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Become The Undertaker’s Understudy In 'The Mortuary Assistant'

Become The Undertaker’s Understudy In ‘The Mortuary Assistant’

Dread XP and Darkstone Digital have announced the release o the highly anticipated first-person horror game that’s been in the works for a while now, The Mortuary Assistant where players take on the role of a recent graduate student called in late one night to the River Fields Mortuary, a place where rumors and local legends talk of being involved in demonic rights and possessions, to perform some embalming procedures on some corpses only to get a call telling her she now can’t leave the office, and soon realizes something is not right with these bodies. In The Mortuary Assistant players need to perform authentic mortician tasks around the mortuary including embalmings, body tagging, and general upkeep. Perform standard exorcisms on bodies that won’t stay dead, and find items all over the mortuary that are useful or collectible. The Mortuary Assistant will be haunting your workspace on August 2nd, 2022 for PC.

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Daniel S. Liuzzi
Jun 15, 2022
Shudder Original Horror-comedy 'Who Invited Them' To Debut This Summer

Shudder Original Horror-comedy ‘Who Invited Them’ To Debut This Summer

Shudder, AMC Network’s premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, has announced the release date for its latest Original Film, the horror-comedy Who Invited Them from writer-director Duncan Birmingham (Maron, Blunt Talk). The film, which made its U.S. premiere at the New Orleans’ Overlook Film Festival, stars Ryan Hansen (Party Down), Melissa Tang (The Kominsky Method), Timothy Granaderos (13 Reasons Why) and Perry Mattfeld (In the Dark). In Who invited Them, Adam and Margo’s (Hansen, Tang) housewarming party is a success. However, one mysterious couple (Granaderos, Mattfeld) linger long after all the other guests have left. The uninvited couple reveals themselves to be their wealthy neighbors, Tom and Sasha. But as a single nightcap leads to another, Adam and Margo start to suspect these new friends are actually duplicitous strangers. The feature is a Shudder Original Production, produced by Mary Pat Bentel (This Close, Holly Slept Over). The deal was negotiated by Emily Gotto and Nicholas Lazo on

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 15, 2022
H.P. Lovecraft's 'Witch House' Conjures A July Release Date And Trailer

H.P. Lovecraft’s ‘Witch House’ Conjures A July Release Date And Trailer

From Horror Wasteland Pictures International, H.P. Lovecraft’s Witch House is coming to digital and DVD this July. The new trailer for this wild supernatural horror is like a fever dream, filled with horrors. In the film, “Graduate student Alice Gilman (Portia Chellelynn, Hematic Web) is running from an abusive past. She seeks refuge in the infamous Hannah house, a historic home with an ominous history. Determined to prove the possibility of alternate dimensions, she unknowingly unlocks a gateway to unimaginable horror. Facing bizarre and violent events, Alice is plagued by nightmarish dreams of these evil entities. Trapped between the 4th dimension and reality, Alice’s sinister truth is revealed as she fights for her sanity and soul. Based on H.P. Lovecraft’s short story The Dreams in the Witch House, Witch House blurs the boundaries between reality, dreams, and the beyond. Easley and Ken Wallace penned the script for the film, which was shot in Indiana’s Historical Hannah House, which is known

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 15, 2022
Teens Make Horrible Discovery In 'Where The Scary Things Are' (Trailer)

Teens Make Horrible Discovery In ‘Where The Scary Things Are’ (Trailer)

A group of teens discovers something horrid and dangerous in a closed Halloween haunted attraction in Where the Scary Things Are, from writer-director Harrison Smith (Death House, Camp Dread). Paul Cottman, Michael Cervantes, Peter F.Cote, Quinn Andrew Fickes, Selina Flanscha, Oliver Givens, Emma Lim, Asher Ruppert, and Riley Sullivan star. Where The Scary Things Are is coming to DVD and VOD June 28, 2022, from Lionsgate and Class of ’85 in association with Everything’s Fire and Hollywood Media Bridge. ‘

