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Hellboy is back to fight another day! Millennium Media is currently working on a new live-action movie, which Deadline confirmed today. Brian Taylor (Crank, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance) has come on board to direct the movie titled Hellboy: The Crooked Man, based on the Hellboy mini-series from 2008. According to Deadline, the movie will “expand Hellboy’s world through one of the most beloved issues of the comic series.” “The new film will see Hellboy and a rookie BPRD agent stranded in 1950s rural Appalachia. There, they discover a small community haunted by witches, led by a local devil with a troubling connection to Hellboy’s past: the Crooked Man.” Hellboy creator Mike Mignola wrote the script for Hellboy: The Crooked Man alongside Christopher Golden. “The Crooked Man is a departure from all previous Hellboy films where Mike Mignola and the creator of the comics will finally shepherd an authentic version of his stories and characters in film form,” said Millennium
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In a near Olympic-level of horniness, Mistival (Paul Muller) practically gives his daughter to the comely Marianne (Maria Rohm) in exchange for a lil’ of that ol’ sexual fucking. Now Marianne has plans for that daughter, Eugenie (Marie Liljedahl) by name, which include spiriting her away for a stay at her family’s remote island estate with Marianne’s half-brother Mirvel (Jack Taylor) in tow. Before you can say “Surely, things will not turn sexual in this scenario.”, things turn sexual in this scenario as those sinful semi-sibs introduce our naive heroine to all manner of kink biz six ways to Sunday! Why are they doing all this? Why to prepare Eugenie for the arrival of that Pervert’s Pervert; Dolmance (Christopher Lee)… will she retain a shred of innocence after this ordeal, or will she give in to every dark desire? Taking the original tale Philosophy in the Bedroom, penned by the legendary Marquise de Sade in 1795, director Jess Franco along
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On the eve of his imprisonment within the formidable confines of the Bastille on charges of obscenity contained within his work, the notorious Marquis de Sade (played by actual lunatic Klaus Kinski) sets about jottin’ down the tit-filled tale of sisters Justine (Romina Power) and Juliette (Maria Rohm) raised in a convent. Speaking of said convent; with it’s funding run dry the sisters are soon out on their asses… and soon up to their asses (and beyond) in various manners of perverts all hungry for some of that sweet lovin’! Along the way, Juliette spends her days in a brothel pursuing a sapphic love affair with Claudine (Rosemary Dexter), while Justine becomes a maid at the local inn… but she gets canned after being wrongly accused of nixing the goods from one of the guests. After a brief fling with lesbian crime-lord Madame Dusbois (Mercedes McCambridge) and her horny hooligans, not to mention a murder plot, Justine falls in with
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Bubba Ho-Tep is a straight up classic in our beloved horror biz, and I simply refuse to believe that any of you fine fiends haven’t seen this flick; but before I get down to brass tacks and tell you if this latest release of the film is worth your hard earned dough, I’ll do the standard sub-standard sinister synopsis for ya… Elvis (Campbell) is alive and (un)well and residing in a nursing home (his “death” involved him changing places with an impersonator with a bad heart decades ago). While dealing with a life rapidly in decline and a defective pecker; ol’ E. also has to cope with soul eating, ancient Egyptian mummy that is stalking the halls of the facility he calls home. In order to end the menace, he teams up with a man that claims he is JFK (Davis), and together they embark on an epic, if arthritic, battle with evil incarnate in cowboy boots. Funny, surreal, and
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This year, the Super Bowl TV spots are coming earlier. We already shared the TV spot for Scream VI, and now Paramount has unleashed its Big Game TV Spot for their highly-anticipated action-packed movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, which gives us a look at the “greatest evil ever known” and so much more. In the movie, “A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves brings the legendary roleplaying game’s rich world and playful spirit to the big screen in a hilarious and action-packed adventure.” Directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley and starring Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, Chloe Coleman, Daisy Head, and Hugh Grant, the action-packed movie will land in theaters on March 31, 2023.
