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Win A Copy Of The Frightening Flick ‘Brahms: The Boy II’ On Blu-Ray!

Brahms: The Boy II (review) is now out on Blu-ray and DVD. If you don’t already have your copy, here’s your chance to win one. We are teaming up with Universal Pictures Home Entertainment to give our readers a chance to score a special feature-packed Blu-ray copy of the creepy film. Katie Holmes (“Ray Donavan”), Owain Yeoman (The Belco Experiment), and Christopher Convery (“Gotham”) star in the chilling sequel from the producers that brought you IT and The Ring. In Brahms: The Boy II, unaware of the terrifying history of Heelshire Mansion, a young family moves into a guest house on the estate where their young son soon makes an unsettling new friend, an eerily life-like doll he calls Brahms. Director William Brent Bell (The Boy, The Devil Inside) returns alongside the team that produced the original film, Roy Lee (It, Doctor Sleep, The Ring), Jim Wedaa (Mission to Mars, Unstoppable), and Matt Berenson (Best of Enemies, The Place Beyond

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 30, 2020
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Ryan Gosling May Be The Next ‘Wolfman’

Months following Univeral’s success with The Invisible Man, the studio is moving forward with Wolfman as the next movie in their monster universe. The werewolf film will star Ryan Gosling (Blade Runner 2049), but there is no concrete word if he will play the titular role. According to Variety, Universal has been meeting with several potential directors including Cory Finley (Bad Education). Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo (“Orange Is the New Black”) wrote the script based on the pitch by Gosling. The original Wolfman was released back in 1941 and starred Claude Rains and Lon Chaney Jr. It follows a man as he returns to his homeland and is attacked by a creature of folklore and infected with a horrific disease that transforms him into a wolfman. Universal’s original vision for the monster universe would have included a shared universe filled with the studio’s original monsters that included the Invisible Man, Wolfman, Dracula, along with others. Labeled “The Dark

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 29, 2020
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Tom Ellis Signs On For Season Six Of “Luficer”

Good news has arrived for “Lucifer” fans! The series’ star Tom Ellis has wrapped contract negotiations for season six. Last month a dispute arose over his contract that if not worked out would have killed the show. With season five yet to premiere on Netflix and word of cancelation looming it seemed as if a miracle had happened when Warner Bros. and Netflix extended the series after it passed its deal for the fourth and fifth seasons. Like many series and films, the Covid-19 pandemic will affect its release. While the premiere date for season 5 is yet to be announced at least we know the show has a future. Speaking of futures, the titles of the season’s episodes tease some big events. For example, the season five finale is titled “A Chance At a Happy Ending” and features the tagline “The final episode of Lucifer, the final fight with dad.” But don’t panic. With season six confirmed and the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 29, 2020
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Slasher ‘PandaMonium’ Getting A U.S. Release

The infamous panda headed serial killer returns in writer-director MJ Dixon‘s slasher PandaMonium is headed to DVD and HD Digital in the US this June. In the prequel to the cult horror Slasher House II (2016) where we were first introduced to the infamous Panda-headed killer Jacob Jakushi (David Hon Ma Chu), Jacob now makes a return in the characters first standalone film. The guys on Level 6 like to work hard, and party harder, that means the best booze, the finest drugs, and hottest women money can buy. Unfortunately for them the Strippers they’ve just hired have come with an unwanted guest. Jacob, Jakushi, the infamous ‘Stripper Ripper’ with an oversized Panda mask and a taste for exotic dancers has these girls in his sights and he’ll stop at nothing to get what he wants. It’s now Strippers VS PandaHeaded Serial Killer as they fight to survive the office party from hell. Writer-director MJ Dixon had the following to

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 29, 2020
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‘The Evil Rises’ Now On Tubi

Terror Films has acquired worldwide digital distribution rights for Daniel Florenzano’s supernatural horror The Evil Rises. Winner of the “Best Horror Film” at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival, the film centers around a group of friends who discover an ancient statue that unleashes an evil spirit. The demon enslaves them to collect human blood so that it can come back to life and rule the world. It’s up to a Detective, a Priest, and a Pizza Boy to infiltrate the group’s sinister compound and banish the spirit from the Earth before it’s too late! Bailey La Flam (Animus), Joe Paulson (Pieces and Parts), Michael Glauser, Julian De La Mora, Alec Lobato, and Edward Hollingsworth star. The Evil Rises was produced by Scott Oram (“Killer Intelligence”), Earl Hundt (Demigods), and Florenzano. Currently available exclusively on TUBI TV for a limited time, the film is set for a wide digital release across multiple platforms over the coming months, including Amazon, Google

