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This December bring home the frightening supernatural flick The Nun, both a spin-off and a prequel to The Conjuring II. In the movie, “when a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate. Together they uncover the order’s unholy secret. Risking not only their lives but their faith and their very souls, they confront a malevolent force in the form of the same demonic nun that first terrorized audiences in The Conjuring II, as the abbey becomes a horrific battleground between the living and the damned.” The Nun stars Oscar nominee Demian Bichir (“A Better Life”) as Father Burke, Taissa Farmiga (TV’s “American Horror Story”) as Sister Irene, Charlotte Hope (TV’s “Game of Thrones”) as the abbey’s Sister Victoria and Ingrid Bisu (“Toni Erdmann”) as Sister Oana, Jonas Bloquet (Elle) as local villager
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Zombie fans, brace yourself because what I’m about to tell you might just leave you shook. It’s been fifty years since George A. Romero changed the horror genre forever with his classic Night of the Living Dead. Living Dead Media, the company entrusted with handling Romero’s masterpiece have announced that they are going to deliver the official sequel. What’s more, some of the original people involved with NOTD will be part of Night of the Living Dead II which is expected to be released sometime in late 2019. At this time the company is keeping the details hush, hush, but with something this big, it’s only a matter of time before we learn more. They did have this to say: That history and Night of the Living Dead’s place on the Mt. Rushmore of horror films is known by most horror fans and people all over the world. But, unknown to most is that in the 1970’s, the original writers
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Horror icon Lin Shaye (the Insidious franchise) is set to stars in the suspense thriller Room for Rent, directed by Tommy Stovall. Today, we’ve got a first look at the film to share with you. Shaye plays Joyce, a lonely widow who rents out a room in her home, becoming obsessed with one of her guests. Oliver Rayon, Valeska Miller, Ryan Ochoa, Linda Cuchma, Casey Nicholas Price, and Tonya June Moore co-star in the film written by Stuart Flack. Room for Rent was picked up by Uncork’d Entertainment at AFM.
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In the tradition of Suspiria, and featuring horror icons Caroline Williams and Debbie Rochon, Bloody Ballet is dancing towards its November release date. “When a beautiful ballerina dancer, Adriana Mena (Kendra Carelli, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2), lands the lead role in the upcoming Nutcracker performance, she’s forced to face her demons as jealousy and tension begin to provoke the supernatural.” The horror-thriller blends the atmosphere and suspense of thriller fiction with elements of horror fiction and eroticism – in the vein of Dario Argento’s and Suspiria and Sergio Martino’s Torso – Bloody Ballet is a tour-de-force for rising filmmaker Brett Mullen, who co-wrote the script with Matt Cloude. Caroline Williams (Texas Chainsaw Massacre II, Halloween II), Debbie Rochon (Model Hunger, Death House), Katie Carpenter (“The Haunting of Hill House”), Brett Wagner (The Happytime Murders), and Rob Springer (Bombshell Bloodbath) star in Bloody Ballet, out November 13th on VOD and December 4th on DVD from High Octane Pictures.
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Sex. Murder. Revenge. Part black comedy, part slasher, the action-packed film Rondo is set for an early 2019 release. Luke Sorge stars as Paul, a troubled young veteran, is told by a psychiatrist that sex is the solution to his dependency and drinking problems. But things turn out otherwise as Paul and his sister are sucked into a criminal underworld where sex and murder are daily specials and revenge is served piping hot. G.C. Clark, Kendrick “Jazz” Copeland, Reggie De Morton, Ashley Gagnon, and Grant Benjamin Leibowitz co-star in the film from Drew Barnhardt. Artsploitation’s Murray says, “The moment the ominous voice-over begins in Rondo, I was taken away to my youthful times at 42nd Street grindhouses, where great exploitation films taught me all there is to know about movies. Director Drew Barnhardt pays homage to these films while injecting his own dark modern touches. Intelligent, craftily stylized and wildly entertaining, Rondo is a film that screams, “Artsploitation.” Barnhardt of
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Candyman actress Virginia Madsen has joined DC’s “Swamp Thing” series as a lead character, Deadline is reporting. Madsen will be playing the role of Maria Sunderland, a woman married to local businessman Avery Sunderland. Madsen joins the cast that already includes Crystal Reed, Jeryl Prescott, Jennifer Beals, Maria Sten, and Crystal Reed, with Friday the 13th‘s Derek Mears playing the title character based on the comic created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson. Written by Mark Verheiden and Gary Dauberman, the series follows Abby Arcane (Reed) as she investigates what appears to be a deadly swamp-born virus plaguing a small town in Louisiana, but soon she discovers that the swamp is filled with supernatural secrets. “Swamp Thing“, arriving in 2019 on the DC Universe service, is produced by James Wan under his Atomic Monster banner along with Warner Bros. Television.
