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When you hear of a family adopting an orphaned child, you think of a happy ending. That’s not the case in the 2009 horror Orphan. After ten years, we are getting its prequel, titled Esther. Deadline is reporting that The Boy‘s William Brent Bell is directing the film about the adopted girl, played by Isabelle Fuhrman, that we met in Orphan. The girl is, in reality, a 33-year-old woman named Leena Klammer who has a rare hormonal disorder called Hypopituitarism that has stunted her growth. She’s spent much of her life pretending to be a kid and bouncing from home to home. When she’s adopted by Kate (Vera Farmiga) and John (Peter Sarsgaard) in the creepy 2009 film, we discover that she is in fact a sociopathic killer. In the prequel, “Lena Klammer orchestrates a brilliant escape from a Russian psychiatric facility and travels to America by impersonating the missing daughter of a wealthy family. But Lena’s new life as
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A love letter to the classic genre films of the ’70s and ’80s, writer-director Jacob Perrett‘s horror anthology Weird Fiction is coming to DVD and VOD May from Wild Eye Releasing. Don’t miss out on stories that will chill you to the bone. In the film, “a group of teens go searching for a missing body, a babysitter is stalked by something malevolent, a porn star finds a mysterious bite on the back of his neck, and two girls uncover something that may very well lead to the end of the world.” Starring Jacob Perrett, Taylor Rhoades, Isabella Rodriguez, Matt Nale, Carson Jones, Torri Bouslough,and Rylee Prenatt, Weird Fiction unfolds on May.12th on DVD and VOD.
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Director Aneesh Chaganty’s (Searching) upcoming film Run is set arrive in time for Mother’s day. The thriller, starring Sarah Paulson and Kiera Allen, has just unveiled its poster and first two stills (via EW) that tease an intense, and frightening relationship between a mother and daughter. Entertainment Weekly reports that the film is mostly set in one house, and the film centers exclusively on just two characters: Diane (Sarah Paulson) and her 17-year-old daughter Chloe (Kiera Allen). Diane has raised her daughter, who uses a wheelchair (as does Allen), in isolation, keeping her totally sequestered from the outside world. But when Chloe uncovers her mother’s sinister secrets, everything she knows begins to unravel. Fittingly, Run is set to premiere on Mother’s Day weekend on May 8th, 2020.
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Lionsgate announced last year that they are co-producing the supernatural thriller The Devil’s Light. James Hawes (“Penny Dreadful”) was in the director’s chair but that has now changed. The Last Exorcism’s Daniel Stamm is now listed as director, Bloody-Disgusting reports. Written by Robert Zappia (Halloween H2O), “The Devil’s Light tells the story of Sister Ann, a restless 25-year-old, who devoutly believes that performing exorcisms is her calling. But she is at odds with the institution’s traditions: sisters are not allowed to perform exorcisms, only priests. With the support of a mentor, a professor who senses her special gift, she is allowed to observe actual training sessions. Her desire to prove herself takes a personal turn when she meets one of the school’s most disturbed patients. During their harrowing encounters, Sister Ann comes face to face with a demonic force that infests the school and has mysterious ties to her own past. It is then that the power of evil and
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The creepy doll from 2016’s The Boy is back for another round of terror in director William Brent Bell‘s Brahms: The Boy II. We’ve got new clips that tease the horror Brahms will unleash. Unaware of the terrifying history of Heelshire Mansion, a young family moves into a guest house on the estate where their young son soon makes an unsettling new friend, an eerily life-like doll he calls Brahms. Katie Holmes stars alongside Christopher Convery (“Gotham”), Owain Yeoman (The Belko Experience) and Ralph Ineson (The Witch) in the film written by Stacey Menear and produced by Lakeshore’s Tom Rosenberg, Eric Reid, Gary Lucchesi, and Richard Wright in addition to Matt Berenson, Jim Wedaa and Roy Lee. Brahms: The Boy II opens in theaters on February 21, 2020, from STX and Lakeshore Entertainment.
