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Brahms Finds A New Family In The Second Trailer For ‘The Boy II’

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. In the film’s second trailer, Brahms finds a new family to terrorize. 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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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 12, 2020
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Humans Are Prey In ‘The Hunt’ Trailer

“The most talked-about movie of the year is the one nobody has seen … yet.” We’ve got the brand new trailer for The Hunt from director Craig Zobel (Z for Zachariah, The Leftovers). Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don’t know where they are, or how they got there. They don’t know they’ve been chosen… for a very specific purpose … The Hunt. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, a group of elites gathers for the very first time at a remote Manor House to hunt ordinary Americans for sport. But the elites’ master plan is about to be derailed because one of The Hunted, Crystal (Betty Gilpin, GLOW), knows The Hunters’ game better than they do. She turns the tables on the killers, picking them off, one by one, as she makes her way toward the mysterious woman (two-time Oscar® winner Hilary Swank) at the center of it all. Emma Roberts (“AHS”), Ethan Suplee

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 11, 2020
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This March Face A Supernatural Cult In ‘The Dark Red’

Dark Sky Films has announced the theatrical and digital release date of The Dark Red, ranked the #1 movie at FrightFest Film Festival by Entertainment Focus. The Dark Red is a sophisticated, supernatural revenge thriller with a killer cast including April Billingsley (“The Walking Dead”, Last Vegas), Kelsey Scott (How to Get Away with Murder), and Rhoda Griffis (Parental Guidance, The Blind Side) that will appeal to fans of Unsane and The Uninvited. In the film, a young woman is committed to a psychiatric hospital claiming that her newborn has been abducted by a secret society called the Dark Red — an ancient, underground cult that harvests and controls an incredibly rare blood type that gives one the power to hear and guide another person’s thoughts. She says that she is special: that she carries a pure and powerful strain of the blood like nothing seen before, and that the society sees her and her child as its next evolution

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 11, 2020
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Creepshow’s Creep Getting A New Look For Season 2 (Video)

Shudder’s anthology series “Creepshow” has been renewed, which is no surprise seeing that it was a hit. However, there is room for improvement. The series’ host known as the “Creep” was not as impressive as he could have been. “Creepshow‘s” executive producer, brilliant special effects artist Greg Nicoterio took to Instagram and shared a video teasing the “Creep‘s” getting a new look ahead of the new season’s filming. https://www.instagram.com/p/B8IZ5UoHvms/ The series, inspired by the feature films created by George A. Romero and Stephen King back in the ’80s. You can watch the full first season on Shudder. Check out the trailer.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 11, 2020
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‘Urban Legends’ Getting A Reboot

The latest genre film in line for a reboot is 1998’s Urban Legend. Screen Gems has announced that Colin Minihan (What Keeps You Alive) will be in the director’s chair for the new film which has now begun the casting process. The original, directed by Jamie Blanks, followed a group of college students who start seeing their classmates and BFFs killed off one by one by a murderer in a parka with each death echoing classic Urban Legends. The reboot will be an updated version set in the digital age and the Urban Legends that are active now. And there’s a lot of them to choose from. “The movie will center on a diverse cast of college students as they navigate a series of bizarre deaths that resemble urban legends linked to the darkest corners of social media.” We can’t help but wonder if any actors from the original will make a cameo. The cast included Jared Leto, Alicia Witt,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 10, 2020
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‘Come To Daddy’ Gets A Home Release Date

Elijah Wood is making his return to horror with Come to Daddy, headed your way this March from Lionsgate. Come to Daddy centers on Norval Greenwood, who arrives at his estranged father’s remote coastal cabin after receiving a letter. He quickly discovers that not only is his dad a prick and a bit insane, but that he also has a shady past that they are about to come face to face with. Norval must fight demons, some real and some perceived, in order to reconnect with the father he doesn’t really know. Written by Toby Harvard (The Greasy Strangler), based on an idea from director Ant Timpson (ABC of Death), Come to Daddy also stars Stephen McHattie (“Watchmen”), Garfield Wilson (“The Man in the High Castle”), Michael Smiley (The World’s End), Martin Donovan (Tenet), and Simon Chin (Killing Eve). Harvard is producing along with Laura Tunstall, Mette-Marie Kongsved, Emma Slade, and Daniel Berkman. Lia Buman, Tim Headington, and Timpson serve

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 10, 2020
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Oscars’ Memorium Leaves Out Luke Perry And Sid Haig, Among Many More

The Oscars left a lot of people angry last night for several reasons, but the biggest reason, several actors were left out of the award show’s annual Memorium segment. Introduced by Steven Spielberg and featuring a rendition of Grammy winner Billie Eilish singing “Yesterday”, the Memorium failed to honor Luke Perry, Cameron Boyce, Jan Michael Vincent, Tim Conway, Michael J. Pollard, Robert Conrad, Cameron Boyce, Rene Auberjonois, Valentina Cortese, Carol Lynley, Sue Lyon, and horror icon Sid Haig who had over 147 roles to his credit. Several of the missing actors were award winners and nominees, leaving viewers questioning just what it takes to make it into the segment. This is not the first time actors have been passed over, it seems to happen every year making people wonder if there is a bias. The problem can’t be the time of death, Kirk Douglas passed away last week and was featured in a place of honor at the segment’s end.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 10, 2020
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This February Witness A ‘Drowning’

