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South African actress Reine Swart (“Z Nation”, The Lullaby, interview) has now made the leap to directing and is gearing up for the release of her feature debut, Heks. We’ve got the first trailer and it is killer! In the film, “a grieving British girl unravels her murdered mother’s secrets connected to a South African witch doctor’s curse. She wants to put an end to this haunting hex by traveling to South Africa, but instead it casts her deeper into sinister depths.” Coco Lloyd, Mari Molefe van Heerden, Mary-Anne Barlow, and Christopher Jaftha star in Heks written by Swart. Check out the creepy AF trailer for Heks!
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On July 16, 2017, the horror genre said goodbye to one of the world’s most iconic filmmakers, George A. Romero. As fans mourned many came to the realization that we would never see another book or film from the godfather of the zombie genre. As three years passed, the world had no idea that a new body of work from Romero would surface. After the filmmaker’s death his widow and agent stumbled across a partially written book. After reading it, they reached out to New York Best Seller Daniel Kraus, the author who had teamed up with Guillermo del Toro to write both The Shape of Water and Trollhunters which both earned adaptations. Kraus set out to finish Romero’s novel The Living Dead. We asked Kraus about the process of properly capturing Romero’s vision. …studying all his films, screenplays, interviews, interviewing people who knew him, long talks with his wife, then reading critical analysis of his work. Finally, I got
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The University of Pittsburgh Library System is pleased to announce the acquisition of the papers of New York Times bestselling author Daniel Kraus as part of the George A. Romero Archival Collection, expanding the scope of the archive beyond the unique and comprehensive portrait of the filmmaking pioneer. The new collaboration will serve as a treasure trove for demonstrating Kraus’ creative process behind his novels and will also support research for both horror studies and children’s literature, another collecting strength of the Archives & Special Collections Department at the university. I’m the writer I am today because of George A. Romero,” says Kraus. “So it makes perfect sense to me that I follow his giant footsteps in placing my past work with the University of Pittsburgh. To be a part of the Horror Studies Archives is more than I could have dreamed as an elementary-school scribbler writing Nightmare on Elm Street fan-fiction in the 1980s.” The Daniel Kraus Archive documents
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After the pandemic began, the final season of “Supernatural” went on an indefinite hiatus. We have good news, the series now set to resume this Fall on The CW. With seven episodes remaining, the finale will mark the end of the hit series that follows the Winchesters and their friends on a mission to save the world. The reason we have to wait so long is due to the fact that when filming for everything was shut down the series had yet to complete filming the finale two episodes. Luckily, filming is set to begin soon. Executive producer Andrew Dabb has stated that the March 23rd episode will be the last until the series resumes in the fall. He has also revealed that, “there will be special treats coming along the way – to help us all get through this.” Following the series’ end, Jared Padalecki will star in the TV reboot of “Walker, Texas Ranger,” which will premiere in
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Vertical Entertainment is set to unleash the serial killer thriller, Darkness Falls, on Digital and VOD this June. “After his wife’s suicide, Detective Jeff Anderson (Shawn Ashmore) becomes convinced that she has in fact been murdered. Obsessed with his investigation, Anderson finds out that his wife was the victim of a team of father-and-son serial killers. He’ll have to break all the rules to stop them from killing other women.” Shawn Ashmore (X-Men, Ruins), Gary Cole (“Chicago Fire”, “Veep”), Daniella Alonso (The Collector), Richard Harmon (“The 100”), and genre icon Lin Shaye (The Insidious franchise) star in the film written by Giles Daoust and directed by Julien Seri. Hunt down Darkness Falls on VOD and Digital on June 12th.
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From director Ben Rood comes Don’t Run, an indie horror-fantasy born from the fear files of children everywhere. In the film, “a timid boy is trapped inside his house with a monster that threatens to eat him if he isn’t in bed by sundown every night.” Charlotte Arnold, Holly Arnold, Grant Brooks, Dan Foley, Danny Irizarry, and Cody Cheatwood star in Don’t Run, written, directed, produced, edited, and financed by Cincinnati-native Ben Rood, Don’t Run is now streaming on Amazon Prime.
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I had the pleasure of sitting down with talented actress Radha Mitchell. Not only did she talk that iconic role in Silent Hill, but we also discussed her role in the soon to be released supernatural film Dreamkatcher in which she plays the role of Gail, a single father’s new girlfriend. Problems arise when a dark entity sets its sights on Gail and her boyfriend’s young son who are left alone at a secluded cabin, the same one where the boy’s mother was murdered. Radha has starred in many great movies during her career, including the creepy as hell movie Silent Hill, the fantastic 2010 remake of The Crazies, The Darkness in which she starred opposite Kevin Bacon, and 2004’s Man on Fire. Horror Fuel: “Silent Hill is a great movie and it was something we hadn’t seen before. You’ve been in so many great films, Silent Hill, The Crazies. You always seem to play a motherly type role.” Radha
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The first clip from Diablo Rojo Pty, Panama’s first-ever horror film, is here to give audiences a taste of what’s to come! The scene showcases the first appearance of La Tulivieja, the witch that haunts our heroes through the jungles of Panama’s Chiriqui province. Based on local folklore, Panama’s first horror film is a ride through Hell with witches, cannibals, and monsters! Written and produced by J. Oskura Nájera and directed by Sol Moreno, Diablo Rojo Pty features a stellar cast that includes Carlos Carrasco (Speed and Blood In, Blood Out) and Leo Wiznitzer (Causa Justa and Hands of Stone). Diablo Rojo Pty (review) premieres exclusively to Amazon Prime Video on May 14th, 2020, from The Horror Collective.