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Film Mode Entertainment will soon reveal the first look at the new Sci-fi action movie Anti-Life (aka Breach), starring Die Hard‘s Bruce Willis. In the film, “A hardened mechanic (Bruce Willis) is one of a few chosen to stay awake and maintain an interstellar arc fleeing a dying planet Earth with a few thousand lucky souls on board… the last of humanity. Unfortunately, humans are not the only guests on board. A shape-shifting alien creature has also taken residence and its only goal is to kill as many people as possible. Now, the crew must think quickly and try to stop this menace before it destroys humanity.” Directed by John Suits (Pandemic), Anti-Life also stars Cody Kearsley (“Riverdale”), Rachel Nicols (Star Trek), and Thomas Jane (The Mist, The Punisher). As evident with the success of new titles like these, Film Mode Entertainment continues to operate as a home for elevated genre and has been helping to pave the way for
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Snatchers which we called “a goretastic horror-comedy that you need to see,” in our five-star review, has just been unleashed on Blu-ray™ and DVD. Aliens meets Mean Girls in this delightfully deranged film about a status-obsessed high school teenager who loses her virginity and finds herself pregnant the next day…with an alien! Senior year is going to rule! Thanks to her relationship with clueless hunk Skyler, Sara is totally in with the cool girls. But Skyler contracted an extraterrestrial bug during his summer vacation. After just one night together, Sara discovers she’s Nine. Months. Pregnant. Desperate to keep her condition on the DL, she turns to the only person she can trust: her nerdy ex-bestie, Hayley. The girls soon realize this alien problem is only just the beginning. Aliens had best beware in this hilarious comedy filled with action and tongue-in-cheek teen spirit. Snatchers stars Mary Nepi (Not Cool) as Sara, Gabrielle Elyse (Nickelodeon’s “Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn,” “The
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When someone is dead and buried you would hope they’d rest in peace, but for over 100,000 people buried in the Eastern Cemetery that isn’t the case. Tommy Baker’s disturbing documentary Facing East delves into the despicable, horrifying criminal acts of the owners and operators who took advantage of heartbroken and poor families during they’re most difficult times and used the same graves over and over. 25 years after the cemetery was left abandoned, the Friends of Eastern Cemetery was formed to provide care and upkeep that the burial grounds so desperately needed and discovered a horrible secret. Facing East premieres On Demand March 17th from Uncork’d Entertainment.
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The trailer and first image for the Russian creature feature The Superdeep has clawed its way to the surface. In the film from writer-director Roman Karimov, “The Kola Superdeep Borehole is the most large-scale secret object of the country. In 1984, inexplicable sounds like the screams of many voices were recorded at a depth of more than 12 kilometers. In the wake of these events, the object was closed. A small research team went down below the surface to find out what secret the world’s deepest borehole was hiding. What they have found turned out to be the greatest threat in history. And the future of humanity is in their hands.” The Kola Superdeep Borehole is real. It’s located on the Kola Penninsula in the Pechengsky District. In 1989 the borehole reached a record-breaking depth of 40,230 feet, with its goal being to breach the earth’s crust. Set in 1984, the film pays homage to the genre classic The Thing.
