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Remember The Banana Splits? They are no longer “family friendly”, in fact, they look downright demented in the first trailer for a new horror movie simply titled as The Banana Splits Movie. The movie, from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Syfy makes it’s debut on Digital August 13th and on Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD August 27th, is R-rated for “horror violence and gore.” In the movie, “a boy named Harley and his family attend a taping of The Banana Splits TV show, which is supposed to be a fun-filled birthday for young Harley and business as usual for Rebecca, the producer of the series. But things take an unexpected turn – and the body count quickly rises. Can Harley, his mom, and their new pals safely escape?” Dani Kind (Wynonna Earp), Finlay Wojtak-Hissong (The Kindness of Strangers), Romeo Carere, Steve Lund (Schitt’s Creek), and Sara Canning (“The Vampire Diaries”) star. Danishka Esterhazy (Level 16) is in the director’s chair.
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Universal and Blumhouse are ready to ring in the holidays. Today the horror powerhouse revealed the new poster for their remake of the 1974 genre classic, Black Christmas. With V/H/S director Sophia Takal at the helm and a script by Takal and April Wolfe, the film stars Imogen Poots, Aleyse Shannon, Brittany O’Grady, Lily Donoghue, and Caleb Eberhardt. The film centers on a group of sorority sisters at Hawthorne College, who are being hunted down and killed by an unknown stalker. Soon, the killer learns that the school’s women are willing to mount a fight to stop the carnage. The original film, directed by Bob Clark and written by Roy Moore, stars Margot Kidder, Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, and John Saxon. Black Christmas quickly became a holiday classic for genre fans and is to this day. The film was re-released a couple of years ago on Blu-ray by Scream Factory. Jason Blum of Blumhouse, Ben Cosgrove and Adam Hendricks of
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Welcome to Slaughterhouse, an elite boarding school where boys and girls are groomed for power and greatness…until their well-organized world is thrown into bloody chaos. In the dark comedy Slaughterhouse Rulez, which scored a 5/5 in our review, pupils and teachers become embroiled in a battle with a hoard of subterranean monsters, unleashed from a gaping frack site sinkhole, wreaking havoc on the school grounds. Asa Butterfield (TV’s “Sex Education,” Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children), Finn Cole (TV’s “Peaky Blinders”) and Hermione Corfield (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) star alongside Michael Sheen (TV’s “Good Omens,” The Twilight Saga). Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, the Star Trek franchise), and Nick Frost (Fighting With My Family, Shaun of the Dead) appear in the film and serve as executive producers. Welcome to Slaughterhouse, an elite boarding school where boys and girls are groomed for power and greatness…and they’re about to meet their match. This ancient and ordered world is about to
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Following increasingly disturbing behavior, a man begins to suspect that his roommate may be under the influence of a dark entity in writer-director Scott Powers‘ award-winning film Insomnium. In the film, longtime buddies, George (Brad Pennington) and Phinneas (Clint Browning) share an apartment in Los Angeles. It’s a duplex, with their Russian landlord, Mr. Romanovsky (Leon Shparaga) living in the upstairs unit. George has returned to the apartment (atop an almost insurmountable flight of outdoor stairs) with injuries to one leg and one arm, rendering him basically immobile. His girlfriend Kim (Gena Shaw) and her friend Olivia (Larena Reyna) join the two boys on George’s first night home. After some drinking and relaxing, they bring out an Ouija board, and things quickly go south. That night, Phinneas begins to exhibit bizarre behavior, and the journey begins. Insomnium is set to hit VOD (Vimeo, Amazon, iTunes, etc.) on Tuesday, June 18th.