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The Chattanooga Film Festival, known and loved by horror and genre film fans for its eclectic cinematic fare and incredible special events, has announced a breathtaking lineup for its virtual edition, headed to a computer near you next week! The May 22–25 event is a doozy, with film offerings such as the world premiere of the Brazilian shocker Skull, science fiction/horror outing The Beach House, and vintage 1970 nugget Hollywood Horror House, to name but a few. Some of the special events include Joe Dante receiving the festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and Joe Bob Briggs hosting a talk with filmmaker/producer Mick Garris on the making of Stephen King’s pandemic classic The Stand. Following is the full press release from Chattanooga Film Festival, which is well worth poring through! The Chattanooga Film Festival (CFF), along with its presenting sponsor Gunpowder & Sky’s ALTER and media partner Bloody-Disgusting.com, are thrilled to announce their innovative lineup of features, panels and live events set
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Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, announced today that it has acquired all rights in its territories to horror-comedy Scare Package, from creators Aaron B. Koontz and Cameron Burns. The anthology film, which delighted audiences at numerous festivals including the Sitges Film Festival in Spain, features seven gleefully ghoulish tales from a range of horror subgenres. We are delighted to introduce a new generation of horror voices in this smart, funny, gory, ode to horror that is Scare Package,” said Emily Gotto, Shudder’s Director of Global Acquisitions & Co-Production. People say this often, but we mean it: This truly is a movie made by horror fans, for horror fans. And we have the tears, sweat and 40+ gallons of blood to prove it. So, to be able to partner this love-letter with Shudder was a dream come true and hopefully can be a wild and hilarious distraction in our newly confined times,” said producer
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South African actress Reine Swart (“Z Nation”, The Lullaby, interview) has now made the leap to directing and is gearing up for the release of her feature debut, Heks. We’ve got the first trailer and it is killer! In the film, “a grieving British girl unravels her murdered mother’s secrets connected to a South African witch doctor’s curse. She wants to put an end to this haunting hex by traveling to South Africa, but instead it casts her deeper into sinister depths.” Coco Lloyd, Mari Molefe van Heerden, Mary-Anne Barlow, and Christopher Jaftha star in Heks written by Swart. Check out the creepy AF trailer for Heks!
Continue reading →
BooksMoviesNews
On July 16, 2017, the horror genre said goodbye to one of the world’s most iconic filmmakers, George A. Romero. As fans mourned many came to the realization that we would never see another book or film from the godfather of the zombie genre. As three years passed, the world had no idea that a new body of work from Romero would surface. After the filmmaker’s death his widow and agent stumbled across a partially written book. After reading it, they reached out to New York Best Seller Daniel Kraus, the author who had teamed up with Guillermo del Toro to write both The Shape of Water and Trollhunters which both earned adaptations. Kraus set out to finish Romero’s novel The Living Dead. We asked Kraus about the process of properly capturing Romero’s vision. …studying all his films, screenplays, interviews, interviewing people who knew him, long talks with his wife, then reading critical analysis of his work. Finally, I got
Continue reading →
BooksMoviesNews
The University of Pittsburgh Library System is pleased to announce the acquisition of the papers of New York Times bestselling author Daniel Kraus as part of the George A. Romero Archival Collection, expanding the scope of the archive beyond the unique and comprehensive portrait of the filmmaking pioneer. The new collaboration will serve as a treasure trove for demonstrating Kraus’ creative process behind his novels and will also support research for both horror studies and children’s literature, another collecting strength of the Archives & Special Collections Department at the university. I’m the writer I am today because of George A. Romero,” says Kraus. “So it makes perfect sense to me that I follow his giant footsteps in placing my past work with the University of Pittsburgh. To be a part of the Horror Studies Archives is more than I could have dreamed as an elementary-school scribbler writing Nightmare on Elm Street fan-fiction in the 1980s.” The Daniel Kraus Archive documents
Continue reading →
NewsShowStreaming TVTrailers
After the pandemic began, the final season of “Supernatural” went on an indefinite hiatus. We have good news, the series now set to resume this Fall on The CW. With seven episodes remaining, the finale will mark the end of the hit series that follows the Winchesters and their friends on a mission to save the world. The reason we have to wait so long is due to the fact that when filming for everything was shut down the series had yet to complete filming the finale two episodes. Luckily, filming is set to begin soon. Executive producer Andrew Dabb has stated that the March 23rd episode will be the last until the series resumes in the fall. He has also revealed that, “there will be special treats coming along the way – to help us all get through this.” Following the series’ end, Jared Padalecki will star in the TV reboot of “Walker, Texas Ranger,” which will premiere in
Continue reading →
MoviesNewsTrailers
Vertical Entertainment is set to unleash the serial killer thriller, Darkness Falls, on Digital and VOD this June. “After his wife’s suicide, Detective Jeff Anderson (Shawn Ashmore) becomes convinced that she has in fact been murdered. Obsessed with his investigation, Anderson finds out that his wife was the victim of a team of father-and-son serial killers. He’ll have to break all the rules to stop them from killing other women.” Shawn Ashmore (X-Men, Ruins), Gary Cole (“Chicago Fire”, “Veep”), Daniella Alonso (The Collector), Richard Harmon (“The 100”), and genre icon Lin Shaye (The Insidious franchise) star in the film written by Giles Daoust and directed by Julien Seri. Hunt down Darkness Falls on VOD and Digital on June 12th.
