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‘Bendy And The Ink Machine’ Coming To Xbox One And PlayStation 4

You may have heard of him or at least have seen his cheery black and tan face in the toy aisle at stores, Bendy. Some know who he is and others may not but soon many more will get to know this little guy as he’s coming to Xbox One and PlayStation 4 this October! Don’t let his smiling mug and the whimsical title of his game, “Bendy and the Ink Machine” fool you, the Disneyesque façade of this story is pure horror survival! This first-person episodic game has players taking on the role of retired film animator Henry who has returned to his former employer’s studio. After arriving Henry soon realizes that something is wrong with the studio as there’s no one around, ink is splattered everywhere and the characters from the animated films the studio is famed for are alive, some of which are hell-bent on killing. The fifth and final chapter of “Bendy and the Ink Machine”

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Sep 17, 2018
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One Fairytale Goes Under A Frightening Transformation For ‘Mermaid’s Song’ (Trailer)

Before Disney got their hands on classic tales like The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, and many others, they were dark gruesome legends handed down for generations and told in stories by brilliant writers like the Brothers Grimm. One fairytale classic is going under the frightening transformation this September for Mermaid’s Song. A dark homage to Hans Christian Anderson’s The Little Mermaid, and starring Game of Thrones’ Iwan Rheon, the film is set during the 1930s depression and tells of young Charlotte, who is struggling to keep the family business afloat. When gangster Randall offers to pay off the family debt – he demands some illegal changes to the business. But Charlotte, like her mother before her, is a mermaid capable of controlling humans with nothing but her voice, which creates a battle between all of those who want Charlotte’s magical powers for themselves. From director Nicholas Humphries, and starring Iwan Rheon, Katelyn Mager, and Brendan Taylor, Mermaid’s Song arrives on digital

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Sep 17, 2018
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The “Dragon Tattoo” Saga Continues This November With ‘The Girl In The Spider’s Web’

Coming this November is the next chapter The Dragon Tattoo story, The Girl in the Spider’s Web, starring Claire Foy (The Crown) as Lisbeth Salander, the fierce, outcast vigilante defender from the acclaimed Millennium book series created by Stieg Larsson. A first-time adaptation of the recent global bestseller, the film is directed by Fede Alvarez, the director of 2016’s breakout thriller Don’t Breathe. Alvarez directed from the screenplay adaptation he co-wrote with Jay Basu and Steven Knight. Sverrir Gudnason, Lakeith Stanfield, Sylvia Hoeks, Stephen Merchant, Claes Bang, Christopher Convery, Synnøve Macody Lund, and Vicky Krieps also star. The film is produced by Scott Rudin, Ole Søndberg, Søren Stærmose, Berna Levin, Amy Pascal, Elizabeth Cantillon, Eli Bush. Executive producers include Robert J. Dohrmann, Line Winther Skyum Funch, Johannes Jensen, Anni Faurbye Fernandez, and David Fincher. The Girl in the Spider’s Web will debut on November 9, 2018, from Sony Pictures.

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Sep 17, 2018
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Haunting New Trailer Take Us To ‘Rootwood’

Blood Feast (2016) director Marcel Walz has unveiled the trailer for his new film Rootwood, starring Elissa Dowling (Tales of Halloween, Starry Eyes), Tyler Gallant (Alpha Wolf), Sarah French (Ouija House, California Dreaming), Felissa Rose (Victor Crowley, Sleepaway Camp) and Brandon Rhea (Ultimate Justice, Push). In the film, “students Jessica (Dowling) and William (Gallant) are hosting “The Spooky Hour”, a podcast about paranormal phenomena and urban legends. When they are hired by the Hollywood film producer Laura Benott (Rose) to produce a horror documentary about the Curse of the Wooden Devil, they smell a chance to become famous. Together with their friend Erin (French) they enter Rootwood Forest and investigate the area to find out the truth about the wooden devil and his victims.” Ruediger W. Kuemmerle and Amanda Joe Marshall produced with Dominik Jurcaek co-executive producing and Ralf M. Loerwald serving as executive producer. The combination of monster movie and found footage, Rootwood is said to create a unique

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Sep 16, 2018
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DVD Review: ‘Dead Night’ Is Deadly Good

Two lovers parked in a wooded area find themselves stalked by a hooded figure. When the man gets out to check on a noise, he’s murdered and the woman taken. Skip forward nine months, the woman is laying in the dirt screaming, ready to give birth. Two hooded figures are there by her side as she delivers and the scene closes. Following a time jump, we meet a family, James (AJ Bowen) a father with cancer, Casey (Brea Grant) the mother, Jason (Joshua Hoffman) their son, their daughter Jessica (Sophie Dalah) and her friend (Elise Luthman) Becky on their way to a cabin. Not long after their arrival, they find a woman (Barbra Crampton) in the snow, after bringing her back to the cabin they learn they have made a fatal mistake. As the film plays out we see scenes from a crime series called “Inside Crime” where we learn that Casey killed her entire family, the family we are

