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Fans of Troma’s classic film The Toxic Avenger will be happy to learn that the new remake has just scored a hard “R” rating for gore, extreme violence, and graphic nudity. Let’s be honest, any other rating wouldn’t be fitting. Macon Blair (I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore, Green Room) is directing the reboot for Legendary, which has wrapped production. The new movie “follows Winston, a stereotypical weakling who works as a janitor at Garb-X health club and is diagnosed with a terminal illness that can only be cured by an expensive treatment that his greedy, power-hungry employer refuses to pay for. After deciding to take matters into his own hands and rob his company, Winston falls into a pit of toxic waste and is transformed into a deformed monster that sets out to do good and get back at all the people who have wronged him.” The cast includes Elijah Wood (Maniac, Come to Daddy), Julia
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Over the past several months Tubi, the free streaming service featuring a huge collection of horror films has begun releasing its own original horror films including films such as Hellblazers, Unborn, and Titanic 666. Today, they have announced their latest addition, the upcoming reboot of the 1980s classic Terror Train, as well as released the first trailer. The reboot, which recently wrapped production in Montreal, is a collaboration with Incendo, and is set to be released as part of Tubi’s annual month-long Halloween celebration, “Terror on Tubi.” It is just one of the films in the service’s collection of over 10,000 horror and thriller films, making it the ultimate destination for genre fans. Terror Train (1980) starred the original “scream queen,” Jamie Lee Curtis, as well as Ben Johnson and David Copperfield, and has long been celebrated for its cult classic status in the slasher/horror genre. The new cast is led by Canadian actress Robyn Alomar (“Utopia Falls”), who gives
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RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has just announced the summer release date for the thrilling, scare-filled horror film We Need To Do Something, directed by Sean King O’Grady (Dinner In America). In the film, “seeking shelter from a storm, a family find themselves trapped for days with no sign of rescue and untold evils lurking just beyond the walls in this wildly fun horse-of-horrors thrill ride.” Sierra McCormick (“American Horror Stories”, The Vast of Night, Some Kind of Hate), Vinessa Shaw (3:10 to Yuma, “Ray Donovan”), Pat Healy (Cheap Thrills, The Innkeeper), and John James Cronin (“NOS4A2”, Second Act) star in this intense film. We Need To Do Something, a film like nothing you’ve seen before, comes home on DVD and Blu-ray on June 16, 2022, from RLJE and IFC Midnight. For more on the film please visit the official website.
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The captivating, twisted trailer has just been unveiled for Mad God, Shudder’s Original sci-fi animated horror film set to premiere this June. Mad God is directed and created by brilliant Oscar and Emmy Award-winning stop-motion animator and special effects supervisor Phil Tippett, founder of Tippett Studio and the creative powerhouse involved in such classics as RoboCop, Starship Troopers, Jurassic Park, Star Wars: A New Hope, and The Empire Strikes Back. Mad God is an experimental animated film set in a world of monsters, mad scientists, and war pigs. A corroded diving bell descends amidst a ruined city, settling down upon an ominous fortress guarded by zombie-like sentries. The Assassin emerges to explore a labyrinth of bizarre, desolate landscapes inhabited by freakish denizens. Through unexpected twists and turns, he experiences an evolution beyond his wildest comprehension. A labor of love that has taken 30 years to complete, Mad God combines live-action and stop-motion, miniature sets, and other innovative techniques to bring
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Dark Star Pictures announced today that the home invasion thriller Human Factors, that screened at Sundance, is set to be released late this May. Sabine Timoteo, Mark Waschke, Jule Hermann, and Wanja Valentin Kube star in the German-Italian-Danish production from director Ronny Trocker, The film centers on couple Nina and Jan who have signed a new politically-charged client, forcing them to confront their clashing priorities. To escape mounting tensions at work, they whisk their kids, Max and Emma, away to their seaside vacation home. But what’s meant to be an idyllic off-season retreat turns sinister when a mysterious home invasion sets everything off balance. Though at first, the aftermath brings the family closer, as they try to put the incident into perspective, their accounts of what took place begin to unravel alongside the couple’s faith in each other. Human Factors lands on Digital on May 24, 2022.
