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Our putrid pals over at Arrow Video and MVD Entertainment have got a couple of flicks from Japanese maverick director Yasuzo Masumura that they are set to release on one lil’ ol’ Blu-ray; 1962’s Black Test Car, which deals with corporate espionage in the auto industry, and 1963’s The Black Report, which is a murder mystery affair. In Black Test Car we meet Asahina (Jiro Tamiya), who works at Tiger Motors, a company which is tryin’ like unholy hell to get a new car constructed and on the road before those sons of bitches at rival company Yamamoto Motors are any the wiser. Of course that’s going to be near impossible as their is a spy in Tiger’s outfit, and the company will go to great lengths to sniff ’em out! For a pic about rival auto companies, Black Test Car certainly is filled with a cast of cuthroat bastards, willing to do anything to get their company over. Honestly,
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Here comes ol’ Mikey (Brian Bonsall); a terror tyke that will surely be a royal ass pain to everyone he (dis)graces with his presence. So yeah, Mikey… this mother fucker tries to set his house on fire, watches his sister drown, and electrocutes his adoptive mother… all in the first five minutes of the goddamned film; fuckin’ beast mode activated amirite? Oh, he then kills his father with an aluminum baseball bat… Mikey is also a liar par excellence, so he gets away with this shit scot free, and shipped off to live with the Trentons, Neil (John Diehl) and Rachel (Mimi Craven… yup she was married to Wes); a pair of upper-middle class rubes that have no idea the hell they’ve welcomed into their home. To his credit, Mikey tries to fit in, even though he’s death obsessed and is bound and determined to put the moves on the neighbor’s teenage daughter Jessie (Josie Bissett)… even though she has
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Six episodes of Netflix’s revival of the iconic series “Unsolved Mysteries” are currently streaming, but there’s more to come. Six more episodes are headed our way this October including a true ghostly tale. “Unsolved Mysteries” profiles more unexplained disappearances, tragic events, and bizarre occurrences. Perhaps one viewer holds the key to solving these cases. One of the previously aired episodes of “Unsolved Mysteries“, about the murder of Alonzo Brooks, who was found dead after a house party, went viral and with the help of concerned viewers has caused the case to be re-opened. The series reboot is from Cosgrove/Meurer Productions, and 21 Laps Entertainment, the producers of “Stranger Things.” Tune in on October 19, 2020, for more episodes featuring mysteries, interviews, and re-enactments.
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From director Kevin Del Principe’s comes the unnerving thriller Up on the Glass, starring Chase Fein (On The Rocks) is being released On Demand, Digital and Blu-ray this September through Gravitas Ventures. The film centers on a wanderer named Jack DiMercurio who secretly desires the life and wife of his more affluent friend, Andy Shelton. Past tensions surface between the two men during an informal reunion at Andy’s cottage on Lake Michigan. One heinous act allows Jack to draw close to Andy’s wife Liz, but Jack finds living Andy’s life is a dangerous lie. Chelsea Kurtz (“The Flash”, “Scandal”, “Longmire”, Variant) and Hunter Cross (Love Finds You in Valentine, Suburban Swingers Club) co-star. Director, co-writer, and producer Kevin Del Principe states, “Growing up in a blue-collar family, the idea that pursuit of higher education would lead to a better life was imbued in me. For so many of my generation, this has not been the case due to a variety
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Things get bloody in the new trailer for writer-director Brea Grant‘s (After Midnight) comedy laced horror-thriller 12 Hour Shift in which Angela Bettis (Carrie, The Woman) makes her return to the genre. It’s 1998 and over the course of one night at an Arkansas hospital, a junkie nurse, her scheming cousin and a group of black market organ-trading criminals get caught up in a heist gone wrong. David Arquette, Chloe Farnworth, Nikea Gamby-Turner, and Kit Williamson also star. Christina Arquette, David Arquette, Jordan Wayne Long, Tara Perry, and Matt Glass produced 12 Hour Shift which features original music by Matt Glass. 12 Hour Shift opens in theaters and lands On Demand on October 2, 2020, from Magnet Releasing.