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The devious, deadly wisecracking Leprechaun that we all know and love (and love to hate) is back and ready to reclaim his pot of gold this December from a sorority house in Leprechaun Returns. ‘ Linden Porco (TV’s “Channel Zero,” Cult of Chucky) stars as the Leprechaun with his signature hat and shiny shoes. The movie also stars Taylor Spreitler (Amityville: The Awakening, TV’s “Kevin Can Wait,” TV’s “Casual”), and Mark Holton (Leprechaun, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, A League of Their Own), who is back for the first time since the 1993 original. Steven Kostanski directed from the script penned by Suzanne Keilly. “The deadly, wisecracking Leprechaun is back in all his gory glory. When the sorority sisters of the Alpha Upsilon house decide to go green and use an old well as their water source, they unwittingly awaken a pint-sized, green-clad monster. The Leprechaun wants a pot of gold buried near the sorority house, but first, he must recover his
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The haunting trailer for the supernatural thriller Ghost in the Graveyard is here. The film marks the directorial debut of Charlie Comparetto. Starring Kelli Berglund, Royce Johnson, Jake Busey, and Nikki Blonsky star in the film about a small town under siege from the ghost of a local girl who died tragically during a childhood game. Kelli Berglund (“Lab Rats”, “Now Apocalypse”), Royce Johnson ( “Daredevil” and “Jessica Jones”), Jake Busey (“Stranger Things”, The Predator), Nikki Blonsky (Hairspray, The Last Movie Star), and Jason James Richter (The Free Willy franchise) star. In Ghost in the Graveyard, a small town comes under the thumb of Martha, a vengeful ghost who returns to haunt the children who witnessed her death during a game of Ghost in the Graveyard in their youth. Long blamed for the accident, Sally Sullivan (Berglund) must figure out why Martha has returned and how to get her to rest in peace for good. As the mystery of her
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The official trailer for Room 9 has been unveiled featuring horror icons Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th) and Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes). Written and directed by Thomas Walton, in the film, life-altering sins of the past revisit lost souls in a small town… 40 years later! Friday the 13th actor Kane Hodder stars as Beau Johnson with Michael Berryman playing the role of Jed Bedford. Scout Taylor Compton (Rob Zombie’s Halloween) also stars. Brian Anthony Wilson, Michael Emery, Tony Devon, Greg Painter, David Raine, Steve Nappe, and Michael Grasso co-star. PhilaDreams Films and Thomas Walton both produced and executive produced. Mary Jane Bulseco co-executive produced, Tony Devon co-produced. Judy Fox serves as manager to both Hodder and Berryman. For regular updates and more please follow Room 9 on Facebook.
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This December the British sci-fi horror film of the year, Await Further Instructions, arrives this December from director Johnny Kevorkian. In Await Further Instructions, set on Christmas day, “the Milgram family wake to find a mysterious black substance surrounding their house. Something monumental is clearly happening right outside their door, but what exactly – an industrial accident, a terrorist attack, nuclear war? Descending into terrified arguments, they turn on the television, desperate for any information. On screen, a message glows ominously: ‘Stay Indoors and Await Further Instructions’. As the television exerts an ever more sinister grip, their paranoia escalates into bloody carnage.” Starring David Bradley (Game Of Thrones, Doctor Who, Harry Potter), Sam Gittins, Neerja Naik, and Grant Masters, the film is now playing in UK cinemas and is available on VOD on December 7th from Dark Sky Films. It recently received a five-star review from our writer Dan XIII.
