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Jim Henson‘s The Dark Crystal is getting a prequel via Netflix, but it isn’t his only project that is finding a new life. Henson’s dark fantasy anthology series “The Storyteller” is also on the books to get a modern reimagining. Fremantle has teamed up with The Jim Henson Company and brilliant writer, actor, director, producer Neil Gaiman (“American Gods”) for a new version, Deadline reports. “The Storyteller” which premiered back in 1987, retold European folk tales with a combination of actors and puppets. “In the new incarnation, written and executive produced by Gaiman, The Storyteller will create a mystical world combining various fairy tales and folklore.” Part of what fascinates me about The Storyteller is the stuff that we don’t know,” said Gaiman. “Who was the Storyteller, why was he telling these stories, was he a goblin, what kind of creature? What I’d love to do is an inside story that’s as long as the outside story. We’re going to
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From the multi-award-winning filmmaker and actor Harley Wallen (Betrayed, Moving Parts) who wrote, produced and directed, comes the sci-fi thriller Abeyance. Scout Taylor Compton (Rob Zombie’s Halloween 1 and 2) stars alongside Richard Tyson(Kindergarten Cop, There’s Something About Mary), Billy Wirth (The Lost Boys), Yan Birch(Wes Craven’s The People Under the Stairs), Mel Novak (Bruce Lee’s Game of Death), and Harley Wallen. Calhoun Koenig (NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) and Vida Ghaffari (FOX’s The Mindy Project) round out the ensemble cast. “After a revolutionary invention with great implications Bridget (Erika Hoveland), finds a character flaw in the company they’ve partnered with to develop the prototype that could be the fountain of youth. When she pulls the plug and steps away from their original deal, she soon realizes they will stop at nothing to get it back. After her family gets kidnapped to sway a favorable vote, their hopes rely on their teen daughter Miranda (Angelina Cama) and her
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Carlotta Moore (playing herself) blows into town like an unholy amalgamation of Father Merrin and a film noir femme fatale (and you can bet her make-up is flawless to boot)! What is Moore’s mission? To perform an exorcism of a man possessed by consumerism (and armed with a killer credit card)…all at the hands of a walking, talking Satanic tooth (have I mentioned this short is batshit insane?)…things get stranger from there with Moore attempting to complete her crusade against capitalism no matter what outre forces stand in her way (and if you think that tooth was weird, you are in for oh so much more…)! You know how folks are always going on about “how they don’t make flicks like they used to in the Grindhouse days?” Well CHRZU fucking does! This dude is a powerhouse of beautifully shot, ultra-shocking pure exploitation bliss (and there’s a message in there for ya too), and The Congregation continues that trend (and
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Brace yourselves, you’re not going to be happy with I’m about to tell you. We’ve been reporting for a while that a series adaptation is in the works for the beloved 1987 vampire film The Lost Boys. Today we have an update. The CW’s series is going to be very different from the story we know and love. In fact, several characters are getting a gender swap, including the Frog brothers, originally played by Cory Feldman and Jamison Newlander. That’s right, the two vampire slayers are going to be girls in the series. Collider is reporting that the Frogs will now be named Cassie and Liza. Ugh (*facepalm). While no casting has been announced at this point we have our fingers crossed that this will be the only change to the main characters. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for expanding storylines to make all viewers happy, but when main characters based on cult classics are drastically changed I can’t
