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Groundhog Day Style Horror-Thriller 'Jagged Mind' Debuting On Hulu

Groundhog Day Style Horror-Thriller ‘Jagged Mind’ Debuting On Hulu

Out this week, Hulu’s new LBGTQ+ horror-thriller Jagged Mind, from director Kelley Kali, sees a woman plagued by visions and a sense of reliving her days over and over. Written by Allyson Morgan, the film stars Maisie Richardson-Sellers and Shannon Woodward, Jagged Mind sees a woman plagued by blackouts and strange visions that lead her to discover she’s stuck in a series of time loops, possibly related to her mysterious new girlfriend. The film, which made its world premiere at the American Black Film Festival, is based on the short film “First Date,” which was included in the first season of 20th Digital Studio’s “Bite Size Halloween.” The feature is part of the studio’s existing slate of horror features for Hulu, including Grimcutty, Matriarch, Clock, and the upcoming films Appendage and The Mill. 20th Digital Studio developed Jagged Mind with David Worthen Brooks, Arbi Pedrossian, and Jenna Cavelle as executive producers. Daniela Ruiz produced under her Palabra Productions banner. Kelley

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 14, 2023
Steven Schneider, Slash & Malkier Team Up For New Slate Of Horror Films

Steven Schneider, Slash & Malkier Team Up For New Slate Of Horror Films

Steven Schneider, the creator of the Paranormal Activity franchise, Malkier Studios, and rock god Slash are teaming up for a new slate of horror movies, “animation, and thriller content.” Variety reports. The first film on the list is titled Janus and comes from director Jason Zada (The Forest). Written by Nate Atkins, the film centers on three members of a band that seeks refuge in an old house where they discover a woman who harbors a terrifying secret. The cast of Janus includes Alex Neustaedter (American Rust), Natalie Alyn Lind (“Big Sky”), Jack Kilmer (Lords of Chaos), M.C. Gainey (Emperor), and Grace Van Dien (“Stranger Things”). Slash is producing the film alongside Steven Schneider. The next film to be released is titled The Worthless Remains. Director X (Superfly) is the director’s chair for the film written by Micah Ranum (The Silencing). Variety quotes Schneider as saying: “Producing a horror slate with innovators such as Jason Zada and Director X. is

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 14, 2023
Black Magic And Murder: 'The Breach' Conjures A Release Date

Black Magic And Murder: ‘The Breach’ Conjures A Release Date

Trinity Creative Partnership and Raven Banner have just announced the release of the gory, cosmic horror The Breach. The adaptation of Nick Cutter’s (The Troop) horror novel is directed by Rue Morgue founder Rodrigo Gudiño (The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh) and follows John Hawkins, who is in his last days as Chief of Police in the tiny town of Lone Crow, deep in the woods of Northern Ontario. But when a mangled body with strange wounds is found on the shores of the Porcupine River, he’s pulled into a horrific mystery filled with black magic. Featuring music by Guns N’ Roses Guitarist Slash, who also served as an Executive Produce, The Breach stars Allan Hawco (Republic of Doyle, “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan”), Emily Alatalo (Spare Parts), Natalie Brown (“The Strain,” “Dark Matter”), Mary Antonini (Revenge Delivered), Wesley French (“Vikings,” Tribal), Adam Kenneth Wilson (Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Shadow Hunters) and with a special cameo from Alex Lifeson, lead

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 14, 2023
VUDU Celebrates Premiere Of 'Beau Is Afraid' By Releasing New Clip

VUDU Celebrates Premiere Of ‘Beau Is Afraid’ By Releasing New Clip

A24 and writer-director Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar) have teamed up again for the unnerving film Beau Is Afraid, out today on VUDU. To celebrate, VUDU has released a new exclusive scene which you can watch below. Originally titled Disappointment Blvd., the movie stars Academy Award-winner Joaquin Phoenix as a mild-mannered anxiety-ridden man who following the sudden death of his mother, confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic, Kafkaesque odyssey back home. The film co-stars Parker Posey (“Lost in Space”), Stephen McKinley Henderson (Dune), Denis Ménochet (The French Dispatch), Michael Gandolfini (The Many Saints of Newark), Hayley Squires (In the Earth), and Zoe Lister-Jones (the director of The Craft: Legacy). Nathan Lane (“Penny Dreadful: City of Angels”), Patti LuPone (“Hollywood”), Amy Ryan (Only Murders in the Building), and Kylie Rogers (“Yellowstone”) also star. Aster and Lars Knudsen are producing for Square Peg.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 13, 2023
Lego Conjures "Ideas Hocus Pocus: The Sanderson Sisters’ Cottage" Kit