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This December bring home the frightening supernatural flick The Nun, both a spin-off and a prequel to The Conjuring II. In the movie, “when a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate. Together they uncover the order’s unholy secret. Risking not only their lives but their faith and their very souls, they confront a malevolent force in the form of the same demonic nun that first terrorized audiences in The Conjuring II, as the abbey becomes a horrific battleground between the living and the damned.” The Nun stars Oscar nominee Demian Bichir (“A Better Life”) as Father Burke, Taissa Farmiga (TV’s “American Horror Story”) as Sister Irene, Charlotte Hope (TV’s “Game of Thrones”) as the abbey’s Sister Victoria and Ingrid Bisu (“Toni Erdmann”) as Sister Oana, Jonas Bloquet (Elle) as local villager
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Zombie fans, brace yourself because what I’m about to tell you might just leave you shook. It’s been fifty years since George A. Romero changed the horror genre forever with his classic Night of the Living Dead. Living Dead Media, the company entrusted with handling Romero’s masterpiece have announced that they are going to deliver the official sequel. What’s more, some of the original people involved with NOTD will be part of Night of the Living Dead II which is expected to be released sometime in late 2019. At this time the company is keeping the details hush, hush, but with something this big, it’s only a matter of time before we learn more. They did have this to say: That history and Night of the Living Dead’s place on the Mt. Rushmore of horror films is known by most horror fans and people all over the world. But, unknown to most is that in the 1970’s, the original writers
Continue reading →
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Horror icon Lin Shaye (the Insidious franchise) is set to stars in the suspense thriller Room for Rent, directed by Tommy Stovall. Today, we’ve got a first look at the film to share with you. Shaye plays Joyce, a lonely widow who rents out a room in her home, becoming obsessed with one of her guests. Oliver Rayon, Valeska Miller, Ryan Ochoa, Linda Cuchma, Casey Nicholas Price, and Tonya June Moore co-star in the film written by Stuart Flack. Room for Rent was picked up by Uncork’d Entertainment at AFM.
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In the tradition of Suspiria, and featuring horror icons Caroline Williams and Debbie Rochon, Bloody Ballet is dancing towards its November release date. “When a beautiful ballerina dancer, Adriana Mena (Kendra Carelli, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2), lands the lead role in the upcoming Nutcracker performance, she’s forced to face her demons as jealousy and tension begin to provoke the supernatural.” The horror-thriller blends the atmosphere and suspense of thriller fiction with elements of horror fiction and eroticism – in the vein of Dario Argento’s and Suspiria and Sergio Martino’s Torso – Bloody Ballet is a tour-de-force for rising filmmaker Brett Mullen, who co-wrote the script with Matt Cloude. Caroline Williams (Texas Chainsaw Massacre II, Halloween II), Debbie Rochon (Model Hunger, Death House), Katie Carpenter (“The Haunting of Hill House”), Brett Wagner (The Happytime Murders), and Rob Springer (Bombshell Bloodbath) star in Bloody Ballet, out November 13th on VOD and December 4th on DVD from High Octane Pictures.
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Sex. Murder. Revenge. Part black comedy, part slasher, the action-packed film Rondo is set for an early 2019 release. Luke Sorge stars as Paul, a troubled young veteran, is told by a psychiatrist that sex is the solution to his dependency and drinking problems. But things turn out otherwise as Paul and his sister are sucked into a criminal underworld where sex and murder are daily specials and revenge is served piping hot. G.C. Clark, Kendrick “Jazz” Copeland, Reggie De Morton, Ashley Gagnon, and Grant Benjamin Leibowitz co-star in the film from Drew Barnhardt. Artsploitation’s Murray says, “The moment the ominous voice-over begins in Rondo, I was taken away to my youthful times at 42nd Street grindhouses, where great exploitation films taught me all there is to know about movies. Director Drew Barnhardt pays homage to these films while injecting his own dark modern touches. Intelligent, craftily stylized and wildly entertaining, Rondo is a film that screams, “Artsploitation.” Barnhardt of
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Candyman actress Virginia Madsen has joined DC’s “Swamp Thing” series as a lead character, Deadline is reporting. Madsen will be playing the role of Maria Sunderland, a woman married to local businessman Avery Sunderland. Madsen joins the cast that already includes Crystal Reed, Jeryl Prescott, Jennifer Beals, Maria Sten, and Crystal Reed, with Friday the 13th‘s Derek Mears playing the title character based on the comic created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson. Written by Mark Verheiden and Gary Dauberman, the series follows Abby Arcane (Reed) as she investigates what appears to be a deadly swamp-born virus plaguing a small town in Louisiana, but soon she discovers that the swamp is filled with supernatural secrets. “Swamp Thing“, arriving in 2019 on the DC Universe service, is produced by James Wan under his Atomic Monster banner along with Warner Bros. Television.
