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Fellow Traveler and Paranoid Productions indoctrinated me into the Collective Justice Mission and have sent me down to South America to join my fellow members of the congregation in Freedom Town… Well, they were just cool enough to let me try out their game The Church in the Darkness. The game takes place in the 1970s where you take on the role of an ex-cop named Vic who infiltrates the Collective Justice Mission cult’s paradise Freedom Town in what seems to be an eerie parody of Jonestown. Vic’s mission is to find his nephew Alex to see if he’s alright but soon after you arrive, you realize not everything is well. The game is a top view game where you can zoom in a little bit to see more details but other than that, this is the only angle you will see. This actually does help as when you couch you can see the guard’s field of view (depending on
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Jared Leto is currently in talks to star alongside Denzel Washington and Rami Malek in Warner Bros.’ new crime thriller The Little Things, Variety reports. John Lee Hancock who is behind The Blindside and Netflix’s The Highwaymen will be writing and directing The Little Things. The story follows a burned-out California deputy named Deke (Washinton) who teams up with Baxter, an LASD detective (Malek) to catch a serial killer. Deke’s nose for the “little things” proves eerily accurate, but his willingness to circumvent the rules embroils Baxter in a soul-shattering dilemma. Meanwhile, Deke must wrestle with a dark secret from his past. If Leto signs on he will play the role of the serial killer in the movie, set to begin shooting this fall.
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Indian filmmaker Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, and Karan Johar, the team behind Netflix’s “Lust Stories” are teaming up once again for the stream giant’s new horror anthology series “Ghost Stories” which will feature four short horror films, THR reports. While the details of the series haven’t been revealed, we do know that “the four films will be thematically connected to each other and culminate in a hair-raising end.” Production is set to kick off this month. “Ghost Stories” is produced by RSVP Films in association with Ashi Dua of Flying Unicorn Entertainment.
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Everardo Gout, who helmed several episodes Nat Geo’s “Mars” has signed on to direct the next installment of The Purge franchise for Blumhouse, Platinum Dunes, and Universal Pictures. Following the success of last year’s The First Purge (review), which is the highest-grossing film of the franchise, creator James DeMonaco, who penned the first three films, is returning to pen the script. The franchise centers on the annual day where for 12 hours all crime is legal. The plot for the new installment is being kept under wraps at this point but we assume the movie will follow the same pattern. Jason Blum, Man in a Tree duo Demonaco and Sébastien K. Lemercier will produce alongside Platinum Dunes’ Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form. The Purge 5 is set to be released on July 10, 2020. The movie isn’t the only Purge project on the way, USA’s “The Purge” series’ second season will premiere this fall.
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Momentum Pictures announced today that it has acquired North American rights to Blumhouse’s latest horror-thriller Bloodline from director Henry Jacobson (“Election Day: Lens Across America”). Jacobson co-wrote the screenplay with Avra Fox-Lerner (Nora) and Will Honley (The Hive), who also wrote the story. The film stars Seann William Scott (American Pie), Mariela Garriga (“NCIS: Los Angeles”), Dale Dickey (Iron Man 3), and Kevin Carroll (“The Leftovers”). In Bloodline, Evan (Seann William Scott) values family above all else, and anyone who gets between him, his wife, and newborn son learns that the hard way. But when it comes to violent tendencies, it seems the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Bloodline is a visceral, stylized, elevated horror film that we cannot wait to sink our teeth into. Seann Williams Scott delivers a stellar performance – his magnetic presence shows his versatility as an actor,” said Ian Goggins, Momentum Pictures’ senior vice president of content. “Henry and the entire filmmaking team
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From writer-directors Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky comes the award-winning science-fiction thriller Freaks whose trailer and stunning poster (by Chris Shy of Studio Ronin) have just arrived. In the film, a disturbed father (Emile Hirsch) locks his bold 7-year-old daughter (Lexy Kolker) in a house, warning her of grave dangers outside. But the mysterious Mr. Snowcone (Bruce Dern) convinces the girl to escape and join him on a quest for family, freedom, and revenge. Grace Park, Amanda Crew, and Lexy Kolker round out the cast for Freaks that took the Jury Prize at Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, the Emerging Filmmaker Award at the Vancouver International Fantastic Film Festival and winner of the Best Film (Audience Award) at the Paris International Fantastic Film Festival. The film is produced by Adam Stein, p.g.a., Zach Lipovsky, p.g.a, Jordan Barber, and Mitchell Waxman. M. Alan Stein, Rick Alyea, Philip Kim, and Elisabeth Costa de Beauregard serve as executive producers. Freaks lands in theaters
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The long-awaited second season of Netflix’s “Mindhunter” will soon return to the small screen. Today, the streaming giant has unleashed this season’s trailer. Jonathan Groff and Holt McCallany are back as Agents Holden Ford and Bill Tench and face a new batch of serial killers, including the “Atlanta Child Murders”, Charles Manson, and the Son of Sam. Damon Herriman will star as Charles Manson, a role he also played in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Cameron Britton will be returning as serial killer Ed Kemper. Set in 1979, season two will premiere on August 16th on Netflix.
