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Oscar-winner Michelle Yeoh calls the dead in the new trailer for Kenneth Branagh’s A Haunting in Venice. The film, based on Agatha Christie’s 1969 novel “Halloween Party,” has a star-studded cast that also includes Tina Fey, Jude Hill, Kelly Reilly, and Jamie Dornan. Kenneth Branagh will be reprising his role as Hercule Poirot from Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express. “Set in post-WWII Venice on All Hallow’s Eve, Poirot, now retired and living in his own exile, reluctantly attends a seance. But when one of the guests is murdered, it is up to the former detective to uncover the killer again.” “It’s a supernatural world where the normal rules do not apply,” Branagh told Variety. “Murders and ghosts are irresistible to a man with that mustache and that nose for sniffing other culprits.” A Haunting in Venice is set to premiere in theaters on September 15, 2023, from 20th Century.
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but in Cracked, a terrifying new Thai horror film, an inherited painting may be worth a thousand screams… “Ruja (actress/model Chayanit Chansangavej) returns to Thailand from New York with her young daughter Rachel to settle her late father’s estate. Included in her inheritance are two mysterious portraits of a bewitching woman that she is told are worth a fortune if only they weren’t damaged. Desperate to sell the paintings, Ruja hires Tim (K-pop star Nichkhun), an art restorer, to prepare the canvases for sale. But the cracks in the paint have begun to reveal long-hidden secrets, and as strange phenomena begin to emerge around them, Ruja and Rachel quickly realize their lives are in grave danger.” Directed by Surapong Ploensang, the film stars Chayanit Chansangavej, Byron Bishop, Nichkhun, and Nutthatcha Padovan. Cracked lands on VOD and Digital May 26, 2023,
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A prank goes terribly wrong and revenge follows in writer-director Calvin McCarthy‘s horror Pillow Party Massacre. In the movie, “two years after a tragic April Fool’s prank gone wrong, a group of friends returns to their childhood vacation home to reconnect and heal old wounds. As strange things begin to happen, and girls turn up missing, it’s clear that someone or something is out for revenge.” Laura Welsh, Chynna Rae Shurts, Allegra Sweeny, and Jax Kellington star in this throwback to classic ’80s slasher films. Breaking Glass Pictures presents a film by Pillow Party Massacre, available on digital platforms now!
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What if a lost horror franchise made during the peak of the slasher genre was unearthed today, but only two of the films could be restored? Filmmaker Jay Burleson imagined just that with The Third Saturday In October: Part V and The Third Saturday in October: Part 1, out this May. A double feature of terror, The Third Saturday In October Part V, sees unstoppable killer Jakkariah Harding once again stalking and butchering the football-loving residents of a small Alabama town, this time finding a treasure trove of victims after he chances upon a football watch party. And then get ready to see how the horror began in The Third Saturday in October: Part 1 tells the story of Harding’s death row escape, and ensuing slaughter as two survivors of his initial attack hunt him down. Aiming to recreate the bygone video store days when horror fans might have had to watch a franchise out of order, the filmmakers intended
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In April, we reported that “Stranger Things” star Jamie Campbell Bower had joined the cast of the upcoming remake of 1986’s Witchboard. Today, news has come via Deadline that several other stars have also signed on. Madison Iseman (I Know What You Did Last Summer, pictured), Aaron Dominguez (Only Murders in the Building), Antonia Desplat (Shantaram), and Charlie Tahan (Ozark) will star alongside Bower. Chuck Russell, who was behind Dream Warriors and The Blob, is in the director’s chair for the remake and will direct from the script by Greg McKay (Night of the Demons). In Writer-director Kevin S. Tenney’s original, “Friends playing with an Ouija board at a late-night party unleash a demonic spirit who begins hunting them.” In the upcoming remake, “Emily, her fiancé Christian and a group of their friends open an organic café, refurbishing an old carriage house in New Orleans’ French Quarter. But darkness descends over Emily when she discovers an ancient pendulum board, once
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The Evil Dead franchise began with Evil Dead in 1981, Sam Raimi’s classic starring the oh so “groovy” Bruce Campbell. After several installments, director Fede Alvarez took the franchise in a new, more serious direction in 2013 with Evil Dead, starring Jane Levy. The second installment of the new branch of the franchise has just landed in theaters, Evil Dead Rise. Being the Evil Dead lover that I am, I headed to the theater to see it. I went into it knowing that it would be very different from the first Evil Dead I fell in love with and trying to keep an open mind. This is key for horror fans. You must compartmentalize and see the two branches separately. Evil Dead Rise moves the franchise out of the forest and into the city. It tells the twisted tale of two estranged sisters whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing deadites, thrusting them into a primal battle
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2023 has been a killer year for movies. Some of the biggest titles, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Renfield, and The Pope’s Exorcist, are coming to VUDU! Renfield, The Pope’s Exorcist are all available for $24.99, and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves for $19.99. Put on your favorite PJs, pop some popcorn, and watch one of these hits on Vudu beginning May 2, 2023! For more information on the movies and to watch the trailers, click on the highlighted titles.
