CategoryHoliday Horror
Christmas, Thanksgiving and holiday horror — seasonal frights that turn festive traditions dark.
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Holiday HorrorTrailers
Devilworks has gifted us we the first trailer for the holiday horror film Sick for Toys, starring “American Horror Story” actor Jon Paul Burkhart. Directed by David Del Rio and co-written by Justin Xavier and James Andrew Oster, the film tells the story of Roy, who accepts an invitation to have Christmas dinner with a beautiful and strangely alluring woman. Once at dinner, he realizes that his date and her oddball brother are not what they seem & he soon ends up fighting for his life. Jon Paul Burkhart and David Gunning Executive produced and co-star in the film. Camille Montgomery, Justin Xavier, Melanie Thompson, and Morgana Shaw co-star. Sick for Toys will be out later this year.
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Hulu has unveiled new details about their genre series “Into the Dark” from Blumhouse Television, including the premiere date, the cast, and plot. Starring Dermot Mulroney (Insidious 3), the series, which will run year-round, will release a new feature-length episode on the first Friday of every month. Every episode is inspired by a holiday from that month. For example, the October episode will be Halloween themed. The first episode of “Into the Dark”, titled “The Body”, will premiere on October 5, 2018. The episode, ” follows a sophisticated, overconfident hitman who always carries out his work in style. He decides to take things even further one day by transporting his latest victim in plain sight, correctly assuming that self-absorbed LA partiers will simply be enamored with his elaborate “costume”. Eventually, as his window of opportunity to dispose of the body begins to close, Wilkes’ true colors reveal themselves to some groupies that have latched on to him. It becomes a
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Holiday HorrorMovies
It’s always a good day here in the Crypt O’ XIII when I get to slap my putrid peepers on a new film from Izzy Lee (creator of one of my favorite short fright flicks of all time; Innsmouth), so let’s take a look at her new picture; My Monster! My Monster tells the Yuletide-set tale of Lily (Brea Grant) and her well-meaning lunkhead of a partner Rob (Adam Egypt Mortimer) who must contend with the fact that our heroine is having some seriously disturbing visions…namely of a figure calling to her from outside of her window each night. Well come to find out, this is no mere apparition, rather it is a creature from another dimension who has arrived on our plane of existence with a sinister purpose, that once fulfilled leads to delightfully absurd results! Filled with great paradigm shifting story elements, a cool, practically realized monster, a strong cast, and an unexpected sense of fun; My Monster
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Holiday HorrorTrailers
What better way to celebrate 4/20 than with the 4/20 Massacre (review) which will be making its theatrical debut in California. But don’t worry if you can’t make it or you’d rather stay at home where you can puff away while you watch it on DVD or Amazon. Suspense, smoke, and a killer are headed your way with 4/20 Massacre, starring Jamie Bernadette (interview) and Justine Wachsberger. The first-ever “stoner slasher” pits hot young stars against cinema’s next iconic monster in this horror film that arrives just in time for the official holiday of weed enthusiasts. From writer-director Dylan Reynolds comes a tale of five women on a camping trip celebrating their friend’s birthday over the 4/20 weekend. When the group accidentally crosses the path of an illegal pot farm they must fight to survive a living nightmare. Jamie Bernadette (I Spit on Your Grave: Déjà Vu, Killing Joan), Vanessa Rose Parker (Samurai Cop 2), Justine Wachsberger (Divergent), Stacey Danger
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In South Wales, not just Santa is expected to stop by your home for the holidays, keep an ear out; here comes the Mari Lwyd (Gray Mare)! Mari Lwyd is a Hobby Horse, those toy horses that was basically a stick with a stuff horse head on one end, the Welsh kept the stick but have a horse skull on the end of it! Just to add to it, a person carries the stick with the skull on it while draped in a white cloth most commonly giving the appearance that the Mari Lwyd is a tall cloaked figure with a horse skill sticking out from the hood. Depictions of “hooded animals” are quite common in the British Isles thanks to its pre-Christian Pagan beliefs which causes confusion when trying to track down the origin of this tradition since the first recorded account of this tradition appears in the 1800’s and scholars and folklore experts can’t seem to agree if
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Christmas time is here and gifts are coming from the folks at Techland in the form of Elf-dressed Zombies in ‘Dying Light’ the first-person survival horror game where players can craft weapons and use parkour skills to survive a zombie outbreak in a quarantined city. As of the 22nd of December, a community challenge called ‘Sharing is Caring’ where players have to treat the festive-looking zombies “naughty” enough to get 1 of 8 presents before the challenge ends on New Years Day. Basically what you have to do is play ‘Dying Light’ go to either Old Town or the Slums and start your journey and locate the festive zombies in green shirts and red and white striped pants, kill them and loot their bodies of Christmas candy! The best tactic I use to get close enough to these guys is to disguise myself (hence the yellow screen on the pic) so you’re invisible to the zombies and you just sneak
Continue reading →
Holiday HorrorMovies
‘Tis the season and all that, but if you’re like your’s cruelly there’s entirely too many good tidings floating around (not to mention some truly dreadful music assaulting our eerie ear-holes). To that end let’s say we make things a tad more Ho Ho Horrible with a selection of sinister short fright flicks!
