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Shudder Announces Cast For ‘Horror Noire’ Anthology

Shudder has announced some of the cast for their new upcoming horror anthology Horror Noire, based on both the book and documentary series of the same name and will feature some of the best names as well as emerging talent from black entertainment. Comprised of six tales, titled Daddy, Bride Before You, Brand of Evil, The Lake, Sundown, and Fugue State, the two-hour event will debut on Shudder this October, Deadline reports. Some of the talent involved includes Tony Todd, Brandon Mychal Smith, Peter Stormare, Sean Patrick Thomas, Malcolm Barrett, Lavell Crawford, Rachel True, Tone Bell, Nathaniel Logan McIntyre, and Lenora Crichlow. The scripts for the project were written by Victor LaValle (Daddy), Al Letson (Sundown), Ezra C. Daniels (Brand of Evil), Shernold Edwards (Bride Before You), Barnes and Due (Fugue State), and Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due (The Lake). Dr. Robin R. Means Coleman, author of Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present, is

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 1, 2021
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A First Look At The Occult Thriller ‘The Last Thing Mary Saw’

Ahead of its premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival this August, we’ve got the first look at writer-director Edoardo Vitaletti‘s feature debut, the occult thriller The Last Thing Mary Saw, set in an isolated farmhouse during the winter of 1843, the film centers on a young woman who is under investigation following the mysterious death of her family’s matriarch. Soon it becomes clear that dark forces are at play. Stefanie Scott (Insidious: Chapter 3) stars alongside Rory Culkin (Scream 4), Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan), Shane Coffey (“Pretty Little Liars”), Carolyn McCormick (“Law & Order”). and Judith Roberts (Dead Silence). “Southold, New York, 1843: Young Mary (Stefanie Scott), blood trickling from behind the blindfold tied around her eyes, is interrogated about the events surrounding her grandmother’s death. As the story jumps back in time, we witness Mary, raised in a repressively religious household, finding fleeting happiness in the arms of Eleanor (Isabelle Fuhrman), the home’s maid. Her family, who believe they are

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 1, 2021
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“Stranger Things: Season Four” Is Finally On Its Way

It’s been several years now since we’ve seen our favorite kids in Hawkins, Indiana, and producer Shawn Levy is very aware that “Stranger Things” fans are getting very impatient after waiting for what feels like forever for the hit series’ fourth season. To state the incredibly obvious, it’s been way, way, way, way too long, and it’s coming,” said Levy about the upcoming season. The good news is, we won’t have to wait much longer, the new season has now finished filming. I shot in Lithuania right before the pandemic. We have filmed in Georgia, Lithuania, and New Mexico, so suffice to say Season 4 is sprawling. It’s visually and narratively very ambitious, much more ambitious than the prior three seasons — The delay is due in large measure to COVID and the pace at which we have to work to do so safely, but it also happens to be the season that we chose to go much bigger. It’s

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 1, 2021
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J.P. Smith Slow Burns in Horror Novel ‘The Summoning’ – Book Review

Plot The plot in J.P. Smith’s novel The Summoning is great, but be warned that it is not easy or simple. It is full of twists, turns, surprises, and there of a definitely emotional, mental and spiritual weight to the novel. This is one of those powerful stories that will take its toll on you. The issues that are in this plot, wrapped in mystics and fraud, deal with the depth of the real emotions of loss and grief. There is so much in this plot that I don’t know how Smith organized and controlled it, but he does, and masterfully so. While reading it, I lost track of the twists and how they were used. Too often twists are used simply for shock value or just for the sake of having a twist, but, Smith uses them strategically to keep the audience (and characters) guessing. The turns in The Summoning progress the story and keep everything moving in the

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Capt McNeely
Aug 1, 2021
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Anya Taylor-Joy Sinks Her Teeth Into The Lead Role In The Horror Comedy ‘The Menu’

It has now been announced that Mark Mylod (“Game of Thrones”, “Succession”, “Shameless”) will be directing Searchlight Picture’s upcoming horror-comedy The Menu. THR is reporting the Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch, The Queen’s Gambit) is starring alongside Nicholas Hoult (Warm Bodies, Mad Max: Fury Road), and acclaimed actor Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Schindler’s List). “The film is a darkly comedic psychological thriller set in the world of eccentric culinary culture, centering on a young couple (Taylor-Joy and Hoult) who visit an exclusive restaurant on a remote island where an acclaimed chef (Fiennes) has prepared a lavish tasting menu, with some shocking surprises.” Written by Will Tracy and Seth Reiss, The Menu is being produced by Adam McKay for Searchlight Pictures.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 31, 2021
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Netflix’s “Brand New Cherry Flavor” Series Scores A Friday The 13th Premiere Date

