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A group of young sisters set out on a campaign of terror against their mom’s new boyfriend in the new horror-comedy Ankle Biters (aka Cherrypicker), being released this week. In the movie, Sean, a pro hockey enforcer, has fallen in love with Laura, a widowed mother of four young daughters. When Laura’s children mistake an act of lovemaking as abuse, they plot to protect their mother at all costs. Directed by Bennet De Brabandere, Ankle Biters stars Zion Forrest Lee, Marianthi Evans, Lily Gail Reid, Violet Reid, Rosalee Reid, and Dahlia Reid. Watch out for Ankle Biters, which we called “as entertaining as it is vicious” in our review, on DVD and On Demand on November 16, 2021, from Dark Star Pictures.
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Over the past few years, Korean horror films and series, such as Bong Joon-Ho’s 2020 Academy Award-winning film Parasite, have been growing in popularity in the states. One of the most highly anticipated Korean horror series, “Hellbound, ” which is now headed your way and we’ve got the final trailer for the dark, English subtitled series that gives us a glimpse of creatures that appear before the damned to deliver an ultimatum of when they’ll return. The series is based on a Korean webtoon of the same name and depicts a world where angels of death make themselves known before dragging people to hell. Yeon Sang-Ho, best known for his hit zombie film Train to Busan. is in the director’s chair for the series’ whose six-episode first season premieres on Netflix on November 19, 2021.
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So peep this shit; a real ballsy mother fucker by the name of Diao Erh-yeh (Chao Hsiung) strolls on into the Chung Yi Chinese kung-fu school and starts whipping ass like a human tornado… until the school’s Master arrives and delivers an absolutely savage beating to that crass Judo master! Defeat goes over like a fart in church for Diao, and he vows revenge in the form of “karate-men” … and indeed, men that know karate (eventually joined by a couple of samurai, because fuck yeah!) bestow an absolute shitstorm of karate-based murder and mayhem on the student body of Chung Yi… which leaves the town rather defenseless and an easy target for karate-men conquest… which involves more casino ownership than karate… This doesn’t sit well with Chung Yi star pupil/karate abuse survivor Lei Ming (Jimmy Wang Yu… who wrote and directed this picture with production from the legendary Shaw Brothers Studios) so he decides to undergo some of that
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Cristina (Brigitte Kali Canales), a journalist from L.A., has returned home down Mexico way to investigate some local ruins. There are a few snags on this workcation however, as the heroin addicted, childhood exorcism witness has been set up by her cousin who believes she is possessed. To that end she experiences the hospitality (read: her ass is chained to a bed in a dank cell and she’s forced to drink more goat milk than one would assume to be pleasurable) of an ancient bruja,,, a shaman witch if you will, named Luz (Julia Vera) and her son Javi (Sal Lopez) who go right ahead and work an exorcism on her ass right quick! Cristina naturally she assumes this is bullshit (her own past be damned!), but before you can say no bueno, that bruja begins pulling human teeth and snakes out of her belly… just reached right on in and pulled that shit out , they did… well, the
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Trudy Morton (Sandra Knight) is having some real horror humdinger nightmares in which she pictures herself as a monster out on the town, but it certainly won’t stand in the way of a good game of tennis… as it shouldn’t. The gaggle of Grease cast members she calls friends think it’s all a load of bullshit, except for Trudy’s frenemy Suzie (Sally Todd), who experienced the same “dream”. As fate would have it, the elderly scientist uncle Trudy lives with, Carter Morgan (Felix Maurice Locher) by name, has a real douchebag of a lab assistant; the rude-as-fuck, Felix Flankin lookin’ motherfucker Oliver Frank (Donald Murphy)… short for Frankenstein ‘natch… who is working a side-hustle in the lab; making a “female” creature out of random body-parts (no surprise given Oliver’s family history) while Carter aims to eliminate all disease in the world. Oh, and Oliver has been spiking Trudy’s daily fruit punch with a formula that turns her into a scantily
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Dune star Oscar Isaac becomes Moon Knight in the new teaser for the upcoming MCU/Disney+ series of the same name that features Ethan Hawke as the lead villain. Mohamed Diab (Clash) is both directing along with Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (Resolution, Spring, V/H/S: Viral, The Endless), as well as serving as showrunner. The Moon Knight character was created by Doug Moench and Don Perlin and was introduced in the comic Werewolf by Night #32 in August of 1975, before getting his own comic in the early 80s. In the comics, Marc Spector is an ex-mercenary and boxer turned superhero, Moon Knight, after dying and being brought back to life by the ancient Egyptian god Khonshu. To hide his identity he creates the alter ego of high-roller and playboy Steven Grant. He also uses the identity of taxi driver Jake Lockley to obtain information from lower-level contacts. Moon Knight frequently goes head to head with the evil syndicate known as
