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Director Jeff Broadstreet’s “Jolly” bloody horror epic Devil’s Junction: Handy Dandy’s Revenge is set to open in L.A. theaters this October followed by its release on DVD and On Demand in November. Starring 3 From Hell‘s Bill Moseley (interview) and Bill Oberst Jr. (interview) the J.S Brinkley-scripted Halloween treat sees a shuttered TV studio in Detroit haunted by a magician ventriloquist from a 1960’s children’s show, and he’s looking for a new live, or dead, studio audience. Jeff Broadstreet (Night of the Living Dead 3D) directs the film that also stars Jake Red, Cody Cameron, Arthur Marroquin, Danni Spring, Kyle Anderson, and Katelynn Newberry. Don Borza produces. Returning to the abandoned Detroit television station where they once delighted a generation of children viewers, master puppeteer Mister Jolly re-incarnates his minion puppets for a final performance to settle an old score with Richard. The rare blood moon casts an ominous glow as Mr. Jolly unleashes his puppets, lead by the infamous
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Man, filmmaker Andy Muschietti really loves Stephen King, but don’t we all? Following the adaptation of King’s IT with IT:Chapter Two which is currently in theaters, director Muschietti has now signed on to adapt another King story written under the name Richard Bachman, titled Roadwork. He has also confirmed that he is still attached to the film adaptation of King’s short story The Jaunt. Roadwork takes place in an unnamed Midwestern city in the seventies. Grieving over the death of his son and the disintegration of his marriage, a man is driven to mental instability when he learns that both his home and his workplace are being demolished to make way for a connection to an interstate highway. Originally published in Twilight Zone Magazine in 1981, before being included in Skeleton Crew, The Jaunt is set in the 24th century where mankind has created instant teleportation known as “jaunting”. Unfortunately, travelers who make the leap while conscious either die or
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Following its box office success and demand from fans, Rob Zombie‘s 3 From Hell will be in theaters for an extra night! In its three-day event through Fathom Events, which kicked off on September 16, 3 From Hell brought in over $1.2 million and was viewed by 122,000 attendees, ranking in the top five at boxes offices. Each screening had sold out locations nationwide as well as strong same-day ticket purchases driven by an innovative marketing campaign and positive word-of-mouth. Due to the box office success and continued fan demand, “3 From Hell” will screen a fourth and FINAL time on October 14th, just in time for Halloween. The event will include a special video introduction from Rob Zombie and brand-new commemorative poster (while supplies last). Tickets for the fourth 3 From Hell event on Monday, October 14, 2019, at 7:00 p.m. can be purchased at www.FathomEvents.com or participating theater box offices. Ticketing will be set up on a rolling
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The Wrong Turn franchise is currently one of the longest horror franchises still up and running. The latest movie has just begun filming in Richmond, Ohio and is being described as a reboot. While most of the sequels have been straight to video, reportedly this one is going to have a bigger budget that may put the freaks back on the big screen. In the updated version directed by Mike P. Nelson follows a “cross-country hiking expedition that finds a group of friends in the land of an inclusive society, where they soon discover they are under a different law, and may not be the victims they thought they were.” Alan McElroy who wrote the original penned the script for the reboot that stars Emma Dumont, Charlotte Vega, Dylan McTee, Adrian Favela, David Hutchinson, Adain Bradley, Cory Scott Allen, and Vardaan Arora.
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In the action-packed trailer for director Reed Morano‘s (The Handmaid’s Tale) thriller The Rhythm Section, we meet a woman (Blake Lively) hell-bent on revenge. Lively stars as Stephanie Patrick, an ordinary woman on a path of self-destruction after her family is tragically killed in a plane crash. When Stephanie discovers that the crash was not an accident, she enters a dark, complex world to seek revenge on those responsible and find her own redemption. The Rhythm Section also stars Jude Law and Sterling K. Brown. The film is based on the novel by Mark Burnell who also penned the script. Michael G. Wilson, p.g.a. and Barbara Broccoli, p.g.a.are producing. Executive producers include Stuart Ford, Greg Shapiro, Mark Burnell, Rob Friedman, Vaishali Mistry, Donald Tang, Simon Williams, and Gregg Wilson The Rhythm Section opens in theaters on January 31st.
