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Horror Anthology ‘Blood Clots’ Debuts New Trailer

A new trailer for Hewes Pictures’ Blood Clots, starring Silence of the Lambs’ Brooke Smith, has been released. The horror anthology, premiering on Vimeo and Amazon this August, is a collection of horror stories curated by Freedom Cinema, consisting of shorts by New York distributor Hewes Pictures. Featuring cannibals, zombies and other funny creatures, the anthology stars many recognizable actors such as Brooke Smith (“The Silence of the Lambs”), Harry Sinclair (“Lord of the Rings”), Madalina Bellariu Ion (“Young Pope”) and Kristin Slaysman (“The Last Tycoon”, “Masters of Sex”) among many others. The collection is made up of seven short, gore-filled stories that will surely please the fans of the genre. Whether it is an awkward dinner with an ancient creature in “The Call of Charlie”, or a rightfully justified fear of basements in “Time to Eat”, Blood Clots has it all. The anthology features stories directed by Evan Hughes, Sid Zanforlin, Luke Guidici, Carl Timms, Patrick Longstreth, Timothy J.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 31, 2018
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Bill Oberst Jr. Shares Images Of HIs SFX Makeup For ‘Ray Bradbury Live (Forever)

Jeff Farley‘s love letter to Ray Bradbury will soon be on Bill Oberst Jr.‘s face. Special effects makeup artist and Primetime Emmy Award Nominee Farley has just completed the sculpt for Oberst’s prosthetic transformation into Bradbury in the authorized stage portrayal of the beloved author, Ray Bradbury Live (forever). This project is the culmination of four decades of professional experience, and the most exciting of my career,” Farley said. “I am proud to help my friend bring his vision to life. Bill says I’m his Dick Smith and he’s my Hal Holbrook. We laugh, but that really is the level of illusion we’re aiming for.” Smith’s prosthetics for Holbrook’s Mark Twain Tonight broke new SFX ground in 1967. For his part, Oberst says he’s “ecstatic” about what Farley (whose resume stretches from Babylon 5, Wolf and Demolition Man to Quarry, Pod and Imitation Girl) is creating. “Jeff is a bit of a recluse and he’s very selective,” said Oberst “so

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 31, 2018
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‘Castle Rock’ To Tell A New “Unwritten King Story” Each Season

Just when we thought that Hulu’s anthology series “Castle Rock” couldn’t get any better we learn that the J.J. Abrams’ Stephen King universe-set show will “approach each season as an unwritten Stephen King novel”, according to co-creator Sam Shaw. Bloody Disgusting quoted Shaw as saying: “He’s a genre unto himself and there are seven or eight well-defined sub-genres. We’ve always loved the stories dealing with crime and punishment, and prisons, and Stephen King sort of grappling with real-world monsters – and what we do with them, and where we put them, how we treat them, and whether that makes us monsters. This season is written very much in the shadow of Shawshank and The Green Mile, and stories dealing with incarceration. But then there are great banging monster stories or there are cosmic stories about good and evil.” “We hope to have the latitude to come back to future seasons and just tell a great monster story set in like

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 31, 2018
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Five New Posters Blow In For ‘Sharknado: It’s About Time’

Five epic new posters have blown in for Sharknado: It’s About Time, the final film of the franchise, ahead of its August arrival. All is lost, or is it? In Sharknado 6, “Fin unlocks the time-traveling power of the sharknados in order to save the world and resurrect his family. In his quest, Fin fights Nazis, dinosaurs, knights, and even takes a ride on Noah’s Ark. This time, it’s not how to stop the sharknados, it’s when.” Ian Ziering, Tara Reid (interview) and Cassie Scerbo (interview) will be returning. And as all ways, there will be a legion of celebrity guest stars. Batton down the hatches, Sharknado: It’s About Time makes landfall on Syfy on August 19, 2018.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 30, 2018
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Hereditary Director Begins Pre-Production On New Horror Film

Director Ari Aster‘s 2017 film, Hereditary, is hailed as one of the most frighting films of the past decade. Now, he has begun production on his next project, a still-untitled genre film that will star Jack Reynor, Florence Pugh, and Will Poulter. According to Collider, Vilhem Blomgren, William Jackson Harper, Ellora Torchia, and Archie Madekwe will co-star. Pugh and Reynor will play a couple that travels to Sweden to visit their friend’s rural hometown for its fabled mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult. I’m in pre-production for my next film which will be shooting in Hungary. A24 is doing that as well, and that is technically a horror film,” Aster recently told THR. “It’s Scandinavian folk horror.” A24 is both producing and financing the film, which will be their largest production so far. The story centers a young couple visiting an isolated

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 30, 2018
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Mr. Mercedes’ Season Two Trailer Cries “Olly, Olly, Oxen Free”

