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Lennert Hillege and Guido van Driel‘s acclaimed Dutch action-thriller Bloody Marie is headed to theaters and On Demand this November. Ahead of its arrival, we have a brand new brutal clip. Shortlisted as one of the nine films in contention to be the Dutch entry for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, the film is anchored by a head-turning performance by German actress Susanne Wolff (Styx). Marie, once a successful graphic novelist, lives in the Amsterdam red-light district. She drinks too much and gets into one conflict after another. A horrific incident in the house next door forces her to take action and get her life back on course. Bloody Marie will hit select theaters November 1st and will be available On Demand Nov 11th, from Uncork’d Entertainment.
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Indie game publisher Versus Evil and indie Romanian game developer Breadcrumbs Interactive have announced today the release date for their upcoming Slavic Mythology inspired RPG, YAGA. YAGA is a 2D RPG that follows our hero Ivan, a one-handed blacksmith with the worse luck in the world and things are about to get stranger for him! The Tzar has given Ivan a task that will lead him to face all sorts of mythological creatures and legendary figures of Slavic Folklore, all the while the infamous Baba Yaga monitors Ivan’s fate. Gameplay is never the same twice as the map always changes, encounters with characters and monsters are random, and choices players make for Ivan can affect the outcome of events as well as what items he can forge with supplies he collects from the world around him multiple ways, and if you’re wondering, yes, there are multiple endings! The hand-drawn epic adventure YAGA will be coming out on November 12th on
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Ahh the Hellraiser series; so iconic and flat out awesome (well at first anyway) it is that it needs no introduction, as I’m sure each and everyone of you creeps has parked your pasty asses in front of it at one time or another. But, just in case there is someone reading this that has no idea what I’m talking about; here’s the elevator pitch; there’s a puzzle box… kinda like a Rubik’s Cube that when solved unleashes emissaries from hell (that are waaay into S&M) who arrive to collect the soul of anyone stupid enough to play their game. So there’s that. Anyway; Hellraiser, I love it, you love it, Arrow has gone mega-ape shit and unleashed insane-o releases of the first two films in the series…and yeah; review time! Let’s take ‘em one by one and kick it off with the original recipe Hellraiser! Poor Kirsty Cotton (Ashley Laurence); all she wants to do is visit her Dad
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Hammer Legend, Veronica Carlson (Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, and The Horror of Frankenstein) has signed on to star as Dr. Whittingham in Anthony Calvitti‘s new film, Night of the Devil. She is joined by an outstanding cast that already includes Lauren LaVera (Terrifier 2, Clinton Road), Rachel Keefe (Vessel, Watchtower), George Williams (Dahmer on Dahmer: A Serial Killer Speaks, How to Get Away with Murder), and Richard Lyntton (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Creed). In addition to the cast, there are some other incredible attachments to this short film which includes Illustrator Graham Humphreys (Drawing Blood: 30 Years Of Horror Art), and a soundtrack that features authentic sounds of 1970’s hard rock with music by Cactus and Black Sabbath. Set in 1978, the film centers on four teens who enter the woods the night before Halloween and come face to face with the Devil.
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Kurtis David Harder‘s (Incontrol) thriller Sprial is set to make its U.S. premiere at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival October 22nd following a celebrated World Premiere at London’s FrightFest this past Summer. Ahead of its premiere we have a brand new clip! “Set in the 90s – Malik and Aaron, a same-sex couple struggle to raise their sixteen-year-old daughter Kayla after moving to a small town filled with mysterious secrets. Within weeks of arriving, a hate crime is committed in their home – sending Malik into a state of heightened paranoia. As he investigates the town he slowly starts to uncover that something much more sinister lies beneath its friendly facade.” “The film harnesses the dread of reality in a unique socio-political frame and confronts society’s ever eagerness to sanction off an ‘other’- and turns it into a chilling horror fable with strong gay characters in the lead.” Spiral stars Ari Cohen, Lochlyn Munroe and Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman of “American Horror
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Carrie meets It Follows in the female-driven film Marla, a spine-chilling new horror experience from writer-director Lisa van Dam-Bates. Starring Dam-Bates, Travis Johnny Ware, Jason Stange, and Katie Hemming, the film explores the terrifying account of a girl who goes to get an IUD implanted by a family friend turned doctor who then commits a deranged act and the event has deadly implications for all those close to her. Marla premieres on digital and DVD November 5th from High Octane Pictures.
