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This morning I sat down to watch a movie that I had heard good things about, Final Girl. The film, directed by Tyler Shields, opened with a young girl sitting across a table from a stranger (Wes Bentley). During their conversation the man asks the girl a series of questions, gauging her answers to see if she is the girl he’s looking for. It’s revealed during the questioning that both of the girl’s parents are dead. He asks if she wants to come with him, so that he can train her. Her response? “Can I have ice cream?” Maybe it’s just me, but I would be asking a few more questions. In the next scene we see him teaching Veronica (Abigail Breslin) to fight. Her mission is assigned, take down a ring of killer friends, who like to hunt down blonde girls for fun. Of course, she sets it up where she happens to catch their attention. The leader of
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Moondog Media is preparing to release The Horror on Digital VHX and limited edition VHS on April 1st. Jerry White III’s directorial debut film follows newly orphaned twins made to fight for their survival. Callie Ott (WTF!) stars along side Raymond Cramer in his first role. Twins, still reeling from the sudden loss of their parents, Malcolm (Creamer) and Isabel Rademacher (Ott) retreat to their family’s lake house for a weekend with their friends. The weekend started great, but is cut short when Malcolm and Isabel distance themselves from their friends. Once again alone the siblings are stalked by two masked assailants who invade the lake house. Malcolm kills one of the attackers, but becomes obsessed with tracking down the escaped partner. A year later Isabel is trying to pick of the pieces but the memories of the break in haunt her. Malcolm is still obsessed with tracking down the assailant. Isabel begins to worry that Malcolm might be the
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Riding Hood Motion Pictures has released a first look teaser trailer for their upcoming noir crime thriller, Wolf Mother. The film, written and directed by Erik Peter (The Toy Soldiers), stars Najarra Townsend (Contracted), Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan), Dave Vescio (Hick), newcomer Kaegan Baron ,and Kevin Pinassi of the Twin Peaks revival. In the first look trailer we watch as the film’s heroes as they hatch a plan to find and rescue Kaitlin Miller, a missing child star. The teaser explores the horror and suspense of their journey as they descend into the dark world of sex trafficking. “I’m drawn to stories that in someway are connected to the current state of mind. Stories that are happening now, in our own backyard.” Carlson stated of the film’s plot and relevancy. “Most of the time for me, they just happen to be the darker stories.” Every year over 800,000 children go missing. 400,000 of those children are victims of sex
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Troy Escamilla’s first full length feature film, Party Night, is set to premiere this Fall. Produced by Escamilla and Renee K. Smith, in collaboration with Fright Meter Films, Party Night is a throwback to the great slasher film of the 80’s. Timothy Sullins will be making his directorial debut with the film. “This film is truly a love letter to fans of the genre. There are many references in the script that horror fans will grin widely at, but the film is still unique in its own right,” Escamilla states. Party Night centers on six friends who become prey for a sadistic psychopath when they decide to ditch their high school’s after prom party for their own celebration at a secluded house. Escamilla is extremely familiar with the horror genre, he founded the Fright Meter Awards, with an international committee made of genre bloggers, writers, directors, producers, actors and fans, including us here at Horror Fuel. There is currently a
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Chris Geere (You’re the Worst) is set to play the role of a paranormal investigator looking to boost the ratings of his reality-TV show. Geere’s character heads down to Mexico with his team to shoot an episode in an alleged haunted house. Geere and his team, all who are complete fakers, think that the episode will be enough to boost ratings and save the failing series, but when the house actually turns out to haunted he and his team must scramble to survive. The yet-to-be titled horror-comedy will be directed by Tony West. The film will be debuting as West’s first full length feature. It will begin filming this March in Villahermosa and Mexico City according to THR. Daniel Posada, Dark Factory’s CEO, will be producing. Hopefully the name of the film will be announced soon.
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Nicolas Cage will be starring in the upcoming horror-thriller Mom and Dad, written and directed by Brian Taylor, set to begin filming this July. Cage will play the role of the father of two, a teenage daughter and a young son. The kids must survive 24 hours when their parents suddenly turn violent and set out to kill them. “This is the kind of role Nic was put here to play. ” Taylor stated. “Human, funny, scary – and somewhat ground while at the same time completely off the rails.” He continued. Let’s just hope that Mom and Dad is better than Cage’s last attempt at a horror film, Pay the Ghost.