AT&T’s Audience Network is gearing up for the second season of their Stephen King series adaptation “Mr. Mercedes” which promises an “eerier, more gothic world.” Season 2 is set a year after Brady Hartsfield’s attempt at a second mass murder in the community of Bridgton, Ohio. Now, he may be in a coma, but he’s far from being done, displaying an interesting power in the new trailer. The cast includes Brendan Gleeson (Harry Potter) as Detective Bill Hodges, Harry Treadaway (Penny Dreadful) plays the role of Brady Hartsfield, Jharrel Jerome (Moonlight) as Jerome Robinson, Justine Lupe (Francis Ha) as Holly Gibney, Scott Lawrence (Avatar) co-stars as Detective Peter Dixon, Breeda Wool (Unreal) as Lou Linklater, Nancy Travis (How I Met Your Mother) plays Donna Hodges, and Holland Taylor (The Truman Show) plays the role of Ida Silver. The cast is joined by Jack Huston (Boardwalk Empire) as Brady Hartsfield’s doctor Dr. Felix Babineau, Tessa Ferrer (Grey’s Anatomy) as Dr. Babineau’s

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 30, 2018
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Netflix Announces The Premieres Of “Maniac” & “Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina”

Sunday during the TCA summer press tour Netflix announced the premiere date for two series, “Maniac” and “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina“, Variety reports. “Maniac“, a 10-episode limited series, centers on the stories of Annie Landsberg (Emma Stone) and Own Milgrim (Jonah Hill), two strangers drawn to a mysterious pharmaceutical trial, each for their own reason. Annie’s disaffected and aimless, focused on a broken relationship with her mother and sister; Owen, the fifth son of a wealthy New York industrialist, has always struggled with a disputed case of schizophrenia. “Maniac” is set to premiere on September 21, 2018, and co-stars Justin Theroux. Patrick Somerville created “Maniac” which is directed by Cary Fukunaga. The other series is “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina“, based on the Archie Comics by the same name. Starring Kiernan Shipka in the lead role, the series reimagines “Sabina the Teenage Witch”. Netflix version will be more grounded in horror and the occult. Miranda Otto, Lucy Davis, Ross Lynch, Michelle

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 30, 2018
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John Macaluso Tells Us About Fandemic Comic-Con In An Interview

John Macaluso, a name once associated with the fashion industry, then the CEO of Wizard World, is now head of one of the best new Comic-Cons around, Fandemic. John took a few minutes out of his very busy schedule to talk with me about Fandemic ahead of its September arrival. Horror Fuel: “How did you go from being in the garment industry to conventions?” John Macaluso: “It’s funny that you ask that. I sold my company in 2000 and retired. In 2010 my wife and my kid sat me down and said ‘We’re really happy that you’re retired, but you are driving us crazy. You need to go back to work.’ I got invited to go on a tour of Wizard World and I realized that I really liked what they were doing and they asked me to become the CEO, so I got involved in the event business.” Horror Fuel: “Tell me about Fandemic? What sets it apart from

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 29, 2018
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Lou Simon Talks ‘3: An Eye For An Eye’ & Being A Female Filmmaker In Today’s World

Writer, director, and producer Lou Simon sat down with me to discuss women in the film industry and her latest genre film 3. Behind films like All Girls Weekend, Hazmat, Agrophobia, and The Awakened, Lou has been making her mark in the genre for years and seems to know just what to do to get a message across to fans. In 3: An Eye For An Eye “A man and a woman kidnap her rapist in order to extract a confession from him. They need to get his confession on tape because he has made up an alibi. Locked up in the basement of a remote home, he is unwilling to confess on camera and continues to assert his innocence. With time running out, how far are they willing to go for justice and what if they are wrong?” Horror Fuel: “What is it like to be a woman in the film industry these days?” Lou: “Well, it’s hard being

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 29, 2018
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Discover ‘What Still Remains’ This August

Josh Mendoza‘s dystopian thriller What still Remains is to open in theaters this August. “Set Twenty-five years after a viral outbreak decimated the population, the remaining survivors still fear that deadly illness and the feral “Changed” it has created. Against this post-apocalyptic backdrop, a young woman loses her family and struggles to survive on her own in the wilderness. When a lonely traveler offers her a place in his community, she must decide if the promise of a better life is worth the risk of trusting him. But as she ventures out into a world she’s never known, she discovers there are far more dangers than the legends of savage beasts from her childhood. Numerous factions of humanity still endure and she will learn people can become their own kind of monster.” Starring Lulu Antariksa (T@gged), Colin O’Donoghue (Once Upon a Time), Mimi Rogers (The X-Files), Dohn Norwood (Hell on Wheels), and Jeff Kober (The Walking Dead), the film was

