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Vital Pictures’ socially relevant horror Beneath Us, the directorial debut of Max Pachman, is set to be released this March, and is being described as “a suspenseful and socially-relevant original horror story.” In the film, “The American Dream becomes a nightmare for a group of undocumented day laborers hired by a wealthy couple (Lynn Collins and James Tupper). What they hope to be their biggest payday turns into a terrifying fight for survival at the couple’s secluded mansion, and those thought to be helpless must prove they can’t be discarded so easily.” Rigo Sanchez, Nicholas Gonzalez, Josue Aguirre, and Robert “Sanz” Sanchez also star. Beneath Us opens in select theaters on March 6, 2020.
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HBO has unveiled the first teaser for “The Undoing” from Academy and Emmy Award-winning director of The Night Manager, Susanne Bier, and the Emmy Award-Winning creator of “Big Little Lies”, David E. Kelley. In the limited series, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant, following a violent death and chain of terrible revelations, Grace (Kidman) is horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice. Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child (Noah Jupe) and her family. Donald Sutherland and Edgar Ramirez also star in “The Undoing“, directed by Bier and written by Kelley, who also serves as showrunner. Susanne Bier, David E. Kelley, Nicole Kidman, Per Saari, Bruna Papandrea, Stephen Garrett, and Celia Costas serve as executive producers for the series based on the novel “You Should Have Known,” by Jean Hanff Korelitz. “The Undoing” premieres on HBO this May.
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Writer-director Giddens Ko’s Mon Mon Monsters is set to be released this February and I’m here to give you my thoughts on it. Eugenie Liu (“Behind Your Smile”), Pei-Hsin Lin, Carolyn Chen (Attention, Love!), Yu-Kai Deng (Tree in the River), and Kent Tsai (All Because of Love) star. The movie follows a group of teens who catch a man-eating monster and experiment on it. As soon as they figure out that it carries a contagion, they use it as a weapon on anyone the crosses them. These teens are a nightmare. They’re abusive, psychotic, and just plain sadistic assholes throughout the entire movie. There is zero chance that you can find sympathy for them in any way. The “man-eating monsters” in this flick turn out to be the real victims and the humans turn out to be the real monsters. I think we are meant to find pity for one of the boys that have been bullied by the friends
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This February Dark Sky films will unleash the action-packed horror-comedy Killer Weekend where things go horribly and hilariously wrong for a group of buddies on a stag weekend. When Sam (Sean Verey, The Hot Potato, EastEnders) discovers that his stag weekend not only is a mock zombie survival experience but that his disapproving father-in-law-to-be has also been invited, he couldn’t be more annoyed. But when the bachelor party arrives to find the “zombies” are in fact a bunch of psychotic ex-soldiers, their fantasy weekend quickly starts to look like a nightmare. After a series of unfortunate mishaps finds the group trapped in a disused nuclear bunker besieged by the bloodthirsty troops, Sam must ask himself: Is it all still just a game, or is it actually game over? Co-starring in director Ben Kent‘s adrenaline-fueled debut feature are Mark Heap (Upstart Crow), Danny Kirrane (Don‘t Forget the Driver) and Ewen MacIntosh (Shed of the Dead). Killer Weekend hits Digital and DVD
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Ahead of next week’s theatrical debut, a new featurette titled “Witchcraft” has arrived for Gretel & Hansel, a new terrifying twist on a classic tale. The featurette takes behind the scenes where the cast reveals the magic of the tale and that no one is who they seem to be. In the film, directed by Osgood “Oz” Perkins (Blackcoat’s Daughter), a young girl leads her little brother into the dark woods in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil. Sophia Lillis (IT), Alice Krige (Star Trek: First Contact), Jessica De Gouw (WGN’s “Underground,” The CW’s “Arrow”), Charles Babalola (Netflix’s “Black Mirror,” The Legend of Tarzan) star alongside newcomer Sammy Leakey as Hansel. Gretel & Hansel was written by Rob Hayes (Netflix’s “Chewing Gum”) and produced by Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Sinister, Upgrade) and Fred Berger (La La Land, Destroyer) on behalf of Automatik. Sandra Yee Ling and Macdara Kelleher executive produced. Gretel & Hansel
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The creature feature Anaconda is slithering its way back to the big screen with a reboot from Columbia Pictures. The 1997 original followed a “National Geographic” team taken hostage by an insane hunter on a mission to hunt down and capture the world’s largest and most deadly snake. Directed by Luis Llosa, Anaconda (trailer below) starred Jon Voight, Jennifer Lopez, Eric Stoltz, Ice Cube, and Owen Wilson. It spawned three sequels and spin-off. The reboot will be an all-new story with a modern take, according to THR who also states the movie will have a budget similar to that of 2018’s The MEG, starring Jason Statham. Even Daughtery (Snow White and the Huntsman, Tomb Raider) has signed on to write the script. What do you think? Are you excited about the reboot? Let us know.
