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When I received Michael Broom‘s debut graphic novel “Membrane” I was extremely excited. You see, I’ve been following Broom’s social media accounts since I interviewed him back in 2017 about his work with KNB and on “The Walking Dead”. The incredible artist has been teasing the graphic novel and his children’s book “Sky Rats” and its sequel for a while. I’m glad to finally have the book in hand. The novel follows a military man turned criminal Called on by the government to go on a mission to another dimension, tasked with retrieving another soldier. When he arrives in the nightmare dimension his long journey begins across an alien landscape filled with strange creatures. The forward is written by none other by Greg Nicotero (“The Walking Dead”, “Creepshow”). Bio-organic flying creatures that provide light, a sword that is virtually alive, and cemeteries whose inhabitants don’t like being disturbed; Membrane has the ability to redifine everything that we have ever imagined
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Rodman Flender (Idle Hands, ‘Scream: The TV Series’) brought Gunpowder & Sky, ALTER, DIGA Studios, and Full Fathom Five’s zombie rom-com Eat, Brains, Love to viewers digitally on Valentine’s day. The flick, based on the novel of the same name by Jeff Hart, follows stoner loser Jake, and cheerleader captain Amanda after they become zombies and are on the run from a government organization that uses Psychics to find and kill Zombies. The problem is, one of the best psychics in the organization is falling in love with Jake. There are spoilers ahead but if you just want my final thought you can scroll down to the end. SPOILERS AHEAD! The film is told through narration by Jake (Jake Cannavale) and the psychic teenage government worker Cass (Sarah Yarkin) which at times also doubles as an inner monologue. Jake contracts a zombie virus, which in the film is sexually transmitted, and changes into a zombie in a crowded cafeteria; he’s
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Netflix’s new series “October Faction” has it all, action, monsters, love, drama, magic. The series’ creator Damian Kindler (“American Gods”, “Sleepy Hollow”) took us inside the series and it’s making during our interview, which I’d love to share with you. Based on the graphic novel by Steve Niles, the series follows a family of monster hunters and their teen twins who discover that their parents are monster hunters which sends their lives spiraling into chaos. “October Faction” is produced by High Park Entertainment in association with IDW Entertainment. IDW Entertainment is the worldwide distributor (excluding Canada) for the series. “October Faction” builds on the success of IDW Publishing’s comic book series written by Steve Niles. Horror Fuel: “I’ve been watching October Faction. I’m really digging it. How difficult was it to adapt the series from the books?” Damian Kindler: “When you are doing something with this much story involved, you want as much time and as much money as possible
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Ahead of being published on February 18th, Meg Gardiner‘s novel The Dark Corners of the Night, the third book in a series, has already been picked up for a series adaptation with Amazon Studios acquiring the rights earlier this week, according to Deadline. “The first book, UNSUB, follows a female detective on the trail of an infamous serial killer – inspired by the still-unsolved Zodiac case – who breaks his silence and begins killing again. The detective grew up watching her father destroy himself and his family as he chased the killer, and now finds herself confronting the same monster her father failed to catch.” “In the third book, The Dark Corners of The Night, the heroine has risen through the ranks to become a Behavioral Analysts for the FBI and is on the hunt for a serial killer who targets families, killing the parents and leaving the children alive to witness the unspeakable horror.” Larry Trilling (“Goliath”) will serve
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Osgood Perkins has become a heavy hitter in the horror genre, delivering films like The Blackcoat’s Daughter, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, and Gretel & Hansel, which just arrived in theaters. So, you may be wondering what’s next for Perkins. According to Bloody Disgusting, he’s next doing a loose adaptation of Paul G. Tremblay‘s A Head Full of Ghosts which won the 2015 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel. Stephen King said the novel, “Sacred the living hell out of me and I’m pretty hard to scare.” The plot of the novel involves an American family under strain when their fourteen-year-old daughter, Marjorie Barrett, exhibits signs of mental illness. The story is told from the point of view of Marjorie’s eight-year-old sister, Merry. The novel includes elements of Catholic exorcism and reality television exploitation. It’s certainly a script that I’m happy about. Whether or not that becomes a movie, you know how
Continue reading →
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Mary Shelley, known for her classic novel Frankenstein, wrote another less known novel, The Last Man, published in 1826. The novel was considered too dark for the time and was not reprinted until the 1960s. But with today’s love for horror, the tale would be a hit and is begging to be adapted. Called “a sickening repetition of horrors,” by one reviewer, the dystopian tale is set in 2100 in England. The people in the novel travel in ballons and the rest of the world is at peace, save for Greece and Turkey who are at war. Narrator, Lione Verney recounts the story of his life before becoming the last man alive after a plague sweeps the world. He witnesses the breakdown of society and the growth of doomsday cults as people struggle to find a cure for the plague, to uncover where it came from and what caused it. The Last Man was the first apocalyptic written in English
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Nothing can prepare you for the first NSFW trailer for Glenn Danzig’s blood-drenched, erotic horror Verotika. Danzig makes his directorial debut with the anthology, featuring stories from Danzig’s line of comic books of the same name that often features scantily-clad female protagonists. Alice Tate (The Kominsky Method), Sean Kanan (The Karate Kid Part III), Caroline Williams (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2) and Cody Renee Cameron (El Camino) star along with Ashley Wisdom, Natalia Borowsky, Kayden Kross, Rachel Alig, and Scotch Hopkins. Verotika debuts on VOD platforms February 25, 2020, followed by its Blu-ray and DVD release on March 3rd.
