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Witness A Man's Hunt For A Serial Killer This December In 'Hinterland' (Trailer)

Witness A Man’s Hunt For A Serial Killer This December In ‘Hinterland’ (Trailer)

When an ex-prisoner of the Great War returns home to find his comrades brutally murdered, he decides to bring the serial killer to justice in the noir thriller Hinterland, from Oscar® winner Stefan Ruzowitzky. “The year is 1920. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has fallen and what remains has devolved into social unrest and political turmoil. Peter Perg, a soldier of the Great War, returns to Vienna only to realize the place he once called home is now unfamiliar to him. Having spent years as a prisoner of war, Perg is disillusioned by this strange, new city distorted by the nightmares of war. His world is further upended when a gruesome series of murders targeting veterans begin to unfold. Feeling connected to the victims, Perg decides to investigate the mysterious crimes. A stranger in his own city, the looming threat of a serial killer begins to take its toll on him.” The German film, which features English subtitles, stars Murathan Muslu, Liv

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 16, 2022
Watch The Exclusive New Clip From Found Footage Horror 'The Death Of April"

Watch The Exclusive New Clip From Found Footage Horror ‘The Death Of April”

Ruben Rodriguez’s new found footage horror film The Death of April, based on a true story, is set for a December Digital release. Ahead of its premiere, we have a creepy exclusive clip that asks “What is She Looking At?” The film follows Amy Rutledge as Meagan Mullen, who has freshly moved into her East coast home, keeping in touch with her friends and family through a video blog. As her entries (and her life) become more complex and emotional, strange things begin to happen in her apartment and the camera captures all of it. Witness The Death of April on Digital on December 9, 2022, from Terror Films.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 16, 2022
Watch The Exclusive New Clip From Found Footage Horror 'The Death Of April"

Witness The Trailer For True Story Inspired Horror ‘The Death Of April’

The trailer for Ruben Rodriguez’s new found footage horror film The Death of April, based on a true story, is here ahead of the film’s December Digital release. The film follows Amy Rutledge as Meagan Mullen, who has freshly moved into her East coast home, keeping in touch with her friends and family through a video blog. As her entries (and her life) become more complex and emotional, strange things begin to happen in her apartment and the camera captures all of it. Witness The Death of April on Digital on December 9, 2022, from Terror Films.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 16, 2022
Movie Review: Prey For The Devil - The Best Possession Movie We've Seen In Years

Possess The Exorcism Horror ‘Prey For The Devil’ On Digital And Blu-ray

Experience the true horror of exorcisms when the highly-anticipated supernatural horror Prey for the Devil arrives this December from Lionsgate. Sister Ann (Jacqueline Byers) believes she is answering a calling to be the first female exorcist…but who, or what, called her? In response to a global rise in demonic possessions, Ann seeks out a place at an exorcism school reopened by the Catholic Church. Until now these schools have only trained priests in the Rite of Exorcism – but a professor (Colin Salmon) recognizes Sister Ann’s gifts and agrees to train her. Thrusting onto the spiritual frontline with fellow student Father Dante (Christian Navarro), Sister Ann finds herself in a battle for the soul of a young girl, who Sister Ann believes is possessed by the same demon that tormented her own mother years ago. Determined to root out the evil, Ann soon realizes that evil has been expecting her. Directed by Daniel Stamm (The Last Exorcism) from a screenplay

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 16, 2022
Smile: Watch A Deleted Scene From The Number One Horror Movie Of The Year!

Smile: Watch A Deleted Scene From The Number One Horror Movie Of The Year!

Fans of the terrifying and mind-bending box office smash hit horror film SMILE can own it today Digital, from Paramount Home Entertainment, or get it on Blu-ray this December. To celebrate its release we have something that will make you smile, a deleted scene, and a bonus clip! “The film stars Sosie Bacon as Dr. Rose Cotter who, after witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can’t explain. As an overwhelming terror begins taking over her life, Rose must confront her troubling past in order to survive and escape her horrifying new reality.” The Digital, 4K Ultra HD, and Blu-ray releases come packed with over an hour of heart-pounding bonus content, including the award-winning, chilling short film by writer-director Parker Finn that inspired SMILE. Face your fears with deleted scares not seen in theatres, go behind the scenes with the cast and crew, then fully immerse yourself in the escalating nightmare with the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 15, 2022
To Celebrate The Release Of 'Pearl," We're Sharing A New Bonus Clip