Lego Conjures “Ideas Hocus Pocus: The Sanderson Sisters’ Cottage” Kit

It doesn’t matter if you are a kid or a grown-ass adult. Legos are and always will be awesome. Over the past few years, the building block company has been releasing some killer complex adult kits. Following the news that Hocus Pocus 3 is brewing, Legos has announced their upcoming kit based on the iconic cottage home of the Sanderson Sisters, which features over 2,000 pieces. The Lego Ideas Hocus Pocus: The Sanderson Sisters’ Cottage is designed with older audiences in mind. The kit includes the sisters, Max, Danni, Allison, and Thackery Binx the cat, as well as easter eggs from the original film. The building can be displayed as either the Sandersons’ cottage or the Sanderson Witch Museum by adding signs, a cash register, and rope barriers. And the roof opens up to reveal the interior of the cottage/museum. If you are a VIP member, you can get yours on July 1, 2023. Everyone else can order theirs on

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 13, 2023
'Caddy Hack' Slashes Its Way Onto Blu-Ray This October

Caddy Shack Meets Gremlins: Trailer For Horror-Comedy ‘Caddy Hack’ Is Out

Sometimes, there is just nothing better than a cheesy horror movie. If that’s what you are looking for, we’ve got one you need to check out, Anthony Catanese’s Caddy Hack. In the film, which Catanese wrote and directed, a struggling golf course suffers a string of caddy murders at the paws of pesticide-mutated gofers while the greedy owner of the facility tries to cover up the carnage and unhinged groundkeeper wages all-out war on the vicious vermin. Jim Gordon, Jake Foy, Chrissy Cavallo, Nick Twist, Ilene Sullivan, and John Evans are among the cast of the crazy horror-comedy best described as Caddyshack meets Gremlins. Catanese, the cult indie director of Girls Just Wanna Have Blood and Sodomaniac, produced alongside Sara Casey, Scott Miller, Jim Gordon, Joseph Kuzemka, and Rob Hauschild. Caddy Hack will premiere at Kevin Smith’s Smodcastle theater in Atlantic Highlands, NJ, on August 11, 2023, before coming to digital, Blu Ray and DVD this October from Wild Eye

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 13, 2023
"Yellowjackets" Star Joins 'Companion' From The Director Of 'Barbarian'

“Yellowjackets” Star Joins ‘Companion’ From The Director Of ‘Barbarian’

Sophie Thatcher, the breakout star of the dark and fantastic series “Yellowjackets,” has joined the cast of the upcoming horror Companion, THR reports. Last reported, Jack Quaid (Scream) had joined the cast alongside Harvey Guillén (“What We Do in the Shadows”), Lukas Gage (You), and Megan Suri (It Lives Inside). Drew Hancock is making their directorial debut. Hancock also penned the script for the film, described as both sci-fi and horror, though the plot details are currently being kept quiet. But we’ll keep you posted. Barbarian director Zach Cregger is producing, as is BoulderLight’s Raphael Margules, J.D. Lifshitz, and Vertigo’s Roy Lee. BoulderLight’s Tracy Rosenblum and Vertigo’s Andrew Childs are executive producing. In the meantime, you can watch Sophie Thatcher now in the first two seasons of “Yellowjackets” on Hulu and Showtime. The series sees a girls’ high school soccer team plane crash, and the survivors fight to survive the elements and each other. The fight continues as they reunite

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 12, 2023
Three Horror Icons Sink Their Teeth Into 'Love Bites' - Produced By Cher & Chaz Bono

Three Horror Icons Sink Their Teeth Into ‘Love Bites’ – Produced By Cher & Chaz Bono

Spider One (Bury the Bride) is in the director’s chair for Little Bites, produced by mother and son Cher and Chaz Bono. THR broke the news, announcing that the film will star horror icons Heather Langenkamp (Nightmare On Elm Street), Barbara Crampton (Re-animator), and Bonnie Aarons (The Nun). Bury the Bride actress Krsy Fox will also star alongside Elizabeth Caro and Jon Sklaroff in the film. Little Bites, which begins production later this month, centers on Mindy (Fox), a young widow and mother who tries to protect her daughter Alice (Elizabeth Caro) from a flesh-eating monster named Agyar (Jon Sklaroff). Mindy has been secretly sacrificing her own life by allowing the creature to feast on her body as she keeps Alice hidden away at her grandmother’s house. Spider One and Fox’s OneFox Productions will produce the film along with Cher and Chaz Bono. “This film serves as a dark metaphor for parenthood and protecting your children at all costs. The

