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Minka Kelly Among Cast Of Upcoming Adaptation Of Psychological Thriller 'Blackwater Lane'

Minka Kelly Among Cast Of Upcoming Adaptation Of Psychological Thriller ‘Blackwater Lane’

Filming has begun on the psychological thriller Blackwater Lane, based on the bestselling novel by B.A. Paris, which features supernatural elements, Deadline reports. The cast includes Minka Kelly (“Euphoria,” The Roommate), Dermot Mulroney (Scream 6, Insidious 3), and Maggie Grace (“Fear The Walking Dead,” The Fog). The film follows, “the story of a woman, played by Kelly, who drives by a stranded motorist later revealed to have been murdered. After a series of terrifying events, the woman becomes convinced she is the killer’s next victim while her husband, played by Mulroney, and her best friend, played by Grace, worry about her sanity.” Jeff Celentano (The Hill) directs. Elizabeth Fowler (Official Secrets), Warren Ostergard (The Hill), and Lucinda Thakrar (Confession) are producing. Alex Lane is co-producing. Greg Schenz, Tannaz Anisi, and Oleg Shardin are executive producing. 13 Films is handling worldwide sales. We’ll keep you posted.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 14, 2022
Mike Flanagan Teases New Series "The Fall of the House of Usher" As "Blood-Soaked & Wicked"

Mike Flanagan Teases New Series “The Fall of the House of Usher” As “Blood-Soaked & Wicked”

If there’s one thing you can count on when it comes to director Mike Flanagan, it’s quality, just look at his spooky-as-shit Netflix series “Haunting of Hill House,” or one of his films. Well, he’s back (not that he ever left) with his new series, based on the tales of Edgar Allen Poe, titled “The Fall of the House of Usher”. The limited series from Intrepid Pictures features eight episodes that have already been filmed. Four were directed by Flanagan and four by Michael Fimognari, who worked with Flanagan as cinematographer for “Haunting of Hill House” and directed several episodes of Flanagan’s new series “The Midnight Club.” “It’s crazy. It is unlike anything I’ve ever done, but in the other direction. My favorite way to describe it to people is like ‘Hill House’ is kind of a string quartet, and ‘Bly Manor’ is this delicate, kind of beautiful piece of classical piano music, and ‘The Fall of the House of

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 14, 2022
The Grinch Is Out For Blood In 'The Mean One' Trailer

This December The Grinch Is Out For Blood In ‘The Mean One’

He’s a mean one, Mr. Grinch…the beloved character, created by Dr. Seuss, is getting a new take in the horror film The Mean One. This time the Grinch isn’t out to steal presents and Christmas trees, he’s out for blood. The official synopsis goes like this: “The Mean One (David Howard Thornton) is a hairy, green-skinned grump in a Santa suit, living on a mountain high above the town of Newville, despising the holiday season. Young Cindy You-Know-Who (Krystle Martin), whose parents were butchered by The Mean One 20 Christmases earlier, is returning to town to seek closure… but is about to discover that this fiend with a heart two sizes too small is still quite eager to carve the roast beast.” The Grinch is being played by none other than David Howard Thorton, who plays Art the Clown in the Terrifier franchise. He is joined by Krystle Martin, Chase Mullins, Rachel Winfree, Amy Schumacher, Allyson Sereboff, and more. Alex

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 11, 2022
Ben Kingsley Will Lead The Cast Of New Adaptation Of Neil Gaiman's 'Violent Cases'

Ben Kingsley Will Lead The Cast Of New Adaptation Of Neil Gaiman’s ‘Violent Cases’

35 years after publishing Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean’s first-ever graphic novel, today Scary Monster, Lakesville Productions and Foton Pictures have now announced that development on Violent Cases is well underway with Academy Award®-winning actor Ben Kingsley attached in the lead role of the Osteopath led by the creative team behind the BAFTA-nominated The Girl With All The Gifts, director Colm McCarthy, writer Mike Carey, and producer Camille Gatin. At only 50 pages, “Violent Cases” features a narrator, who tells of how, as a small child in Portsmouth, he was taken by his father to be treated by an osteopath ( a licensed physician who uses both conventional treatments and osteopathic manipulative medicine) who was once employed by Al Capone. The nature of the narrator’s relationship with his father, the tales the osteopath told, and the disturbing events that followed, are partially obscured by the narrator’s imperfect recall of things he was not old enough to understand at the time.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 8, 2022
Netflix's Adaptation Of Stephen King's 'Mr. Harrigan's Phone' Now Playing (Trailer)

