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Ghostbusters: Afterlife is heading to Blu-ray, 4K Ultra, and Digital and the special features are worth the price alone, featuring everything from deleted scenes to all the Easter eggs in the movie. The new installment of the franchise follows a single mom (Carrie Coon) and her two kids (Finn Wolfhard and McKenna Grace) as they move to their grandfather’s farm and discover their family’s ties to the Ghostbusters. Events force the kids to pick up where their grandfather left off in an attempt to save the town. Paul Rudd (Antman) stars alongside Mckenna Grace (Captain Marvel), Finn Wolfhard (“Stranger Things”), and Carrie Coon (Gone Girl). Most of the cast of the original are returning including Sigourney Weaver, Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, Dan Aykroyd, and Annie Potts. Afterlife is directed by Jason Reitman, who co-wrote the script along with Gil Kenan. Special Features include: We Got One! Easter Eggs Revealed Ghostbusters: A Look Back A Look Ahead Bringing Ecto-1 Back to
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Malevolent hands dragging swimmers into the depths, disappearance, ghostly sightings, according to a group of filmmakers, they all have one thing in common, Georgia’s Lake Lanier. The Lake: In 1956, Lake Lanier was created by a dam on the Chattahoochee River, flooding the town of Oscarviller which now lays under the 59 square mile lake. People flock to the lake for swimming, boating, and parting, but many don’t know that the lake is also known for the deaths that occur in the cool water, over 500 since its creation. Swimmers report that while in the water they feel the eerie sensation of a hand grasping their legs and trying to pull them under. Many people believe that it is the spirits of those who died there. But the lake has had a long history of death before it was even created. Once home to around 1,200 African Americans, the town of Oscarville saw three men accused of the rape and
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Did you know that one of the most iconic, and terrifying, horror films of all time, The Exorcist, is based on a true story, the possession of Roland Doe? Roland Doe is an alias. The boy’s real name has been kept secret for decades to protect him, until now. The magazine Skeptical Inquirer has now named the boy from the real 1949 possession case as Roland Edwin Hunkeler, who passed away last year just before his 86th birthday after suffering from a stroke at this home in Marriottsville, Maryland. Roland was a Nasa engine and contributed to the Apollo space mission and patented the tech that helps space shuttles panels withstand the heat of entering and exiting the earth’s atmosphere. A female friend of Roland’s told the New York Post that Hunkeler was terrified of people, especially his colleagues, discovering his secret. Directed by William Friedkin, The Exorcist took inspiration from Hunkler’s possession that occurred in the 1940s when he
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The hit documentary series Shock Docs will next explore the terrifying true-crime of the Gainsviller Ripper that inspired one of the biggest horror franchises in history, Scream. The horrific story of serial killer Danny Rolling, aka The Gainesville Ripper, inspired the films. Now, just in time for the release of the newest Scream movie, Scream: The True Story delves into the real-life horror of a murderer who believed he was possessed by a demon and whose gruesome crime spree inspired the blockbuster film. Launching Friday, January 14 on discovery+, the docu-special – through a groundbreaking paranormal investigation, archival media, and expert interviews – take a closer look at the alleged diabolical forces involved and whether Rolling’s spirit still lurks in the shadows. Beginning in 1989, Danny Rolling stalked and murdered eight victims in Shreveport, Louisiana, and Gainesville, Florida, including five college students. Rolling claimed he was possessed by a demon named “Gemini” when he committed his crimes; he was eventually
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This January, Danny Trejo faces off against the “weeping woman” in the indie horror The Legend of La Llorona, from director Patricia Harris Seeley. A malevolent spirit bent on vengeance, stalks a young family visiting Mexico. Andrew, Carly, and their son Danny travel to an isolated hacienda in Mexico for a much-needed vacation. As they enter the town, signs showing missing children set an ominous tone. The family learns of the legend of “La Llorona,” the evil spirit of a distraught mother who lurks near the water’s edge and strikes fear in the hearts of all who see her. La Llorona torments the family mercilessly, snatching Danny and trapping him in a netherworld between the living and the dead. Aided by the resourceful taxi driver Jorge (Danny Trejo) the family races to save their only child, navigating the foreboding countryside held by menacing cartel thugs. Gaining strength and power and leaving a path of death and destruction in her wake,
