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Books, games and comics turned into horror films and series — what made the jump to the screen and whether it worked.
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Today comic publisher Valiant Entertainment and indie game developer Blowfish Studios have announced that they’re teaming up to bring the best-selling fan-favorite comic book character Shadowman back in an all-new horror adventure game Shadowman: Darque Legacy. The game’s description is as follows: “As a conspiracy threatens to overrun the realm of the living, Shadowman must contend with horrifying inhuman entities with challenging melee combat. Follow a dark path from the land of the living to the hellish realm of the Deadside as you cross the veil between both. Embody the hero of the dark to traverse the necromantic divide, overcome dastardly obstacles, and silence the terrifying threats lurking within.” From the sounds of it, Shadowman: Darque Legacy could potentially be either an action RPG or a Souls-like game. Either way, fans of the old games as well as fans of the comics can look forward to 2024 for the game’s release on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S.
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Oscar-winner Michelle Yeoh calls the dead in the new trailer for Kenneth Branagh’s A Haunting in Venice. The film, based on Agatha Christie’s 1969 novel “Halloween Party,” has a star-studded cast that also includes Tina Fey, Jude Hill, Kelly Reilly, and Jamie Dornan. Kenneth Branagh will be reprising his role as Hercule Poirot from Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express. “Set in post-WWII Venice on All Hallow’s Eve, Poirot, now retired and living in his own exile, reluctantly attends a seance. But when one of the guests is murdered, it is up to the former detective to uncover the killer again.” “It’s a supernatural world where the normal rules do not apply,” Branagh told Variety. “Murders and ghosts are irresistible to a man with that mustache and that nose for sniffing other culprits.” A Haunting in Venice is set to premiere in theaters on September 15, 2023, from 20th Century.
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Video game adaptations are as popular as ever, with series like “The Last of Us” dominating TV. Peacock’s upcoming adaptation of the hit game “Twisted Metal” has now released a new teaser trailer. It gives us our first look at Anthony Mackie’s character, John Doe. We also get a brief glimpse of “Sweet Tooth” in post-apocalypse Vegas. The ten-episode first season stars Anthony Mackie, Stephanie Beatriz, Tahj Vaughans, Michael Carollo, Jared Bankens, Chelle Ramos, Thomas Haden Church, Scream franchise star Neve Campbell and more. The series is “about a motor-mouthed outsider offered a chance at a better life, but only if he can successfully deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. With the help of a badass axe-wielding car thief, he’ll face savage marauders driving vehicles of destruction and other dangers of the open road, including a deranged clown who drives an all too familiar ice cream truck.” “Twisted Metal” will premiere exclusively on Peacock on July 27, 2023.
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The film adaptation of the blockbuster indie horror novel How to Sell a Haunted House has found its producer, none other than Sam Raimi, who was behind Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, Drag Me to Hell, Evil Dead, Army of Darkness and Drag Me To Hell, Sam Raimi. The news came via a social media post by the author of the book, Grady Hendrix. Hendrix is writing the script for the adaptation that will be directed by James Ashcroft (Coming Home in the Dark). “Pupkin goes to Hollywood,” the author said in the post. Pupkin, of course, is a “red-and-yellow glove puppet with two stumpy fabric legs dangling down from his front and two little nubbin arms” and a “leering clown face,” New York Times describes the villain. The Times said. “Pupkin represents the losses of growing up. He’s the vehicle of an unfulfilled mother’s pain, regrets, and loneliness. He’s childhood trauma incarnate, delivered from one generation to
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The indie horror game Iron Lung is getting a feature film adaptation from YouTube’s content creator Markiplier, whose real name is Mark Fischbach. He penned the script and will direct as well as star in the film alongside Caroline Rose Kaplan (The Plot Against America, “Orange is the New Black”). David Szymanski created the game released in 2022 in which the player controls an unnamed convict who explores an ocean of blood on a desolate moon in a rusty submarine nicknamed the “Iron Lung.” The YouTube star is also producing the film alongside Will Hyde and Jeff Guerrero. The first teaser trailer has now debuted (below) for the film adaptation of Iron Lung, which is currently in production.