Netflix’s Adaptation Of Stephen King’s ‘Mr. Harrigan’s Phone’ Now Playing (Trailer)

The adaptation of Stephen King‘s tale Mr. Harrigan’s Phone is out today on Netflix! Acting legend Donald Sutherland stars as Mr. Harrigan and Jaeden Martell (IT) plays Craig. Kirby Howell-Baptiste (“Bary”) will play the role of Ms. Heart. Colin O’Brien (The Mothership) and Cyrus Arnold (Just Beyond) co-star. “Mr. Harrigan’s Phone is about a young boy named Craig, living in a small town, who befriends an older, reclusive billionaire, Mr. Harrigan. The two form a bond over books and an iPhone, but when the man passes away, the boy discovers that not everything dead is gone, and finds himself able to communicate with his friend from the grave through the iPhone that was buried with him.” Mr. Harrigan’s Phone was featured in King’s recently released collection “If It Bleeds.” The adaptation is from “American Horror Story” creator Ryan Murphy along with Blumhouse. John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side) is both writing and directing. Watch the ominous film now on Netflix.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 5, 2022
Horror Strategy Game ‘Terror: Endless Night’ Shows Off New Trailer

Horror Strategy Game ‘Terror: Endless Night’ Shows Off New Trailer

Feardemic and Unseen Silence today have announced their upcoming horror strategy game based on Dan Simmon’s novel The Terror titled Terror: Endless Night. Players take on the role of a captain leading a rescue expedition looking for the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus that have gone missing in the arctic north. The game will be turned based where players have to make tough decisions to ensure their crew’s survival with limited supplies as they become stuck in arctic ice. Try to keep your sanity as captain by assigning duties to crew members and be willing to make some disturbing decisions that will make you either look compassionate or tough to the crew as your choices will affect them. A demo is available now on Steam with the full release of Terror: Endless Night coming to PC and Consoles in 2023.

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Daniel S. Liuzzi
Oct 3, 2022
Movie Review: Mean Girls Meets The Exorcist In 'My Best Friend's Exorcism'

Movie Review: Mean Girls Meets The Exorcist In ‘My Best Friend’s Exorcism’

As if being a teenage girl isn’t bad enough, the loyalty of a group of friends is put to the test when one of them, Gretchen (Amiah Miller) is possessed. It’s up to her best friend Abby (Elsie Fisher) to save her in My Best Friend’s Possession, based on the novel by Best-Selling author Grady Hendrix. When we are first introduced to the movie’s characters, it’s driven home that the girls are inseparable. And after a night of playing with an Ouija Board (always a bad idea) and visiting the sight of a legendary murder, Abby begins to notice that her BFF is acting strange, leading to a battle for Gretchen’s soul. The cast did a fine job in their roles with Elsie Fisher and Amiah Miller standing out. Each character in their friends’ group obviously fits your basic stereotypes, the pretty one, the shy one, the quiet one struggling with the fact she’s a lesbian in love with her

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 2, 2022
Discover The Chilling New Trailer For Mike Flanagan's "The Midnight Club"

Discover The Chilling New Trailer For Mike Flanagan’s “The Midnight Club”

Mike Flanagan, the brilliant filmmaker behind Doctor Sleep, Gerald’s Game, and Netflix’s “Haunting of Hill House” is back with his Netflix series adaptation of Christopher Pike’s 1994 novel, “The Midnight Club” with co-creator Leah Fong. The series’ haunting second trailer is here teasing a dark mystery. The horror series centers on a club of terminally ill young adults who gather together at midnight to tell scary stories. They have made a pact that whichever of them dies first will contact the others from beyond the grave. The cast includes Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, William Chris Sumpter, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard, Sauriyan Sapkota, Zach Gilford, Samantha Sloyan, and Matt Biedel. Scream Queen Heather Langenkamp (A Nightmare on Elm Street) will star as the series’ doctor who runs the hospice. Julia Bickell will executive produce along with Flanagan, Leah Fong, and Julia Bicknell. James Flanagan, Elan Gale, and Chinaka Hodge will also write for the series. “The Midnight Club” premieres on

