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CD Projekt Red Remaking 'The Witcher'

CD Projekt Red Remaking ‘The Witcher’

CD Projekt Red earlier this month hinted that a game was in the works codenamed “Canis Majoris”. Today CDPR revealed that this secretive project is in fact The Witcher Remake. The remake of the widely popular 2007 RPG that has spawned two sequels, multiple spin-off games, and a TV series is said to be remade from the “ground up” using engine 5 technology with game developer Fool Theory heading it up. Veteran developers who worked on The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will be working on the remake as well, hopefully easing the anxiety fans might feel hearing about the remake. The Witcher series overall is about a monster hunter named Geralt of Rivia who is known as a Witcher, a monster hunter with supernatural powers, that hunts monsters in a fantasy medieval world. The games are based on the Polish book series of the same name by Andrezej Sapkowski. The game is in

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Daniel S. Liuzzi
Oct 26, 2022
Amy Adams Starring In Horror Movie Adaptation 'Nightbitch'

Amy Adams Starring In Horror Movie Adaptation ‘Nightbitch’

Amy Adams (Arrival) is set to star in Searchlight Pictures’ upcoming horror film Nightbitch along with Mary Holland (Happiest Season), Deadline reports. Described as a “darkly comic horror film,” Nightbitch tells the story of a woman thrown into the stay-at-home routine of raising a toddler in the suburbs, who slowly embraces the feral power deeply rooted in motherhood, as she becomes increasingly aware of the bizarre and undeniable signs that she may be turning into a canine.” Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’s Scoot McNairy will also star. Directed by Marielle Heller (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood), the film will reportedly be released as a Hulu Original produced by Adams. The movie is based on Rachel Yoder’s novel. Yoder also penned the script.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 22, 2022
Deluxe Hardback Edition Of 'Cover Of Darkness' & Game Bares Its Teeth On Kickstarter

Deluxe Hardback Edition Of ‘Cover Of Darkness’ & Game Bares Its Teeth On Kickstarter

A dark fantasy series featuring reimagined, classic horror characters in an all-new shared universe. Set in medieval Romania, when a family is separated from each other, they encounter villains and creatures they never knew existed. An epic journey where gorillas fight werewolves and a steampunk, Atlantean Frankenstein topples cities. Now is your chance to get the Deluxe Hardcover edition of Cover of Darkness collecting all six thrilling issues. Alongside the Deluxe Hardcover, Cover of Darkness: The Card Game is also being released of the graphic novel series. Will you risk it all and hope to win big or play it safe? Cover of Darkness: The Card Game is easy to learn and only takes 15 minutes to play and is full of re-playability. The graphic novel series is written by George Michail and features artwork by MJ Hiblen. The team also includes Chris Cam. Head to Kickstarter now to back it and score amazing perks including digital downloads, hardback copies,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 19, 2022
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
Mad Shelley Comics Releases Entire Series of HALLOWEEN GIRL Horror Graphic Novel

Mad Shelley Comics Releases Entire Series of HALLOWEEN GIRL Horror Graphic Novel

Richard T. Wilson’s Halloween Girl graphic novel series got off to a fine start, as related in this Horror Fuel review of Volume 2, and now publisher Mad Shelley Comics has released the full series. Following is the official press announcement. Following rave reviews and critical acclaim for Vol 1-4, Richard T. Wilson’s entire Halloween Girl graphic novel series has just been released! The Emmy® award-winning, writer-filmmaker, describes his latest project as a ‘supernatural odyssey with a healthy dose of reality’. “After all these years, this feels like the first thing I’ve written in a way. I feel like my whole life, I’ve been punching through the darkness like the ‘Halloween Girl’ – but this is the first time I’ve actually written about it!” says Wilson. What is the ‘Halloween Girl’? An angsty, teen ghost named Charlotte (aka ‘Halloween Girl’) and her wise-cracking, supernatural gal pal, Poe who battle diabolic, secret society, The Hollow for the soul of their hometown

Continue reading →
Joseph Perry
Oct 14, 2022
How to Write a Horror Story That Terrifies Your Readers