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Sep 16, 2018
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Blumhouse’s Upcoming Hulu Series “Into The Dark” Will Be Holliday Themed (Trailer)

This October, the Blumhouse 12 episode horror anthology series “Into the Dark” will arrive on Hulu, with a new holiday-themed episode premiering each month of the year. The first episode, “The Body”, premieres on October 5, 2018, and was directed by Paul Davis, the filmmaker behind Beware the Moon: Remembering ‘An American Werewolf in London’. Written by Davis and Paul Fischer, the series follows “A sophisticated hitman with a cynical view on modern society finds his work made more difficult when he has to transport a body on Halloween night, but everyone is enamored by what they think is his killer costume.” Tom Bateman, Rebecca Rittenhouse, David Hull, Aurora Perrineau and “Ash vs Evil Dead” actor Ray Santiago star.

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Sep 15, 2018
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Producer Gives Update On ‘The Conjuring 3’

The Conjuring haunted theaters in 2013 and has been going strong since. In fact, it has spawned an entire universe featuring two Annabelle films with another on its way, and now The Nun is killing it in theaters. The universe shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, it’s continuing to expand, this time with The Conjuring 3. During a recent interview promoting The Nun, producer Peter Safran gave an update on The Conjuring 3. It’s actually coming along great. David Leslie Johnson is working on the screenplay, and I feel pretty confident they will have that one up and running next year.” Safran has produced each of The Conjuring films. Odds are we will see The Conjuring 3 in 2020. Annabelle 3 begins filming in October in LA and will open in theaters in 2019, which fits the pattern so far, putting one film from the franchise in theaters every year. While critics are giving mixed reviews, The Nun

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Sep 15, 2018
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New “Walking Dead” Teaser Reminds Us That These Are Rick’s Final Episodes

Following the news that “The Walking Dead” universe plans to stick around for another decade, a new teaser for this season has been released, reminding us that ninth season will be the last for Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln). “Walking Dead” creator Robert Kirkman won’t say how Rick will go but he did say this: …got something amazing planned. I wouldn’t want to spoil anything, but anybody who’s been a fan of his journey, who loves Rick Grimes, who loves the world of The Walking Dead, you’re going to want to see what we do.” This season: Now, viewers will see the survivors a year and a half after the end of the war, rebuilding civilization under Rick’s steadfast leadership. It is a time of relative peace among the communities as they work together, looking to the past to forge the future, but the world they knew is rapidly changing as man-made structures continue to degrade, and nature takes over, changing

Continue reading →
Sep 15, 2018
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Short Film Review: Pappy’s World (2018)

On Christmas Eve, a girl fishes down a present from the top of an impossibly high pile of gifts with the help of her sleeping grandfather’s cane. upon opening the package she meets “Pappy” a talking doll that shows her strange visions. Soon the doll is out for blood (after a bit of a tickle sesh) and ol’ grandpa has to attempt to rescue his charge from that evil effigy; all while dealing with that doll’s devious deviltry and his own left-over trauma from the war. There’s also pie and doll fuckin’ involved… What can I say; Pappy’s World is one fever dream of a sinister short! With it’s absolutely balls-to-the-wall surreal aesthetic, nightmarish visions, PTSD trauma, doll hookers…and so much more, I can guarantee you have never, ever seen anything even remotely close to this one horror hounds! Director/Co-writer Matt Wisniewski (aided and abetted by Co-writer/Actor Fred Polone…who also plays Grandpa and Pappy) have created a rich bit of

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Sep 15, 2018
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DVD Review: Housewife (2017)

In a snow ensconced Gothic home; holly and her sister live with their off-kilter mother who speaks with invisible visitors, and rubs the ol’ rosary in front of a picture of a Victorian woman framed in neon. Things go from insane to even more fucking insane when Holly’s sister gets her period and her mother drowns hew sister by shoving her head in the toilet. Then Daddy dearest arrives, and Mommy slices him to pieces as Holly escapes into the snowy night. Flash forward and Holly (Clémentine Poidatz) is living in a lonely marriage to a famous author. She spends her days building dollhouses, dancing badly, and masturbating as she thinks of her sister’s death…you know, as one does…oh and she also pees everywhere but the toilet. Things go on like that until Holly’s friend Valery (Alicia Kapudag) makes the scene after mysteriously disappearing for two years. Seems our gal Val has hooked up with a bizarre cult named Umbrella

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Sep 15, 2018

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‘Bendy And The Ink Machine’ Coming To Xbox One And PlayStation 4