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Looking for something to watch? There’s a new FREE streaming service that is looking to provide you with endless hours of movies and series, Avail TV. The global ad-based streaming platform from Avail Entertainment LLC features classics, series, and brand-new originals The CCTV platform, headed up by Asif Akbar and JJ Rogers, is available on Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Firestick and more. Download the app to your device – presto! Free movies are yours! The platform so far features over 300 titles, available free to the consumer, with a library of over 2000 titles planned to launch over the coming months. New releases, like the action-adventure “Emerald Run” starring David Chokachi and Yancy Butler, which Avail’s theatrical arm releases in over 100 theaters Feb 21, and rom-com “Stan the Man” starring Emmy winner Katherine Kelly Lang and Steven Chase, will be available on Avail TV 90 days after their theatrical and/or digital premieres. Current highlights include Avail originals such as
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When you hear of a family adopting an orphaned child, you think of a happy ending. That’s not the case in the 2009 horror Orphan. After ten years, we are getting its prequel, titled Esther. Deadline is reporting that The Boy‘s William Brent Bell is directing the film about the adopted girl, played by Isabelle Fuhrman, that we met in Orphan. The girl is, in reality, a 33-year-old woman named Leena Klammer who has a rare hormonal disorder called Hypopituitarism that has stunted her growth. She’s spent much of her life pretending to be a kid and bouncing from home to home. When she’s adopted by Kate (Vera Farmiga) and John (Peter Sarsgaard) in the creepy 2009 film, we discover that she is in fact a sociopathic killer. In the prequel, “Lena Klammer orchestrates a brilliant escape from a Russian psychiatric facility and travels to America by impersonating the missing daughter of a wealthy family. But Lena’s new life as
Continue reading →
MoviesNewsTrailers
A love letter to the classic genre films of the ’70s and ’80s, writer-director Jacob Perrett‘s horror anthology Weird Fiction is coming to DVD and VOD May from Wild Eye Releasing. Don’t miss out on stories that will chill you to the bone. In the film, “a group of teens go searching for a missing body, a babysitter is stalked by something malevolent, a porn star finds a mysterious bite on the back of his neck, and two girls uncover something that may very well lead to the end of the world.” Starring Jacob Perrett, Taylor Rhoades, Isabella Rodriguez, Matt Nale, Carson Jones, Torri Bouslough,and Rylee Prenatt, Weird Fiction unfolds on May.12th on DVD and VOD.
Continue reading →
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Director Aneesh Chaganty’s (Searching) upcoming film Run is set arrive in time for Mother’s day. The thriller, starring Sarah Paulson and Kiera Allen, has just unveiled its poster and first two stills (via EW) that tease an intense, and frightening relationship between a mother and daughter. Entertainment Weekly reports that the film is mostly set in one house, and the film centers exclusively on just two characters: Diane (Sarah Paulson) and her 17-year-old daughter Chloe (Kiera Allen). Diane has raised her daughter, who uses a wheelchair (as does Allen), in isolation, keeping her totally sequestered from the outside world. But when Chloe uncovers her mother’s sinister secrets, everything she knows begins to unravel. Fittingly, Run is set to premiere on Mother’s Day weekend on May 8th, 2020.
Continue reading →
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Lionsgate announced last year that they are co-producing the supernatural thriller The Devil’s Light. James Hawes (“Penny Dreadful”) was in the director’s chair but that has now changed. The Last Exorcism’s Daniel Stamm is now listed as director, Bloody-Disgusting reports. Written by Robert Zappia (Halloween H2O), “The Devil’s Light tells the story of Sister Ann, a restless 25-year-old, who devoutly believes that performing exorcisms is her calling. But she is at odds with the institution’s traditions: sisters are not allowed to perform exorcisms, only priests. With the support of a mentor, a professor who senses her special gift, she is allowed to observe actual training sessions. Her desire to prove herself takes a personal turn when she meets one of the school’s most disturbed patients. During their harrowing encounters, Sister Ann comes face to face with a demonic force that infests the school and has mysterious ties to her own past. It is then that the power of evil and
Continue reading →
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The creepy doll from 2016’s The Boy is back for another round of terror in director William Brent Bell‘s Brahms: The Boy II. We’ve got new clips that tease the horror Brahms will unleash. Unaware of the terrifying history of Heelshire Mansion, a young family moves into a guest house on the estate where their young son soon makes an unsettling new friend, an eerily life-like doll he calls Brahms. Katie Holmes stars alongside Christopher Convery (“Gotham”), Owain Yeoman (The Belko Experience) and Ralph Ineson (The Witch) in the film written by Stacey Menear and produced by Lakeshore’s Tom Rosenberg, Eric Reid, Gary Lucchesi, and Richard Wright in addition to Matt Berenson, Jim Wedaa and Roy Lee. Brahms: The Boy II opens in theaters on February 21, 2020, from STX and Lakeshore Entertainment.
