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Travel Channel And Discovery+ Paranormal Highlights 11/21 – 12/4

Travel Channel And Discovery+ Paranormal Highlights 11/21 – 12/4

CONCURRENT PREMIERES: Travel Channel and discovery+ DESTINATION FEAR NEW SEASON – Premieres Friday, November 25 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel and Streaming on discovery+ Paranormal explorers brother and sister duo Dakota Laden and Chelsea Laden, and best friends Tanner Wiseman and Alex Schroeder, level up their fear experiment in an all-new season of DESTINATION FEAR – and their darkest, most terrifying road trip yet. The fear-chasing foursome embraces the darkness more than ever before – physically, emotionally, and psychologically – as they push the boundaries of fear and daringly spend the night inside America’s most sinister and haunted locations. This season, Dakota challenges the team with darker hauntings and locations and shocks them with the most disturbing experiment yet: removing flashlights and forcing them to blindly face the shadows of the night in true darkness. It’s one of many twisted and unnerving new experiments that will test their paranormal theories from the most uncomfortable of situations. [Hour-long episodes]

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 10, 2022
Have A 'Christmas Bloody Christmas' This Holiday Season (Trailer)

Have A ‘Christmas Bloody Christmas’ This Holiday Season (Trailer)

Christmas is coming and in the upcoming holiday horror film, Christmas Bloody Christmas, Santa is watching, and that should scare the crap out of you. From writer-director, Joe Begos (Bliss) comes a dark tale set on Christmas Eve. Fiery record store owner Tori Tooms just wants to get drunk and party, until the robotic Santa Claus at a nearby toy store goes haywire and makes her night more than a little complicated. Santa Claus begins a rampant killing spree through the neon-drenched snowscape against a backdrop of drugs, sex, metal, and violence, ultimately forcing Tori into a blood-splattered battle for survival against the ruthless heavy metal Saint Nick himself. Christmas Bloody Christmas stars Riley Dandy, Sam Delich, Jonah Ray Rodrigues, Dora Madison, Jeremy Gardner, Jeff Daniel Phillips, and Abraham Benrubi. Christmas Bloody Christmas opens in theaters and slashes its way onto Shudder on December 9, 2022, from RLJE Films.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 10, 2022
A Woman's American Dream Becomes A Nightmare In Prime Video's 'Nanny' (Trailer)

A Woman’s American Dream Becomes A Nightmare In Prime Video’s ‘Nanny’ (Trailer)

A woman’s “American Dream” is threatened in Prime Video’s soon-to-be-released horror film, Nanny, written and directed by Nikyatu Jusu. “In this psychological horror fable of displacement, Aisha (Anna Diop), a woman who recently immigrated from Senegal, is hired to care for the daughter of an affluent couple (Michelle Monaghan and Morgan Spector) living in New York City. Haunted by the absence of the young son she left behind, Aisha hopes her new job will afford her the chance to bring him to the U.S., but she becomes increasingly unsettled by the family’s volatile home life. As his arrival approaches, a violent presence begins to invade both her dreams and her reality, threatening the “American Dream” she is painstakingly piecing together.” Starring Anna Diop, Michelle Monaghan, Sinqua Walls, Morgan Spector, Rose Decker, and Leslie Uggams, the film is produced By Nikkia Moultrie and Daniela Taplin Lundberg and Executive produced by Maria Zuckerman, Ryan Heller, Michael Bloom, Jason Blum, Rebecca Cammarata, Bill

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 9, 2022
Get 'Crabs' This November (Trailer)

Get ‘Crabs’ This November (Trailer)

If you are like me and love cheesy creature features, there’s a new horror-comedy titled Crabs that you are going to want to check out, the good news, is you don’t have to wait long. It’s out this month! In the film, “Mutated by nuclear runoff, a horde of murderous horseshoe crabs descend on a sleepy California town causing Prom Night terror. As the deadly crustaceans claw their way through the disbelieving population, it’s up to a ramshackle band of students and police to address the increasingly ginormous crab menace in a love letter to such practical effects horrors as Gremlins and nostalgic Roger Corman classics. Directed by Pierce Berolzheimer this fun flick stars Dylan Riley Snyder, Jessica Morris, Robert Craighead, Allie Jennings, Bryce Durfee, and Chase Padgett. Get Crabs on iTunes, Google Play, and Amazon Prime on November 15th, 2022. A feature-packed Director’s Edition Blu-Ray will be released a week later on November 22nd which will include three feature-length