How to Write a Horror Story That Terrifies Your Readers

Things are about to get spooky! A horror story often addresses a specific theme or problem. It may be about how miserable life is, how wicked people are, or about the beast that lives within us. It may even be about fear or the many ways we deal with fear. All horror stories share the characteristic that they are “tales of terror.” The best horror stories deal with fear, whether it’s dread of death, sickness, pain, loneliness, or the unknown. The majority of people dislike being afraid, which is the primary issue with horror tales. Human thoughts gravitate toward the easy, comfortable, and familiar. How, then, can we circumvent that? In this article, you’ll discover how to write a good horror story in 5 simple stages. Horror Story Writing: 5 Comprehensive Steps So, would you like to discover how to compose an incredible horror story? The 5 steps this article highlights will set you on the right path and match

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Ella Rebecca Horton
Oct 11, 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
Legendary Launches "Trick ‘r Treat: 15th Anniversary Collection" Exclusively On Kickstarter

Legendary Launches “Trick ‘r Treat: 15th Anniversary Collection” Exclusively On Kickstarter

To celebrate Trick ‘r Treat’s first-ever theatrical release, Legendary Comics, in collaboration with Rocketship Entertainment, today launched a new Kickstarter initiative (HERE) for the graphic novel Trick ‘r Treat: The 15 Anniversary Omnibus Collection. The compendium features the original Trick ‘r Treat Omnibus along with an all-new story by Trick ‘r Treat creator Michael Dougherty and new covers by Zid (Dune Movie Graphic Novel), Ben Templesmith (Fell, 30 Days of Night), and Christopher Shy (Friday the 13th, Rise of the Warrior) This edition of the Omnibus will only be made available on Kickstarter and not released to retail outlets. Reprinted in this edition is the original Omnibus, which contains the 2009 Trick ‘r Treat comic (first published by D.C.) that adapts the film and features the talents of (Marc Andreyko, Mike Huddleston, Jim Charalampidis, Grant Bond, Christopher Gugliotti, Fiona Staples), as well as the second comic Trick ‘r Treat: Days of the Dead (Zach Shields, Todd Casey, Fiona Staples, Jose

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 10, 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

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CD Projekt Red Remaking 'The Witcher'

CD Projekt Red Remaking ‘The Witcher’

CD Projekt Red earlier this month hinted that a game was in the works codenamed “Canis Majoris”. Today CDPR revealed that this secretive project is in fact The Witcher Remake. The remake of the widely popular 2007 RPG that has spawned two sequels, multiple spin-off games, and a TV series is said to be remade from the “ground up” using engine 5 technology with game developer Fool Theory heading it up. Veteran developers who worked on The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will be working on the remake as well, hopefully easing the anxiety fans might feel hearing about the remake. The Witcher series overall is about a monster hunter named Geralt of Rivia who is known as a Witcher, a monster hunter with supernatural powers, that hunts monsters in a fantasy medieval world. The games are based on the Polish book series of the same name by Andrezej Sapkowski. The game is in

Continue reading →
Daniel S. Liuzzi
Oct 26, 2022
Amy Adams Starring In Horror Movie Adaptation 'Nightbitch'

Amy Adams Starring In Horror Movie Adaptation ‘Nightbitch’

Amy Adams (Arrival) is set to star in Searchlight Pictures’ upcoming horror film Nightbitch along with Mary Holland (Happiest Season), Deadline reports. Described as a “darkly comic horror film,” Nightbitch tells the story of a woman thrown into the stay-at-home routine of raising a toddler in the suburbs, who slowly embraces the feral power deeply rooted in motherhood, as she becomes increasingly aware of the bizarre and undeniable signs that she may be turning into a canine.” Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’s Scoot McNairy will also star. Directed by Marielle Heller (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood), the film will reportedly be released as a Hulu Original produced by Adams. The movie is based on Rachel Yoder’s novel. Yoder also penned the script.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 22, 2022
Deluxe Hardback Edition Of 'Cover Of Darkness' & Game Bares Its Teeth On Kickstarter

Deluxe Hardback Edition Of ‘Cover Of Darkness’ & Game Bares Its Teeth On Kickstarter