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 12, 2023
Friends Fight To Survive A Cult In The Horror-Comedy 'Scream Therapy' (Trailer)

Friends Fight To Survive A Cult In The Horror-Comedy ‘Scream Therapy’ (Trailer)

Writer-director Cassie Keet makes her feature debut with the horror-comedy Scream Therapy, about a cathartic girl’s trip to the desert that turns deadly when they run into some demon-worshipping incels on the hunt for a human sacrifice. “After Avery (Harley Bronwyn) breaks up with her boyfriend of seven years when he expresses no plans for marriage in the future, her best friends Nora (Claire Dellamar), Dylan (Mandie Cheung), Marybeth (Geri Courtney-Austein), and Gillian (Rochelle Anderson) whisk her away to the Wonder Valley desert for a weekend of drinking, drugs, and restorative scream therapy. Their vacation takes a sharp turn when they cross paths with Jeremiah (Brian Flaccus) and Zachariah (Skyler Bible), demon-worshiping incels who are on a very pressing human sacrifice deadline. When the ritual goes horribly wrong, the ladies are left with two choices: find sacrifices of their own or have their souls ripped out when the sun rises. With only hours to complete an impossible task, the best

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 12, 2023
Fresh Meat Is Delivered In New "The Horror Of Dolores Roach" Clip

Trailer Debuts For Prime Series “The Horror of Dolores Roach” Ahead Of July Premiere

Today, Prime Video has released the official trailer for the highly anticipated new series “The Horror of Dolores Roach.” Starring Justina Machado, “The Horror of Dolores Roach” is based on the hit Spotify podcast series of the same name and is a contemporary Sweeney Todd-inspired urban legend of love, betrayal, weed, cannibalism, and survival of the fittest. In the series, Dolores Roach (Justina Machado) is released after an unjust 16-year prison sentence, and she returns to a gentrified Washington Heights. Dolores reunites with an old stoner friend, Luis (Alejandro Hernandez), who lets her live and work as a masseuse in the basement under his empanada shop. When the promise of her newfound stability is quickly threatened, “Magic Hands” Dolores is driven to shocking extremes to survive. The series also stars Justina Machado, Alejandro Hernandez, Kita Updike, and K. Todd Freeman. Originally created by Aaron Mark as a one-woman play, Empanada Loca, Mark created, wrote, and directed the original podcast and

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 12, 2023

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Groundhog Day Style Horror-Thriller 'Jagged Mind' Debuting On Hulu

Groundhog Day Style Horror-Thriller ‘Jagged Mind’ Debuting On Hulu

Out this week, Hulu’s new LBGTQ+ horror-thriller Jagged Mind, from director Kelley Kali, sees a woman plagued by visions and a sense of reliving her days over and over. Written by Allyson Morgan, the film stars Maisie Richardson-Sellers and Shannon Woodward, Jagged Mind sees a woman plagued by blackouts and strange visions that lead her to discover she’s stuck in a series of time loops, possibly related to her mysterious new girlfriend. The film, which made its world premiere at the American Black Film Festival, is based on the short film “First Date,” which was included in the first season of 20th Digital Studio’s “Bite Size Halloween.” The feature is part of the studio’s existing slate of horror features for Hulu, including Grimcutty, Matriarch, Clock, and the upcoming films Appendage and The Mill. 20th Digital Studio developed Jagged Mind with David Worthen Brooks, Arbi Pedrossian, and Jenna Cavelle as executive producers. Daniela Ruiz produced under her Palabra Productions banner. Kelley

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 14, 2023
Steven Schneider, Slash & Malkier Team Up For New Slate Of Horror Films

Steven Schneider, Slash & Malkier Team Up For New Slate Of Horror Films

Steven Schneider, the creator of the Paranormal Activity franchise, Malkier Studios, and rock god Slash are teaming up for a new slate of horror movies, “animation, and thriller content.” Variety reports. The first film on the list is titled Janus and comes from director Jason Zada (The Forest). Written by Nate Atkins, the film centers on three members of a band that seeks refuge in an old house where they discover a woman who harbors a terrifying secret. The cast of Janus includes Alex Neustaedter (American Rust), Natalie Alyn Lind (“Big Sky”), Jack Kilmer (Lords of Chaos), M.C. Gainey (Emperor), and Grace Van Dien (“Stranger Things”). Slash is producing the film alongside Steven Schneider. The next film to be released is titled The Worthless Remains. Director X (Superfly) is the director’s chair for the film written by Micah Ranum (The Silencing). Variety quotes Schneider as saying: “Producing a horror slate with innovators such as Jason Zada and Director X. is

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 14, 2023
Black Magic And Murder: 'The Breach' Conjures A Release Date