Continue reading →
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Mark your calendars, the long-awaited DLC ‘Not a Hero’ for Capcom’s critically acclaimed hit, ‘Resident Evil 7: Biohazard’ is coming next week! The game was released in January of 2017 and scared many veteran fans of the game series where the game’s mechanics have changed from being a third-person action survival horror game to a first-person horror game. At the end of the game players meet a character who said his name was “Redfield”, a surname familiar with fans of the series which lead to speculations of whether or not the character is a member of the Redfield family or not since the helicopter he rode in on has the new looking Umbrella Co. logo on it (Umbrella is an organization that plays the role of the reoccurring antagonists in the game series). After the game credits players are hit with a teaser picture of Redfield in action as it’s announcing that in spring of 2017 the DLC Not a
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Holiday HorrorTrailers
Christmas is right around the corner and so is the release of Once Upon a Time at Christmas, the new violence-fueled holiday film from director Paul Tanter. Sayla de Goede and Simon Philips star as the way too jolly, murderous couple. Brook Fletcher, Laurel Brady, Jeff Ellenberger, Devon Mary Doherty, and Christina Vernucci co-star. Christopher Jolley, Simon Philips, and Paul Tanter penned the script. The film hails from the team behind The Last Scout, White Collar Hooligan series, and the vampiric TV series Age of the Living Dead. In the film we meet Santa and Mrs. Claus: he’s a one-eyed fiend, she’s a curvy, bat-swinging blonde. This serial-killer couple is terrorizing the holidays in an upstate New York town with a series of horrific homicides. Though the victims seem random — a mall Santa, a smooching couple, an innocent family — high-schooler Jennifer and clever cop Sam begin to unravel the sinister pattern behind the slayings. Can they stop the
Continue reading →
Holiday HorrorTrailers
With Christmas approaching, it’s time for new holiday-themed horror films to unveil trailers, and announce release dates. Today, we have the first teaser for Stirring. Stirring is the second film from Fight Meter Films and writer-director-producer Troy Escamilla following his award-winning directorial debut Party Night. Brinke Stevens (Slumber Party Massacre), Helene Udy (My Bloody Valentine), Mel Heflin (Katherine), and Kaylee Williams (Model Hunger) star. In the film, students attending a Christmas party at a sorority house with a sinister past are stalked by a bloodthirsty killer dressed as Mrs. Claus.
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Holiday HorrorTrailers
Devilworks has gifted us we the first trailer for the holiday horror film Sick for Toys, starring “American Horror Story” actor Jon Paul Burkhart. Directed by David Del Rio and co-written by Justin Xavier and James Andrew Oster, the film tells the story of Roy, who accepts an invitation to have Christmas dinner with a beautiful and strangely alluring woman. Once at dinner, he realizes that his date and her oddball brother are not what they seem & he soon ends up fighting for his life. Jon Paul Burkhart and David Gunning Executive produced and co-star in the film. Camille Montgomery, Justin Xavier, Melanie Thompson, and Morgana Shaw co-star. Sick for Toys will be out later this year.
Continue reading →
HalloweenHoliday HorrorHuluNewsStreaming TV
Hulu has unveiled new details about their genre series “Into the Dark” from Blumhouse Television, including the premiere date, the cast, and plot. Starring Dermot Mulroney (Insidious 3), the series, which will run year-round, will release a new feature-length episode on the first Friday of every month. Every episode is inspired by a holiday from that month. For example, the October episode will be Halloween themed. The first episode of “Into the Dark”, titled “The Body”, will premiere on October 5, 2018. The episode, ” follows a sophisticated, overconfident hitman who always carries out his work in style. He decides to take things even further one day by transporting his latest victim in plain sight, correctly assuming that self-absorbed LA partiers will simply be enamored with his elaborate “costume”. Eventually, as his window of opportunity to dispose of the body begins to close, Wilkes’ true colors reveal themselves to some groupies that have latched on to him. It becomes a
Continue reading →
Holiday HorrorMovies
It’s always a good day here in the Crypt O’ XIII when I get to slap my putrid peepers on a new film from Izzy Lee (creator of one of my favorite short fright flicks of all time; Innsmouth), so let’s take a look at her new picture; My Monster! My Monster tells the Yuletide-set tale of Lily (Brea Grant) and her well-meaning lunkhead of a partner Rob (Adam Egypt Mortimer) who must contend with the fact that our heroine is having some seriously disturbing visions…namely of a figure calling to her from outside of her window each night. Well come to find out, this is no mere apparition, rather it is a creature from another dimension who has arrived on our plane of existence with a sinister purpose, that once fulfilled leads to delightfully absurd results! Filled with great paradigm shifting story elements, a cool, practically realized monster, a strong cast, and an unexpected sense of fun; My Monster
Continue reading →
Holiday HorrorTrailers