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Blood Moon Picture’s killer indie holiday horror anthology 13 Slays Till X-Mas has just made its premiere on Amazon Prime. 13 Slays Till X-Mas is set on December 24th, Christmas Eve, with five seemingly random men who are invited to a dive bar in a mysterious e-mail. They decide to pass the time by resurrecting the old tradition of telling scary stories on Christmas Eve. As each takes turns spinning yarns of yuletide terror it becomes evident, they may be harboring a dark and deadly secret. The film is from writer-producer P.J. Starks (interview), the creator of Volumes of Blood, and producer Eric Huskisson (The Confession of Fred Krueger, VOB: Horror Stories, interview) and features thirteen Christmas themed stories of merry mayhem from Brittany Blanton (Seasons Greetings 2), Sean Blevins (Trick or Treat), Jed Brian (Unlisted Owner), William Capps (After the Slasher), Alex Clark, John Hale (The Conduit), Blair Hoyle (Five Wild Animals), Robert Kern III, Carlos Omar De Leon
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We’ve got the new trailer for Bari Kang‘s violent crime thriller The Scrapper, out this December on Digital. Set in Queens, New York City, a criminal playing-field of modern immigrant syndicates participates in human-trafficking, money-laundering, and unflinching brutality. Uncomfortable in his Punjabi-Mexican skin, ex-con turned ‘scrapper’ Jake carries the weight of both his family legacy and a violent past. Caring for a mentally-challenged brother and an unborn child on the way, he is focused on turning his life around. When one last job presents a way out for good, he must decide between loyalty to blood ties or to his newfound family. His past soon catches up with him and he’s thrown into the middle of a conflict between Punjabi and Mexican factions led by violent, ruthless criminals. As events explode into brutal violence, with everyone he loves at stake, he may need to go to his own darkest places to finally escape. The thriller is led by a diverse
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BritBox, a streaming service from the BBC and iTV, has announced the debut of their dark, brutal, suspense-filled series “Reyka”. The series follows a flawed but brilliant South African criminal profiler, Reyka Gama (Kim Engelbrecht, “The Flash,” “Dominion”) who is haunted by her past. Having been abducted as a child by a farmer named Angus Speelman (Iain Glen, “Game of Thrones”), Reyka is traumatized by the experience – but this also helps her enter the minds of the world’s most notorious criminals and turn them inside out. In Reyka, she returns home to investigate a string of brutal murders committed by a serial killer in the sugar cane fields of Kwa-Zulu-Natal. “Rayka” premieres on November 16, 2021, on BritBox from creator Rohan Dickson (“Professionals”).
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Director Talal Selhami’s foreign horror film Achoura is set to arrive on DVD and Digital this December from Dark Star Pictures. Following rave reviews at Cinepocalypse, Brussels Fantastic Film Festival, Bucheon Fantastic Film Festival, and more, North America gets to now witness the terrifying tale of a Moroccan legend. In the film, four friends reconnect when one of them, who disappeared 25 years ago, suddenly comes back into their lives. Together, they will have to confront the terrifying events of their youth and fight a monstrous creature born of a terrifying legend, a Djinn, who during a religious festival, seizes the young in order to devour them. It is sociologically proven that fantasy and horror cinema has always enjoyed a renewed interest from audiences and critics in times of social and economic turmoil.” Franco–Moroccan filmmaker Selhami said. “Fear cinema is therefore a kind of outlet for the viewer, unfortunately today too used to seeing atrocities through the media. Stories of
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A group of young sisters set out on a campaign of terror against their mom’s new boyfriend in the new horror-comedy Ankle Biters (aka Cherrypicker), being released this week. In the movie, Sean, a pro hockey enforcer, has fallen in love with Laura, a widowed mother of four young daughters. When Laura’s children mistake an act of lovemaking as abuse, they plot to protect their mother at all costs. Directed by Bennet De Brabandere, Ankle Biters stars Zion Forrest Lee, Marianthi Evans, Lily Gail Reid, Violet Reid, Rosalee Reid, and Dahlia Reid. Watch out for Ankle Biters, which we called “as entertaining as it is vicious” in our review, on DVD and On Demand on November 16, 2021, from Dark Star Pictures.
