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HalloweenMoviesNewsShudderStreaming TVTrailers
Shudder, AMC’s streaming network for horror, thrillers, and suspense continues to delight subscribers with fresh, frightening new originals. The latest addition is the acclaimed horror anthology The Mortuary Collection and we’ve got the new trailer! Featuring five twisted tales of terror The Mortuary Collection transports viewers back to the 70s, taking inspiration from EC horror comics, Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg. Sam Raimi calls it “A twisted tapestry of grisly fun and endlessly inventive terror” and Rotten Tomatoes praises it as “One of the best horror anthologies in years” The Mortuary Collection is the feature debut from writer-director Ryan Spindell, who also contributed to Quibi and Sam Raimi’s celebrated “50 States of Fright” series. In the anthology, a young drifter applies for a job at the local mortuary and meets an eccentric mortician (Clancy Brown) who chronicles the strange history of the town through a series of twisted tales, each more terrifying than the last. The film stars beloved character
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ForeignHalloweenMovies
It’s October and that means it’s time to get into the spirit of the season, and obviously nothing gets you into the Halloween mood better than horror. Unfortunately when it comes to most live-action horror films, there’s only so much that can be done and shown, but thankfully of all things, Anime can cross the line with story, gore, and intriguing storytelling. So for every day this month, I’ll be featuring a unique Anime that fits the horror genre that you can most likely find on any streaming service. Things are getting fishy with the OVA Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack. First, what’s an OVA? An OVA is an Anime film or series that’s not broadcast first on TV but instead sent straight to video/DVD and have higher budgets than their broadcast counterparts. Now onto Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack (2012). The film centers around a couple that while on vacation, encounter fish with legs that seem to infect people causing them
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ForeignHalloween
It’s October and that means it’s time to get into the spirit of the season, and obviously nothing gets you into the Halloween mood better than horror. Unfortunately when it comes to most live-action horror films, there’s only so much that can be done and shown, but thankfully of all things, Anime can cross the line with story, gore, and intriguing storytelling. So for every day this month, I’ll be featuring a unique Anime that fits the horror genre that you can most likely find on any streaming service. Let’s chase a killer in Monster. Monster may not 100% be considered a horror, but the dark psychological spider web it weaves says otherwise. The story follows a Japanese brain surgeon living in Germany and after performing lifesaving surgery on a little boy, a strange string of murders occur in with the surgeon was a suspect, years later the killings happen again and the doctor, though again being accused, discovered the
Continue reading →
ForeignHalloween
It’s October and that means it’s time to get into the spirit of the season, and obviously nothing gets you into the Halloween mood better than horror. Unfortunately when it comes to most live-action horror films, there’s only so much that can be done and shown, but thankfully of all things, Anime can cross the line with story, gore, and intriguing storytelling. So for every day this month, I’ll be featuring a unique Anime that fits the horror genre that you can most likely find on any streaming service. Let’s head to school with Another. Another (2012) is a horror mystery that takes us to a junior high class where students will die in Final Destination ways because of a “calamity curse” that affects this class only because of all things…one of the students in the class that year is an “extra” and unbeknownst to that student as well as their classmates…they’re a ghost. Based off a 2009 novel of
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ForeignHalloween
It’s October and that means it’s time to get into the spirit of the season, and obviously nothing gets you into the Halloween mood better than horror. Unfortunately when it comes to most live-action horror films, there’s only so much that can be done and shown, but thankfully of all things, Anime can cross the line with story, gore, and intriguing storytelling. So for every day this month, I’ll be featuring a unique Anime that fits the horror genre that you can most likely find on any streaming service. Let’s keep the blood flowing with HELLSING. HELLSING (2001) is a vampire anime based on the manga of the same name follows the secret organization Hellsing that fights creatures of the night, mainly vampires. The organization has an ace up its sleeve, a powerful vampire within its ranks, Alucard. The story also centers on a young woman named Seras Victoria, a former police officer that was turned into a vampire by
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HalloweenMoviesNewsTrailers
Omari Hardwick (“Power,” Sorry to Bother You), Loretta Devine (“Black-ish,” Crash), and John Beasley (The Sum of All Fears, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks) star in the terrifying horror-thriller Spell, out this Halloween. In the film, “while flying to his father’s funeral in rural Appalachia, an intense storm causes Marquis (Omari Hardwick) to lose control of the plane carrying him and his family. He awakens wounded, alone, and trapped in Ms. Eloise’s (Loretta Devine) attic, who claims she can nurse him back to health with the Boogity, a Hoodoo figure she has made from his blood and skin. Unable to call for help, Marquis desperately tries to outwit and break free from her dark magic and save his family from a sinister ritual before the rise of the blood moon.” Directed by Mark Tonderai and written by Kurt Wimmer, Spell arrives on Video-On-Demand and Digital in time for Halloween on October 30th, from Paramount Home Entertainment.
