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Donnie Darko’s Casey La Scala Is Taking Us Back To ‘Amityville 1974’

Today, the Wonderfilm Media Corporation announced that is taking horror fans back to one of the most iconic homes of the genre, Amityville, Amityville 1974, set to begin principal photography this November. The film is based on the real-life tragedy that spawned The Amityville Horror novel and subsequent films when Ronald DeFeo Jr. shot all six members of his family on a fateful November night. This tragedy was seared into the minds of the public consciousness by writer Jay Anson, whose book “The Amityville Horror” recounted the terror experienced by a family moving into the house in 1975 but fleeing after 28 days driven out by hostile supernatural forces. Wonderfilm’s Amityville 1974 will tell the story of the DeFeo’s horrifying murderous rampage. Casey La Scala (Donnie Darko, The Remaining) will direct from a script he wrote. Jeff Bowler and Shaun Redick (Get Out/ Blackkklansman) will produce for Wonderfilm. Todd Garner (Tag, Mortal Kombat) will also produce. Bret Saxon and Yvette

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 17, 2019
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‘The Intruder’ Breaking Onto Digital And Blu-ray This July

When a young couple buys their dream home it quickly turns into a nightmare in The Intruder coming to Digital and Blu-ray this July. Starring Michael Ealy (Barber Shop), Meagan Good (The Unborn), and Dennis Quaid (The Day After Tomorrow) and directed by Deon Taylor (Meet the Blacks), the thriller follows Scott and Annie, a young married couple who buys their dream house in the Napa Valley, thinking it is the ideal place to start a family. When the strangely attached seller (Quaid) continues to infiltrate their lives, they begin to suspect that he has hidden motivations beyond a quick sale. Joseph Sikora, Alvina August, Lili Sepe, Lee Shorten, and Carolyn Anderson co-star in this intense thriller. Roxanne Avent, Deon Taylor, Mark Burg, Jonathan Schwartz, and Brad Kaplan produced the film written by David Loughery (Lakeview Terrace). Robert F. Smith, David Guillod, and David Loughery executive produced. The Intruder arrives on Digital July 16th followed by its Blu-ray and DVD

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 17, 2019
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Take A Dark Ride This June With End Trip

Take a terrifying ride this June with writer-director Aaron Jay Rome‘s End Trip that will make you never want to share a ride with a stranger again. Rome stars in the film as Brandon, a ride-share driver working for URYDE. On an otherwise quiet night, Brandon picks up Judd (Dean West). But unlike the usual pick-up and drop-off scenario, Judd explains that he recently went through a messy breakup and asks Brandon if he’d mind just driving around the city while they talk. Brandon agrees, offering an empathetic ear to Judd. As they continue to drive into the night Brandon and Judd appear to be forging a new found friendship. However beneath it all, there is more to this ride-share than meets the eye and for one of them – this ride will be their last. End Trip has a large cast that includes Ashley Lenz, Jaren Mitchell, and Michelle West. Dean, who also produced the film with Rome, will

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 17, 2019
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Ice-T Gives A Warning In The New Clip From Clinton Road

Before you head down Clinton Road, the award-winning new film about a haunted road in New Jersey, check out the new clip featuring Ice-T. Clinton Road, directed by Steve Stanulis and Richard Grieco, stars internationally acclaimed musician and actor Ice-T (New Jack City, “Law & Order : SVU”), James DeBello (Cabin Fever, Detroit Rock City), Vincent Pastore (“The Sopranos”, Goodfellas), and Erin O’Brien (Pernicious, Killing Joan). In the film, scripted by Derek Ross Mackay, a widowed firefighter seeks closure after his wife goes missing on an actual haunted road in rural New Jersey but must unlock the roads secret if he wants to get out alive. Ace Young (“Bones”), Katie Morrison (“The Blacklist”), Bo Dietl (“Vinyl”), and Oscar Nominee Eric Roberts also star in the film produced by Grieco, Noel Ashman, and Steve Stanulis produce. Clinton Road is now out on VOD and available in 10 theaters.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 16, 2019
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Casting Update For HBO’s Upcoming Series “Lovecraft Country”

Jordan Peele‘s Monkeypaw Productions, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, Misha Green, and Warner Bros. Television’s upcoming adaptation of Matt Ruff’s 2016 novel “Lovecraft Country” has had a change in cast. Christina Braithwhite has exited the HBO series and has been replaced by Mad Max: Fury Road actress Abbey Lee. Jamie Chung and Jordan Patrick Smith have also joined the cast alongside Courtney B. Vance, Wunmi Mosaku, Aunjanue Ellis, and Jamie Harris. Penned by Green “Lovecraft Country” follows “Atticus Black (Jonathan Majors) as he joins up with his friend Letitia (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America in search of his missing father. This begins a struggle to survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the terrifying monsters that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback.“ Yann Demange will be directing as well as executive producing the premiere episode. Daniel Sackheim will also executive produce and direct for