You may have heard of him or at least have seen his cheery black and tan face in the toy aisle at stores, Bendy. Some know who he is and others may not but soon many more will get to know this little guy as he’s coming to Xbox One and PlayStation 4 this October! Don’t let his smiling mug and the whimsical title of his game, “Bendy and the Ink Machine” fool you, the Disneyesque façade of this story is pure horror survival! This first-person episodic game has players taking on the role of retired film animator Henry who has returned to his former employer’s studio. After arriving Henry soon realizes that something is wrong with the studio as there’s no one around, ink is splattered everywhere and the characters from the animated films the studio is famed for are alive, some of which are hell-bent on killing. The fifth and final chapter of “Bendy and the Ink Machine”

Continue reading →
Sep 17, 2018
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One Fairytale Goes Under A Frightening Transformation For ‘Mermaid’s Song’ (Trailer)

Before Disney got their hands on classic tales like The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, and many others, they were dark gruesome legends handed down for generations and told in stories by brilliant writers like the Brothers Grimm. One fairytale classic is going under the frightening transformation this September for Mermaid’s Song. A dark homage to Hans Christian Anderson’s The Little Mermaid, and starring Game of Thrones’ Iwan Rheon, the film is set during the 1930s depression and tells of young Charlotte, who is struggling to keep the family business afloat. When gangster Randall offers to pay off the family debt – he demands some illegal changes to the business. But Charlotte, like her mother before her, is a mermaid capable of controlling humans with nothing but her voice, which creates a battle between all of those who want Charlotte’s magical powers for themselves. From director Nicholas Humphries, and starring Iwan Rheon, Katelyn Mager, and Brendan Taylor, Mermaid’s Song arrives on digital

Continue reading →
Sep 17, 2018
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The “Dragon Tattoo” Saga Continues This November With ‘The Girl In The Spider’s Web’

Coming this November is the next chapter The Dragon Tattoo story, The Girl in the Spider’s Web, starring Claire Foy (The Crown) as Lisbeth Salander, the fierce, outcast vigilante defender from the acclaimed Millennium book series created by Stieg Larsson. A first-time adaptation of the recent global bestseller, the film is directed by Fede Alvarez, the director of 2016’s breakout thriller Don’t Breathe. Alvarez directed from the screenplay adaptation he co-wrote with Jay Basu and Steven Knight. Sverrir Gudnason, Lakeith Stanfield, Sylvia Hoeks, Stephen Merchant, Claes Bang, Christopher Convery, Synnøve Macody Lund, and Vicky Krieps also star. The film is produced by Scott Rudin, Ole Søndberg, Søren Stærmose, Berna Levin, Amy Pascal, Elizabeth Cantillon, Eli Bush. Executive producers include Robert J. Dohrmann, Line Winther Skyum Funch, Johannes Jensen, Anni Faurbye Fernandez, and David Fincher. The Girl in the Spider’s Web will debut on November 9, 2018, from Sony Pictures.

Continue reading →
Sep 17, 2018
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Haunting New Trailer Take Us To ‘Rootwood’

Blood Feast (2016) director Marcel Walz has unveiled the trailer for his new film Rootwood, starring Elissa Dowling (Tales of Halloween, Starry Eyes), Tyler Gallant (Alpha Wolf), Sarah French (Ouija House, California Dreaming), Felissa Rose (Victor Crowley, Sleepaway Camp) and Brandon Rhea (Ultimate Justice, Push). In the film, “students Jessica (Dowling) and William (Gallant) are hosting “The Spooky Hour”, a podcast about paranormal phenomena and urban legends. When they are hired by the Hollywood film producer Laura Benott (Rose) to produce a horror documentary about the Curse of the Wooden Devil, they smell a chance to become famous. Together with their friend Erin (French) they enter Rootwood Forest and investigate the area to find out the truth about the wooden devil and his victims.” Ruediger W. Kuemmerle and Amanda Joe Marshall produced with Dominik Jurcaek co-executive producing and Ralf M. Loerwald serving as executive producer. The combination of monster movie and found footage, Rootwood is said to create a unique

Continue reading →
Sep 16, 2018
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DVD Review: ‘Dead Night’ Is Deadly Good

Two lovers parked in a wooded area find themselves stalked by a hooded figure. When the man gets out to check on a noise, he’s murdered and the woman taken. Skip forward nine months, the woman is laying in the dirt screaming, ready to give birth. Two hooded figures are there by her side as she delivers and the scene closes. Following a time jump, we meet a family, James (AJ Bowen) a father with cancer, Casey (Brea Grant) the mother, Jason (Joshua Hoffman) their son, their daughter Jessica (Sophie Dalah) and her friend (Elise Luthman) Becky on their way to a cabin. Not long after their arrival, they find a woman (Barbra Crampton) in the snow, after bringing her back to the cabin they learn they have made a fatal mistake. As the film plays out we see scenes from a crime series called “Inside Crime” where we learn that Casey killed her entire family, the family we are

