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Monster Hunters Are On A Mission In Netflix’s “October Faction” Series Trailer

Ahead of its series premiere later this month we’ve got Netflix’s new trailer for “October Faction,” based on the IDW comic book series by Steve Niles. The series, described as “Men In Black meets ‘Riverdale,'” follows Fred (J.C. MacKenzie)) and Deloris Allen (Tamara Taylor) who, after the death of Fred’s father, return to their hometown in New York with their 17-year-old twins Geoff (Gabriel Darku) and Viv (Aurora Burghart). Subsequently, Geoff and Viv’s lives are turned upside down when they discover their seemingly unremarkable insurance sales rep parents are, in fact, (spoiler alert!) trained assassins who hunt monsters. The series was adapted, created and is executive produced by Damian Kindler (“American Gods”, “Sleepy Hollow”, “Krypton”). Check out the trailer for “October Faction“, produced by High Park Entertainment in association with IDW Entertainment. The action-packed, monster-filled series is set to premiere on January 23, 2020, on Netflix.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 9, 2020
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Kiernan Shipka Raises Hell In Music Video Ahead Of “Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina” Premiere

“Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” will cast its spell on fans once again this January when the series returns to Netflix for its third season. Today, we watch Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) get sassy in a new music video, titled “Straight to Hell.” This time we’re going to Hell to fetch Sabrina’s boyfriend Nick, which was teased during last season’s finale. Creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa confirmed that during the Television Association press tour earlier this year. The series follows teenage witch Sabrina Spellman, her family, and her friends as she is forced to choose between the magical world and the human world. Tune in for the season three premiere of “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” on Netflix on January 24, 2020.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 9, 2020
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A Boy Discovers A Haunted Doll In The Trailer For ‘Brahms: 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, starring Katie Holmes. The new trailer introduces us to a family already in turmoil, but whose life is about to be put in real danger. 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. 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 STXfilms and Lakeshore Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 8, 2020
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“Locke & Key” Trailer Opens The Door To The Mysterious Magic Of Keyhouse Manor

Netflix’s adaptation of Joe Hill‘s “Locke & Key” best-selling graphic novels is finally headed our way. Ahead of its February premiere, the first trailer has just been unlocked and it’s incredible. In the series, “After their father is murdered under mysterious circumstances, the three Locke siblings and their mother move into their ancestral home, Keyhouse, which they discover is full of magical keys that may be connected to their father’s death. As the Locke children explore the different keys and their unique powers, a mysterious demon awakens — and will stop at nothing to steal them.” “Locke and Key” is from Carlton Cuse (“Lost”, “Bates Motel”) and Meredith Averill (“The Haunting of Hill House”) and stars Darby Stanchfield (“Scandal”), Jackson Robert Scott (IT), Connor Jessup (“American Crime”), Bill Heck (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs), Emilia Jones (“Horrible Histories”), Laysla De Oliveira, Thomas Mitchell Barnet, and Griffin Gluck (“American Vandal”). “Locke and Key” premieres on Netflix on February 7, 2020.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 8, 2020
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Exclusive New Clip For Horror Comedy ‘Snatchers’ Landing On Digital Today

Let’s be honest, high school is hard, teens are trying to get into a good college, trying to fit in, and so much more. For one girl things are about to get even more complicated in the horror-comedy Snatchers – out on Digital today. Described as a cross between Aliens meets Mean Girls – the full-length film was initially released in new media as a successful short-form series that follows 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

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 8, 2020
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From The Director Of ‘Haunting Of Hill House’ Comes New Netflix Horror Series “Midnight Mass”

“A Haunting Of Hill House” and Doctor Sleep director Mike Flanagan is a busy man. Not only is Flanagan bringing “The Haunting of Bly Manor” to Netflix, but news has also come that Flanagan will be working on another horror series for the streaming giant. Titled “Midnight Mass” the seven-episode series follows an isolated island community who experiencing miraculous events and frightening omens following the arrival or a charismatic, mysterious priest. Over the weekend Flanagan revealed on Twitter that filming on “Midnight Mass” will soon begin in Vancouver and that the incredible filmmaker will be directing the series himself. “Midnight Mass” has ties to two other of Flanagan’s films. Midnight Mass is the title of the book written by the character Maddie Young in Hush. The title appears again in Flanagan’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Gerald’s Game. https://twitter.com/flanaganfilm/status/1213522886922657793