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“American Horror Story” season 12 has just added another star to its roster, “Pose” actress Michaela Jae Rodrigues, according to Deadline, Rodrigues joins previously announced cast members Cara Delevigne (“Carnival Row”), Kim Kardashian, Matt Czuchry (“The Resident”), and “AHS” alum Emma Roberts. Halley Feiffer is serving as showrunner for season 12. Reportedly, this season is inspired by Daniel Valentine’s upcoming novel Delicate Condition. The novel, a gripping thriller, centers on a woman who becomes convinced that a sinister figure is working to keep her from getting the baby she desperately wants to have. The premiere date has yet to be announced, but it enters production this summer, so we will likely see it premiere late this fall.
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Nazis mess with the wrong man in the action-thriller SISU, which we called “F*cking Fantastic” in our review, and it is out now in theaters! Set in 1944, “during the last desperate days of WWII, a solitary prospector (Jorma Tommila) crosses paths with Nazis on a scorched-earth retreat in northern Finland. When the Nazis steal his gold, they quickly discover that they have just tangled with no ordinary miner. While there is no direct translation for the Finnish word “sisu,” this legendary ex-commando will embody what sisu means: a white-knuckled form of courage and unimaginable determination in the face of overwhelming odds. And no matter what the Nazis throw at him, the one-person death squad will go to outrageous lengths to get his gold back – even if it means killing every last Nazi in his path.” Written and directed by Jalmari Helander and produced by Petri Jokiranta, SISU stars Jorma Tommila, Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan, Onmi Tommila, and Mimosa
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Video game adaptations are as popular as ever, with series like “The Last of Us” dominating TV. Peacock’s upcoming adaptation of the hit game “Twisted Metal” has now released a new teaser trailer. It gives us our first look at Anthony Mackie’s character, John Doe. We also get a brief glimpse of “Sweet Tooth” in post-apocalypse Vegas. The ten-episode first season stars Anthony Mackie, Stephanie Beatriz, Tahj Vaughans, Michael Carollo, Jared Bankens, Chelle Ramos, Thomas Haden Church, Scream franchise star Neve Campbell and more. The series is “about a motor-mouthed outsider offered a chance at a better life, but only if he can successfully deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. With the help of a badass axe-wielding car thief, he’ll face savage marauders driving vehicles of destruction and other dangers of the open road, including a deranged clown who drives an all too familiar ice cream truck.” “Twisted Metal” will premiere exclusively on Peacock on July 27, 2023.
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Oscar-winner Michelle Yeoh calls the dead in the new trailer for Kenneth Branagh’s A Haunting in Venice. The film, based on Agatha Christie’s 1969 novel “Halloween Party,” has a star-studded cast that also includes Tina Fey, Jude Hill, Kelly Reilly, and Jamie Dornan. Kenneth Branagh will be reprising his role as Hercule Poirot from Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express. “Set in post-WWII Venice on All Hallow’s Eve, Poirot, now retired and living in his own exile, reluctantly attends a seance. But when one of the guests is murdered, it is up to the former detective to uncover the killer again.” “It’s a supernatural world where the normal rules do not apply,” Branagh told Variety. “Murders and ghosts are irresistible to a man with that mustache and that nose for sniffing other culprits.” A Haunting in Venice is set to premiere in theaters on September 15, 2023, from 20th Century.
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but in Cracked, a terrifying new Thai horror film, an inherited painting may be worth a thousand screams… “Ruja (actress/model Chayanit Chansangavej) returns to Thailand from New York with her young daughter Rachel to settle her late father’s estate. Included in her inheritance are two mysterious portraits of a bewitching woman that she is told are worth a fortune if only they weren’t damaged. Desperate to sell the paintings, Ruja hires Tim (K-pop star Nichkhun), an art restorer, to prepare the canvases for sale. But the cracks in the paint have begun to reveal long-hidden secrets, and as strange phenomena begin to emerge around them, Ruja and Rachel quickly realize their lives are in grave danger.” Directed by Surapong Ploensang, the film stars Chayanit Chansangavej, Byron Bishop, Nichkhun, and Nutthatcha Padovan. Cracked lands on VOD and Digital May 26, 2023,
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A prank goes terribly wrong and revenge follows in writer-director Calvin McCarthy‘s horror Pillow Party Massacre. In the movie, “two years after a tragic April Fool’s prank gone wrong, a group of friends returns to their childhood vacation home to reconnect and heal old wounds. As strange things begin to happen, and girls turn up missing, it’s clear that someone or something is out for revenge.” Laura Welsh, Chynna Rae Shurts, Allegra Sweeny, and Jax Kellington star in this throwback to classic ’80s slasher films. Breaking Glass Pictures presents a film by Pillow Party Massacre, available on digital platforms now!