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Unfortunately, players looking forward to the release of Lovecraft’s Untold Stories 2 will have to wait a little longer for the game’s release which was originally going to be later this month. 1C and LLC Blini Games have pushed back the release date after feedback from additional rounds of testing to further polish its gameplay features, improve its balancing and create a truly worthy successor to the previous installment. With the development team committed to ensuring that the game provides the most enjoyably insanity-inducing experience it can, the new release date for Lovecraft’s Untold Stories 2 will be announced soon. 1C says for any fans who want to be the first to receive news about the game, to add it to their Steam wishlist and follow 1C on Facebook, Twitter and/or Steam, or visit the official 1C Entertainment website.
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Narcotics Anonymous said in 1981 “Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.” before it was famously misquoted saying that it’s “doing the same thing over and over”, either way, the point is repeating things with the hope of a different outcome is insane. The subject of this review is a perfect example of that thanks to Thunderful & Carry Castle’s Lovecraftian game Source of Madness. Source of Madness is a side-scrolling action RPG that takes players into a world being twisted by cosmic horrors from beyond the stars. Players take on the role(s) of an acolyte of a cult venturing into the twisted landscapes of different biomes to find the source of the growing madness taking over your world. Now onto the game itself! the controls for Source of Madness are straightforward and thankfully limited allowing you to master it quickly and respond very well. The game’s sound design is amazing with the roars of the monsters,
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Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural, and RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks announced today that they are teaming up for the newest Shudder Original horror-comedy, Destroy All Neighbors. The film is from music-video and commercial director Josh Forbes (Contracted: Phase II) and stars Jonah Ray Rodrigues (Mystery Science Theater 3000, pictured) and Alex Winter (Bill and Ted franchise) who also produces, Destroy All Neighbors will have a day-and-date release in theaters and on Shudder in 2023. The film, which is also produced by Russell Sanzgiri (Michael Bolton’s Big Sexy Valentine’s Day Special), is from an original script written by Mike Benner, Jared Logan, and Charles Pieper. In Destroy All Neighbors, struggling prog-rock musician William Brown (Rodrigues) finds himself in a living nightmare when he accidentally kills Vlad (Winter), the neighbor from hell. Vlad’s disembodied corpse delights in tormenting William, sending him further into madness and impending doom. Casting for the film has
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Avatar’s Sam Worthington, Academy Award-winner Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls, Respect), Milla Jovovich (the Resident Evil franchise), Academy Award-nominee Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild, Annie), and Academy Award-winner Common (Wanted, Suicide Squad) are set to star in Indie Spirit Award-winner Stefon Bristol’s (See You Yesterday) new upcoming post-apocalyptic action-thriller Breathe, it was announced today. In Breathe, after Earth is left uninhabitable due to lack of oxygen, a mother Maya (Hudson), and her daughter Zora (Wallis) are forced to live underground, with short trips to the surface only made possible by a state of the art oxygen suit made by Maya’s husband, Darius, whom she presumes to be dead. When a mysterious couple arrives claiming to know Darius and his fate, Maya tentatively agrees to let them into their bunker, but are they all they appear to be? Bristol will direct from the Black List screenplay written by Doug Simon (Dimension’s Demonic). Principal photography on the edge-of-your-seat survival thriller will take
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Genre specialist Black Mandala presents psychological horror coming of age movie, The Long Dark Trail, from the writing-directing team of Kevin Ignatius and Nick Psinakis. In the film, “Two impoverished teenage brothers flee after finally fighting back against their abusive father. Hoping to find and reunite with their estranged mother, they embark on a dangerous journey to rural Pennsylvania, not knowing that she has become a disciple of a sadistic cult that dwells there.” Carter O’Donnell, Brady O’Donnell, Mick Thyer, Nick Psinakis, Trina Campbell, Paul “Doc” Ignatius, Charlotte Andersen, Willard Foley, and Bryce Cummings star in The Long Dark Trail, whose release date should be announced soon.