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Last year, it was announced that Keanu Reeves is returning to play John Constantine in Constantine 2, much to fans’ delight. James Gunn and Peter Safran have plans to restructure the DC Universe, so where does that leave DC Constantine 2? Is it still happening? The answer is yes! A spokesperson for Warner Bros. confirmed to EW today that the sequel is still on its way. Francis Lawrence is returning to direct the sequel written by Akiva Goldsman, who is also producing under his Weed Road Pictures banner. Bad Robots’ J.J. Abrams and Hannah Minghella will also produce. “Reeves will reprise his role as supernatural exorcist and demonologist John Constantine, who in the original is dying but stays around to save his soul by keeping demons from hell from breaching earth. He also gets between a battle between the archangel Gabriel and Lucifer.” When Constantine was released in 2005, it quickly gained fans. I mean, this is Keanu Reeves we’re
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New episodes of HBO Max‘s hit series “The Last of Us” normally premiere every Sunday night. However, the “Super Bowl” will take over TV this Sunday. Don’t worry. HBO will still give you a new episode of “The Last of Us,” but on a different night. “The Last of Us” Episode 5 will air early this Friday, February 10th, at 9 pm EST! If you miss the new episode, you watch it again on Sunday at its regular time, 9 pm. The show will return to its regular schedule the following Sunday. Pedro Pascal (“The Mandalorian”) stars as Joel. Bella Ramsey (“Game of Thrones”) plays playing Ellie. Gabriel Luna (Terminator: Dark Fate) plays Tommy, the brother of Pascal’s Joel. Storm Reid, Anna Torv, Merle Dandridge, Jeffrey Pierce, Nick Offerman, Nico Parker, Murray Bartlett, and Con O’Neil co-star in the series. “The series is set twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle
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Stephen King‘s novel, Billy Summers, is getting a film adaptation with J.J. Abrams directing and Leonardo DiCaprio starring as the title character. The news came via Deadline that the script based on the book, published in 2021, is being written by Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz. “Billy Summers is a 44-year-old hitman and former U.S. Marine sniper, who only accepts jobs killing truly evil men, but now he wants to retire from the assassin life altogether. Nick Majarian, a mobster whom Billy has worked for many times before, offers him one last job–one that pays $500,000 upfront and $1.5 million after it’s done. But something doesn’t add up for Summers.” Abrams produces for Warner Bros., with DiCaprio producing for Appian Way.
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The sinister and atmospheric novel Girl From Rawblood by the internationally best-selling author of The Last House on Needless Street, Catriona Ward, is being reprinted this March due to popular demand. The story follows a young woman’s rebellion against her father, her home, and the ghost that haunts the family line as she takes a mesmerizing journey into the sins of the past. Young Iris Villarca is the last of her family’s line. They are haunted by “her,” a curse passed down through the generations that mark each Villarca for inevitable heartbreak and death. For generations, the Villarcas have died young, under mysterious circumstances. But Iris dares to fall in love, and the consequences of her choice are immediate and terrifying. Publishers Weekly applauded the Girl from Rawblood in a review that noted how “Ward perfectly balances sensory richness with the chills of the uncanny.” Catriona Ward’s reprinted debut will mesmerize readers with a rich gothic horror story of cursed
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Prime Video has now unveiled the first teaser trailer for their electrifying new upcoming series, “The Power,” starring Toni Collette (Hereditary) and John Leguizamo (The Menu). Described as an “emotionally driven global thriller,” the series is based on the award-winning novel of the same name by Naomi Alderman. “ In the 10-episode first season, “The Power is our world, but for one twist of nature. Suddenly, and without warning, teenage girls develop the power to electrocute people at will. The series features a cast of remarkable characters from London to Seattle, Nigeria to Eastern Europe, as the Power evolves from a tingle in teenagers’ collarbones to a complete reversal of the power balance of the world.” The series is from Amazon Studios and SISTER, with “True Blood’s” Raelle Tucker serving as showrunner. Collette stars as Mayor Margot Cleary-Lopez, with Leguizamo starring as Rob Lopez, Auli’i Cravalho stars as Jos Cleary-Lopez, Toheeb Jimoh as Tunde Ojo, Josh Charles as Daniel Dandon,
