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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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Stephen King fans were excited back in April to learn that Gary Dauberman‘s new adaptation of the vampire tale Salem’s Lot is on its way. The film was set to premiere in theaters this September, but that’s no longer the case. The movie has sadly been hit with a major delay and will now premiere in April of 2023, according to Deadline. It’s been a year since the news broke that the adaptation was in the works with horror heavy hitter James Wan serving as producer for the movie from Warnes Bros. and New Line, which was written and directed by another horror legend, Gary Dauberman (IT, Annabelle Comes Home, The Nun). Roy Lee and Mark Wolper will also produce, with Dauberman serving as executive producer. In the film, “Haunted by an incident from his childhood, author Ben Mears returns to his hometown of Jerusalem’s Lot in search of inspiration for his next book, only to discover the town is
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Suretone Pictures and Lionsgate announced today an agreement to co-finance Suretone’s adventure/horror film Creepers, based on the bestselling book of the same name by David Morrell, the acclaimed author globally renowned for First Blood and other books which were adapted into the films that make up the Rambo franchise. Creepers is set to shoot this summer in Bulgaria and will be directed by Marc Klasfeld, the legendary music video, and commercial director who is making his feature film debut. Creepers is the story of a group of young urban explorers who plan to investigate an old, boarded up, seemingly abandoned hotel, only to encounter danger at every turn in the form of a competing group of hostile urban explorers seeking to find a legendary hidden treasure as well as a supernatural being who wreaks havoc on all. The film is currently being cast by veteran casting directors Mary Vernieu and Raylin Sabo, with the film set to go before the
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Suretone Pictures and Lionsgate announced today an agreement to co-finance Suretone’s adventure/horror film Creepers, based on the bestselling book of the same name by David Morrell, the acclaimed author globally renowned for First Blood and other books which were adapted into the films that make up the Rambo franchise. Creepers is set to shoot this summer in Bulgaria and will be directed by Marc Klasfeld, the legendary music video, and commercial director who is making his feature film debut. Creepers is the story of a group of young urban explorers who plan to investigate an old, boarded up, seemingly abandoned hotel, only to encounter danger at every turn in the form of a competing group of hostile urban explorers seeking to find a legendary hidden treasure as well as a supernatural being who wreaks havoc on all. The film is currently being cast by veteran casting directors Mary Vernieu and Raylin Sabo, with the film set to go before the
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With “Stranger Things” only having one season left, the Duffer brothers have announced their next projects, an adaptation of Stephen King’s Talisman for a series and a live series adaptation of the anime franchise Death Note, which left fans in shock at the news that was revealed on social media. Both projects will be under their new banner Upside Down Pictures. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Death Note, which had a movie adaptation back in 2017 starring Willem Defoe, follows, “a high school student named Light Turner discovers a mysterious notebook that has the power to kill anyone whose name is written within its pages, and launches a secret crusade to rid the world of criminals.” King’s Talisman follows the “adventure of twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer who travels across the country to save his mother, who is dying from cancer, by finding a crystal called “the Talisman.” The brothers had this to say about The Talisman to Deadline:
