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Blu-ray Review: Inferno of Torture (1969)

In nineteenth century Japan, Yumi (Yumika Katayama) is balls deep in trouble with a capital “T” and that stands for “loan shark”. Okay, it doesn’t, but a loan shark is on her ass for debts owed. To that end she accepts a job as a geisha… or so she thinks, as it soon becomes obvious she’s workin’ the ass trade. Yumi ain’t exactly wild about that fact, but in her position she doesn’t have much of a choice. Another thing she has no say in is the tattooing her madam, Otatsu (Mieko Fujimoto), forces the women in her employ to get to appear more exotic to the high paying Caucasian clientele. Said tattooing is administered by Horihide (Teruo Yoshida), whom Yumi develops a relationship with much to Otatsu’s chagrin. This makes Yumi’s life even more of a living hell, as does the arrival of a rival tattooist that wants to make her body his canvas! Directed by Teruo Ishii, Inferno

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DanXIII
Jun 26, 2020
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Gerard Butler Faces The End Of The World As We Know It In ‘Greenland’ (Trailer)

From the producer of the John Wick franchise and director Ric Roman Waugh, comes Greenland, a survival film about a family desperate to find safety during what may very well be the end of the world. Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Roger Dale Floyd, Scott Glenn, David Denman, Hope Davis, Andrew Bachelor, and Joshua Mikel star in this intense thrill ride produced by Butler, Basil Iwanyk, and Alan Siegal. In the film, “a family fights for survival as planet-killing comet races to Earth. John Garrity (Gerard Butler), his estranged wife Allison (Morena Baccarin), and young son Nathan make a perilous journey to their only hope for sanctuary. Amid terrifying news accounts of cities around the world being leveled by the comet’s fragments, the Garrity’s experience the best and worst in humanity. As the countdown to global apocalypse approaches zero, their incredible trek culminates in a desperate and last-minute flight to a possible safe haven. Witness the end of the world as

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 26, 2020
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A Father Hunts A Killer In ‘The Silencing’ Trailer

“Game of Thrones” actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Annabelle Wallis (Annabelle: Creation, The Mummy), and Hero Fiennes Tiffin (Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince) star in the revenge thriller The Silencing. Directed by Robin Pront and written by Micah Ranum, the film centers on a reformed hunter (Waldau) and a sheriff (Wallis) who 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. The Silencing arrives exclusively on DirecTV on July 16th, followed by its release in theaters, on Digital, and On Demand on August 14, 2020, from Saban Films.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 25, 2020
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A ‘Twister’ Remake Is Headed Your Way From Universal Pictures

Sound the alarm, director Jan de Bont’s 1996 action-adventure/disaster blockbuster Twister is getting a remake by Universal Pictures. Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick) is currently in talks to direct “and the studio is currently meeting with writers to pen the script.” Variety reports. The original film centers on Bill and Jo Harding (Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton), advanced storm chasers on the brink of divorce, must join together to create an advanced weather alert system by putting themselves in the cross-hairs of extremely violent tornadoes. Frank Marshall will be producing the remake of Twister, which made an incredible $495 million at box offices and went on to earn two Academy Awards nominations.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 24, 2020
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Watch The Opening Sequence Of True Story Inspired Survival Thriller ‘Centigrade’

Director Brendan Walsh invites you to witness Centigrade, a survival thriller set in a 30 degrees below zero landscape. Based on a true story, the film, set in 2002, centers on a young American couple, Matthew and Naomi, travel to the arctic mountains of Norway. After pulling over during a snowstorm, they wake up trapped in their SUV, buried underneath layers of snow and Ice. As if the stakes aren’t high enough, Naomi is eight months pregnant in their frozen prison. With few resources, a dwindling food supply, and nothing but time, tension, blame, and personal secrets bubble to the surface. Matthew and Naomi realize they must work together to survive in a crippling battle against the elements, hypothermia, disturbing hallucinations, and plunging temperatures reaching as low as -30C. Genesis Rodriguez and Vincent Piazza star in Centigrade, opening in drive-in theaters, and arrives on VOD and Digital on August 28th, from IFC Midnight. Watch the first three minutes of the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 24, 2020
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This Summer A Woman Begins To Question Her Sanity In ‘Parallax’