Continue reading →
MoviesNewsThriller
Film Mode Entertainment will soon reveal the first look at the new Sci-fi action movie Anti-Life (aka Breach), starring Die Hard‘s Bruce Willis. In the film, “A hardened mechanic (Bruce Willis) is one of a few chosen to stay awake and maintain an interstellar arc fleeing a dying planet Earth with a few thousand lucky souls on board… the last of humanity. Unfortunately, humans are not the only guests on board. A shape-shifting alien creature has also taken residence and its only goal is to kill as many people as possible. Now, the crew must think quickly and try to stop this menace before it destroys humanity.” Directed by John Suits (Pandemic), Anti-Life also stars Cody Kearsley (“Riverdale”), Rachel Nicols (Star Trek), and Thomas Jane (The Mist, The Punisher). As evident with the success of new titles like these, Film Mode Entertainment continues to operate as a home for elevated genre and has been helping to pave the way for
Continue reading →
MoviesTrailers
Snatchers which we called “a goretastic horror-comedy that you need to see,” in our five-star review, has just been unleashed on Blu-ray™ and DVD. Aliens meets Mean Girls in this delightfully deranged film about a status-obsessed high school teenager who loses her virginity and finds herself pregnant the next day…with an alien! Senior year is going to rule! Thanks to her relationship with clueless hunk Skyler, Sara is totally in with the cool girls. But Skyler contracted an extraterrestrial bug during his summer vacation. After just one night together, Sara discovers she’s Nine. Months. Pregnant. Desperate to keep her condition on the DL, she turns to the only person she can trust: her nerdy ex-bestie, Hayley. The girls soon realize this alien problem is only just the beginning. Aliens had best beware in this hilarious comedy filled with action and tongue-in-cheek teen spirit. Snatchers stars Mary Nepi (Not Cool) as Sara, Gabrielle Elyse (Nickelodeon’s “Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn,” “The
Continue reading →
DocumentariesMoviesNewsTrailersTrue Crime
When someone is dead and buried you would hope they’d rest in peace, but for over 100,000 people buried in the Eastern Cemetery that isn’t the case. Tommy Baker’s disturbing documentary Facing East delves into the despicable, horrifying criminal acts of the owners and operators who took advantage of heartbroken and poor families during they’re most difficult times and used the same graves over and over. 25 years after the cemetery was left abandoned, the Friends of Eastern Cemetery was formed to provide care and upkeep that the burial grounds so desperately needed and discovered a horrible secret. Facing East premieres On Demand March 17th from Uncork’d Entertainment.
Continue reading →
ForeignMoviesNewsTrailers
The trailer and first image for the Russian creature feature The Superdeep has clawed its way to the surface. In the film from writer-director Roman Karimov, “The Kola Superdeep Borehole is the most large-scale secret object of the country. In 1984, inexplicable sounds like the screams of many voices were recorded at a depth of more than 12 kilometers. In the wake of these events, the object was closed. A small research team went down below the surface to find out what secret the world’s deepest borehole was hiding. What they have found turned out to be the greatest threat in history. And the future of humanity is in their hands.” The Kola Superdeep Borehole is real. It’s located on the Kola Penninsula in the Pechengsky District. In 1989 the borehole reached a record-breaking depth of 40,230 feet, with its goal being to breach the earth’s crust. Set in 1984, the film pays homage to the genre classic The Thing.
Continue reading →
MoviesNewsStreaming TV
Looking for something to watch? There’s a new FREE streaming service that is looking to provide you with endless hours of movies and series, Avail TV. The global ad-based streaming platform from Avail Entertainment LLC features classics, series, and brand-new originals The CCTV platform, headed up by Asif Akbar and JJ Rogers, is available on Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Firestick and more. Download the app to your device – presto! Free movies are yours! The platform so far features over 300 titles, available free to the consumer, with a library of over 2000 titles planned to launch over the coming months. New releases, like the action-adventure “Emerald Run” starring David Chokachi and Yancy Butler, which Avail’s theatrical arm releases in over 100 theaters Feb 21, and rom-com “Stan the Man” starring Emmy winner Katherine Kelly Lang and Steven Chase, will be available on Avail TV 90 days after their theatrical and/or digital premieres. Current highlights include Avail originals such as
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