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Home, created by Benjamin Rivers and released in 2012, is touted as a unique horror adventure game by the developer. Everything that happens is entirely subjective, which is not commonly seen in games. The art is in a pixel style, making the game feel retro, especially when combined with the story taking place in text. It is a very simple game as controls only go forward, backward, raise your lamp, and select highlighted objects, which makes it perfect for mobile gaming. Going through the first time will only take an hour and it is best to play the game straight through. However, it requires multiple passes to achieve each of the different endings. The game is engaging for the first time, but it becomes very tedious and repetitive if you make attempts at each of the endings and achievements. The game is heavily story-driven and you wake up in an unknown house. As you explore, you uncover many dark secrets
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Fern, a driven high school senior has her life turned upside down when her clingy boyfriend, Robert, dies in a freak accident. When Robert returns from the dead as a love-sick ghost, he tries to reunite with his first love – only to have his undead-heart broken. Robert hatches a plan to kill Fern so that they can be together forever. Now, Fern will have to fight to survive the love-sick ghost and stay in the world of the living. This blood-soaked horror-comedy about the horrors of first love. Jennifer Laporte stars as Fern. Her undead sweetheart is played by Vincent Martella, who appeared in AMC’s The Walking Dead as Patrick. Julia Aks, Shonna Major, Alicia Monet Cldwell, Taylor Clift, Leah Henley, Lisa Wilcox and Swell Whitney also co-star in Clinger, directed by Michael Steves, as his first full length feature film. Clinger Is now available on iTunes and on other digital platforms. The DVD release date has not been
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Scratches is a point and click horror/mystery game that was originally released on PC in 2006. In the game, you play as Michael Arthate, a writer who acquired a Victorian mansion after his first novel reached some success. He hopes to finish his next novel in the bedroom overlooking the beautiful landscape, but upon arriving he is too distracted by digging through the previous owner’s belongings to get any work done. The previous owner, James T. Blackwood, was a collector of African tribal pieces and a prominent figure in the town of Rothbury. Arthate discovers that the Blackwood family had a dark secret involving several deaths, murder, and possibly madness, a case that still feels relatively unfinished and unsatisfying to Arthate, despite the finality of it with local authorities. The game is very atmospheric and plays with the elements of gothic horror with a big, dark house, creepy books on African tribes, and letters to peruse that contain information about
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FOX has just released the first minute of the X-Files revival series! Head to DoYouStillBelieve.com now and check out the opening minute of before it airs January 24! ________________________________ Part 1 of The X-Files Breakdown The X-Files Re-Opened The X-Files Comes To Blu-Ray
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This morning I sat down to watch a movie that I had heard good things about, Final Girl. The film, directed by Tyler Shields, opened with a young girl sitting across a table from a stranger (Wes Bentley). During their conversation the man asks the girl a series of questions, gauging her answers to see if she is the girl he’s looking for. It’s revealed during the questioning that both of the girl’s parents are dead. He asks if she wants to come with him, so that he can train her. Her response? “Can I have ice cream?” Maybe it’s just me, but I would be asking a few more questions. In the next scene we see him teaching Veronica (Abigail Breslin) to fight. Her mission is assigned, take down a ring of killer friends, who like to hunt down blonde girls for fun. Of course, she sets it up where she happens to catch their attention. The leader of
Continue reading →
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Moondog Media is preparing to release The Horror on Digital VHX and limited edition VHS on April 1st. Jerry White III’s directorial debut film follows newly orphaned twins made to fight for their survival. Callie Ott (WTF!) stars along side Raymond Cramer in his first role. Twins, still reeling from the sudden loss of their parents, Malcolm (Creamer) and Isabel Rademacher (Ott) retreat to their family’s lake house for a weekend with their friends. The weekend started great, but is cut short when Malcolm and Isabel distance themselves from their friends. Once again alone the siblings are stalked by two masked assailants who invade the lake house. Malcolm kills one of the attackers, but becomes obsessed with tracking down the escaped partner. A year later Isabel is trying to pick of the pieces but the memories of the break in haunt her. Malcolm is still obsessed with tracking down the assailant. Isabel begins to worry that Malcolm might be the
Continue reading →
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Riding Hood Motion Pictures has released a first look teaser trailer for their upcoming noir crime thriller, Wolf Mother. The film, written and directed by Erik Peter (The Toy Soldiers), stars Najarra Townsend (Contracted), Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan), Dave Vescio (Hick), newcomer Kaegan Baron ,and Kevin Pinassi of the Twin Peaks revival. In the first look trailer we watch as the film’s heroes as they hatch a plan to find and rescue Kaitlin Miller, a missing child star. The teaser explores the horror and suspense of their journey as they descend into the dark world of sex trafficking. “I’m drawn to stories that in someway are connected to the current state of mind. Stories that are happening now, in our own backyard.” Carlson stated of the film’s plot and relevancy. “Most of the time for me, they just happen to be the darker stories.” Every year over 800,000 children go missing. 400,000 of those children are victims of sex