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Balls deep in the Watchatoomy Valley, nature photog Harper (Annabelle Dexter-Jones) feasts her putrid peepers on a sight she was never supposed to see; namely the beating of a man by the psycho Ravener (Robert Longstreet) and his crazy crew. After documenting the violence on hand, our heroine bolts… and after a murder attempt she reports the ghoulish goings-on to the local authorities. This does nothing to deter her fate of becoming a barnyard captive of those murderous yokel locals more than ready to stride revenge’s road… but Harper has a few ideas as to vengeance of her own! The greatest strength of Ravage is the prowess of it’s heroine. Writer/director Teddy Grennan fashions his muse as a true creature of nature; scrappy, capable, and able to survive in the wilderness… This of course leads to the same Shakespeare by way of the “Me” generation’s “Battle of the Sexes” that seemed to define ’70s grindhouse cinema ; and was evident
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Left for Dead. Back for Vengeance. The trailer has arrived for the highly-anticipated brutal survival thriller Range Runners, from director Philip S. Plowden and writer Devon Colwell. A woman thru-hiking an isolated trail runs into trouble when her pack is hijacked by two men hiding out in the woods, desperate and on the run. Now, stranded and left to fend for herself, she has a choice: crawl back to her normal life in defeat, or push forward and take back what was stolen from her. Celeste M Cooper, Sean Patrick Leonard, Michael B. Woods, and Tiffany Renee Johnson star in Range Runners, out September 8th from Dark Star Pictures and Uncork’d Entertainment.
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Tom (Jim Schubin) and Eve (Chloe Carroll) get a wild hair up their asses that they can put one over on the eggheads runnin’ your friendly neighborhood research project and score fifty grand in cold, hard cash. All they need to do is convince everyone they are married, and get locked up good n’ tight in a futuristic smart house cum lab for a month (while wearing fancy futuristic suits as a bonus) while the scientists wrap their noggins around why couples stop being all lovey-dovey. What could go wrong? Fuckin’ plenty, because as Tom really seems to be gettin’ his jollies in his new environs, Eve begins to suspect that Tom is a tad different from the man she thought she knew… as she tries to navigate a slippery-slope that leads into madness! In The Honeymoon Phase; the debut feature from writer/director Phillip G. Carroll Jr., we get a near-perfect slice of sweet, sweet Twilight Zone pie, as our
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“Game of Thrones” actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau stars in the edge-of-your-seat thriller The Silencing out this September from Lionsgate. Annabelle Wallis (Peaky Blinders,” The Mummy) and Hero Fiennes Tiffin (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) also star in the film about “a reformed hunter (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and a sheriff (Annabelle Wallis) are caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse when they set out to track a killer who may have kidnapped the hunter’s daughter five years ago.” Directed by Robin Pront and written by Micah Ranum, The Silencing arrives on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital on September 29, 2020. Check out the riveting trailer! BLU-RAY / DVD SPECIAL FEATURES Making The Silencing Creating a Weapon: The Silencing Spear
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This October experience the slow-burning, unrelenting, suspense thriller Let’s Scare Julie, about a group of teen girls who set out to scare their reclusive new neighbor, but the prank turns to terror when some of them don’t come back. It is a suspenseful contemporary ghost story about how making the wrong choices can end with horrific results. Filmed in real-time on a single camera in one uninterrupted, continuous take, the tension in the film rapidly escalates as the girls’ seemingly harmless pranks start to have life-altering consequences. Written and directed by Jud Cremata, Let’s Scare Julie stars Troy Leigh-Anne Johnson (Netflix’s “On My Block”), Isabel May (Netflix’s “Alexa & Katie“), Odessa A’zion (CBS’s “Fam“), Brooke Sorenson (Netflix’s “Mr. Iglesias”), Jessica Sarah Flaum (The Tale), and Dakota Baccelli (NBC’s “This Is Us”). In Let’s Scare Julie, “Emma, (Troy Leigh-Anne Johnson), who recently moved in with her cousin Taylor (Isabel May) after her father’s untimely death, becomes the victim of a prank