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 16, 2019
Horror Fuel

Don’t Be Brain Dead, Go See ‘The Dead Don’t Die’ In Theaters Now

The greatest zombie cast ever disassembled” gather for the zombie apocalypse in t The Dead Don’t Die from director Jim Jarmusch and Focus Features. The cast for this zomcom stars Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Iggy Pop, Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones, Selena Gomez, Tom Waits, RZA, Sara Driver, Rosie Perez, and Carol Kane. “In this peaceful town, on these quiet streets, something terrifying, something horrifying is coming,” a voiceover intones, followed by the town’s cafe getting invaded by the undead.” Don’t be brain dead, go see The Dead Don’t Die in theaters now!

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 15, 2019
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IFC Midnight Unleashes New Poster For Trespassers – Coming To Theaters And On Demand

IFC Midnight has unleashed the poster for director Orson Oblowitz‘s (The Queen of Hollywood BLVD) blood-drenched film Trespassers. Angela Trimbur (The Final Girls), Janel Parrish (Pretty Little Liars), Fairuza Balk (The Craft), Jonathan Howard (World War Z), and Zach Avery (Fury) star. In the film, “two couples, each working through relationship issues, rent a gorgeous house in the desert for a sex and drug-fueled escape from reality. Sarah (Trimbur) and Estelle (Parrish) are longtime best friends looking forward to reconnecting after a period apart; their boyfriends, Joseph (Avery) and Victor (Howard), however, are immediately wary of one another. As tensions escalate over the course of a debaucherous night, things take an unexpected turn when a woman (Balk) claiming to be a neighbor with car trouble shows up at the door. She seems harmless enough…or so they think. As the twists and turns pile up so does the body count in this stylish, blood- and neon-soaked thriller which hits with the

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 15, 2019
Horror Fuel

They’re Inside Invades Home Video This June (New Trailer)

This July They’re Inside will be invading homes. The new trailer teases an intense, bloody home invasion film. . When two sisters go to an isolated cabin in the woods to film a passion project, family secrets start to get in the way… as do masked strangers filming a passion project of their own. Produced by Derek Dennis Herbert and Andrew Barcello, the team behind the acclaimed documentary To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story, They’re Inside stars Karli Hall (Haunt), Amanda Kathleen Ward (Fate), Jake Ferree (True Detective), Sascha Ghafoor (The Wedding Invitation), Chelsea D. Miller (Spaceman) with Alex Rinehart (The Black Room) and Matthew Peschio delivering chilling performances as the killers. They’re Inside will invade homes on VOD and Blu-ray on June 14, 2019, from DREAD. Ahead of its release, you can pre-order your copy now.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 15, 2019
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Bradley Cooper In Talks To Star In Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley

A Star is Born actor-director Bradley Cooper is currently in talks to star in Guillermo del Toro‘s upcoming psychological thriller Nightmare Alley. Del Toro co-wrote the script with Kim Morgan and will be in the director’s chair for the adaptation of Will Lindsey Gresham’s novel by the same name. Fox made their own adaptation of the tale for a 1947 film. In the 1947 version, An ambitious young con-man teams up with a female psychiatrist who is more corrupt than he is. At first, they enjoy their success with their mentalist act, but it’s not long before she turns the tables on him. The role Cooper is in talks to play was originally offered to Leonardo DiCaprio, but negotiations failed for unknown reasons. Nightmare Alley is set to begin filming sometime this Fall.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 14, 2019
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Evil Evolves In Season Three Of “Stranger Things”

With less than a month to go until the season 3 premiere of Netflix’s “Stranger Things“. Today, we finally have the season’s synopsis. “It’s 1985 in Hawkins, Indiana, and summer’s heating up. School’s out, there’s a brand new mall in town, and the Hawkins crew are on the cusp of adulthood. Romance blossoms and complicates the group’s dynamic, and they’ll have to figure out how to grow up without growing apart. Meanwhile, danger looms. When the town’s threatened by enemies old and new, Eleven and her friends are reminded that evil never ends; it evolves. Now they’ll have to band together to survive, and remember that friendship is always stronger than fear.” Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Noah Schnapp, and Sadie Sink star. Episode Titles: “Suzie, Do You Copy?” “The Mallrats” “The Case of the Missing Lifeguard” “The Sauna Test” “The Source” “The Birthday” “The Bite”