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 9, 2022
J-Horror Thriller 'Missing' Finds A Blu-ray Release Date

Japanese Serial Killer Thriller ‘Missing’ Is Coming Home (Trailer)

Director Shinzô Katayama’s Japanese horror film, Missing (Sagasu/さがす) is now playing in select theaters and is heading to VOD this month. The film centers on “depressed and in debt following the death of his wife, Santoshi (Jiro Sato) tells his young daughter he has found a way out. Pointing to a reward note, he vows to find the infamous serial killer “No Name” (Hiroya Shimizu) and cash in, claiming to have seen the man in the flesh a few days earlier. Kaeda (Aoi Ito) cannot take her aloof father seriously. But when he goes missing without a trace, she starts to fear the worst—and must begin looking for him.” Starring Aoi Ito, Hiroya Shimizu, Misato Morita, and Jirô Satô, Missing is out on VOD and cable on November 18, 2022, followed by its Blu-ray release on December 6th, from Dark Star Pictures.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 9, 2022
New Trailer Arrives For The One Shot Rideshare Thriller 'Dash'

New Trailer Arrives For The One Shot Rideshare Thriller ‘Dash’

The crime-filled streets of Hollywood come alive as you’ve never seen them before in a groundbreaking, one-take thriller Dash that follows a rideshare driver who leads a double life. Today, the trailer has premiered. The film “follows Milly, your average everyday rideshare driver preparing himself for a night shift behind the wheel… by purchasing a massive amount of cocaine from a prostitute. On the perilous Hollywood streets, he attempts to sell the drugs to his unassuming passengers including a homosexual thruple, some phone-obsessed gen Z’ers, and even an off-duty police officer. His attempt to illegally fund his sinful actions takes a literal turn for the worse when he picks up a drug addict going through severe withdrawal. Desperately trying to take his nefarious, double-life to the grave, he continues, only to keep digging a deeper grave for himself.” Written and Directed by Sean Perry (The Homebodies, Saturday Night Live), the film stars Alexander Molina (Evil, Afternooner), Shah Granville (upcoming Dark

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 9, 2022
James Wan Gives Update On Long Awaited 'Conjuring' Spin-Off

James Wan Gives Update On Long Awaited ‘Conjuring’ Spin-Off

While The Conjuring Universe continues to expand with The Conjuring 4 and The Nun 2 on the way, there’s one long-awaited spin-off that is now dead in the water, The Crooked Man. Director James Wan recently took to social media to share photos of the character, played by Javier Botet, from The Conjuring 2. Before he could be swamped by questions about the spin-off, he told fans that the character won’t be getting his own movie any time soon, if ever. Wan stated in his post, “And no, unfortunately, the spinoff movie with this character isn’t happening. Outside of my control. But maybe one day.” The Crooked Man, born out of a classic nursery rhyme, made his debut in The Conjuring 2, terrifying both the children in the movie and us. Soon after The Conjuring 2 premiered Wan shared that he had an exciting story in mind for the creepy character. But who knows? Maybe we’ll see The Crooked Man

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 8, 2022
Director Scooter Corkle Talks 'The Friendship Game' In Our Interview

Director Scooter Corkle Talks ‘The Friendship Game’ In Our Interview

On November 11, 2022, director Scooter Corkle‘s new horror movie ‘The Friendship Game‘ will be released both On Demand and on Digital. Ahead of its premiere, we talked with Scooter about the film that stars Peyton List (“Cobra-Kai”, “Bunk’d”). The horror film follows a group of teens as they come across a strange object that tests their loyalties to each other and has increasingly destructive consequences the deeper into the game they go. Kelli: “I was looking through your IMDb page and you really are a “jack of all trades,” writer, director, producer, actor.” Scooter: “I have been known to be, yeah.” Kelli: “What is that? Just being able to do everything?” Scooter: “Well, I wanted to be an actor when I first started, I was 18 and I moved to the big city for my tiny town. And then, yeah, I didn’t really love the actor life, all the auditioning and the judgment, which is totally part of the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 8, 2022
Childhood Ruined Part 1: Do You Know The Muffin Man?