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 15, 2022
Netflix Turning 'Squid Game' Into A Reality Competition

Netflix Turning ‘Squid Game’ Into A Reality Competition

Netflix‘s brutal South Korean hit series “Squid Game,” which has now been renewed for its second season, makes contestants play a series of games that can be lethal. It’s no surprise that the series, which hit number 1 on Netflix, is being turned into a new reality competition. The competition features a massive 456 competitors, the most extensive cast in a reality TV series in history. The prize also makes history as a huge $4.56 million purse. In a somewhat vague promo on Tuesday, Netflix revealed the first look, which includes the “Red Light, Green Light” doll and a ton of masked guards. Do you want to play a game? Enter to join Squid Game: The Challenge at https://t.co/MaXfZnqmvb pic.twitter.com/6gYLXlplDC — Netflix (@netflix) June 14, 2022 In season one, hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children’s games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits with deadly high stakes. A survival game that has a whopping 45.6 billion-won

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 15, 2022
"Goosebumps The Musical" Soundtrack Coming To Amazon

“Goosebumps The Musical” Soundtrack Coming To Amazon

I don’t know about you, but a good musical always gives me “goosebumps.” Speaking of musicals and goosebumps, “Goosebumps the Musical: Phantom of the Auditorium” has just hit #1 on the “Hot New Releases” chart on Amazon, and soon, the new collectible album, based on the books by R.L. Stine, can be yous yours to own. The CD release marks the first time the album will be available in physical format, following the success of the album’s digital release by Ghostlight Records. Since the release, the album’s viral hit song, “The Story of The Phantom,” has garnered millions of streams across TikTok, YouTube, Spotify, and other platforms and spawned hundreds of fan-made cover videos. Just in time for the Goosebumps® series’ 30th anniversary in July, the collectible CD edition features a full-color 32-page booklet including the lyrics, synopsis, and never-before-seen photos of the cast from the recording sessions, as well as the cover art by legendary Goosebumps illustrator Tim Jacobus.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 15, 2022
Ultimate GWAR Documentary Is Coming To Blu-ray And DVD

Shudder Announces Premiere Of Heavy Metal Documentary “This Is GWAR”

Shudder, AMC Network’s premium streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural will soon release the ultimate GWAR documentary, This is GWAR, which gives rare insight into the 30-plus year career of one of the world’s most outrageous heavy metal bands to ever exist, GWAR, known for their grotesque costumed characters and notoriously wild, fluid-soaked stage shows. This is GWAR is the powerful story of the iconic heavy metal art collective, as told by the humans who have fought to keep it alive for over thirty years. The feature documentary includes interviews with the band members, both past and present, and other artists, including Weird Al Yankovic, Thomas Lennon, Alex Winter, Bam Margera, and Ethan Embry, including never seen footage of legendary GWAR frontman Dave Brockie (Oderus Urungus). This is GWAR is directed by Scott Barber (Orange Years: The Nickelodeon Story), with producers Tommy Avallone (Bill Murray Stories) and Josh Goldbloom (V/H/S/94). Executive Producers include Bill Parks, Zach Blair, Matthew

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 14, 2022
Check Out The NSFW Trailer For 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' Game

Check Out The NSFW Trailer For ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Game

Gore hounds let me hear you howl! Today Gun Media and Sumo Nottingham have released a gameplay trailer for their new game The Texas Chainsaw Massacre but the only thing was, at the Xbox Bethesda showcase … it was tamed, BUT NOT HERE! Fans of the film series can watch what’s in store in the upcoming game and watch members of the Sawyer Family stalk their victims with the uncut gameplay trailer. The game (as far as we know at the moment) will be a lot like Gun Media’s other horror film game Friday The 13th: The Game where players are split up between would-be victims while one is one of the incarnations of Jason from the films but from the trailer, it looks like players have a choice between Drayton Sawyer, Nubbins Sawyer, and of course everyone’s favorite Bubba Sawyer AKA Leatherface. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre will be coming in 2023 for PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and