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Horror icon Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th VII, VIII, IX, X, Hatchet) leads a team of paranormal investigators as they explore the 112-year-old Grand Old Lady Hotel in Balsam, North Carolina in Balsam: A Paranormal Investigation. Ahead of its release, we’ve got a new clip that captures possible paranormal activity on camera. Watch as Hodder and his team investigate the 40,000 square foot hotel, called “The south’s Stanley Hotel,” with a disturbing past, nestled in the Appalachian Mountains. While Hodder is known for his many roles in the horror genre, he is an experienced paranormal investigator and a founding member of the Hollywood Ghost Hunters and has appeared on “Ghost Adventures”. Director Tony H. Cadwell stated, “This is a paranormal investigation like no other. You have an experienced team led by a horror icon. We had this amazing 40,000 square foot hotel all to ourselves to investigate. Nothing was scripted. We just went in and tried to document any paranormal
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A The Game Awards both Asobo Studio and Focus Home Entertainment presented the gameplay reveal trailer for the sequel to their critically acclaimed hit A Plague Tale: Innocence. In A Plague Tale: Requiem the story of Amicia and Hugo continues after leaving their home country France in the middle of the plague outbreak as well as war. Now heading south to vibrant cities, the siblings again face supernatural forces twisting the landscape, the horrors they thought they left behind them still ever-present. In the desperate struggle for survival and wanting to save those they love, the siblings will strike from the shadows unleashing hell with crafted weaponry and supernatural powers in the continuation of a heart-rendering tale of sibling love and dependency in a world gripped in hellish madness. A Plague Tale: Requiem is set to arrive in 2022 for Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, PC, and on the cloud for Nintendo Switch.
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Horror icon Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th VII, VIII, IX, X, Hatchet) leads a team of paranormal investigators as they explore the 112-year-old Grand Old Lady Hotel in Balsam, North Carolina in Balsam: A Paranormal Investigation. Watch as Hodder and his team investigate the 40,000 square foot hotel, called “The south’s Stanley Hotel,” with a disturbing past, nestled in the Appalachian Mountains. While Hodder is known for his many roles in the horror genre, he is an experienced paranormal investigator and a founding member of the Hollywood Ghost Hunters and has appeared on “Ghost Adventures”. Director Tony H. Cadwell stated, “This is a paranormal investigation like no other. You have an experienced team led by a horror icon. We had this amazing 40,000 square foot hotel all to ourselves to investigate. Nothing was scripted. We just went in and tried to document any paranormal activity that we could. The evidence that we collected in this film is just shocking.” Kane
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It has just been announced that the renowned paranormal TAPS team is returning for the all-new “Ghost Hunters” series this January on discovery+. Original members Jason Hawes, Steve Gonsalves, and Dave Tango, along with Shari DeBenedetti, reunite to revisit their most chilling cases and investigate disturbing new hauntings. Armed with state-of-the-art technology, their proven methodology, and special guest investigators, TAPS tackles disturbing paranormal activity head-on, leaving no stone unturned to reach the dead among the living. Twelve all-new one-hour episodes will drop weekly. The reboot of “Ghost Hunters” follows the team as they crisscross the country searching for answers in the nation’s most haunted locations including the Old Joliet Prison in Joliet, Illinois; a haunted hotel with a dark past in Nebraska; a brewery in Pittsburgh; and a Virginia castle that might have visitors from outer space. Joining the core team are a host of experts from different paranormal backgrounds that add their own points of view and prowess to
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Crypt TV’s chilling paranormal thriller Chhorii, an Amazon Original, is now available on the streaming service and marks the first entry into India for LA-based Crypt TV, founded by Jack Davis and Eli Roth and backed by horror genre heavyweights Blumhouse Productions. Chhorii follows the story of a young couple forced to flee their city home and seek shelter in a house within a haunted sugarcane field. Soon, the couple realise that the shelter they once sought for refuge from danger is in fact the very location for a seriously sinister paranormal threat. The housewife, eight months pregnant, must now fight to save her unborn baby from the spirits out to snatch her away. The film, from director Vishal Furia, is a seriously hair-raising, tentatively twisted story produced by T-Series, Abundantia Entertainment, and Crypt TV. A remake of the Marathi film Lapachhapi, the film features Nushrratt Bharuccha in the lead role. Crypt TV is known for showcasing a new caliber