To Celebrate The Release Of ‘Pearl,” We’re Sharing A New Bonus Clip

To celebrate today’s home release of Ti West’s Pearl, the second film in his X trilogy, we’ve got a new bonus clip featuring Tandi Wright to share with you. Mia Goth, who played both the final girl and the old woman in X, stars as Pearl in the film A24 describes as “the X-traordinary origin story” of the character first seen in X. Ti West (X, The Innkeepers, The Sacrament, The House of the Devil) and Mia Goth co-wrote the script. Set in 1918, “Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions all collide in the stunning, Technicolor-inspired origin story of X’s iconic villain.” David Corenswet (We Own This City, Hollywood, TV’s “The Politician”), Tandi Wright (Jack the Giant Slayer, TV’s “The Returned,” “Nothing Trivial”), Matthew Sunderland (Out of

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 15, 2022
Watch The New Trailer For '#FLOAT' - From The Producer Of Black Christmas

Watch The New Trailer For ‘#FLOAT’ – From The Producer Of Black Christmas

XYZ Films has just announced the premiere date and unveiled the trailer for the new supernatural slasher film #FLOAT, from the producer of Black Christmas. Writer-director Zac Locke, a producer whose long list of credits includes the 2018 sorority-killings shocker Black Christmas, the comedy-fantasy Country Gold, Vengeance, and The Voyeurs starring Sydney Sweeney, is making his directorial debut. In #FLOAT, the “Young, beautiful, and full-of-life, vlogger Kali and her friends are heading to the river for their annual float, but it’s the first time since their friend overdosed and drowned last year. Their partying turns deadly as a sinister paranormal force plunges them into a life-and-death struggle forcing them to face their own fears as they turn on each other – and proceed to die one by one.” #FLOAT skillfully plays on classic tropes of ’80s slasher films – beautiful young, selfish people blithely ignore warnings about the dangers awaiting them and then get gruesomely killed off – while employing

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 15, 2022
ID Announces November Premiere Of Two True Crime Series

ID Announces November Premiere Of Two True Crime Series

ID, the #1 television network for true crime, is making Wednesday nights killer, announcing premiere dates for two series. Kicking off November 16 at 9/8c is an all-new season of “MURDER IN THE HEARTLAND”, followed at 10/9c with the return of the highest-rated new series for ID over the past two years, “MURDER UNDER THE FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS.” “MURDER IN THE HEARTLAND,” tells the complex and dramatic stories of murders through the collective point-of-view of Middle American towns and their residents. Every story documents a town and people in the heart of the country, and the provocative crime that tore through it. What unravels over the course of the episode is that these townspeople are not only the storytellers, but they also hold the clues to the puzzle that forever altered their lives. In the season premiere episode, Who Killed Angie Lee?, premiering on Wednesday, November 16 at 9/8c, Angie Lee, a single mother in Gillespie, Ohio is found beaten

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 15, 2022
Sisters Search For Answers In The Post-Apocalyptic Thriller 'Shadows' (Trailer)

Sisters Search For Answers In The Post-Apocalyptic Thriller ‘Shadows’ (Trailer)

Red Water Entertainment has just announced the North American VOD debut of Carlo Lavagna‘s Shadows, the Irish-Italian psychological thriller that marks the second feature from director Carlo Lavagna. The film, written by Fabio Mollo, Damiano Bruè, Vanessa Pucciarelli, and Tiziana Triana, stars Mia Threapleton, Lola Petticrew, and Saskia Reeves. The film centers on Alma and Alex, two teenage sisters, who are survivors of a catastrophic event. They live deep in the woods with their Mother, a strict, overprotective woman who has sheltered them from ominous presences, the Shadows, which live in the daylight and infest the world beyond the river. When they follow Mother out for hunting, Alma and Alex start a series of events that will lead them to discover the truth about the Shadows and their own reality. Threapleton made her screen debut alongside her mother Kate Winslet in A Little Chaos and will next appear in Starz’s adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons. Shadows debuts on VOD on November

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 15, 2022
Director Mark Hartley Discusses New Serial Killer Thriller 'Girl At The Window'

Director Mark Hartley Discusses New Serial Killer Thriller ‘Girl At The Window’

After watching the intense thriller Girl at the Window, I had chat with its director Mark Hartley, who is known for his work in documentaries, such as Electric Boogaloo. In Girl at the Window, Amy (Ella Newton) and her mother (Radha Mitchell) move to a new home. Amy sees weird activity – her neighbor comes and goes at strange hours and she hears screams. Is her new neighbor and her mother’s new love interest the serial killer that’s killing her classmates? Kelli: “I watched your new movie, Girl at the Window. I really enjoyed it. Mark: “Well, I’m glad to hear that.” Kelli: “There’s not a ton of gore but when there is it’s impressive. I loved the eyeball thing. It looked great.” Mark: “Originally that scene was going to be shot with a piece of paper with a slit in it, but the makeup guy showed up with this elaborate mechanism he had built for it. It was hardcore.”

