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Movie Review: The House That Jack Built (2018)

Jack (Matt Dillon) is one of your normal failed architect and arch-sociopath types that you see practically everywhere these days. But this is the 70’s so maybe that was less common then… So Jack; he’s a burgeoning serial killer looking to make one hell of an artistic statement with his murder biz. Over the course of twelve years, Jack builds on his previous mayhem in more and more audacious (read: highly noticeable) ways which attract the attention of the local po-po something fierce. What will fate (and other forces) have in store for Jack? I’m laying it on the line, The House That Jack Built is at times funny, stomach churning, and gore drenched, and at all times ultra-misogynistic, but no matter how brutal things get… and holy fucking fuck do they… it remains relentlessly watchable. The reason for that lies squarely on Matt Dillon. While often depicted as comedic and surface level likable, sympathy is not something we are

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DanXIII
Jan 20, 2020
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan Investigates ‘The Postcard Killings’ This March

“Walking Dead” actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan stars as a detective in The Postcard Killings, an adaptation of James Patterson and Liza Marklund’s best-selling novel of the same name, Deadline reports. Directed by Danis Tanovic (No Man’s Land) and written by Andrew Stern, Ellen Furman, Marklund and Tove Alsterdal, the thriller centers on “NYPD Detective Jacob Kanon, whose world is thrown into turmoil when he learns his daughter and son-in-law have been brutally murdered in London. When he goes there find out who is responsible he learns similar crimes are being reported across Europe, with each killing accompanied by a postcard sent to a local journalist. Fighting against time, bureaucracy and his own grief, Jacob will do whatever it takes to stop the killings and find justice for his little girl.” Famke Janssen (X-Men: The Last Stand) stars alongside Morgan, Cush Jumbo, Joachim Król, Steven Mackintosh and Denis O’Hare. The film is produced by Good Films Collective and James Patterson Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 19, 2020
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DVD Review: Mommy (1995) and Mommy 2 (1997)

“Mommy” (Patty McCormick, unofficially reprising her role from 1956’s The Bad Seed) is a dotting mother to young Jessica Ann (Rachel Lemieux)… and nothing, and I mean nothing will stand in the way of her daughter being a success. To wit: when Jessica fails to win the ‘Student of the Year’ award she straight up murders the girl’s teacher (Star Trek‘s Majel Barrett) and makes it look like an accident. This attracts the attention of hard-ass Lt. March (The Exorcist‘s Father Karras himself, Jason Miller)… but that does little, okay… absolutely zero, to stop this psycho from murdering even more folks that give Jessie static. Speaking of our favorite tyke, she gets wind of mommy’s wicked ways (I mean it’s hard not to when your mother blasts holes in someone right in front of you)… but the lethal lady’s silver tongue manages to initiate “Operation: Save Ass” with the quickness. Will Jessica Ann come to her senses and help justice

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DanXIII
Jan 18, 2020
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DVD Review: Get Gone (2019)

The Maxwells, lead by Don (Robert Miano) and his wife Mama (Lin Shaye), are one hell of a fucked-up family livin’ it up Hills Have Eyes style on polluted government land, deformed offspring and all. Of course these fine fiends have become the stuff of urban legend which leads us to our heroes… Enter: a hoax busting group on a team-building retreat… a group whose ranks include a few hoax busters going rogue from the group and finding themselves balls deep in Monstrous Maxwell territory. This of course pisses the Maxwell’s off right proper… but perhaps not as much as ye olde drilling company asshats making the scene to eject the Maxwells off the land. Violence ensues. Writer/Director Michael Thomas Daniel pulls of a horror biz miracle with Get Gone as he takes a rather derivative concept and makes some fright flick gold out of that there sinister straw! We get a heady stew of slasher, suspense, and even the

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DanXIII
Jan 17, 2020
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A Dark Mystery Begins To Unfold In The ‘Disappearance At Clifton Hill’ Trailer

IFC Midnight has just unveiled the trailer for Albert Shin‘s (In Her Place) thriller Disappearance at Clifton Hill. Watch as a dark mystery begins to unfold. “Following the death of her mother, Abby (Tuppence Middleton, The Imitation Game, Downton Abbey), a troubled young woman with a checkered past, returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls and the dilapidated motel her family used to run. While there, she finds herself drawn once again into a mystery that has haunted her since childhood: what happened to the young boy she saw being violently abducted in the woods twenty-five years ago? As Abby sets out to find out the truth, she must confront both a shocking, long-buried conspiracy that runs as deep as the falls themselves as well as her inner demons. Bristling with an air of surreal menace, this mood-drenched thriller is a tantalizing psychological puzzle box that unfolds in the hallucinatory realm between reality and perception.” Hannah Gross, David Cronenberg, Eric

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 17, 2020
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Bruce Willis Stars In The Action-Packed Thriller ‘Trauma Centre’ – On Digital This February