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 29, 2018

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Horror Anthology ‘Blood Clots’ Debuts New Trailer

A new trailer for Hewes Pictures’ Blood Clots, starring Silence of the Lambs’ Brooke Smith, has been released. The horror anthology, premiering on Vimeo and Amazon this August, is a collection of horror stories curated by Freedom Cinema, consisting of shorts by New York distributor Hewes Pictures. Featuring cannibals, zombies and other funny creatures, the anthology stars many recognizable actors such as Brooke Smith (“The Silence of the Lambs”), Harry Sinclair (“Lord of the Rings”), Madalina Bellariu Ion (“Young Pope”) and Kristin Slaysman (“The Last Tycoon”, “Masters of Sex”) among many others. The collection is made up of seven short, gore-filled stories that will surely please the fans of the genre. Whether it is an awkward dinner with an ancient creature in “The Call of Charlie”, or a rightfully justified fear of basements in “Time to Eat”, Blood Clots has it all. The anthology features stories directed by Evan Hughes, Sid Zanforlin, Luke Guidici, Carl Timms, Patrick Longstreth, Timothy J.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 31, 2018
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Bill Oberst Jr. Shares Images Of HIs SFX Makeup For ‘Ray Bradbury Live (Forever)

Jeff Farley‘s love letter to Ray Bradbury will soon be on Bill Oberst Jr.‘s face. Special effects makeup artist and Primetime Emmy Award Nominee Farley has just completed the sculpt for Oberst’s prosthetic transformation into Bradbury in the authorized stage portrayal of the beloved author, Ray Bradbury Live (forever). This project is the culmination of four decades of professional experience, and the most exciting of my career,” Farley said. “I am proud to help my friend bring his vision to life. Bill says I’m his Dick Smith and he’s my Hal Holbrook. We laugh, but that really is the level of illusion we’re aiming for.” Smith’s prosthetics for Holbrook’s Mark Twain Tonight broke new SFX ground in 1967. For his part, Oberst says he’s “ecstatic” about what Farley (whose resume stretches from Babylon 5, Wolf and Demolition Man to Quarry, Pod and Imitation Girl) is creating. “Jeff is a bit of a recluse and he’s very selective,” said Oberst “so

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 31, 2018
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‘Castle Rock’ To Tell A New “Unwritten King Story” Each Season

Just when we thought that Hulu’s anthology series “Castle Rock” couldn’t get any better we learn that the J.J. Abrams’ Stephen King universe-set show will “approach each season as an unwritten Stephen King novel”, according to co-creator Sam Shaw. Bloody Disgusting quoted Shaw as saying: “He’s a genre unto himself and there are seven or eight well-defined sub-genres. We’ve always loved the stories dealing with crime and punishment, and prisons, and Stephen King sort of grappling with real-world monsters – and what we do with them, and where we put them, how we treat them, and whether that makes us monsters. This season is written very much in the shadow of Shawshank and The Green Mile, and stories dealing with incarceration. But then there are great banging monster stories or there are cosmic stories about good and evil.” “We hope to have the latitude to come back to future seasons and just tell a great monster story set in like

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 31, 2018
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Five New Posters Blow In For ‘Sharknado: It’s About Time’

Five epic new posters have blown in for Sharknado: It’s About Time, the final film of the franchise, ahead of its August arrival. All is lost, or is it? In Sharknado 6, “Fin unlocks the time-traveling power of the sharknados in order to save the world and resurrect his family. In his quest, Fin fights Nazis, dinosaurs, knights, and even takes a ride on Noah’s Ark. This time, it’s not how to stop the sharknados, it’s when.” Ian Ziering, Tara Reid (interview) and Cassie Scerbo (interview) will be returning. And as all ways, there will be a legion of celebrity guest stars. Batton down the hatches, Sharknado: It’s About Time makes landfall on Syfy on August 19, 2018.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 30, 2018
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Hereditary Director Begins Pre-Production On New Horror Film

Director Ari Aster‘s 2017 film, Hereditary, is hailed as one of the most frighting films of the past decade. Now, he has begun production on his next project, a still-untitled genre film that will star Jack Reynor, Florence Pugh, and Will Poulter. According to Collider, Vilhem Blomgren, William Jackson Harper, Ellora Torchia, and Archie Madekwe will co-star. Pugh and Reynor will play a couple that travels to Sweden to visit their friend’s rural hometown for its fabled mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult. I’m in pre-production for my next film which will be shooting in Hungary. A24 is doing that as well, and that is technically a horror film,” Aster recently told THR. “It’s Scandinavian folk horror.” A24 is both producing and financing the film, which will be their largest production so far. The story centers a young couple visiting an isolated

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 30, 2018
Horror Fuel

Mr. Mercedes’ Season Two Trailer Cries “Olly, Olly, Oxen Free”