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Full Moon Features will begin principal photography June 11, 2019, on not one, but two feature film in their Deadly Ten anthology, Full Moon’s highly anticipated initiative that sees the studio producing ten original feature films, and live-streaming these productions free for fans at DeadlyTen.com. The site will also feature pre-production videos, FX tutorials and casting sessions for each movie that fans can access 24 hours a day. The Deadly Ten anthology will premiere exclusively on Full Moon Features streaming channels. Halloweed Night: Meet the Weedjies is the inaugural feature film in the Deadly Ten series with director Danny Draven (Reel Evil) taking the helm of the ganja-filled take of Charles Band cult classic Ghoulies. The wacky, weed-choked comedy creeper features a motley crew including Full Moon/Empire Pictures legendary actress Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator), The Howard Stern Show’s Richard Christy and Medicated Pete, comedian Ester Goldberg, Evil Bong franchise veteran Mindy Robinson, Playboy superstar Bridget Marquardt, and internet film critic Shawn
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The idea of a Steampunk world is quite appealing. Flying machines, Victorian fashion is back in style, Tesla inspired inventions around every corner, peaceful, beautiful…Blitworks decided it was a good idea to add zombies to the mix in the new game They Are Billions where you have to construct a safe haven for the last remaining human survivors. This real-time strategy city building game with a tower defense twist takes place on a planet that’s being colonized until a zombie outbreak occurred turning most of the planet’s inhabitants into an infected hoard. Players must build their city; collect resources, set up fortifications, and command troops while surviving a set amount of days. The major accomplishment of this game is the fact that over 20,000 enemy units can be on the screen at once, offering you a chance to literally defeating a billion zombies! They Are Billions is out now on Steam but will be coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox
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Reunited, and it feels so good! Or does it? The thrilling and terrifying journey of the Winchester brothers continues as Warner Bros. Home Entertainment brings you Supernatural: The Complete Fourteenth Season on Blu-ray and DVD this September. The Winchester brothers’ harrowing journey into the heart of darkness continues as Supernatural enters Season Fourteen. Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) have matched wits with monsters, demons, Heaven and Hell. But last season, the Winchesters and Castiel (Misha Collins) stumbled upon a terrifying alternative universe: an apocalyptic world where they were never born, all while training Jack (Alexander Calvert), the son of Lucifer, and trying to save their mother, Mary Winchester. The final battle with Lucifer and the Archangel Michael altered the Winchesters’ lives forever…and created an even greater threat for Sam and Dean. The boys are back and willing to risk everything for their loved ones in all twenty thrilling new adventures, including a historic 300th episode, with a Winchester
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Kevin Williamson‘s series “Tell Me A Story” premiered last year, putting a dark, sinister twist on our most beloved classic fairy tales. Deadline is reporting that the series’ second season of the CBS All Access anthology series is on its way with star Paul Wesley returning. According to the site, season two will take aim at Disney Princesses and will put a spin on the tales of Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella. This season Paul Wesley (The Vampire Diaries), who starred in the first season, will return as the new character Tucker, “a struggling novelist that spends sleepless nights toiling away in a secluded cabin in the woods and his days trying to prove he’s good enough for his beautiful fiancée. But it’s all about to come crashing down as a dark secret threatens to destroy his world.” “Tell Me a Story” is executive produced by Williamson and Kapital’s Kaplan and Dana Honor. Wesley is repped by
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Seraph Films and AWOL Studios have now released the trailer for their upcoming feature, The Nightmare Gallery. The Lynchian horror film starring Amber Benson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Kevin Chamberlin (Road to Perdition, Jessie), and Mat Devine (Kill Hannah lead singer). The film follows Benson as a renowned anthropology professor investigating the unexplained disappearance of her star pupil. A mysterious collection of occult artifacts leads her on a dark, DaVinci Code-esque journey toward an unspeakable truth that threatens her career, her wife, and her sanity. This trailer offers a glimpse into the horrors and heartbreak that build as Amber’s character dives further down the dark rabbit hole of obsession,” says Gene Blalock, director and founder of Seraph Films. “While the trailer showcases the tremendous effort by many to make this film a reality, the raw and brilliant intensity Amber infuses into her character is simply mind-blowing.” “The unsettling artistry and progressive storyline reflected in this movie strives for the ideal
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Rebellion is wasting no time in building up the hype for their upcoming third-person shooter Zombie Army 4: Dead War. A demo of the game is available to play at E3 but fear not! You can watch the nine-minute demo below with commentary by Rebellion’s Head of Creative Tim Jones and Lead Designer Ryan Baker. Players can either go it alone or team up with three friends against a hoard of Nazi zombies with an assortment of weapons and abilities that can be upgraded as you progress through the story. Along with your abilities, there are also traps set up in the world for you to activate. These traps range from the typical electric floor traps to ingenious like the propeller trap!