Laura Tremblay (“The Expanse”, Lifechanger) is set to star in the spine-chilling film Drowning, a “wonderful twisted story”* from filmmaker Pasquale Marco Veltri arriving this month from Indiecan Entertainment. The film centers on Anna, a prostitute who has been abused, exploited and manipulated since childhood. Disconnected from her emotions and the sympathetic people around her, Anna accepts that she must take control of her own life, empower herself and learn to live her life on her own terms. Returning to the place where her nightmare began, her childhood home, Anna faces off against her enablers, her abusers, and her own demons. Tracy Rowland, Alys Crocker, Pardeep Bassi, and Mark Nuttall also star in a Pasquale Marco Veltri film, available February 25th On Demand.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 10, 2020
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Movie Review: ‘Swallow’ Is Brilliant Film That Makes A Bold Statement

Writer-director Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ Swallow is set to be released on March 6th. I had the opportunity to check it out a little early and I’d like to share my thoughts. Haley Bennett stars as Hunter, a newly-wed woman desperate to be the perfect housewife. The soft-spoken woman makes sure she always looks beautiful, her home spotless, and her inlaws happy. After finding out that she is pregnant she begins to do something odd, eat things that aren’t meant to be eaten, marbles, tacks, batteries, things that are very dangerous. She’s clearly developed Pica, a mental illness. While her cravings for the inedible are front and center in the film, the truth is, deep down she does it to reclaim her power, her control. I felt so sorry for Haley. Her husband and in-laws treat her badly like she is unworthy to be among them. They are less concerned about her than they are about the baby she is carrying like

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 10, 2020
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Universal Announces ‘Monster Mash’ Musical Feature Film

Grammy-nominated director Matt Stawski will be working in the lab late at night to give us an eerie sight, a musical feature, Monster Mash, for Universal Pictures. Stawski will be making his feature debut with the film, based on the classic song by Bobby Pickett. At the moment, there are few details about the musical. But we do know this, the song features the Wolfman, Dracula and his son, Igor, vampires, ghouls, and zombies, so we’ll probably see a lot of Universal classic monsters. John Fischer is spearheading for Temple Hill and will be exec producer with Stawski. Universal’s Senior Vice President of Production Jeyun Munford and Creative Executive Tony Ducret will oversee the project on behalf of the studio.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 9, 2020

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Brahms Finds A New Family In The Second Trailer For ‘The Boy II’

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. In the film’s second trailer, Brahms finds a new family to terrorize. 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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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 12, 2020
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Humans Are Prey In ‘The Hunt’ Trailer

“The most talked-about movie of the year is the one nobody has seen … yet.” We’ve got the brand new trailer for The Hunt from director Craig Zobel (Z for Zachariah, The Leftovers). Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don’t know where they are, or how they got there. They don’t know they’ve been chosen… for a very specific purpose … The Hunt. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, a group of elites gathers for the very first time at a remote Manor House to hunt ordinary Americans for sport. But the elites’ master plan is about to be derailed because one of The Hunted, Crystal (Betty Gilpin, GLOW), knows The Hunters’ game better than they do. She turns the tables on the killers, picking them off, one by one, as she makes her way toward the mysterious woman (two-time Oscar® winner Hilary Swank) at the center of it all. Emma Roberts (“AHS”), Ethan Suplee

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 11, 2020
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This March Face A Supernatural Cult In ‘The Dark Red’

Dark Sky Films has announced the theatrical and digital release date of The Dark Red, ranked the #1 movie at FrightFest Film Festival by Entertainment Focus. The Dark Red is a sophisticated, supernatural revenge thriller with a killer cast including April Billingsley (“The Walking Dead”, Last Vegas), Kelsey Scott (How to Get Away with Murder), and Rhoda Griffis (Parental Guidance, The Blind Side) that will appeal to fans of Unsane and The Uninvited. In the film, a young woman is committed to a psychiatric hospital claiming that her newborn has been abducted by a secret society called the Dark Red — an ancient, underground cult that harvests and controls an incredibly rare blood type that gives one the power to hear and guide another person’s thoughts. She says that she is special: that she carries a pure and powerful strain of the blood like nothing seen before, and that the society sees her and her child as its next evolution

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 11, 2020
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Creepshow’s Creep Getting A New Look For Season 2 (Video)

Shudder’s anthology series “Creepshow” has been renewed, which is no surprise seeing that it was a hit. However, there is room for improvement. The series’ host known as the “Creep” was not as impressive as he could have been. “Creepshow‘s” executive producer, brilliant special effects artist Greg Nicoterio took to Instagram and shared a video teasing the “Creep‘s” getting a new look ahead of the new season’s filming. https://www.instagram.com/p/B8IZ5UoHvms/ The series, inspired by the feature films created by George A. Romero and Stephen King back in the ’80s. You can watch the full first season on Shudder. Check out the trailer.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 11, 2020
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‘Urban Legends’ Getting A Reboot