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Following this month’s episode of Hulu and Blumhouse’s holiday-themed horror series “Into the Dark”, titled “Down”, director Daniel Stamm (The Last Exorcism) teased his upcoming horror film, a home invasion thriller, during a conversation with Daily Dead. His next project titled Them was written by Bryan Bertino (The Strangers). Them, set in Texas, centers on a group of oil workers attacked by something out in the desert and sounds like a new spin on the home invasion genre. I’m hopefully directing next a movie called They, written by Bryan Bertino and produced by Dark Castle. We’re casting now,” Stamm told the site. “Bryan Bertino is the guy who wrote and directed The Strangers, and he has a talent for writing set pieces that are really fresh, interesting, and unpredictable. It’s so hard to do something original and fresh in the home invasion space, because there are only so many ways to scare someone.” Stamm continued, “It’s home invasion… all set
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Dark Sky Films has just announced the premiere date of writer-director Paul Raschid‘s horror thriller White Chamber, to celebrate their announcement, they have also revealed the film’s first trailer. Set in the United Kingdom in the near future, a civil war rages, and martial law has been declared by a military government hellbent on squashing the opposition. A woman (Scottish BAFTA nominee Shauna MacDonald, The Descent) wakes up in a blindingly white cuboid cell, where General Zakarian (Oded Fehr) uses increasingly sophisticated and cruel methods to torture her for information – information she claims not to have. As questions of trust are placed both on captor and captive, they find themselves embroiled in an increasingly spiraling journey into the nature of authority. Tense, shocking, and all-too-relevant, White Chamber poses the question: can there even be such a thing as certainty in these most uncertain of times? White Chamber opens in theaters and arrives on VOD on March 29, 2019, from
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Bob Langmore (Aden Young); deadbeat dad, lumber mill worker, partially invisible…what, what the fuck now?!! Yeah, ol’ Bob made like a fuckin’ banana and split, leaving his wife Darlene (Camille Sutherland) and rebellious teen daughter Eva (Julia Sarah Stone) in his wake…to say nothing of a promising hockey career…to start over in a remote Canadian town. Why did he leave all that behind? Because he is slowly, painfully. turning invisible, which admittedly would tax the ol’ noggin a bit…and lately that “slowly” part is starting to speed up exponentially. Before long, Darlene calls Bob home to help wrangle in their daughter…but there’s one small problem; she goes missing, and Bob doesn’t take kindly to that, so he sets off on a mission of vengeance to find her…all before he vanishes altogether. The Unseen is a unique take on the whole “invisible man” trope. For one thing we get the troubled every man who is dealing with an outre condition (the
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One of the most intriguing horror films of the year, Diederik Van Rooijen‘s The Possession of Hannah Grace, arrives on VOD this Tuesday. Starring Shay Mitchell as a cop just out of rehab who signs up for the night shift at the local hospital morgue where she will face an onslaught of strange, violent events caused by an evil entity attached to the corpse of a girl (Kirby Johnson) left contorted and dead during an exorcism. The Possession of Hannah Grace arrives on Bru-ray and DVD, which both include deleted scenes and two featurettes, on February 26th from Sony Pictures.
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Luke Jaden‘s indie horror Boo! Ahead of its overseas release later this month, the international trailer has arrived, revealing that when a family gets “Booed” it’s no prank, it’s a curse. Starring Moonlight‘s Jaden Piner, Boo! centers on a family that battling an unseen force as they realize they have to stick together in order to stop unimaginable terror. Jill Marie Jones (“Ash vs. Evil Dead”), Aurora Perrineau (Passengers), Charley Palmer Rothwell (Darkest Hour, Beast), Dwight Henry (12 Years a Slave) and Rob Zabrecky (A Ghost Story) also star. Boo! premieres overseas on February 28th, from Front Row Filmed Entertainment, followed by its U.S. release at a later date (we’ll let you know when).