Continue reading →
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Over the past few years, Korean horror films and series, such as Bong Joon-Ho’s 2020 Academy Award-winning film Parasite, have been growing in popularity in the states. One of the most highly anticipated Korean horror series, “Hellbound, ” which is now headed your way and we’ve got the final trailer for the dark, English subtitled series that gives us a glimpse of creatures that appear before the damned to deliver an ultimatum of when they’ll return. The series is based on a Korean webtoon of the same name and depicts a world where angels of death make themselves known before dragging people to hell. Yeon Sang-Ho, best known for his hit zombie film Train to Busan. is in the director’s chair for the series’ whose six-episode first season premieres on Netflix on November 19, 2021.
Continue reading →
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So peep this shit; a real ballsy mother fucker by the name of Diao Erh-yeh (Chao Hsiung) strolls on into the Chung Yi Chinese kung-fu school and starts whipping ass like a human tornado… until the school’s Master arrives and delivers an absolutely savage beating to that crass Judo master! Defeat goes over like a fart in church for Diao, and he vows revenge in the form of “karate-men” … and indeed, men that know karate (eventually joined by a couple of samurai, because fuck yeah!) bestow an absolute shitstorm of karate-based murder and mayhem on the student body of Chung Yi… which leaves the town rather defenseless and an easy target for karate-men conquest… which involves more casino ownership than karate… This doesn’t sit well with Chung Yi star pupil/karate abuse survivor Lei Ming (Jimmy Wang Yu… who wrote and directed this picture with production from the legendary Shaw Brothers Studios) so he decides to undergo some of that
Continue reading →
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Cristina (Brigitte Kali Canales), a journalist from L.A., has returned home down Mexico way to investigate some local ruins. There are a few snags on this workcation however, as the heroin addicted, childhood exorcism witness has been set up by her cousin who believes she is possessed. To that end she experiences the hospitality (read: her ass is chained to a bed in a dank cell and she’s forced to drink more goat milk than one would assume to be pleasurable) of an ancient bruja,,, a shaman witch if you will, named Luz (Julia Vera) and her son Javi (Sal Lopez) who go right ahead and work an exorcism on her ass right quick! Cristina naturally she assumes this is bullshit (her own past be damned!), but before you can say no bueno, that bruja begins pulling human teeth and snakes out of her belly… just reached right on in and pulled that shit out , they did… well, the
Continue reading →
MoviesReviews
Trudy Morton (Sandra Knight) is having some real horror humdinger nightmares in which she pictures herself as a monster out on the town, but it certainly won’t stand in the way of a good game of tennis… as it shouldn’t. The gaggle of Grease cast members she calls friends think it’s all a load of bullshit, except for Trudy’s frenemy Suzie (Sally Todd), who experienced the same “dream”. As fate would have it, the elderly scientist uncle Trudy lives with, Carter Morgan (Felix Maurice Locher) by name, has a real douchebag of a lab assistant; the rude-as-fuck, Felix Flankin lookin’ motherfucker Oliver Frank (Donald Murphy)… short for Frankenstein ‘natch… who is working a side-hustle in the lab; making a “female” creature out of random body-parts (no surprise given Oliver’s family history) while Carter aims to eliminate all disease in the world. Oh, and Oliver has been spiking Trudy’s daily fruit punch with a formula that turns her into a scantily
Continue reading →
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Dune star Oscar Isaac becomes Moon Knight in the new teaser for the upcoming MCU/Disney+ series of the same name that features Ethan Hawke as the lead villain. Mohamed Diab (Clash) is both directing along with Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (Resolution, Spring, V/H/S: Viral, The Endless), as well as serving as showrunner. The Moon Knight character was created by Doug Moench and Don Perlin and was introduced in the comic Werewolf by Night #32 in August of 1975, before getting his own comic in the early 80s. In the comics, Marc Spector is an ex-mercenary and boxer turned superhero, Moon Knight, after dying and being brought back to life by the ancient Egyptian god Khonshu. To hide his identity he creates the alter ego of high-roller and playboy Steven Grant. He also uses the identity of taxi driver Jake Lockley to obtain information from lower-level contacts. Moon Knight frequently goes head to head with the evil syndicate known as