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise has featured prequels, sequels, remakes and now it’s getting another movie. According to Bloody-Disgusting, Evil Dead director Fede Álvarez is attached to produce and is currently hunting for a director for the movie. But that’s not all, Kim Henkel, who co-wrote and produced the 1974 original and directed its sequel is set to produce as well. At the moment there are no details about the film’s plot, but BD is reporting the Legendary has its eye on a direct sequel to the original. Álvarez did a fantastic job with his version of Evil Dead. With his and Henkel’s involvement in the new movie I believe it has a lot of potential to be a great film. We’ll keep you posted.
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The main cast for Blumhouse’s new take on 1996’s witchy classic The Craft has been conjured. The first actress to join was Cailee Spaeny (Pacific Rim: Uprising). Deadline reported today that Spaeny will be joined by Gideon Adlon (“The Society”), Lovie Simone (Selah & the Spades), and Zoey Luna (15: A 15: A Quinceañera Story). In the original film, a newcomer at a Catholic prep high school who falls in with a trio of outcast teen girls who practice witchcraft and wage war on those who have mistreated them. From Blumhouse and Columbia Pictures, the remake will be executive produced by Andrew Fleming who co-wrote and directed the original film. Jason Blum, Douglas Wick, and Lucy Fisher are producing.
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Ahead of its release later this month, a new clip has arrived for writer-director Anderson Cowan‘s controversial LGBTQ horror-comedy Groupers, asking “Who is Orin?” In the clip, Nicole Dambros kidnaps the boys who have been making her brother’s life hell “The film centers around two all-American high school jocks Brad and Dylan (Peter Mayer-Klepchick and Cameron Duckett) who are out for a night on the town when they are approached by the beautiful and seductive Meg (Nicole Dambro) at a local bar. Ready for what they hope will be a night to remember, the guys are subsequently kidnapped, drugged and awaken tied up face to face in an abandoned pool in the middle of nowhere. Absurdity and insanity ensue as we learn that Orin (Jesse Pudles), Meg’s overly flamboyant brother has been the target of Brad and Dylan’s homophobic bullying and that Meg is actually a grad student who plans to perform a psychological and somewhat sadistic experiment on them
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Scare-A-Con is coming to the Rochester Riverside Hotel, Rochester, NY on October 18 thru the 20th, and to shed Lucifer’s light on the whole arcane affair your’s cruelly recently had a chance to chat with the show’s promoter JV Johnson! Dan XIII: Please tell my revoltin’ readers how you came to be involved in that creepiest of conventions Scare-A-Con! JV: Once I discovered the world of horror conventions, I realized that there were many people who shared the same passions as I did. That revelation made me decide to bring a similar event to my town of Syracuse, NY. I owned & operated a group of radio stations there and I used those resources to have the first SCARE-A-CON in 2011. After a couple venue changes and the addition of the New England show, we have become one of the biggest horror conventions in the Northeast. DXIII: What can all of your faithful n’ fearsome fiends expect to experience at
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Rob Zombie’s highly-anticipated film everyone is talking about, 3 From Hell, finally has a 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray release date! Written and directed by horror master Rob Zombie (House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil’s Rejects, Halloween), the “savagely ferocious” (Variety) film follows three of the director’s most vicious creations as they leave a trail of corpses in their wake in the third installment of the franchise. First, there was House of 1000 Corpses. Then there was The Devil’s Rejects. Now, from writer-director Rob Zombie, comes the next blood-soaked chapter in the most violent crime saga in movie history—3 From Hell. After barely surviving a furious shootout with the police, Baby Firefly (Sheri Moon Zombie), Otis Driftwood (Bill Moseley), and Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig) are behind bars. But pure evil cannot be contained, and a firestorm of murder, madness, and mayhem will be released in this terror ride to Hell… and back. 3 From Hell stars Sheri Moon Zombie (The