Childhood Ruined Part 1: Do You Know The Muffin Man?

Nursery rhymes were a big part of our childhood, but have you ever wondered where they came from? We will be exploring one in this episode of our new multi-part series “Childhood Ruined”. Today we will expose the truth behind “The Muffin Man.” Do [or “Oh, do”] you know the muffin man, The muffin man, the muffin man. Do you know the muffin man, Who lives on Drury Lane? Yes [or “Oh, yes”], I know the muffin man, The muffin man, the muffin man, Yes, I know the muffin man, Who lives on Drury Lane? Like most nursery rhymes, the song sounds innocent enough, but its dark creation was actually designed as a warning. Of course, the version we know now has been watered down. The rhyme was born as a reminder to stay away from “The Muffin Man,” a serial killer who actually lived on Drury Lane. Originating in the early 1600s, the song is actually about “The Drury

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 8, 2022
Shudder Sets 2023 Release Date For Supernatural Horror 'Blood Flower'

Shudder Sets 2023 Release Date For Supernatural Horror ‘Blood Flower’

Shudder has just announced it has acquired the Malaysian horror Blood Flower (Harum Malam) from director Dain Said (Interchange, Bunohan, Dukun). The film, an official selection of Fantastic Fest and the Sitges Film Festival, will be available exclusively on Shudder in 2023. “Blood Flower (Harum Malam) tells the story of Iqbal, a 16-year-old apprentice faith healer, and exorcist, tormented by visions of the dead and spirits from other dimensions. When a malicious spirit begins to wreak havoc around him, Iqbal is forced to harness his supernatural gifts to save his family and friends.” Written by Said, Nandita Solomon and Ben Omar, Blood Flower (Harum Malam) stars Idan Aedan, Bront Palarae, and Remy Ishak and is produced by Apparat in collaboration with Skop Productions and D’Ayu Pictures. The film was also produced with support from the Malaysian National Film Development Board (Finas). Reel Suspects is handling sales for the rest of the world. “One of next year’s most frightening films, Blood

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 8, 2022

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Travel Channel And Discovery+ Paranormal Highlights 11/21 – 12/4

Travel Channel And Discovery+ Paranormal Highlights 11/21 – 12/4

CONCURRENT PREMIERES: Travel Channel and discovery+ DESTINATION FEAR NEW SEASON – Premieres Friday, November 25 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel and Streaming on discovery+ Paranormal explorers brother and sister duo Dakota Laden and Chelsea Laden, and best friends Tanner Wiseman and Alex Schroeder, level up their fear experiment in an all-new season of DESTINATION FEAR – and their darkest, most terrifying road trip yet. The fear-chasing foursome embraces the darkness more than ever before – physically, emotionally, and psychologically – as they push the boundaries of fear and daringly spend the night inside America’s most sinister and haunted locations. This season, Dakota challenges the team with darker hauntings and locations and shocks them with the most disturbing experiment yet: removing flashlights and forcing them to blindly face the shadows of the night in true darkness. It’s one of many twisted and unnerving new experiments that will test their paranormal theories from the most uncomfortable of situations. [Hour-long episodes]

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 10, 2022
Have A 'Christmas Bloody Christmas' This Holiday Season (Trailer)

Have A ‘Christmas Bloody Christmas’ This Holiday Season (Trailer)

Christmas is coming and in the upcoming holiday horror film, Christmas Bloody Christmas, Santa is watching, and that should scare the crap out of you. From writer-director, Joe Begos (Bliss) comes a dark tale set on Christmas Eve. Fiery record store owner Tori Tooms just wants to get drunk and party, until the robotic Santa Claus at a nearby toy store goes haywire and makes her night more than a little complicated. Santa Claus begins a rampant killing spree through the neon-drenched snowscape against a backdrop of drugs, sex, metal, and violence, ultimately forcing Tori into a blood-splattered battle for survival against the ruthless heavy metal Saint Nick himself. Christmas Bloody Christmas stars Riley Dandy, Sam Delich, Jonah Ray Rodrigues, Dora Madison, Jeremy Gardner, Jeff Daniel Phillips, and Abraham Benrubi. Christmas Bloody Christmas opens in theaters and slashes its way onto Shudder on December 9, 2022, from RLJE Films.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 10, 2022
A Woman's American Dream Becomes A Nightmare In Prime Video's 'Nanny' (Trailer)