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Writer-director Jimmy Lee Combs is following up his hit horror anthology Terror Tales, released last month, with the horror western Spirit Reckoning, Heart and Fire Productions announced today. To celebrate the announcement Heart and Fire Productions has released the first poster, designed by Ian Miller, The film centers on an avenging skull cowboy. Combs describes the film as “John Woo meets Sergio Leone meets the horror genre.” Set in the Wild West circa 1875, “the story follows Sam Conley, a farmer with a wicked gambling addiction trying to make ends meet for his family. One day while Sam is out selling produce, his wife is brutally beaten and raped by three petty outlaws headed by Savage Bill. Sam returns home to this horrific sight and is strung up and killed alongside his wife and child. To return the favor on a good deed Sam did for the Indian people, a Shaman brings Sam’s spirit back from the dead as an
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Jim Henson‘s The Dark Crystal is getting a prequel via Netflix, but it isn’t his only project that is finding a new life. Henson’s dark fantasy anthology series “The Storyteller” is also on the books to get a modern reimagining. Fremantle has teamed up with The Jim Henson Company and brilliant writer, actor, director, producer Neil Gaiman (“American Gods”) for a new version, Deadline reports. “The Storyteller” which premiered back in 1987, retold European folk tales with a combination of actors and puppets. “In the new incarnation, written and executive produced by Gaiman, The Storyteller will create a mystical world combining various fairy tales and folklore.” Part of what fascinates me about The Storyteller is the stuff that we don’t know,” said Gaiman. “Who was the Storyteller, why was he telling these stories, was he a goblin, what kind of creature? What I’d love to do is an inside story that’s as long as the outside story. We’re going to
Continue reading →
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From the multi-award-winning filmmaker and actor Harley Wallen (Betrayed, Moving Parts) who wrote, produced and directed, comes the sci-fi thriller Abeyance. Scout Taylor Compton (Rob Zombie’s Halloween 1 and 2) stars alongside Richard Tyson(Kindergarten Cop, There’s Something About Mary), Billy Wirth (The Lost Boys), Yan Birch(Wes Craven’s The People Under the Stairs), Mel Novak (Bruce Lee’s Game of Death), and Harley Wallen. Calhoun Koenig (NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) and Vida Ghaffari (FOX’s The Mindy Project) round out the ensemble cast. “After a revolutionary invention with great implications Bridget (Erika Hoveland), finds a character flaw in the company they’ve partnered with to develop the prototype that could be the fountain of youth. When she pulls the plug and steps away from their original deal, she soon realizes they will stop at nothing to get it back. After her family gets kidnapped to sway a favorable vote, their hopes rely on their teen daughter Miranda (Angelina Cama) and her
Continue reading →
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Carlotta Moore (playing herself) blows into town like an unholy amalgamation of Father Merrin and a film noir femme fatale (and you can bet her make-up is flawless to boot)! What is Moore’s mission? To perform an exorcism of a man possessed by consumerism (and armed with a killer credit card)…all at the hands of a walking, talking Satanic tooth (have I mentioned this short is batshit insane?)…things get stranger from there with Moore attempting to complete her crusade against capitalism no matter what outre forces stand in her way (and if you think that tooth was weird, you are in for oh so much more…)! You know how folks are always going on about “how they don’t make flicks like they used to in the Grindhouse days?” Well CHRZU fucking does! This dude is a powerhouse of beautifully shot, ultra-shocking pure exploitation bliss (and there’s a message in there for ya too), and The Congregation continues that trend (and
Continue reading →
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Brace yourselves, you’re not going to be happy with I’m about to tell you. We’ve been reporting for a while that a series adaptation is in the works for the beloved 1987 vampire film The Lost Boys. Today we have an update. The CW’s series is going to be very different from the story we know and love. In fact, several characters are getting a gender swap, including the Frog brothers, originally played by Cory Feldman and Jamison Newlander. That’s right, the two vampire slayers are going to be girls in the series. Collider is reporting that the Frogs will now be named Cassie and Liza. Ugh (*facepalm). While no casting has been announced at this point we have our fingers crossed that this will be the only change to the main characters. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for expanding storylines to make all viewers happy, but when main characters based on cult classics are drastically changed I can’t
Continue reading →
