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“Nine Perfect Strangers” Seek Help In Hulu’s New Series Starring Nicole Kidman

During the 93rd annual Academy Awards on Sunday, the first ominous trailer for “Nine Perfect Strangers” was unveiled, giving Hulu subscribers the first look at the upcoming limited series, based on the best-selling novel by Liane Moriarty. “Nine Perfect Strangers” “is set at a health-and-wellness resort that promises healing and transformation as nine stressed city dwellers try to get on a path to a better way of living. Watching over them during this ten-day retreat is the resort’s director Masha (Nicole Kidman), a woman on a mission to reinvigorate their tired minds and bodies. However, these nine “perfect” strangers have no idea what is about to hit them.” Talk about an all-star cast, the series features Golden Globe winner Nicole Kidman (“Big Little Lies”) with the guests of the resort being played by Melissa McCarthy, Luke Evans, Regina Hall, Grace Van Patten, Bobby Cannavale, Asher Keddie, Michael Shannon, Samara Weaving, and Melvin Gregg. Hulu has yet to announce the premiere

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 27, 2021

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‘Resident Evil’s’ Constantin Films Adapting ‘The Walk’ For A Feature Film

Constantin Films, the production company behind the Resident Evil franchise, is adapting The Walk, based on Lee Goldberg’s best-selling 2004 novel of the same name, which centers on a studio executive as he makes a journey through a post-apocalyptic California. In The Walk, described as a “part-adventure, part-horror, and part-comedy,” follows TV Network Studio Executive Marty Slack, making his way from downtown LA to the San Fernando Valley to reach his wife after an apocalyptic earthquake destroys the state. During his journey, he must reluctantly team up with an “unusual traveler” to survive, Deadline reports. Wildfires rage out of control. Floodwaters burst through collapsed dams. Natural gas explosions consume neighborhoods. Sinkholes swallow entire buildings. After-shocks rip apart the ground. Looters rampage through the streets. There’s no power. No running water. No order. Marty Slack thinks he’s prepared. He’s wrong. Nothing can prepare him for this ordeal, a quest for his family and for his soul, a journey that will test

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 26, 2021

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New DC Horror Imprint “The Conjuring: The Lover” To Serve As A Prelude To The Conjuring 3

DC HORROR has launched the new graphic novel The Conjuring: The Lover, a prelude to New Line Cinema’s highly anticipated third entry of The Conjuring franchise, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It whose trailer was released just yesterday. The new 17+ imprint from DC and Warner Bros. will deliver a new level of suspense and terror that will leave readers sleeping with the lights on. The Conjuring: The Lover is a five-issue limited series with one issue being released each month, setting up the next installment of the massive franchise, The Conjuring 3. Co-written by The Conjuring 2 and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It screenwriter David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick and New York best-selling author Rex Ogle (Death of Wolverine: Life After Logan, Teen Titans) the imprint features art by Garry Brown (Babyteeth). Bill Sienkiewicz did the main cover with a variant by Ryan Brown (Dark Nights). From early titles like House of Mystery and House of

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 23, 2021

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Austrian Spencer’s ‘The Sadeiest’ Will Change You – Book Review

Plot Austrian Spencer attacks his plot head on and it is powerful. This book really is unlike any other book I have read, it is strange, unique, gritty, difficult, beautiful, and phenomenal. Obviously a book about death is not a new concept, but the way that Spencer builds his story around this topic is where the uniqueness sits. I have often found (and enjoyed) authors using common horror tropes and putting their own spins on accepted mythologies, but this novel does so much more. It made me think not only about death, but about the inevitability, pain, variety, and reality of HOW death happens…and what comes next. This book digs deep into what death is and what happens surrounding this universally shared experience. Characters Much like with his plot, Spencer avoids using stock or stereotypical characters. Each character is strong and realistic. There are no filler characters. It must have been absolutely painstaking to fully flush out each character’s story,

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Capt McNeely

Apr 16, 2021

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New Stunning Images Surface from Stephen King’s Series “Lisey’s Story’

Apple has revealed that “Lisey’s Story,” the highly-anticipated limited series based on the best-selling novel by Stephen King who penned each episode of the series himself, will make its global debut this June exclusively on Apple TV+ this summer. Featuring a star-studded cast led by Academy Award-winner Julianne Moore and Academy Award-nominee Clive Owen, the eight-episode Original series will premiere with the first two episodes, followed by new episodes every Friday. “Lisey’s Story” is a deeply personal, pensive thriller that follows Lisey Landon (played by Julianne Moore) two years after the death of her husband, famous novelist Scott Landon (played by Clive Owen). A series of unsettling events causes Lisey to face memories of her marriage to Scott that she has deliberately blocked out of her mind.” Joan Allen, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Dane DeHaan, Ron Cephas Jones, and Sung Kang star alongside Moore and Owen. Directed by Pablo Larraín, “Lisey’s Story” hails from J. J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions and

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 15, 2021

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6 Dollar Shirts: Horror, Pop-Culture, And More On A Budget!