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Horror Wasteland Pictures International is releasing for the first time on digital and DVD, H.P Lovecraft’s Witch House, out today. In the film, “Graduate student Alice Gilman (Portia Chellelynn, Hematic Web) is running from an abusive past. She seeks refuge in the infamous Hannah house; a historic home with an ominous past. Determined to prove the possibility of alternate dimensions, she unknowingly unlocks a gateway to unimaginable horror. Facing a series of bizarre and violent events, Alice is plagued by nightmarish dreams of these evil entities. Trapped between the 4th dimension and reality, the diabolical truth is revealed as Alice fights for her sanity and her very soul.” Based on H.P. Lovecraft’s short story ‘The Dreams in the Witch House,’ Witch House “blurs the boundaries between reality, dreams…and the beyond.” Easley and Ken Wallace penned the script for the film, which was shot in Indiana’s Historical Hannah House which is known to be haunted. Watch Witch House on digital and
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This week, Apple TV+’s highly-anticipated limited series “Black Bird,” a gritty, suspenseful psychological thriller, will make its premiere. The series is adapted from the true crime memoir “In With The Devil: A Fallen Hero, A Serial Killer, and A Dangerous Bargain for Redemption” by James Keene and Hillel Levin. “Black Bird” stars Taron Egerton, Paul Walter Hauser, Greg Kinnear, Sepideh Moafi, and Ray Liotta in his final role. Inspired by actual events, when high school football hero and decorated policeman’s son Jimmy Keene (Egerton) is sentenced to 10 years in a minimum security prison, he is given the choice of a lifetime — enter a maximum-security prison for the criminally insane and befriend suspected serial killer Larry Hall (Hauser), or stay where he is and serve his full sentence with no possibility of parole. Keene quickly realizes his only way out is to elicit a confession and find out where the bodies of several young girls are buried before Hall’s
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Aconyte Books is a publication that takes gamers’ favorite games to the next level by publishing books that take place in the game’s worlds. Aconyte Books and Humble Bundle have recently teamed up to release the Fantasy Gaming Fiction book bundle where proceeds go towards the charity Worldreader, whose mission is to help children to learn how to read. As for the bundle itself, it features $213 of books based on popular board games such as Arkham Horror, Legend of the Five Rings, Twilight Imperium, KeyForge, Descent: Journeys in the Dark, Terraforming Mars, Pandemic and video games such as Watchdogs Legion, and Assassin’s Creed. The bundle is on sale now till July 21st and can be found HERE.
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Horror Wasteland Pictures International is gearing up to release for the first time on digital and DVD this July, H.P Lovecraft’s Witch House. In the film, “Graduate student Alice Gilman (Portia Chellelynn, Hematic Web) is running from an abusive past. She seeks refuge in the infamous Hannah house; a historic home with an ominous past. Determined to prove the possibility of alternate dimensions, she unknowingly unlocks a gateway to unimaginable horror. Facing a series of bizarre and violent events, Alice is plagued by nightmarish dreams of these evil entities. Trapped between the 4th dimension and reality, the diabolical truth is revealed as Alice fights for her sanity and her very soul.” Based on H.P. Lovecraft’s short story The Dreams in the Witch House, Witch House blurs the boundaries between reality, dreams…and the beyond. Easley and Ken Wallace penned the script for the film, which was shot in Indiana’s Historical Hannah House which is known to be haunted. Look for Witch
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Sleeping Beauties: Volume 2, based on the novel by Stephen and Owen King, will be released this July. Filled with mystery and chillingly grounded horror, in the final book of this two-part series, nearly every woman has fallen ill to the Aurora sickness, caught in a never-ending sleep. One woman, Eve Black is immune to this illness and claims to hold the cure for the other women of the world. As the citizens of Dooling clash on theories of how best to handle Eve, factions form, and war seems close at hand. But Eve has her own plans: a test with global consequences. Packed with action, gore, and timely commentary, this is one finale you do not want to miss. Volume 2 includes Sleeping Beauties issues #6-10 by writer Rio Youers and artist Alison Sampson is based on the novel by Stephen King and Owen King. Sleeping Beauties: Volume 2 arrives on July 26, 2022, from IDW Publishing.
