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“The Worst Serial Killer in U.S. history,” that’s the title the FBI has given Samuel Little who has recently been indicted for a killing that happened more than 30 years ago in Georgia, news channel WGXA is reporting. The killer confessed to two murders that took place in Macon, Georgia in 1977 and 1982. On Wednesday during a grand jury hearing in Savannah, Georgia, Little was charged with the murder of Frances Campbell. There is an ongoing investigation into the second murder, which Little also confessed to strangling while serving two life sentences in a California prison. Captain Shermaine Jones and Investigator Daniel Shurley flew to Decatur, Texas to interview Little, who had been extradited to Texas to be interviewed by investigators about the cold cases he claims responsibility for. In 1982 new homeowners discovered skeletal remains of a woman while clearing overgrown vegetation in their back yard. The clothing on the victim matched a missing person case. First, Little
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Ring in the new year with Brian and Laurence Avenet-Bradley’s acclaimed excursion film Echoes of Fear premiering on digital this January from Artist Rights Distribution. “Alysa inherits her grandfather’s house following his sudden death from an apparent heart attack. She cannot keep the house so travels there to prepare it for sale. While she is packing away her grandfather’s belongings some strange and unexplained events inside the house start to spook her and she soon comes to the conclusion that she is not alone there. Even her pet mouse senses a presence. Something supernatural lurks in the house and she begins to believe that her grandfather was trying to find something before he died. When her friend Steph arrives they attempt to solve the mystery and what they uncover together forces them to confront the diabolical truth and the evil that hides inside.” Echoes of Fear received its World Premiere at the 18th annual Shriekfest Horror Festival, the longest-running horror
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The new paranormal series “Trending Fear” premieres tonight on Travel Channel. Ahead of the premiere, we sat down with paranormal investigator Paul Bradford to learn more about the series and how it stands apart from the others. Paul stars alongside #DearDavid author Adam Ellis and Jen Lewis (researcher/documentarian). “In each hour-long episode, the trio will travel America, hoping to help people take back their lives after unexplainable encounters with the paranormal.” Horror Fuel: “Congratulations on your Travel Channel series Trending Fear. What can you tell us about it?” Paul: “Trending Fear uses social media to reach out to people having paranormal issues, things that people can’t necessarily understand, so that we can help them. The basis of the show is around Adam Ellis and his #DearDavid experience. People followed the story through social media and with that came a lot of traction. He was trying to figure out what was going on. He was asking for help and there are
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In the new TV spot for William Eubank‘s action-packed creature feature Underwater, we get a new glimpse of the creature that stalks the deep. Kristen Stewart stars as an underwater researcher whose team scrambles for safely after an earthquake strikes the facility that is 5,000 miles from land, but those are not the team’s only problems, a terrifying monster has been unleashed from where they’ve been drilling. It’s big, it’s bad, it’s mad, and it is hungry. Vincent Cassel, T.J. Miller, John Gallagher Jr., Jessica Henwick, Mamoudou Athie, and Gunner Wright also star. Dive into Underwater in theaters January 10, 2020, from 20th Century Fox.
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Indie filmmaker Donna McRae’s new indie film Lost Gully Road has just been released. I had the pleasure of talking with McRae about the film and other projects. The dark minimalistic film starring Adele Perovic as a woman waiting at a remote cabin for her sister, not knowing that she is not alone there in the forest. Horror Fuel: “Will you tell us about your journey becoming a filmmaker?” Donna McRae: “After drama school, I was an actress doing short films and advertisements, but I met up with a young director in film school and I was playing the leading role in his film and I started writing. When I left drama school, after about two years, all the roles that I wanted didn’t happen and so I just started writing screenplays to pass the time. I felt like I liked that better. I like creating story worlds and I was basically trying to write things for myself to be
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Amy Addams (Arrival) stars as a mentally ill woman in danger in the first trailer for director Joe Wright‘s The Woman in the Window. Written by Tracy Letts the film is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by A.J. Finn and features an all-star cast that includes Gary Oldman, Anthony Mackie, Wyatt Russell, Brian Tyree Henry, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Julianne Moore. This suspense thriller centers on Anna Fox (Amy Adams), an agoraphobic child psychologist living alone in New York who begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence that puts her own life in danger. The Woman in the Window is set to be released on May 15, 2020, from Fox.