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 29, 2020
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Leigh Whannell’s ‘Upgrade’ Is Getting A Series Adaptation

Blumhouse Television and UCP, a division of NBCUniversal Content Studios, are teaming up for the series adaption of Leigh Whannell’s 2018 sci-fi, thriller Upgrade, which Whannell co-created and will direct, as well as executive produce along with showrunner Tim Walsh (Treadstone, Chicago P.D., Shooter). The series picks up a few years after the events of the film and broadens the universe with an evolved version of STEM and a new host in a world in which the government repurposes STEM to help curb criminal activity. A writer’s room has begun work on the series’ first season. Krystal Ziv Houghton and James Roland, who ran the second season of The Purge, have joined Whannell and Walsh. The film, which Whannell both wrote and directed, starred Logan Marshall-Green, Betty Gabriel, and Harrison Gilbertson. In the film, after his wife is killed during a brutal mugging that also leaves him paralyzed, Grey Trace (Marshall-Green) is approached by a billionaire inventor with an experimental

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 29, 2020
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‘Blair Witch’ Coming To Nintendo Switch

Switch users will soon get to experience the horror Blair Witch as it makes its way to Nintendo, allowing players to take the horror with them wherever they go, probably not a good idea to play this game in the woods, abandoned buildings, or in basements… but if you choose to that would actually be pretty badass of you, not gonna lie! In Blair Witch players will experience the horror set in 1996 after the events of the Blair Witch Project through the eyes of Ellis, who ventures into the Black Hills forest with his dog Bullet in search of a boy that went missing only soon to learn that something is terribly wrong with these woods and that he and Bullet are not alone. I did a review for Blair Witch on Xbox One and you can see it here, but if you just want to know what I thought of it without reading the review, in short, the

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Capt McNeely
May 28, 2020
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‘Mortal Shell’ Gameplay Footage Coming

Souls fans will be happy to hear that the first set of gameplay footage for Cold Symmetry and Playstack’s souls-like game Mortal Shell will be on its way very soon as it will make its presence felt at the upcoming gaming festivals! With major public events canceled for the year due to COVID-19, a new string of events dubbed “2020 Summer of Digital Showcases” as many gaming news sites and game companies will be holding their own digital expos showcasing their upcoming games. The first official gameplay footage for Mortal Shell will make its world debut at IGN Summer of Gaming on June 5th. With over 2 million views of its first trailer and overwhelming support on its Discord channel, Mortal Shell is already racking up a large fanbase of players eager to dive into the torturous experience that Souls fans love. Mortal Shell will take players to a twisted medieval world where they possess the bodies of dead warriors

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
May 28, 2020
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The Disturbing Trailer For Anthology ‘Murder Manual’ Has Arrived

The trailer has arrived for Murder Manual, the new horror anthology starring “Game of Thrones” actress Emilia Clarke. Each segment of the anthology is connected and comes together to create a murder manual. Its eight tales featuring multiple classic horror tropes including zombies, masked killers, and the paranormal. Clarke stars as Maula, a captive of a circus who attempts to escape her husband’s torment. The film’s cast also includes Bryan Manley Davis (Percy Jackson And The Olympians) and The Legend of Tarzan‘s Hadley Fraser. The film, from Ammo Content and Hewes Pictures, features, an impressive list of directors that includes Matt Newton, Douglas Keeve, Nour Wazzi, Toni Tikkanen, and Robin Whitten. Murder Manual is now available on Amazon and will soon be On Demand.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 28, 2020
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Free Horror App ‘Slasher’ Celebrates Its One Year Anniversary

On May 31, 2020, Slasher, the free, independently-created social app, designed to bring the horror community closer together, will celebrate its first year online. To commemorate the anniversary, Damon has shared the story of how Slasher came to be, as well as some of his experiences over the past year. In May of 2019, the first version of Slasher was released to the public, on iOS and Android in the U.S. and Canada, with little fanfare. Originally designed as an experiment, it began to catch on. It wasn’t until the subsequent release of 2.0 that it found an extremely passionate and loyal base of horror fans and professionals, many of whom often share stories of how Slasher made a difference in their lives. With a very lofty goal of giving everyone in the horror community a chance to connect with one another, from fans to professionals, creator Damon Della Greca has been working tirelessly to deliver. Now, celebrities, producers, directors,

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 28, 2020

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Win A Copy Of The Frightening Flick ‘Brahms: The Boy II’ On Blu-Ray!