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 21, 2022
Mike Flanagan's Netflix Series "The Midnight Club" Premieres This October

Mike Flanagan’s Netflix Series “The Midnight Club” Premieres This October

Mike Flanagan, the brilliant filmmaker behind Doctor Sleep, Gerald’s Game, and Netflix’s “Haunting of Hill House” is back with his Netflix series adaptation of Christopher Pike’s 1994 novel The Midnight Club with co-creator Leah Fong. The horror series centers on a club of terminally ill young adults who gather together at midnight to tell scary stories. They have made a pact that whichever of them dies first will contact the others from beyond the grave. The cast includes Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, William Chris Sumpter, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard, Sauriyan Sapkota, Zach Gilford, Samantha Sloyan, and Matt Biedel. Scream Queen Heather Langenkamp (A Nightmare on Elm Street) will star as the series’ doctor who runs the hospice. Julia Bickell will executive produce along with Flanagan, Leah Fong, and Julia Bicknell. James Flanagan, Elan Gale, and Chinaka Hodge will also write for the series. “The Midnight Club” premieres on Netflix on October 7, 2022.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 14, 2022
Disney+ Unveils Trailer For Hair-Raising Marvel Halloween Special 'Werewolf By Night'

Disney+ Unveils Trailer For Hair-Raising Marvel Halloween Special ‘Werewolf By Night’

Hocus Pocus 2 isn’t the only spooktacular Halloween movie debuting on Disney+ this fall. The new trailer for Marvel’s hair-raising Special Werewolf by Night has just arrived. The black and white horror is from director Michael Giacchino who wanted to pay homage to the horror classics that spooked you as a child while honoring the comic of the same name. The character made its first appearance in Marvel Spotlight #2, released in February 1972. Gael Garcia Bernal (M. Night Shyamalan’s Old) stars as a character able of transforming into a werewolf while retaining their human intellect. Laura Donnelly stars as Nina Price. “Price is the niece of the character Jack Russell/Werewolf by Night and a vampire/werewolf hybrid. She carried the Lycan gene and was further changed after being bitten by a vampire.” Werewolf by Night will be unleashed on Disney+ on October 7, 2022.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 12, 2022

More from Adaptation

Minka Kelly Among Cast Of Upcoming Adaptation Of Psychological Thriller 'Blackwater Lane'

Minka Kelly Among Cast Of Upcoming Adaptation Of Psychological Thriller ‘Blackwater Lane’

Filming has begun on the psychological thriller Blackwater Lane, based on the bestselling novel by B.A. Paris, which features supernatural elements, Deadline reports. The cast includes Minka Kelly (“Euphoria,” The Roommate), Dermot Mulroney (Scream 6, Insidious 3), and Maggie Grace (“Fear The Walking Dead,” The Fog). The film follows, “the story of a woman, played by Kelly, who drives by a stranded motorist later revealed to have been murdered. After a series of terrifying events, the woman becomes convinced she is the killer’s next victim while her husband, played by Mulroney, and her best friend, played by Grace, worry about her sanity.” Jeff Celentano (The Hill) directs. Elizabeth Fowler (Official Secrets), Warren Ostergard (The Hill), and Lucinda Thakrar (Confession) are producing. Alex Lane is co-producing. Greg Schenz, Tannaz Anisi, and Oleg Shardin are executive producing. 13 Films is handling worldwide sales. We’ll keep you posted.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 14, 2022
Mike Flanagan Teases New Series "The Fall of the House of Usher" As "Blood-Soaked & Wicked"

Mike Flanagan Teases New Series “The Fall of the House of Usher” As “Blood-Soaked & Wicked”

If there’s one thing you can count on when it comes to director Mike Flanagan, it’s quality, just look at his spooky-as-shit Netflix series “Haunting of Hill House,” or one of his films. Well, he’s back (not that he ever left) with his new series, based on the tales of Edgar Allen Poe, titled “The Fall of the House of Usher”. The limited series from Intrepid Pictures features eight episodes that have already been filmed. Four were directed by Flanagan and four by Michael Fimognari, who worked with Flanagan as cinematographer for “Haunting of Hill House” and directed several episodes of Flanagan’s new series “The Midnight Club.” “It’s crazy. It is unlike anything I’ve ever done, but in the other direction. My favorite way to describe it to people is like ‘Hill House’ is kind of a string quartet, and ‘Bly Manor’ is this delicate, kind of beautiful piece of classical piano music, and ‘The Fall of the House of