A dark fantasy series featuring reimagined, classic horror characters in an all-new shared universe. Set in medieval Romania, when a family is separated from each other, they encounter villains and creatures they never knew existed. An epic journey where gorillas fight werewolves and a steampunk, Atlantean Frankenstein topples cities. Now is your chance to get the Deluxe Hardcover edition of Cover of Darkness collecting all six thrilling issues. Alongside the Deluxe Hardcover, Cover of Darkness: The Card Game is also being released of the graphic novel series. Will you risk it all and hope to win big or play it safe? Cover of Darkness: The Card Game is easy to learn and only takes 15 minutes to play and is full of re-playability. The graphic novel series is written by George Michail and features artwork by MJ Hiblen. The team also includes Chris Cam. Head to Kickstarter now to back it and score amazing perks including digital downloads, hardback copies,

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 19, 2022
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
Mad Shelley Comics Releases Entire Series of HALLOWEEN GIRL Horror Graphic Novel

Mad Shelley Comics Releases Entire Series of HALLOWEEN GIRL Horror Graphic Novel

Richard T. Wilson’s Halloween Girl graphic novel series got off to a fine start, as related in this Horror Fuel review of Volume 2, and now publisher Mad Shelley Comics has released the full series. Following is the official press announcement. Following rave reviews and critical acclaim for Vol 1-4, Richard T. Wilson’s entire Halloween Girl graphic novel series has just been released! The Emmy® award-winning, writer-filmmaker, describes his latest project as a ‘supernatural odyssey with a healthy dose of reality’. “After all these years, this feels like the first thing I’ve written in a way. I feel like my whole life, I’ve been punching through the darkness like the ‘Halloween Girl’ – but this is the first time I’ve actually written about it!” says Wilson. What is the ‘Halloween Girl’? An angsty, teen ghost named Charlotte (aka ‘Halloween Girl’) and her wise-cracking, supernatural gal pal, Poe who battle diabolic, secret society, The Hollow for the soul of their hometown

Continue reading →
Joseph Perry
Oct 14, 2022
How to Write a Horror Story That Terrifies Your Readers

How to Write a Horror Story That Terrifies Your Readers

Things are about to get spooky! A horror story often addresses a specific theme or problem. It may be about how miserable life is, how wicked people are, or about the beast that lives within us. It may even be about fear or the many ways we deal with fear. All horror stories share the characteristic that they are “tales of terror.” The best horror stories deal with fear, whether it’s dread of death, sickness, pain, loneliness, or the unknown. The majority of people dislike being afraid, which is the primary issue with horror tales. Human thoughts gravitate toward the easy, comfortable, and familiar. How, then, can we circumvent that? In this article, you’ll discover how to write a good horror story in 5 simple stages. Horror Story Writing: 5 Comprehensive Steps So, would you like to discover how to compose an incredible horror story? The 5 steps this article highlights will set you on the right path and match

Continue reading →
Ella Rebecca Horton
Oct 11, 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
Legendary Launches "Trick ‘r Treat: 15th Anniversary Collection" Exclusively On Kickstarter

Legendary Launches “Trick ‘r Treat: 15th Anniversary Collection” Exclusively On Kickstarter

To celebrate Trick ‘r Treat’s first-ever theatrical release, Legendary Comics, in collaboration with Rocketship Entertainment, today launched a new Kickstarter initiative (HERE) for the graphic novel Trick ‘r Treat: The 15 Anniversary Omnibus Collection. The compendium features the original Trick ‘r Treat Omnibus along with an all-new story by Trick ‘r Treat creator Michael Dougherty and new covers by Zid (Dune Movie Graphic Novel), Ben Templesmith (Fell, 30 Days of Night), and Christopher Shy (Friday the 13th, Rise of the Warrior) This edition of the Omnibus will only be made available on Kickstarter and not released to retail outlets. Reprinted in this edition is the original Omnibus, which contains the 2009 Trick ‘r Treat comic (first published by D.C.) that adapts the film and features the talents of (Marc Andreyko, Mike Huddleston, Jim Charalampidis, Grant Bond, Christopher Gugliotti, Fiona Staples), as well as the second comic Trick ‘r Treat: Days of the Dead (Zach Shields, Todd Casey, Fiona Staples, Jose

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 10, 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
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