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 14, 2019

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Donnie Darko’s Casey La Scala Is Taking Us Back To ‘Amityville 1974’

Today, the Wonderfilm Media Corporation announced that is taking horror fans back to one of the most iconic homes of the genre, Amityville, Amityville 1974, set to begin principal photography this November. The film is based on the real-life tragedy that spawned The Amityville Horror novel and subsequent films when Ronald DeFeo Jr. shot all six members of his family on a fateful November night. This tragedy was seared into the minds of the public consciousness by writer Jay Anson, whose book “The Amityville Horror” recounted the terror experienced by a family moving into the house in 1975 but fleeing after 28 days driven out by hostile supernatural forces. Wonderfilm’s Amityville 1974 will tell the story of the DeFeo’s horrifying murderous rampage. Casey La Scala (Donnie Darko, The Remaining) will direct from a script he wrote. Jeff Bowler and Shaun Redick (Get Out/ Blackkklansman) will produce for Wonderfilm. Todd Garner (Tag, Mortal Kombat) will also produce. Bret Saxon and Yvette

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 17, 2019
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‘The Intruder’ Breaking Onto Digital And Blu-ray This July

When a young couple buys their dream home it quickly turns into a nightmare in The Intruder coming to Digital and Blu-ray this July. Starring Michael Ealy (Barber Shop), Meagan Good (The Unborn), and Dennis Quaid (The Day After Tomorrow) and directed by Deon Taylor (Meet the Blacks), the thriller follows Scott and Annie, a young married couple who buys their dream house in the Napa Valley, thinking it is the ideal place to start a family. When the strangely attached seller (Quaid) continues to infiltrate their lives, they begin to suspect that he has hidden motivations beyond a quick sale. Joseph Sikora, Alvina August, Lili Sepe, Lee Shorten, and Carolyn Anderson co-star in this intense thriller. Roxanne Avent, Deon Taylor, Mark Burg, Jonathan Schwartz, and Brad Kaplan produced the film written by David Loughery (Lakeview Terrace). Robert F. Smith, David Guillod, and David Loughery executive produced. The Intruder arrives on Digital July 16th followed by its Blu-ray and DVD

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 17, 2019
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Take A Dark Ride This June With End Trip

Take a terrifying ride this June with writer-director Aaron Jay Rome‘s End Trip that will make you never want to share a ride with a stranger again. Rome stars in the film as Brandon, a ride-share driver working for URYDE. On an otherwise quiet night, Brandon picks up Judd (Dean West). But unlike the usual pick-up and drop-off scenario, Judd explains that he recently went through a messy breakup and asks Brandon if he’d mind just driving around the city while they talk. Brandon agrees, offering an empathetic ear to Judd. As they continue to drive into the night Brandon and Judd appear to be forging a new found friendship. However beneath it all, there is more to this ride-share than meets the eye and for one of them – this ride will be their last. End Trip has a large cast that includes Ashley Lenz, Jaren Mitchell, and Michelle West. Dean, who also produced the film with Rome, will

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 17, 2019
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Ice-T Gives A Warning In The New Clip From Clinton Road

Before you head down Clinton Road, the award-winning new film about a haunted road in New Jersey, check out the new clip featuring Ice-T. Clinton Road, directed by Steve Stanulis and Richard Grieco, stars internationally acclaimed musician and actor Ice-T (New Jack City, “Law & Order : SVU”), James DeBello (Cabin Fever, Detroit Rock City), Vincent Pastore (“The Sopranos”, Goodfellas), and Erin O’Brien (Pernicious, Killing Joan). In the film, scripted by Derek Ross Mackay, a widowed firefighter seeks closure after his wife goes missing on an actual haunted road in rural New Jersey but must unlock the roads secret if he wants to get out alive. Ace Young (“Bones”), Katie Morrison (“The Blacklist”), Bo Dietl (“Vinyl”), and Oscar Nominee Eric Roberts also star in the film produced by Grieco, Noel Ashman, and Steve Stanulis produce. Clinton Road is now out on VOD and available in 10 theaters.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 16, 2019
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Casting Update For HBO’s Upcoming Series “Lovecraft Country”

Jordan Peele‘s Monkeypaw Productions, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, Misha Green, and Warner Bros. Television’s upcoming adaptation of Matt Ruff’s 2016 novel “Lovecraft Country” has had a change in cast. Christina Braithwhite has exited the HBO series and has been replaced by Mad Max: Fury Road actress Abbey Lee. Jamie Chung and Jordan Patrick Smith have also joined the cast alongside Courtney B. Vance, Wunmi Mosaku, Aunjanue Ellis, and Jamie Harris. Penned by Green “Lovecraft Country” follows “Atticus Black (Jonathan Majors) as he joins up with his friend Letitia (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America in search of his missing father. This begins a struggle to survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the terrifying monsters that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback.“ Yann Demange will be directing as well as executive producing the premiere episode. Daniel Sackheim will also executive produce and direct for