Brahms: The Boy II (review) is now out on Blu-ray and DVD. If you don’t already have your copy, here’s your chance to win one. We are teaming up with Universal Pictures Home Entertainment to give our readers a chance to score a special feature-packed Blu-ray copy of the creepy film. Katie Holmes (“Ray Donavan”), Owain Yeoman (The Belco Experiment), and Christopher Convery (“Gotham”) star in the chilling sequel from the producers that brought you IT and The Ring. In Brahms: The Boy II, unaware of the terrifying history of Heelshire Mansion, a young family moves into a guest house on the estate where their young son soon makes an unsettling new friend, an eerily life-like doll he calls Brahms. Director William Brent Bell (The Boy, The Devil Inside) returns alongside the team that produced the original film, Roy Lee (It, Doctor Sleep, The Ring), Jim Wedaa (Mission to Mars, Unstoppable), and Matt Berenson (Best of Enemies, The Place Beyond

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 30, 2020
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Ryan Gosling May Be The Next ‘Wolfman’

Months following Univeral’s success with The Invisible Man, the studio is moving forward with Wolfman as the next movie in their monster universe. The werewolf film will star Ryan Gosling (Blade Runner 2049), but there is no concrete word if he will play the titular role. According to Variety, Universal has been meeting with several potential directors including Cory Finley (Bad Education). Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo (“Orange Is the New Black”) wrote the script based on the pitch by Gosling. The original Wolfman was released back in 1941 and starred Claude Rains and Lon Chaney Jr. It follows a man as he returns to his homeland and is attacked by a creature of folklore and infected with a horrific disease that transforms him into a wolfman. Universal’s original vision for the monster universe would have included a shared universe filled with the studio’s original monsters that included the Invisible Man, Wolfman, Dracula, along with others. Labeled “The Dark

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 29, 2020
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Tom Ellis Signs On For Season Six Of “Luficer”

Good news has arrived for “Lucifer” fans! The series’ star Tom Ellis has wrapped contract negotiations for season six. Last month a dispute arose over his contract that if not worked out would have killed the show. With season five yet to premiere on Netflix and word of cancelation looming it seemed as if a miracle had happened when Warner Bros. and Netflix extended the series after it passed its deal for the fourth and fifth seasons. Like many series and films, the Covid-19 pandemic will affect its release. While the premiere date for season 5 is yet to be announced at least we know the show has a future. Speaking of futures, the titles of the season’s episodes tease some big events. For example, the season five finale is titled “A Chance At a Happy Ending” and features the tagline “The final episode of Lucifer, the final fight with dad.” But don’t panic. With season six confirmed and the

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 29, 2020
Horror Fuel

Slasher ‘PandaMonium’ Getting A U.S. Release

The infamous panda headed serial killer returns in writer-director MJ Dixon‘s slasher PandaMonium is headed to DVD and HD Digital in the US this June. In the prequel to the cult horror Slasher House II (2016) where we were first introduced to the infamous Panda-headed killer Jacob Jakushi (David Hon Ma Chu), Jacob now makes a return in the characters first standalone film. The guys on Level 6 like to work hard, and party harder, that means the best booze, the finest drugs, and hottest women money can buy. Unfortunately for them the Strippers they’ve just hired have come with an unwanted guest. Jacob, Jakushi, the infamous ‘Stripper Ripper’ with an oversized Panda mask and a taste for exotic dancers has these girls in his sights and he’ll stop at nothing to get what he wants. It’s now Strippers VS PandaHeaded Serial Killer as they fight to survive the office party from hell. Writer-director MJ Dixon had the following to

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 29, 2020
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‘The Evil Rises’ Now On Tubi

Terror Films has acquired worldwide digital distribution rights for Daniel Florenzano’s supernatural horror The Evil Rises. Winner of the “Best Horror Film” at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival, the film centers around a group of friends who discover an ancient statue that unleashes an evil spirit. The demon enslaves them to collect human blood so that it can come back to life and rule the world. It’s up to a Detective, a Priest, and a Pizza Boy to infiltrate the group’s sinister compound and banish the spirit from the Earth before it’s too late! Bailey La Flam (Animus), Joe Paulson (Pieces and Parts), Michael Glauser, Julian De La Mora, Alec Lobato, and Edward Hollingsworth star. The Evil Rises was produced by Scott Oram (“Killer Intelligence”), Earl Hundt (Demigods), and Florenzano. Currently available exclusively on TUBI TV for a limited time, the film is set for a wide digital release across multiple platforms over the coming months, including Amazon, Google