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Hellboy is back to fight another day! Millennium Media is currently working on a new live-action movie, which Deadline confirmed today. Brian Taylor (Crank, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance) has come on board to direct the movie titled Hellboy: The Crooked Man, based on the Hellboy mini-series from 2008. According to Deadline, the movie will “expand Hellboy’s world through one of the most beloved issues of the comic series.” “The new film will see Hellboy and a rookie BPRD agent stranded in 1950s rural Appalachia. There, they discover a small community haunted by witches, led by a local devil with a troubling connection to Hellboy’s past: the Crooked Man.” Hellboy creator Mike Mignola wrote the script for Hellboy: The Crooked Man alongside Christopher Golden. “The Crooked Man is a departure from all previous Hellboy films where Mike Mignola and the creator of the comics will finally shepherd an authentic version of his stories and characters in film form,” said Millennium
Continue reading →
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In a near Olympic-level of horniness, Mistival (Paul Muller) practically gives his daughter to the comely Marianne (Maria Rohm) in exchange for a lil’ of that ol’ sexual fucking. Now Marianne has plans for that daughter, Eugenie (Marie Liljedahl) by name, which include spiriting her away for a stay at her family’s remote island estate with Marianne’s half-brother Mirvel (Jack Taylor) in tow. Before you can say “Surely, things will not turn sexual in this scenario.”, things turn sexual in this scenario as those sinful semi-sibs introduce our naive heroine to all manner of kink biz six ways to Sunday! Why are they doing all this? Why to prepare Eugenie for the arrival of that Pervert’s Pervert; Dolmance (Christopher Lee)… will she retain a shred of innocence after this ordeal, or will she give in to every dark desire? Taking the original tale Philosophy in the Bedroom, penned by the legendary Marquise de Sade in 1795, director Jess Franco along
Continue reading →
AdaptationForeignMovies
On the eve of his imprisonment within the formidable confines of the Bastille on charges of obscenity contained within his work, the notorious Marquis de Sade (played by actual lunatic Klaus Kinski) sets about jottin’ down the tit-filled tale of sisters Justine (Romina Power) and Juliette (Maria Rohm) raised in a convent. Speaking of said convent; with it’s funding run dry the sisters are soon out on their asses… and soon up to their asses (and beyond) in various manners of perverts all hungry for some of that sweet lovin’! Along the way, Juliette spends her days in a brothel pursuing a sapphic love affair with Claudine (Rosemary Dexter), while Justine becomes a maid at the local inn… but she gets canned after being wrongly accused of nixing the goods from one of the guests. After a brief fling with lesbian crime-lord Madame Dusbois (Mercedes McCambridge) and her horny hooligans, not to mention a murder plot, Justine falls in with
Continue reading →
AdaptationIndieMoviesReviews
Bubba Ho-Tep is a straight up classic in our beloved horror biz, and I simply refuse to believe that any of you fine fiends haven’t seen this flick; but before I get down to brass tacks and tell you if this latest release of the film is worth your hard earned dough, I’ll do the standard sub-standard sinister synopsis for ya… Elvis (Campbell) is alive and (un)well and residing in a nursing home (his “death” involved him changing places with an impersonator with a bad heart decades ago). While dealing with a life rapidly in decline and a defective pecker; ol’ E. also has to cope with soul eating, ancient Egyptian mummy that is stalking the halls of the facility he calls home. In order to end the menace, he teams up with a man that claims he is JFK (Davis), and together they embark on an epic, if arthritic, battle with evil incarnate in cowboy boots. Funny, surreal, and
Continue reading →
AdaptationMoviesNewsTrailers
This year, the Super Bowl TV spots are coming earlier. We already shared the TV spot for Scream VI, and now Paramount has unleashed its Big Game TV Spot for their highly-anticipated action-packed movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, which gives us a look at the “greatest evil ever known” and so much more. In the movie, “A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves brings the legendary roleplaying game’s rich world and playful spirit to the big screen in a hilarious and action-packed adventure.” Directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley and starring Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, Chloe Coleman, Daisy Head, and Hugh Grant, the action-packed movie will land in theaters on March 31, 2023.