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 14, 2022

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Witness A Man's Hunt For A Serial Killer This December In 'Hinterland' (Trailer)

Witness A Man’s Hunt For A Serial Killer This December In ‘Hinterland’ (Trailer)

When an ex-prisoner of the Great War returns home to find his comrades brutally murdered, he decides to bring the serial killer to justice in the noir thriller Hinterland, from Oscar® winner Stefan Ruzowitzky. “The year is 1920. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has fallen and what remains has devolved into social unrest and political turmoil. Peter Perg, a soldier of the Great War, returns to Vienna only to realize the place he once called home is now unfamiliar to him. Having spent years as a prisoner of war, Perg is disillusioned by this strange, new city distorted by the nightmares of war. His world is further upended when a gruesome series of murders targeting veterans begin to unfold. Feeling connected to the victims, Perg decides to investigate the mysterious crimes. A stranger in his own city, the looming threat of a serial killer begins to take its toll on him.” The German film, which features English subtitles, stars Murathan Muslu, Liv

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 16, 2022
Watch The Exclusive New Clip From Found Footage Horror 'The Death Of April"

Watch The Exclusive New Clip From Found Footage Horror ‘The Death Of April”

Ruben Rodriguez’s new found footage horror film The Death of April, based on a true story, is set for a December Digital release. Ahead of its premiere, we have a creepy exclusive clip that asks “What is She Looking At?” The film follows Amy Rutledge as Meagan Mullen, who has freshly moved into her East coast home, keeping in touch with her friends and family through a video blog. As her entries (and her life) become more complex and emotional, strange things begin to happen in her apartment and the camera captures all of it. Witness The Death of April on Digital on December 9, 2022, from Terror Films.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 16, 2022
Watch The Exclusive New Clip From Found Footage Horror 'The Death Of April"

Witness The Trailer For True Story Inspired Horror ‘The Death Of April’

The trailer for Ruben Rodriguez’s new found footage horror film The Death of April, based on a true story, is here ahead of the film’s December Digital release. The film follows Amy Rutledge as Meagan Mullen, who has freshly moved into her East coast home, keeping in touch with her friends and family through a video blog. As her entries (and her life) become more complex and emotional, strange things begin to happen in her apartment and the camera captures all of it. Witness The Death of April on Digital on December 9, 2022, from Terror Films.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 16, 2022
Movie Review: Prey For The Devil - The Best Possession Movie We've Seen In Years

Possess The Exorcism Horror ‘Prey For The Devil’ On Digital And Blu-ray

Experience the true horror of exorcisms when the highly-anticipated supernatural horror Prey for the Devil arrives this December from Lionsgate. Sister Ann (Jacqueline Byers) believes she is answering a calling to be the first female exorcist…but who, or what, called her? In response to a global rise in demonic possessions, Ann seeks out a place at an exorcism school reopened by the Catholic Church. Until now these schools have only trained priests in the Rite of Exorcism – but a professor (Colin Salmon) recognizes Sister Ann’s gifts and agrees to train her. Thrusting onto the spiritual frontline with fellow student Father Dante (Christian Navarro), Sister Ann finds herself in a battle for the soul of a young girl, who Sister Ann believes is possessed by the same demon that tormented her own mother years ago. Determined to root out the evil, Ann soon realizes that evil has been expecting her. Directed by Daniel Stamm (The Last Exorcism) from a screenplay

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 16, 2022
Smile: Watch A Deleted Scene From The Number One Horror Movie Of The Year!

Smile: Watch A Deleted Scene From The Number One Horror Movie Of The Year!

Fans of the terrifying and mind-bending box office smash hit horror film SMILE can own it today Digital, from Paramount Home Entertainment, or get it on Blu-ray this December. To celebrate its release we have something that will make you smile, a deleted scene, and a bonus clip! “The film stars Sosie Bacon as Dr. Rose Cotter who, after witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can’t explain. As an overwhelming terror begins taking over her life, Rose must confront her troubling past in order to survive and escape her horrifying new reality.” The Digital, 4K Ultra HD, and Blu-ray releases come packed with over an hour of heart-pounding bonus content, including the award-winning, chilling short film by writer-director Parker Finn that inspired SMILE. Face your fears with deleted scares not seen in theatres, go behind the scenes with the cast and crew, then fully immerse yourself in the escalating nightmare with the

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 15, 2022
To Celebrate The Release Of 'Pearl," We're Sharing A New Bonus Clip