Continue reading →
Sep 16, 2018
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Blumhouse’s Upcoming Hulu Series “Into The Dark” Will Be Holliday Themed (Trailer)

This October, the Blumhouse 12 episode horror anthology series “Into the Dark” will arrive on Hulu, with a new holiday-themed episode premiering each month of the year. The first episode, “The Body”, premieres on October 5, 2018, and was directed by Paul Davis, the filmmaker behind Beware the Moon: Remembering ‘An American Werewolf in London’. Written by Davis and Paul Fischer, the series follows “A sophisticated hitman with a cynical view on modern society finds his work made more difficult when he has to transport a body on Halloween night, but everyone is enamored by what they think is his killer costume.” Tom Bateman, Rebecca Rittenhouse, David Hull, Aurora Perrineau and “Ash vs Evil Dead” actor Ray Santiago star.

Continue reading →
Sep 15, 2018
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Producer Gives Update On ‘The Conjuring 3’

The Conjuring haunted theaters in 2013 and has been going strong since. In fact, it has spawned an entire universe featuring two Annabelle films with another on its way, and now The Nun is killing it in theaters. The universe shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, it’s continuing to expand, this time with The Conjuring 3. During a recent interview promoting The Nun, producer Peter Safran gave an update on The Conjuring 3. It’s actually coming along great. David Leslie Johnson is working on the screenplay, and I feel pretty confident they will have that one up and running next year.” Safran has produced each of The Conjuring films. Odds are we will see The Conjuring 3 in 2020. Annabelle 3 begins filming in October in LA and will open in theaters in 2019, which fits the pattern so far, putting one film from the franchise in theaters every year. While critics are giving mixed reviews, The Nun

Continue reading →
Sep 15, 2018
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New “Walking Dead” Teaser Reminds Us That These Are Rick’s Final Episodes

Following the news that “The Walking Dead” universe plans to stick around for another decade, a new teaser for this season has been released, reminding us that ninth season will be the last for Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln). “Walking Dead” creator Robert Kirkman won’t say how Rick will go but he did say this: …got something amazing planned. I wouldn’t want to spoil anything, but anybody who’s been a fan of his journey, who loves Rick Grimes, who loves the world of The Walking Dead, you’re going to want to see what we do.” This season: Now, viewers will see the survivors a year and a half after the end of the war, rebuilding civilization under Rick’s steadfast leadership. It is a time of relative peace among the communities as they work together, looking to the past to forge the future, but the world they knew is rapidly changing as man-made structures continue to degrade, and nature takes over, changing

Continue reading →
Sep 15, 2018
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Short Film Review: Pappy’s World (2018)

On Christmas Eve, a girl fishes down a present from the top of an impossibly high pile of gifts with the help of her sleeping grandfather’s cane. upon opening the package she meets “Pappy” a talking doll that shows her strange visions. Soon the doll is out for blood (after a bit of a tickle sesh) and ol’ grandpa has to attempt to rescue his charge from that evil effigy; all while dealing with that doll’s devious deviltry and his own left-over trauma from the war. There’s also pie and doll fuckin’ involved… What can I say; Pappy’s World is one fever dream of a sinister short! With it’s absolutely balls-to-the-wall surreal aesthetic, nightmarish visions, PTSD trauma, doll hookers…and so much more, I can guarantee you have never, ever seen anything even remotely close to this one horror hounds! Director/Co-writer Matt Wisniewski (aided and abetted by Co-writer/Actor Fred Polone…who also plays Grandpa and Pappy) have created a rich bit of

Continue reading →
Sep 15, 2018
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DVD Review: Housewife (2017)

In a snow ensconced Gothic home; holly and her sister live with their off-kilter mother who speaks with invisible visitors, and rubs the ol’ rosary in front of a picture of a Victorian woman framed in neon. Things go from insane to even more fucking insane when Holly’s sister gets her period and her mother drowns hew sister by shoving her head in the toilet. Then Daddy dearest arrives, and Mommy slices him to pieces as Holly escapes into the snowy night. Flash forward and Holly (Clémentine Poidatz) is living in a lonely marriage to a famous author. She spends her days building dollhouses, dancing badly, and masturbating as she thinks of her sister’s death…you know, as one does…oh and she also pees everywhere but the toilet. Things go on like that until Holly’s friend Valery (Alicia Kapudag) makes the scene after mysteriously disappearing for two years. Seems our gal Val has hooked up with a bizarre cult named Umbrella

Continue reading →
Sep 15, 2018