AT&T’s Audience Network is gearing up for the second season of their Stephen King series adaptation “Mr. Mercedes” which promises an “eerier, more gothic world.” Season 2 is set a year after Brady Hartsfield’s attempt at a second mass murder in the community of Bridgton, Ohio. Now, he may be in a coma, but he’s far from being done, displaying an interesting power in the new trailer. The cast includes Brendan Gleeson (Harry Potter) as Detective Bill Hodges, Harry Treadaway (Penny Dreadful) plays the role of Brady Hartsfield, Jharrel Jerome (Moonlight) as Jerome Robinson, Justine Lupe (Francis Ha) as Holly Gibney, Scott Lawrence (Avatar) co-stars as Detective Peter Dixon, Breeda Wool (Unreal) as Lou Linklater, Nancy Travis (How I Met Your Mother) plays Donna Hodges, and Holland Taylor (The Truman Show) plays the role of Ida Silver. The cast is joined by Jack Huston (Boardwalk Empire) as Brady Hartsfield’s doctor Dr. Felix Babineau, Tessa Ferrer (Grey’s Anatomy) as Dr. Babineau’s

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 30, 2018
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Netflix Announces The Premieres Of “Maniac” & “Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina”

Sunday during the TCA summer press tour Netflix announced the premiere date for two series, “Maniac” and “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina“, Variety reports. “Maniac“, a 10-episode limited series, centers on the stories of Annie Landsberg (Emma Stone) and Own Milgrim (Jonah Hill), two strangers drawn to a mysterious pharmaceutical trial, each for their own reason. Annie’s disaffected and aimless, focused on a broken relationship with her mother and sister; Owen, the fifth son of a wealthy New York industrialist, has always struggled with a disputed case of schizophrenia. “Maniac” is set to premiere on September 21, 2018, and co-stars Justin Theroux. Patrick Somerville created “Maniac” which is directed by Cary Fukunaga. The other series is “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina“, based on the Archie Comics by the same name. Starring Kiernan Shipka in the lead role, the series reimagines “Sabina the Teenage Witch”. Netflix version will be more grounded in horror and the occult. Miranda Otto, Lucy Davis, Ross Lynch, Michelle

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 30, 2018
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John Macaluso Tells Us About Fandemic Comic-Con In An Interview

John Macaluso, a name once associated with the fashion industry, then the CEO of Wizard World, is now head of one of the best new Comic-Cons around, Fandemic. John took a few minutes out of his very busy schedule to talk with me about Fandemic ahead of its September arrival. Horror Fuel: “How did you go from being in the garment industry to conventions?” John Macaluso: “It’s funny that you ask that. I sold my company in 2000 and retired. In 2010 my wife and my kid sat me down and said ‘We’re really happy that you’re retired, but you are driving us crazy. You need to go back to work.’ I got invited to go on a tour of Wizard World and I realized that I really liked what they were doing and they asked me to become the CEO, so I got involved in the event business.” Horror Fuel: “Tell me about Fandemic? What sets it apart from

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 29, 2018
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Lou Simon Talks ‘3: An Eye For An Eye’ & Being A Female Filmmaker In Today’s World

Writer, director, and producer Lou Simon sat down with me to discuss women in the film industry and her latest genre film 3. Behind films like All Girls Weekend, Hazmat, Agrophobia, and The Awakened, Lou has been making her mark in the genre for years and seems to know just what to do to get a message across to fans. In 3: An Eye For An Eye “A man and a woman kidnap her rapist in order to extract a confession from him. They need to get his confession on tape because he has made up an alibi. Locked up in the basement of a remote home, he is unwilling to confess on camera and continues to assert his innocence. With time running out, how far are they willing to go for justice and what if they are wrong?” Horror Fuel: “What is it like to be a woman in the film industry these days?” Lou: “Well, it’s hard being

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 29, 2018
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Discover ‘What Still Remains’ This August

Josh Mendoza‘s dystopian thriller What still Remains is to open in theaters this August. “Set Twenty-five years after a viral outbreak decimated the population, the remaining survivors still fear that deadly illness and the feral “Changed” it has created. Against this post-apocalyptic backdrop, a young woman loses her family and struggles to survive on her own in the wilderness. When a lonely traveler offers her a place in his community, she must decide if the promise of a better life is worth the risk of trusting him. But as she ventures out into a world she’s never known, she discovers there are far more dangers than the legends of savage beasts from her childhood. Numerous factions of humanity still endure and she will learn people can become their own kind of monster.” Starring Lulu Antariksa (T@gged), Colin O’Donoghue (Once Upon a Time), Mimi Rogers (The X-Files), Dohn Norwood (Hell on Wheels), and Jeff Kober (The Walking Dead), the film was

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 29, 2018
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