The adaptation of Todd Grimson‘s horror novel “Brand New Cherry Flavor” is coming to Netflix as a new eight-episode series. Not only do we have the new trailer we’ve also got the August premiere date. “Channel Zero” duo Nick Antosca and Lenore Zion will both write and executive produce the new show that centers on “Lisa N. Nova (Rosa Salazar) who comes to LA dead set on directing her first movie. But when she trusts the wrong person and gets stabbed in the back, everything goes sideways and a dream project turns into a nightmare. This particular nightmare has zombies, hitmen, supernatural kittens, and a mysterious tattoo artist who likes to put curses on people. And Lisa’s going to have to figure out some secrets from her own past in order to get out alive.” Rosa Salazar (Alita: Battle Angel) leads the cast that also includes Catherine Keener (Get Out), Eric Lange (Escape at Dannemora), Jeff Ward (“Agents of Shield”)

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 31, 2021
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A Killer Hunts The Audience Of A Movie Theater This August In ‘The Last Matinee’

From director Maxi Contenti (Muñeco viviente V, Neptunia) comes the new Uruguay-Argentinian horror film The Last Matinee. In the indie slasher, “The audience attending the last showing of a horror film in a small downtown cinema are terrorized by a murderer who begins to pick them off, one by one. The only person to notice that something strange is going on is the projectionist’s daughter.” The film, written by Manuel Facal (High Five, Fiesta Nibiru) and Contenti, stars Luciana Grasso (El Secreto de Julia), Ricardo Islas (El Que No Corre Vuela, Bailiwick), Julieta Spinelli, Franco Duran and Pedro Duarte. Dark Star Pictures and Bloody Disgusting will release The Last Matinee, which is English subtitled, in theaters on August 6, 2021, followed by a VOD, Digital, and DVD release on August 24, 2021.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 31, 2021
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Enter ‘The Forever Room’ This August

Director Kevin Hicks (Doppel, Dead Air) is taking viewers on an unnerving trip with his horror-thriller The Forever Room. In this indie film, a Chinimble Lore production, “A woman wakes up to find herself shackled in a basement with no memory of how she got there. Her horror is amplified when she discovers that her captor is her own mother, who assures her that the situation is necessary and for her own good. In the days and nights that follow, she is beset by strange apparitions and frightening experiences, finding herself precariously balanced on a razor’s edge between reality and insanity, and ultimately forced to face a dark truth.” Samantha Valletta and Vickie Hicks, star in The Forever Room out On Demand on August 24, 2021, from Freestyle Digital Media.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 30, 2021
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Producers Of New Predator Movie ‘Skull’ Reveal New Details

There have been rumors about the new upcoming Predator movie, Skull since the news broke back in 2020. The producers, John Davis and John Fox have now confirmed some of the details. The two recently told Collider that the film, which is already “three-quarters of the way through” production, will be a “Predator origin story” about “the Predators’ first journey to this planet.”According to Fox, “it actually has more akin to The Revenant than it does any film in the Predator canon.” It’s rumored that the film will be set hundreds of years in the past and centers on Native Americans before the territories were taken by the American settlers and will feature a First Nations cast. But that has yet to be confirmed. Dan Trachtenberg is in the director’s chair and has been working on the project in secret for the past four years. Patrick Aison penned the script. The release date has yet to be announced, but as

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 30, 2021
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Neil Marshall Unleashes Half Human Monsters In His New Horror Thriller ‘The Lair’

Jonathan Howard (Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World, Skylines, Warner Bros.’ Godzilla King of Monsters), Charlotte Kirk (The Reckoning, Warner Bros.’ Oceans Eight), and Jamie Bamber (UMC’s “Battlestar Galactica,” Cinemax’s “Strike Back,” 20th Century Fox’s Money) are set to star in the new horror-action-thriller The Lair written and directed by legendary filmmaker Neil Marshall (20th Century Fox’s Dog Soldiers, Lionsgate’s The Descent, The Reckoning, HBO’s “Game Of Thrones”). In the film, “Sergeant Tom Hook is tasked with leading a command to find Lt. Kate Sinclair, a Royal Air Force fighter pilot shot down in Afghanistan. Sinclair, pursued by insurgents, finds refuge in a long-abandoned secret bunker and unwittingly releases a deadly man-made biological weapon – half-human, half-alien, and hungry for human flesh – the Ravagers. Hook and his team, accompanied by a handful of British SAS troops must save Sinclair from the insurgents, and more importantly from the Ravagers before they overrun the area and potentially the world. Leon Ockenden (ITV’s