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ForeignHalloween
It’s October and that means it’s time to get into the spirit of the season, and obviously nothing gets you into the Halloween mood better than horror. Unfortunately when it comes to most live-action horror films, there’s only so much that can be done and shown, but thankfully of all things, Anime can cross the line with story, gore, and intriguing storytelling. So for every day this month, I’ll be featuring a unique Anime that fits the horror genre that you can most likely find on any streaming service. So without further ado let’s kick off this month’s list with Ghost Hound. Ghost Hound (2007) follows the story of three high school boys who learn to perform out of body experiences at will in order to learn about the traumatic past of one of the boys who wishes to seek answers to the kidnapping of himself and his older sister years prior; as a result, the three are actually able
Continue reading →
HalloweenProduct
Halloween is around the corner but unfortunately, it’s in 2020 and unless you’ve been in another dimension, living in a cave far from civilization, or visiting from another planet, we’re in the middle of a pandemic. Most places around the country are in talks right now about HOW or IF there will be a Halloween this year as public health is a growing concern as cases of Covid-19 are starting to rise back up across the country. With what’s going on, Halloween does not need to be canceled, just modified and the only good news about it this year is that it’s on a Saturday! With that working in favor of parents or those who get weekends off, the opportunity to have a fun and safe Halloween at home. For most, many have already come up with some ideas of how to do it at home but some folks may need a helpful push in the right direction, well here
Continue reading →
HalloweenParanormalReviews
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided me with a free copy of the DVD I reviewed in this blog post. The opinions I share are my own. Scooby (Frank Welker) and the gang, Fred (also voiced by Welker), Daphne (Grey Griffin), Velma (Kate Micucci), and Shaggy (Matthew Lillard) are up to their arcane armpits in preternatural peril when ye olde friendly neighborhood pumpkin patch is covered in toxic waste (accompanied by a cue that definitely brings to mind 1985’s Return of the Living Dead) which results in the pumpkins coming to life and they have the horror biz foremost on their monstrous minds! Seems like a solid Scooby-Doo scenario… how about if I told you that Elvira (the legendary Cassandra Peterson herself, ‘natch) shows up, as does Bill Nye the Science Guy (himself, though amped-up to 11)… and the Scarecrow (The A-Team‘s world famous Howlin’ Mad Murdock, Dwight Shultz)… like from Batman… yeah, what the what now?!! With it’s faster pace
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AMCHalloweenHoliday HorrorMoviesNewsStreaming TV
It wouldn’t be Halloween without AMC‘s FearFest! This year AMC is going all out, with a lineup that is bigger and better than ever! Kicking off on October 1st, this year’s FearFest will run all October long for the first time and will feature marathons, series premieres, specials, and 91 films including some of horror’s biggest Movies and classic franchises such as Halloween, Friday the 13th, Final Destination, The Amityville Horror, Insidious, Children of the Corn and many more. Films featured this FearFest on AMC: Body Snatchers (1993) Graveyard Shift (1990) 6 Souls (2010) An American Haunting (2005) The Amityville Horror (1979) The Amityville II: Possession (1982) The Amityville Horror (2005) Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1993) Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995) Children of the Corn: The Gathering (1996) Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998) Children of the Corn 666: Isaac’s Return (1999) Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001) Bride of
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HalloweenMoviesNewsShudderStreaming TVTrailers
Shudder, AMC’s streaming network for horror, thrillers, and suspense continues to delight subscribers with fresh, frightening new originals. The latest addition is the acclaimed horror anthology The Mortuary Collection and we’ve got the new trailer! Featuring five twisted tales of terror The Mortuary Collection transports viewers back to the 70s, taking inspiration from EC horror comics, Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg. Sam Raimi calls it “A twisted tapestry of grisly fun and endlessly inventive terror” and Rotten Tomatoes praises it as “One of the best horror anthologies in years” The Mortuary Collection is the feature debut from writer-director Ryan Spindell, who also contributed to Quibi and Sam Raimi’s celebrated “50 States of Fright” series. In the anthology, a young drifter applies for a job at the local mortuary and meets an eccentric mortician (Clancy Brown) who chronicles the strange history of the town through a series of twisted tales, each more terrifying than the last. The film stars beloved character