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 16, 2019
Horror Fuel

Don’t Be Brain Dead, Go See ‘The Dead Don’t Die’ In Theaters Now

The greatest zombie cast ever disassembled” gather for the zombie apocalypse in t The Dead Don’t Die from director Jim Jarmusch and Focus Features. The cast for this zomcom stars Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Iggy Pop, Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones, Selena Gomez, Tom Waits, RZA, Sara Driver, Rosie Perez, and Carol Kane. “In this peaceful town, on these quiet streets, something terrifying, something horrifying is coming,” a voiceover intones, followed by the town’s cafe getting invaded by the undead.” Don’t be brain dead, go see The Dead Don’t Die in theaters now!

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 15, 2019
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IFC Midnight Unleashes New Poster For Trespassers – Coming To Theaters And On Demand

IFC Midnight has unleashed the poster for director Orson Oblowitz‘s (The Queen of Hollywood BLVD) blood-drenched film Trespassers. Angela Trimbur (The Final Girls), Janel Parrish (Pretty Little Liars), Fairuza Balk (The Craft), Jonathan Howard (World War Z), and Zach Avery (Fury) star. In the film, “two couples, each working through relationship issues, rent a gorgeous house in the desert for a sex and drug-fueled escape from reality. Sarah (Trimbur) and Estelle (Parrish) are longtime best friends looking forward to reconnecting after a period apart; their boyfriends, Joseph (Avery) and Victor (Howard), however, are immediately wary of one another. As tensions escalate over the course of a debaucherous night, things take an unexpected turn when a woman (Balk) claiming to be a neighbor with car trouble shows up at the door. She seems harmless enough…or so they think. As the twists and turns pile up so does the body count in this stylish, blood- and neon-soaked thriller which hits with the

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 15, 2019
Horror Fuel

They’re Inside Invades Home Video This June (New Trailer)

This July They’re Inside will be invading homes. The new trailer teases an intense, bloody home invasion film. . When two sisters go to an isolated cabin in the woods to film a passion project, family secrets start to get in the way… as do masked strangers filming a passion project of their own. Produced by Derek Dennis Herbert and Andrew Barcello, the team behind the acclaimed documentary To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story, They’re Inside stars Karli Hall (Haunt), Amanda Kathleen Ward (Fate), Jake Ferree (True Detective), Sascha Ghafoor (The Wedding Invitation), Chelsea D. Miller (Spaceman) with Alex Rinehart (The Black Room) and Matthew Peschio delivering chilling performances as the killers. They’re Inside will invade homes on VOD and Blu-ray on June 14, 2019, from DREAD. Ahead of its release, you can pre-order your copy now.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 15, 2019
Horror Fuel

Bradley Cooper In Talks To Star In Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley

A Star is Born actor-director Bradley Cooper is currently in talks to star in Guillermo del Toro‘s upcoming psychological thriller Nightmare Alley. Del Toro co-wrote the script with Kim Morgan and will be in the director’s chair for the adaptation of Will Lindsey Gresham’s novel by the same name. Fox made their own adaptation of the tale for a 1947 film. In the 1947 version, An ambitious young con-man teams up with a female psychiatrist who is more corrupt than he is. At first, they enjoy their success with their mentalist act, but it’s not long before she turns the tables on him. The role Cooper is in talks to play was originally offered to Leonardo DiCaprio, but negotiations failed for unknown reasons. Nightmare Alley is set to begin filming sometime this Fall.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 14, 2019
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Evil Evolves In Season Three Of “Stranger Things”

With less than a month to go until the season 3 premiere of Netflix’s “Stranger Things“. Today, we finally have the season’s synopsis. “It’s 1985 in Hawkins, Indiana, and summer’s heating up. School’s out, there’s a brand new mall in town, and the Hawkins crew are on the cusp of adulthood. Romance blossoms and complicates the group’s dynamic, and they’ll have to figure out how to grow up without growing apart. Meanwhile, danger looms. When the town’s threatened by enemies old and new, Eleven and her friends are reminded that evil never ends; it evolves. Now they’ll have to band together to survive, and remember that friendship is always stronger than fear.” Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Noah Schnapp, and Sadie Sink star. Episode Titles: “Suzie, Do You Copy?” “The Mallrats” “The Case of the Missing Lifeguard” “The Sauna Test” “The Source” “The Birthday” “The Bite”

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 14, 2019
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