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 14, 2022
The Grinch Is Out For Blood In 'The Mean One' Trailer

This December The Grinch Is Out For Blood In ‘The Mean One’

He’s a mean one, Mr. Grinch…the beloved character, created by Dr. Seuss, is getting a new take in the horror film The Mean One. This time the Grinch isn’t out to steal presents and Christmas trees, he’s out for blood. The official synopsis goes like this: “The Mean One (David Howard Thornton) is a hairy, green-skinned grump in a Santa suit, living on a mountain high above the town of Newville, despising the holiday season. Young Cindy You-Know-Who (Krystle Martin), whose parents were butchered by The Mean One 20 Christmases earlier, is returning to town to seek closure… but is about to discover that this fiend with a heart two sizes too small is still quite eager to carve the roast beast.” The Grinch is being played by none other than David Howard Thorton, who plays Art the Clown in the Terrifier franchise. He is joined by Krystle Martin, Chase Mullins, Rachel Winfree, Amy Schumacher, Allyson Sereboff, and more. Alex

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 11, 2022
Ben Kingsley Will Lead The Cast Of New Adaptation Of Neil Gaiman's 'Violent Cases'

Ben Kingsley Will Lead The Cast Of New Adaptation Of Neil Gaiman’s ‘Violent Cases’

35 years after publishing Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean’s first-ever graphic novel, today Scary Monster, Lakesville Productions and Foton Pictures have now announced that development on Violent Cases is well underway with Academy Award®-winning actor Ben Kingsley attached in the lead role of the Osteopath led by the creative team behind the BAFTA-nominated The Girl With All The Gifts, director Colm McCarthy, writer Mike Carey, and producer Camille Gatin. At only 50 pages, “Violent Cases” features a narrator, who tells of how, as a small child in Portsmouth, he was taken by his father to be treated by an osteopath ( a licensed physician who uses both conventional treatments and osteopathic manipulative medicine) who was once employed by Al Capone. The nature of the narrator’s relationship with his father, the tales the osteopath told, and the disturbing events that followed, are partially obscured by the narrator’s imperfect recall of things he was not old enough to understand at the time.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 8, 2022
Netflix's Adaptation Of Stephen King's 'Mr. Harrigan's Phone' Now Playing (Trailer)

Netflix’s Adaptation Of Stephen King’s ‘Mr. Harrigan’s Phone’ Now Playing (Trailer)

The adaptation of Stephen King‘s tale Mr. Harrigan’s Phone is out today on Netflix! Acting legend Donald Sutherland stars as Mr. Harrigan and Jaeden Martell (IT) plays Craig. Kirby Howell-Baptiste (“Bary”) will play the role of Ms. Heart. Colin O’Brien (The Mothership) and Cyrus Arnold (Just Beyond) co-star. “Mr. Harrigan’s Phone is about a young boy named Craig, living in a small town, who befriends an older, reclusive billionaire, Mr. Harrigan. The two form a bond over books and an iPhone, but when the man passes away, the boy discovers that not everything dead is gone, and finds himself able to communicate with his friend from the grave through the iPhone that was buried with him.” Mr. Harrigan’s Phone was featured in King’s recently released collection “If It Bleeds.” The adaptation is from “American Horror Story” creator Ryan Murphy along with Blumhouse. John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side) is both writing and directing. Watch the ominous film now on Netflix.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 5, 2022
Horror Strategy Game ‘Terror: Endless Night’ Shows Off New Trailer

Horror Strategy Game ‘Terror: Endless Night’ Shows Off New Trailer

Feardemic and Unseen Silence today have announced their upcoming horror strategy game based on Dan Simmon’s novel The Terror titled Terror: Endless Night. Players take on the role of a captain leading a rescue expedition looking for the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus that have gone missing in the arctic north. The game will be turned based where players have to make tough decisions to ensure their crew’s survival with limited supplies as they become stuck in arctic ice. Try to keep your sanity as captain by assigning duties to crew members and be willing to make some disturbing decisions that will make you either look compassionate or tough to the crew as your choices will affect them. A demo is available now on Steam with the full release of Terror: Endless Night coming to PC and Consoles in 2023.