Lionsgate has just announced the February release date Trauma Centre, starring Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Bruce Willis. Screen legend Bruce Willis plays Lt. Wakes, a vengeful police detective determined to solve the murders of his partner and an informant. Wakes joins forces with Madison (Nicky Whelan), a witness injured during the shootings. After the killers pursue Madison across the abandoned floor of a hospital, she confirms Wakes’s worst fears: the two men are actually corrupt vice cops covering up a crime. As Wakes vows revenge, this heart-pounding action-thriller reaches an explosive climax. Nicky Whelan (Left Behind, Halloween II, TV’s “Scrubs”) stars with Bruce Willis (Die Hard series, Pulp Fiction, The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable), alongside Tito Ortiz, Texas Battle, Steve Guttenberg and Catherine Davis in the edge-of-your-seat thriller directed by Matt Eskandari, written by Paul Da Silva and produced by Randall Emmett, P.G.A., George Furla, P.G.A., Mark Stewart and Luillo Ruiz. Trauma Centre hits Digital on February 17th, followed by its

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 16, 2020
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Hello “Clarice”: Silence Of The Lambs Spin-Off Series Coming To CBS

When it comes to award-winning horror you don’t get much better than The Silence of the Lambs. CBS is now developing a series spin-off of The Silence of the Lambs titled “Clarice“, Deadline reports. The crime series is based on the iconic Thomas Harris character Clarice Starling, played in the film adaptation by Jody Foster. Set in 1993, a year after the events of The Silence of the Lambs, the series dives deep into the untold personal story of Clarice Starling as she returns to the field to pursue serial killers and sexual predators in Washington, D.C. after her encounter with serial killer cannibal Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Written and executive produced by Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet, the series’ pilot is set to be filmed soon with a series order hopefully following. Deadline does note that the writer’s room has already been established, so that’s a good sign. Here’s a look back at iconic 1991 film directed by Jonathan Demme.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 12, 2020
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Three Friends Get Bloody In ‘Harpoon’ – Now On Showtime

Dark secrets, rivalries, and sexual tensions rise when three friends are trapped on a yacht in Harpoon, written and directed by Rob Grant (Alive, What Doesn’t Kill You), Produced by Michael Peterson and Kurtis David Harder, the film stars Munro Chambers (Cardinal, Turbo Kid, Degrassi: The Next Generation), Emily Tyra (Code Black, Boardwalk Empire), and Christopher Gray (The Mist, The Society, Sell By) with narration by Brett Gelman (Fleabag, Stranger Things, The Other Guys). “With his perfect family and perfect upbringing, Richard (Christopher Gray) appears to have it all. So when he thinks that his long-term girlfriend, Sasha (Emily Tyra), and best friend, Jonah (Munro Chambers), are having an affair, it sends him into a fit of rage that leaves Jonah a bloody mess. Once Jonah and Sasha convince Richard the allegations are false, Richard tries to buy back their trust by taking them out for a day-trip on his family’s yacht. Tension boils over once out at sea, and

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 11, 2020
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Horror Fuel’s Horror Movie Theories

I had a lot of fun checking out some horror movie theories and thought to myself, why let others have all the fun and join in with our own! This is something new I would like to try, this is for fun and I would like to include you the reader to join in with your thoughts of the films we look at in the comments, again this is for fun let’s not take it too seriously! Of course WARNING: Spoilers Ahead! Miles never existed in The Prodigy In the 2019 “Bad Seed” horror flick The Prodigy, we’re introduced to a married couple (Taylor Schilling, Peter Moony) and their son Miles (Jackson Robert Scott) who was born on the same night and the exact moment that serial killer Edward Scarka (Paul Fauteux) and throughout the story Miles exhibits signs of becoming more and more possessed by the killer where it’s revealed at the end that Edward successfully takes over Simon’s

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Capt McNeely
Jan 8, 2020
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Sci-fi Thriller ‘Dark Encounter’ Lands On DVD

From writer-director Carl Strathie (interview) comes Dark Encounter, a dark sci-fi thriller about a family’s grief and an encounter with something otherworldly. “A year after the mysterious disappearance of an 8-year-old girl, we meet her grieving family as they return home from her memorial service in their small town. Later that evening, strange lights appear in the nearby forest and the family is exposed to an inexplicably strange phenomenon that rattles them to the core. The origin of the lights appears to be visitors from another world that seemingly terrorize the family. What they don’t realize is that these ‘beings’ will lead the family to the truth behind the little girl’s disturbing disappearance.” Laura Fraser, Mel Raido, Alice Lowe, Sid Phoenix, Grant Masters, Vincent Regan, and Spike White star in the film produced by Charlette Kilby and Alan Latham. Dark Encounter lands on VOD, Digital, and DVD on January 7, 2020, from 4Digital Media.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 7, 2020