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Ghostbusters: Afterlife is heading to Blu-ray, 4K Ultra, and Digital and the special features are worth the price alone, featuring everything from deleted scenes to all the Easter eggs in the movie. The new installment of the franchise follows a single mom (Carrie Coon) and her two kids (Finn Wolfhard and McKenna Grace) as they move to their grandfather’s farm and discover their family’s ties to the Ghostbusters. Events force the kids to pick up where their grandfather left off in an attempt to save the town. Paul Rudd (Antman) stars alongside Mckenna Grace (Captain Marvel), Finn Wolfhard (“Stranger Things”), and Carrie Coon (Gone Girl). Most of the cast of the original are returning including Sigourney Weaver, Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, Dan Aykroyd, and Annie Potts. Afterlife is directed by Jason Reitman, who co-wrote the script along with Gil Kenan. Special Features include: We Got One! Easter Eggs Revealed Ghostbusters: A Look Back A Look Ahead Bringing Ecto-1 Back to
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Malevolent hands dragging swimmers into the depths, disappearance, ghostly sightings, according to a group of filmmakers, they all have one thing in common, Georgia’s Lake Lanier. The Lake: In 1956, Lake Lanier was created by a dam on the Chattahoochee River, flooding the town of Oscarviller which now lays under the 59 square mile lake. People flock to the lake for swimming, boating, and parting, but many don’t know that the lake is also known for the deaths that occur in the cool water, over 500 since its creation. Swimmers report that while in the water they feel the eerie sensation of a hand grasping their legs and trying to pull them under. Many people believe that it is the spirits of those who died there. But the lake has had a long history of death before it was even created. Once home to around 1,200 African Americans, the town of Oscarville saw three men accused of the rape and
Continue reading →
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Did you know that one of the most iconic, and terrifying, horror films of all time, The Exorcist, is based on a true story, the possession of Roland Doe? Roland Doe is an alias. The boy’s real name has been kept secret for decades to protect him, until now. The magazine Skeptical Inquirer has now named the boy from the real 1949 possession case as Roland Edwin Hunkeler, who passed away last year just before his 86th birthday after suffering from a stroke at this home in Marriottsville, Maryland. Roland was a Nasa engine and contributed to the Apollo space mission and patented the tech that helps space shuttles panels withstand the heat of entering and exiting the earth’s atmosphere. A female friend of Roland’s told the New York Post that Hunkeler was terrified of people, especially his colleagues, discovering his secret. Directed by William Friedkin, The Exorcist took inspiration from Hunkler’s possession that occurred in the 1940s when he
Continue reading →
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The hit documentary series Shock Docs will next explore the terrifying true-crime of the Gainsviller Ripper that inspired one of the biggest horror franchises in history, Scream. The horrific story of serial killer Danny Rolling, aka The Gainesville Ripper, inspired the films. Now, just in time for the release of the newest Scream movie, Scream: The True Story delves into the real-life horror of a murderer who believed he was possessed by a demon and whose gruesome crime spree inspired the blockbuster film. Launching Friday, January 14 on discovery+, the docu-special – through a groundbreaking paranormal investigation, archival media, and expert interviews – take a closer look at the alleged diabolical forces involved and whether Rolling’s spirit still lurks in the shadows. Beginning in 1989, Danny Rolling stalked and murdered eight victims in Shreveport, Louisiana, and Gainesville, Florida, including five college students. Rolling claimed he was possessed by a demon named “Gemini” when he committed his crimes; he was eventually
Continue reading →
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This January, Danny Trejo faces off against the “weeping woman” in the indie horror The Legend of La Llorona, from director Patricia Harris Seeley. A malevolent spirit bent on vengeance, stalks a young family visiting Mexico. Andrew, Carly, and their son Danny travel to an isolated hacienda in Mexico for a much-needed vacation. As they enter the town, signs showing missing children set an ominous tone. The family learns of the legend of “La Llorona,” the evil spirit of a distraught mother who lurks near the water’s edge and strikes fear in the hearts of all who see her. La Llorona torments the family mercilessly, snatching Danny and trapping him in a netherworld between the living and the dead. Aided by the resourceful taxi driver Jorge (Danny Trejo) the family races to save their only child, navigating the foreboding countryside held by menacing cartel thugs. Gaining strength and power and leaving a path of death and destruction in her wake,
Continue reading →