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The award-winning sci-fi epic Atomic Apocalypse lands On Demand and Blu-ray next month from High Octane Pictures. In Post Apocalyptic North America, one family fights for survival in this sci-i road trip of epic proportions in a nightmare world without gasoline, electricity, or humanity. Sheltered mother Kate (Krista DeMille, Best Actress IIFA, SIFF, BSFFF) loses her injured survivalist husband Sam (Ron Roggé, 13 Reasons Why, Stranger Things) and love-struck daughter Suzi (Andrea Sweeney Blanco) in a matter of days after they join handsome loner Joe (Jesus Lloveras) in search of a rumored hidden nuclear bunker full of food and medicine. Suddenly alone and lost, Kate fights to stay alive and reunite with her family. Nature will survive. Would we? Described by critics as both an “absolute joy” (CNN) and “eccentric & effervescent” (Projected Figures), the Following its world premiere screening at Sitges International Film Festival, and numerous award wins around the globe, Atomic Apocalypse comes home to digital and disc
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Jesse Eisenberg (Zombieland) and Imogen Poots (Black Christmas) find themselves trapped in Suburbia in the first trailer for writer-director Lorcan Finnegan‘s Vivarium. In the film, a young couple searching for a starter home meet a mysterious real estate agent (Jonathan Aris). They soon find themselves trapped in a labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses with a baby and a note simply stating “Raise the child and be released.” Venture into Vivarium on VOD March 27, 2020, from Saban Films.
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This February many bloody good premieres and movies are being added to Shudder’s already impressive library. Here’s everything coming this month. NEW ORIGINAL SERIES THE DEAD LANDS — New Episodes Thursdays through March 5 A supernatural adventure set in a mythic Māori past, with an aesthetic that’s part Ash vs Evil Dead and part Xena: Warrior Princess. The Dead Lands features a disgraced warrior, Waka Nuku Rau (Te Kohe Tuhaka), who’s sent back to the world of the living to redeem his sins. But the world Waka returns to is ravaged by a breach between Life and the Afterlife as the spirits of the newly dead now stalk the land and hunt the living. Waka encounters a determined young woman, Mehe (Darneen Christian), who becomes both his protégé and moral compass. Together, they navigate tribal politics, the unsettled ghosts of Ancestors and other forces both natural and supernatural, on a quest to discover who “broke the world” and how to
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What would happen if you were locked between four walls and tortured without explanation? In director Pavel Khvaleev‘s Sleepless Beauty, a woman is kidnapped and subjected to the cruel tests and finds herself on a bloody journey in Russia. Sleepless Beauty stars Polina Davydova, Evgeniy Gagarin, Sergey Topkov, and Andrey Tereshenko. In the Russian film, a young girl named Mila is kidnapped. The unknown abductors keep her in an old garage, talk to her through a loudspeaker and set strict rules: she must not sleep but has to fulfill weird tasks that they’ve prepared for her. It all looks like someone’s sick ideas and gloomy entertainment. Still, the girl doesn’t suspect that she’s part of a ruthless experiment. Aleksandra Khvaleeva, Evgeniy Gagarin, and Elena Gagarina penned the script. The film, described as Saw meets Martyrs, is produced by Elena Talyanskaya, Georgiy Smirnov, Evgeniya Mustafina, and Frank Ellrich. Michael Kraetzer and Nicolás Onetti served as associate producers. Sleepless Beauty will be
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Vital Pictures’ socially relevant horror Beneath Us, the directorial debut of Max Pachman, is set to be released this March, and is being described as “a suspenseful and socially-relevant original horror story.” In the film, “The American Dream becomes a nightmare for a group of undocumented day laborers hired by a wealthy couple (Lynn Collins and James Tupper). What they hope to be their biggest payday turns into a terrifying fight for survival at the couple’s secluded mansion, and those thought to be helpless must prove they can’t be discarded so easily.” Rigo Sanchez, Nicholas Gonzalez, Josue Aguirre, and Robert “Sanz” Sanchez also star. Beneath Us opens in select theaters on March 6, 2020.