Black Magic And Murder: ‘The Breach’ Conjures A Release Date

Trinity Creative Partnership and Raven Banner have just announced the release of the gory, cosmic horror The Breach. The adaptation of Nick Cutter’s (The Troop) horror novel is directed by Rue Morgue founder Rodrigo Gudiño (The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh) and follows John Hawkins, who is in his last days as Chief of Police in the tiny town of Lone Crow, deep in the woods of Northern Ontario. But when a mangled body with strange wounds is found on the shores of the Porcupine River, he’s pulled into a horrific mystery filled with black magic. Featuring music by Guns N’ Roses Guitarist Slash, who also served as an Executive Produce, The Breach stars Allan Hawco (Republic of Doyle, “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan”), Emily Alatalo (Spare Parts), Natalie Brown (“The Strain,” “Dark Matter”), Mary Antonini (Revenge Delivered), Wesley French (“Vikings,” Tribal), Adam Kenneth Wilson (Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Shadow Hunters) and with a special cameo from Alex Lifeson, lead

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 14, 2023
VUDU Celebrates Premiere Of 'Beau Is Afraid' By Releasing New Clip

VUDU Celebrates Premiere Of ‘Beau Is Afraid’ By Releasing New Clip

A24 and writer-director Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar) have teamed up again for the unnerving film Beau Is Afraid, out today on VUDU. To celebrate, VUDU has released a new exclusive scene which you can watch below. Originally titled Disappointment Blvd., the movie stars Academy Award-winner Joaquin Phoenix as a mild-mannered anxiety-ridden man who following the sudden death of his mother, confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic, Kafkaesque odyssey back home. The film co-stars Parker Posey (“Lost in Space”), Stephen McKinley Henderson (Dune), Denis Ménochet (The French Dispatch), Michael Gandolfini (The Many Saints of Newark), Hayley Squires (In the Earth), and Zoe Lister-Jones (the director of The Craft: Legacy). Nathan Lane (“Penny Dreadful: City of Angels”), Patti LuPone (“Hollywood”), Amy Ryan (Only Murders in the Building), and Kylie Rogers (“Yellowstone”) also star. Aster and Lars Knudsen are producing for Square Peg.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 13, 2023
Lego Conjures "Ideas Hocus Pocus: The Sanderson Sisters’ Cottage" Kit

Lego Conjures “Ideas Hocus Pocus: The Sanderson Sisters’ Cottage” Kit

It doesn’t matter if you are a kid or a grown-ass adult. Legos are and always will be awesome. Over the past few years, the building block company has been releasing some killer complex adult kits. Following the news that Hocus Pocus 3 is brewing, Legos has announced their upcoming kit based on the iconic cottage home of the Sanderson Sisters, which features over 2,000 pieces. The Lego Ideas Hocus Pocus: The Sanderson Sisters’ Cottage is designed with older audiences in mind. The kit includes the sisters, Max, Danni, Allison, and Thackery Binx the cat, as well as easter eggs from the original film. The building can be displayed as either the Sandersons’ cottage or the Sanderson Witch Museum by adding signs, a cash register, and rope barriers. And the roof opens up to reveal the interior of the cottage/museum. If you are a VIP member, you can get yours on July 1, 2023. Everyone else can order theirs on

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 13, 2023
'Caddy Hack' Slashes Its Way Onto Blu-Ray This October

Caddy Shack Meets Gremlins: Trailer For Horror-Comedy ‘Caddy Hack’ Is Out

Sometimes, there is just nothing better than a cheesy horror movie. If that’s what you are looking for, we’ve got one you need to check out, Anthony Catanese’s Caddy Hack. In the film, which Catanese wrote and directed, a struggling golf course suffers a string of caddy murders at the paws of pesticide-mutated gofers while the greedy owner of the facility tries to cover up the carnage and unhinged groundkeeper wages all-out war on the vicious vermin. Jim Gordon, Jake Foy, Chrissy Cavallo, Nick Twist, Ilene Sullivan, and John Evans are among the cast of the crazy horror-comedy best described as Caddyshack meets Gremlins. Catanese, the cult indie director of Girls Just Wanna Have Blood and Sodomaniac, produced alongside Sara Casey, Scott Miller, Jim Gordon, Joseph Kuzemka, and Rob Hauschild. Caddy Hack will premiere at Kevin Smith’s Smodcastle theater in Atlantic Highlands, NJ, on August 11, 2023, before coming to digital, Blu Ray and DVD this October from Wild Eye

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 13, 2023
"Yellowjackets" Star Joins 'Companion' From The Director Of 'Barbarian'