Continue reading →
Amazon Prime VideoHoliday HorrorMoviesNewsStreaming TVTrailers
Blood Moon Picture’s killer indie holiday horror anthology 13 Slays Till X-Mas has just made its premiere on Amazon Prime. 13 Slays Till X-Mas is set on December 24th, Christmas Eve, with five seemingly random men who are invited to a dive bar in a mysterious e-mail. They decide to pass the time by resurrecting the old tradition of telling scary stories on Christmas Eve. As each takes turns spinning yarns of yuletide terror it becomes evident, they may be harboring a dark and deadly secret. The film is from writer-producer P.J. Starks (interview), the creator of Volumes of Blood, and producer Eric Huskisson (The Confession of Fred Krueger, VOB: Horror Stories, interview) and features thirteen Christmas themed stories of merry mayhem from Brittany Blanton (Seasons Greetings 2), Sean Blevins (Trick or Treat), Jed Brian (Unlisted Owner), William Capps (After the Slasher), Alex Clark, John Hale (The Conduit), Blair Hoyle (Five Wild Animals), Robert Kern III, Carlos Omar De Leon
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesNewsThrillerTrailers
We’ve got the new trailer for Bari Kang‘s violent crime thriller The Scrapper, out this December on Digital. Set in Queens, New York City, a criminal playing-field of modern immigrant syndicates participates in human-trafficking, money-laundering, and unflinching brutality. Uncomfortable in his Punjabi-Mexican skin, ex-con turned ‘scrapper’ Jake carries the weight of both his family legacy and a violent past. Caring for a mentally-challenged brother and an unborn child on the way, he is focused on turning his life around. When one last job presents a way out for good, he must decide between loyalty to blood ties or to his newfound family. His past soon catches up with him and he’s thrown into the middle of a conflict between Punjabi and Mexican factions led by violent, ruthless criminals. As events explode into brutal violence, with everyone he loves at stake, he may need to go to his own darkest places to finally escape. The thriller is led by a diverse
Continue reading →
NewsStreaming TVThrillerTrailers
BritBox, a streaming service from the BBC and iTV, has announced the debut of their dark, brutal, suspense-filled series “Reyka”. The series follows a flawed but brilliant South African criminal profiler, Reyka Gama (Kim Engelbrecht, “The Flash,” “Dominion”) who is haunted by her past. Having been abducted as a child by a farmer named Angus Speelman (Iain Glen, “Game of Thrones”), Reyka is traumatized by the experience – but this also helps her enter the minds of the world’s most notorious criminals and turn them inside out. In Reyka, she returns home to investigate a string of brutal murders committed by a serial killer in the sugar cane fields of Kwa-Zulu-Natal. “Rayka” premieres on November 16, 2021, on BritBox from creator Rohan Dickson (“Professionals”).
Continue reading →
ForeignIndieMoviesNewsTrailers
Director Talal Selhami’s foreign horror film Achoura is set to arrive on DVD and Digital this December from Dark Star Pictures. Following rave reviews at Cinepocalypse, Brussels Fantastic Film Festival, Bucheon Fantastic Film Festival, and more, North America gets to now witness the terrifying tale of a Moroccan legend. In the film, four friends reconnect when one of them, who disappeared 25 years ago, suddenly comes back into their lives. Together, they will have to confront the terrifying events of their youth and fight a monstrous creature born of a terrifying legend, a Djinn, who during a religious festival, seizes the young in order to devour them. It is sociologically proven that fantasy and horror cinema has always enjoyed a renewed interest from audiences and critics in times of social and economic turmoil.” Franco–Moroccan filmmaker Selhami said. “Fear cinema is therefore a kind of outlet for the viewer, unfortunately today too used to seeing atrocities through the media. Stories of
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