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After announcing its first wave of chillers and thrillers earlier this month, Vienna’s SLASH ½ Film Festival now presents its final selection for this year’s edition — Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon — and schedule. Following is the official press announcement. Resistance, empowerment, upheaval: This is the motto of this year’s SLASH ½ Film Festival. The last film to be added to our lineup fits this mold perfectly, and we’d be remiss to keep it from you any longer: MONA LISA AND THE BLOOD MOON is a somewhat quieter affair than director Ana Lily Amirpour’s previous feature THE BAD BATCH, but to no detriment to its bizarre whimsy. Her “adventure fairy-tale” premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2021 and wowed audiences not only with its deeply bizarre yet heartwarming story of a misfit but also its 1980s and ’90s neon look.Together with other highlights like Ti West’s sex-and-blood–drenched slasher gem X, Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s long-awaited tour
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The Chattanooga Film Festival (CFF) continues its tradition of serving up a mouth-watering selection of chillers, thrillers, the horrific, and the humorous, and this year’s edition goes virtual again. The fest has announced its first wave of films, and from the frightening (such as The Ones You Didn’t Burn) to the funny (the slasher comedies The Third Saturday in October Part 1 and Part V,), CFF has something for genre-fan cinephiles of all stripes. Following is the official press announcement. Two years after blazing a trail as the first film festival to go completely virtual amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, the Chattanooga Film Festival (CFF) returns for their ninth consecutive year this summer June 23–28. Taking place again virtually, this year’s lineup showcases an eclectic mix of the wild and wonderful features and events the festival has become well-known for through its eight previous editions. Highlights of this year’s first half include a pair of world premieres co-curated in partnership with
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Today, IFC Midnight unveiled the new trailer for director Chloe Okuno’s chilling psychological thriller Watcher, written by Zach Ford and Chloe Okuno. It Follows actress Maika Monroe stars alongside Karl Glusman (Love), and Burn Gorman (The Dark Knight Rises). In Watcher, Julia (Maika Monroe) joins her husband (Karl Glusman) when he relocates to his family’s native Romania for a new job. Having recently abandoned her acting career, she finds herself frequently alone and unoccupied. One night, people-watching from her picture window, she spots a vague figure in an adjacent building, who seems to be looking back at her. Soon after, while alone at a local movie theater, Julia’s sense of being watched intensifies, and she becomes certain she’s being followed — could it be the same unknown neighbor? Meanwhile, a serial killer known as “The Spider” stalks the city. Watcher made its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and most recently screened at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival.
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Mothmen 1966, the first visual novel in a series inspired by mid-20th century pulp fiction and ‘80s home computer graphics published by Chorus Worldwide and developed by LCB Game Studio will be taking players to the legendary West Virginian location of Point Pleasant as a pair of lovers, a gas station owner, and a paranormal investigator who are all caught up in a series of strange events on this evening of 1966. In Mothmen 1966 players will have to guide our four heroes to safety across eleven chapters of a “choose your own adventure” style game done in an 8-bit aesthetic reminiscent of ‘80s home computers and scored with an otherworldly lo-fi soundtrack. Repel attacking coyotes, spot cryptids with binoculars, or even try a hand at Impossible Solitaire to help keep your characters alive to unravel the otherworldly conspiracy involving The Mothman. Mothmen 1966 will be coming out July 14th for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series
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Today, we know a little more about the upcoming mysterious J.J. Abrams HBO series “Demimonde,” first announced back in 2018. Variety is reporting that the series, which stars Danielle Deadwyler (The Harder They Fall), “centers on Olive Reed (Deadwyler), a woman who is torn away from her husband and daughter in a brutal scientific accident. She is forced to unravel a conspiracy to reunite with her family, now lost to a dark, distant other world.” Kira Snyder (“The Handmaid’s Tale”), Rand Ravich, and Far Shariat (“Life”) will serve as co-showrunners as well as serve as executive producers for the horror series. J.J. Abrams, known for films such as Star Wars VII and IX, Super 8, and the series “Lovecraft Country,” is writing and directing “Demimonde” for Bad Robot Productions which is producing in association with Warner Bros. Television and HBO. Hopefully, more details will be revealed soon.