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Movie Review: The House That Jack Built (2018)

Jack (Matt Dillon) is one of your normal failed architect and arch-sociopath types that you see practically everywhere these days. But this is the 70’s so maybe that was less common then… So Jack; he’s a burgeoning serial killer looking to make one hell of an artistic statement with his murder biz. Over the course of twelve years, Jack builds on his previous mayhem in more and more audacious (read: highly noticeable) ways which attract the attention of the local po-po something fierce. What will fate (and other forces) have in store for Jack? I’m laying it on the line, The House That Jack Built is at times funny, stomach churning, and gore drenched, and at all times ultra-misogynistic, but no matter how brutal things get… and holy fucking fuck do they… it remains relentlessly watchable. The reason for that lies squarely on Matt Dillon. While often depicted as comedic and surface level likable, sympathy is not something we are

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Jan 20, 2020
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan Investigates ‘The Postcard Killings’ This March

“Walking Dead” actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan stars as a detective in The Postcard Killings, an adaptation of James Patterson and Liza Marklund’s best-selling novel of the same name, Deadline reports. Directed by Danis Tanovic (No Man’s Land) and written by Andrew Stern, Ellen Furman, Marklund and Tove Alsterdal, the thriller centers on “NYPD Detective Jacob Kanon, whose world is thrown into turmoil when he learns his daughter and son-in-law have been brutally murdered in London. When he goes there find out who is responsible he learns similar crimes are being reported across Europe, with each killing accompanied by a postcard sent to a local journalist. Fighting against time, bureaucracy and his own grief, Jacob will do whatever it takes to stop the killings and find justice for his little girl.” Famke Janssen (X-Men: The Last Stand) stars alongside Morgan, Cush Jumbo, Joachim Król, Steven Mackintosh and Denis O’Hare. The film is produced by Good Films Collective and James Patterson Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 19, 2020
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DVD Review: Mommy (1995) and Mommy 2 (1997)

“Mommy” (Patty McCormick, unofficially reprising her role from 1956’s The Bad Seed) is a dotting mother to young Jessica Ann (Rachel Lemieux)… and nothing, and I mean nothing will stand in the way of her daughter being a success. To wit: when Jessica fails to win the ‘Student of the Year’ award she straight up murders the girl’s teacher (Star Trek‘s Majel Barrett) and makes it look like an accident. This attracts the attention of hard-ass Lt. March (The Exorcist‘s Father Karras himself, Jason Miller)… but that does little, okay… absolutely zero, to stop this psycho from murdering even more folks that give Jessie static. Speaking of our favorite tyke, she gets wind of mommy’s wicked ways (I mean it’s hard not to when your mother blasts holes in someone right in front of you)… but the lethal lady’s silver tongue manages to initiate “Operation: Save Ass” with the quickness. Will Jessica Ann come to her senses and help justice

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Jan 18, 2020
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DVD Review: Get Gone (2019)

The Maxwells, lead by Don (Robert Miano) and his wife Mama (Lin Shaye), are one hell of a fucked-up family livin’ it up Hills Have Eyes style on polluted government land, deformed offspring and all. Of course these fine fiends have become the stuff of urban legend which leads us to our heroes… Enter: a hoax busting group on a team-building retreat… a group whose ranks include a few hoax busters going rogue from the group and finding themselves balls deep in Monstrous Maxwell territory. This of course pisses the Maxwell’s off right proper… but perhaps not as much as ye olde drilling company asshats making the scene to eject the Maxwells off the land. Violence ensues. Writer/Director Michael Thomas Daniel pulls of a horror biz miracle with Get Gone as he takes a rather derivative concept and makes some fright flick gold out of that there sinister straw! We get a heady stew of slasher, suspense, and even the

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Jan 17, 2020
Horror Fuel

A Dark Mystery Begins To Unfold In The ‘Disappearance At Clifton Hill’ Trailer

IFC Midnight has just unveiled the trailer for Albert Shin‘s (In Her Place) thriller Disappearance at Clifton Hill. Watch as a dark mystery begins to unfold. “Following the death of her mother, Abby (Tuppence Middleton, The Imitation Game, Downton Abbey), a troubled young woman with a checkered past, returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls and the dilapidated motel her family used to run. While there, she finds herself drawn once again into a mystery that has haunted her since childhood: what happened to the young boy she saw being violently abducted in the woods twenty-five years ago? As Abby sets out to find out the truth, she must confront both a shocking, long-buried conspiracy that runs as deep as the falls themselves as well as her inner demons. Bristling with an air of surreal menace, this mood-drenched thriller is a tantalizing psychological puzzle box that unfolds in the hallucinatory realm between reality and perception.” Hannah Gross, David Cronenberg, Eric

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 17, 2020
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Bruce Willis Stars In The Action-Packed Thriller ‘Trauma Centre’ – On Digital This February