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 29, 2020
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Leigh Whannell’s ‘Upgrade’ Is Getting A Series Adaptation

Blumhouse Television and UCP, a division of NBCUniversal Content Studios, are teaming up for the series adaption of Leigh Whannell’s 2018 sci-fi, thriller Upgrade, which Whannell co-created and will direct, as well as executive produce along with showrunner Tim Walsh (Treadstone, Chicago P.D., Shooter). The series picks up a few years after the events of the film and broadens the universe with an evolved version of STEM and a new host in a world in which the government repurposes STEM to help curb criminal activity. A writer’s room has begun work on the series’ first season. Krystal Ziv Houghton and James Roland, who ran the second season of The Purge, have joined Whannell and Walsh. The film, which Whannell both wrote and directed, starred Logan Marshall-Green, Betty Gabriel, and Harrison Gilbertson. In the film, after his wife is killed during a brutal mugging that also leaves him paralyzed, Grey Trace (Marshall-Green) is approached by a billionaire inventor with an experimental

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 29, 2020
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‘Blair Witch’ Coming To Nintendo Switch

Switch users will soon get to experience the horror Blair Witch as it makes its way to Nintendo, allowing players to take the horror with them wherever they go, probably not a good idea to play this game in the woods, abandoned buildings, or in basements… but if you choose to that would actually be pretty badass of you, not gonna lie! In Blair Witch players will experience the horror set in 1996 after the events of the Blair Witch Project through the eyes of Ellis, who ventures into the Black Hills forest with his dog Bullet in search of a boy that went missing only soon to learn that something is terribly wrong with these woods and that he and Bullet are not alone. I did a review for Blair Witch on Xbox One and you can see it here, but if you just want to know what I thought of it without reading the review, in short, the

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
May 28, 2020
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‘Mortal Shell’ Gameplay Footage Coming

Souls fans will be happy to hear that the first set of gameplay footage for Cold Symmetry and Playstack’s souls-like game Mortal Shell will be on its way very soon as it will make its presence felt at the upcoming gaming festivals! With major public events canceled for the year due to COVID-19, a new string of events dubbed “2020 Summer of Digital Showcases” as many gaming news sites and game companies will be holding their own digital expos showcasing their upcoming games. The first official gameplay footage for Mortal Shell will make its world debut at IGN Summer of Gaming on June 5th. With over 2 million views of its first trailer and overwhelming support on its Discord channel, Mortal Shell is already racking up a large fanbase of players eager to dive into the torturous experience that Souls fans love. Mortal Shell will take players to a twisted medieval world where they possess the bodies of dead warriors

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
May 28, 2020
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The Disturbing Trailer For Anthology ‘Murder Manual’ Has Arrived

The trailer has arrived for Murder Manual, the new horror anthology starring “Game of Thrones” actress Emilia Clarke. Each segment of the anthology is connected and comes together to create a murder manual. Its eight tales featuring multiple classic horror tropes including zombies, masked killers, and the paranormal. Clarke stars as Maula, a captive of a circus who attempts to escape her husband’s torment. The film’s cast also includes Bryan Manley Davis (Percy Jackson And The Olympians) and The Legend of Tarzan‘s Hadley Fraser. The film, from Ammo Content and Hewes Pictures, features, an impressive list of directors that includes Matt Newton, Douglas Keeve, Nour Wazzi, Toni Tikkanen, and Robin Whitten. Murder Manual is now available on Amazon and will soon be On Demand.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 28, 2020
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Free Horror App ‘Slasher’ Celebrates Its One Year Anniversary

On May 31, 2020, Slasher, the free, independently-created social app, designed to bring the horror community closer together, will celebrate its first year online. To commemorate the anniversary, Damon has shared the story of how Slasher came to be, as well as some of his experiences over the past year. In May of 2019, the first version of Slasher was released to the public, on iOS and Android in the U.S. and Canada, with little fanfare. Originally designed as an experiment, it began to catch on. It wasn’t until the subsequent release of 2.0 that it found an extremely passionate and loyal base of horror fans and professionals, many of whom often share stories of how Slasher made a difference in their lives. With a very lofty goal of giving everyone in the horror community a chance to connect with one another, from fans to professionals, creator Damon Della Greca has been working tirelessly to deliver. Now, celebrities, producers, directors,

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 28, 2020
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