Michael W.Bachochin’s highly-anticipated feature film, Parallax, opens in theaters this summer. In the film, a young artist wakes up in a life that she doesn’t recognize, spending her time asleep haunted by nightmares of drowning in a black abysmal void. As she begins to uncover the truths of the life that she’s found herself in, the gravity of her failing reality weighs heavily on her psychological identity and the reliability of her sanity is called into question. Naomi Prentice, Nelson Ritthaler, Hattie Smith, and Ted Gianopulos star in Parallax, a combination of psychodrama, thriller, and science-fiction. Parallax, written and directed by Michael W.Bachochin, is produced by Bachochin, Brooke Lorraine, and Yuself Baig. Parallax opens in theaters on July 10th.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 20, 2020
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Dave Franco’s ‘The Rental’ Receives A New Thrilling Trailer

Writer-director Dave Franco makes his directorial feature debut with The Rental, co-written by Joe Swanberg. We’ve been waiting on the trailer’s arrival and it’s finally here, teasing an intense, action-packed thriller. Starring Alison Brie (“GLOW”), Dan Stevens (“Downton Abbey”) Sheila Vand (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night), and Jeremy Allen White (“Shameless”), the film centers on two couples looking to celebrate their seed money from a new business venture, embark on a weekend getaway to a seemingly perfect house they’ve booked online. But what begins as a festive weekend for the four close friends turns into something far more sinister as secrets they’ve kept from each other are exposed and paranoia grows that they may not be alone. IFC Films will release The Rental in select theaters, Drive-Ins and On Demand July 24th.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 18, 2020
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Mistaken Identities And Shocking Violence Fill ‘The Oak Room’ Trailer

Black Fawn Films and Breakthrough Entertainment Inc., the filmmaking team behind such genre hits as I’ll Take Your Dead, Let Her Out, and Antisocial, have released the official trailer and poster for their newest collaboration, The Oak Room, a dark thriller set in a remote and winter-ravaged Canadian town. During a raging snowstorm, a drifter returns home to the blue-collar bar located in the remote Canadian town where he was born. When he offers to settle an old debt with a grizzled bartender by telling him a story, the night’s events quickly spin into a dark tale of mistaken identities, double-crosses, and shocking violence. RJ Mitte (“Breaking Bad”) stars in the lead role opposite character actor Peter Outerbridge (Suicide Squad, “V-Wars) and rising star Ari Millen. The cast also includes Martin Roach (The Shape of Water, Diary of the Dead, “The Expanse”), Nicholas Campbell (“Black Mirror”, Antiviral, Da Vinci’s Inquest), David Ferry (The Boondock Saints, Legion, “Hell on Wheels”), and

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 18, 2020
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Elijah Wood Starring In New Ted Bundy Movie ‘No Man Of God’

Serial killer Ted Bundy remains one of the most popular killers in history. A new movie about the killer, No Man of God, is set to star Elijah Wood as an FBI analyst assigned to the case. The film is largely set in a single interrogation room, according to Deadline. And is based on real transcripts culled from interrogations between FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier (Wood) and Bundy that took place from 1984 to 1989. It will explore the relationship between the two men during the killer’s final years on death row. Casting for No Man of God is ongoing with the search on for the actor who will play Ted Bundy. Amber Sealy is in the director’s chair for the try crime movie. C. Robert Cargill penned the script. Elijah Wood will be producing along with Daniel Noah, Lisa Whalen, and Kim Sherman. Scott Derrickson, Bill Hagmaier, Stacey Jorgensen, and Mark Ward are executive producing. XYZ is handling international sales.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 18, 2020
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From Executive Producers Of ‘Day Of The Dead’ Comes Pearry Teo’s ‘The Assent’

Dazzler Media presents writer-director Pearry Reginald Teo‘s supernatural horror The Assent out on DVD this July. In this fresh new horror, single father Joel (Robert Kazinsky, Pacific Rim, Captain Marvel) suspects his young son may be possessed. Struggling with his own mental health, he can’t be sure what’s real, and what exists in his imagination. He is aided by Father Lambert (Peter Jason, Deadwood, They Live) who seeks his own redemption after serving prison time for the death of a child during a failed exorcism. Lambert believes the boy has been marked by the Devil himself and, without intervention, Joel could lose his son forever. From the executive producers of Texas Chainsaw and Day of the Dead, The Assent is a new tale of supernatural terror from the brilliant multi-award-winning writer and director Pearry Reginald Teo (The Evil Inside, The Gene Generation). Possess The Assent on DVD and Digital on July 27, 2020.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 16, 2020