Continue reading →
Daniel S. Liuzzi
Jun 14, 2022
Own The Alternative Ending When You Buy 'Firestarter'

Own The Alternative Ending When You Buy ‘Firestarter’

The new adaptation of Stephen King’s classic thriller Firestarter is now out on Digital! From the producers of The Invisible Man, comes Stephen King’s tale about a girl with extraordinary pyrokinetic powers who must fight to protect her family and herself from sinister forces that seek to capture and control her. For more than a decade, parents Andy (Zac Efron; Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile; The Greatest Showman) and Vicky (Sydney Lemmon; “Fear the Walking Dead”, Succession) have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong; “American Horror Story: Double Feature”, The Tomorrow War) from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns 11, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident reveals the family’s location, a mysterious operative

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 14, 2022
A Woman Finds Herself Trapped Alone In 'Isolated' (Trailer)

A Woman Finds Herself Trapped Alone In ‘Isolated’ (Trailer)

KateLynn E. Newberry (Widow’s Point, Devil’s Junction: Handy Dandy’s Revenge) stars in Isolated, out today On Demand. The self-contained mystery/action thriller, similar in concept to Red Eye and Devil, tells of a woman who wakes up trapped inside a room with no memory of who she is or how she got there. As she fights to find a way to escape, she ends up talking to a man in a room next to hers that claims he, too, is trapped. As she questions whether or not to trust this man, she starts to remember things from her past that lead her to question not only where she might be but also what she might be. Directed by Tyler Lee Allen, the film stars Newberry, Lanny Joon, and David Solomon. “Newberry commands the screen in this captivating mystery,” said Keith Leopard, President Uncork’d Entertainment. “We look forward to audiences discovering the masterful work Allen has done on ISOLATED this June.” Isolated

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 14, 2022

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Become The Undertaker’s Understudy In 'The Mortuary Assistant'

Become The Undertaker’s Understudy In ‘The Mortuary Assistant’

Dread XP and Darkstone Digital have announced the release o the highly anticipated first-person horror game that’s been in the works for a while now, The Mortuary Assistant where players take on the role of a recent graduate student called in late one night to the River Fields Mortuary, a place where rumors and local legends talk of being involved in demonic rights and possessions, to perform some embalming procedures on some corpses only to get a call telling her she now can’t leave the office, and soon realizes something is not right with these bodies. In The Mortuary Assistant players need to perform authentic mortician tasks around the mortuary including embalmings, body tagging, and general upkeep. Perform standard exorcisms on bodies that won’t stay dead, and find items all over the mortuary that are useful or collectible. The Mortuary Assistant will be haunting your workspace on August 2nd, 2022 for PC.

Continue reading →
Daniel S. Liuzzi
Jun 15, 2022
Shudder Original Horror-comedy 'Who Invited Them' To Debut This Summer

Shudder Original Horror-comedy ‘Who Invited Them’ To Debut This Summer

Shudder, AMC Network’s premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, has announced the release date for its latest Original Film, the horror-comedy Who Invited Them from writer-director Duncan Birmingham (Maron, Blunt Talk). The film, which made its U.S. premiere at the New Orleans’ Overlook Film Festival, stars Ryan Hansen (Party Down), Melissa Tang (The Kominsky Method), Timothy Granaderos (13 Reasons Why) and Perry Mattfeld (In the Dark). In Who invited Them, Adam and Margo’s (Hansen, Tang) housewarming party is a success. However, one mysterious couple (Granaderos, Mattfeld) linger long after all the other guests have left. The uninvited couple reveals themselves to be their wealthy neighbors, Tom and Sasha. But as a single nightcap leads to another, Adam and Margo start to suspect these new friends are actually duplicitous strangers. The feature is a Shudder Original Production, produced by Mary Pat Bentel (This Close, Holly Slept Over). The deal was negotiated by Emily Gotto and Nicholas Lazo on