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Our putrid pals over at Arrow Video and MVD Entertainment have got a couple of flicks from Japanese maverick director Yasuzo Masumura that they are set to release on one lil’ ol’ Blu-ray; 1962’s Black Test Car, which deals with corporate espionage in the auto industry, and 1963’s The Black Report, which is a murder mystery affair. In Black Test Car we meet Asahina (Jiro Tamiya), who works at Tiger Motors, a company which is tryin’ like unholy hell to get a new car constructed and on the road before those sons of bitches at rival company Yamamoto Motors are any the wiser. Of course that’s going to be near impossible as their is a spy in Tiger’s outfit, and the company will go to great lengths to sniff ’em out! For a pic about rival auto companies, Black Test Car certainly is filled with a cast of cuthroat bastards, willing to do anything to get their company over. Honestly,
Continue reading →
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Here comes ol’ Mikey (Brian Bonsall); a terror tyke that will surely be a royal ass pain to everyone he (dis)graces with his presence. So yeah, Mikey… this mother fucker tries to set his house on fire, watches his sister drown, and electrocutes his adoptive mother… all in the first five minutes of the goddamned film; fuckin’ beast mode activated amirite? Oh, he then kills his father with an aluminum baseball bat… Mikey is also a liar par excellence, so he gets away with this shit scot free, and shipped off to live with the Trentons, Neil (John Diehl) and Rachel (Mimi Craven… yup she was married to Wes); a pair of upper-middle class rubes that have no idea the hell they’ve welcomed into their home. To his credit, Mikey tries to fit in, even though he’s death obsessed and is bound and determined to put the moves on the neighbor’s teenage daughter Jessie (Josie Bissett)… even though she has
Continue reading →
MoviesNetflixNewsStreaming TVThrillerTrailersTrue Crime
Six episodes of Netflix’s revival of the iconic series “Unsolved Mysteries” are currently streaming, but there’s more to come. Six more episodes are headed our way this October including a true ghostly tale. “Unsolved Mysteries” profiles more unexplained disappearances, tragic events, and bizarre occurrences. Perhaps one viewer holds the key to solving these cases. One of the previously aired episodes of “Unsolved Mysteries“, about the murder of Alonzo Brooks, who was found dead after a house party, went viral and with the help of concerned viewers has caused the case to be re-opened. The series reboot is from Cosgrove/Meurer Productions, and 21 Laps Entertainment, the producers of “Stranger Things.” Tune in on October 19, 2020, for more episodes featuring mysteries, interviews, and re-enactments.
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesNewsThrillerTrailers
From director Kevin Del Principe’s comes the unnerving thriller Up on the Glass, starring Chase Fein (On The Rocks) is being released On Demand, Digital and Blu-ray this September through Gravitas Ventures. The film centers on a wanderer named Jack DiMercurio who secretly desires the life and wife of his more affluent friend, Andy Shelton. Past tensions surface between the two men during an informal reunion at Andy’s cottage on Lake Michigan. One heinous act allows Jack to draw close to Andy’s wife Liz, but Jack finds living Andy’s life is a dangerous lie. Chelsea Kurtz (“The Flash”, “Scandal”, “Longmire”, Variant) and Hunter Cross (Love Finds You in Valentine, Suburban Swingers Club) co-star. Director, co-writer, and producer Kevin Del Principe states, “Growing up in a blue-collar family, the idea that pursuit of higher education would lead to a better life was imbued in me. For so many of my generation, this has not been the case due to a variety
Continue reading →
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Things get bloody in the new trailer for writer-director Brea Grant‘s (After Midnight) comedy laced horror-thriller 12 Hour Shift in which Angela Bettis (Carrie, The Woman) makes her return to the genre. It’s 1998 and over the course of one night at an Arkansas hospital, a junkie nurse, her scheming cousin and a group of black market organ-trading criminals get caught up in a heist gone wrong. David Arquette, Chloe Farnworth, Nikea Gamby-Turner, and Kit Williamson also star. Christina Arquette, David Arquette, Jordan Wayne Long, Tara Perry, and Matt Glass produced 12 Hour Shift which features original music by Matt Glass. 12 Hour Shift opens in theaters and lands On Demand on October 2, 2020, from Magnet Releasing.