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Today Blumhouse Television announced it has acquired the rights to best-selling author Paula Hawkins’ latest novella; the mystery-suspense thriller “Blind Spot” published earlier this year. Jason Blum’s indie television studio alongside Carla Hacken’s Paper Pictures is developing as a streaming feature whose casting is now underway. Blind Spot follows Edie, Jake, and Ryan, friends with an unbreakable bond. Since childhood, it’s been the three of them against the world. When Jake is brutally murdered and Ryan is accused of the crime, Edie – living in the remote house she and Jake shared – finds herself alone for the first time. Grief-stricken, she is also afraid that the past she tried so hard to leave behind will catch up to her – and with good reason. Someone is watching. Someone has been waiting for this moment. Hawkins, the renowned author of the debut novel “The Girl on the Train,” published by Transworld in the U.K and Riverhead in the U.S., was
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Stephen King fans were excited back in April to learn that Gary Dauberman‘s new adaptation of the vampire tale Salem’s Lot is on its way. The film was set to premiere in theaters this September, but that’s no longer the case. The movie has sadly been hit with a major delay and will now premiere in April of 2023, according to Deadline. It’s been a year since the news broke that the adaptation was in the works with horror heavy hitter James Wan serving as producer for the movie from Warnes Bros. and New Line, which was written and directed by another horror legend, Gary Dauberman (IT, Annabelle Comes Home, The Nun). Roy Lee and Mark Wolper will also produce, with Dauberman serving as executive producer. In the film, “Haunted by an incident from his childhood, author Ben Mears returns to his hometown of Jerusalem’s Lot in search of inspiration for his next book, only to discover the town is
Continue reading →
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Suretone Pictures and Lionsgate announced today an agreement to co-finance Suretone’s adventure/horror film Creepers, based on the bestselling book of the same name by David Morrell, the acclaimed author globally renowned for First Blood and other books which were adapted into the films that make up the Rambo franchise. Creepers is set to shoot this summer in Bulgaria and will be directed by Marc Klasfeld, the legendary music video, and commercial director who is making his feature film debut. Creepers is the story of a group of young urban explorers who plan to investigate an old, boarded up, seemingly abandoned hotel, only to encounter danger at every turn in the form of a competing group of hostile urban explorers seeking to find a legendary hidden treasure as well as a supernatural being who wreaks havoc on all. The film is currently being cast by veteran casting directors Mary Vernieu and Raylin Sabo, with the film set to go before the
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AdaptationBooksMoviesNews
Suretone Pictures and Lionsgate announced today an agreement to co-finance Suretone’s adventure/horror film Creepers, based on the bestselling book of the same name by David Morrell, the acclaimed author globally renowned for First Blood and other books which were adapted into the films that make up the Rambo franchise. Creepers is set to shoot this summer in Bulgaria and will be directed by Marc Klasfeld, the legendary music video, and commercial director who is making his feature film debut. Creepers is the story of a group of young urban explorers who plan to investigate an old, boarded up, seemingly abandoned hotel, only to encounter danger at every turn in the form of a competing group of hostile urban explorers seeking to find a legendary hidden treasure as well as a supernatural being who wreaks havoc on all. The film is currently being cast by veteran casting directors Mary Vernieu and Raylin Sabo, with the film set to go before the
Continue reading →
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With “Stranger Things” only having one season left, the Duffer brothers have announced their next projects, an adaptation of Stephen King’s Talisman for a series and a live series adaptation of the anime franchise Death Note, which left fans in shock at the news that was revealed on social media. Both projects will be under their new banner Upside Down Pictures. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Death Note, which had a movie adaptation back in 2017 starring Willem Defoe, follows, “a high school student named Light Turner discovers a mysterious notebook that has the power to kill anyone whose name is written within its pages, and launches a secret crusade to rid the world of criminals.” King’s Talisman follows the “adventure of twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer who travels across the country to save his mother, who is dying from cancer, by finding a crystal called “the Talisman.” The brothers had this to say about The Talisman to Deadline:
Continue reading →