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Following her breakout role in Jordan Peele’s Us (review) Lupita Nyong’o stars as a schoolteacher in the horror-comedy Little Monsters, written and directed by Abe Forsythe (Down Under). The new trailer reveals the military gearing up to battle the undead and a field trip gone wrong. Nyong’o plays Miss Caroline, a teacher who fights to protect her students from a zombie outbreak during a field trip gone to hell. Miss Caroline teams up with Dave (Alexander England), a washed-up musician, and kids’ show host Teddy McGiggle (Josh Gad) to defeat zombies while trying to keep her students unaware of the outbreak. Little Monsters, which premiered at Sundance will hit theaters in the U.K. and Ireland on November 15th. A U.S. release date has yet to be announced.
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Dark Star Pictures will release the critically acclaimed virtual reality thriller Empathy Inc. in theaters and VOD this fall. Yedidya Gorsetman’s sci-fi thriller tells of an investor in a VR startup discovers that the reality the company provides isn’t actually virtual. Hotshot venture capitalist Joel has a multimillion-dollar deal go up in smoke, and he and his actress wife Jessica are forced to move in with her parents and start from scratch. At the lowest and most desperate moment in his life, Joel meets old friend Nicolaus and his business partner Lester, who are seeking investors in a new technology known as XVR—Xtreme Virtual Reality—from their company Empathy, Inc., which is said to offer the most realistic and moving experiences for users by placing them in the lives of the less fortunate. Joel gets the startup its funds but soon discovers that the tech’s creators have far more sinister uses in store for their creation and that the reality it
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James Wan is returning to his horror roots for his next project, a secret genre film, before diving into Aquaman 2, Variety reports. The plot is still being kept under wraps at this point, but we do know that Wan co-wrote the film along with The Nun‘s Ingrid Bisu, who he recently got engaged to. Wan will also be producing under his Atomic Monster banner along with Michael Clear. Wan’s plan is to direct and shoot the film this fall in Los Angeles before moving into pre-production on Aquaman 2. Wan cut his teeth on the Saw and Insidious franchise before bringing The Conjuring Universe, a franchise that has grossed over $1.8 billion.
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Fellow Traveler and Paranoid Productions indoctrinated me into the Collective Justice Mission and have sent me down to South America to join my fellow members of the congregation in Freedom Town… Well, they were just cool enough to let me try out their game The Church in the Darkness. The game takes place in the 1970s where you take on the role of an ex-cop named Vic who infiltrates the Collective Justice Mission cult’s paradise Freedom Town in what seems to be an eerie parody of Jonestown. Vic’s mission is to find his nephew Alex to see if he’s alright but soon after you arrive, you realize not everything is well. The game is a top view game where you can zoom in a little bit to see more details but other than that, this is the only angle you will see. This actually does help as when you couch you can see the guard’s field of view (depending on
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Jared Leto is currently in talks to star alongside Denzel Washington and Rami Malek in Warner Bros.’ new crime thriller The Little Things, Variety reports. John Lee Hancock who is behind The Blindside and Netflix’s The Highwaymen will be writing and directing The Little Things. The story follows a burned-out California deputy named Deke (Washinton) who teams up with Baxter, an LASD detective (Malek) to catch a serial killer. Deke’s nose for the “little things” proves eerily accurate, but his willingness to circumvent the rules embroils Baxter in a soul-shattering dilemma. Meanwhile, Deke must wrestle with a dark secret from his past. If Leto signs on he will play the role of the serial killer in the movie, set to begin shooting this fall.
Continue reading →
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Indian filmmaker Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, and Karan Johar, the team behind Netflix’s “Lust Stories” are teaming up once again for the stream giant’s new horror anthology series “Ghost Stories” which will feature four short horror films, THR reports. While the details of the series haven’t been revealed, we do know that “the four films will be thematically connected to each other and culminate in a hair-raising end.” Production is set to kick off this month. “Ghost Stories” is produced by RSVP Films in association with Ashi Dua of Flying Unicorn Entertainment.
Continue reading →
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Everardo Gout, who helmed several episodes Nat Geo’s “Mars” has signed on to direct the next installment of The Purge franchise for Blumhouse, Platinum Dunes, and Universal Pictures. Following the success of last year’s The First Purge (review), which is the highest-grossing film of the franchise, creator James DeMonaco, who penned the first three films, is returning to pen the script. The franchise centers on the annual day where for 12 hours all crime is legal. The plot for the new installment is being kept under wraps at this point but we assume the movie will follow the same pattern. Jason Blum, Man in a Tree duo Demonaco and Sébastien K. Lemercier will produce alongside Platinum Dunes’ Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form. The Purge 5 is set to be released on July 10, 2020. The movie isn’t the only Purge project on the way, USA’s “The Purge” series’ second season will premiere this fall.