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Today, Prime Video announced the exciting new horror dramedy series “The Horror of Dolores Roach” from Blumhouse, producers of M3GAN, Spotify, and GloNation. Today, we’ve got a treat. The first images from the series have been shared with us by Prime Video. The series is based on the hit podcast of the same name and will premiere all eight episodes this July. The eight-episode Amazon Original series will be available exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories around the world. “The Horror of Dolores Roach” is a contemporary Sweeney Todd-inspired urban legend of love, betrayal, weed, cannibalism, and survival of the fittest. Dolores Roach (Justina Machado) is released after an unjust 16-year prison sentence, and she returns to a gentrified Washington Heights. Dolores reunites with an old stoner friend, Luis (Alejandro Hernandez), who lets her live and work as a masseuse in the basement under his empanada shop. When the promise of her newfound stability is
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The Evil Dead: The Game official Twitter yesterday tweeted a teaser as the launch of the Game of the Year Edition of the game is set to drop on the 26th, the teaser shows a new outfit for Ash Williams dubbed the Ashy Slashy Outfit featuring the possessed puppet fans have come to love. It wasn’t him doc, it was some Evil BS. The Ashy Slashy Outfit from the STARZ television series, “Ash vs Evil Dead” will be a part of the Who’s Your Daddy Bundle and part of the GOTY Edition available on April 26th! pic.twitter.com/cAWCzhTa9J — EvilDeadTheGame (@EvilDeadTheGame) April 17, 2023 The outfit was inspired by the season two episodes of Ash Vs Evil Dead where Ash falls under demonic influences as the puppet Ashy Slashy, created by Baal, try to break him mentally by convincing him that the events from the very first Evil Dead film was all in his head and that he murdered everyone at
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An ancient evil is unleashed in the first official trailer for Malice, which is creepy as hell. Directed by Michael Crum (Lake of Fear franchise). The film is an adaptation of a short film by Crum, released in 2013. In the film, “An ancient evil is unleashed upon six people in a cabin that possesses those who are close to death. They must battle against the plague and seal it away before it takes them all over.” Malice, which is currently in post-production, is set to be released later this year from MGI Films.
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Set to premiere date has just been announced for Hulu‘s new eight-episode series “The Clearing,” a psychological thriller based on the best-selling crime thriller ‘In The Clearing’ by author J.P. Pomare, which explores the true story of real-life cults in Australia and around the world. Filmed across Victoria, “The Clearing” is an emotional and psychological thriller that follows the nightmares of a cult and a woman forced to face the demons from her past to stop the kidnapping and coercion of innocent children in the future. The cast for this series includes Teresa Palmer (“Discovery of Witches”), Miranda Otto (“The Unusual Suspects,” “Homeland”), and Guy Pearce (“Jack Irish,” “Mare of Easttown”), who lead a stellar line-up of Australian talent, including Hazem Shammas (“Safe Harbour”), Mark Coles-Smith (“Mystery Road”), Kate Mulvany (“The Twelve”) and rising star Julia Savage (“Blaze,” “Mr. Inbetween”). “The Clearing” is directed by Jeffrey Walker (“Young Rock,” “Lambs of God”) and Gracie Otto (“Seriously Red,” “Bump,” “Deadloch”). The
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The legend of Dracula is born in Universal Picture’s upcoming, highly anticipated horror The Last Voyage of the Demeter. “Based on a single chilling chapter, “The Captain’s Log,” from Bram Stoker’s classic novel Dracula, comes The Last Voyage of the Demeterwhich tells the terrifying story of the merchant ship Demeter, which was chartered to carry private cargo—fifty unmarked wooden crates—from Carpathia to London. Strange events befall the doomed crew as they attempt to survive the ocean voyage, stalked each night by a merciless presence onboard the ship. When the Demeter finally arrives off the shores of England, it is a charred, derelict wreck. There is no trace of the crew.” The film stars Corey Hawkins (In the Heights, Straight Outta Compton) as Clemens, a doctor who joins the Demeter crew, Aisling Franciosi (Game of Thrones, The Nightingale) as an unwitting stowaway, Liam Cunningham (Game of Thrones, Clash of the Titans) as the ship’s captain and David Dastmalchian (Dune, the Ant-Man
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Today comic publisher Valiant Entertainment and indie game developer Blowfish Studios have announced that they’re teaming up to bring the best-selling fan-favorite comic book character Shadowman back in an all-new horror adventure game Shadowman: Darque Legacy. The game’s description is as follows: “As a conspiracy threatens to overrun the realm of the living, Shadowman must contend with horrifying inhuman entities with challenging melee combat. Follow a dark path from the land of the living to the hellish realm of the Deadside as you cross the veil between both. Embody the hero of the dark to traverse the necromantic divide, overcome dastardly obstacles, and silence the terrifying threats lurking within.” From the sounds of it, Shadowman: Darque Legacy could potentially be either an action RPG or a Souls-like game. Either way, fans of the old games as well as fans of the comics can look forward to 2024 for the game’s release on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S.