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 8, 2020
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New Series Based On Classic Movie ‘Willow’ Coming To Disney+

Back in 2012 Disney purchased LucasFilm and got a lot more than just the Star Wars franchise. Now that Disney+ is up and running it’s no surprise that one of their upcoming projects is something from the Lucasfilm library. The studio is making a new series based on the Willow trilogy and it will not be a remake or reboot. According to reports, the series will be a continuance of the story. LA Times reported back in December that Screenwriter Jon Kasdan had been brought onboard by Disney and has already completed the script for the pilot issue. It appears that Kasdan has now confirmed the news. Kasdan took to twitter yesterday and posted a picture of a hat featuring the film’s titular character hanging in his office. https://twitter.com/JonKasdan/status/1214301547695226881 The 1988 film followed a sorcerer named Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis) who rescued Elora, a baby girl, from an evil sorceress. Along with a warrior (Val Kilmer), they fight to bring

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 8, 2020
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This February Join ‘The Hunt For Vlad The Impaler’

This February witness the war thriller The Hunt for Vlad the Impaler from director Osman Kaya. The film is set in the middle of the 15th century, “in the depths of Turkey during the Ottoman Empire, the land is torn apart by horrendous atrocities and bloody murders are inflicted against the terrified people by the cruel and blood-thirsty, Vlad the Impaler. The ruler, Baba Sultan, orders a group of seven fearless warriors known as Deliler, to hunt down Vlad and end the persecution once and for all. The seven heroes set out on their long journey, stopping at nothing until they find the inhumane Vlad and defeat him in what will be a battle to end all battles…” Erkan Petekkaya, Cem Uçan, Yetkin Dikinciler, Nur Fettahoğlu, İsmail Filiz, Hakan Yufkacıgil, Gökçe Özyol, Rüzgar Aksoy, Gülşah Şahin Uçan, Demet Tuncer, Kamil Güler, Namık Rüstemhanlı, Mehmet Pala, Mehmet Ali Karakuş, Batın Uçan, and Baran Öztürk ve Berat Efe Parlar star in the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 7, 2020
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Sci-fi Thriller ‘Dark Encounter’ Lands On DVD

From writer-director Carl Strathie (interview) comes Dark Encounter, a dark sci-fi thriller about a family’s grief and an encounter with something otherworldly. “A year after the mysterious disappearance of an 8-year-old girl, we meet her grieving family as they return home from her memorial service in their small town. Later that evening, strange lights appear in the nearby forest and the family is exposed to an inexplicably strange phenomenon that rattles them to the core. The origin of the lights appears to be visitors from another world that seemingly terrorize the family. What they don’t realize is that these ‘beings’ will lead the family to the truth behind the little girl’s disturbing disappearance.” Laura Fraser, Mel Raido, Alice Lowe, Sid Phoenix, Grant Masters, Vincent Regan, and Spike White star in the film produced by Charlette Kilby and Alan Latham. Dark Encounter lands on VOD, Digital, and DVD on January 7, 2020, from 4Digital Media.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 7, 2020
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A Group Of Teens’ ‘Extracurricular’ Activities Include Murder In This Movie (Trailer)

Writer-director Ray Xue (Transcendent) is taking viewers back to high school for Extracurricular which he co-wrote with Matthew Abrams and Padgett Arango. Samuel Goldwyn Films will release this tightly wound thriller later this month. Reminiscent of the Leopold and Loeb killers, Extracurricular’s story follows a murder-for-fun club, leading to one terrifying night. Keenan Tracey (Polaroid), Brittany Raymond (“Dare Me”), Spencer Macpherson (Brotherhood), Brittany Teo, and Luke Goss star. Set on on Halloween night, “this small town is set to experience something truly horrific. And, instead of one or two killers, there are four! Ian (Macpherson), Derek (Tracey), Jenny (Teo) and Miriam (Raymond) have chosen their next victims. Now, they must put a plan together to get in and out, before the authorities catch-up to them. But, on this night, these four high-schoolers encounter unexpected setbacks and their plans fall apart. Now, it is rush to cover up their crimes – before their families and community find out the truth.” Samuel

