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A Look At I Like Scary Movies Event’s Giant ‘Nightmare On Elm Street’ Glove

This Spring, a one-of-a-kind experience, I Like Scary Movies, will creep into the city of Los Angeles for a limited engagement. Beginning on April 4th, the multi-sensory installation inspired by some of Warner Bros. Pictures’ and New Line Cinema’s most iconic scary movies will lure fans into artistic reinterpretations of the worlds of the first chapter in the IT saga, The Shining, Beetlejuice, The Lost Boys, and A Nightmare on Elm Street. We’ve got a first look at Freddy’s giant glove that will be featured at the event. “I Like Scary Movies is the experience that all scary movie fans have been dreaming of – a groundbreaking immersive art installation that is a true celebration of some of the most beloved horror films. This is a unique opportunity for fans to interact and enjoy the films that they love in a completely new way with amazing photo opportunities to share with their friends. Come play with us as we take

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Mar 3, 2019

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The Trailer For ‘Girl On The Third Floor’ Gets Bloody Ahead Of SXSW Debut

Travis Stevens, the producer behind We Are Still Here, Cheap Thrills, and Starry Eyes makes his writing-directing debut with Girl on the Third Floor. Set to premiere at SXSW this March, the film’s festival trailer has just arrived, teasing an explosion of blood. Bursting pipes, rotting walls, and unidentifiable slime were not what Don Koch (WWE legend Phil “CM Punk” Brooks) expected when he convinced his wife Liz (Trieste Kelly Dunn of Showtime’s “Banshee” and “Applesauce”) that he could rehab their new Victorian home himself. In over his head, under duress, and tempted by his old weaknesses, Don soon discovers that the house has its own dark, sordid history and won’t be so easy to renovate after all… Also starring Sarah Brooks (We Are Still Here), Girl on the Third Floor is the debut film for newly formed Chicago-based production company QUEENSBURY PICTURES. SXSW Screenings of The Girl on the Third Floor: World Premiere | Sunday, March 10th, 11:45pm @

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Feb 7, 2019

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Celebrate With The Big, Bloody Apple: Women In Horror Event This February

February is all about love, but it’s not just for Valentines’. February is Women in Horror month, an entire month dedicated to us showing extra love to those women who make the horror genre what it is. Mass Grave Pictures and CongestedCat Productions have teamed up to celebrate women in a big way, with The Big, Bloody Apple: Women in Horror Month Event celebrating a ‘Decade of Blood’ for women in horror in NYC! The event is being held at Stone Creek Bar and Lounge (140 East 27 th Street, NYC) on February 21st and will feature films by Amanda Goodman, Angie Hansen, Nicole Solomon, Kristina Leath-Marlin, Victoria Diana, and Amanda Sabater. The evening festivities will also include “Women In Horror” trivia from Nicole Solomon of 4MileCircus and a presentation by Heather Buckley (Kino Lorber, Miskatonic University). This is a free event, hosted by award-winning directors Lindsay Serrano (Mass Grave Pictures) and Christina Raia (CongestedCat). Films: The Cabinet – Dir.Victoria

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jan 23, 2019

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A Serial Killer Is On The Loose In The ‘One Must Fall’ Trailer

The trailer has arrived for writer-director Antonio Pantoja‘s (Awakening) new horror-comedy One Must Fall. Set in the 1980s, the film centers on a woman wrongfully fired from her office job and forced to take on a temporary job on a crime scene cleanup crew. There’s a maniacal serial killer on the loose, leaving the team a lot of work. But did he ever leave the crime scene? Julie Streble, Vincent Lee Alston, Daniel de Weldon, Rebekah Lynn Dow, and Heidi Harian staring along with Lloyd Kaufman. Gill Holland is producing, with Lee Kiper and Dorian Washington executive producing. One Must Fall is set to make its festival premiere at HorrorHound this March.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Dec 26, 2018

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New Batch Of Images Tease The Horror Of ‘Agramon’s Gate’

Painted Creek Productions’ has unveiled a new batch of images from their riveting new horror film Agramon’s Gate from award-winning writer-director-producer Harley Wallen (Betrayed, Moving Parts, Bennett’s Song). Laurene Landon (Maniac Cop 1 & 2, The Stuff, It’s Alive III: Island of the Alive) and Yan Birch (Wes Craven’s The People Under the Stairs, Death House) star in this supernatural thriller. This film also stars Kaiti Wallen, Calhoun Koenig, Kris Reill, and Angelina Danielle Cama. In the film, a psychic reader and medium is invited to a party. Something goes very wrong when an entity comes over from the other side to haunt the people from the party. They must solve the mystery before it’s too late. Agramon will not be easy to stop. I really wanted to make a horror film with a real story and have strong drama and thrills and get the jump moments, the mystery and some gore and frights. After seeing ‘The Haunting of Hill