Continue reading →
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Momentum Pictures announced today that it has acquired North American rights to Blumhouse’s latest horror-thriller Bloodline from director Henry Jacobson (“Election Day: Lens Across America”). Jacobson co-wrote the screenplay with Avra Fox-Lerner (Nora) and Will Honley (The Hive), who also wrote the story. The film stars Seann William Scott (American Pie), Mariela Garriga (“NCIS: Los Angeles”), Dale Dickey (Iron Man 3), and Kevin Carroll (“The Leftovers”). In Bloodline, Evan (Seann William Scott) values family above all else, and anyone who gets between him, his wife, and newborn son learns that the hard way. But when it comes to violent tendencies, it seems the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Bloodline is a visceral, stylized, elevated horror film that we cannot wait to sink our teeth into. Seann Williams Scott delivers a stellar performance – his magnetic presence shows his versatility as an actor,” said Ian Goggins, Momentum Pictures’ senior vice president of content. “Henry and the entire filmmaking team
Continue reading →
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From writer-directors Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky comes the award-winning science-fiction thriller Freaks whose trailer and stunning poster (by Chris Shy of Studio Ronin) have just arrived. In the film, a disturbed father (Emile Hirsch) locks his bold 7-year-old daughter (Lexy Kolker) in a house, warning her of grave dangers outside. But the mysterious Mr. Snowcone (Bruce Dern) convinces the girl to escape and join him on a quest for family, freedom, and revenge. Grace Park, Amanda Crew, and Lexy Kolker round out the cast for Freaks that took the Jury Prize at Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, the Emerging Filmmaker Award at the Vancouver International Fantastic Film Festival and winner of the Best Film (Audience Award) at the Paris International Fantastic Film Festival. The film is produced by Adam Stein, p.g.a., Zach Lipovsky, p.g.a, Jordan Barber, and Mitchell Waxman. M. Alan Stein, Rick Alyea, Philip Kim, and Elisabeth Costa de Beauregard serve as executive producers. Freaks lands in theaters
Continue reading →
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The long-awaited second season of Netflix’s “Mindhunter” will soon return to the small screen. Today, the streaming giant has unleashed this season’s trailer. Jonathan Groff and Holt McCallany are back as Agents Holden Ford and Bill Tench and face a new batch of serial killers, including the “Atlanta Child Murders”, Charles Manson, and the Son of Sam. Damon Herriman will star as Charles Manson, a role he also played in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Cameron Britton will be returning as serial killer Ed Kemper. Set in 1979, season two will premiere on August 16th on Netflix.
Continue reading →
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Following her breakout role in Jordan Peele’s Us (review) Lupita Nyong’o stars as a schoolteacher in the horror-comedy Little Monsters, written and directed by Abe Forsythe (Down Under). The new trailer reveals the military gearing up to battle the undead and a field trip gone wrong. Nyong’o plays Miss Caroline, a teacher who fights to protect her students from a zombie outbreak during a field trip gone to hell. Miss Caroline teams up with Dave (Alexander England), a washed-up musician, and kids’ show host Teddy McGiggle (Josh Gad) to defeat zombies while trying to keep her students unaware of the outbreak. Little Monsters, which premiered at Sundance will hit theaters in the U.K. and Ireland on November 15th. A U.S. release date has yet to be announced.
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Dark Star Pictures will release the critically acclaimed virtual reality thriller Empathy Inc. in theaters and VOD this fall. Yedidya Gorsetman’s sci-fi thriller tells of an investor in a VR startup discovers that the reality the company provides isn’t actually virtual. Hotshot venture capitalist Joel has a multimillion-dollar deal go up in smoke, and he and his actress wife Jessica are forced to move in with her parents and start from scratch. At the lowest and most desperate moment in his life, Joel meets old friend Nicolaus and his business partner Lester, who are seeking investors in a new technology known as XVR—Xtreme Virtual Reality—from their company Empathy, Inc., which is said to offer the most realistic and moving experiences for users by placing them in the lives of the less fortunate. Joel gets the startup its funds but soon discovers that the tech’s creators have far more sinister uses in store for their creation and that the reality it
Continue reading →
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James Wan is returning to his horror roots for his next project, a secret genre film, before diving into Aquaman 2, Variety reports. The plot is still being kept under wraps at this point, but we do know that Wan co-wrote the film along with The Nun‘s Ingrid Bisu, who he recently got engaged to. Wan will also be producing under his Atomic Monster banner along with Michael Clear. Wan’s plan is to direct and shoot the film this fall in Los Angeles before moving into pre-production on Aquaman 2. Wan cut his teeth on the Saw and Insidious franchise before bringing The Conjuring Universe, a franchise that has grossed over $1.8 billion.
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