Continue reading →
Daniel S. Liuzzi
Oct 3, 2022
Movie Review: Mean Girls Meets The Exorcist In 'My Best Friend's Exorcism'

Movie Review: Mean Girls Meets The Exorcist In ‘My Best Friend’s Exorcism’

As if being a teenage girl isn’t bad enough, the loyalty of a group of friends is put to the test when one of them, Gretchen (Amiah Miller) is possessed. It’s up to her best friend Abby (Elsie Fisher) to save her in My Best Friend’s Possession, based on the novel by Best-Selling author Grady Hendrix. When we are first introduced to the movie’s characters, it’s driven home that the girls are inseparable. And after a night of playing with an Ouija Board (always a bad idea) and visiting the sight of a legendary murder, Abby begins to notice that her BFF is acting strange, leading to a battle for Gretchen’s soul. The cast did a fine job in their roles with Elsie Fisher and Amiah Miller standing out. Each character in their friends’ group obviously fits your basic stereotypes, the pretty one, the shy one, the quiet one struggling with the fact she’s a lesbian in love with her

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 2, 2022
Discover The Chilling New Trailer For Mike Flanagan's "The Midnight Club"

Discover The Chilling New Trailer For Mike Flanagan’s “The Midnight Club”

Mike Flanagan, the brilliant filmmaker behind Doctor Sleep, Gerald’s Game, and Netflix’s “Haunting of Hill House” is back with his Netflix series adaptation of Christopher Pike’s 1994 novel, “The Midnight Club” with co-creator Leah Fong. The series’ haunting second trailer is here teasing a dark mystery. The horror series centers on a club of terminally ill young adults who gather together at midnight to tell scary stories. They have made a pact that whichever of them dies first will contact the others from beyond the grave. The cast includes Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, William Chris Sumpter, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard, Sauriyan Sapkota, Zach Gilford, Samantha Sloyan, and Matt Biedel. Scream Queen Heather Langenkamp (A Nightmare on Elm Street) will star as the series’ doctor who runs the hospice. Julia Bickell will executive produce along with Flanagan, Leah Fong, and Julia Bicknell. James Flanagan, Elan Gale, and Chinaka Hodge will also write for the series. “The Midnight Club” premieres on

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 21, 2022
Mike Flanagan's Netflix Series "The Midnight Club" Premieres This October

Mike Flanagan’s Netflix Series “The Midnight Club” Premieres This October

Mike Flanagan, the brilliant filmmaker behind Doctor Sleep, Gerald’s Game, and Netflix’s “Haunting of Hill House” is back with his Netflix series adaptation of Christopher Pike’s 1994 novel The Midnight Club with co-creator Leah Fong. The horror series centers on a club of terminally ill young adults who gather together at midnight to tell scary stories. They have made a pact that whichever of them dies first will contact the others from beyond the grave. The cast includes Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, William Chris Sumpter, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard, Sauriyan Sapkota, Zach Gilford, Samantha Sloyan, and Matt Biedel. Scream Queen Heather Langenkamp (A Nightmare on Elm Street) will star as the series’ doctor who runs the hospice. Julia Bickell will executive produce along with Flanagan, Leah Fong, and Julia Bicknell. James Flanagan, Elan Gale, and Chinaka Hodge will also write for the series. “The Midnight Club” premieres on Netflix on October 7, 2022.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 14, 2022
Disney+ Unveils Trailer For Hair-Raising Marvel Halloween Special 'Werewolf By Night'

Disney+ Unveils Trailer For Hair-Raising Marvel Halloween Special ‘Werewolf By Night’

Hocus Pocus 2 isn’t the only spooktacular Halloween movie debuting on Disney+ this fall. The new trailer for Marvel’s hair-raising Special Werewolf by Night has just arrived. The black and white horror is from director Michael Giacchino who wanted to pay homage to the horror classics that spooked you as a child while honoring the comic of the same name. The character made its first appearance in Marvel Spotlight #2, released in February 1972. Gael Garcia Bernal (M. Night Shyamalan’s Old) stars as a character able of transforming into a werewolf while retaining their human intellect. Laura Donnelly stars as Nina Price. “Price is the niece of the character Jack Russell/Werewolf by Night and a vampire/werewolf hybrid. She carried the Lycan gene and was further changed after being bitten by a vampire.” Werewolf by Night will be unleashed on Disney+ on October 7, 2022.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 12, 2022
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