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 15, 2022
H.P. Lovecraft's 'Witch House' Conjures A July Release Date And Trailer

H.P. Lovecraft’s ‘Witch House’ Conjures A July Release Date And Trailer

From Horror Wasteland Pictures International, H.P. Lovecraft’s Witch House is coming to digital and DVD this July. The new trailer for this wild supernatural horror is like a fever dream, filled with horrors. In the film, “Graduate student Alice Gilman (Portia Chellelynn, Hematic Web) is running from an abusive past. She seeks refuge in the infamous Hannah house, a historic home with an ominous history. Determined to prove the possibility of alternate dimensions, she unknowingly unlocks a gateway to unimaginable horror. Facing bizarre and violent events, Alice is plagued by nightmarish dreams of these evil entities. Trapped between the 4th dimension and reality, Alice’s sinister truth is revealed as she fights for her sanity and soul. Based on H.P. Lovecraft’s short story The Dreams in the Witch House, Witch House blurs the boundaries between reality, dreams, and the beyond. Easley and Ken Wallace penned the script for the film, which was shot in Indiana’s Historical Hannah House, which is known

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 15, 2022
Teens Make Horrible Discovery In 'Where The Scary Things Are' (Trailer)

Teens Make Horrible Discovery In ‘Where The Scary Things Are’ (Trailer)

A group of teens discovers something horrid and dangerous in a closed Halloween haunted attraction in Where the Scary Things Are, from writer-director Harrison Smith (Death House, Camp Dread). Paul Cottman, Michael Cervantes, Peter F.Cote, Quinn Andrew Fickes, Selina Flanscha, Oliver Givens, Emma Lim, Asher Ruppert, and Riley Sullivan star. Where The Scary Things Are is coming to DVD and VOD June 28, 2022, from Lionsgate and Class of ’85 in association with Everything’s Fire and Hollywood Media Bridge. ‘

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 15, 2022
Netflix Turning 'Squid Game' Into A Reality Competition

Netflix Turning ‘Squid Game’ Into A Reality Competition

Netflix‘s brutal South Korean hit series “Squid Game,” which has now been renewed for its second season, makes contestants play a series of games that can be lethal. It’s no surprise that the series, which hit number 1 on Netflix, is being turned into a new reality competition. The competition features a massive 456 competitors, the most extensive cast in a reality TV series in history. The prize also makes history as a huge $4.56 million purse. In a somewhat vague promo on Tuesday, Netflix revealed the first look, which includes the “Red Light, Green Light” doll and a ton of masked guards. Do you want to play a game? Enter to join Squid Game: The Challenge at https://t.co/MaXfZnqmvb pic.twitter.com/6gYLXlplDC — Netflix (@netflix) June 14, 2022 In season one, hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children’s games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits with deadly high stakes. A survival game that has a whopping 45.6 billion-won

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 15, 2022
"Goosebumps The Musical" Soundtrack Coming To Amazon

“Goosebumps The Musical” Soundtrack Coming To Amazon

I don’t know about you, but a good musical always gives me “goosebumps.” Speaking of musicals and goosebumps, “Goosebumps the Musical: Phantom of the Auditorium” has just hit #1 on the “Hot New Releases” chart on Amazon, and soon, the new collectible album, based on the books by R.L. Stine, can be yous yours to own. The CD release marks the first time the album will be available in physical format, following the success of the album’s digital release by Ghostlight Records. Since the release, the album’s viral hit song, “The Story of The Phantom,” has garnered millions of streams across TikTok, YouTube, Spotify, and other platforms and spawned hundreds of fan-made cover videos. Just in time for the Goosebumps® series’ 30th anniversary in July, the collectible CD edition features a full-color 32-page booklet including the lyrics, synopsis, and never-before-seen photos of the cast from the recording sessions, as well as the cover art by legendary Goosebumps illustrator Tim Jacobus.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 15, 2022
Ultimate GWAR Documentary Is Coming To Blu-ray And DVD