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Blu-ray Review: Inferno of Torture (1969)

In nineteenth century Japan, Yumi (Yumika Katayama) is balls deep in trouble with a capital “T” and that stands for “loan shark”. Okay, it doesn’t, but a loan shark is on her ass for debts owed. To that end she accepts a job as a geisha… or so she thinks, as it soon becomes obvious she’s workin’ the ass trade. Yumi ain’t exactly wild about that fact, but in her position she doesn’t have much of a choice. Another thing she has no say in is the tattooing her madam, Otatsu (Mieko Fujimoto), forces the women in her employ to get to appear more exotic to the high paying Caucasian clientele. Said tattooing is administered by Horihide (Teruo Yoshida), whom Yumi develops a relationship with much to Otatsu’s chagrin. This makes Yumi’s life even more of a living hell, as does the arrival of a rival tattooist that wants to make her body his canvas! Directed by Teruo Ishii, Inferno

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DanXIII
Jun 26, 2020
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Gerard Butler Faces The End Of The World As We Know It In ‘Greenland’ (Trailer)

From the producer of the John Wick franchise and director Ric Roman Waugh, comes Greenland, a survival film about a family desperate to find safety during what may very well be the end of the world. Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Roger Dale Floyd, Scott Glenn, David Denman, Hope Davis, Andrew Bachelor, and Joshua Mikel star in this intense thrill ride produced by Butler, Basil Iwanyk, and Alan Siegal. In the film, “a family fights for survival as planet-killing comet races to Earth. John Garrity (Gerard Butler), his estranged wife Allison (Morena Baccarin), and young son Nathan make a perilous journey to their only hope for sanctuary. Amid terrifying news accounts of cities around the world being leveled by the comet’s fragments, the Garrity’s experience the best and worst in humanity. As the countdown to global apocalypse approaches zero, their incredible trek culminates in a desperate and last-minute flight to a possible safe haven. Witness the end of the world as

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 26, 2020
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A Father Hunts A Killer In ‘The Silencing’ Trailer

“Game of Thrones” actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Annabelle Wallis (Annabelle: Creation, The Mummy), and Hero Fiennes Tiffin (Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince) star in the revenge thriller The Silencing. Directed by Robin Pront and written by Micah Ranum, the film centers on a reformed hunter (Waldau) and a sheriff (Wallis) who 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. The Silencing arrives exclusively on DirecTV on July 16th, followed by its release in theaters, on Digital, and On Demand on August 14, 2020, from Saban Films.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 25, 2020
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A ‘Twister’ Remake Is Headed Your Way From Universal Pictures

Sound the alarm, director Jan de Bont’s 1996 action-adventure/disaster blockbuster Twister is getting a remake by Universal Pictures. Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick) is currently in talks to direct “and the studio is currently meeting with writers to pen the script.” Variety reports. The original film centers on Bill and Jo Harding (Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton), advanced storm chasers on the brink of divorce, must join together to create an advanced weather alert system by putting themselves in the cross-hairs of extremely violent tornadoes. Frank Marshall will be producing the remake of Twister, which made an incredible $495 million at box offices and went on to earn two Academy Awards nominations.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 24, 2020
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Watch The Opening Sequence Of True Story Inspired Survival Thriller ‘Centigrade’

Director Brendan Walsh invites you to witness Centigrade, a survival thriller set in a 30 degrees below zero landscape. Based on a true story, the film, set in 2002, centers on a young American couple, Matthew and Naomi, travel to the arctic mountains of Norway. After pulling over during a snowstorm, they wake up trapped in their SUV, buried underneath layers of snow and Ice. As if the stakes aren’t high enough, Naomi is eight months pregnant in their frozen prison. With few resources, a dwindling food supply, and nothing but time, tension, blame, and personal secrets bubble to the surface. Matthew and Naomi realize they must work together to survive in a crippling battle against the elements, hypothermia, disturbing hallucinations, and plunging temperatures reaching as low as -30C. Genesis Rodriguez and Vincent Piazza star in Centigrade, opening in drive-in theaters, and arrives on VOD and Digital on August 28th, from IFC Midnight. Watch the first three minutes of the

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 24, 2020
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This Summer A Woman Begins To Question Her Sanity In ‘Parallax’