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Fans of Troma’s classic film The Toxic Avenger will be happy to learn that the new remake has just scored a hard “R” rating for gore, extreme violence, and graphic nudity. Let’s be honest, any other rating wouldn’t be fitting. Macon Blair (I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore, Green Room) is directing the reboot for Legendary, which has wrapped production. The new movie “follows Winston, a stereotypical weakling who works as a janitor at Garb-X health club and is diagnosed with a terminal illness that can only be cured by an expensive treatment that his greedy, power-hungry employer refuses to pay for. After deciding to take matters into his own hands and rob his company, Winston falls into a pit of toxic waste and is transformed into a deformed monster that sets out to do good and get back at all the people who have wronged him.” The cast includes Elijah Wood (Maniac, Come to Daddy), Julia
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Over the past several months Tubi, the free streaming service featuring a huge collection of horror films has begun releasing its own original horror films including films such as Hellblazers, Unborn, and Titanic 666. Today, they have announced their latest addition, the upcoming reboot of the 1980s classic Terror Train, as well as released the first trailer. The reboot, which recently wrapped production in Montreal, is a collaboration with Incendo, and is set to be released as part of Tubi’s annual month-long Halloween celebration, “Terror on Tubi.” It is just one of the films in the service’s collection of over 10,000 horror and thriller films, making it the ultimate destination for genre fans. Terror Train (1980) starred the original “scream queen,” Jamie Lee Curtis, as well as Ben Johnson and David Copperfield, and has long been celebrated for its cult classic status in the slasher/horror genre. The new cast is led by Canadian actress Robyn Alomar (“Utopia Falls”), who gives
Continue reading →
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RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has just announced the summer release date for the thrilling, scare-filled horror film We Need To Do Something, directed by Sean King O’Grady (Dinner In America). In the film, “seeking shelter from a storm, a family find themselves trapped for days with no sign of rescue and untold evils lurking just beyond the walls in this wildly fun horse-of-horrors thrill ride.” Sierra McCormick (“American Horror Stories”, The Vast of Night, Some Kind of Hate), Vinessa Shaw (3:10 to Yuma, “Ray Donovan”), Pat Healy (Cheap Thrills, The Innkeeper), and John James Cronin (“NOS4A2”, Second Act) star in this intense film. We Need To Do Something, a film like nothing you’ve seen before, comes home on DVD and Blu-ray on June 16, 2022, from RLJE and IFC Midnight. For more on the film please visit the official website.
Continue reading →
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The captivating, twisted trailer has just been unveiled for Mad God, Shudder’s Original sci-fi animated horror film set to premiere this June. Mad God is directed and created by brilliant Oscar and Emmy Award-winning stop-motion animator and special effects supervisor Phil Tippett, founder of Tippett Studio and the creative powerhouse involved in such classics as RoboCop, Starship Troopers, Jurassic Park, Star Wars: A New Hope, and The Empire Strikes Back. Mad God is an experimental animated film set in a world of monsters, mad scientists, and war pigs. A corroded diving bell descends amidst a ruined city, settling down upon an ominous fortress guarded by zombie-like sentries. The Assassin emerges to explore a labyrinth of bizarre, desolate landscapes inhabited by freakish denizens. Through unexpected twists and turns, he experiences an evolution beyond his wildest comprehension. A labor of love that has taken 30 years to complete, Mad God combines live-action and stop-motion, miniature sets, and other innovative techniques to bring
Continue reading →
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Dark Star Pictures announced today that the home invasion thriller Human Factors, that screened at Sundance, is set to be released late this May. Sabine Timoteo, Mark Waschke, Jule Hermann, and Wanja Valentin Kube star in the German-Italian-Danish production from director Ronny Trocker, The film centers on couple Nina and Jan who have signed a new politically-charged client, forcing them to confront their clashing priorities. To escape mounting tensions at work, they whisk their kids, Max and Emma, away to their seaside vacation home. But what’s meant to be an idyllic off-season retreat turns sinister when a mysterious home invasion sets everything off balance. Though at first, the aftermath brings the family closer, as they try to put the incident into perspective, their accounts of what took place begin to unravel alongside the couple’s faith in each other. Human Factors lands on Digital on May 24, 2022.