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Horror icon Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th VII, VIII, IX, X, Hatchet) leads a team of paranormal investigators as they explore the 112-year-old Grand Old Lady Hotel in Balsam, North Carolina in Balsam: A Paranormal Investigation. Ahead of its release, we’ve got a new clip that captures possible paranormal activity on camera. Watch as Hodder and his team investigate the 40,000 square foot hotel, called “The south’s Stanley Hotel,” with a disturbing past, nestled in the Appalachian Mountains. While Hodder is known for his many roles in the horror genre, he is an experienced paranormal investigator and a founding member of the Hollywood Ghost Hunters and has appeared on “Ghost Adventures”. Director Tony H. Cadwell stated, “This is a paranormal investigation like no other. You have an experienced team led by a horror icon. We had this amazing 40,000 square foot hotel all to ourselves to investigate. Nothing was scripted. We just went in and tried to document any paranormal
Continue reading →
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A The Game Awards both Asobo Studio and Focus Home Entertainment presented the gameplay reveal trailer for the sequel to their critically acclaimed hit A Plague Tale: Innocence. In A Plague Tale: Requiem the story of Amicia and Hugo continues after leaving their home country France in the middle of the plague outbreak as well as war. Now heading south to vibrant cities, the siblings again face supernatural forces twisting the landscape, the horrors they thought they left behind them still ever-present. In the desperate struggle for survival and wanting to save those they love, the siblings will strike from the shadows unleashing hell with crafted weaponry and supernatural powers in the continuation of a heart-rendering tale of sibling love and dependency in a world gripped in hellish madness. A Plague Tale: Requiem is set to arrive in 2022 for Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, PC, and on the cloud for Nintendo Switch.
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Horror icon Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th VII, VIII, IX, X, Hatchet) leads a team of paranormal investigators as they explore the 112-year-old Grand Old Lady Hotel in Balsam, North Carolina in Balsam: A Paranormal Investigation. Watch as Hodder and his team investigate the 40,000 square foot hotel, called “The south’s Stanley Hotel,” with a disturbing past, nestled in the Appalachian Mountains. While Hodder is known for his many roles in the horror genre, he is an experienced paranormal investigator and a founding member of the Hollywood Ghost Hunters and has appeared on “Ghost Adventures”. Director Tony H. Cadwell stated, “This is a paranormal investigation like no other. You have an experienced team led by a horror icon. We had this amazing 40,000 square foot hotel all to ourselves to investigate. Nothing was scripted. We just went in and tried to document any paranormal activity that we could. The evidence that we collected in this film is just shocking.” Kane
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It has just been announced that the renowned paranormal TAPS team is returning for the all-new “Ghost Hunters” series this January on discovery+. Original members Jason Hawes, Steve Gonsalves, and Dave Tango, along with Shari DeBenedetti, reunite to revisit their most chilling cases and investigate disturbing new hauntings. Armed with state-of-the-art technology, their proven methodology, and special guest investigators, TAPS tackles disturbing paranormal activity head-on, leaving no stone unturned to reach the dead among the living. Twelve all-new one-hour episodes will drop weekly. The reboot of “Ghost Hunters” follows the team as they crisscross the country searching for answers in the nation’s most haunted locations including the Old Joliet Prison in Joliet, Illinois; a haunted hotel with a dark past in Nebraska; a brewery in Pittsburgh; and a Virginia castle that might have visitors from outer space. Joining the core team are a host of experts from different paranormal backgrounds that add their own points of view and prowess to
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Crypt TV’s chilling paranormal thriller Chhorii, an Amazon Original, is now available on the streaming service and marks the first entry into India for LA-based Crypt TV, founded by Jack Davis and Eli Roth and backed by horror genre heavyweights Blumhouse Productions. Chhorii follows the story of a young couple forced to flee their city home and seek shelter in a house within a haunted sugarcane field. Soon, the couple realise that the shelter they once sought for refuge from danger is in fact the very location for a seriously sinister paranormal threat. The housewife, eight months pregnant, must now fight to save her unborn baby from the spirits out to snatch her away. The film, from director Vishal Furia, is a seriously hair-raising, tentatively twisted story produced by T-Series, Abundantia Entertainment, and Crypt TV. A remake of the Marathi film Lapachhapi, the film features Nushrratt Bharuccha in the lead role. Crypt TV is known for showcasing a new caliber
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