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PC players will be happy to know that this Halloween that indie game developer Straight Back Games, is hosting an open Beta of their upcoming co-op game The Watchers. The beta starts Halloween and ends on November 3rd. If players are interested in signing up for the Beta, they can join The Watchers Discord and sign up in the #beta-signup channel. Each sign up will get two keys so they can play with a friend online. The Watchers follows twins Luisa and Frederico as they search for clues relating to the disappearance of their mother who was a cult leader. Their search will take them to the now-abandoned headquarters of the cult known as The Watchers of Azazel who’ve vanished after the twins’ mother became the cult’s new leader. The game is co-op and requires teamwork in order to solve puzzles, find objects, and avoid enemies that lurk around. Though there’s no jump scares in the game, it will have
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This November, writer-director Frank Sabatella is taking viewers to The Shed where two friends find a dark solution to their bully problems. Jay Jay Warren, Cody Kostro, Sofia Happonen, Timothy Bottoms, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, and Frank Whaley star. In the film, Stan and his best friend Dommer have put up with bullies their entire lives. All of that changes when Stan discovers he has a murderous vampire living in his shed. Seeing the bloodshed and destruction the monster is capable of, Stan knows he has to find a way to destroy it. But Dommer has a much more sinister plan in mind. The Shed opens in theaters, arrives on Digital and On Demand on November 15, 2019, from RLJE Films.
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Harris, a world-weary taxi driver, and his fare, Penny, find themselves trapped in an endlessly looping ride that changes their lives forever in The Fare in theaters and on Blu-ray this November. When a charming woman named Penny (Brinna Kelly) climbs into his taxi, Harris (Pesi) finds himself entranced. That is, right up until she disappears from the back seat without a trace. As he desperately tries to make sense of what happened, he resets his meter and is instantly brought back to the moment she first climbed into his cab. He and Penny find themselves trapped in an endlessly looping ride that changes their lives forever. The film has screened internationally and took home numerous awards including Special Mention Jury Award at Fantasporto in Portugal and the Director’s Prize at FilmQuest. Called “a beautifully crafted mystery” by Nightmarish Conjurings and “the cult romantic film of 2019” by Starburst Magazine, The Fare has shades of The Twilight Zone and Hitchcock
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Big Top Evil, from directors Sean Haitz and Chris Potter, is now out on VOD and Blu-ray, from Gravitas Ventures. Starring Bill Moseley (Devils Rejects, 3 From Hell), J. LaRose (Saw III, Insidious), Sean Haitz, Jisaura Cardinale, and Austin Judd, the film, written by Sean Haitz and John Morrisey, follows five disparate youths, on a road trip to the location of the infamous ‘mangrove slasher,’ who end up being pursued by a cadre of cannibal clowns. Big Top Evil is executive produced by Sharon Carole and produced by Sean Haitz.
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Lennert Hillege and Guido van Driel‘s acclaimed Dutch action-thriller Bloody Marie is headed to theaters and On Demand this November. Ahead of its arrival, we have a brand new brutal clip. Shortlisted as one of the nine films in contention to be the Dutch entry for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, the film is anchored by a head-turning performance by German actress Susanne Wolff (Styx). Marie, once a successful graphic novelist, lives in the Amsterdam red-light district. She drinks too much and gets into one conflict after another. A horrific incident in the house next door forces her to take action and get her life back on course. Bloody Marie will hit select theaters November 1st and will be available On Demand Nov 11th, from Uncork’d Entertainment.
Continue reading →
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Indie game publisher Versus Evil and indie Romanian game developer Breadcrumbs Interactive have announced today the release date for their upcoming Slavic Mythology inspired RPG, YAGA. YAGA is a 2D RPG that follows our hero Ivan, a one-handed blacksmith with the worse luck in the world and things are about to get stranger for him! The Tzar has given Ivan a task that will lead him to face all sorts of mythological creatures and legendary figures of Slavic Folklore, all the while the infamous Baba Yaga monitors Ivan’s fate. Gameplay is never the same twice as the map always changes, encounters with characters and monsters are random, and choices players make for Ivan can affect the outcome of events as well as what items he can forge with supplies he collects from the world around him multiple ways, and if you’re wondering, yes, there are multiple endings! The hand-drawn epic adventure YAGA will be coming out on November 12th on
Continue reading →
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Ahh the Hellraiser series; so iconic and flat out awesome (well at first anyway) it is that it needs no introduction, as I’m sure each and everyone of you creeps has parked your pasty asses in front of it at one time or another. But, just in case there is someone reading this that has no idea what I’m talking about; here’s the elevator pitch; there’s a puzzle box… kinda like a Rubik’s Cube that when solved unleashes emissaries from hell (that are waaay into S&M) who arrive to collect the soul of anyone stupid enough to play their game. So there’s that. Anyway; Hellraiser, I love it, you love it, Arrow has gone mega-ape shit and unleashed insane-o releases of the first two films in the series…and yeah; review time! Let’s take ‘em one by one and kick it off with the original recipe Hellraiser! Poor Kirsty Cotton (Ashley Laurence); all she wants to do is visit her Dad
Continue reading →
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Hammer Legend, Veronica Carlson (Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, and The Horror of Frankenstein) has signed on to star as Dr. Whittingham in Anthony Calvitti‘s new film, Night of the Devil. She is joined by an outstanding cast that already includes Lauren LaVera (Terrifier 2, Clinton Road), Rachel Keefe (Vessel, Watchtower), George Williams (Dahmer on Dahmer: A Serial Killer Speaks, How to Get Away with Murder), and Richard Lyntton (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Creed). In addition to the cast, there are some other incredible attachments to this short film which includes Illustrator Graham Humphreys (Drawing Blood: 30 Years Of Horror Art), and a soundtrack that features authentic sounds of 1970’s hard rock with music by Cactus and Black Sabbath. Set in 1978, the film centers on four teens who enter the woods the night before Halloween and come face to face with the Devil.