Lionsgate has just announced the February release date Trauma Centre, starring Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Bruce Willis. Screen legend Bruce Willis plays Lt. Wakes, a vengeful police detective determined to solve the murders of his partner and an informant. Wakes joins forces with Madison (Nicky Whelan), a witness injured during the shootings. After the killers pursue Madison across the abandoned floor of a hospital, she confirms Wakes’s worst fears: the two men are actually corrupt vice cops covering up a crime. As Wakes vows revenge, this heart-pounding action-thriller reaches an explosive climax. Nicky Whelan (Left Behind, Halloween II, TV’s “Scrubs”) stars with Bruce Willis (Die Hard series, Pulp Fiction, The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable), alongside Tito Ortiz, Texas Battle, Steve Guttenberg and Catherine Davis in the edge-of-your-seat thriller directed by Matt Eskandari, written by Paul Da Silva and produced by Randall Emmett, P.G.A., George Furla, P.G.A., Mark Stewart and Luillo Ruiz. Trauma Centre hits Digital on February 17th, followed by its

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 16, 2020
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Hello “Clarice”: Silence Of The Lambs Spin-Off Series Coming To CBS

When it comes to award-winning horror you don’t get much better than The Silence of the Lambs. CBS is now developing a series spin-off of The Silence of the Lambs titled “Clarice“, Deadline reports. The crime series is based on the iconic Thomas Harris character Clarice Starling, played in the film adaptation by Jody Foster. Set in 1993, a year after the events of The Silence of the Lambs, the series dives deep into the untold personal story of Clarice Starling as she returns to the field to pursue serial killers and sexual predators in Washington, D.C. after her encounter with serial killer cannibal Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Written and executive produced by Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet, the series’ pilot is set to be filmed soon with a series order hopefully following. Deadline does note that the writer’s room has already been established, so that’s a good sign. Here’s a look back at iconic 1991 film directed by Jonathan Demme.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 12, 2020
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Three Friends Get Bloody In ‘Harpoon’ – Now On Showtime

Dark secrets, rivalries, and sexual tensions rise when three friends are trapped on a yacht in Harpoon, written and directed by Rob Grant (Alive, What Doesn’t Kill You), Produced by Michael Peterson and Kurtis David Harder, the film stars Munro Chambers (Cardinal, Turbo Kid, Degrassi: The Next Generation), Emily Tyra (Code Black, Boardwalk Empire), and Christopher Gray (The Mist, The Society, Sell By) with narration by Brett Gelman (Fleabag, Stranger Things, The Other Guys). “With his perfect family and perfect upbringing, Richard (Christopher Gray) appears to have it all. So when he thinks that his long-term girlfriend, Sasha (Emily Tyra), and best friend, Jonah (Munro Chambers), are having an affair, it sends him into a fit of rage that leaves Jonah a bloody mess. Once Jonah and Sasha convince Richard the allegations are false, Richard tries to buy back their trust by taking them out for a day-trip on his family’s yacht. Tension boils over once out at sea, and

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 11, 2020
Horror Fuel

Horror Fuel’s Horror Movie Theories

I had a lot of fun checking out some horror movie theories and thought to myself, why let others have all the fun and join in with our own! This is something new I would like to try, this is for fun and I would like to include you the reader to join in with your thoughts of the films we look at in the comments, again this is for fun let’s not take it too seriously! Of course WARNING: Spoilers Ahead! Miles never existed in The Prodigy In the 2019 “Bad Seed” horror flick The Prodigy, we’re introduced to a married couple (Taylor Schilling, Peter Moony) and their son Miles (Jackson Robert Scott) who was born on the same night and the exact moment that serial killer Edward Scarka (Paul Fauteux) and throughout the story Miles exhibits signs of becoming more and more possessed by the killer where it’s revealed at the end that Edward successfully takes over Simon’s

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Jan 8, 2020
Horror Fuel

Sci-fi Thriller ‘Dark Encounter’ Lands On DVD

From writer-director Carl Strathie (interview) comes Dark Encounter, a dark sci-fi thriller about a family’s grief and an encounter with something otherworldly. “A year after the mysterious disappearance of an 8-year-old girl, we meet her grieving family as they return home from her memorial service in their small town. Later that evening, strange lights appear in the nearby forest and the family is exposed to an inexplicably strange phenomenon that rattles them to the core. The origin of the lights appears to be visitors from another world that seemingly terrorize the family. What they don’t realize is that these ‘beings’ will lead the family to the truth behind the little girl’s disturbing disappearance.” Laura Fraser, Mel Raido, Alice Lowe, Sid Phoenix, Grant Masters, Vincent Regan, and Spike White star in the film produced by Charlette Kilby and Alan Latham. Dark Encounter lands on VOD, Digital, and DVD on January 7, 2020, from 4Digital Media.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 7, 2020
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