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In 2021, a groundbreaking Pentagon report revealed what the government had denied for decades – UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena) or UFOs are real and may even pose a threat to our planet. In ALIEN ENDGAME, an all-new discovery+ two-hour documentary, former members of the U.S. military break their silence about the massive cover-up of their terrifying close encounters. And now we all must ask: are we prepared for an alien invasion? For decades, the U.S. government has largely ignored reports of mysterious flying objects observed by our military. But now, after years of speculation, government insider Rich Emberlin is finally investigating the truth. As a 30-year law enforcement veteran who has worked with the CIA and FBI, Emberlin believes we are amid a massive military cover-up and that the stakes are at the highest level. Emberlin joins forces with investigative reporter Melissa Tittl and UFO field investigator Roderick Martin to uncover what the government is hiding. The trio travels across
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The Conjuring franchise is set to expand once again with The Nun 2 now confirmed by Warner Bros. During CinemaCon earlier tonight the sequel was teased in a sizzle reel presented by Warner Bros. Today marks the first time any news has surfaced about the sequel to 2018’s movie about a demon nun, Valak, since 2019. With The Nun bringing in an impressive $365 million in worldwide box offices there was little doubt we’d see a sequel, prequel, or a spinoff. Valek got its own movie after making an appearance in The Conjuring franchise. In The Nun directed by Corin Hardy, “A priest with a haunted past and a novice on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate the death of a young nun in Romania and confront a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun. There is no word yet if Bonnie Aarons, who played the character in both The Nun
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To celebrate the home release of the sci-fi thriller Moonfall today, several new clips have been released that give viewers a taste of the action they can expect. The film is from the director of The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day, Roland Emmerich, who also co-wrote the film along with Harald Kloser and Spenser Cohen. In Moonfall, a mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it. With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler (Academy Award® winner Halle Berry) is convinced she has the key to saving us all – but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper (Patrick Wilson, The Conjuring franchise) and a conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman (John Bradley, “Game of Thrones”) believe her. These unlikely heroes will mount an impossible last-ditch mission into space, leaving behind everyone
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Director Scott Derrickson returns to his terror roots and partners again with the foremost brand in the genre, Blumhouse, for the new horror-thriller, The Black Phone whose second trailer has now arrived, giving us a terrifying glimpse at the horrors that await us. The movie centers on “Finney Shaw, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, who is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney. Starring four-time Oscar® nominee Ethan Hawke in the most terrifying role of his career and introducing Mason Thames in his first-ever film role, The Black Phone is produced, directed, and co-written by Scott Derrickson, who also wrote and directed Sinister, which also starred Ethan Hawke. He’s
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.Apple TV‘s new miniseries “The Essex Serpent,” directed and executive produced by Clio Barnard and starring Tom Hiddleston (The Avengers) and Claire Danes (“Homeland”), is set to premiere this May. The new trailer reveals a town terrified of evil, a woman searching for the truth, and a sea monster that may or may not be real. “The Essex Serpent” follows London widow Cora Seaborne (Claire Danes) who moves to Essex to investigate reports of a mythical serpent. She forms an unlikely bond with the village vicar (Tom Hiddleston), but when tragedy strikes, locals accuse her of attracting the creature. Based on the award-winning novel by Sarah Perry, this series also stars Frank Dillane, Clémence Poésy, and Hayley Squires, and was written by Anna Symon. Executive producers include Anna Symon, Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, and Patrick Walters. Tune in on Apple TV on Friday, May 13th for the premiere of the horror series “The Essex Serpent‘.
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After announcing its first wave of chillers and thrillers earlier this month, Vienna’s SLASH ½ Film Festival now presents its final selection for this year’s edition — Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon — and schedule. Following is the official press announcement. Resistance, empowerment, upheaval: This is the motto of this year’s SLASH ½ Film Festival. The last film to be added to our lineup fits this mold perfectly, and we’d be remiss to keep it from you any longer: MONA LISA AND THE BLOOD MOON is a somewhat quieter affair than director Ana Lily Amirpour’s previous feature THE BAD BATCH, but to no detriment to its bizarre whimsy. Her “adventure fairy-tale” premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2021 and wowed audiences not only with its deeply bizarre yet heartwarming story of a misfit but also its 1980s and ’90s neon look.Together with other highlights like Ti West’s sex-and-blood–drenched slasher gem X, Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s long-awaited tour
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The Chattanooga Film Festival (CFF) continues its tradition of serving up a mouth-watering selection of chillers, thrillers, the horrific, and the humorous, and this year’s edition goes virtual again. The fest has announced its first wave of films, and from the frightening (such as The Ones You Didn’t Burn) to the funny (the slasher comedies The Third Saturday in October Part 1 and Part V,), CFF has something for genre-fan cinephiles of all stripes. Following is the official press announcement. Two years after blazing a trail as the first film festival to go completely virtual amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, the Chattanooga Film Festival (CFF) returns for their ninth consecutive year this summer June 23–28. Taking place again virtually, this year’s lineup showcases an eclectic mix of the wild and wonderful features and events the festival has become well-known for through its eight previous editions. Highlights of this year’s first half include a pair of world premieres co-curated in partnership with
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Today, IFC Midnight unveiled the new trailer for director Chloe Okuno’s chilling psychological thriller Watcher, written by Zach Ford and Chloe Okuno. It Follows actress Maika Monroe stars alongside Karl Glusman (Love), and Burn Gorman (The Dark Knight Rises). In Watcher, Julia (Maika Monroe) joins her husband (Karl Glusman) when he relocates to his family’s native Romania for a new job. Having recently abandoned her acting career, she finds herself frequently alone and unoccupied. One night, people-watching from her picture window, she spots a vague figure in an adjacent building, who seems to be looking back at her. Soon after, while alone at a local movie theater, Julia’s sense of being watched intensifies, and she becomes certain she’s being followed — could it be the same unknown neighbor? Meanwhile, a serial killer known as “The Spider” stalks the city. Watcher made its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and most recently screened at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival.