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 7, 2020

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Monster Hunters Are On A Mission In Netflix’s “October Faction” Series Trailer

Ahead of its series premiere later this month we’ve got Netflix’s new trailer for “October Faction,” based on the IDW comic book series by Steve Niles. The series, described as “Men In Black meets ‘Riverdale,'” follows Fred (J.C. MacKenzie)) and Deloris Allen (Tamara Taylor) who, after the death of Fred’s father, return to their hometown in New York with their 17-year-old twins Geoff (Gabriel Darku) and Viv (Aurora Burghart). Subsequently, Geoff and Viv’s lives are turned upside down when they discover their seemingly unremarkable insurance sales rep parents are, in fact, (spoiler alert!) trained assassins who hunt monsters. The series was adapted, created and is executive produced by Damian Kindler (“American Gods”, “Sleepy Hollow”, “Krypton”). Check out the trailer for “October Faction“, produced by High Park Entertainment in association with IDW Entertainment. The action-packed, monster-filled series is set to premiere on January 23, 2020, on Netflix.

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Jan 9, 2020
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Kiernan Shipka Raises Hell In Music Video Ahead Of “Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina” Premiere

“Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” will cast its spell on fans once again this January when the series returns to Netflix for its third season. Today, we watch Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) get sassy in a new music video, titled “Straight to Hell.” This time we’re going to Hell to fetch Sabrina’s boyfriend Nick, which was teased during last season’s finale. Creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa confirmed that during the Television Association press tour earlier this year. The series follows teenage witch Sabrina Spellman, her family, and her friends as she is forced to choose between the magical world and the human world. Tune in for the season three premiere of “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” on Netflix on January 24, 2020.

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Jan 9, 2020
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A Boy Discovers A Haunted Doll In The Trailer For ‘Brahms: 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, starring Katie Holmes. The new trailer introduces us to a family already in turmoil, but whose life is about to be put in real danger. 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. 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 STXfilms and Lakeshore Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 8, 2020
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“Locke & Key” Trailer Opens The Door To The Mysterious Magic Of Keyhouse Manor

Netflix’s adaptation of Joe Hill‘s “Locke & Key” best-selling graphic novels is finally headed our way. Ahead of its February premiere, the first trailer has just been unlocked and it’s incredible. In the series, “After their father is murdered under mysterious circumstances, the three Locke siblings and their mother move into their ancestral home, Keyhouse, which they discover is full of magical keys that may be connected to their father’s death. As the Locke children explore the different keys and their unique powers, a mysterious demon awakens — and will stop at nothing to steal them.” “Locke and Key” is from Carlton Cuse (“Lost”, “Bates Motel”) and Meredith Averill (“The Haunting of Hill House”) and stars Darby Stanchfield (“Scandal”), Jackson Robert Scott (IT), Connor Jessup (“American Crime”), Bill Heck (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs), Emilia Jones (“Horrible Histories”), Laysla De Oliveira, Thomas Mitchell Barnet, and Griffin Gluck (“American Vandal”). “Locke and Key” premieres on Netflix on February 7, 2020.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 8, 2020
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Exclusive New Clip For Horror Comedy ‘Snatchers’ Landing On Digital Today

Let’s be honest, high school is hard, teens are trying to get into a good college, trying to fit in, and so much more. For one girl things are about to get even more complicated in the horror-comedy Snatchers – out on Digital today. Described as a cross between Aliens meets Mean Girls – the full-length film was initially released in new media as a successful short-form series that follows 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

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From The Director Of ‘Haunting Of Hill House’ Comes New Netflix Horror Series “Midnight Mass”

“A Haunting Of Hill House” and Doctor Sleep director Mike Flanagan is a busy man. Not only is Flanagan bringing “The Haunting of Bly Manor” to Netflix, but news has also come that Flanagan will be working on another horror series for the streaming giant. Titled “Midnight Mass” the seven-episode series follows an isolated island community who experiencing miraculous events and frightening omens following the arrival or a charismatic, mysterious priest. Over the weekend Flanagan revealed on Twitter that filming on “Midnight Mass” will soon begin in Vancouver and that the incredible filmmaker will be directing the series himself. “Midnight Mass” has ties to two other of Flanagan’s films. Midnight Mass is the title of the book written by the character Maddie Young in Hush. The title appears again in Flanagan’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Gerald’s Game. https://twitter.com/flanaganfilm/status/1213522886922657793

