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One of my favorite things is opening my door to find boxes, so when I heard a knock at my door Monday I came out to find a big heavy box I was thrilled. I cut the tape and open the top and found bunches of paper stuffing. As I began digging I was excited to find my new “Supernatural: The Complete Series” Blu-ray/DVD box set. Let me tell you about it. This incredible, moving, action-packed series stars Jared Padalecki as Sam and Jensen Ackles as Dean, the Winchester brothers. Created by Eric Kripke the hit series has spanned fifteen seasons. While it is a horror series, “Supernatural” is at its heart about family. Brothers Sam and Dean Winchester, since day one, have always been on a mission to rid the world of dangerous monsters, but along the way, they have formed their own unique family while trying to save the world and each other from all types of monsters,
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This June The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It will premiere in both theaters and on HBO Max. A new featurette released today delves into the true story that inspired the latest installment of the franchise. The third film of the franchise is a twisted tale of murder, the supernatural, and the unspeakable horror that rocked the nation. The case remains one of the Warren’s most terrifying investigations, the real-life case of Arne Johnson, which marked the first time in U.S. history that used demonic possession as a defense in a real murder trial. In the featurette, Arne’s wife Debbie Johnson regales the ordeal in detail. Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson return to their roles as the famous paranormal investigators in the film directed by Michael Chaves (The Curse of La Llorona). The film also stars Ruairi O’Connor (Starz’s “The Spanish Princess”), Sarah Catherine Hook (Hulu’s “Monsterland”), and Julian Hilliard (“Penny Dreadful: City of Angels,” “The Haunting of
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Simon Barrett takes us to haunted boarding school in his new horror film Seance. As usual with horror movies, there are only three ways it can go, bad, meh, and awesome. Luckily, I can now tell you that Seance is the latter of the three. First off, Seance doesn’t waste any time getting right into the spooky stuff, with a group of girls staring into the bathroom mirror, calling on the legendary school ghost, after learning it’s a prank all hell breaks loose and one girl is dead. When the new girl shows up, played by Suki Waterhouse (The Bad Batch, Assassination Nation), everything begins to unravel as the girls continue turning up dead. The question is, is it or ghost killing off the girls or is it something/someone more alive? Don’t worry, I’m not going to spoil it for you. I wouldn’t do that to you. Seance is a movie you’re actually going to want to watch for yourself.
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Last year it was announced that Universal Pictures will be pitting Idris Elba against a hungry lion in the survival thriller Beast, directed by Baltasar Kormákur. Universal has now announced the date that Beast will be unleashed in theaters, August 19, 2022. “[Beast] finds Elba on a trip to South Africa, only for he and his two teenage daughters to be hunted by a massive rogue lion intent on proving that the savanna has but one apex predator. Elba plays Dr. Nate Samuels, a recently widowed husband who returns to South Africa where he first met his wife on a long-planned trip with their daughters to a game reserve. But what begins as a journey of healing jolts into a fearsome fight for survival when a lion, a survivor of blood-thirsty poachers who now sees all humans as the enemy, begins stalking them.” The Wrap reports. Ryan Engle (Rampage) penned the script, based on an idea by Jaime Primak-Sullivan. Primak-Sullivan,
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Back in 2014, Richelle Mead‘s “Vampire Academy” book series was adapted for a feature film. Now, it’s getting its own television series adaptation, THR reports. Julie Plec who brought us “The Vampire Diaries” is sinking her teeth into the series and will serve as showrunner along with Marguerite MacIntyre who starred in “The Vampire Diaries” and was both a writer and a producer for its spin-off “The Originals”. The first season of “Vampire Academy” will feature ten episodes that will air on Peacock’s streaming service. Neither the premiere date nor cast has been announced. “Set in a world of privilege and glamour, Vampire Academy follows two young women’s friendship that transcends their strikingly different classes as they prepare to complete their education and enter royal vampire society. This serialized and sexy drama combines the elegance of aristocratic romance and the supernatural thrills of the vampire genre.” Vampire Academy was first published in 2007 and went on to include six young-adult
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This July, two kids stumble across a terrifying mystery in the family-friendly film Let Us In from director Craig Moss and co-writer JW Callero. In the film, “A spirited twelve-year-old girl and her best friend start investigating the sudden disappearances of several missing teens in their small town. Realizing there might be something deeper happening, Emily and Christopher might be up against forces they can’t even imagine.” Makenzie Moss (TV’s “The Unicorn”) and O’Neill Monahan (“The Middle”) star alongside genre icon Tobin Bell (the Saw franchise). Sadie Stanley (The Sleepover), Eric Callero ( Deadly Daughter Switch), and Mackenzie Ziegler (TV’s “Total Eclipse”). Let Us In premieres on Digital and On Demand on July 2, 2021.