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Last year, it was announced that Keanu Reeves is returning to play John Constantine in Constantine 2, much to fans’ delight. James Gunn and Peter Safran have plans to restructure the DC Universe, so where does that leave DC Constantine 2? Is it still happening? The answer is yes! A spokesperson for Warner Bros. confirmed to EW today that the sequel is still on its way. Francis Lawrence is returning to direct the sequel written by Akiva Goldsman, who is also producing under his Weed Road Pictures banner. Bad Robots’ J.J. Abrams and Hannah Minghella will also produce. “Reeves will reprise his role as supernatural exorcist and demonologist John Constantine, who in the original is dying but stays around to save his soul by keeping demons from hell from breaching earth. He also gets between a battle between the archangel Gabriel and Lucifer.” When Constantine was released in 2005, it quickly gained fans. I mean, this is Keanu Reeves we’re
Continue reading →
AdaptationHBO MaxMoviesStreaming TV
New episodes of HBO Max‘s hit series “The Last of Us” normally premiere every Sunday night. However, the “Super Bowl” will take over TV this Sunday. Don’t worry. HBO will still give you a new episode of “The Last of Us,” but on a different night. “The Last of Us” Episode 5 will air early this Friday, February 10th, at 9 pm EST! If you miss the new episode, you watch it again on Sunday at its regular time, 9 pm. The show will return to its regular schedule the following Sunday. Pedro Pascal (“The Mandalorian”) stars as Joel. Bella Ramsey (“Game of Thrones”) plays playing Ellie. Gabriel Luna (Terminator: Dark Fate) plays Tommy, the brother of Pascal’s Joel. Storm Reid, Anna Torv, Merle Dandridge, Jeffrey Pierce, Nick Offerman, Nico Parker, Murray Bartlett, and Con O’Neil co-star in the series. “The series is set twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle
Continue reading →
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Stephen King‘s novel, Billy Summers, is getting a film adaptation with J.J. Abrams directing and Leonardo DiCaprio starring as the title character. The news came via Deadline that the script based on the book, published in 2021, is being written by Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz. “Billy Summers is a 44-year-old hitman and former U.S. Marine sniper, who only accepts jobs killing truly evil men, but now he wants to retire from the assassin life altogether. Nick Majarian, a mobster whom Billy has worked for many times before, offers him one last job–one that pays $500,000 upfront and $1.5 million after it’s done. But something doesn’t add up for Summers.” Abrams produces for Warner Bros., with DiCaprio producing for Appian Way.
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Books
The sinister and atmospheric novel Girl From Rawblood by the internationally best-selling author of The Last House on Needless Street, Catriona Ward, is being reprinted this March due to popular demand. The story follows a young woman’s rebellion against her father, her home, and the ghost that haunts the family line as she takes a mesmerizing journey into the sins of the past. Young Iris Villarca is the last of her family’s line. They are haunted by “her,” a curse passed down through the generations that mark each Villarca for inevitable heartbreak and death. For generations, the Villarcas have died young, under mysterious circumstances. But Iris dares to fall in love, and the consequences of her choice are immediate and terrifying. Publishers Weekly applauded the Girl from Rawblood in a review that noted how “Ward perfectly balances sensory richness with the chills of the uncanny.” Catriona Ward’s reprinted debut will mesmerize readers with a rich gothic horror story of cursed
Continue reading →
AdaptationAmazon Prime VideoNewsStreaming TVTrailers
Prime Video has now unveiled the first teaser trailer for their electrifying new upcoming series, “The Power,” starring Toni Collette (Hereditary) and John Leguizamo (The Menu). Described as an “emotionally driven global thriller,” the series is based on the award-winning novel of the same name by Naomi Alderman. “ In the 10-episode first season, “The Power is our world, but for one twist of nature. Suddenly, and without warning, teenage girls develop the power to electrocute people at will. The series features a cast of remarkable characters from London to Seattle, Nigeria to Eastern Europe, as the Power evolves from a tingle in teenagers’ collarbones to a complete reversal of the power balance of the world.” The series is from Amazon Studios and SISTER, with “True Blood’s” Raelle Tucker serving as showrunner. Collette stars as Mayor Margot Cleary-Lopez, with Leguizamo starring as Rob Lopez, Auli’i Cravalho stars as Jos Cleary-Lopez, Toheeb Jimoh as Tunde Ojo, Josh Charles as Daniel Dandon,
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