Continue reading →
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From director Ben Rood comes Don’t Run, an indie horror-fantasy born from the fear files of children everywhere. In the film, “a timid boy is trapped inside his house with a monster that threatens to eat him if he isn’t in bed by sundown every night.” Charlotte Arnold, Holly Arnold, Grant Brooks, Dan Foley, Danny Irizarry, and Cody Cheatwood star in Don’t Run, written, directed, produced, edited, and financed by Cincinnati-native Ben Rood, Don’t Run is now streaming on Amazon Prime.
Continue reading →
InterviewsMoviesNewsTrailers
I had the pleasure of sitting down with talented actress Radha Mitchell. Not only did she talk that iconic role in Silent Hill, but we also discussed her role in the soon to be released supernatural film Dreamkatcher in which she plays the role of Gail, a single father’s new girlfriend. Problems arise when a dark entity sets its sights on Gail and her boyfriend’s young son who are left alone at a secluded cabin, the same one where the boy’s mother was murdered. Radha has starred in many great movies during her career, including the creepy as hell movie Silent Hill, the fantastic 2010 remake of The Crazies, The Darkness in which she starred opposite Kevin Bacon, and 2004’s Man on Fire. Horror Fuel: “Silent Hill is a great movie and it was something we hadn’t seen before. You’ve been in so many great films, Silent Hill, The Crazies. You always seem to play a motherly type role.” Radha
Continue reading →
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The first clip from Diablo Rojo Pty, Panama’s first-ever horror film, is here to give audiences a taste of what’s to come! The scene showcases the first appearance of La Tulivieja, the witch that haunts our heroes through the jungles of Panama’s Chiriqui province. Based on local folklore, Panama’s first horror film is a ride through Hell with witches, cannibals, and monsters! Written and produced by J. Oskura Nájera and directed by Sol Moreno, Diablo Rojo Pty features a stellar cast that includes Carlos Carrasco (Speed and Blood In, Blood Out) and Leo Wiznitzer (Causa Justa and Hands of Stone). Diablo Rojo Pty (review) premieres exclusively to Amazon Prime Video on May 14th, 2020, from The Horror Collective.
Continue reading →
Film FestivalsNews
The Chattanooga Film Festival, known and loved by horror and genre film fans for its eclectic cinematic fare and incredible special events, has announced a breathtaking lineup for its virtual edition, headed to a computer near you next week! The May 22–25 event is a doozy, with film offerings such as the world premiere of the Brazilian shocker Skull, science fiction/horror outing The Beach House, and vintage 1970 nugget Hollywood Horror House, to name but a few. Some of the special events include Joe Dante receiving the festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and Joe Bob Briggs hosting a talk with filmmaker/producer Mick Garris on the making of Stephen King’s pandemic classic The Stand. Following is the full press release from Chattanooga Film Festival, which is well worth poring through! The Chattanooga Film Festival (CFF), along with its presenting sponsor Gunpowder & Sky’s ALTER and media partner Bloody-Disgusting.com, are thrilled to announce their innovative lineup of features, panels and live events set
Continue reading →
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Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, announced today that it has acquired all rights in its territories to horror-comedy Scare Package, from creators Aaron B. Koontz and Cameron Burns. The anthology film, which delighted audiences at numerous festivals including the Sitges Film Festival in Spain, features seven gleefully ghoulish tales from a range of horror subgenres. We are delighted to introduce a new generation of horror voices in this smart, funny, gory, ode to horror that is Scare Package,” said Emily Gotto, Shudder’s Director of Global Acquisitions & Co-Production. People say this often, but we mean it: This truly is a movie made by horror fans, for horror fans. And we have the tears, sweat and 40+ gallons of blood to prove it. So, to be able to partner this love-letter with Shudder was a dream come true and hopefully can be a wild and hilarious distraction in our newly confined times,” said producer
Continue reading →