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Year after year, The Fantasia International Film Festival strengthens its reputation as the top genre-film fest in North America, and one look at this year’s first-wave announcement for the festival’s 25th edition explains exactly why that is. The following press release highlights the first round of horror, science fiction, and horror-adjacent features scheduled for this August. The Fantasia International Film Festival is proud to announce the first wave of programming for its upcoming 25th edition, set again to take place as a virtual event accessible to audiences across Canada. The festival will run from August 5 – 25, 2021 and will include scheduled screenings and premieres, panels, and workshops, with films once again hosted on the leading-edge platform created by Festival Scope and Shift72. As the summer approaches, Fantasia organizers will be following advice from local health authorities in Montreal with respect to the possibility of adding a limited range of physical events as well. In celebration of the key
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Netflix’s upcoming live-action “Wednesday” Addams series has found its star. Jenna Ortega has been cast as Wednesday. Ortega is known for her roles in films such as The Babysitter: Killer Queen, Insidious Chapter Two, and Iron Man 3, and in Netflix’s series “You.’ The series, directed by Tim Burton, will find Wednesday as a student at Nevermore Academy where she attempts to master her emerging psychic abilities, go up against monsters, and attempt to solve the supernatural mystery that involved her parents 25 ago, Variety reports. The first season of “Wednesday,” created by Al Gough and Miles Miller, will feature eight episodes. Gough and Miller will also serve as showrunners and executive producers.
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For the first time in history Netflix and in the horror genre, the streaming giant will release a new movie franchise, the Fear Street Trilogy over three consecutive weeks next month. “In 1994, a group of teenagers discovers that the terrifying events that have haunted their town for generations may all be connected – and that they may be the next targets. Based on R.L. Stine’s best-selling horror series, the trilogy follows the nightmare through Shadyside’s sinister history.” We filmed all three Fear Street movies over one crazy, bloody summer. It’s a dream that audiences now get to experience the story in the same way – back to back to back, with only a week of waiting in between. I can’t wait to welcome everyone into the world of Fear Street in 1994, 1978, and 1666!” Leigh Janiak, Director of the Fear Street trilogy states. Fear Street fans are in for a treat–and some major surprises. Readers know that the
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This Fall, The Scarecrow is sending Gotham City straight to Hell, and it’s up to Batman and his allies to stop it DC is taking readers to Fear State, a horror-themed Gotham City event that unifies plot threads started in DC’s fan-favorite publishing events, DC Future State and Infinite Frontier. Fear State not only continues The Scarecrow’s vision of a fear-controlled Gotham but also Mayor Christopher Nakano’s mission to protect the city with his ground-breaking deal with The Magistrate. This can’t miss event is also the launching point for several new series and plotlines across all Batman-family titles, setting a new status quo for 2022! The action begins this August with the following titles: I Am Batman #0 – The age of a new Dark Knight begins! On August 10, picking up immediately from the events of The Next Batman: Second Son, Jace Fox begins the march toward his destiny when he fights to protect Alleytown against the oppressive forces
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One of my favorite things is opening my door to find boxes, so when I heard a knock at my door Monday I came out to find a big heavy box I was thrilled. I cut the tape and open the top and found bunches of paper stuffing. As I began digging I was excited to find my new “Supernatural: The Complete Series” Blu-ray/DVD box set. Let me tell you about it. This incredible, moving, action-packed series stars Jared Padalecki as Sam and Jensen Ackles as Dean, the Winchester brothers. Created by Eric Kripke the hit series has spanned fifteen seasons. While it is a horror series, “Supernatural” is at its heart about family. Brothers Sam and Dean Winchester, since day one, have always been on a mission to rid the world of dangerous monsters, but along the way, they have formed their own unique family while trying to save the world and each other from all types of monsters,
Continue reading →