What better way to celebrate 4/20 than with the 4/20 Massacre (review) which will be making its theatrical debut in California. But don’t worry if you can’t make it or you’d rather stay at home where you can puff away while you watch it on DVD or Amazon. Suspense, smoke, and a killer are headed your way with 4/20 Massacre, starring Jamie Bernadette (interview) and Justine Wachsberger. The first-ever “stoner slasher” pits hot young stars against cinema’s next iconic monster in this horror film that arrives just in time for the official holiday of weed enthusiasts. From writer-director Dylan Reynolds comes a tale of five women on a camping trip celebrating their friend’s birthday over the 4/20 weekend. When the group accidentally crosses the path of an illegal pot farm they must fight to survive a living nightmare. Jamie Bernadette (I Spit on Your Grave: Déjà Vu, Killing Joan), Vanessa Rose Parker (Samurai Cop 2), Justine Wachsberger (Divergent), Stacey Danger
Continue reading →
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In South Wales, not just Santa is expected to stop by your home for the holidays, keep an ear out; here comes the Mari Lwyd (Gray Mare)! Mari Lwyd is a Hobby Horse, those toy horses that was basically a stick with a stuff horse head on one end, the Welsh kept the stick but have a horse skull on the end of it! Just to add to it, a person carries the stick with the skull on it while draped in a white cloth most commonly giving the appearance that the Mari Lwyd is a tall cloaked figure with a horse skill sticking out from the hood. Depictions of “hooded animals” are quite common in the British Isles thanks to its pre-Christian Pagan beliefs which causes confusion when trying to track down the origin of this tradition since the first recorded account of this tradition appears in the 1800’s and scholars and folklore experts can’t seem to agree if
Continue reading →
EventsGamingHoliday HorrorNewsProduct
Christmas time is here and gifts are coming from the folks at Techland in the form of Elf-dressed Zombies in ‘Dying Light’ the first-person survival horror game where players can craft weapons and use parkour skills to survive a zombie outbreak in a quarantined city. As of the 22nd of December, a community challenge called ‘Sharing is Caring’ where players have to treat the festive-looking zombies “naughty” enough to get 1 of 8 presents before the challenge ends on New Years Day. Basically what you have to do is play ‘Dying Light’ go to either Old Town or the Slums and start your journey and locate the festive zombies in green shirts and red and white striped pants, kill them and loot their bodies of Christmas candy! The best tactic I use to get close enough to these guys is to disguise myself (hence the yellow screen on the pic) so you’re invisible to the zombies and you just sneak
Continue reading →
Holiday HorrorMovies
‘Tis the season and all that, but if you’re like your’s cruelly there’s entirely too many good tidings floating around (not to mention some truly dreadful music assaulting our eerie ear-holes). To that end let’s say we make things a tad more Ho Ho Horrible with a selection of sinister short fright flicks!
Continue reading →
GamingHoliday HorrorNewsProduct
Mark your calendars, the long-awaited DLC ‘Not a Hero’ for Capcom’s critically acclaimed hit, ‘Resident Evil 7: Biohazard’ is coming next week! The game was released in January of 2017 and scared many veteran fans of the game series where the game’s mechanics have changed from being a third-person action survival horror game to a first-person horror game. At the end of the game players meet a character who said his name was “Redfield”, a surname familiar with fans of the series which lead to speculations of whether or not the character is a member of the Redfield family or not since the helicopter he rode in on has the new looking Umbrella Co. logo on it (Umbrella is an organization that plays the role of the reoccurring antagonists in the game series). After the game credits players are hit with a teaser picture of Redfield in action as it’s announcing that in spring of 2017 the DLC Not a
Continue reading →
Holiday HorrorTrailers
Christmas is right around the corner and so is the release of Once Upon a Time at Christmas, the new violence-fueled holiday film from director Paul Tanter. Sayla de Goede and Simon Philips star as the way too jolly, murderous couple. Brook Fletcher, Laurel Brady, Jeff Ellenberger, Devon Mary Doherty, and Christina Vernucci co-star. Christopher Jolley, Simon Philips, and Paul Tanter penned the script. The film hails from the team behind The Last Scout, White Collar Hooligan series, and the vampiric TV series Age of the Living Dead. In the film we meet Santa and Mrs. Claus: he’s a one-eyed fiend, she’s a curvy, bat-swinging blonde. This serial-killer couple is terrorizing the holidays in an upstate New York town with a series of horrific homicides. Though the victims seem random — a mall Santa, a smooching couple, an innocent family — high-schooler Jennifer and clever cop Sam begin to unravel the sinister pattern behind the slayings. Can they stop the
Continue reading →
Holiday HorrorTrailers
With Christmas approaching, it’s time for new holiday-themed horror films to unveil trailers, and announce release dates. Today, we have the first teaser for Stirring. Stirring is the second film from Fight Meter Films and writer-director-producer Troy Escamilla following his award-winning directorial debut Party Night. Brinke Stevens (Slumber Party Massacre), Helene Udy (My Bloody Valentine), Mel Heflin (Katherine), and Kaylee Williams (Model Hunger) star. In the film, students attending a Christmas party at a sorority house with a sinister past are stalked by a bloodthirsty killer dressed as Mrs. Claus.
Continue reading →