A Woman’s American Dream Becomes A Nightmare In Prime Video’s ‘Nanny’ (Trailer)

A woman’s “American Dream” is threatened in Prime Video’s soon-to-be-released horror film, Nanny, written and directed by Nikyatu Jusu. “In this psychological horror fable of displacement, Aisha (Anna Diop), a woman who recently immigrated from Senegal, is hired to care for the daughter of an affluent couple (Michelle Monaghan and Morgan Spector) living in New York City. Haunted by the absence of the young son she left behind, Aisha hopes her new job will afford her the chance to bring him to the U.S., but she becomes increasingly unsettled by the family’s volatile home life. As his arrival approaches, a violent presence begins to invade both her dreams and her reality, threatening the “American Dream” she is painstakingly piecing together.” Starring Anna Diop, Michelle Monaghan, Sinqua Walls, Morgan Spector, Rose Decker, and Leslie Uggams, the film is produced By Nikkia Moultrie and Daniela Taplin Lundberg and Executive produced by Maria Zuckerman, Ryan Heller, Michael Bloom, Jason Blum, Rebecca Cammarata, Bill

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 9, 2022
Get 'Crabs' This November (Trailer)

Get ‘Crabs’ This November (Trailer)

If you are like me and love cheesy creature features, there’s a new horror-comedy titled Crabs that you are going to want to check out, the good news, is you don’t have to wait long. It’s out this month! In the film, “Mutated by nuclear runoff, a horde of murderous horseshoe crabs descend on a sleepy California town causing Prom Night terror. As the deadly crustaceans claw their way through the disbelieving population, it’s up to a ramshackle band of students and police to address the increasingly ginormous crab menace in a love letter to such practical effects horrors as Gremlins and nostalgic Roger Corman classics. Directed by Pierce Berolzheimer this fun flick stars Dylan Riley Snyder, Jessica Morris, Robert Craighead, Allie Jennings, Bryce Durfee, and Chase Padgett. Get Crabs on iTunes, Google Play, and Amazon Prime on November 15th, 2022. A feature-packed Director’s Edition Blu-Ray will be released a week later on November 22nd which will include three feature-length

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 9, 2022
J-Horror Thriller 'Missing' Finds A Blu-ray Release Date

Japanese Serial Killer Thriller ‘Missing’ Is Coming Home (Trailer)

Director Shinzô Katayama’s Japanese horror film, Missing (Sagasu/さがす) is now playing in select theaters and is heading to VOD this month. The film centers on “depressed and in debt following the death of his wife, Santoshi (Jiro Sato) tells his young daughter he has found a way out. Pointing to a reward note, he vows to find the infamous serial killer “No Name” (Hiroya Shimizu) and cash in, claiming to have seen the man in the flesh a few days earlier. Kaeda (Aoi Ito) cannot take her aloof father seriously. But when he goes missing without a trace, she starts to fear the worst—and must begin looking for him.” Starring Aoi Ito, Hiroya Shimizu, Misato Morita, and Jirô Satô, Missing is out on VOD and cable on November 18, 2022, followed by its Blu-ray release on December 6th, from Dark Star Pictures.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 9, 2022
New Trailer Arrives For The One Shot Rideshare Thriller 'Dash'

New Trailer Arrives For The One Shot Rideshare Thriller ‘Dash’

The crime-filled streets of Hollywood come alive as you’ve never seen them before in a groundbreaking, one-take thriller Dash that follows a rideshare driver who leads a double life. Today, the trailer has premiered. The film “follows Milly, your average everyday rideshare driver preparing himself for a night shift behind the wheel… by purchasing a massive amount of cocaine from a prostitute. On the perilous Hollywood streets, he attempts to sell the drugs to his unassuming passengers including a homosexual thruple, some phone-obsessed gen Z’ers, and even an off-duty police officer. His attempt to illegally fund his sinful actions takes a literal turn for the worse when he picks up a drug addict going through severe withdrawal. Desperately trying to take his nefarious, double-life to the grave, he continues, only to keep digging a deeper grave for himself.” Written and Directed by Sean Perry (The Homebodies, Saturday Night Live), the film stars Alexander Molina (Evil, Afternooner), Shah Granville (upcoming Dark