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This June The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It will premiere in both theaters and on HBO Max. A new featurette released today delves into the true story that inspired the latest installment of the franchise. The third film of the franchise is a twisted tale of murder, the supernatural, and the unspeakable horror that rocked the nation. The case remains one of the Warren’s most terrifying investigations, the real-life case of Arne Johnson, which marked the first time in U.S. history that used demonic possession as a defense in a real murder trial. In the featurette, Arne’s wife Debbie Johnson regales the ordeal in detail. Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson return to their roles as the famous paranormal investigators in the film directed by Michael Chaves (The Curse of La Llorona). The film also stars Ruairi O’Connor (Starz’s “The Spanish Princess”), Sarah Catherine Hook (Hulu’s “Monsterland”), and Julian Hilliard (“Penny Dreadful: City of Angels,” “The Haunting of
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Simon Barrett takes us to haunted boarding school in his new horror film Seance. As usual with horror movies, there are only three ways it can go, bad, meh, and awesome. Luckily, I can now tell you that Seance is the latter of the three. First off, Seance doesn’t waste any time getting right into the spooky stuff, with a group of girls staring into the bathroom mirror, calling on the legendary school ghost, after learning it’s a prank all hell breaks loose and one girl is dead. When the new girl shows up, played by Suki Waterhouse (The Bad Batch, Assassination Nation), everything begins to unravel as the girls continue turning up dead. The question is, is it or ghost killing off the girls or is it something/someone more alive? Don’t worry, I’m not going to spoil it for you. I wouldn’t do that to you. Seance is a movie you’re actually going to want to watch for yourself.
Continue reading →
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Last year it was announced that Universal Pictures will be pitting Idris Elba against a hungry lion in the survival thriller Beast, directed by Baltasar Kormákur. Universal has now announced the date that Beast will be unleashed in theaters, August 19, 2022. “[Beast] finds Elba on a trip to South Africa, only for he and his two teenage daughters to be hunted by a massive rogue lion intent on proving that the savanna has but one apex predator. Elba plays Dr. Nate Samuels, a recently widowed husband who returns to South Africa where he first met his wife on a long-planned trip with their daughters to a game reserve. But what begins as a journey of healing jolts into a fearsome fight for survival when a lion, a survivor of blood-thirsty poachers who now sees all humans as the enemy, begins stalking them.” The Wrap reports. Ryan Engle (Rampage) penned the script, based on an idea by Jaime Primak-Sullivan. Primak-Sullivan,
Continue reading →
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Back in 2014, Richelle Mead‘s “Vampire Academy” book series was adapted for a feature film. Now, it’s getting its own television series adaptation, THR reports. Julie Plec who brought us “The Vampire Diaries” is sinking her teeth into the series and will serve as showrunner along with Marguerite MacIntyre who starred in “The Vampire Diaries” and was both a writer and a producer for its spin-off “The Originals”. The first season of “Vampire Academy” will feature ten episodes that will air on Peacock’s streaming service. Neither the premiere date nor cast has been announced. “Set in a world of privilege and glamour, Vampire Academy follows two young women’s friendship that transcends their strikingly different classes as they prepare to complete their education and enter royal vampire society. This serialized and sexy drama combines the elegance of aristocratic romance and the supernatural thrills of the vampire genre.” Vampire Academy was first published in 2007 and went on to include six young-adult
Continue reading →
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This July, two kids stumble across a terrifying mystery in the family-friendly film Let Us In from director Craig Moss and co-writer JW Callero. In the film, “A spirited twelve-year-old girl and her best friend start investigating the sudden disappearances of several missing teens in their small town. Realizing there might be something deeper happening, Emily and Christopher might be up against forces they can’t even imagine.” Makenzie Moss (TV’s “The Unicorn”) and O’Neill Monahan (“The Middle”) star alongside genre icon Tobin Bell (the Saw franchise). Sadie Stanley (The Sleepover), Eric Callero ( Deadly Daughter Switch), and Mackenzie Ziegler (TV’s “Total Eclipse”). Let Us In premieres on Digital and On Demand on July 2, 2021.