Continue reading →
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What if a lost horror franchise made during the peak of the slasher genre was unearthed today, but only two of the films could be restored? Filmmaker Jay Burleson imagined just that with The Third Saturday In October: Part V and The Third Saturday in October: Part 1, out this May. A double feature of terror, The Third Saturday In October Part V, sees unstoppable killer Jakkariah Harding once again stalking and butchering the football-loving residents of a small Alabama town, this time finding a treasure trove of victims after he chances upon a football watch party. And then get ready to see how the horror began in The Third Saturday in October: Part 1 tells the story of Harding’s death row escape, and ensuing slaughter as two survivors of his initial attack hunt him down. Aiming to recreate the bygone video store days when horror fans might have had to watch a franchise out of order, the filmmakers intended
Continue reading →
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In April, we reported that “Stranger Things” star Jamie Campbell Bower had joined the cast of the upcoming remake of 1986’s Witchboard. Today, news has come via Deadline that several other stars have also signed on. Madison Iseman (I Know What You Did Last Summer, pictured), Aaron Dominguez (Only Murders in the Building), Antonia Desplat (Shantaram), and Charlie Tahan (Ozark) will star alongside Bower. Chuck Russell, who was behind Dream Warriors and The Blob, is in the director’s chair for the remake and will direct from the script by Greg McKay (Night of the Demons). In Writer-director Kevin S. Tenney’s original, “Friends playing with an Ouija board at a late-night party unleash a demonic spirit who begins hunting them.” In the upcoming remake, “Emily, her fiancé Christian and a group of their friends open an organic café, refurbishing an old carriage house in New Orleans’ French Quarter. But darkness descends over Emily when she discovers an ancient pendulum board, once
Continue reading →
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The Evil Dead franchise began with Evil Dead in 1981, Sam Raimi’s classic starring the oh so “groovy” Bruce Campbell. After several installments, director Fede Alvarez took the franchise in a new, more serious direction in 2013 with Evil Dead, starring Jane Levy. The second installment of the new branch of the franchise has just landed in theaters, Evil Dead Rise. Being the Evil Dead lover that I am, I headed to the theater to see it. I went into it knowing that it would be very different from the first Evil Dead I fell in love with and trying to keep an open mind. This is key for horror fans. You must compartmentalize and see the two branches separately. Evil Dead Rise moves the franchise out of the forest and into the city. It tells the twisted tale of two estranged sisters whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing deadites, thrusting them into a primal battle
Continue reading →
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2023 has been a killer year for movies. Some of the biggest titles, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Renfield, and The Pope’s Exorcist, are coming to VUDU! Renfield, The Pope’s Exorcist are all available for $24.99, and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves for $19.99. Put on your favorite PJs, pop some popcorn, and watch one of these hits on Vudu beginning May 2, 2023! For more information on the movies and to watch the trailers, click on the highlighted titles.
Continue reading →
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“American Horror Story” season 12 has just added another star to its roster, “Pose” actress Michaela Jae Rodrigues, according to Deadline, Rodrigues joins previously announced cast members Cara Delevigne (“Carnival Row”), Kim Kardashian, Matt Czuchry (“The Resident”), and “AHS” alum Emma Roberts. Halley Feiffer is serving as showrunner for season 12. Reportedly, this season is inspired by Daniel Valentine’s upcoming novel Delicate Condition. The novel, a gripping thriller, centers on a woman who becomes convinced that a sinister figure is working to keep her from getting the baby she desperately wants to have. The premiere date has yet to be announced, but it enters production this summer, so we will likely see it premiere late this fall.
Continue reading →
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Nazis mess with the wrong man in the action-thriller SISU, which we called “F*cking Fantastic” in our review, and it is out now in theaters! Set in 1944, “during the last desperate days of WWII, a solitary prospector (Jorma Tommila) crosses paths with Nazis on a scorched-earth retreat in northern Finland. When the Nazis steal his gold, they quickly discover that they have just tangled with no ordinary miner. While there is no direct translation for the Finnish word “sisu,” this legendary ex-commando will embody what sisu means: a white-knuckled form of courage and unimaginable determination in the face of overwhelming odds. And no matter what the Nazis throw at him, the one-person death squad will go to outrageous lengths to get his gold back – even if it means killing every last Nazi in his path.” Written and directed by Jalmari Helander and produced by Petri Jokiranta, SISU stars Jorma Tommila, Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan, Onmi Tommila, and Mimosa
Continue reading →
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Video game adaptations are as popular as ever, with series like “The Last of Us” dominating TV. Peacock’s upcoming adaptation of the hit game “Twisted Metal” has now released a new teaser trailer. It gives us our first look at Anthony Mackie’s character, John Doe. We also get a brief glimpse of “Sweet Tooth” in post-apocalypse Vegas. The ten-episode first season stars Anthony Mackie, Stephanie Beatriz, Tahj Vaughans, Michael Carollo, Jared Bankens, Chelle Ramos, Thomas Haden Church, Scream franchise star Neve Campbell and more. The series is “about a motor-mouthed outsider offered a chance at a better life, but only if he can successfully deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. With the help of a badass axe-wielding car thief, he’ll face savage marauders driving vehicles of destruction and other dangers of the open road, including a deranged clown who drives an all too familiar ice cream truck.” “Twisted Metal” will premiere exclusively on Peacock on July 27, 2023.
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