Continue reading →
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Kurtis David Harder‘s (Incontrol) thriller Sprial is set to make its U.S. premiere at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival October 22nd following a celebrated World Premiere at London’s FrightFest this past Summer. Ahead of its premiere we have a brand new clip! “Set in the 90s – Malik and Aaron, a same-sex couple struggle to raise their sixteen-year-old daughter Kayla after moving to a small town filled with mysterious secrets. Within weeks of arriving, a hate crime is committed in their home – sending Malik into a state of heightened paranoia. As he investigates the town he slowly starts to uncover that something much more sinister lies beneath its friendly facade.” “The film harnesses the dread of reality in a unique socio-political frame and confronts society’s ever eagerness to sanction off an ‘other’- and turns it into a chilling horror fable with strong gay characters in the lead.” Spiral stars Ari Cohen, Lochlyn Munroe and Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman of “American Horror
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Carrie meets It Follows in the female-driven film Marla, a spine-chilling new horror experience from writer-director Lisa van Dam-Bates. Starring Dam-Bates, Travis Johnny Ware, Jason Stange, and Katie Hemming, the film explores the terrifying account of a girl who goes to get an IUD implanted by a family friend turned doctor who then commits a deranged act and the event has deadly implications for all those close to her. Marla premieres on digital and DVD November 5th from High Octane Pictures.
Continue reading →
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PC players will be happy to know that this Halloween that indie game developer Straight Back Games, is hosting an open Beta of their upcoming co-op game The Watchers. The beta starts Halloween and ends on November 3rd. If players are interested in signing up for the Beta, they can join The Watchers Discord and sign up in the #beta-signup channel. Each sign up will get two keys so they can play with a friend online. The Watchers follows twins Luisa and Frederico as they search for clues relating to the disappearance of their mother who was a cult leader. Their search will take them to the now-abandoned headquarters of the cult known as The Watchers of Azazel who’ve vanished after the twins’ mother became the cult’s new leader. The game is co-op and requires teamwork in order to solve puzzles, find objects, and avoid enemies that lurk around. Though there’s no jump scares in the game, it will have
Continue reading →
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This November, writer-director Frank Sabatella is taking viewers to The Shed where two friends find a dark solution to their bully problems. Jay Jay Warren, Cody Kostro, Sofia Happonen, Timothy Bottoms, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, and Frank Whaley star. In the film, Stan and his best friend Dommer have put up with bullies their entire lives. All of that changes when Stan discovers he has a murderous vampire living in his shed. Seeing the bloodshed and destruction the monster is capable of, Stan knows he has to find a way to destroy it. But Dommer has a much more sinister plan in mind. The Shed opens in theaters, arrives on Digital and On Demand on November 15, 2019, from RLJE Films.
Continue reading →
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Harris, a world-weary taxi driver, and his fare, Penny, find themselves trapped in an endlessly looping ride that changes their lives forever in The Fare in theaters and on Blu-ray this November. When a charming woman named Penny (Brinna Kelly) climbs into his taxi, Harris (Pesi) finds himself entranced. That is, right up until she disappears from the back seat without a trace. As he desperately tries to make sense of what happened, he resets his meter and is instantly brought back to the moment she first climbed into his cab. He and Penny find themselves trapped in an endlessly looping ride that changes their lives forever. The film has screened internationally and took home numerous awards including Special Mention Jury Award at Fantasporto in Portugal and the Director’s Prize at FilmQuest. Called “a beautifully crafted mystery” by Nightmarish Conjurings and “the cult romantic film of 2019” by Starburst Magazine, The Fare has shades of The Twilight Zone and Hitchcock
Continue reading →
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Big Top Evil, from directors Sean Haitz and Chris Potter, is now out on VOD and Blu-ray, from Gravitas Ventures. Starring Bill Moseley (Devils Rejects, 3 From Hell), J. LaRose (Saw III, Insidious), Sean Haitz, Jisaura Cardinale, and Austin Judd, the film, written by Sean Haitz and John Morrisey, follows five disparate youths, on a road trip to the location of the infamous ‘mangrove slasher,’ who end up being pursued by a cadre of cannibal clowns. Big Top Evil is executive produced by Sharon Carole and produced by Sean Haitz.
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