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Dec 4, 2018

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Zac Effron Celebrates As Ted Bundy In New Image From ‘Extremely Wicked, Shocking Evil and Vile’

Today we have a new official still at Zac Efron as infamous serial killer Ted Bundy in Extremely Wicked, Shocking Evil and Vile. The image was released as part of the announcement that the film will make its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this January. Directed by Joe Berlinger and written by Michael Werwie, Extremely Wicked chronicles the crimes of Ted Bundy through the eyes of his girlfriend Elizabeth, played by Lily Collins. In real life, “Liz” refused to believe that her boyfriend sexually assaulted and murdered women during the 1970s. Bundy, who was described as charismatic and handsome, confessed to killing thirty women. John Malkovich, Haley Joel Osment, Kaya Scodelario, Jeffrey Donovan, Jim Parsons, Angela Sarafyan, Terry Kinney, Metallica’s frontman James Hetfield, and Dylan Baker also star.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 29, 2018

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15 Second Horror Film Challenge Announces Celebrity Judges And Halloween Showcase

This year marks the 15 Second Horror Film Challenge‘s fourth year of bringing short films to genre fans. And they are ready to deliver spooky and frightening short flicks for their Halloween showcase which includes over 500 entries from around the world. From November to December they have two-judge panels, featuring 40 celebrity judges, to determine the top films and who will take home awards in a variety of categories. This year’s featured celebrity judges include: Adam Marcus (Jason Goes to Hell) Alan Bagh (Birdemic 1 & 2) Alex Essoe (Starry Eyes) Amy Steel (Friday the 13th Part II) Barbara Magnolfi (Suspiria) Barbie Wilde (Hellbound: Hellraiser II) Bloodbath & Beyond (News/Reviews/Interviews) Bonnie Aarons (The Conjuring 2, Mulholland Drive) Catherine Mary Stewart (Night of the Creeps) Cindy Hinds (The Brood, The Dead Zone) Count Gore de Vol (Horror Host) Crypticon Seattle David Howard Thornton (Terrifier) Deborah Voorhees (Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning) Ellie Church (Frankenstein Created Bikers) Felissa

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Oct 26, 2018

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“What We Do In The Shadows” Series Screening At NYCC Ahead Of Spring TV Premiere

Taika Waititi and Jermaine Clement‘s 2014 horror-comedy What We Do in the Shadows was an instant hit. Now, their two new spinoff series are headed our way and we can’t wait to sink our teeth into them. The “What We Do in the Shadows” 10-episode series is set to premiere next Spring on FX, but first it’s coming to NYCC next month, on Sunday, October 7th to be exact. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with executive producers Clement, Waititi and Paul Simms. The series, set in Staten Island. “What We Do in the Shadows” follows three vampires who have been roommates for hundreds and hundreds of years. The other spinoff, titled “Wellington Paranormal“, which follows the police officers we met in the film played by Mike Minogue and Karen O’Leary. Nick (Cori Gonzalez-Macuer) will also be featured in the series as the duo struggles to protect Wellington safe from supernatural forces.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Sep 24, 2018

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Nightmares Film Festival Announces 2018 Lineup

24 features and 164 shorts over the four days, Oct. 18-21 For horror fans, Christmas has come three months early – in the form of the Nightmares Film Festival 2018 program, revealed today by the leading genre fest. True to its “#BetterHorror” motto, the program is jammed top to bottom with a mix of premier genre films from around the globe. Across the 188 films, there are dozens of world and North American premieres, a short accompanied by live in-theater music, projects from genre favorites, a Stephen King block, and even a new documentary section. We’re on a never-ending, worldwide quest to discover the films that are reshaping the boundaries of horror — bold voices, new visions of terror, films that haunt you,” said co-founder and programmer Jason Tostevin. “That’s how we build every nightmare, and this may be our best lineup yet.” The features lineup is stacked with the world premieres of some of horror’s most anticipated new movies,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Sep 24, 2018

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Shudder Announces Killer Fantastic Fest Lineup

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for thriller, suspense, and horror has announced its killer lineup of originally produced and acquired films and series to be featured at this year’s Fantastic Fest, held in Austin, Texas, from September 20–27. The centerpiece of Shudder’s Fantastic Fest programming is the world premiere of all eight episodes of audiophile nightmare Deadwax, an original short-form series starring Hannah Gross (Mindhunter) and Evan Gamble (Hap & Leonard), created by Graham Reznick (I Can See You, PS4’s Until Dawn) and executive produced by Reznick and Peter Phok (The House of the Devil, Stake Land). The 8-episode series is slated to premiere on Shudder later this year. Shudder has also announced the acquisition of North American rights for two Fantastic Fest titles: acclaimed Brazilian supernatural thriller The Night Shifter and wild Japanese crime saga The Blood of Wolves. Fantastic Fest will also host the U.S. premiere of the celebrated Argentine horror film, Terrified, which will launch on

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Sep 19, 2018

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