To Celebrate The Release Of ‘Pearl,” We’re Sharing A New Bonus Clip

To celebrate today’s home release of Ti West’s Pearl, the second film in his X trilogy, we’ve got a new bonus clip featuring Tandi Wright to share with you. Mia Goth, who played both the final girl and the old woman in X, stars as Pearl in the film A24 describes as “the X-traordinary origin story” of the character first seen in X. Ti West (X, The Innkeepers, The Sacrament, The House of the Devil) and Mia Goth co-wrote the script. Set in 1918, “Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions all collide in the stunning, Technicolor-inspired origin story of X’s iconic villain.” David Corenswet (We Own This City, Hollywood, TV’s “The Politician”), Tandi Wright (Jack the Giant Slayer, TV’s “The Returned,” “Nothing Trivial”), Matthew Sunderland (Out of

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 15, 2022
Watch The New Trailer For '#FLOAT' - From The Producer Of Black Christmas

Watch The New Trailer For ‘#FLOAT’ – From The Producer Of Black Christmas

XYZ Films has just announced the premiere date and unveiled the trailer for the new supernatural slasher film #FLOAT, from the producer of Black Christmas. Writer-director Zac Locke, a producer whose long list of credits includes the 2018 sorority-killings shocker Black Christmas, the comedy-fantasy Country Gold, Vengeance, and The Voyeurs starring Sydney Sweeney, is making his directorial debut. In #FLOAT, the “Young, beautiful, and full-of-life, vlogger Kali and her friends are heading to the river for their annual float, but it’s the first time since their friend overdosed and drowned last year. Their partying turns deadly as a sinister paranormal force plunges them into a life-and-death struggle forcing them to face their own fears as they turn on each other – and proceed to die one by one.” #FLOAT skillfully plays on classic tropes of ’80s slasher films – beautiful young, selfish people blithely ignore warnings about the dangers awaiting them and then get gruesomely killed off – while employing

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 15, 2022
ID Announces November Premiere Of Two True Crime Series

ID Announces November Premiere Of Two True Crime Series

ID, the #1 television network for true crime, is making Wednesday nights killer, announcing premiere dates for two series. Kicking off November 16 at 9/8c is an all-new season of “MURDER IN THE HEARTLAND”, followed at 10/9c with the return of the highest-rated new series for ID over the past two years, “MURDER UNDER THE FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS.” “MURDER IN THE HEARTLAND,” tells the complex and dramatic stories of murders through the collective point-of-view of Middle American towns and their residents. Every story documents a town and people in the heart of the country, and the provocative crime that tore through it. What unravels over the course of the episode is that these townspeople are not only the storytellers, but they also hold the clues to the puzzle that forever altered their lives. In the season premiere episode, Who Killed Angie Lee?, premiering on Wednesday, November 16 at 9/8c, Angie Lee, a single mother in Gillespie, Ohio is found beaten

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 15, 2022
Sisters Search For Answers In The Post-Apocalyptic Thriller 'Shadows' (Trailer)

Sisters Search For Answers In The Post-Apocalyptic Thriller ‘Shadows’ (Trailer)

Red Water Entertainment has just announced the North American VOD debut of Carlo Lavagna‘s Shadows, the Irish-Italian psychological thriller that marks the second feature from director Carlo Lavagna. The film, written by Fabio Mollo, Damiano Bruè, Vanessa Pucciarelli, and Tiziana Triana, stars Mia Threapleton, Lola Petticrew, and Saskia Reeves. The film centers on Alma and Alex, two teenage sisters, who are survivors of a catastrophic event. They live deep in the woods with their Mother, a strict, overprotective woman who has sheltered them from ominous presences, the Shadows, which live in the daylight and infest the world beyond the river. When they follow Mother out for hunting, Alma and Alex start a series of events that will lead them to discover the truth about the Shadows and their own reality. Threapleton made her screen debut alongside her mother Kate Winslet in A Little Chaos and will next appear in Starz’s adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons. Shadows debuts on VOD on November

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 15, 2022
Director Mark Hartley Discusses New Serial Killer Thriller 'Girl At The Window'

Director Mark Hartley Discusses New Serial Killer Thriller ‘Girl At The Window’

After watching the intense thriller Girl at the Window, I had chat with its director Mark Hartley, who is known for his work in documentaries, such as Electric Boogaloo. In Girl at the Window, Amy (Ella Newton) and her mother (Radha Mitchell) move to a new home. Amy sees weird activity – her neighbor comes and goes at strange hours and she hears screams. Is her new neighbor and her mother’s new love interest the serial killer that’s killing her classmates? Kelli: “I watched your new movie, Girl at the Window. I really enjoyed it. Mark: “Well, I’m glad to hear that.” Kelli: “There’s not a ton of gore but when there is it’s impressive. I loved the eyeball thing. It looked great.” Mark: “Originally that scene was going to be shot with a piece of paper with a slit in it, but the makeup guy showed up with this elaborate mechanism he had built for it. It was hardcore.”

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 14, 2022
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