Continue reading →
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Balls deep in the Watchatoomy Valley, nature photog Harper (Annabelle Dexter-Jones) feasts her putrid peepers on a sight she was never supposed to see; namely the beating of a man by the psycho Ravener (Robert Longstreet) and his crazy crew. After documenting the violence on hand, our heroine bolts… and after a murder attempt she reports the ghoulish goings-on to the local authorities. This does nothing to deter her fate of becoming a barnyard captive of those murderous yokel locals more than ready to stride revenge’s road… but Harper has a few ideas as to vengeance of her own! The greatest strength of Ravage is the prowess of it’s heroine. Writer/director Teddy Grennan fashions his muse as a true creature of nature; scrappy, capable, and able to survive in the wilderness… This of course leads to the same Shakespeare by way of the “Me” generation’s “Battle of the Sexes” that seemed to define ’70s grindhouse cinema ; and was evident
Continue reading →
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Left for Dead. Back for Vengeance. The trailer has arrived for the highly-anticipated brutal survival thriller Range Runners, from director Philip S. Plowden and writer Devon Colwell. A woman thru-hiking an isolated trail runs into trouble when her pack is hijacked by two men hiding out in the woods, desperate and on the run. Now, stranded and left to fend for herself, she has a choice: crawl back to her normal life in defeat, or push forward and take back what was stolen from her. Celeste M Cooper, Sean Patrick Leonard, Michael B. Woods, and Tiffany Renee Johnson star in Range Runners, out September 8th from Dark Star Pictures and Uncork’d Entertainment.
Continue reading →
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Tom (Jim Schubin) and Eve (Chloe Carroll) get a wild hair up their asses that they can put one over on the eggheads runnin’ your friendly neighborhood research project and score fifty grand in cold, hard cash. All they need to do is convince everyone they are married, and get locked up good n’ tight in a futuristic smart house cum lab for a month (while wearing fancy futuristic suits as a bonus) while the scientists wrap their noggins around why couples stop being all lovey-dovey. What could go wrong? Fuckin’ plenty, because as Tom really seems to be gettin’ his jollies in his new environs, Eve begins to suspect that Tom is a tad different from the man she thought she knew… as she tries to navigate a slippery-slope that leads into madness! In The Honeymoon Phase; the debut feature from writer/director Phillip G. Carroll Jr., we get a near-perfect slice of sweet, sweet Twilight Zone pie, as our
Continue reading →
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“Game of Thrones” actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau stars in the edge-of-your-seat thriller The Silencing out this September from Lionsgate. Annabelle Wallis (Peaky Blinders,” The Mummy) and Hero Fiennes Tiffin (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) also star in the film about “a reformed hunter (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and a sheriff (Annabelle Wallis) are caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse when they set out to track a killer who may have kidnapped the hunter’s daughter five years ago.” Directed by Robin Pront and written by Micah Ranum, The Silencing arrives on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital on September 29, 2020. Check out the riveting trailer! BLU-RAY / DVD SPECIAL FEATURES Making The Silencing Creating a Weapon: The Silencing Spear
Continue reading →
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This October experience the slow-burning, unrelenting, suspense thriller Let’s Scare Julie, about a group of teen girls who set out to scare their reclusive new neighbor, but the prank turns to terror when some of them don’t come back. It is a suspenseful contemporary ghost story about how making the wrong choices can end with horrific results. Filmed in real-time on a single camera in one uninterrupted, continuous take, the tension in the film rapidly escalates as the girls’ seemingly harmless pranks start to have life-altering consequences. Written and directed by Jud Cremata, Let’s Scare Julie stars Troy Leigh-Anne Johnson (Netflix’s “On My Block”), Isabel May (Netflix’s “Alexa & Katie“), Odessa A’zion (CBS’s “Fam“), Brooke Sorenson (Netflix’s “Mr. Iglesias”), Jessica Sarah Flaum (The Tale), and Dakota Baccelli (NBC’s “This Is Us”). In Let’s Scare Julie, “Emma, (Troy Leigh-Anne Johnson), who recently moved in with her cousin Taylor (Isabel May) after her father’s untimely death, becomes the victim of a prank
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