Shudder Announces Premiere Of Heavy Metal Documentary “This Is GWAR”

Shudder, AMC Network’s premium streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural will soon release the ultimate GWAR documentary, This is GWAR, which gives rare insight into the 30-plus year career of one of the world’s most outrageous heavy metal bands to ever exist, GWAR, known for their grotesque costumed characters and notoriously wild, fluid-soaked stage shows. This is GWAR is the powerful story of the iconic heavy metal art collective, as told by the humans who have fought to keep it alive for over thirty years. The feature documentary includes interviews with the band members, both past and present, and other artists, including Weird Al Yankovic, Thomas Lennon, Alex Winter, Bam Margera, and Ethan Embry, including never seen footage of legendary GWAR frontman Dave Brockie (Oderus Urungus). This is GWAR is directed by Scott Barber (Orange Years: The Nickelodeon Story), with producers Tommy Avallone (Bill Murray Stories) and Josh Goldbloom (V/H/S/94). Executive Producers include Bill Parks, Zach Blair, Matthew

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 14, 2022
Check Out The NSFW Trailer For 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' Game

Check Out The NSFW Trailer For ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Game

Gore hounds let me hear you howl! Today Gun Media and Sumo Nottingham have released a gameplay trailer for their new game The Texas Chainsaw Massacre but the only thing was, at the Xbox Bethesda showcase … it was tamed, BUT NOT HERE! Fans of the film series can watch what’s in store in the upcoming game and watch members of the Sawyer Family stalk their victims with the uncut gameplay trailer. The game (as far as we know at the moment) will be a lot like Gun Media’s other horror film game Friday The 13th: The Game where players are split up between would-be victims while one is one of the incarnations of Jason from the films but from the trailer, it looks like players have a choice between Drayton Sawyer, Nubbins Sawyer, and of course everyone’s favorite Bubba Sawyer AKA Leatherface. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre will be coming in 2023 for PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and

Continue reading →
Daniel S. Liuzzi
Jun 14, 2022
Own The Alternative Ending When You Buy 'Firestarter'

Own The Alternative Ending When You Buy ‘Firestarter’

The new adaptation of Stephen King’s classic thriller Firestarter is now out on Digital! From the producers of The Invisible Man, comes Stephen King’s tale about a girl with extraordinary pyrokinetic powers who must fight to protect her family and herself from sinister forces that seek to capture and control her. For more than a decade, parents Andy (Zac Efron; Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile; The Greatest Showman) and Vicky (Sydney Lemmon; “Fear the Walking Dead”, Succession) have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong; “American Horror Story: Double Feature”, The Tomorrow War) from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns 11, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident reveals the family’s location, a mysterious operative

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 14, 2022
A Woman Finds Herself Trapped Alone In 'Isolated' (Trailer)

A Woman Finds Herself Trapped Alone In ‘Isolated’ (Trailer)

KateLynn E. Newberry (Widow’s Point, Devil’s Junction: Handy Dandy’s Revenge) stars in Isolated, out today On Demand. The self-contained mystery/action thriller, similar in concept to Red Eye and Devil, tells of a woman who wakes up trapped inside a room with no memory of who she is or how she got there. As she fights to find a way to escape, she ends up talking to a man in a room next to hers that claims he, too, is trapped. As she questions whether or not to trust this man, she starts to remember things from her past that lead her to question not only where she might be but also what she might be. Directed by Tyler Lee Allen, the film stars Newberry, Lanny Joon, and David Solomon. “Newberry commands the screen in this captivating mystery,” said Keith Leopard, President Uncork’d Entertainment. “We look forward to audiences discovering the masterful work Allen has done on ISOLATED this June.” Isolated

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 14, 2022
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