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 9, 2022
James Wan Gives Update On Long Awaited 'Conjuring' Spin-Off

James Wan Gives Update On Long Awaited ‘Conjuring’ Spin-Off

While The Conjuring Universe continues to expand with The Conjuring 4 and The Nun 2 on the way, there’s one long-awaited spin-off that is now dead in the water, The Crooked Man. Director James Wan recently took to social media to share photos of the character, played by Javier Botet, from The Conjuring 2. Before he could be swamped by questions about the spin-off, he told fans that the character won’t be getting his own movie any time soon, if ever. Wan stated in his post, “And no, unfortunately, the spinoff movie with this character isn’t happening. Outside of my control. But maybe one day.” The Crooked Man, born out of a classic nursery rhyme, made his debut in The Conjuring 2, terrifying both the children in the movie and us. Soon after The Conjuring 2 premiered Wan shared that he had an exciting story in mind for the creepy character. But who knows? Maybe we’ll see The Crooked Man

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 8, 2022
Director Scooter Corkle Talks 'The Friendship Game' In Our Interview

Director Scooter Corkle Talks ‘The Friendship Game’ In Our Interview

On November 11, 2022, director Scooter Corkle‘s new horror movie ‘The Friendship Game‘ will be released both On Demand and on Digital. Ahead of its premiere, we talked with Scooter about the film that stars Peyton List (“Cobra-Kai”, “Bunk’d”). The horror film follows a group of teens as they come across a strange object that tests their loyalties to each other and has increasingly destructive consequences the deeper into the game they go. Kelli: “I was looking through your IMDb page and you really are a “jack of all trades,” writer, director, producer, actor.” Scooter: “I have been known to be, yeah.” Kelli: “What is that? Just being able to do everything?” Scooter: “Well, I wanted to be an actor when I first started, I was 18 and I moved to the big city for my tiny town. And then, yeah, I didn’t really love the actor life, all the auditioning and the judgment, which is totally part of the

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 8, 2022
Childhood Ruined Part 1: Do You Know The Muffin Man?

Childhood Ruined Part 1: Do You Know The Muffin Man?

Nursery rhymes were a big part of our childhood, but have you ever wondered where they came from? We will be exploring one in this episode of our new multi-part series “Childhood Ruined”. Today we will expose the truth behind “The Muffin Man.” Do [or “Oh, do”] you know the muffin man, The muffin man, the muffin man. Do you know the muffin man, Who lives on Drury Lane? Yes [or “Oh, yes”], I know the muffin man, The muffin man, the muffin man, Yes, I know the muffin man, Who lives on Drury Lane? Like most nursery rhymes, the song sounds innocent enough, but its dark creation was actually designed as a warning. Of course, the version we know now has been watered down. The rhyme was born as a reminder to stay away from “The Muffin Man,” a serial killer who actually lived on Drury Lane. Originating in the early 1600s, the song is actually about “The Drury

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 8, 2022
Shudder Sets 2023 Release Date For Supernatural Horror 'Blood Flower'

Shudder Sets 2023 Release Date For Supernatural Horror ‘Blood Flower’

Shudder has just announced it has acquired the Malaysian horror Blood Flower (Harum Malam) from director Dain Said (Interchange, Bunohan, Dukun). The film, an official selection of Fantastic Fest and the Sitges Film Festival, will be available exclusively on Shudder in 2023. “Blood Flower (Harum Malam) tells the story of Iqbal, a 16-year-old apprentice faith healer, and exorcist, tormented by visions of the dead and spirits from other dimensions. When a malicious spirit begins to wreak havoc around him, Iqbal is forced to harness his supernatural gifts to save his family and friends.” Written by Said, Nandita Solomon and Ben Omar, Blood Flower (Harum Malam) stars Idan Aedan, Bront Palarae, and Remy Ishak and is produced by Apparat in collaboration with Skop Productions and D’Ayu Pictures. The film was also produced with support from the Malaysian National Film Development Board (Finas). Reel Suspects is handling sales for the rest of the world. “One of next year’s most frightening films, Blood

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 8, 2022
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