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Director Jeff Broadstreet’s “Jolly” bloody horror epic Devil’s Junction: Handy Dandy’s Revenge is set to open in L.A. theaters this October followed by its release on DVD and On Demand in November. Starring 3 From Hell‘s Bill Moseley (interview) and Bill Oberst Jr. (interview) the J.S Brinkley-scripted Halloween treat sees a shuttered TV studio in Detroit haunted by a magician ventriloquist from a 1960’s children’s show, and he’s looking for a new live, or dead, studio audience. Jeff Broadstreet (Night of the Living Dead 3D) directs the film that also stars Jake Red, Cody Cameron, Arthur Marroquin, Danni Spring, Kyle Anderson, and Katelynn Newberry. Don Borza produces. Returning to the abandoned Detroit television station where they once delighted a generation of children viewers, master puppeteer Mister Jolly re-incarnates his minion puppets for a final performance to settle an old score with Richard. The rare blood moon casts an ominous glow as Mr. Jolly unleashes his puppets, lead by the infamous
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Man, filmmaker Andy Muschietti really loves Stephen King, but don’t we all? Following the adaptation of King’s IT with IT:Chapter Two which is currently in theaters, director Muschietti has now signed on to adapt another King story written under the name Richard Bachman, titled Roadwork. He has also confirmed that he is still attached to the film adaptation of King’s short story The Jaunt. Roadwork takes place in an unnamed Midwestern city in the seventies. Grieving over the death of his son and the disintegration of his marriage, a man is driven to mental instability when he learns that both his home and his workplace are being demolished to make way for a connection to an interstate highway. Originally published in Twilight Zone Magazine in 1981, before being included in Skeleton Crew, The Jaunt is set in the 24th century where mankind has created instant teleportation known as “jaunting”. Unfortunately, travelers who make the leap while conscious either die or
Continue reading →
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Following its box office success and demand from fans, Rob Zombie‘s 3 From Hell will be in theaters for an extra night! In its three-day event through Fathom Events, which kicked off on September 16, 3 From Hell brought in over $1.2 million and was viewed by 122,000 attendees, ranking in the top five at boxes offices. Each screening had sold out locations nationwide as well as strong same-day ticket purchases driven by an innovative marketing campaign and positive word-of-mouth. Due to the box office success and continued fan demand, “3 From Hell” will screen a fourth and FINAL time on October 14th, just in time for Halloween. The event will include a special video introduction from Rob Zombie and brand-new commemorative poster (while supplies last). Tickets for the fourth 3 From Hell event on Monday, October 14, 2019, at 7:00 p.m. can be purchased at www.FathomEvents.com or participating theater box offices. Ticketing will be set up on a rolling
Continue reading →
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The Wrong Turn franchise is currently one of the longest horror franchises still up and running. The latest movie has just begun filming in Richmond, Ohio and is being described as a reboot. While most of the sequels have been straight to video, reportedly this one is going to have a bigger budget that may put the freaks back on the big screen. In the updated version directed by Mike P. Nelson follows a “cross-country hiking expedition that finds a group of friends in the land of an inclusive society, where they soon discover they are under a different law, and may not be the victims they thought they were.” Alan McElroy who wrote the original penned the script for the reboot that stars Emma Dumont, Charlotte Vega, Dylan McTee, Adrian Favela, David Hutchinson, Adain Bradley, Cory Scott Allen, and Vardaan Arora.
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In the action-packed trailer for director Reed Morano‘s (The Handmaid’s Tale) thriller The Rhythm Section, we meet a woman (Blake Lively) hell-bent on revenge. Lively stars as Stephanie Patrick, an ordinary woman on a path of self-destruction after her family is tragically killed in a plane crash. When Stephanie discovers that the crash was not an accident, she enters a dark, complex world to seek revenge on those responsible and find her own redemption. The Rhythm Section also stars Jude Law and Sterling K. Brown. The film is based on the novel by Mark Burnell who also penned the script. Michael G. Wilson, p.g.a. and Barbara Broccoli, p.g.a.are producing. Executive producers include Stuart Ford, Greg Shapiro, Mark Burnell, Rob Friedman, Vaishali Mistry, Donald Tang, Simon Williams, and Gregg Wilson The Rhythm Section opens in theaters on January 31st.