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Stephen King adaptations have never been more popular than they are today. It feels like we are reporting weekly about a new film or series based on King’s works (not that we are complaining). This time, we are here to talk about Sleeping Beauties, written by Stephen and Owen King (King’s youngest son). During the TelevisonCritics Association’s press tour AMC announced that they have given the order for the pilot episode with Stephen King and Owen King serving as executive producers alongside Michael Sugar and Ashley Zalta of Sugar23. “In a small Appalachian town, there’s a strange mystical occurrence that causes all the women to fall asleep, leaving the men to try and rescue them. But do the women want to be rescued?” We’ll keep you posted.
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CAPCOM announced today that their latest installment of the “Devil May Cry” series will be coming to Nintendo Switch in the form of a special edition and will include a new “seamless style” feature not seen so far in the series. Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition’s new “seamless style” feature allows players to have the option to pick one of six fighting styles in the game (players start with four and unlock two more during gameplay) and allow more fluid movement allowing players more of a chance to rack up SSStylish Combos. The game will also include Virgil as a playable character as well as a survival mode where players fight their way through the 9,999 floors of the Bloody Palace! The game’s series follows the adventures of Dante, a private investigator/mercenary/demon hunter who wants to rid the world of the demonic influences that killed his mother and corrupted his brother. Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition will be
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Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided me with a free copy of the Blu-ray I reviewed in this blog post. The opinions I share are my own. When I heard that a Superman based TV series was being produced that wouldn’t focus on ol’ Kal-El I was a bit perplexed (to be fair, that’s my normal state), but the end result was pretty damn fantastic (and you can read my thoughts on the matter right here). Well as fate and ratings would demand, our pals at SyFy gave us a second season of Krypton, and I’m fixin’ to slap my eyeballs on it post-haste! Season two drops the ol’ city of Kandor well and truly into the soup! Zod still has Big K in his iron grip of insanity, and he’s got a wild hair up his alien ass about conquering the entire universe in order to ensure a rebuilt Krypton’s security… a Krypton rebuilt to his exact specifications mind you!
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When I received Michael Broom‘s debut graphic novel “Membrane” I was extremely excited. You see, I’ve been following Broom’s social media accounts since I interviewed him back in 2017 about his work with KNB and on “The Walking Dead”. The incredible artist has been teasing the graphic novel and his children’s book “Sky Rats” and its sequel for a while. I’m glad to finally have the book in hand. The novel follows a military man turned criminal Called on by the government to go on a mission to another dimension, tasked with retrieving another soldier. When he arrives in the nightmare dimension his long journey begins across an alien landscape filled with strange creatures. The forward is written by none other by Greg Nicotero (“The Walking Dead”, “Creepshow”). Bio-organic flying creatures that provide light, a sword that is virtually alive, and cemeteries whose inhabitants don’t like being disturbed; Membrane has the ability to redifine everything that we have ever imagined
Continue reading →
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Rodman Flender (Idle Hands, ‘Scream: The TV Series’) brought Gunpowder & Sky, ALTER, DIGA Studios, and Full Fathom Five’s zombie rom-com Eat, Brains, Love to viewers digitally on Valentine’s day. The flick, based on the novel of the same name by Jeff Hart, follows stoner loser Jake, and cheerleader captain Amanda after they become zombies and are on the run from a government organization that uses Psychics to find and kill Zombies. The problem is, one of the best psychics in the organization is falling in love with Jake. There are spoilers ahead but if you just want my final thought you can scroll down to the end. SPOILERS AHEAD! The film is told through narration by Jake (Jake Cannavale) and the psychic teenage government worker Cass (Sarah Yarkin) which at times also doubles as an inner monologue. Jake contracts a zombie virus, which in the film is sexually transmitted, and changes into a zombie in a crowded cafeteria; he’s
Continue reading →
Comic Books/Graphic NovelsInterviewsNetflixNewsStreaming TV
Netflix’s new series “October Faction” has it all, action, monsters, love, drama, magic. The series’ creator Damian Kindler (“American Gods”, “Sleepy Hollow”) took us inside the series and it’s making during our interview, which I’d love to share with you. Based on the graphic novel by Steve Niles, the series follows a family of monster hunters and their teen twins who discover that their parents are monster hunters which sends their lives spiraling into chaos. “October Faction” is produced by High Park Entertainment in association with IDW Entertainment. IDW Entertainment is the worldwide distributor (excluding Canada) for the series. “October Faction” builds on the success of IDW Publishing’s comic book series written by Steve Niles. Horror Fuel: “I’ve been watching October Faction. I’m really digging it. How difficult was it to adapt the series from the books?” Damian Kindler: “When you are doing something with this much story involved, you want as much time and as much money as possible
Continue reading →