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HBO has unveiled the first teaser for “The Undoing” from Academy and Emmy Award-winning director of The Night Manager, Susanne Bier, and the Emmy Award-Winning creator of “Big Little Lies”, David E. Kelley. In the limited series, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant, following a violent death and chain of terrible revelations, Grace (Kidman) is horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice. Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child (Noah Jupe) and her family. Donald Sutherland and Edgar Ramirez also star in “The Undoing“, directed by Bier and written by Kelley, who also serves as showrunner. Susanne Bier, David E. Kelley, Nicole Kidman, Per Saari, Bruna Papandrea, Stephen Garrett, and Celia Costas serve as executive producers for the series based on the novel “You Should Have Known,” by Jean Hanff Korelitz. “The Undoing” premieres on HBO this May.
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Writer-director Giddens Ko’s Mon Mon Monsters is set to be released this February and I’m here to give you my thoughts on it. Eugenie Liu (“Behind Your Smile”), Pei-Hsin Lin, Carolyn Chen (Attention, Love!), Yu-Kai Deng (Tree in the River), and Kent Tsai (All Because of Love) star. The movie follows a group of teens who catch a man-eating monster and experiment on it. As soon as they figure out that it carries a contagion, they use it as a weapon on anyone the crosses them. These teens are a nightmare. They’re abusive, psychotic, and just plain sadistic assholes throughout the entire movie. There is zero chance that you can find sympathy for them in any way. The “man-eating monsters” in this flick turn out to be the real victims and the humans turn out to be the real monsters. I think we are meant to find pity for one of the boys that have been bullied by the friends
Continue reading →
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This February Dark Sky films will unleash the action-packed horror-comedy Killer Weekend where things go horribly and hilariously wrong for a group of buddies on a stag weekend. When Sam (Sean Verey, The Hot Potato, EastEnders) discovers that his stag weekend not only is a mock zombie survival experience but that his disapproving father-in-law-to-be has also been invited, he couldn’t be more annoyed. But when the bachelor party arrives to find the “zombies” are in fact a bunch of psychotic ex-soldiers, their fantasy weekend quickly starts to look like a nightmare. After a series of unfortunate mishaps finds the group trapped in a disused nuclear bunker besieged by the bloodthirsty troops, Sam must ask himself: Is it all still just a game, or is it actually game over? Co-starring in director Ben Kent‘s adrenaline-fueled debut feature are Mark Heap (Upstart Crow), Danny Kirrane (Don‘t Forget the Driver) and Ewen MacIntosh (Shed of the Dead). Killer Weekend hits Digital and DVD
Continue reading →
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Ahead of next week’s theatrical debut, a new featurette titled “Witchcraft” has arrived for Gretel & Hansel, a new terrifying twist on a classic tale. The featurette takes behind the scenes where the cast reveals the magic of the tale and that no one is who they seem to be. In the film, directed by Osgood “Oz” Perkins (Blackcoat’s Daughter), a young girl leads her little brother into the dark woods in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil. Sophia Lillis (IT), Alice Krige (Star Trek: First Contact), Jessica De Gouw (WGN’s “Underground,” The CW’s “Arrow”), Charles Babalola (Netflix’s “Black Mirror,” The Legend of Tarzan) star alongside newcomer Sammy Leakey as Hansel. Gretel & Hansel was written by Rob Hayes (Netflix’s “Chewing Gum”) and produced by Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Sinister, Upgrade) and Fred Berger (La La Land, Destroyer) on behalf of Automatik. Sandra Yee Ling and Macdara Kelleher executive produced. Gretel & Hansel
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The creature feature Anaconda is slithering its way back to the big screen with a reboot from Columbia Pictures. The 1997 original followed a “National Geographic” team taken hostage by an insane hunter on a mission to hunt down and capture the world’s largest and most deadly snake. Directed by Luis Llosa, Anaconda (trailer below) starred Jon Voight, Jennifer Lopez, Eric Stoltz, Ice Cube, and Owen Wilson. It spawned three sequels and spin-off. The reboot will be an all-new story with a modern take, according to THR who also states the movie will have a budget similar to that of 2018’s The MEG, starring Jason Statham. Even Daughtery (Snow White and the Huntsman, Tomb Raider) has signed on to write the script. What do you think? Are you excited about the reboot? Let us know.