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The devious, deadly wisecracking Leprechaun that we all know and love (and love to hate) is back and ready to reclaim his pot of gold this December from a sorority house in Leprechaun Returns. ‘ Linden Porco (TV’s “Channel Zero,” Cult of Chucky) stars as the Leprechaun with his signature hat and shiny shoes. The movie also stars Taylor Spreitler (Amityville: The Awakening, TV’s “Kevin Can Wait,” TV’s “Casual”), and Mark Holton (Leprechaun, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, A League of Their Own), who is back for the first time since the 1993 original. Steven Kostanski directed from the script penned by Suzanne Keilly. “The deadly, wisecracking Leprechaun is back in all his gory glory. When the sorority sisters of the Alpha Upsilon house decide to go green and use an old well as their water source, they unwittingly awaken a pint-sized, green-clad monster. The Leprechaun wants a pot of gold buried near the sorority house, but first, he must recover his
Continue reading →
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The haunting trailer for the supernatural thriller Ghost in the Graveyard is here. The film marks the directorial debut of Charlie Comparetto. Starring Kelli Berglund, Royce Johnson, Jake Busey, and Nikki Blonsky star in the film about a small town under siege from the ghost of a local girl who died tragically during a childhood game. Kelli Berglund (“Lab Rats”, “Now Apocalypse”), Royce Johnson ( “Daredevil” and “Jessica Jones”), Jake Busey (“Stranger Things”, The Predator), Nikki Blonsky (Hairspray, The Last Movie Star), and Jason James Richter (The Free Willy franchise) star. In Ghost in the Graveyard, a small town comes under the thumb of Martha, a vengeful ghost who returns to haunt the children who witnessed her death during a game of Ghost in the Graveyard in their youth. Long blamed for the accident, Sally Sullivan (Berglund) must figure out why Martha has returned and how to get her to rest in peace for good. As the mystery of her
Continue reading →
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The official trailer for Room 9 has been unveiled featuring horror icons Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th) and Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes). Written and directed by Thomas Walton, in the film, life-altering sins of the past revisit lost souls in a small town… 40 years later! Friday the 13th actor Kane Hodder stars as Beau Johnson with Michael Berryman playing the role of Jed Bedford. Scout Taylor Compton (Rob Zombie’s Halloween) also stars. Brian Anthony Wilson, Michael Emery, Tony Devon, Greg Painter, David Raine, Steve Nappe, and Michael Grasso co-star. PhilaDreams Films and Thomas Walton both produced and executive produced. Mary Jane Bulseco co-executive produced, Tony Devon co-produced. Judy Fox serves as manager to both Hodder and Berryman. For regular updates and more please follow Room 9 on Facebook.
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This December the British sci-fi horror film of the year, Await Further Instructions, arrives this December from director Johnny Kevorkian. In Await Further Instructions, set on Christmas day, “the Milgram family wake to find a mysterious black substance surrounding their house. Something monumental is clearly happening right outside their door, but what exactly – an industrial accident, a terrorist attack, nuclear war? Descending into terrified arguments, they turn on the television, desperate for any information. On screen, a message glows ominously: ‘Stay Indoors and Await Further Instructions’. As the television exerts an ever more sinister grip, their paranoia escalates into bloody carnage.” Starring David Bradley (Game Of Thrones, Doctor Who, Harry Potter), Sam Gittins, Neerja Naik, and Grant Masters, the film is now playing in UK cinemas and is available on VOD on December 7th from Dark Sky Films. It recently received a five-star review from our writer Dan XIII.
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