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Following this month’s episode of Hulu and Blumhouse’s holiday-themed horror series “Into the Dark”, titled “Down”, director Daniel Stamm (The Last Exorcism) teased his upcoming horror film, a home invasion thriller, during a conversation with Daily Dead. His next project titled Them was written by Bryan Bertino (The Strangers). Them, set in Texas, centers on a group of oil workers attacked by something out in the desert and sounds like a new spin on the home invasion genre. I’m hopefully directing next a movie called They, written by Bryan Bertino and produced by Dark Castle. We’re casting now,” Stamm told the site. “Bryan Bertino is the guy who wrote and directed The Strangers, and he has a talent for writing set pieces that are really fresh, interesting, and unpredictable. It’s so hard to do something original and fresh in the home invasion space, because there are only so many ways to scare someone.” Stamm continued, “It’s home invasion… all set
Continue reading →
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Dark Sky Films has just announced the premiere date of writer-director Paul Raschid‘s horror thriller White Chamber, to celebrate their announcement, they have also revealed the film’s first trailer. Set in the United Kingdom in the near future, a civil war rages, and martial law has been declared by a military government hellbent on squashing the opposition. A woman (Scottish BAFTA nominee Shauna MacDonald, The Descent) wakes up in a blindingly white cuboid cell, where General Zakarian (Oded Fehr) uses increasingly sophisticated and cruel methods to torture her for information – information she claims not to have. As questions of trust are placed both on captor and captive, they find themselves embroiled in an increasingly spiraling journey into the nature of authority. Tense, shocking, and all-too-relevant, White Chamber poses the question: can there even be such a thing as certainty in these most uncertain of times? White Chamber opens in theaters and arrives on VOD on March 29, 2019, from
Continue reading →
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Bob Langmore (Aden Young); deadbeat dad, lumber mill worker, partially invisible…what, what the fuck now?!! Yeah, ol’ Bob made like a fuckin’ banana and split, leaving his wife Darlene (Camille Sutherland) and rebellious teen daughter Eva (Julia Sarah Stone) in his wake…to say nothing of a promising hockey career…to start over in a remote Canadian town. Why did he leave all that behind? Because he is slowly, painfully. turning invisible, which admittedly would tax the ol’ noggin a bit…and lately that “slowly” part is starting to speed up exponentially. Before long, Darlene calls Bob home to help wrangle in their daughter…but there’s one small problem; she goes missing, and Bob doesn’t take kindly to that, so he sets off on a mission of vengeance to find her…all before he vanishes altogether. The Unseen is a unique take on the whole “invisible man” trope. For one thing we get the troubled every man who is dealing with an outre condition (the
Continue reading →
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One of the most intriguing horror films of the year, Diederik Van Rooijen‘s The Possession of Hannah Grace, arrives on VOD this Tuesday. Starring Shay Mitchell as a cop just out of rehab who signs up for the night shift at the local hospital morgue where she will face an onslaught of strange, violent events caused by an evil entity attached to the corpse of a girl (Kirby Johnson) left contorted and dead during an exorcism. The Possession of Hannah Grace arrives on Bru-ray and DVD, which both include deleted scenes and two featurettes, on February 26th from Sony Pictures.
Continue reading →
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Luke Jaden‘s indie horror Boo! Ahead of its overseas release later this month, the international trailer has arrived, revealing that when a family gets “Booed” it’s no prank, it’s a curse. Starring Moonlight‘s Jaden Piner, Boo! centers on a family that battling an unseen force as they realize they have to stick together in order to stop unimaginable terror. Jill Marie Jones (“Ash vs. Evil Dead”), Aurora Perrineau (Passengers), Charley Palmer Rothwell (Darkest Hour, Beast), Dwight Henry (12 Years a Slave) and Rob Zabrecky (A Ghost Story) also star. Boo! premieres overseas on February 28th, from Front Row Filmed Entertainment, followed by its U.S. release at a later date (we’ll let you know when).
Continue reading →
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Writer-director Jimmy Lee Combs is following up his hit horror anthology Terror Tales, released last month, with the horror western Spirit Reckoning, Heart and Fire Productions announced today. To celebrate the announcement Heart and Fire Productions has released the first poster, designed by Ian Miller, The film centers on an avenging skull cowboy. Combs describes the film as “John Woo meets Sergio Leone meets the horror genre.” Set in the Wild West circa 1875, “the story follows Sam Conley, a farmer with a wicked gambling addiction trying to make ends meet for his family. One day while Sam is out selling produce, his wife is brutally beaten and raped by three petty outlaws headed by Savage Bill. Sam returns home to this horrific sight and is strung up and killed alongside his wife and child. To return the favor on a good deed Sam did for the Indian people, a Shaman brings Sam’s spirit back from the dead as an
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