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It feels like there’s not a day goes by that we don’t report on something involving Stephen King (not that we are complaining). Today is no different. This time we are here to tell you that the MGM premium cable network Epix has ordered 10-episodes of “Jerusalem’s Lot” based on King’s Night Shift short story of the same name. The story, with connections to Salem’s Lot, takes place in the 1850s, in the fictional town of Preacher’s Corners in Cumberland County, Maine and is told through a series of letters and diary entries. Adrian Brody will star as Captain Charles Boone, who faces a series of troubles related to his family’s roots after moving to the town following the death of his wife. The series is an intense, absolutely terrifying reimaginig of classic gothic horror,” THR quoted Michael Wright, president of Epix, as saying. “We can’t wait to work with the exceptional team of Donald De Line and Jason and
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Hulu’s “Into the Dark” is ready to ring in the New Year with Midnight Kiss, the next installment of their anthology series and we’ve got the trailer! Starring Augustus Prew (The Morning Show), Scott Evans (Grace and Frankie), and Lukas Gage (Euphoria), the tale that follows a group of longtime gay best friends who head to a beautiful desert home to celebrate New Year’s Eve. Relationships are put to the test and truths are revealed as the night turns into a fight for survival. “Into the Dark” returns with Midnight Kiss on December 27, 2019.
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IFC Midnight has just announced the release date for Albert Shin‘s (In Her Place) thriller Disappearance at Clifton Hill. “Following the death of her mother, Abby (Tuppence Middleton, The Imitation Game, Downton Abbey), a troubled young woman with a checkered past, returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls and the dilapidated motel her family used to run. While there, she finds herself drawn once again into a mystery that has haunted her since childhood: what happened to the young boy she saw being violently abducted in the woods twenty-five years ago? As Abby sets out to find out the truth, she must confront both a shocking, long-buried conspiracy that runs as deep as the falls themselves as well as her own inner demons. Bristling with an air of surreal menace, this mood-drenched thriller is a tantalizing psychological puzzle box that unfolds in the hallucinatory realm between reality and perception.” Hannah Gross, David Cronenberg, Eric Johnson, and Marie Josée-Croze appear alongside
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Elijah Wood (Color Out of Space) is making his return to horror with Come to Daddy. Saban Films has now released the trailer which teases a dark, twisted movie. 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,
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“The Worst Serial Killer in U.S. history,” that’s the title the FBI has given Samuel Little who has recently been indicted for a killing that happened more than 30 years ago in Georgia, news channel WGXA is reporting. The killer confessed to two murders that took place in Macon, Georgia in 1977 and 1982. On Wednesday during a grand jury hearing in Savannah, Georgia, Little was charged with the murder of Frances Campbell. There is an ongoing investigation into the second murder, which Little also confessed to strangling while serving two life sentences in a California prison. Captain Shermaine Jones and Investigator Daniel Shurley flew to Decatur, Texas to interview Little, who had been extradited to Texas to be interviewed by investigators about the cold cases he claims responsibility for. In 1982 new homeowners discovered skeletal remains of a woman while clearing overgrown vegetation in their back yard. The clothing on the victim matched a missing person case. First, Little
Continue reading →
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Ring in the new year with Brian and Laurence Avenet-Bradley’s acclaimed excursion film Echoes of Fear premiering on digital this January from Artist Rights Distribution. “Alysa inherits her grandfather’s house following his sudden death from an apparent heart attack. She cannot keep the house so travels there to prepare it for sale. While she is packing away her grandfather’s belongings some strange and unexplained events inside the house start to spook her and she soon comes to the conclusion that she is not alone there. Even her pet mouse senses a presence. Something supernatural lurks in the house and she begins to believe that her grandfather was trying to find something before he died. When her friend Steph arrives they attempt to solve the mystery and what they uncover together forces them to confront the diabolical truth and the evil that hides inside.” Echoes of Fear received its World Premiere at the 18th annual Shriekfest Horror Festival, the longest-running horror
Continue reading →
InterviewsNewsParanormalStreaming TVTravel Channel
The new paranormal series “Trending Fear” premieres tonight on Travel Channel. Ahead of the premiere, we sat down with paranormal investigator Paul Bradford to learn more about the series and how it stands apart from the others. Paul stars alongside #DearDavid author Adam Ellis and Jen Lewis (researcher/documentarian). “In each hour-long episode, the trio will travel America, hoping to help people take back their lives after unexplainable encounters with the paranormal.” Horror Fuel: “Congratulations on your Travel Channel series Trending Fear. What can you tell us about it?” Paul: “Trending Fear uses social media to reach out to people having paranormal issues, things that people can’t necessarily understand, so that we can help them. The basis of the show is around Adam Ellis and his #DearDavid experience. People followed the story through social media and with that came a lot of traction. He was trying to figure out what was going on. He was asking for help and there are
Continue reading →
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In the new TV spot for William Eubank‘s action-packed creature feature Underwater, we get a new glimpse of the creature that stalks the deep. Kristen Stewart stars as an underwater researcher whose team scrambles for safely after an earthquake strikes the facility that is 5,000 miles from land, but those are not the team’s only problems, a terrifying monster has been unleashed from where they’ve been drilling. It’s big, it’s bad, it’s mad, and it is hungry. Vincent Cassel, T.J. Miller, John Gallagher Jr., Jessica Henwick, Mamoudou Athie, and Gunner Wright also star. Dive into Underwater in theaters January 10, 2020, from 20th Century Fox.