Continue reading →
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Oscar-winner Michelle Yeoh calls the dead in the new trailer for Kenneth Branagh’s A Haunting in Venice. The film, based on Agatha Christie’s 1969 novel “Halloween Party,” has a star-studded cast that also includes Tina Fey, Jude Hill, Kelly Reilly, and Jamie Dornan. Kenneth Branagh will be reprising his role as Hercule Poirot from Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express. “Set in post-WWII Venice on All Hallow’s Eve, Poirot, now retired and living in his own exile, reluctantly attends a seance. But when one of the guests is murdered, it is up to the former detective to uncover the killer again.” “It’s a supernatural world where the normal rules do not apply,” Branagh told Variety. “Murders and ghosts are irresistible to a man with that mustache and that nose for sniffing other culprits.” A Haunting in Venice is set to premiere in theaters on September 15, 2023, from 20th Century.
Continue reading →
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Video game adaptations are as popular as ever, with series like “The Last of Us” dominating TV. Peacock’s upcoming adaptation of the hit game “Twisted Metal” has now released a new teaser trailer. It gives us our first look at Anthony Mackie’s character, John Doe. We also get a brief glimpse of “Sweet Tooth” in post-apocalypse Vegas. The ten-episode first season stars Anthony Mackie, Stephanie Beatriz, Tahj Vaughans, Michael Carollo, Jared Bankens, Chelle Ramos, Thomas Haden Church, Scream franchise star Neve Campbell and more. The series is “about a motor-mouthed outsider offered a chance at a better life, but only if he can successfully deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. With the help of a badass axe-wielding car thief, he’ll face savage marauders driving vehicles of destruction and other dangers of the open road, including a deranged clown who drives an all too familiar ice cream truck.” “Twisted Metal” will premiere exclusively on Peacock on July 27, 2023.
Continue reading →
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The film adaptation of the blockbuster indie horror novel How to Sell a Haunted House has found its producer, none other than Sam Raimi, who was behind Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, Drag Me to Hell, Evil Dead, Army of Darkness and Drag Me To Hell, Sam Raimi. The news came via a social media post by the author of the book, Grady Hendrix. Hendrix is writing the script for the adaptation that will be directed by James Ashcroft (Coming Home in the Dark). “Pupkin goes to Hollywood,” the author said in the post. Pupkin, of course, is a “red-and-yellow glove puppet with two stumpy fabric legs dangling down from his front and two little nubbin arms” and a “leering clown face,” New York Times describes the villain. The Times said. “Pupkin represents the losses of growing up. He’s the vehicle of an unfulfilled mother’s pain, regrets, and loneliness. He’s childhood trauma incarnate, delivered from one generation to
Continue reading →
AdaptationGamingIndieMoviesNewsTrailers
The indie horror game Iron Lung is getting a feature film adaptation from YouTube’s content creator Markiplier, whose real name is Mark Fischbach. He penned the script and will direct as well as star in the film alongside Caroline Rose Kaplan (The Plot Against America, “Orange is the New Black”). David Szymanski created the game released in 2022 in which the player controls an unnamed convict who explores an ocean of blood on a desolate moon in a rusty submarine nicknamed the “Iron Lung.” The YouTube star is also producing the film alongside Will Hyde and Jeff Guerrero. The first teaser trailer has now debuted (below) for the film adaptation of Iron Lung, which is currently in production.
