis continues to kick ass in the ongoing Halloween franchise, but now she’s making her way into the director’s chair for Mother Nature. Curtis is teaming up with Blumhouse for the climate change horror film which she will both co-write and direct. Deadline notes that the film Curtis and her label Comet Pictures is part of a three-year first-look deal that includes both movies and TV projects. I’m 61 and my motto now is: ‘If not now, when, if not me who?’ Curtis said in a statement. “I’m excited to have a creative home to explore my own ideas and others. Jason and his team have made feel welcome. Comet is ready to bring these stories to screen life.” Curtis will co-write Mother Nature along with Comet’s Head of Film and TV Development Russell Goldman.
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IFC Midnight announced today that their witchy horror film The Wretched‘s release is expanding by adding 45 more Drive-Ins to their list this weekend! We also have a treat, a behind the scene video to share with you that features the cast discussing their roles. The Wretched, which we called “a film that deserves to be seen.” in our review, is from Brett Pierce and Drew Pierce, the writing-directing team behind the zombie cult hit Deadheads. Starring John-Paul Howard (Hell or High Water) and Piper Curda (I Didn’t Do It), the film centers on a rebellious teenage boy, Ben, who is sent to live with his father for the summer and work at the local marina in order to gain some form of discipline. The idyllic tourist town offers little solace for him, however, as he is forced to deal with the local, privileged teens and his father’s new girlfriend. Ben’s problems grow increasingly disturbing when he makes a chilling
Continue reading →
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A new teaser trailer has arrived for writer-director Natalie Erika James‘ haunting horror film Relic ahead of its July release. When elderly mother Edna (Robyn Nevin) inexplicably vanishes, her daughter Kay (Emily Mortimer) and granddaughter Sam (Bella Heathcote) rush to their family’s decaying country home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered around the house in her absence. After Edna returns just as mysteriously as she disappeared, Kay’s concern that her mother seems unwilling or unable to say where she clashes with Sam’s unabashed enthusiasm to have her grandma back. As Edna’s behavior turns increasingly volatile, both begin to sense that an insidious presence in the house might be taking control of her. All three generations of women are brought together through trauma and a powerful sense of strength and loyalty to face the ultimate fear together. Co-written by James and Christian White, the film stars Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote, and Robyn Nevin, Relic is produced by Anna McLeish, Sarah
Continue reading →
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Writer-director Dave Franco makes his directorial debut with the thriller The Rental, co-written by Joe Swanberg. In the first clip, we witness a conversation between a couple about a crime committed, their regret for not doing something about it, and that the situation will never be over. Starring Alison Brie (GLOW), Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey) Sheila Vand (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night), and Jeremy Allen White (Shameless), the film centers on two couples looking to celebrate their seed money from a new business venture, embark on a weekend getaway to a seemingly perfect house they’ve booked online. But what begins as a festive weekend for the four close friends turns into something far more sinister as secrets they’ve kept from each other are exposed and paranoia grows that they may not be alone. IFC Films will release The Rental in theaters and On Demand July 24th.
Continue reading →
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The Fanatic…where do I start? John Travolta stars as “Moose”, an autistic man who collects autographs and movie memorabilia. Obsessed with actor Hunter Dubar (Devon Sawa), “Moose” will stop at nothing to get close to his favorite actor. Travolta, rocking a terrible mullet, mimics what I assume he thinks is the way an autistic man would talk and act. Within the first few minutes I felt gross just for watching it. Now, don’t get me wrong, it’s not the fact that Travolta impersonates an autistic person, it’s the way that he did it. It just feels off and it is extremely one dimensional. For example, Leonardo Di Caprio in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape was brilliant. That’s how that’s done. Written and directed by Fred Durst (yes, that Fred Durst, the one from Limp Bizkit) the movie left me wondering what Durst’s original vision was and if this is close. Maybe he did it all for the nooky. Sorry, that was
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesNewsShudderStreaming TV
RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, and Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural have acquired US rights to PG: Psycho Goreman with plans to release the film in theaters in late 2020 followed by its arrival on Shudder in early 2021. Written and directed by Steven Kostanski (The Void), PG: Psycho Goreman stars Matthew Ninaber (Transference), Nita-Josee Hanna (Books of Blood), Owen Myre (“NOS4A2”), and Adam Brooks (The Editor). In the film, “siblings Mimi and Luke unwittingly resurrect an ancient alien overlord. Using a magical amulet, they force the monster to obey their childish whims and accidentally attract a rogues’ gallery of intergalactic assassins to small-town suburbia.” PG: PSYCHO GOREMAN is a perfect movie for all of us who grew up in a video store,” said Mark Ward, Chief Acquisitions Officer for RLJE Films. “It has so much heart, thrills and fun that we believe this could be a franchise. We love
Continue reading →
NewsShowStreaming TVTrailers
Season 3 of the one of a kind, Emmy® and Peabody Award-winning, LIVE, interactive sci-fi series “Artificial” premieres Thursday, May 21 at 9:00 pm EST / 6:00 pm PST exclusively on Twitch, produced entirely remotely. This is NOT a choose-your-own-adventure. It is not an individual experience – it is an experience shared by the audience as a collective. Everyone watching shares the story and has the opportunity to profoundly influence it by asking questions and voting on polls. Since the audience can chat live with each other on Twitch, this also means they share the experience with each other. The audience is a community. Season 3, “Artificial: Remote Intelligence,” will take a step forward with a bold new sci-fi vision and groundbreaking new interactive methods, including a new polling method, audience-controlled musical score, ability to jump through multiple live sets and revolutionary new interactive Worldbuilding episodes that allow viewers to dictate aspects of the production including the casting of new
Continue reading →
MoviesNewsThrillerTrailers
Vertical Entertainment is set to unleash the serial killer thriller, Darkness Falls, on Digital and VOD this June. “After his wife’s suicide, Detective Jeff Anderson (Shawn Ashmore) becomes convinced that she has in fact been murdered. Obsessed with his investigation, Anderson finds out that his wife was the victim of a team of father-and-son serial killers. He’ll have to break all the rules to stop them from killing other women.” Shawn Ashmore (X-Men, Ruins), Gary Cole (“Chicago Fire”, “Veep”), Daniella Alonso (The Collector), Richard Harmon (“The 100”), and genre icon Lin Shaye (The Insidious franchise) star in the film written by Giles Daoust and directed by Julien Seri. Hunt down Darkness Falls on VOD and Digital on June 12th.
Continue reading →
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“Game of Thrones” alum Jason Momoa and Peter Dinklage are reuniting for Legendary’s action-horror movie Good Bad & Undead, directed by Max Barbakow (Palm Springs), Deadline reports. The movie is based on an original idea by horror veterans Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, the duo behind Freddy vs. Jason and Friday the 13th (2009). “Dinklage will play Van Helsing, last in a long line of vampire hunters. He develops an uneasy partnership with a vampire (Momoa) who has taken a vow never to kill again. Together they run a scam from town to town, where Van Helsing pretends to anguish the vampire for money. But when a massive bounty is put on the vampire’s head, everything in this dangerous world full of monsters and magic is now after them.” Both Momoa and Dinklage will be producing
Continue reading →
MoviesNewsReviewsTrailers
Let’s face it when a movie gets a lot of hype ahead of its release we usually find ourselves left disappointed. That is not the case with writer-director Brandon Christenson and co-writer Colin Minihan’s spooky AF film Z. I was not prepared for this frightening flick. I was expecting a decent movie, but Z is so much more. I’ve been a horror fan for so long that I’ve become pretty jaded, but Z reminded me of why I fell in love with the horror genre in the first place. As horror fans, we are always in search of the next high, that moment when we feel like our heart will jump out of our chest, the times when we flinch in fear and are left with thoughts of a story swimming around in our heads. Z does that. The film follows a family whose son has become dangerous. He blames everything on his invisible friend Z, but it doesn’t take
Continue reading →
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Scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis continues to kick ass in the ongoing Halloween franchise, but now she’s making her way into the director’s chair for Mother Nature. Curtis is teaming up with Blumhouse for the climate change horror film which she will both co-write and direct. Deadline notes that the film Curtis and her label Comet Pictures is part of a three-year first-look deal that includes both movies and TV projects. I’m 61 and my motto now is: ‘If not now, when, if not me who?’ Curtis said in a statement. “I’m excited to have a creative home to explore my own ideas and others. Jason and his team have made feel welcome. Comet is ready to bring these stories to screen life.” Curtis will co-write Mother Nature along with Comet’s Head of Film and TV Development Russell Goldman.
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