Continue reading →
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The award-winning sci-fi epic Atomic Apocalypse lands On Demand and Blu-ray next month from High Octane Pictures. In Post Apocalyptic North America, one family fights for survival in this sci-i road trip of epic proportions in a nightmare world without gasoline, electricity, or humanity. Sheltered mother Kate (Krista DeMille, Best Actress IIFA, SIFF, BSFFF) loses her injured survivalist husband Sam (Ron Roggé, 13 Reasons Why, Stranger Things) and love-struck daughter Suzi (Andrea Sweeney Blanco) in a matter of days after they join handsome loner Joe (Jesus Lloveras) in search of a rumored hidden nuclear bunker full of food and medicine. Suddenly alone and lost, Kate fights to stay alive and reunite with her family. Nature will survive. Would we? Described by critics as both an “absolute joy” (CNN) and “eccentric & effervescent” (Projected Figures), the Following its world premiere screening at Sitges International Film Festival, and numerous award wins around the globe, Atomic Apocalypse comes home to digital and disc
Continue reading →
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Jesse Eisenberg (Zombieland) and Imogen Poots (Black Christmas) find themselves trapped in Suburbia in the first trailer for writer-director Lorcan Finnegan‘s Vivarium. In the film, a young couple searching for a starter home meet a mysterious real estate agent (Jonathan Aris). They soon find themselves trapped in a labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses with a baby and a note simply stating “Raise the child and be released.” Venture into Vivarium on VOD March 27, 2020, from Saban Films.
Continue reading →
MoviesNewsShudderStreaming TVTrailers
This February many bloody good premieres and movies are being added to Shudder’s already impressive library. Here’s everything coming this month. NEW ORIGINAL SERIES THE DEAD LANDS — New Episodes Thursdays through March 5 A supernatural adventure set in a mythic Māori past, with an aesthetic that’s part Ash vs Evil Dead and part Xena: Warrior Princess. The Dead Lands features a disgraced warrior, Waka Nuku Rau (Te Kohe Tuhaka), who’s sent back to the world of the living to redeem his sins. But the world Waka returns to is ravaged by a breach between Life and the Afterlife as the spirits of the newly dead now stalk the land and hunt the living. Waka encounters a determined young woman, Mehe (Darneen Christian), who becomes both his protégé and moral compass. Together, they navigate tribal politics, the unsettled ghosts of Ancestors and other forces both natural and supernatural, on a quest to discover who “broke the world” and how to
Continue reading →
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What would happen if you were locked between four walls and tortured without explanation? In director Pavel Khvaleev‘s Sleepless Beauty, a woman is kidnapped and subjected to the cruel tests and finds herself on a bloody journey in Russia. Sleepless Beauty stars Polina Davydova, Evgeniy Gagarin, Sergey Topkov, and Andrey Tereshenko. In the Russian film, a young girl named Mila is kidnapped. The unknown abductors keep her in an old garage, talk to her through a loudspeaker and set strict rules: she must not sleep but has to fulfill weird tasks that they’ve prepared for her. It all looks like someone’s sick ideas and gloomy entertainment. Still, the girl doesn’t suspect that she’s part of a ruthless experiment. Aleksandra Khvaleeva, Evgeniy Gagarin, and Elena Gagarina penned the script. The film, described as Saw meets Martyrs, is produced by Elena Talyanskaya, Georgiy Smirnov, Evgeniya Mustafina, and Frank Ellrich. Michael Kraetzer and Nicolás Onetti served as associate producers. Sleepless Beauty will be
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