Continue reading →
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Troy Escamilla’s first full length feature film, Party Night, is set to premiere this Fall. Produced by Escamilla and Renee K. Smith, in collaboration with Fright Meter Films, Party Night is a throwback to the great slasher film of the 80’s. Timothy Sullins will be making his directorial debut with the film. “This film is truly a love letter to fans of the genre. There are many references in the script that horror fans will grin widely at, but the film is still unique in its own right,” Escamilla states. Party Night centers on six friends who become prey for a sadistic psychopath when they decide to ditch their high school’s after prom party for their own celebration at a secluded house. Escamilla is extremely familiar with the horror genre, he founded the Fright Meter Awards, with an international committee made of genre bloggers, writers, directors, producers, actors and fans, including us here at Horror Fuel. There is currently a
Continue reading →
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Chris Geere (You’re the Worst) is set to play the role of a paranormal investigator looking to boost the ratings of his reality-TV show. Geere’s character heads down to Mexico with his team to shoot an episode in an alleged haunted house. Geere and his team, all who are complete fakers, think that the episode will be enough to boost ratings and save the failing series, but when the house actually turns out to haunted he and his team must scramble to survive. The yet-to-be titled horror-comedy will be directed by Tony West. The film will be debuting as West’s first full length feature. It will begin filming this March in Villahermosa and Mexico City according to THR. Daniel Posada, Dark Factory’s CEO, will be producing. Hopefully the name of the film will be announced soon.
Continue reading →
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Nicolas Cage will be starring in the upcoming horror-thriller Mom and Dad, written and directed by Brian Taylor, set to begin filming this July. Cage will play the role of the father of two, a teenage daughter and a young son. The kids must survive 24 hours when their parents suddenly turn violent and set out to kill them. “This is the kind of role Nic was put here to play. ” Taylor stated. “Human, funny, scary – and somewhat ground while at the same time completely off the rails.” He continued. Let’s just hope that Mom and Dad is better than Cage’s last attempt at a horror film, Pay the Ghost.
Continue reading →
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Home, created by Benjamin Rivers and released in 2012, is touted as a unique horror adventure game by the developer. Everything that happens is entirely subjective, which is not commonly seen in games. The art is in a pixel style, making the game feel retro, especially when combined with the story taking place in text. It is a very simple game as controls only go forward, backward, raise your lamp, and select highlighted objects, which makes it perfect for mobile gaming. Going through the first time will only take an hour and it is best to play the game straight through. However, it requires multiple passes to achieve each of the different endings. The game is engaging for the first time, but it becomes very tedious and repetitive if you make attempts at each of the endings and achievements. The game is heavily story-driven and you wake up in an unknown house. As you explore, you uncover many dark secrets
Continue reading →
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Fern, a driven high school senior has her life turned upside down when her clingy boyfriend, Robert, dies in a freak accident. When Robert returns from the dead as a love-sick ghost, he tries to reunite with his first love – only to have his undead-heart broken. Robert hatches a plan to kill Fern so that they can be together forever. Now, Fern will have to fight to survive the love-sick ghost and stay in the world of the living. This blood-soaked horror-comedy about the horrors of first love. Jennifer Laporte stars as Fern. Her undead sweetheart is played by Vincent Martella, who appeared in AMC’s The Walking Dead as Patrick. Julia Aks, Shonna Major, Alicia Monet Cldwell, Taylor Clift, Leah Henley, Lisa Wilcox and Swell Whitney also co-star in Clinger, directed by Michael Steves, as his first full length feature film. Clinger Is now available on iTunes and on other digital platforms. The DVD release date has not been
Continue reading →
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Scratches is a point and click horror/mystery game that was originally released on PC in 2006. In the game, you play as Michael Arthate, a writer who acquired a Victorian mansion after his first novel reached some success. He hopes to finish his next novel in the bedroom overlooking the beautiful landscape, but upon arriving he is too distracted by digging through the previous owner’s belongings to get any work done. The previous owner, James T. Blackwood, was a collector of African tribal pieces and a prominent figure in the town of Rothbury. Arthate discovers that the Blackwood family had a dark secret involving several deaths, murder, and possibly madness, a case that still feels relatively unfinished and unsatisfying to Arthate, despite the finality of it with local authorities. The game is very atmospheric and plays with the elements of gothic horror with a big, dark house, creepy books on African tribes, and letters to peruse that contain information about
Continue reading →
MoviesNewsParanormalReviewsStreaming TV
FOX has just released the first minute of the X-Files revival series! Head to DoYouStillBelieve.com now and check out the opening minute of before it airs January 24! ________________________________ Part 1 of The X-Files Breakdown The X-Files Re-Opened The X-Files Comes To Blu-Ray
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