Continue reading →
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Unfortunately, players looking forward to the release of Lovecraft’s Untold Stories 2 will have to wait a little longer for the game’s release which was originally going to be later this month. 1C and LLC Blini Games have pushed back the release date after feedback from additional rounds of testing to further polish its gameplay features, improve its balancing and create a truly worthy successor to the previous installment. With the development team committed to ensuring that the game provides the most enjoyably insanity-inducing experience it can, the new release date for Lovecraft’s Untold Stories 2 will be announced soon. 1C says for any fans who want to be the first to receive news about the game, to add it to their Steam wishlist and follow 1C on Facebook, Twitter and/or Steam, or visit the official 1C Entertainment website.
Continue reading →
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Narcotics Anonymous said in 1981 “Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.” before it was famously misquoted saying that it’s “doing the same thing over and over”, either way, the point is repeating things with the hope of a different outcome is insane. The subject of this review is a perfect example of that thanks to Thunderful & Carry Castle’s Lovecraftian game Source of Madness. Source of Madness is a side-scrolling action RPG that takes players into a world being twisted by cosmic horrors from beyond the stars. Players take on the role(s) of an acolyte of a cult venturing into the twisted landscapes of different biomes to find the source of the growing madness taking over your world. Now onto the game itself! the controls for Source of Madness are straightforward and thankfully limited allowing you to master it quickly and respond very well. The game’s sound design is amazing with the roars of the monsters,
Continue reading →
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Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural, and RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks announced today that they are teaming up for the newest Shudder Original horror-comedy, Destroy All Neighbors. The film is from music-video and commercial director Josh Forbes (Contracted: Phase II) and stars Jonah Ray Rodrigues (Mystery Science Theater 3000, pictured) and Alex Winter (Bill and Ted franchise) who also produces, Destroy All Neighbors will have a day-and-date release in theaters and on Shudder in 2023. The film, which is also produced by Russell Sanzgiri (Michael Bolton’s Big Sexy Valentine’s Day Special), is from an original script written by Mike Benner, Jared Logan, and Charles Pieper. In Destroy All Neighbors, struggling prog-rock musician William Brown (Rodrigues) finds himself in a living nightmare when he accidentally kills Vlad (Winter), the neighbor from hell. Vlad’s disembodied corpse delights in tormenting William, sending him further into madness and impending doom. Casting for the film has
Continue reading →
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Avatar’s Sam Worthington, Academy Award-winner Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls, Respect), Milla Jovovich (the Resident Evil franchise), Academy Award-nominee Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild, Annie), and Academy Award-winner Common (Wanted, Suicide Squad) are set to star in Indie Spirit Award-winner Stefon Bristol’s (See You Yesterday) new upcoming post-apocalyptic action-thriller Breathe, it was announced today. In Breathe, after Earth is left uninhabitable due to lack of oxygen, a mother Maya (Hudson), and her daughter Zora (Wallis) are forced to live underground, with short trips to the surface only made possible by a state of the art oxygen suit made by Maya’s husband, Darius, whom she presumes to be dead. When a mysterious couple arrives claiming to know Darius and his fate, Maya tentatively agrees to let them into their bunker, but are they all they appear to be? Bristol will direct from the Black List screenplay written by Doug Simon (Dimension’s Demonic). Principal photography on the edge-of-your-seat survival thriller will take
Continue reading →
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Genre specialist Black Mandala presents psychological horror coming of age movie, The Long Dark Trail, from the writing-directing team of Kevin Ignatius and Nick Psinakis. In the film, “Two impoverished teenage brothers flee after finally fighting back against their abusive father. Hoping to find and reunite with their estranged mother, they embark on a dangerous journey to rural Pennsylvania, not knowing that she has become a disciple of a sadistic cult that dwells there.” Carter O’Donnell, Brady O’Donnell, Mick Thyer, Nick Psinakis, Trina Campbell, Paul “Doc” Ignatius, Charlotte Andersen, Willard Foley, and Bryce Cummings star in The Long Dark Trail, whose release date should be announced soon.
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