The latest genre film in line for a reboot is 1998’s Urban Legend. Screen Gems has announced that Colin Minihan (What Keeps You Alive) will be in the director’s chair for the new film which has now begun the casting process. The original, directed by Jamie Blanks, followed a group of college students who start seeing their classmates and BFFs killed off one by one by a murderer in a parka with each death echoing classic Urban Legends. The reboot will be an updated version set in the digital age and the Urban Legends that are active now. And there’s a lot of them to choose from. “The movie will center on a diverse cast of college students as they navigate a series of bizarre deaths that resemble urban legends linked to the darkest corners of social media.” We can’t help but wonder if any actors from the original will make a cameo. The cast included Jared Leto, Alicia Witt,

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 10, 2020
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‘Come To Daddy’ Gets A Home Release Date

Elijah Wood is making his return to horror with Come to Daddy, headed your way this March from Lionsgate. Come to Daddy centers on Norval Greenwood, who arrives at his estranged father’s remote coastal cabin after receiving a letter. He quickly discovers that not only is his dad a prick and a bit insane, but that he also has a shady past that they are about to come face to face with. Norval must fight demons, some real and some perceived, in order to reconnect with the father he doesn’t really know. Written by Toby Harvard (The Greasy Strangler), based on an idea from director Ant Timpson (ABC of Death), Come to Daddy also stars Stephen McHattie (“Watchmen”), Garfield Wilson (“The Man in the High Castle”), Michael Smiley (The World’s End), Martin Donovan (Tenet), and Simon Chin (Killing Eve). Harvard is producing along with Laura Tunstall, Mette-Marie Kongsved, Emma Slade, and Daniel Berkman. Lia Buman, Tim Headington, and Timpson serve

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 10, 2020
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Oscars’ Memorium Leaves Out Luke Perry And Sid Haig, Among Many More

The Oscars left a lot of people angry last night for several reasons, but the biggest reason, several actors were left out of the award show’s annual Memorium segment. Introduced by Steven Spielberg and featuring a rendition of Grammy winner Billie Eilish singing “Yesterday”, the Memorium failed to honor Luke Perry, Cameron Boyce, Jan Michael Vincent, Tim Conway, Michael J. Pollard, Robert Conrad, Cameron Boyce, Rene Auberjonois, Valentina Cortese, Carol Lynley, Sue Lyon, and horror icon Sid Haig who had over 147 roles to his credit. Several of the missing actors were award winners and nominees, leaving viewers questioning just what it takes to make it into the segment. This is not the first time actors have been passed over, it seems to happen every year making people wonder if there is a bias. The problem can’t be the time of death, Kirk Douglas passed away last week and was featured in a place of honor at the segment’s end.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 10, 2020
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This February Witness A ‘Drowning’

Laura Tremblay (“The Expanse”, Lifechanger) is set to star in the spine-chilling film Drowning, a “wonderful twisted story”* from filmmaker Pasquale Marco Veltri arriving this month from Indiecan Entertainment. The film centers on Anna, a prostitute who has been abused, exploited and manipulated since childhood. Disconnected from her emotions and the sympathetic people around her, Anna accepts that she must take control of her own life, empower herself and learn to live her life on her own terms. Returning to the place where her nightmare began, her childhood home, Anna faces off against her enablers, her abusers, and her own demons. Tracy Rowland, Alys Crocker, Pardeep Bassi, and Mark Nuttall also star in a Pasquale Marco Veltri film, available February 25th On Demand.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 10, 2020
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Movie Review: ‘Swallow’ Is Brilliant Film That Makes A Bold Statement

Writer-director Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ Swallow is set to be released on March 6th. I had the opportunity to check it out a little early and I’d like to share my thoughts. Haley Bennett stars as Hunter, a newly-wed woman desperate to be the perfect housewife. The soft-spoken woman makes sure she always looks beautiful, her home spotless, and her inlaws happy. After finding out that she is pregnant she begins to do something odd, eat things that aren’t meant to be eaten, marbles, tacks, batteries, things that are very dangerous. She’s clearly developed Pica, a mental illness. While her cravings for the inedible are front and center in the film, the truth is, deep down she does it to reclaim her power, her control. I felt so sorry for Haley. Her husband and in-laws treat her badly like she is unworthy to be among them. They are less concerned about her than they are about the baby she is carrying like

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 10, 2020
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Universal Announces ‘Monster Mash’ Musical Feature Film

Grammy-nominated director Matt Stawski will be working in the lab late at night to give us an eerie sight, a musical feature, Monster Mash, for Universal Pictures. Stawski will be making his feature debut with the film, based on the classic song by Bobby Pickett. At the moment, there are few details about the musical. But we do know this, the song features the Wolfman, Dracula and his son, Igor, vampires, ghouls, and zombies, so we’ll probably see a lot of Universal classic monsters. John Fischer is spearheading for Temple Hill and will be exec producer with Stawski. Universal’s Senior Vice President of Production Jeyun Munford and Creative Executive Tony Ducret will oversee the project on behalf of the studio.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 9, 2020
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