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 30, 2021

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Shudder Announces Cast For ‘Horror Noire’ Anthology

Shudder has announced some of the cast for their new upcoming horror anthology Horror Noire, based on both the book and documentary series of the same name and will feature some of the best names as well as emerging talent from black entertainment. Comprised of six tales, titled Daddy, Bride Before You, Brand of Evil, The Lake, Sundown, and Fugue State, the two-hour event will debut on Shudder this October, Deadline reports. Some of the talent involved includes Tony Todd, Brandon Mychal Smith, Peter Stormare, Sean Patrick Thomas, Malcolm Barrett, Lavell Crawford, Rachel True, Tone Bell, Nathaniel Logan McIntyre, and Lenora Crichlow. The scripts for the project were written by Victor LaValle (Daddy), Al Letson (Sundown), Ezra C. Daniels (Brand of Evil), Shernold Edwards (Bride Before You), Barnes and Due (Fugue State), and Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due (The Lake). Dr. Robin R. Means Coleman, author of Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present, is

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 1, 2021
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A First Look At The Occult Thriller ‘The Last Thing Mary Saw’

Ahead of its premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival this August, we’ve got the first look at writer-director Edoardo Vitaletti‘s feature debut, the occult thriller The Last Thing Mary Saw, set in an isolated farmhouse during the winter of 1843, the film centers on a young woman who is under investigation following the mysterious death of her family’s matriarch. Soon it becomes clear that dark forces are at play. Stefanie Scott (Insidious: Chapter 3) stars alongside Rory Culkin (Scream 4), Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan), Shane Coffey (“Pretty Little Liars”), Carolyn McCormick (“Law & Order”). and Judith Roberts (Dead Silence). “Southold, New York, 1843: Young Mary (Stefanie Scott), blood trickling from behind the blindfold tied around her eyes, is interrogated about the events surrounding her grandmother’s death. As the story jumps back in time, we witness Mary, raised in a repressively religious household, finding fleeting happiness in the arms of Eleanor (Isabelle Fuhrman), the home’s maid. Her family, who believe they are

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 1, 2021
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“Stranger Things: Season Four” Is Finally On Its Way

It’s been several years now since we’ve seen our favorite kids in Hawkins, Indiana, and producer Shawn Levy is very aware that “Stranger Things” fans are getting very impatient after waiting for what feels like forever for the hit series’ fourth season. To state the incredibly obvious, it’s been way, way, way, way too long, and it’s coming,” said Levy about the upcoming season. The good news is, we won’t have to wait much longer, the new season has now finished filming. I shot in Lithuania right before the pandemic. We have filmed in Georgia, Lithuania, and New Mexico, so suffice to say Season 4 is sprawling. It’s visually and narratively very ambitious, much more ambitious than the prior three seasons — The delay is due in large measure to COVID and the pace at which we have to work to do so safely, but it also happens to be the season that we chose to go much bigger. It’s

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 1, 2021
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J.P. Smith Slow Burns in Horror Novel ‘The Summoning’ – Book Review

Plot The plot in J.P. Smith’s novel The Summoning is great, but be warned that it is not easy or simple. It is full of twists, turns, surprises, and there of a definitely emotional, mental and spiritual weight to the novel. This is one of those powerful stories that will take its toll on you. The issues that are in this plot, wrapped in mystics and fraud, deal with the depth of the real emotions of loss and grief. There is so much in this plot that I don’t know how Smith organized and controlled it, but he does, and masterfully so. While reading it, I lost track of the twists and how they were used. Too often twists are used simply for shock value or just for the sake of having a twist, but, Smith uses them strategically to keep the audience (and characters) guessing. The turns in The Summoning progress the story and keep everything moving in the

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Aug 1, 2021
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Anya Taylor-Joy Sinks Her Teeth Into The Lead Role In The Horror Comedy ‘The Menu’

It has now been announced that Mark Mylod (“Game of Thrones”, “Succession”, “Shameless”) will be directing Searchlight Picture’s upcoming horror-comedy The Menu. THR is reporting the Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch, The Queen’s Gambit) is starring alongside Nicholas Hoult (Warm Bodies, Mad Max: Fury Road), and acclaimed actor Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Schindler’s List). “The film is a darkly comedic psychological thriller set in the world of eccentric culinary culture, centering on a young couple (Taylor-Joy and Hoult) who visit an exclusive restaurant on a remote island where an acclaimed chef (Fiennes) has prepared a lavish tasting menu, with some shocking surprises.” Written by Will Tracy and Seth Reiss, The Menu is being produced by Adam McKay for Searchlight Pictures.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 31, 2021
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Netflix’s “Brand New Cherry Flavor” Series Scores A Friday The 13th Premiere Date