Continue reading →
InterviewsMoviesNewsTrailers
Indie filmmaker Donna McRae’s new indie film Lost Gully Road has just been released. I had the pleasure of talking with McRae about the film and other projects. The dark minimalistic film starring Adele Perovic as a woman waiting at a remote cabin for her sister, not knowing that she is not alone there in the forest. Horror Fuel: “Will you tell us about your journey becoming a filmmaker?” Donna McRae: “After drama school, I was an actress doing short films and advertisements, but I met up with a young director in film school and I was playing the leading role in his film and I started writing. When I left drama school, after about two years, all the roles that I wanted didn’t happen and so I just started writing screenplays to pass the time. I felt like I liked that better. I like creating story worlds and I was basically trying to write things for myself to be
Continue reading →
MoviesNewsThrillerTrailers
Amy Addams (Arrival) stars as a mentally ill woman in danger in the first trailer for director Joe Wright‘s The Woman in the Window. Written by Tracy Letts the film is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by A.J. Finn and features an all-star cast that includes Gary Oldman, Anthony Mackie, Wyatt Russell, Brian Tyree Henry, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Julianne Moore. This suspense thriller centers on Anna Fox (Amy Adams), an agoraphobic child psychologist living alone in New York who begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence that puts her own life in danger. The Woman in the Window is set to be released on May 15, 2020, from Fox.
Continue reading →
NewsShowStreaming TV
It feels like there’s not a day goes by that we don’t report on something involving Stephen King (not that we are complaining). Today is no different. This time we are here to tell you that the MGM premium cable network Epix has ordered 10-episodes of “Jerusalem’s Lot” based on King’s Night Shift short story of the same name. The story, with connections to Salem’s Lot, takes place in the 1850s, in the fictional town of Preacher’s Corners in Cumberland County, Maine and is told through a series of letters and diary entries. Adrian Brody will star as Captain Charles Boone, who faces a series of troubles related to his family’s roots after moving to the town following the death of his wife. The series is an intense, absolutely terrifying reimaginig of classic gothic horror,” THR quoted Michael Wright, president of Epix, as saying. “We can’t wait to work with the exceptional team of Donald De Line and Jason and
Continue reading →
HuluMoviesNewsStreaming TVTrailers
Hulu’s “Into the Dark” is ready to ring in the New Year with Midnight Kiss, the next installment of their anthology series and we’ve got the trailer! Starring Augustus Prew (The Morning Show), Scott Evans (Grace and Frankie), and Lukas Gage (Euphoria), the tale that follows a group of longtime gay best friends who head to a beautiful desert home to celebrate New Year’s Eve. Relationships are put to the test and truths are revealed as the night turns into a fight for survival. “Into the Dark” returns with Midnight Kiss on December 27, 2019.
Continue reading →
MoviesNews
IFC Midnight has just announced the release date for Albert Shin‘s (In Her Place) thriller Disappearance at Clifton Hill. “Following the death of her mother, Abby (Tuppence Middleton, The Imitation Game, Downton Abbey), a troubled young woman with a checkered past, returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls and the dilapidated motel her family used to run. While there, she finds herself drawn once again into a mystery that has haunted her since childhood: what happened to the young boy she saw being violently abducted in the woods twenty-five years ago? As Abby sets out to find out the truth, she must confront both a shocking, long-buried conspiracy that runs as deep as the falls themselves as well as her own inner demons. Bristling with an air of surreal menace, this mood-drenched thriller is a tantalizing psychological puzzle box that unfolds in the hallucinatory realm between reality and perception.” Hannah Gross, David Cronenberg, Eric Johnson, and Marie Josée-Croze appear alongside
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesNewsTrailers
Elijah Wood (Color Out of Space) is making his return to horror with Come to Daddy. Saban Films has now released the trailer which teases a dark, twisted movie. 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,
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