Continue reading →
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Today, Prime Video announced the exciting new horror dramedy series “The Horror of Dolores Roach” from Blumhouse, producers of M3GAN, Spotify, and GloNation. Today, we’ve got a treat. The first images from the series have been shared with us by Prime Video. The series is based on the hit podcast of the same name and will premiere all eight episodes this July. The eight-episode Amazon Original series will be available exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories around the world. “The Horror of Dolores Roach” is a contemporary Sweeney Todd-inspired urban legend of love, betrayal, weed, cannibalism, and survival of the fittest. Dolores Roach (Justina Machado) is released after an unjust 16-year prison sentence, and she returns to a gentrified Washington Heights. Dolores reunites with an old stoner friend, Luis (Alejandro Hernandez), who lets her live and work as a masseuse in the basement under his empanada shop. When the promise of her newfound stability is
Continue reading →
AdaptationGamingNews
The Evil Dead: The Game official Twitter yesterday tweeted a teaser as the launch of the Game of the Year Edition of the game is set to drop on the 26th, the teaser shows a new outfit for Ash Williams dubbed the Ashy Slashy Outfit featuring the possessed puppet fans have come to love. It wasn’t him doc, it was some Evil BS. The Ashy Slashy Outfit from the STARZ television series, “Ash vs Evil Dead” will be a part of the Who’s Your Daddy Bundle and part of the GOTY Edition available on April 26th! pic.twitter.com/cAWCzhTa9J — EvilDeadTheGame (@EvilDeadTheGame) April 17, 2023 The outfit was inspired by the season two episodes of Ash Vs Evil Dead where Ash falls under demonic influences as the puppet Ashy Slashy, created by Baal, try to break him mentally by convincing him that the events from the very first Evil Dead film was all in his head and that he murdered everyone at
Continue reading →
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An ancient evil is unleashed in the first official trailer for Malice, which is creepy as hell. Directed by Michael Crum (Lake of Fear franchise). The film is an adaptation of a short film by Crum, released in 2013. In the film, “An ancient evil is unleashed upon six people in a cabin that possesses those who are close to death. They must battle against the plague and seal it away before it takes them all over.” Malice, which is currently in post-production, is set to be released later this year from MGI Films.
Continue reading →
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Set to premiere date has just been announced for Hulu‘s new eight-episode series “The Clearing,” a psychological thriller based on the best-selling crime thriller ‘In The Clearing’ by author J.P. Pomare, which explores the true story of real-life cults in Australia and around the world. Filmed across Victoria, “The Clearing” is an emotional and psychological thriller that follows the nightmares of a cult and a woman forced to face the demons from her past to stop the kidnapping and coercion of innocent children in the future. The cast for this series includes Teresa Palmer (“Discovery of Witches”), Miranda Otto (“The Unusual Suspects,” “Homeland”), and Guy Pearce (“Jack Irish,” “Mare of Easttown”), who lead a stellar line-up of Australian talent, including Hazem Shammas (“Safe Harbour”), Mark Coles-Smith (“Mystery Road”), Kate Mulvany (“The Twelve”) and rising star Julia Savage (“Blaze,” “Mr. Inbetween”). “The Clearing” is directed by Jeffrey Walker (“Young Rock,” “Lambs of God”) and Gracie Otto (“Seriously Red,” “Bump,” “Deadloch”). The
Continue reading →
AdaptationBooksMoviesNews
The legend of Dracula is born in Universal Picture’s upcoming, highly anticipated horror The Last Voyage of the Demeter. “Based on a single chilling chapter, “The Captain’s Log,” from Bram Stoker’s classic novel Dracula, comes The Last Voyage of the Demeterwhich tells the terrifying story of the merchant ship Demeter, which was chartered to carry private cargo—fifty unmarked wooden crates—from Carpathia to London. Strange events befall the doomed crew as they attempt to survive the ocean voyage, stalked each night by a merciless presence onboard the ship. When the Demeter finally arrives off the shores of England, it is a charred, derelict wreck. There is no trace of the crew.” The film stars Corey Hawkins (In the Heights, Straight Outta Compton) as Clemens, a doctor who joins the Demeter crew, Aisling Franciosi (Game of Thrones, The Nightingale) as an unwitting stowaway, Liam Cunningham (Game of Thrones, Clash of the Titans) as the ship’s captain and David Dastmalchian (Dune, the Ant-Man
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