Michael W.Bachochin’s highly-anticipated feature film, Parallax, opens in theaters this summer. In the film, a young artist wakes up in a life that she doesn’t recognize, spending her time asleep haunted by nightmares of drowning in a black abysmal void. As she begins to uncover the truths of the life that she’s found herself in, the gravity of her failing reality weighs heavily on her psychological identity and the reliability of her sanity is called into question. Naomi Prentice, Nelson Ritthaler, Hattie Smith, and Ted Gianopulos star in Parallax, a combination of psychodrama, thriller, and science-fiction. Parallax, written and directed by Michael W.Bachochin, is produced by Bachochin, Brooke Lorraine, and Yuself Baig. Parallax opens in theaters on July 10th.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 20, 2020
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Dave Franco’s ‘The Rental’ Receives A New Thrilling Trailer

Writer-director Dave Franco makes his directorial feature debut with The Rental, co-written by Joe Swanberg. We’ve been waiting on the trailer’s arrival and it’s finally here, teasing an intense, action-packed thriller. Starring Alison Brie (“GLOW”), Dan Stevens (“Downton Abbey”) Sheila Vand (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night), and Jeremy Allen White (“Shameless”), the film centers on two couples looking to celebrate their seed money from a new business venture, embark on a weekend getaway to a seemingly perfect house they’ve booked online. But what begins as a festive weekend for the four close friends turns into something far more sinister as secrets they’ve kept from each other are exposed and paranoia grows that they may not be alone. IFC Films will release The Rental in select theaters, Drive-Ins and On Demand July 24th.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 18, 2020
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Mistaken Identities And Shocking Violence Fill ‘The Oak Room’ Trailer

Black Fawn Films and Breakthrough Entertainment Inc., the filmmaking team behind such genre hits as I’ll Take Your Dead, Let Her Out, and Antisocial, have released the official trailer and poster for their newest collaboration, The Oak Room, a dark thriller set in a remote and winter-ravaged Canadian town. During a raging snowstorm, a drifter returns home to the blue-collar bar located in the remote Canadian town where he was born. When he offers to settle an old debt with a grizzled bartender by telling him a story, the night’s events quickly spin into a dark tale of mistaken identities, double-crosses, and shocking violence. RJ Mitte (“Breaking Bad”) stars in the lead role opposite character actor Peter Outerbridge (Suicide Squad, “V-Wars) and rising star Ari Millen. The cast also includes Martin Roach (The Shape of Water, Diary of the Dead, “The Expanse”), Nicholas Campbell (“Black Mirror”, Antiviral, Da Vinci’s Inquest), David Ferry (The Boondock Saints, Legion, “Hell on Wheels”), and

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 18, 2020
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Elijah Wood Starring In New Ted Bundy Movie ‘No Man Of God’

Serial killer Ted Bundy remains one of the most popular killers in history. A new movie about the killer, No Man of God, is set to star Elijah Wood as an FBI analyst assigned to the case. The film is largely set in a single interrogation room, according to Deadline. And is based on real transcripts culled from interrogations between FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier (Wood) and Bundy that took place from 1984 to 1989. It will explore the relationship between the two men during the killer’s final years on death row. Casting for No Man of God is ongoing with the search on for the actor who will play Ted Bundy. Amber Sealy is in the director’s chair for the try crime movie. C. Robert Cargill penned the script. Elijah Wood will be producing along with Daniel Noah, Lisa Whalen, and Kim Sherman. Scott Derrickson, Bill Hagmaier, Stacey Jorgensen, and Mark Ward are executive producing. XYZ is handling international sales.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 18, 2020
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From Executive Producers Of ‘Day Of The Dead’ Comes Pearry Teo’s ‘The Assent’

Dazzler Media presents writer-director Pearry Reginald Teo‘s supernatural horror The Assent out on DVD this July. In this fresh new horror, single father Joel (Robert Kazinsky, Pacific Rim, Captain Marvel) suspects his young son may be possessed. Struggling with his own mental health, he can’t be sure what’s real, and what exists in his imagination. He is aided by Father Lambert (Peter Jason, Deadwood, They Live) who seeks his own redemption after serving prison time for the death of a child during a failed exorcism. Lambert believes the boy has been marked by the Devil himself and, without intervention, Joel could lose his son forever. From the executive producers of Texas Chainsaw and Day of the Dead, The Assent is a new tale of supernatural terror from the brilliant multi-award-winning writer and director Pearry Reginald Teo (The Evil Inside, The Gene Generation). Possess The Assent on DVD and Digital on July 27, 2020.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 16, 2020
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