The adaptation of Todd Grimson‘s horror novel “Brand New Cherry Flavor” is coming to Netflix as a new eight-episode series. Not only do we have the new trailer we’ve also got the August premiere date. “Channel Zero” duo Nick Antosca and Lenore Zion will both write and executive produce the new show that centers on “Lisa N. Nova (Rosa Salazar) who comes to LA dead set on directing her first movie. But when she trusts the wrong person and gets stabbed in the back, everything goes sideways and a dream project turns into a nightmare. This particular nightmare has zombies, hitmen, supernatural kittens, and a mysterious tattoo artist who likes to put curses on people. And Lisa’s going to have to figure out some secrets from her own past in order to get out alive.” Rosa Salazar (Alita: Battle Angel) leads the cast that also includes Catherine Keener (Get Out), Eric Lange (Escape at Dannemora), Jeff Ward (“Agents of Shield”)

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 31, 2021
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A Killer Hunts The Audience Of A Movie Theater This August In ‘The Last Matinee’

From director Maxi Contenti (Muñeco viviente V, Neptunia) comes the new Uruguay-Argentinian horror film The Last Matinee. In the indie slasher, “The audience attending the last showing of a horror film in a small downtown cinema are terrorized by a murderer who begins to pick them off, one by one. The only person to notice that something strange is going on is the projectionist’s daughter.” The film, written by Manuel Facal (High Five, Fiesta Nibiru) and Contenti, stars Luciana Grasso (El Secreto de Julia), Ricardo Islas (El Que No Corre Vuela, Bailiwick), Julieta Spinelli, Franco Duran and Pedro Duarte. Dark Star Pictures and Bloody Disgusting will release The Last Matinee, which is English subtitled, in theaters on August 6, 2021, followed by a VOD, Digital, and DVD release on August 24, 2021.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 31, 2021
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Enter ‘The Forever Room’ This August

Director Kevin Hicks (Doppel, Dead Air) is taking viewers on an unnerving trip with his horror-thriller The Forever Room. In this indie film, a Chinimble Lore production, “A woman wakes up to find herself shackled in a basement with no memory of how she got there. Her horror is amplified when she discovers that her captor is her own mother, who assures her that the situation is necessary and for her own good. In the days and nights that follow, she is beset by strange apparitions and frightening experiences, finding herself precariously balanced on a razor’s edge between reality and insanity, and ultimately forced to face a dark truth.” Samantha Valletta and Vickie Hicks, star in The Forever Room out On Demand on August 24, 2021, from Freestyle Digital Media.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 30, 2021
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Producers Of New Predator Movie ‘Skull’ Reveal New Details

There have been rumors about the new upcoming Predator movie, Skull since the news broke back in 2020. The producers, John Davis and John Fox have now confirmed some of the details. The two recently told Collider that the film, which is already “three-quarters of the way through” production, will be a “Predator origin story” about “the Predators’ first journey to this planet.”According to Fox, “it actually has more akin to The Revenant than it does any film in the Predator canon.” It’s rumored that the film will be set hundreds of years in the past and centers on Native Americans before the territories were taken by the American settlers and will feature a First Nations cast. But that has yet to be confirmed. Dan Trachtenberg is in the director’s chair and has been working on the project in secret for the past four years. Patrick Aison penned the script. The release date has yet to be announced, but as

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 30, 2021
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Neil Marshall Unleashes Half Human Monsters In His New Horror Thriller ‘The Lair’

Jonathan Howard (Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World, Skylines, Warner Bros.’ Godzilla King of Monsters), Charlotte Kirk (The Reckoning, Warner Bros.’ Oceans Eight), and Jamie Bamber (UMC’s “Battlestar Galactica,” Cinemax’s “Strike Back,” 20th Century Fox’s Money) are set to star in the new horror-action-thriller The Lair written and directed by legendary filmmaker Neil Marshall (20th Century Fox’s Dog Soldiers, Lionsgate’s The Descent, The Reckoning, HBO’s “Game Of Thrones”). In the film, “Sergeant Tom Hook is tasked with leading a command to find Lt. Kate Sinclair, a Royal Air Force fighter pilot shot down in Afghanistan. Sinclair, pursued by insurgents, finds refuge in a long-abandoned secret bunker and unwittingly releases a deadly man-made biological weapon – half-human, half-alien, and hungry for human flesh – the Ravagers. Hook and his team, accompanied by a handful of British SAS troops must save Sinclair from the insurgents, and more importantly from the Ravagers before they overrun the area and potentially the world. Leon Ockenden (ITV’s

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 30, 2021
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