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Remember The Banana Splits? They are no longer “family friendly”, in fact, they look downright demented in the first trailer for a new horror movie simply titled as The Banana Splits Movie. The movie, from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Syfy makes it’s debut on Digital August 13th and on Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD August 27th, is R-rated for “horror violence and gore.” In the movie, “a boy named Harley and his family attend a taping of The Banana Splits TV show, which is supposed to be a fun-filled birthday for young Harley and business as usual for Rebecca, the producer of the series. But things take an unexpected turn – and the body count quickly rises. Can Harley, his mom, and their new pals safely escape?” Dani Kind (Wynonna Earp), Finlay Wojtak-Hissong (The Kindness of Strangers), Romeo Carere, Steve Lund (Schitt’s Creek), and Sara Canning (“The Vampire Diaries”) star. Danishka Esterhazy (Level 16) is in the director’s chair.
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Universal and Blumhouse are ready to ring in the holidays. Today the horror powerhouse revealed the new poster for their remake of the 1974 genre classic, Black Christmas. With V/H/S director Sophia Takal at the helm and a script by Takal and April Wolfe, the film stars Imogen Poots, Aleyse Shannon, Brittany O’Grady, Lily Donoghue, and Caleb Eberhardt. The film centers on a group of sorority sisters at Hawthorne College, who are being hunted down and killed by an unknown stalker. Soon, the killer learns that the school’s women are willing to mount a fight to stop the carnage. The original film, directed by Bob Clark and written by Roy Moore, stars Margot Kidder, Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, and John Saxon. Black Christmas quickly became a holiday classic for genre fans and is to this day. The film was re-released a couple of years ago on Blu-ray by Scream Factory. Jason Blum of Blumhouse, Ben Cosgrove and Adam Hendricks of
Continue reading →
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Welcome to Slaughterhouse, an elite boarding school where boys and girls are groomed for power and greatness…until their well-organized world is thrown into bloody chaos. In the dark comedy Slaughterhouse Rulez, which scored a 5/5 in our review, pupils and teachers become embroiled in a battle with a hoard of subterranean monsters, unleashed from a gaping frack site sinkhole, wreaking havoc on the school grounds. Asa Butterfield (TV’s “Sex Education,” Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children), Finn Cole (TV’s “Peaky Blinders”) and Hermione Corfield (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) star alongside Michael Sheen (TV’s “Good Omens,” The Twilight Saga). Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, the Star Trek franchise), and Nick Frost (Fighting With My Family, Shaun of the Dead) appear in the film and serve as executive producers. Welcome to Slaughterhouse, an elite boarding school where boys and girls are groomed for power and greatness…and they’re about to meet their match. This ancient and ordered world is about to
Continue reading →
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Following increasingly disturbing behavior, a man begins to suspect that his roommate may be under the influence of a dark entity in writer-director Scott Powers‘ award-winning film Insomnium. In the film, longtime buddies, George (Brad Pennington) and Phinneas (Clint Browning) share an apartment in Los Angeles. It’s a duplex, with their Russian landlord, Mr. Romanovsky (Leon Shparaga) living in the upstairs unit. George has returned to the apartment (atop an almost insurmountable flight of outdoor stairs) with injuries to one leg and one arm, rendering him basically immobile. His girlfriend Kim (Gena Shaw) and her friend Olivia (Larena Reyna) join the two boys on George’s first night home. After some drinking and relaxing, they bring out an Ouija board, and things quickly go south. That night, Phinneas begins to exhibit bizarre behavior, and the journey begins. Insomnium is set to hit VOD (Vimeo, Amazon, iTunes, etc.) on Tuesday, June 18th.