Continue reading →
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Mothmen 1966, the first visual novel in a series inspired by mid-20th century pulp fiction and ‘80s home computer graphics published by Chorus Worldwide and developed by LCB Game Studio will be taking players to the legendary West Virginian location of Point Pleasant as a pair of lovers, a gas station owner, and a paranormal investigator who are all caught up in a series of strange events on this evening of 1966. In Mothmen 1966 players will have to guide our four heroes to safety across eleven chapters of a “choose your own adventure” style game done in an 8-bit aesthetic reminiscent of ‘80s home computers and scored with an otherworldly lo-fi soundtrack. Repel attacking coyotes, spot cryptids with binoculars, or even try a hand at Impossible Solitaire to help keep your characters alive to unravel the otherworldly conspiracy involving The Mothman. Mothmen 1966 will be coming out July 14th for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series
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Today, we know a little more about the upcoming mysterious J.J. Abrams HBO series “Demimonde,” first announced back in 2018. Variety is reporting that the series, which stars Danielle Deadwyler (The Harder They Fall), “centers on Olive Reed (Deadwyler), a woman who is torn away from her husband and daughter in a brutal scientific accident. She is forced to unravel a conspiracy to reunite with her family, now lost to a dark, distant other world.” Kira Snyder (“The Handmaid’s Tale”), Rand Ravich, and Far Shariat (“Life”) will serve as co-showrunners as well as serve as executive producers for the horror series. J.J. Abrams, known for films such as Star Wars VII and IX, Super 8, and the series “Lovecraft Country,” is writing and directing “Demimonde” for Bad Robot Productions which is producing in association with Warner Bros. Television and HBO. Hopefully, more details will be revealed soon.
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In 2021, a groundbreaking Pentagon report revealed what the government had denied for decades – UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena) or UFOs are real and may even pose a threat to our planet. In ALIEN ENDGAME, an all-new discovery+ two-hour documentary, former members of the U.S. military break their silence about the massive cover-up of their terrifying close encounters. And now we all must ask: are we prepared for an alien invasion? For decades, the U.S. government has largely ignored reports of mysterious flying objects observed by our military. But now, after years of speculation, government insider Rich Emberlin is finally investigating the truth. As a 30-year law enforcement veteran who has worked with the CIA and FBI, Emberlin believes we are amid a massive military cover-up and that the stakes are at the highest level. Emberlin joins forces with investigative reporter Melissa Tittl and UFO field investigator Roderick Martin to uncover what the government is hiding. The trio travels across
Continue reading →
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The Conjuring franchise is set to expand once again with The Nun 2 now confirmed by Warner Bros. During CinemaCon earlier tonight the sequel was teased in a sizzle reel presented by Warner Bros. Today marks the first time any news has surfaced about the sequel to 2018’s movie about a demon nun, Valak, since 2019. With The Nun bringing in an impressive $365 million in worldwide box offices there was little doubt we’d see a sequel, prequel, or a spinoff. Valek got its own movie after making an appearance in The Conjuring franchise. In The Nun directed by Corin Hardy, “A priest with a haunted past and a novice on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate the death of a young nun in Romania and confront a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun. There is no word yet if Bonnie Aarons, who played the character in both The Nun
Continue reading →
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To celebrate the home release of the sci-fi thriller Moonfall today, several new clips have been released that give viewers a taste of the action they can expect. The film is from the director of The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day, Roland Emmerich, who also co-wrote the film along with Harald Kloser and Spenser Cohen. In Moonfall, a mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it. With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler (Academy Award® winner Halle Berry) is convinced she has the key to saving us all – but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper (Patrick Wilson, The Conjuring franchise) and a conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman (John Bradley, “Game of Thrones”) believe her. These unlikely heroes will mount an impossible last-ditch mission into space, leaving behind everyone
Continue reading →
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Director Scott Derrickson returns to his terror roots and partners again with the foremost brand in the genre, Blumhouse, for the new horror-thriller, The Black Phone whose second trailer has now arrived, giving us a terrifying glimpse at the horrors that await us. The movie centers on “Finney Shaw, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, who is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney. Starring four-time Oscar® nominee Ethan Hawke in the most terrifying role of his career and introducing Mason Thames in his first-ever film role, The Black Phone is produced, directed, and co-written by Scott Derrickson, who also wrote and directed Sinister, which also starred Ethan Hawke. He’s
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.Apple TV‘s new miniseries “The Essex Serpent,” directed and executive produced by Clio Barnard and starring Tom Hiddleston (The Avengers) and Claire Danes (“Homeland”), is set to premiere this May. The new trailer reveals a town terrified of evil, a woman searching for the truth, and a sea monster that may or may not be real. “The Essex Serpent” follows London widow Cora Seaborne (Claire Danes) who moves to Essex to investigate reports of a mythical serpent. She forms an unlikely bond with the village vicar (Tom Hiddleston), but when tragedy strikes, locals accuse her of attracting the creature. Based on the award-winning novel by Sarah Perry, this series also stars Frank Dillane, Clémence Poésy, and Hayley Squires, and was written by Anna Symon. Executive producers include Anna Symon, Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, and Patrick Walters. Tune in on Apple TV on Friday, May 13th for the premiere of the horror series “The Essex Serpent‘.
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