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 8, 2020
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New Series Based On Classic Movie ‘Willow’ Coming To Disney+

Back in 2012 Disney purchased LucasFilm and got a lot more than just the Star Wars franchise. Now that Disney+ is up and running it’s no surprise that one of their upcoming projects is something from the Lucasfilm library. The studio is making a new series based on the Willow trilogy and it will not be a remake or reboot. According to reports, the series will be a continuance of the story. LA Times reported back in December that Screenwriter Jon Kasdan had been brought onboard by Disney and has already completed the script for the pilot issue. It appears that Kasdan has now confirmed the news. Kasdan took to twitter yesterday and posted a picture of a hat featuring the film’s titular character hanging in his office. https://twitter.com/JonKasdan/status/1214301547695226881 The 1988 film followed a sorcerer named Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis) who rescued Elora, a baby girl, from an evil sorceress. Along with a warrior (Val Kilmer), they fight to bring

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 8, 2020
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This February Join ‘The Hunt For Vlad The Impaler’

This February witness the war thriller The Hunt for Vlad the Impaler from director Osman Kaya. The film is set in the middle of the 15th century, “in the depths of Turkey during the Ottoman Empire, the land is torn apart by horrendous atrocities and bloody murders are inflicted against the terrified people by the cruel and blood-thirsty, Vlad the Impaler. The ruler, Baba Sultan, orders a group of seven fearless warriors known as Deliler, to hunt down Vlad and end the persecution once and for all. The seven heroes set out on their long journey, stopping at nothing until they find the inhumane Vlad and defeat him in what will be a battle to end all battles…” Erkan Petekkaya, Cem Uçan, Yetkin Dikinciler, Nur Fettahoğlu, İsmail Filiz, Hakan Yufkacıgil, Gökçe Özyol, Rüzgar Aksoy, Gülşah Şahin Uçan, Demet Tuncer, Kamil Güler, Namık Rüstemhanlı, Mehmet Pala, Mehmet Ali Karakuş, Batın Uçan, and Baran Öztürk ve Berat Efe Parlar star in the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 7, 2020
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Sci-fi Thriller ‘Dark Encounter’ Lands On DVD

From writer-director Carl Strathie (interview) comes Dark Encounter, a dark sci-fi thriller about a family’s grief and an encounter with something otherworldly. “A year after the mysterious disappearance of an 8-year-old girl, we meet her grieving family as they return home from her memorial service in their small town. Later that evening, strange lights appear in the nearby forest and the family is exposed to an inexplicably strange phenomenon that rattles them to the core. The origin of the lights appears to be visitors from another world that seemingly terrorize the family. What they don’t realize is that these ‘beings’ will lead the family to the truth behind the little girl’s disturbing disappearance.” Laura Fraser, Mel Raido, Alice Lowe, Sid Phoenix, Grant Masters, Vincent Regan, and Spike White star in the film produced by Charlette Kilby and Alan Latham. Dark Encounter lands on VOD, Digital, and DVD on January 7, 2020, from 4Digital Media.

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Jan 7, 2020
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A Group Of Teens’ ‘Extracurricular’ Activities Include Murder In This Movie (Trailer)

Writer-director Ray Xue (Transcendent) is taking viewers back to high school for Extracurricular which he co-wrote with Matthew Abrams and Padgett Arango. Samuel Goldwyn Films will release this tightly wound thriller later this month. Reminiscent of the Leopold and Loeb killers, Extracurricular’s story follows a murder-for-fun club, leading to one terrifying night. Keenan Tracey (Polaroid), Brittany Raymond (“Dare Me”), Spencer Macpherson (Brotherhood), Brittany Teo, and Luke Goss star. Set on on Halloween night, “this small town is set to experience something truly horrific. And, instead of one or two killers, there are four! Ian (Macpherson), Derek (Tracey), Jenny (Teo) and Miriam (Raymond) have chosen their next victims. Now, they must put a plan together to get in and out, before the authorities catch-up to them. But, on this night, these four high-schoolers encounter unexpected setbacks and their plans fall apart. Now, it is rush to cover up their crimes – before their families and community find out the truth.” Samuel

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 7, 2020
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