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise has featured prequels, sequels, remakes and now it’s getting another movie. According to Bloody-Disgusting, Evil Dead director Fede Álvarez is attached to produce and is currently hunting for a director for the movie. But that’s not all, Kim Henkel, who co-wrote and produced the 1974 original and directed its sequel is set to produce as well. At the moment there are no details about the film’s plot, but BD is reporting the Legendary has its eye on a direct sequel to the original. Álvarez did a fantastic job with his version of Evil Dead. With his and Henkel’s involvement in the new movie I believe it has a lot of potential to be a great film. We’ll keep you posted.
Continue reading →
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The main cast for Blumhouse’s new take on 1996’s witchy classic The Craft has been conjured. The first actress to join was Cailee Spaeny (Pacific Rim: Uprising). Deadline reported today that Spaeny will be joined by Gideon Adlon (“The Society”), Lovie Simone (Selah & the Spades), and Zoey Luna (15: A 15: A Quinceañera Story). In the original film, a newcomer at a Catholic prep high school who falls in with a trio of outcast teen girls who practice witchcraft and wage war on those who have mistreated them. From Blumhouse and Columbia Pictures, the remake will be executive produced by Andrew Fleming who co-wrote and directed the original film. Jason Blum, Douglas Wick, and Lucy Fisher are producing.
Continue reading →
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Ahead of its release later this month, a new clip has arrived for writer-director Anderson Cowan‘s controversial LGBTQ horror-comedy Groupers, asking “Who is Orin?” In the clip, Nicole Dambros kidnaps the boys who have been making her brother’s life hell “The film centers around two all-American high school jocks Brad and Dylan (Peter Mayer-Klepchick and Cameron Duckett) who are out for a night on the town when they are approached by the beautiful and seductive Meg (Nicole Dambro) at a local bar. Ready for what they hope will be a night to remember, the guys are subsequently kidnapped, drugged and awaken tied up face to face in an abandoned pool in the middle of nowhere. Absurdity and insanity ensue as we learn that Orin (Jesse Pudles), Meg’s overly flamboyant brother has been the target of Brad and Dylan’s homophobic bullying and that Meg is actually a grad student who plans to perform a psychological and somewhat sadistic experiment on them
Continue reading →
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Scare-A-Con is coming to the Rochester Riverside Hotel, Rochester, NY on October 18 thru the 20th, and to shed Lucifer’s light on the whole arcane affair your’s cruelly recently had a chance to chat with the show’s promoter JV Johnson! Dan XIII: Please tell my revoltin’ readers how you came to be involved in that creepiest of conventions Scare-A-Con! JV: Once I discovered the world of horror conventions, I realized that there were many people who shared the same passions as I did. That revelation made me decide to bring a similar event to my town of Syracuse, NY. I owned & operated a group of radio stations there and I used those resources to have the first SCARE-A-CON in 2011. After a couple venue changes and the addition of the New England show, we have become one of the biggest horror conventions in the Northeast. DXIII: What can all of your faithful n’ fearsome fiends expect to experience at
Continue reading →
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Rob Zombie’s highly-anticipated film everyone is talking about, 3 From Hell, finally has a 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray release date! Written and directed by horror master Rob Zombie (House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil’s Rejects, Halloween), the “savagely ferocious” (Variety) film follows three of the director’s most vicious creations as they leave a trail of corpses in their wake in the third installment of the franchise. First, there was House of 1000 Corpses. Then there was The Devil’s Rejects. Now, from writer-director Rob Zombie, comes the next blood-soaked chapter in the most violent crime saga in movie history—3 From Hell. After barely surviving a furious shootout with the police, Baby Firefly (Sheri Moon Zombie), Otis Driftwood (Bill Moseley), and Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig) are behind bars. But pure evil cannot be contained, and a firestorm of murder, madness, and mayhem will be released in this terror ride to Hell… and back. 3 From Hell stars Sheri Moon Zombie (The
Continue reading →