Continue reading →
ForeignHalloweenMovies
It’s October and that means it’s time to get into the spirit of the season, and obviously nothing gets you into the Halloween mood better than horror. Unfortunately when it comes to most live-action horror films, there’s only so much that can be done and shown, but thankfully of all things, Anime can cross the line with story, gore, and intriguing storytelling. So for every day this month, I’ll be featuring a unique Anime that fits the horror genre that you can most likely find on any streaming service. Things are getting fishy with the OVA Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack. First, what’s an OVA? An OVA is an Anime film or series that’s not broadcast first on TV but instead sent straight to video/DVD and have higher budgets than their broadcast counterparts. Now onto Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack (2012). The film centers around a couple that while on vacation, encounter fish with legs that seem to infect people causing them
Continue reading →
ForeignHalloween
It’s October and that means it’s time to get into the spirit of the season, and obviously nothing gets you into the Halloween mood better than horror. Unfortunately when it comes to most live-action horror films, there’s only so much that can be done and shown, but thankfully of all things, Anime can cross the line with story, gore, and intriguing storytelling. So for every day this month, I’ll be featuring a unique Anime that fits the horror genre that you can most likely find on any streaming service. Let’s chase a killer in Monster. Monster may not 100% be considered a horror, but the dark psychological spider web it weaves says otherwise. The story follows a Japanese brain surgeon living in Germany and after performing lifesaving surgery on a little boy, a strange string of murders occur in with the surgeon was a suspect, years later the killings happen again and the doctor, though again being accused, discovered the
Continue reading →
ForeignHalloween
It’s October and that means it’s time to get into the spirit of the season, and obviously nothing gets you into the Halloween mood better than horror. Unfortunately when it comes to most live-action horror films, there’s only so much that can be done and shown, but thankfully of all things, Anime can cross the line with story, gore, and intriguing storytelling. So for every day this month, I’ll be featuring a unique Anime that fits the horror genre that you can most likely find on any streaming service. Let’s head to school with Another. Another (2012) is a horror mystery that takes us to a junior high class where students will die in Final Destination ways because of a “calamity curse” that affects this class only because of all things…one of the students in the class that year is an “extra” and unbeknownst to that student as well as their classmates…they’re a ghost. Based off a 2009 novel of
Continue reading →
ForeignHalloween
It’s October and that means it’s time to get into the spirit of the season, and obviously nothing gets you into the Halloween mood better than horror. Unfortunately when it comes to most live-action horror films, there’s only so much that can be done and shown, but thankfully of all things, Anime can cross the line with story, gore, and intriguing storytelling. So for every day this month, I’ll be featuring a unique Anime that fits the horror genre that you can most likely find on any streaming service. Let’s keep the blood flowing with HELLSING. HELLSING (2001) is a vampire anime based on the manga of the same name follows the secret organization Hellsing that fights creatures of the night, mainly vampires. The organization has an ace up its sleeve, a powerful vampire within its ranks, Alucard. The story also centers on a young woman named Seras Victoria, a former police officer that was turned into a vampire by
Continue reading →
HalloweenMoviesNewsTrailers
Omari Hardwick (“Power,” Sorry to Bother You), Loretta Devine (“Black-ish,” Crash), and John Beasley (The Sum of All Fears, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks) star in the terrifying horror-thriller Spell, out this Halloween. In the film, “while flying to his father’s funeral in rural Appalachia, an intense storm causes Marquis (Omari Hardwick) to lose control of the plane carrying him and his family. He awakens wounded, alone, and trapped in Ms. Eloise’s (Loretta Devine) attic, who claims she can nurse him back to health with the Boogity, a Hoodoo figure she has made from his blood and skin. Unable to call for help, Marquis desperately tries to outwit and break free from her dark magic and save his family from a sinister ritual before the rise of the blood moon.” Directed by Mark Tonderai and written by Kurt Wimmer, Spell arrives on Video-On-Demand and Digital in time for Halloween on October 30th, from Paramount Home Entertainment.