Continue reading →
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Full Moon Features will begin principal photography June 11, 2019, on not one, but two feature film in their Deadly Ten anthology, Full Moon’s highly anticipated initiative that sees the studio producing ten original feature films, and live-streaming these productions free for fans at DeadlyTen.com. The site will also feature pre-production videos, FX tutorials and casting sessions for each movie that fans can access 24 hours a day. The Deadly Ten anthology will premiere exclusively on Full Moon Features streaming channels. Halloweed Night: Meet the Weedjies is the inaugural feature film in the Deadly Ten series with director Danny Draven (Reel Evil) taking the helm of the ganja-filled take of Charles Band cult classic Ghoulies. The wacky, weed-choked comedy creeper features a motley crew including Full Moon/Empire Pictures legendary actress Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator), The Howard Stern Show’s Richard Christy and Medicated Pete, comedian Ester Goldberg, Evil Bong franchise veteran Mindy Robinson, Playboy superstar Bridget Marquardt, and internet film critic Shawn
Continue reading →
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The idea of a Steampunk world is quite appealing. Flying machines, Victorian fashion is back in style, Tesla inspired inventions around every corner, peaceful, beautiful…Blitworks decided it was a good idea to add zombies to the mix in the new game They Are Billions where you have to construct a safe haven for the last remaining human survivors. This real-time strategy city building game with a tower defense twist takes place on a planet that’s being colonized until a zombie outbreak occurred turning most of the planet’s inhabitants into an infected hoard. Players must build their city; collect resources, set up fortifications, and command troops while surviving a set amount of days. The major accomplishment of this game is the fact that over 20,000 enemy units can be on the screen at once, offering you a chance to literally defeating a billion zombies! They Are Billions is out now on Steam but will be coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox
Continue reading →
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Reunited, and it feels so good! Or does it? The thrilling and terrifying journey of the Winchester brothers continues as Warner Bros. Home Entertainment brings you Supernatural: The Complete Fourteenth Season on Blu-ray and DVD this September. The Winchester brothers’ harrowing journey into the heart of darkness continues as Supernatural enters Season Fourteen. Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) have matched wits with monsters, demons, Heaven and Hell. But last season, the Winchesters and Castiel (Misha Collins) stumbled upon a terrifying alternative universe: an apocalyptic world where they were never born, all while training Jack (Alexander Calvert), the son of Lucifer, and trying to save their mother, Mary Winchester. The final battle with Lucifer and the Archangel Michael altered the Winchesters’ lives forever…and created an even greater threat for Sam and Dean. The boys are back and willing to risk everything for their loved ones in all twenty thrilling new adventures, including a historic 300th episode, with a Winchester
Continue reading →
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Kevin Williamson‘s series “Tell Me A Story” premiered last year, putting a dark, sinister twist on our most beloved classic fairy tales. Deadline is reporting that the series’ second season of the CBS All Access anthology series is on its way with star Paul Wesley returning. According to the site, season two will take aim at Disney Princesses and will put a spin on the tales of Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella. This season Paul Wesley (The Vampire Diaries), who starred in the first season, will return as the new character Tucker, “a struggling novelist that spends sleepless nights toiling away in a secluded cabin in the woods and his days trying to prove he’s good enough for his beautiful fiancée. But it’s all about to come crashing down as a dark secret threatens to destroy his world.” “Tell Me a Story” is executive produced by Williamson and Kapital’s Kaplan and Dana Honor. Wesley is repped by
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Seraph Films and AWOL Studios have now released the trailer for their upcoming feature, The Nightmare Gallery. The Lynchian horror film starring Amber Benson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Kevin Chamberlin (Road to Perdition, Jessie), and Mat Devine (Kill Hannah lead singer). The film follows Benson as a renowned anthropology professor investigating the unexplained disappearance of her star pupil. A mysterious collection of occult artifacts leads her on a dark, DaVinci Code-esque journey toward an unspeakable truth that threatens her career, her wife, and her sanity. This trailer offers a glimpse into the horrors and heartbreak that build as Amber’s character dives further down the dark rabbit hole of obsession,” says Gene Blalock, director and founder of Seraph Films. “While the trailer showcases the tremendous effort by many to make this film a reality, the raw and brilliant intensity Amber infuses into her character is simply mind-blowing.” “The unsettling artistry and progressive storyline reflected in this movie strives for the ideal
Continue reading →
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Rebellion is wasting no time in building up the hype for their upcoming third-person shooter Zombie Army 4: Dead War. A demo of the game is available to play at E3 but fear not! You can watch the nine-minute demo below with commentary by Rebellion’s Head of Creative Tim Jones and Lead Designer Ryan Baker. Players can either go it alone or team up with three friends against a hoard of Nazi zombies with an assortment of weapons and abilities that can be upgraded as you progress through the story. Along with your abilities, there are also traps set up in the world for you to activate. These traps range from the typical electric floor traps to ingenious like the propeller trap!
Continue reading →