I want to give a big thank you to 6 Dollar Shirts for making this review possible! Have you ever seen a shirt and liked the art or message but were hesitant to get it because buying it would affect your spending budget? Well, there’s a site where you can find a shirt that expresses your thoughts OR show your love towards a show, movie, or other pop culture references for a decent price. Let me introduce you to 6 Dollar Shirts. 6 Dollar Shirts sells t-shirts for $6 (hence the name), but they also have other shirts that cost a little more, but you can also have the design you like to put on other things besides t-shirts such as hoodies, tank tops, etc. With all the designs based on many topics, of course, I found some horror ones to try out! What I like about the shirts is that they are really good conversation starters as the shirts

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Capt McNeely

Apr 5, 2021

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First Look: New Comic ‘Lycan’ From Thomas Jane Announced

Renegade Entertainment, co-founded by Courtney Lauren Penn and Thomas Jane, is teaming with AfterShock Comics, the industry’s fastest-growing independent publishing company, to introduce an all-new comic property titled “Lycan,” with a script by comic book legend Mike Carey (Lucifer, The Girl with All the Gifts) and based on a story by David James Kelly (Logan, Robin Hood), and Thomas Jane (The Punisher, The Mist). “Set in the year of Our Lord 1777: A hardened band of international big game hunters returning from Africa are shipwrecked off a small British island. In exchange for new supplies and the repairing of their good ship The Calydonian, Lord Ludgate engages the men for a task they are particularly well suited for: find the Berserking Beast that has been eating his subjects, including a group of young Benedictine Nuns, and destroy it.” Thomas Jane brings a breadth of experience from the comic book world to this new venture in partnership with AfterShock. In addition

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Mar 24, 2021

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Short Story Collection ‘A – Z of Horror: D Is For Demon’ Is Out Now

The book The A-Z of Horror Book Four: D is for Demons is here from Red Cape Publishing comes the book that is now out on Audible and iTunes. Narrated by Bill Perry, also available are A is for Aliens, B is for Beasts, and C is for Cannibals. D is for Demons, the fourth book in an epic series of twenty-six horror anthologies. Within these pages, you will find a collection of thirteen terrifying stories from some of the finest independent writers on the scene today. From the disturbing to the humorous, from the gruesome to the psychological, D is for Demons contains a range of unsettling stories that will make you sleep with the lights on! D is for Demons includes stories by Jessica Clem, Matt Doyle, Carmilla Voiez, Lesley Drane, David Green, P.J. Blakey-Novis, Molly Thynes, D.S. Ullery, Bryan Miller, J. Herrera Kamin, Mark Anthony Smith, Charles R. Bernard, and Dona Fox. Check out Horror Book Four:

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Mar 23, 2021

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Keanu Reeves Starring In Netflix’s Adaptation Of His Comic ‘BRZRKR’

Fans of the John Wick franchise and its star Keanu Reeves will be excited to learn that Reeves will be starring in Netflix’s new live-action adaptation of his hit comic, BRZRKR. Netflix is also currently developing an anime series on the same comic that will also star and be produced by Reeves. Exciting news! Netflix is developing a live-action film AND follow-up anime series based on Keanu Reeves’ BRZRKR, a brutally epic saga about an immortal warrior’s 80,000 year fight through the ages. Reeves will produce and star in the film, and voice the anime,” Netflix confirmed in a new statement. Reeves created the comic that is written by Reeves and Matt Kindt with art by Ron Garney. BRZRKR originally started on Kickstarter before BOOM! Studios picked it up. The first issue of the 12-issue limited series was released this March. The comic follows an immortal warrior, known as Berzerker, as he fights his way through the ages seeking only

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Mar 22, 2021

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Oscar-Winner Adrien Brody Starring In Epix’s Series Adaption Of Stephen King’s ‘Jerusalem’s Lot’

A new series adaptation of Stephen King‘s story Jerusalem’s Lot is coming to Epix and we’ve got the new spooky AF poster above). The ten-episode series, titled “Chapelwaite” will star Oscar-winner Adrien Brody (The Pianist, “Peaky Blinders”) and “Schitt’s Creek” actress Emily Hampshire. Hampshire stars as Rebecca Morgan, an ambitious young woman who left the town of Preacher’s Corners to attend college. When she returns home to write a story for the prestigious Atlantic Magazine she finds herself with writer’s block that lifts when Boone (Brody) comes to town along with his children. Ignoring her mother’s protests she applies to be the governess of the Chapelwaite manor for the Boone family. There she not only writes a great gothic novel, but she also begins to unravel a mystery that has plagued her family and his for years. Flatliners and Salem’s Lot writer Peter Filardi is writing the series along with his brother Jason Filardi (Bringing Down the House). They will

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Mar 21, 2021

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