Continue reading →
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Year after year, The Fantasia International Film Festival strengthens its reputation as the top genre-film fest in North America, and one look at this year’s first-wave announcement for the festival’s 25th edition explains exactly why that is. The following press release highlights the first round of horror, science fiction, and horror-adjacent features scheduled for this August. The Fantasia International Film Festival is proud to announce the first wave of programming for its upcoming 25th edition, set again to take place as a virtual event accessible to audiences across Canada. The festival will run from August 5 – 25, 2021 and will include scheduled screenings and premieres, panels, and workshops, with films once again hosted on the leading-edge platform created by Festival Scope and Shift72. As the summer approaches, Fantasia organizers will be following advice from local health authorities in Montreal with respect to the possibility of adding a limited range of physical events as well. In celebration of the key
Continue reading →
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Netflix’s upcoming live-action “Wednesday” Addams series has found its star. Jenna Ortega has been cast as Wednesday. Ortega is known for her roles in films such as The Babysitter: Killer Queen, Insidious Chapter Two, and Iron Man 3, and in Netflix’s series “You.’ The series, directed by Tim Burton, will find Wednesday as a student at Nevermore Academy where she attempts to master her emerging psychic abilities, go up against monsters, and attempt to solve the supernatural mystery that involved her parents 25 ago, Variety reports. The first season of “Wednesday,” created by Al Gough and Miles Miller, will feature eight episodes. Gough and Miller will also serve as showrunners and executive producers.
Continue reading →
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For the first time in history Netflix and in the horror genre, the streaming giant will release a new movie franchise, the Fear Street Trilogy over three consecutive weeks next month. “In 1994, a group of teenagers discovers that the terrifying events that have haunted their town for generations may all be connected – and that they may be the next targets. Based on R.L. Stine’s best-selling horror series, the trilogy follows the nightmare through Shadyside’s sinister history.” We filmed all three Fear Street movies over one crazy, bloody summer. It’s a dream that audiences now get to experience the story in the same way – back to back to back, with only a week of waiting in between. I can’t wait to welcome everyone into the world of Fear Street in 1994, 1978, and 1666!” Leigh Janiak, Director of the Fear Street trilogy states. Fear Street fans are in for a treat–and some major surprises. Readers know that the
Continue reading →
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This Fall, The Scarecrow is sending Gotham City straight to Hell, and it’s up to Batman and his allies to stop it DC is taking readers to Fear State, a horror-themed Gotham City event that unifies plot threads started in DC’s fan-favorite publishing events, DC Future State and Infinite Frontier. Fear State not only continues The Scarecrow’s vision of a fear-controlled Gotham but also Mayor Christopher Nakano’s mission to protect the city with his ground-breaking deal with The Magistrate. This can’t miss event is also the launching point for several new series and plotlines across all Batman-family titles, setting a new status quo for 2022! The action begins this August with the following titles: I Am Batman #0 – The age of a new Dark Knight begins! On August 10, picking up immediately from the events of The Next Batman: Second Son, Jace Fox begins the march toward his destiny when he fights to protect Alleytown against the oppressive forces
Continue reading →