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Horror Wasteland Pictures International is releasing for the first time on digital and DVD, H.P Lovecraft’s Witch House, out today. In the film, “Graduate student Alice Gilman (Portia Chellelynn, Hematic Web) is running from an abusive past. She seeks refuge in the infamous Hannah house; a historic home with an ominous past. Determined to prove the possibility of alternate dimensions, she unknowingly unlocks a gateway to unimaginable horror. Facing a series of bizarre and violent events, Alice is plagued by nightmarish dreams of these evil entities. Trapped between the 4th dimension and reality, the diabolical truth is revealed as Alice fights for her sanity and her very soul.” Based on H.P. Lovecraft’s short story ‘The Dreams in the Witch House,’ Witch House “blurs the boundaries between reality, dreams…and the beyond.” Easley and Ken Wallace penned the script for the film, which was shot in Indiana’s Historical Hannah House which is known to be haunted. Watch Witch House on digital and
Continue reading →
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This week, Apple TV+’s highly-anticipated limited series “Black Bird,” a gritty, suspenseful psychological thriller, will make its premiere. The series is adapted from the true crime memoir “In With The Devil: A Fallen Hero, A Serial Killer, and A Dangerous Bargain for Redemption” by James Keene and Hillel Levin. “Black Bird” stars Taron Egerton, Paul Walter Hauser, Greg Kinnear, Sepideh Moafi, and Ray Liotta in his final role. Inspired by actual events, when high school football hero and decorated policeman’s son Jimmy Keene (Egerton) is sentenced to 10 years in a minimum security prison, he is given the choice of a lifetime — enter a maximum-security prison for the criminally insane and befriend suspected serial killer Larry Hall (Hauser), or stay where he is and serve his full sentence with no possibility of parole. Keene quickly realizes his only way out is to elicit a confession and find out where the bodies of several young girls are buried before Hall’s
Continue reading →
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Aconyte Books is a publication that takes gamers’ favorite games to the next level by publishing books that take place in the game’s worlds. Aconyte Books and Humble Bundle have recently teamed up to release the Fantasy Gaming Fiction book bundle where proceeds go towards the charity Worldreader, whose mission is to help children to learn how to read. As for the bundle itself, it features $213 of books based on popular board games such as Arkham Horror, Legend of the Five Rings, Twilight Imperium, KeyForge, Descent: Journeys in the Dark, Terraforming Mars, Pandemic and video games such as Watchdogs Legion, and Assassin’s Creed. The bundle is on sale now till July 21st and can be found HERE.
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AdaptationBooksIndieMoviesNewsTrailers
Horror Wasteland Pictures International is gearing up to release for the first time on digital and DVD this July, H.P Lovecraft’s Witch House. In the film, “Graduate student Alice Gilman (Portia Chellelynn, Hematic Web) is running from an abusive past. She seeks refuge in the infamous Hannah house; a historic home with an ominous past. Determined to prove the possibility of alternate dimensions, she unknowingly unlocks a gateway to unimaginable horror. Facing a series of bizarre and violent events, Alice is plagued by nightmarish dreams of these evil entities. Trapped between the 4th dimension and reality, the diabolical truth is revealed as Alice fights for her sanity and her very soul.” Based on H.P. Lovecraft’s short story The Dreams in the Witch House, Witch House blurs the boundaries between reality, dreams…and the beyond. Easley and Ken Wallace penned the script for the film, which was shot in Indiana’s Historical Hannah House which is known to be haunted. Look for Witch
Continue reading →
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Sleeping Beauties: Volume 2, based on the novel by Stephen and Owen King, will be released this July. Filled with mystery and chillingly grounded horror, in the final book of this two-part series, nearly every woman has fallen ill to the Aurora sickness, caught in a never-ending sleep. One woman, Eve Black is immune to this illness and claims to hold the cure for the other women of the world. As the citizens of Dooling clash on theories of how best to handle Eve, factions form, and war seems close at hand. But Eve has her own plans: a test with global consequences. Packed with action, gore, and timely commentary, this is one finale you do not want to miss. Volume 2 includes Sleeping Beauties issues #6-10 by writer Rio Youers and artist Alison Sampson is based on the novel by Stephen King and Owen King. Sleeping Beauties: Volume 2 arrives on July 26, 2022, from IDW Publishing.
Continue reading →
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Today Blumhouse Television announced it has acquired the rights to best-selling author Paula Hawkins’ latest novella; the mystery-suspense thriller “Blind Spot” published earlier this year. Jason Blum’s indie television studio alongside Carla Hacken’s Paper Pictures is developing as a streaming feature whose casting is now underway. Blind Spot follows Edie, Jake, and Ryan, friends with an unbreakable bond. Since childhood, it’s been the three of them against the world. When Jake is brutally murdered and Ryan is accused of the crime, Edie – living in the remote house she and Jake shared – finds herself alone for the first time. Grief-stricken, she is also afraid that the past she tried so hard to leave behind will catch up to her – and with good reason. Someone is watching. Someone has been waiting for this moment. Hawkins, the renowned author of the debut novel “The Girl on the Train,” published by Transworld in the U.K and Riverhead in the U.S., was
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