Continue reading →
ForeignHalloween
It’s October and that means it’s time to get into the spirit of the season, and obviously nothing gets you into the Halloween mood better than horror. Unfortunately when it comes to most live-action horror films, there’s only so much that can be done and shown, but thankfully of all things, Anime can cross the line with story, gore, and intriguing storytelling. So for every day this month, I’ll be featuring a unique Anime that fits the horror genre that you can most likely find on any streaming service. So without further ado let’s kick off this month’s list with Ghost Hound. Ghost Hound (2007) follows the story of three high school boys who learn to perform out of body experiences at will in order to learn about the traumatic past of one of the boys who wishes to seek answers to the kidnapping of himself and his older sister years prior; as a result, the three are actually able
Continue reading →
HalloweenProduct
Halloween is around the corner but unfortunately, it’s in 2020 and unless you’ve been in another dimension, living in a cave far from civilization, or visiting from another planet, we’re in the middle of a pandemic. Most places around the country are in talks right now about HOW or IF there will be a Halloween this year as public health is a growing concern as cases of Covid-19 are starting to rise back up across the country. With what’s going on, Halloween does not need to be canceled, just modified and the only good news about it this year is that it’s on a Saturday! With that working in favor of parents or those who get weekends off, the opportunity to have a fun and safe Halloween at home. For most, many have already come up with some ideas of how to do it at home but some folks may need a helpful push in the right direction, well here
Continue reading →
HalloweenParanormalReviews
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided me with a free copy of the DVD I reviewed in this blog post. The opinions I share are my own. Scooby (Frank Welker) and the gang, Fred (also voiced by Welker), Daphne (Grey Griffin), Velma (Kate Micucci), and Shaggy (Matthew Lillard) are up to their arcane armpits in preternatural peril when ye olde friendly neighborhood pumpkin patch is covered in toxic waste (accompanied by a cue that definitely brings to mind 1985’s Return of the Living Dead) which results in the pumpkins coming to life and they have the horror biz foremost on their monstrous minds! Seems like a solid Scooby-Doo scenario… how about if I told you that Elvira (the legendary Cassandra Peterson herself, ‘natch) shows up, as does Bill Nye the Science Guy (himself, though amped-up to 11)… and the Scarecrow (The A-Team‘s world famous Howlin’ Mad Murdock, Dwight Shultz)… like from Batman… yeah, what the what now?!! With it’s faster pace
Continue reading →
AMCHalloweenHoliday HorrorMoviesNewsStreaming TV
It wouldn’t be Halloween without AMC‘s FearFest! This year AMC is going all out, with a lineup that is bigger and better than ever! Kicking off on October 1st, this year’s FearFest will run all October long for the first time and will feature marathons, series premieres, specials, and 91 films including some of horror’s biggest Movies and classic franchises such as Halloween, Friday the 13th, Final Destination, The Amityville Horror, Insidious, Children of the Corn and many more. Films featured this FearFest on AMC: Body Snatchers (1993) Graveyard Shift (1990) 6 Souls (2010) An American Haunting (2005) The Amityville Horror (1979) The Amityville II: Possession (1982) The Amityville Horror (2005) Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1993) Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995) Children of the Corn: The Gathering (1996) Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998) Children of the Corn 666: Isaac’s Return (1999) Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001) Bride of
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