“Yellowjackets” Star Joins ‘Companion’ From The Director Of ‘Barbarian’

Sophie Thatcher, the breakout star of the dark and fantastic series “Yellowjackets,” has joined the cast of the upcoming horror Companion, THR reports. Last reported, Jack Quaid (Scream) had joined the cast alongside Harvey Guillén (“What We Do in the Shadows”), Lukas Gage (You), and Megan Suri (It Lives Inside). Drew Hancock is making their directorial debut. Hancock also penned the script for the film, described as both sci-fi and horror, though the plot details are currently being kept quiet. But we’ll keep you posted. Barbarian director Zach Cregger is producing, as is BoulderLight’s Raphael Margules, J.D. Lifshitz, and Vertigo’s Roy Lee. BoulderLight’s Tracy Rosenblum and Vertigo’s Andrew Childs are executive producing. In the meantime, you can watch Sophie Thatcher now in the first two seasons of “Yellowjackets” on Hulu and Showtime. The series sees a girls’ high school soccer team plane crash, and the survivors fight to survive the elements and each other. The fight continues as they reunite

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 12, 2023
Three Horror Icons Sink Their Teeth Into 'Love Bites' - Produced By Cher & Chaz Bono

Three Horror Icons Sink Their Teeth Into ‘Love Bites’ – Produced By Cher & Chaz Bono

Spider One (Bury the Bride) is in the director’s chair for Little Bites, produced by mother and son Cher and Chaz Bono. THR broke the news, announcing that the film will star horror icons Heather Langenkamp (Nightmare On Elm Street), Barbara Crampton (Re-animator), and Bonnie Aarons (The Nun). Bury the Bride actress Krsy Fox will also star alongside Elizabeth Caro and Jon Sklaroff in the film. Little Bites, which begins production later this month, centers on Mindy (Fox), a young widow and mother who tries to protect her daughter Alice (Elizabeth Caro) from a flesh-eating monster named Agyar (Jon Sklaroff). Mindy has been secretly sacrificing her own life by allowing the creature to feast on her body as she keeps Alice hidden away at her grandmother’s house. Spider One and Fox’s OneFox Productions will produce the film along with Cher and Chaz Bono. “This film serves as a dark metaphor for parenthood and protecting your children at all costs. The

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 12, 2023
Friends Fight To Survive A Cult In The Horror-Comedy 'Scream Therapy' (Trailer)

Friends Fight To Survive A Cult In The Horror-Comedy ‘Scream Therapy’ (Trailer)

Writer-director Cassie Keet makes her feature debut with the horror-comedy Scream Therapy, about a cathartic girl’s trip to the desert that turns deadly when they run into some demon-worshipping incels on the hunt for a human sacrifice. “After Avery (Harley Bronwyn) breaks up with her boyfriend of seven years when he expresses no plans for marriage in the future, her best friends Nora (Claire Dellamar), Dylan (Mandie Cheung), Marybeth (Geri Courtney-Austein), and Gillian (Rochelle Anderson) whisk her away to the Wonder Valley desert for a weekend of drinking, drugs, and restorative scream therapy. Their vacation takes a sharp turn when they cross paths with Jeremiah (Brian Flaccus) and Zachariah (Skyler Bible), demon-worshiping incels who are on a very pressing human sacrifice deadline. When the ritual goes horribly wrong, the ladies are left with two choices: find sacrifices of their own or have their souls ripped out when the sun rises. With only hours to complete an impossible task, the best

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 12, 2023
Fresh Meat Is Delivered In New "The Horror Of Dolores Roach" Clip

Trailer Debuts For Prime Series “The Horror of Dolores Roach” Ahead Of July Premiere

Today, Prime Video has released the official trailer for the highly anticipated new series “The Horror of Dolores Roach.” Starring Justina Machado, “The Horror of Dolores Roach” is based on the hit Spotify podcast series of the same name and is a contemporary Sweeney Todd-inspired urban legend of love, betrayal, weed, cannibalism, and survival of the fittest. In the series, Dolores Roach (Justina Machado) is released after an unjust 16-year prison sentence, and she returns to a gentrified Washington Heights. Dolores reunites with an old stoner friend, Luis (Alejandro Hernandez), who lets her live and work as a masseuse in the basement under his empanada shop. When the promise of her newfound stability is quickly threatened, “Magic Hands” Dolores is driven to shocking extremes to survive. The series also stars Justina Machado, Alejandro Hernandez, Kita Updike, and K. Todd Freeman. Originally created by Aaron Mark as a one-woman play, Empanada Loca, Mark created, wrote, and directed the original podcast and

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 12, 2023
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