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Ahead of being published on February 18th, Meg Gardiner‘s novel The Dark Corners of the Night, the third book in a series, has already been picked up for a series adaptation with Amazon Studios acquiring the rights earlier this week, according to Deadline. “The first book, UNSUB, follows a female detective on the trail of an infamous serial killer – inspired by the still-unsolved Zodiac case – who breaks his silence and begins killing again. The detective grew up watching her father destroy himself and his family as he chased the killer, and now finds herself confronting the same monster her father failed to catch.” “In the third book, The Dark Corners of The Night, the heroine has risen through the ranks to become a Behavioral Analysts for the FBI and is on the hunt for a serial killer who targets families, killing the parents and leaving the children alive to witness the unspeakable horror.” Larry Trilling (“Goliath”) will serve
Continue reading →
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Osgood Perkins has become a heavy hitter in the horror genre, delivering films like The Blackcoat’s Daughter, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, and Gretel & Hansel, which just arrived in theaters. So, you may be wondering what’s next for Perkins. According to Bloody Disgusting, he’s next doing a loose adaptation of Paul G. Tremblay‘s A Head Full of Ghosts which won the 2015 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel. Stephen King said the novel, “Sacred the living hell out of me and I’m pretty hard to scare.” The plot of the novel involves an American family under strain when their fourteen-year-old daughter, Marjorie Barrett, exhibits signs of mental illness. The story is told from the point of view of Marjorie’s eight-year-old sister, Merry. The novel includes elements of Catholic exorcism and reality television exploitation. It’s certainly a script that I’m happy about. Whether or not that becomes a movie, you know how
Continue reading →
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Mary Shelley, known for her classic novel Frankenstein, wrote another less known novel, The Last Man, published in 1826. The novel was considered too dark for the time and was not reprinted until the 1960s. But with today’s love for horror, the tale would be a hit and is begging to be adapted. Called “a sickening repetition of horrors,” by one reviewer, the dystopian tale is set in 2100 in England. The people in the novel travel in ballons and the rest of the world is at peace, save for Greece and Turkey who are at war. Narrator, Lione Verney recounts the story of his life before becoming the last man alive after a plague sweeps the world. He witnesses the breakdown of society and the growth of doomsday cults as people struggle to find a cure for the plague, to uncover where it came from and what caused it. The Last Man was the first apocalyptic written in English
Continue reading →
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Nothing can prepare you for the first NSFW trailer for Glenn Danzig’s blood-drenched, erotic horror Verotika. Danzig makes his directorial debut with the anthology, featuring stories from Danzig’s line of comic books of the same name that often features scantily-clad female protagonists. Alice Tate (The Kominsky Method), Sean Kanan (The Karate Kid Part III), Caroline Williams (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2) and Cody Renee Cameron (El Camino) star along with Ashley Wisdom, Natalia Borowsky, Kayden Kross, Rachel Alig, and Scotch Hopkins. Verotika debuts on VOD platforms February 25, 2020, followed by its Blu-ray and DVD release on March 3rd.
Continue reading →
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Stephen King adaptations have never been more popular than they are today. It feels like we are reporting weekly about a new film or series based on King’s works (not that we are complaining). This time, we are here to talk about Sleeping Beauties, written by Stephen and Owen King (King’s youngest son). During the TelevisonCritics Association’s press tour AMC announced that they have given the order for the pilot episode with Stephen King and Owen King serving as executive producers alongside Michael Sugar and Ashley Zalta of Sugar23. “In a small Appalachian town, there’s a strange mystical occurrence that causes all the women to fall asleep, leaving the men to try and rescue them. But do the women want to be rescued?” We’ll keep you posted.
Continue reading →
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CAPCOM announced today that their latest installment of the “Devil May Cry” series will be coming to Nintendo Switch in the form of a special edition and will include a new “seamless style” feature not seen so far in the series. Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition’s new “seamless style” feature allows players to have the option to pick one of six fighting styles in the game (players start with four and unlock two more during gameplay) and allow more fluid movement allowing players more of a chance to rack up SSStylish Combos. The game will also include Virgil as a playable character as well as a survival mode where players fight their way through the 9,999 floors of the Bloody Palace! The game’s series follows the adventures of Dante, a private investigator/mercenary/demon hunter who wants to rid the world of the demonic influences that killed his mother and corrupted his brother. Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition will be
Continue reading →
Comic Books/Graphic NovelsReviewsStreaming TV
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided me with a free copy of the Blu-ray I reviewed in this blog post. The opinions I share are my own. When I heard that a Superman based TV series was being produced that wouldn’t focus on ol’ Kal-El I was a bit perplexed (to be fair, that’s my normal state), but the end result was pretty damn fantastic (and you can read my thoughts on the matter right here). Well as fate and ratings would demand, our pals at SyFy gave us a second season of Krypton, and I’m fixin’ to slap my eyeballs on it post-haste! Season two drops the ol’ city of Kandor well and truly into the soup! Zod still has Big K in his iron grip of insanity, and he’s got a wild hair up his alien ass about conquering the entire universe in order to ensure a rebuilt Krypton’s security… a Krypton rebuilt to his exact specifications mind you!
Continue reading →
